Dirk Van Opdenbosch (1951) studied 'Graphic Arts' at the Royal Acadamy of Fine Arts at Ghent.

As a student he received diverse awards like the Pro Civitate price 'Lijn, Kleur, Volume' in 1972 and the Rotary Club Belgium price in 1976. Socially, he deployed himself the role of an artist.

 

As a curator, he organized several exhibitions and art projects for young artists.

1997, North/South - Nord/Sud, (Ninove/Lessines),

1998, North/South - Nord/Sud II, (Ninove Lessines)

2016/2017 'Art in a Box' Antwerp.

Artists: Eline De Clercq, Jochem Harteveld, Zero, Ronny Franceschini, Petra Everaert, Janice Thijs, Olympe Tits, Nelleke Cloosterman, Simona Michaela Stoia),

2019/2020, NEXUS art project, Hoboken (Antwerp).

Artists: Eline De Clercq, Olympe Tits, Haider Jabar, Patrick De Necker, Hind Eljadid.

2022, 'Downtown Kiel'.

Artists: Samyra Moumouh, Sefora Sam, Eline De Clercq.

 

For more information see ‘Curatorship’ and 'Exhibtions'    

 

About his work.

As an artist, my main focus is the human being as a subject. My main goal is to portray the human emptiness that is in each and everyone of us. The human being is an uncertain and often damaged creature.

Despite of this I keep searching for the universal, more specifically; those deeper-lying instinct that enable us to substract ourselves from that vacuity.With my work I urge people to distance themselves from their camouflage, face their dark cores and accept them which results in a better control of oneself.

 

My recent drawings are inspired on the 'Butoh', a specific Japanese danceform which originated in the 60's as a reaction on the pessimism that thrived after the second world war and as a reaction on the horrors of the nuclear attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Butoh-dancers see their dancing as a reflective dialogue between body and gravity.