b. 1969, Turnhout, Belgium

Lives and works in Brussels

Hans Op De Beeck is interested in how we stage our surroundings and how these surroundings become the scenery of both festive and tragic moments, recurring home rituals, and lonely daydreams. Utilizing diverse media - including installations, sculptures, video works, animated films, short stories, paintings and drawings, photography, new media, and stage design - Op de Beeck creates deserted scenes that can evoke both peacefulness and melancholia; they can be experienced as beautiful or uncomfortable, as banal or serious.

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