artist/ Eddie Symkens

Belgium

Selections and awards
2024: Art magazine Art Letters: Interview Atelier in Pictures
2023: Plateau art. Curator Wanda Reiff (Plateau of Margraten/Maastricht)
2021: Recording Art Database Belgium
2021: Selection to inclusion ‘Art on the move’
2019: Watou Arts Festival: ‘Saudade. Nothing exists that doesn’t touch something else.’ Curator Jan Moeyaert
2018: Interview Het Belang van Limburg 30/03/2018. Exhibition: ‘Chemistry between image and mountain’
2016: 2nd Biennial Visual Arts by the Sea. Curator Hugo Brutin Ostend
2015: Dagblad De Limburger (NL). Exhibition: ‘Stillness and freezing’ (rating 4 stars)
2014: 1st Biennial Visual Arts by the Sea. Curator Hugo Brutin Ostend
2013: Selected: ‘Self-portrait’ Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
2011: Selected to participate ISEL Art and culture magazine: ‘ABC of Belgian Contemporary Artists 2011’
2010: Selected to participate Sculpture Guide 2010. (movingartmagazine)
2008: Kunstkataloog: Publisher Galerie Ludwig Trossaert Antwerp
2007: Selected to Dutch group of ceramists
2007: Selected to participate in ‘Beeldig Limburg’, sculptures by 11 selected Limburg sculptors commissioned by the Province of Limburg and Flanders Festival
2006: 1st visual arts prize, organised by the city of Dilsen-Stokkem and the Davidsfonds Nationaal. Title sculpture group: ‘The power of communication’
2005: Selected for the book: ‘14 Contemporary Artists’ directed by Thierry Jonnaert

Public assignments
Flemish Parliament (offices of the Flemish Ombudsman)
Castle Ter Motten 2 bronze sculptures. Title: ‘The power of communication’ Dilsen-Stokkem
Cultural centre 2 sculptures: ‘ Europe protests’ (H 170 cm) and ‘Transhuman’ (H 180 cm) Maasmechelen