COLLECTION

Geert and Carla Verbeke-Lens started collecting art in the early 1990’s. Their interest was initially drawn by abstract painting. Later the focus of the collection shifted to collages and assemblages of mainly Belgian artists. In recent years the collection was further expanded to current art and bio art – art with living organisms.

Collages & assemblages

An exceptional array of roughly two thousand, particularly twentieth century, collages and assemblages lies at the heart of the private collection. Parts of this collection are on permanent display in a separate exhibition area.

Bio Art - Eco Art

The Verbeke Foundation wishes to be a place where culture, nature and ecology melt into one another. The works of bio-artists and artists working with living materials (plants, animals, smells) link up with this meltingpot seamlessly.

Contemporary art

Since the opening of the Verbeke Foundation in 2007, the collection has been expanded with contemporary works and installations which were predominantly constructed in situ and integrated inside and outside the exhibition halls.

Artists

Franco Angeloni (It)

Art Orienté objet (Fr)

Brandon Ballengée (Us)

Phil Bloom (Nl)

Peter Buggenhout (Be)

Sjoerd Buisman (Nl)

Frank F. Castelyns (Be)

Roger Claessens (Be)

Leo Copers (Be)

Geoffrey de Beer (Be)

Berlinde De Bruyckere (Be)

Peter De Cupere (Be)

Erki De Vries & Tim Vets (Be)

Ronald de Winter (Be)

Bart De Zutter (Be)

Delphine Deguislage (Be)

Moritz Ebinger (Sw)

Jalila Essaïdi (Nl)

Jan Fabre (Be)

Jef Faes (Be)

Zoro Feigl (Nl)

Chantal Grard (Be)

Happy Famous Artists (Be)

Harry Heirmans (Be)

Jan Henderikse (Nl)

Mateusz Herczka (SE)

Idiots (Nl)

Eduardo Kac (Us)

Maartje Korstanje (Nl)

Kultivator

Jeroen Kuster (Nl)

Chiel Kuyl (Nl)

Reinier Lagendijk (Nl)

Michael Linares (PR)

Kris Martin (Be)

Sjef Meijman (Nl)

NCNP (Be)

Zbigniew Oksiuta (Pl)

Marleen Oud (Nl)

Raphaël August Opstaele (Be)

Ingo Reize (De)

Rolf Schuurmans (Nl)

Paul Segers (Nl)

Seymour Likely (Nl)

Kor Smeenge (Nl)

Lieven Standaert (Be)

STARTEL (Nl)

Albert Szukalski (Be)

Martin uit den Bogaard (Nl)

Timm Ulrichs (D)

Martien Van Beeck (Be)

Kevin Van Braak (Be)

Camiel van Breedam (Be)

René Van Corven (Nl)

Maarten Vanden Eynde (Be)

Ronald van der Meijs (Nl)

Bart van Dijck (Be)

Kris Vanhemelrijck (Be)

Joep van Lieshout(Nl)

Koen Vanmechelen (Be)

Herman van Nazareth (Be)

Michiel Van Overbeek (Nl)

Hannes Van Severen (Be)

Eric Verboven (Be)

Mark Verstockt (Be)

Tim Volckaert (Be)

Stan Wannet (Nl)

Julia Wenners (Nl)

Mariken Wessels (Nl)

Adam Zaretsky (US)