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Bart Eysink Smeets
28-01-1988 Haarlem
Lives and works in the Netherlands
Bart Eysink Smeets (born 1988) is a visual artist and filmmaker. In his work, Eysink Smeets attempts to magnify the absurdity of the everyday. A love of simple, unusual ideas is woven into all his art projects: for example, he placed a kitchen on the beach that was submerged at high tide, and his documentary "Bart and the Stone That Returned Home" was broadcast on NPO2 by VPRO, in which he brought a boulder back home after 200,000 years.
Commisioned permanent public art
2026: ‘Blind House’, Verbeke Foundation
2024: ‘Heg’ rotonde, Leeuwarden
2019: ‘Monument De steen die terug naar huis ging’, Borger
2018: ‘Picasso’, Amsterdam
Films
2023: Bart en de zoektocht naar de dubbelganger, VPRO 2Doc, NPO 2
2020: Bart en de steen die terug naar huis ging, VPRO 2Doc, NPO 2
Residencies
2021: VDHG, Leeuwarden
Patchwork, Watou (Belgium)
Awards
2023: Symbio Kunstprijs
2021: ‘Beste documentaire’ Noordelijk Film Festival voor ‘Bart en de steen die terug naar huis ging.’
Selection of exhibitions
2026: NDSM Amsterdam
Amsterdam Modern Art Museum
Van Onderuit Kunstfestival
Down the Rabbit Hole
Diep Emmen
2025: This Art Fair
Kaapstad Tilburg
Verbeke Foundation
2024: Oerol, NL
Bosch Parade, NL
2023: (Un)monumenting, NDSM, NL
BARTLAND, Gallery Vriend Van Bavink, NL
2022: Kunstenfestival Watou, BE
H47, Leeuwarden, NL
Public art route 'Biotoop, Amstelveen, NL
Buiten Land, Emmen, NL
Public Art route 'Art Borne', Oosterbeek, NL
2021: This Art Fair, Amsterdam
De Aanschouw, Rotterdam
2020: STEENLAND (solo), Patty Morgan, Amsterdam
Ongemakkelijk, Arti et Amicitea, Amsterdam
Teaching and Jury
2023: Jury VPRO Documentaireprijs
2021: Winterlab Artez Zwolle
2017 - 2019: Academie van bouwkunst
Funding
2022: Mondriaan Fonds, Projectbijdrage
2021: Mondriaan Fonds, Ontwikkelingsbijdrage
Books published
2021: Bart en de steen die terug naar huis ging, published by Utmost Upmost
2017: Vogels en Lantaarnpalen van Nederland, self published
2017: The art of organizing, published by Bynder
2017: 30x30cm, self published
2016: De olifant die niet wist of hij verdwaald was, Published by Leopold
2015: Finding myself in India, Published by KesselsKramer Publishing
2015: Bukken voor je Leven, Published by GUP
2014: De Tostifabriek, Published by Lemniscaat
2012: Do a bucket, Published by KesselsKramer Publishing
Publications/reviews (selection)
Humberto, VRT Nieuws, Nooit meer slapen, Spijkers met Koppen, Khalid en Sophie, Kunst is Lang (Mister Motley Podcast), Foam Magazine, NRC, Parool, Volkskrant, Volkskrant Magazine, Radio 4 Opium, itsnicethat.com, mistermotley.nl, viceland.com
Education
2007- 2012:
Design Academy Eindhoven, Man and Living
2006 -2007:
Industrial Design, Technische Universiteit Delft
2005 -2006:
Transport Design University of Huddersfield
2000 -2005:
Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem
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