biography
1992° Belgium
The multiplicity of Van Breda’s work entails a study of the spatial narratives within the process of image making. Current research topics involve nature and landscape in the Anthropocene, society of the spectacle and the spatial qualities of images. Like an ethnographer he questions our environment, with a concern for the social and political conditions of places. Through historical research, site-specific works and material studies, physical places are transformed into ‘environments’, where new spatial narratives can deploy like a ‘speculative fabulation’. The use of fabulation as a way of fabrication brings him to the point of embodying ‘other’ and in doing so question the cultural significance of representation and its role in defining our belonging to the world. Through different media the artist seeks to manipulate spaces and invites us to reimagine our surrounding, with the clear intention to blur the sharpness of existing meanings and interpretations, in doing so free our mind to reach and invent new dimensions within the same physical appearance.
Textile works
His fascination for how we experience and engage with spaces
becomes tangible in Van Breda’s textile works.
Tapestries bend and fold in multiple ways, covering and uncovering
abstract images that suggest an impressionistic experience. These
images are constructed by hand directly working onto the canvas,
leftover material from the textile industry, where threads and loose
ends seem to reach out to the viewer and surrounding.
The work of Van Breda brings together craft, the use of everyday
objects and recuperation of waste material, which he gathers from
the streets or through collaborations with various industries such as
Limited Edition, Deltracon, Tasibel natural fibre flooring,
Notebaert. More recently he collaborated with the international
fashion brand G-STAR Raw for the project STREAMS.
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Download full CV- 1992
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Born in Lier, Belgium
- 2014
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Bachelor Graphic Design, Luca School of Arts Brussels BE
- 2016
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Master Textile Design, Luca School of Arts Ghent BE
- 2016
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Residency BAC Art Lab, KU Leuven BE
- 2017
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The Graduates - European Design Talent selected by Li Edelkoort
Work featured in the group exhibition Carpenters Workshop Gallery London, UK.
- 2019
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Residency KADOC-KU Leuven BE archive and research center
In preparation of the exposition Reconnaissance, Exploring Space and its Hidden Layers.
- 2019
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research project Every Move They Make, dialogues between object and space
Presentation of the publication Every Move They Make, dialogues between object and space. In collaboration with Dr. Lut Pil, Merel Cremers and An-Valerie Vandromme. With the support of Luca School of Arts.
- 2019
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Residency Gastatelier LEOXIII, Tilburg NL
- 2019
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Symposium Intimate Proximities, Textile Museum Tilburg NL
In collaboration with Carolyn F. Strauss of Slow Research Lab and Gastatelier LEOXIII Tilburg.
- 2019
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curator of the exhibition Into Limbo, CAS-CO Leuven BE
participating artists; Fabrice Souvereyns (BE), Glenn Ryszko (NL), Ash Bowland (BE), Charlotte Stuby (CH), Jan Deurinck (BE), Céderic Urbanski (BE)
- 2019
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guest lecturer, introduction to the analysis of the image Pr. Dr. Barbara Baert KU Leuven BE
- 2020
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Residency RAVI-Liège, Luik BE
- 2021
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start Lecturer at Luca School of Arts Ghent BE
department Textile Design
- 2023
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publication Before It Slips Away
in collaboration with Hilde Vandaele Gallery and Stockmans Art Books
Publications
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24th Sep 2023
On the occasion of the solo exhibition ‘before it slips away’ by Bram Van Breda a publication has been published, numbered and signed from 1 to 100. Text by Lut PilI, in collaboration with Hilde Vandaele Gallery and Stockmans Art Books
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4th Jun 2019
On the occasion of the site-specific work 'Reconnaissance' at KADOC-KU Leuven text by Dr. Lut Pil (ISBN 9789078192435)
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21st Nov 2019
Every Move They Make, dialogues between object and space
On the occasion of the research project Every Move They Make in collaboration with Dr. Lut Pil, Merel Cremers, An-Valerie Vandromme. With the support of Luca School of Arts Ghent BE (ISBN 9789463963695)
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16th Feb 2018
Fini Fani, une conversation des savoir-faire textiles au Mali
Work featured in the publication, on occasion of the exhibition Fini Fani Centre Culturel régional de Dinant BE. by Gérimont Patricia, Dr. Veirman Anja (ISBN 9789490049089)
Press
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9th Jan 2025
KW Het touw is een metafoor voor de complexiteit
on the occasion of the collaboration with G-Star Raw
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16th Dec 2024
on the occasion of the collaboration with G-Star Raw
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16th Dec 2024
on the occasion of the collaboration with G-Star Raw
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21st Dec 2024
HLN Bram (32) mag als eerste Belg ooit kunstwerk maken voor G-Star Raw
on the occasion of the collaboration with G-Star Raw
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17th Dec 2024
on the occasion of the collaboration with G-Star Raw
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12th Sep 2019
on the occasion of London Design Festival
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12th Sep 2019
Jong Talent
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21st Mar 2019
on the occasion of Collectible Brussels
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23rd Mar 2016
on the occasion of Collectible Brussels
