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Philippe Van Wolputte

 'Philippe Van Wolputte'  ( Antwerp, 1982) is a Belgian visual artist. He works in Antwerp.

Biography
Van Wolputte studied at the Sint-Lucasschool in Antwerp (2002-2006) the training "Open Atelier". In 2007 he moved to Amsterdam where he had a residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. In 2010 he returned to Antwerp.

Work
Since 2003, Van Wolputte has explored urban landscapes and made site-specific interventions. Even before his training, his focus was already on what is still the subject of his research today: abandoned, forgotten, but especially devalued urban sites that are waiting to be demolished once they no longer fulfill a function in the current economic / utilitarian hierarchy.

In 2005 he created 'Temporary Penetrable Exhibition Spaces' (TPES), a project he worked on for ten years (2005-2015), claiming forgotten sites in different cities by repurposing them as temporary autonomous works of art.

From 2006 he also exhibits his first installations. These are inspired by temporary living or working places. 'A16M Commemoration' (2006) is a 16-meter-long tunnel that is inspired by a place that the artist discovered during [urban exploring] and tries to redesign from his memories. 'On All Fours' (2006) is a video installation consisting of a large enclosed stage, in which he built several crawl corridors inspired by the architecture of the catacombs in Paris.

In the period from 2008 to 2010, Van Wolputte made various fictional interventions in public space, with feigned documentation of the alleged action being all that remains. '3 Closed Conditions' (2008), 'A Collection of Hide-Outs' (2008), 'Covered Yet Possible' (2009) and 'Forlorn Hope' (2010).

In the period 2010 to 2012 he made a number of works that responded to the dangers of asbestos. He first did this in a work 'Aeternus' made for a publication in the magazine Gagarin, where he bundled conversations about asbestos from various forums on the internet into a new whole, a performance 'Inhaling Minerals As-Best As Possible' for LISTE - Art Fair Basel in which he explored the building where the art fair took place and in the basement of the building encountered asbestos. 'Give off / Give out' (2011), a video work filmed in Jakarta, showed the artist driving a truck around the city, stopping at places where a building had just been demolished, to use a water hose to remove the remains of spraying the demolition works wet to prevent the spread of fine dust.

Exhibitions
Philippe Van Wolputte's work has (been) shown in various solo and group exhibitions, including:


 * 2017 LLS382, Antwerp (BE), Linked Surfaces
 * 2016 Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris (FR),Vestiges Architecturaux & Vandalisme, Partie II: Non-Lieu
 * 2016 KUMU, Tallinn (EST), Terra Incognita
 * 2016 Cardrde Gallery, Bologna (ITA), Neighbours
 * 2016 Volume, Paris (FR), Vestiges Architecturaux & Vandalisme Partie I
 * 2015 Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp(BE), Temporary Penetrable Exhibition Spaces: Behind The Lines
 * 2015 Be-Part, Waregem (BE), Fade-Outs
 * 2015 Florence Loewy Gallery, Paris (FR), Material
 * 2014 Extra City Kunsthal (BE), Le Canal
 * 2013 Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (D), Perpetual Travellers
 * 2012 Raumexperimente, Berlin (D), Performing Politics - The World is Not Fair – The Great World's Fair
 * 2010 Chert Gallery, Berlin (D), We Did It / Disputed Territory
 * 2010 Klemm's Gallery, Berlin (D), Zero Budget Biennial
 * 2009 Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (NL), T.P.E.S. 01/02/03/04
 * 2008 Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (CH), Dragged Down Into Lowercase
 * 2007 Objectif-Exhibitions, Antwerp (BE), Tipos Moviles

Art Prizes
In 2013 Philippe van Wolputte won the ING prize at the Young Belgian Art Prize, which was organized in the BOZAR, Brussels.

Publication
In 2015 the publication 'Temporary Penetrable Exhibition Spaces 2005 - 2015' was published by Art paper Editions.