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Vincent Vulsma

Vincent Vulsma (1982) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and was a participant at De Ateliers in Amsterdam.

Vincent Vulsma contemporary art Brussels
No. 124, 2011, detail Antelope Mask. Baulé, Ivory Coast, before 1932, on loan from the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam. Custom made wooden pedestal with plexiglass display case. Photo: G.J. van Rooij
Vincent Vulsma art contemporain Bruxelles
In the Hold, 2018. Logbook, trade book and bills of the trade cargo and return voyage of the transatlantic trade ship ‘Vrouw Johanna Cores’, fourth voyage (1758-1759), Zeeland Archives, MCC Archives. Installation view, ‘In the Hold’, HMK, Hoorn, 2018. Photo: G.J. van Rooij
Vincent Vulsma hedendaagse kunst Brussel
Voyage #7 (1763-1765), 2017, detail, Pondicherry (India) indigo fabric, hand spun and hand woven cotton, natural indigo dyed, laser etched, laser cut. 270x120 cm. Photo: J. Eikenaar
Vincent Vulsma Wiels residency Brussels museum
Voyage #7 (1763-1765), 2017, Pondicherry (India) indigo fabric, hand spun and hand woven cotton, natural indigo dyed, laser etched, laser cut. 270x120 cm. Photo: G.J. van Rooij
Vincent Vulsma Wiels résidence Bruxelles musée
Socles (a c b), 2011. Assemblages of stools, Makere / Zande, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele), before 1912 and Eames Time-Life Walnut Stools, Models A, B, C, 1960. Photo: G.J. van Rooij
Vincent Vulsma residentie Wiels Brussel museum
A Sign of Autumn, 2011. Installation view, ‘A Sign of Autumn’, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2011. Photo: G.J. van Rooij
Vincent Vulsma contemporary art center Brussels
Technik, 2013. Made in collaboration with Elisa van Joolen. Installation view, ‘The Moon has a Complicated Geography’, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, 2013
Vincent Vulsma hedendaags kunstencentrum Brussel
Return, 2017-ongoing. Natural Indigo dye powder, seven parts, 26.1 kgs each 27x27x27 cm each Installation view, ‘In the Hold’, HMK , Hoorn, 2018. Photo: G.J. van Rooij

His work explores the tensions between autonomous art and the sociopolitical relations underlying its production. Important starting points for his investigations are the history and economy of cultural appropriation. Recently he contributed with the exhibition In the Hold to the research programme Undercurrents by Hotel Mariakapel in Hoorn (NL).

His solo exhibitions include A Sign of Autumn at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, and ARS NOVA E5305-B at Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender, Berlin. Vulsma has participated in group exhibitions at Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Residency supported by Mondriaan Fund.