Seeing the Unseen -

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At Art Brussels, G262 presents a newly developed body of work by Germaine Kruip Kruip’s works have been shown around the globe, but have only been sparsely exhibited in Belgium so far. By giving the entire booth to Kruip, we want to highlight the serial nature of her work, where a single exploration can appear in many different shapes.! In Seeing the unseen Germaine Kruip investigates the interaction between the sculptural and the field of cinematic experience. It is a pendant of an hour-long theatre piece A Possibility of an Abstraction, commissioned by Empac in Troy, New York, that premiered in December 2014.! Seeing the unseen marks the artist’s ongoing engagement with theatrical technology and staged perception. Originally trained in theatre, Kruip turned away from scenography to concentrate on visual arts, producing works that bring the theatrical elements of light, temporality, and the stage into a new spatial setting in galleries and museums. The works in Seeing the unseen all play on perception by appearing, disappearing and re-appearing: in a reflection on the wall, in two echoing hand-polished metal mirrors, in clouds of chalk, and in the whispers of landscapes seen before.! ! Germaine Kruip (born 1970, Castricum, NL) is an artist based between Amsterdam, NL and Brussels, BE. Kruip was educated at the DasArts, Amsterdam, NL (1998-1999) and Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL (2000-2001). Recent exhibitions and performances include: Festival Performatik 2015, Bozar, Brussel, BE (2015); A Possibility of An Abstraction, Experimental Media and performing Arts Center,Troy , USA ( 2014) ; To The Magician’s Mind, G262 Sofie Van De Velde, Antwerp, BE ( 2014) ; Le Mouvement: Performing in the City, 12th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel/ Bienne, CH ( 2014) ; CLEAR, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA (2014) ; A Possibility of an Abstraction: Square Dance, Holland Festival / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL ( 2014) ; Man in the Holocene, MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Boston, USA (2013); Cimetière d’Ixelles, An Art in General, NY, USA ( 2013); The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT ( 2013);Germaine Kruip: A Possibility of an Abstraction, The approach, London, (2012); A possibility of an Abstraction: Circle Dance, Art Basel / Art Unlimited, CH (2012)