Kamiel Verschuren

public space - artistic research - conceptual - community - international

Conceptual interdisciplinary artist focused on self-organization and the social urban environment with a broad international practice and; as a (landscape) designer, draftsman, (social) activist, organizer, curator, producer, initiator, teacher and urban advisor. (Co-) founder of foundation Bad, foundation NAC, Stedelinks010, Studio Pompstraat, iStrike foundation, ICU art projects, PanoramaZuid foundation and foundation Charlois a / h Water. Since 1991 closely involved in the urban and social development of Rotterdam South. Working for a longer period of time in Casablanca (Morocco), Budapest (Hungary), Sapporo (Japan) and recently in Douala (Cameroon).
Works on an individual basis as well as in a wide variety of collaborations with other people and organizations.

http://www.foundationbad.nl/wordpress/artists/
www.stichting-nac.nl
http://myafund-nac.blogspot.nl/
www.icuartprojects.com
www.stedelinks010.nl
http://sapporo2.org - http://sapporo2.exblog.jp
http://www.collectifr.fr/productions/kamiel-verschuren
www.CharloisaanhetWater.nl


Ecoduct Sociale / Station S'Sens

Project

  • 16-06-2020 t/m 16-07-2025
  • In collaboration with: Lucas Grandin (and Mladen Suknovic)
  • Location: Hauts de Saint-Aubin, Angers
  • S'Sens Station / Social Ecoduct with Mladen Suknovic, students and inhabitants of Hauts-de-Saint-Aubin On the invitation of the inhabitants, the artists created an artistic proposal to activate and socialize a space above the A11 motorway, a curious course, a reality-movie set, made up of wooden structures, roads still under construction and an abandoned station.

Growing Space

Project

  • 01-06-2020 t/m 31-12-2023
  • In collaboration with: with Carmen José/Wilma Kun, supported by NAC foundation, CBK Rotterdam and Charlois Speciaal 2020
  • Location: Eelkmanstraat Wielewaal, Rotterdam
  • The aim of the project (in times of Corona) was to create an independent presentation space and to financially support artists. The project consists of a glass garden house/greenhouse, placed on a wooden platform and connected to the environment by 4 footpaths. The greenhouse is not accessible to visitors, but one can look inside and walk around it. Since July 2020 about 75 exhibitions have been made.

The Black Room#01

Performance

  • 13-01-2024 t/m 10-02-2024
  • In collaboration with: Galerie Espace Larith - Chambéry (FR)
  • Location: site specific, Chambery
  • Quarantine stands for isolation, a separation from society. The artist recognizes a similar situation in the studio, in which he/she voluntarily isolates himself from the environment, to be free. The Black Room is a scale model of an exhibition space in which I lock myself up for a certain amount of time.

More Lake City - X

Exhibition / presentation

  • 17-09-2023 t/m 21-10-2023
  • In collaboration with: Redaktion
  • Location: Redaktion - art space, Lucerne (CH)
  • MoreLakeCity-X - unstable urban development model Futurological test site Meerstad Groningen 2005-2025

Retro-Perspective: Charlois-Saint-Dénis

Project

  • 07-10-2023 t/m 26-11-2023
  • In collaboration with: HCE Gallery
  • Location: HCE Galerie, Saint-Dénis
  • The exhibition Retro-Perspective; CHARLOIS > SAINT-DENIS by Kamiel Verschuren is both a reflection on the different art projects realized in Charlois (Rotterdam-NL) between 1991 and 2023, as it is intended to be an opening to think about projects and a possible artistic commitment to Saint- Dennis in the future.

Learning Exchange Residencies Newcastle - Rotterdam

Residencies / exchange

  • 01-10-2023 t/m 31-03-2024
  • In collaboration with: Andrew Wilson - Marika Vandekraats
  • Location: Pavilion on the Water, Rotterdam
  • Learning Exchange Residencies Newcastle - Rotterdam Over a period of 6 months about 12 artists from Newcastle visit Rotterdam to learn and find colleagues to exchange practices

Acknowledgments

    Scholarship
  • Start stipend Fund BKVB Mondriaan Fund

  • 1993
    Scholarship
  • Start stipend Fund BKVB Mondriaan Fund

  • 1994
    Scholarship
  • Basic stipend Fund BKVB Mondriaan Fund

  • 1996
    Scholarship
  • Project subsidy BKVB Mondriaan Fund Fund

  • 1997
    Scholarship
  • Project subsidy BKVB Mondriaan Fund Fund

  • 1999
    Scholarship
  • Basic stipend Mondriaan Fund

  • 2004
    Scholarship
  • Project subsidy Mondriaan Fund

  • 2004
    Scholarship
  • Project subsidy Mondriaan Fund

  • 2010
    Scholarship
  • O/O project subsidy CBK Rotterdam

  • 2013
    Pricing
  • 2nd prize: Best innovative financing models for the creative sector - NAC foundation

  • 2012
    Pricing
  • Art and Culture Prize Charlois

  • 2004
    Publication
  • Language in art/Language in art

  • 2009
  • NewCanvas©PoetryandArt2004-2006 art manifestation for Poetry International Festival Rotterdam
  • Hoogland and Van Klaveren - Kamiel Verschuren with Roger Teeuwen
    Publication
  • Making Douala 2007-2013

  • 2013
  • Salon Urbain de Douala - international public art festival Douala Cameroon ©doual'art
  • ICU art projects - ICU art projects with Lucas Grandin and doual'art
    Publication
  • ...something about/...something about

  • 2003
  • Something about Charlois/…something about Charlois - public art manifestation Charlois Rotterdam 2001
  • self published - Kamiel Verschuren
    Publication
  • Public Art in Africa

  • 2017
  • art and urban transformations in Douala (Cameroon)
  • Metis Presses - Iolanda Pensa (and others)
    Publication
  • NESTWORK activities during Manifesta 1/Blueprint

  • 1998
  • artists initiative NESTWORK - Manifesta 1 Rotterdam 1996
  • Jeanne van Heeswijk Publishers - NESTWORK
    Publication
  • The Weekend #0

  • 2010
  • art magazine Charlois and greater South
  • self published - Kamiel Verschuren with OONA
    Publication
  • The Story Unknown or the story that is not yet written... [The Story Unknown or the story that is not yet written]

  • 2008
  • about the stories of the housing corporations in Pact op Zuid (development plan for Rotterdam South)
  • self published - With students Willem de Kooning Academy for Fine Arts Rotterdam/dept. Editorial design, Lauran Schijvens and Peter Zuiderwijk
    Publication
  • ZAM ZAM

  • 2023
  • poetry collection City Poet Rotterdam Anne Vegter
  • Querido - Anne Vegter - Xandra Nibbeling - Kamiel Verschuren