Alex Verhaest Belgium, b. 1985
Alex Verhaest (b. 1985, Brussels), is a contemporary multimedia artist primarily working in the medium of video. Verhaest’s largest body of work, which explores the narrative possibilities of art using state of the art technology, focuses on the nature of language and its limitations as well as the social conventions surrounding it. Verhaest’s work, based around the analysis of language and narratives, explores the potential of ways to communicate contemporary narratives and contemplates artistically the coexistent relationship of humans and machines formed through the combination of technology. Narratives newly analyzed or depicted by Verhaest are presented as interactive images that float in the boundaries between photography, painting, and film. Her work, which recalls the composition and visual effects of classical painting, presupposes serious considerations on the way art has dealt with death, along with the fundamental mechanisms of film.
Alex Verhaest currently works between Brussels, Belgium and Amsterdam, the Netherlands and studied photography at the St. Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp. Verhaest has exhibited at such major institutions as Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2016) and ZKM Karlsruhe (2015) and is the recipient of awards including those from the Electronic Language International Festival in São Paulo, Brazil, the Ghent New Technological Art Award, the New Face award at Japan Media Arts Festival, and the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica.
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Alex Verhaest: The Archive of Unattained Futures
June 8 - July 31, 2022Barakat Contemporary is proud to present The Archive of Unattained Futures, the solo exhibition of Alex Verhaest (b.1985, Belgium) from June 8th to July 31st, 2022 at the Barakat Seoul...Read more -
Alex Verhaest, Cho Moon Ki: The Absence of Paterfamilias
June 1 - August 6, 2017The exhibition, The Absence of Paterfamilias, from 1st June to 6th August 2017 offers the possibility to compare the two artists’ dissimilar methodologies as they approach family portraits that may...Read more
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Alex VerhaestTable Prop - Hélène , 2013Animation loop29.5 x 24.5 cmEd. 5 + II
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Alex VerhaestCharacter Study - Hélène , 2013Animation loop29.5 x 24.5Ed. 5 + II
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Alex VerhaestCharacter Study - Peter , 2013Animation Loop29.5 x 24.5 cm
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Alex VerhaestTable Prop - Peter , 2013Animation loop29.5 x 24.5Ed. 5 + II
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Alex VerhaestThe Dinner, 2013Animation loop50 inch screen
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Alex Verhaest won the Ultimas prize 2022 for Digital Art
May 20, 2023Alex Verhaest (b. 1985, Brussels) has won the Ultimas prize 2022 for Digital Art category. The Flemish culture prize (Utlimas) was established in 2003. Since...Read more -
Alex Verhaest: Temps Mort on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan
April 12, 2020Alex Verhaest's Temps Mort is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan in the exhibition 2020 Collection: Confronting Today’s Questions. ‘Temps Mort’...Read more