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Hans Overvliet | DISTANT SUFFERING Martha Jager, curator Vleeshal in MiddelburgNL about the oeuvre after a studio visit: The dedication to art as a relational verb is central to Overvliet's work. On the one hand, the balance between poetry and criticism is special, in that the work never becomes bitter or pedantic, while at the same time the dialogue with the viewer is actively maintained. It is a tender form of activism that moves and urges action and continuously questions the role of art. Since 2013, by means of the ongoing art-series DISTANT SUFFERING, the Dutch artist Hans Overvliet (Leiden, 1952) investigates the role of the media in their representation of (military) violence. This, in the context of themes as perception, memory and identity formation. Overvliet uses a various range of media, symbols and codes, bringing together dichotomies like beauty and violence, refinement and brutality, the sublime and the vulgar. Aspects of power, politics, exclusion, censorship and the connection between artist, artwork and viewer infiltrate his multifaceted conceptual oeuvre. As a reporter, Overvliet was an eyewitness to the events in the Middle East during the 1980s. Of course, these experiences resonate in DISTANT SUFFERING. Elements of this work in progress were exhibited in the Netherlands, Belgium, Pakistan, England, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Albania, Germany, Lebanon, the U.S.A., Brazil, Greece, Argentina and Sweden. In 2023, his whole body of paper collages ( 1999 – 2012 ) joined Carla and Geert Verbeke’s renowned collection of collages and assemblages. In 2024 - 2025 the whole oeuvre of DISTANT SUFFERING was exhibited at the Verbeke Foundation. Also, this body of work is now included in the permanent collection. Next to his artwork Hans is, together with his wife Willy van Houtum, the founder and everyday guardian of ruimteCAESUUR, the 32-year-old space for contemporary art in Middelburg in the province of Zeeland.

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| Re-installment Kite project Art Exhibition at Institute for Palestinian Studies | Safaa Ashour - Art Coordinator Beirut Pakje Kunst | small pack of art Terneuzen (February) Open Open'$ | KyivUkrain | Oleg Kharch Group& Hans Overvliet (March 05 – April 22) produzentengalerie e.V. plan-d | art initiative | DüsseldorfGermany (March 21 – April 19) | Curator Peter Clouth Cultuurcentrum BruggeBelgium | ‘TIN’ (April 10 – June 07) Curator Jan Verheaghe ik geef je mijn raam / i give you my window | Vlissingen | editie #32 in conjuction with The Liberation Festival Vlissingen May 5th (April 20 – May 31) | Curator / Sylvia Hubrouck Bloom Gallery | ValenciaSpain (April 25 - May 03) | Curator Bo de Jong 2024 – 2025 KemzekeBelgium | Verbeke Foundation (November 17, 2024 – April 2025) oeuvre retrospective | Curator Marie Verboven VeniceItaly | Visione Altre Galleria (February 1 – February 16) Art direction: Adolfina de Stefani | Antonello Mantovani Den Haag | Nationaal Theater aan ’t Spui | during Movies That Matter ( Match 21 - March 29) | Curtor Fé Wielemaker Goes | Grote of Maria Magdalenakerk / Stone&Glass - IT’S IN IT Curators Willy van Megen & Marlize Laport ( July 8 - August 17 ) Terneuzen | Toonbeeld | Imagination Route 2025 Curator Arjelien van Dijke ( July 5 – September 13 ) Filmfestival ‘Film by the sea’ | i.d. of an artist’ portrait (12 – 21 September) LarissaGreece | Open Nights Festival Curator Roula Karaferi ( October 9 – October 19, 2025 ) 2024 Middelburg | Roofprintpers | Leporello (November 29, 2024 – January 1, 2025) | Curator Leni van den Berge A selection of my paper collages 1999 – 2012, is published in BALLUSTRADA, idiosyncratic literary magazine since 1986, volume 38 no.1/2, spring 2024 Curator Ko de Jonge Turkey İzmir | Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi (May 15 – 21, 2024) Curator Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Burgh-Haamstede | Bewaerschole | MIGRATION (August 24 – September 22) Curator Geeske Pluijmers KemzekeBelgium | Verbeke Foundation | winter exhibition | exhibition collages Curator Marie Verboven Municipality of Middelburg | Makers Scheme: Hallways, a study / images of corridors and halls in private homes and (semi-) government buildings in Middelburg.

