Willem Boel
Since 2009, Willem Boel has been working on an interdisciplinary oeuvre, with a focus on installation. Boel creates industrial iron and skeletal steel structures that serve as carriers for visual information, with the open structures bearing witness to a fictional or real industrial history. They bear the traces of intensive labour and repetitive actions. He continuously works on different series within his broad oeuvre, which influence each other and serve as catalysts for each other. Paintings, drops of paint, residual materials and giants intermingle in his vast universe.
Since the beginning of his career, he has exhibited both at home and abroad. In 2019, he showed his masterpiece “Sancho Don't Care #05” at the Belgian Biennale, in 2021 at the Bruges Triennial, and in 2020 he started a collaboration with Galeria Hilario Galguera in Mexico City (MEX) and Madrid (ES), among others. Willem Boel has received numerous awards and grants for his work. In 2015, Boel won the prestigious Grand Prix at the Salon de Montrouge (FR), which led to an exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR) and exhibitions in Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain and Italy. His work “Pare Feu #29” was recently purchased by the Flemish Government and is included in the permanent collection of Museum M in Leuven.
