Location: Belgium
Tinka Pittoors
Brasschaat, October 12th 1977
Solo and Duo Exhibitions_
2011_Urbicide, Triangle Bleu, Stavelot
2011_Croxhapox, Gent
2011_Residency, De Fabriek, Eindhoven NL
2011_Carte Blanche in de Kruidtuin van Leuven, curated by Tom Nys
2011_Residency Frans Masereel centrum, Kasterlee
2010_Invited - Sattel, Zug, with Kris Fierens CH
2010_Residence, Flacc, Genk
2010_Plastic Territory - Pocketroom, Antwerp
2010_Residency m’atuvu, Brussels
2010_Lifestyle Storage - CC Hasselt
2010¬_Plastic Territory, Domein Le Paige, Herentals
2009_Kritik der Utopischen Vernunft, Margallef & Gipponi Galery, Antwerpen
2009_Te Gast 003, bij Frank Sinnaeve, Veurne
2009_Viewmasters intolerance, residency Lokaal 01, Antwerpen
2009_WALD-HEIM, SEAS, CC de Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist
2008_Window, Croxhapox, Gent
2008_A state of tense, with Léopoldine Roux, Galerie De Stijl, Heusden – Zolder
2007_Citysporn, with Johan De Wilde, ’Aksent, Gent
2007_In Between, Antwerpen
2006_Ask me: what is behind that screen, with Chris Vanbeveren, Radical Gallery, Zug (CH)
2006_Fantoomvriend, Croxhapox, Gent
2005_L’arbre inhumain, Geus Van Gent, Gent
Group Exhibitions (selection)_
2011_Art Paris, Triangle Bleu
2011_Seepoint, Koksijde
2011_Bedtime Duologues im Winter, Mechelen
2010_KOM, Cypres galerie, Leuven, Ann Van Hoey – Tine Deweerdt - Marieke Pauwels - Kris Campo - Anne Marie Laureys - Caroline Andrin - Nadia Naveau - Hugo Meert - Fabienne Loyens - Trees De Mits - Nick Andrews - Tinka Pittoors - Pjeroo Roobjee - Carlo Van Poucke - Mieke Everaet - Tsjok Desauvage - Antonino Spoto – Laurent Reypens?? ?Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye - Babs Haenen (Nederland) - Anne Wenzel (Nederland) - Lei Xue (Oostenrijk) - Martin Bodilsen Kaldhal (Duitsland) - Morten Löbner Espersen (Duitsland) - Ken Eastman (UK) - Halima Cassell (UK) - Arnold Annen (Zwitserland) - Nicolas Dings (Nederland)
2010_Cuesta ‘10, Tielt, Ruben Bellinkx, Wesley Meuris, Tinka Pittoors, Sofie Van der Linden, Nick Ervinck, Manor Grunewald, Stijn Van Dorpe, Olivier Bovy.
2010_Coup de Ville, Sint Niklaas
2010_Some frightening facts about..., Wetteren, loods 12 Bart Baele ?Noël Drieghe ?Dieter Durinck ?Manor Grunewald ?Tom Jooris ?Tinka Pittoors ?Lucie Renneboog ?Remi Verstraete ?Vadim Vosters ?WELD ?
2010_Wieze, Villa de Olmen, Mario De Brabandere, Olivier Deprez, Tinka Pittoors, Frank Van Hiel
2010_Modern Dialect, Braem project, M HKA, Antwerp, curated by Win Vandenabbeele with Corey McCorkle, Marte Johnslien, Luc Kheradmand, Mark Macken, Jef Verheyen, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Erik van Lieshout, Kris Fierens & Tinka Pittoors, David Diao, Susanne Kriemann, Pavel Büchler en Tim Etchells.
2010_Gasthoven, Aarschot, Deelnemende kunstenaars zijn onder andere Tinka Pittoors, Manor Grunewald, Mil Ceulemans, Paul Degreve, Warre Mulder, Bart Slangen, Kris Fierens, Jo van de Perre, Jef Gysen, Michel Helsen, Oxana Taran, Yves Velter, Hedwig Houben, Geert Koekoecks en Kris van Dessel.
2010_Beeldenroute - Lo, Johan Tahon, Nick Ervinck, Steve Schepens, Tinka Pittoors, Sofie Muller,Leo Copers, Tim Volckaert, Robin Vermeersch, Willy Cauwelier,Georges Cuvillier, Vadim Vosters en Jean-Luc Detavernier.
2010_Dijlepad - Mechelen,
2010_ Art Amsterdam - Koraalberg, NL
2010_ Who’s afraid of the Boogie - CIAP, Hasselt, B 24.04 - 06.06.2010, Tamara Van San, Tinka Pittoors, Ben Kruisdijk en Conny Kuilboer
Artist statement
Tinka Pittoors
The landscape, a patchwork of elements dominating each other, a precarious balance stretching out around us, composed of contradictions, both human and natural. A constant striving for power, utopian domination.
My sculptures and objects arise from this perception and examine the utopia of a malleable world, a reflection on landscape as a metaphor for a condition humaine. The landscape is presented as a plane for the projection of desires and clichés. Its surface is frayed, cut up and glued back together again in a renewed scenery that blurs boundaries between inside and out. This condition implies a constant pushing along, a contortion of form and movement.
By combining recognizable, everyday forms and materials with my own constructions, a new and unique language of form is created. Sculptures and installations function like neologisms: they are grafted onto situations we know, but exist in and create a parallel sculptural reality. Whereas the materials seek to connect with reality, the form actually rebels against it.
Lighting plays a significant role in this process: it encompasses and defines the sculpture, but at the same time underlines the autonomy of the world presented. An ambiguous image is created that balances on the verge of reality. Whether the resulting proposals are utopian or dystopian is left aside.
For us, the question remains: is the temptation of the image really inhabitable?
videoloop 2010
in situ installation, Gallery Le triangle Bleu, Stavelot, 2011
ceramic sculpture 2009
“urbicide”
“change management”
“sadistics”
