Dries Verhoeven

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Dries Verhoeven (born February 26, 1976 in Oosterhout ) is a Dutch theater maker and conceptual artist .

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Ceci n'est pas , Dries Verhoeven, Montreal , 2015.

Dries Verhoeven's installations , performances and happenings are shown in museums, at festivals and in public spaces. His socio-political interventions are primarily shaped by the constant mood of crisis and the influence of digital media on all relationships between people.

In 2007 he conceived You are here , a co-production with two Dutch festivals, which was also shown in Belgium. In 2009 the production was shown as part of the Salzburg Festival on the Pernerinsel in Hallein. It won the Young Directors Award .

In 2008 he performed the theater installation uw koninkrijk kome (“your rich come”) at the Wiener Festwochen .

In 2011 he presented the installation Dunkelkammer at the Münchner Kammerspiele , and in 2014 the No Man's Land project in Munich's Bahnhofsviertel . In this piece he turned the audience into voyeurs and observed at the same time. It was about the impossibility of closeness and futile attempts to create closeness, since these did not create anything other than distance.

From 7 July to 21 October 2014 he showed in the Kunsthalle Bremen its video performance play Wanna? (“Liefde in tijden van Grinde”), a questioning of the influence of smartphones on intimacy and life in public spaces. It was a co-production with Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin and the SPRING Festival Utrecht 2015.

In August 2014 in Kampnagel in Hamburg and in November 2014 in Freiburg im Breisgau , he presented the art campaign Ce ci n'est pa la nature with Selm Wenselaers as a trans person .

In 2018 he showed his performance Phobiarama at the Wiener Festwochen , an accusation against “terrorists and politicians from all camps”, who increasingly created a “theater of fear”, “in which we are not faced with a specific danger, but with a possible danger The performance will be shown in Vienna from May 11th to May 22nd at least 77 times. The work was created in cooperation with the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens and the Holland Festival .

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“My theater is always trying to get people to see reality differently than before. I don't just want to impress, I want to tell people their own story a little differently. Everyone prefers to hear their own story. "

- Dries Verhoeven

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Presse (Vienna): "Young Directors Award" goes to Dries Verhoeven , August 24, 2009
  2. ↑ Dries Verhoeven: Wanna Play? , accessed on May 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Ceci n'est pas ... -Dries Verhoeven-. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Dries Verhoeven about his performance box: “I want to awaken complicity”. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  5. ^ Salzburg Festival: "Young Directors Award" to Dries Verhoeven. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Verhoeven, Dries
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch theater maker and conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Oosterhout