Artist statement
Bart Houwers is a Dutch visual artist living between the countryside and
Amsterdam. In his work he reflects on the rural changes of the past
decades up to the present day. In site specific installations, notions like:
(spatial) memory, micro-histories, place, industries, scale, tradition and
loss are being explored in different relational ways.
He often uses pre-existing materials in relation to language, or lack of
language. There is a sense of playing with quotes, at the same time it
transcends the quote and manipulates what is quoted.
Resulting in, seemingly, incoherent and displaced fragments.
Houwers studied Fine Arts at the Rietveld Academie (2017-2021) and was a resident at De Ateliers (2022-2024)