Bart Houwers is a Dutch visual artist. In his work he reflects on the rural changes of the past decades up to the present day.
In site specific installations, interventions and sculptures, notions like: (spatial) memory, micro-histories, place, industries, scale, tradition and loss are being explored.

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 examines the long-term consequences of economic expansion: the erosion of local knowledge, the scaling-up of production, and the gradual disappearance of reciprocal forms of co-existence. These changes are approached obliquely—through fragments, detours, and material traces.

Houwers studied Fine Arts at the Rietveld Academie (2017-2021) and was resident at De Ateliers (2022-2024).