Kamiel Verschuren
NL
Kamiel Verschuren is member of initiative C 3-studios
About C 3-studios
Kamiel Verschuren is member of initiative NAC
About NAC
NAC (Stichting Nieuwe Ateliers Charlois) (2004) is a voluntary, independent, self-management organization in Charlois, founded by artists, and provides an artistic/cultural environment/living and working spaces for artists in and around their communities. It strives to achieve this in an appropriate way, both socially, economically, and artistically. It seeks collaboration, the added value of the collective, as a community, as a strength, within the context of a larger community. It seeks an economic model in which profit is not made from others, an equal way of interacting. It aims to develop art in society, offer a cultural platform to everyone who wants to express themselves, and facilitate this. It is 100% committed to this, seeking opportunities, possibilities, responsibility, form, implementation, fairness, diversity, freedom, openness, aftercare, and reality!
About Kamiel Verschuren
Kamiel Verschuren (Dordrecht (NL), 1968)
Education
1972/1980 - 1st Montessori School The Netherlands, The Hague
1980/1986 - Montessori Lyceum, The Hague
1986/1987 - Vrije Academie [Open Academy], The Hague (day and evening course)
1987/1992 - Willem de Kooning, Academy for Fine Arts Rotterdam, dept. Monumental/Sculpture
1991 - Erasmus Exchange: Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Kunsten Frankfurt (GER)
1992 - Erasmus Exchange: Academy for Fine Arts Poznan (POL)
1992 - Urban Planning workshop: Bremerhaven (GER)
Residencies
2000/2003 - Studio Galéria, FKSE Budapest (HUN) - 3 months residency and annual visits
2000 - Puddles exchange program Rotterdam-Japan - Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (JP) - residency prologue/1 month
2001/2011 - S-AIR Sapporo (JP) - Sapporo II festival project - annual
2003 - Other plans, New Castle (UK) - 1 month residency
2012 - Le Grand Cordel - Les Maisons des Jeunes et de la Culture, Rennes (FRA). With Lucas Grandin - 3 months residency
2013 - Gallery Paradise Nantes (FRA) - 3 months residency
2019 - Hospitalfield Arbroath (SCO) - 3 weeks residency
Kamiel Verschuren (1968) is a conceptual interdisciplinary artist, working in a broad international practice with a special interest for the public domain, self-organisation and the artists’ position in society from different positions; as drawer, (spatial) designer, designer of public space, organiser, initiator, social activist, observer, urban advisor, landscape artists, producer and publicist; co-founder and member of the artist initiative foundation B.a.d (1987-), Studio Pompstraat, Studio NL 01.08.04 (2004-2011), investment foundation Stedelinks010 foundation (2011-), co-founder and member of the international project organisation ICU art projects foundation (from 2007 to 2009 iStrike foundation), member of the advisory board of TENT./Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam (2004-2014), co-founder and chairman of the self-management organisation and cultural project organisation NAC foundation – New Studios Charlois (2004- ), foundation Charlois aan het Water (2016-2025) and foundation PanoramaZuid (2016 -) and BK-information, professional magazine and insurances for artists (2012-). He works individually and within various partnerships with other artists and organizations.
Abroad he is active in several long-term collaborations with FSKE-Studio Galeria, S-Air (Sapporo Artists in Residence), artist initiative La Source du Lion and with the cultural organisation doual’art; in Budapest Hungary (2002-2005), Sapporo Japan (2004-2011), Casablanca Morocco (2003-2006) and Douala Cameroon (since 2007-).
Since 1991 he is closely involved with the urban development of Rotterdam South and especially with the district of Charlois. Starting in 2000 he has initialized and realized over 100 public art projects, such as the first 4 editions of the Open Atelierroute Charlois (2001-2004), the international art manifestation Something about Charlois/...iets over Charlois (2001-2003) and Moving in Free Zones (2007), the overview exhibition OnSouth#1 and OnSouth#2 (2010) and several public commissions De Schaduw van het Beeld (Wolphaertshof, 1996), MaastunnelMonument NL (Maastunnelplein, 2003), project SWAFB003 – inner garden foundation B.a.d and hang-out (Talingstraat 5, 2001-2003), Scouting expedition during the reconstruction of Zuiderpark (Zuiderpark 2005), De Schouwplaats (2014) and The Worlds of… (2015-2018).
With Stedelinks010 he is currently investing in the social and physical infrastructure of Rotterdam South, by organizing an independent ferry boat VeerpontZuid (2017-2022), connecting the south to the north of the city, and a neighborhood cultural restaurant Pavilion at the Waterfront (foundation Charlois aan het Water) which also holds an International Residency Program for public art State of the City (2016-2024). The aim of all these projects and initiatives is to create public life in the south area of Rotterdam, to connect and empower people, question authority and to create freedom by taking on responsibility.
With NAC foundation, and in collaboration with SKAR he initiated, produces and manages C 3-studios (2024-)
Kamiel Verschuren lives and works at foundation B.a.d since 1991.