Kasper Bosmans Lives and works in Brussels, b. 1990, Lommel, Belgium

Known for multifaceted and divergent approaches to art-making, with works that range from sculpture and installation to painting and drawing, Kasper Bosmans’s practice is a complex concoction of high art and literature, popular culture, mythology, and anthropology viewed through a queer and playfully minimalist lens that subversively observes and reinvents narratives that dominate the world around us.

Taking an editorial approach, Bosmans cuts, pastes, and brings together these anecdotes and stories, which traverse all histories, cultures, and societies, and identifies offbeat, idiosyncratic, and poetic resonances that bind form and meaning together in what is essentially a conceptual practice. Nothing is off limits for Bosmans, who has a particular soft spot for obscure, queer, and marginalized anecdotes, from stories of crossdressing saints to examples of celibacy and monogamy in the animal kingdom. Bosmans prods, pokes, and teases out connections in his work that are significant to his personal world, but the resulting narratives cannot help but take on a universal resonance.

Bosmans’s solo exhibitions have been organized at Mendes Wood DM, Paris (2024); De Pont Museum, Tilburg (2023 & 2021); Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2022); WIELS, Brussels (2022); Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan (2021); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2020); De Hallen, Haarlem (2017); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2016); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2016); Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels (2016); CIAP, Hasselt (2016); Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (2016); Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); P/////AKT, Amsterdam (2015).

He has taken part in institutional exhibitions at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (2024); Triennale Kortrijk, Kortrijk (2024); Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka (2023); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2023); 40th EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, Limerick (2023); CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux (2022); De Vleeshal, Middelburg (2021); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2020); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2020); GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (2020); M HKA, Antwerp (2020); Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2019); Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (2019); Fondation Cartier, Paris (2019); Luma Westbau, Zürich (2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, (2018); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2017); BOZAR, Brussels (2015); WIELS, Brussels (2015); Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (2014); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2014).