Vlissingen | ik geef je mijn raam – I give you my window presentation project Sylvia Hubrouck | a selection of poetic videos in conjunction with the film festival Film by the Sea Vlissingen 2023 ChaskaU.S.A. | THE ARTISTAMP REVUE | Curator Adam Roussopoulos Cultural Center Toonbeeld in Terneuzen | 'Pakje Kunst' ( small package of art ) Curator Harmien Hamelink StockholmSweden | Slipvillan | Curator team Studio44 Dishoek - Bunker WWII | curator leon riekwell KemzekeBelgium | Verbeke Foundation | all paper collages 1999 -2012 are included in the collection of collages and assemblages by Geert and Carla Verbeke-Lens AarhusDenmark | Juxtapose Art Fair | Curated by Cecilie Bernts, Pamela Grombacher, Sasha Rose Richter and Jacob Juhl ruimteCAESUUR | with Gallery Durden and Ray | Curated by Jorieke Rottier StockholmSweden | Längholmen | KEEP ON BREATHING | Curator Masoud Shahsavari Los AngelesU.S.A. | Durden and Ray | Curated by Carlos Beltran Arechiga Middelburg | Smith Art | Curated by Johan de Koning KleveGermany | kunstverein Projectraum bahnhof25 2022 LahorePakistan | In the glare of grey moon | Ranrez art gallery Curator Mehreen Hashmi BruggesBelgium | Expect an Occasional Attack … and Flee CultuurCentrum Brugge | Curator Jan Verhaeghe Geelong Australia | KART | David Delifiora Peace letters to Ukrain #2Germany [ no. 38 – video i.d. of a shared bullet ] Curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne Lebanon Beirut | Kite project Art Exhibition at Institute for Palestinian Studies Curator Sebastian BernburgU.K., Arts Coordinator London StockholmSweden | presenting teamCAESUUR | i.d. of a shared bullet Supermarket Independent Art Fair Curator Alice Máselníková, Creative Director StockholmSweden | part of the summer exhibition in Slipvillan Curator team Studio44 Česká SkaliceCzech Republic | Luxfer Open Space | presentation Lípa Art Collection Curator/collector Roel van der Linden Albania Tirana | part of the (first) Tirana Biennial of Graphic Arts - first edition Art Gallery of Tirana curators Beste GürsuTurkey, Helidon HalitiAlbania, Zake PrelvukajKosovo MunichGermany | Haus der Kunst | Super BOOKS 3 Curator Jürgen O. Olbrich, for NO-INSTITUTE, KasselGermany

Koetshuis van de Groep Planning, BruggeBelgium Brughes Cultural Capital Europe 2002 RAAMWERK | OostendeBelgium | 2001 ENGAGÉ! - West-VlaanderenBelgium, Zeeland, Nord-Pas de CalaisFrance | 2000 Galerij Germinahof | Sterksel | 2000 Presentatieruimte De Overslag | Eindhoven | 1999 Financial support Municipality Middelburg Mondrian Fund SBKM / Vleeshal Middelburg the Province of Zeeland Frits Lensvelt Stichting KulturrådetSweden Region StockholmSweden kulturamt der landeshauptstadt düsseldorfGermany Awards, residencies, commissions and public collections Winner Global Arts Award 2018 from Red Line Art Works, a UK-based global arts project, category art series; Sea foundation | Tilburg | [ residence ] September – October 2018 Mondrian Fund; Luxfer Open Space | Česká SkaliceCzech Republic| [ residence ] September 2020; Work in private collections, Independent ArtistsItaly, Ranrez Art GalleryPakistan, LIPACzech Republic, Karpuchina GalleryCzech Republic, Verbeke FoundationBelgium and public spaces in Axel and Neeltje Jans. Art-related activities Hans Overvliet as part of his art praxis 2015 - 2021 Co-initiator of Association Art House Zeeland, platform for artists 2013 Co-creating Kunstpark Vlissingen / Landscape Art Park Vlissingen 2009 - 2019 Chairman Foundation Artists Studio Complex KipVis 2009 - 2014 Chairman Foundation DECREET / CONCRETE, Art magazine DECREET 2005 - 2012 Chairman PLUS MIN Foundation, Renesse, succeeded by IK Foundation, Vlissingen 1995 Founder, curator & co-director of Art Space ruimteCAESUUR 1995 Curator / art educational projects advising governmental / private institutions on art