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de Cock, Jan
1976 Brussels, lives in Brussels (Belgium)

venue: Ondartxo

Under the auspices of Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa, Jan de Cock took over Ondartxo, a former shipbuilding warehouse and an emblematic site with significance to Pasaia’s history. Prior to his intervention, Ondartxo was a derelict space whose potential conversion into a museum/conservation workshop for wooden boats was the subject of a debate linked to municipal efforts to revitalize the city’s port. Lodged in this bureaucratic quagmire, Ondartxo ambivalent future was exploited by de Cock in the development of his project. Denkmal 2 (2004) evolved in relation to the architectural features of the building’s interior and the more polemical reality of its exterior. Working without plans, he obscured basic architectural features by developing an intricate construction over a period of two months that also complicated conventional readings of interior/exterior, and upper/lower. Denkmal 2 reassesses an interim architecture that resists strategies of design, practicality and function in order to develop an aesthetic system responding directly to context and the future possibilities of the site.
curriculum:

Selected individual exhibitions
Denkmal 1a. Luis Campaña, Cologne (Germany), 2004.

Denkmal 9. Henry Van de Velde University Library, Ghent (Belgium), 2004.

Denkmal 10. De Appel, Amsterdam, 2003.

Denkmal 3. Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna, 2003.

Art Brussels, One Man Show. Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, 2002.

Randschade/Collateral Damage Fig.7. SMAK and Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (Belgium), 2002.

Randschade/Collateral Damage Fig.9. Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, 2002.

Randschade/Collateral Damage Fig.4. Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, 2001.

Argos, Brussels, 2001.

Selected group exhibition
Jeune Peinture Belge. Palais des Beaux-Arts , Brussels, 2003.

Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, 2002.
Randschade/Collateral Damage Fig.5. Watou (Belgium), 2001.

Interaktionen: Natur & Architektur.
SMAK and Stadt Borken, Ghent (Belgium), 2001.

Ici et Maintenant/Hier en Nu. Espace 251 Nord, Brussels, 2001.

Coming people. SMAK, Ghent (Belgium), 1999.

Diasporal Thoughts. Tacktoren, Kortrijk (Belgium), 1999.

Beeld in Park. Felix Hap Park, Brussels, 1999.
 
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