UPCOMING

STELPLAATS, Club design with studio burssens dossche vanderlinden, currently in final design phase, 2022-2025

PAST

BOLD DUALITIES, Set design Belgium is Design, Salone del Mobile, Milan, April 16th-21st 2024
EYES. EYES. Baby., Set & light design stage Horst Festival, Vilvoorde, May 5th-7th, 2023
ENCORE, Solo show, Wilford X, Temse, October 28th - April 30th, 2022
UNTITLED (Currents), Installation at Uit Het Donker IV, De Hoge Rielen, February 2-5th, 2022
UNTITLED (Currents), Installation at Dag van de Architectuur, Leietheater, Deinze, October 17th, 2021
ENDLESS CITY, Solo show, Brussels, August 31st - October 23th, 2021
NO ONE IS AN ISLAND, Set & light design Main stage Horst Festival, Vilvoorde, September 10th - 12th, 2021
UNTITLED (Currents), Installation at Bouche B Festival, DeSingel, Antwerp, March 28th to 20th, 2021
PRELUDE, Solo show, Philippe Piessens Gallery, Antwerp, October 17th - November 21st, 2020
CURRENTS, Performance at Beyond the black box Festival, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, February 2020
CURRENTS, Performance at Stuk, Leuven, October 2019
CURRENTS, Performance at Vooruit, Gent, 2019
IN THE ABSENCE OF THE ARTIST, Untitled (Cone) in virtual group show, April 2020
UIT HET DONKER II, Untitled (Layered Landscape) in group show, De Hoge Rielen, February 2019
THE GATHERING, Untitled (Cone) in group show, Panthera, Brussels, February 2018

°1984, Belgium lives and works in Brussels.

Karel Burssens is a transdisciplinary artist who trained as an architect and engineer, initially working with Bogdan-Van Broeck architects and Bureau Bas Smets. He went on to become Head of Architecture at villa eugénie, while working on a wide range of fashion shows for Dior, Lanvin, Kenzo, a.o. In 2010 he began to collaborate with Jeroen Verrecht as 88888, developing both commissioned and self-initiated international projects in scenography, installation art and architecture.

Karel Burssens’ independent practice is currently evolving on the sidelines of several distinct artistic worlds: sculpture, installation, performance and scenography. On different physical scales ranging from independent objects and sculptures to complex collaborative performance-oriented projects, his work aims to initiate reflections on subjects as broad as society, systems, technology and human interactions therewith. The contextualisation and the conceptual stratification play an important role.

In September 2019, his project CURRENTS premièred in Ghent, Belgium at Vooruit, crystallising Burssens’ previous transdisciplinary experience and research into a sculpture-performance. Currents is co-produced by C-takt, DeSingel, Stuk, Vooruit, Vlaams Architectuur Institute and is supported by the Flemish Government.

In 2021-22 he showed 3 solo shows, PRELUDE, ENDLESS CITY & ENCORE, all curated by Goedele Bartholomeeusen, shown at Philipppe Piessens (Antwerp), Space (Brussels) and Wilford X (Temse).

For HORST arts & Music festival he designed two stages and an installation.

Since 2023 Tina De Keyser, a trained architect, is collaborating on all projects.
Since 2024 Tom Sneyders, a trained architect, is collaborating on all projects.

Former team members: Anouk Meurice

studio@karelburssens.com
+32 495 879 079