About Guillaume Bijl

Guillaume Bijl (1946, lives and works in Antwerp) has been known since the 1970s for his large-scale installations for which he uses found objects. With this, Bijl took a pioneering role in the reintroduction of the ready-made. He shows the viewer various aspects of our Western ‘civilisation’ and consumer society. He creates an ‘archaeology of our time’ using stereotypes in a tragicomic, alienating way. Guillaume is represented in the Netherlands by Lumen Travo Gallery.

About Philip Akkerman

Philip Akkerman (1957, lives and works in The Hague) has painted exclusively self-portraits since 1981. Thanks to his self-imposed restriction to self-portraits, he no longer has to worry about the subject. This gives him the freedom to experiment wildly with styles, colours and shapes. Philip uses the wealth of painting techniques and movements from the entire history of art and the resulting oil paintings vary from realistic to abstract, from detailed to deliberately naive.

This exhibition presents a selection of recent paintings by Philip Akkerman, combined with a number of installations by Guillaume Bijl.