Fred Bervoets

Fred Bervoets, Childhood Memory as a Soldier, Single-print etching on paper, put on canvas and painted in acrylic paint, 200x280 cm, 2008/2010

Fred Bervoets, The atelier , Single-print etching on paper put on canvas and painted in acrylic paint, 200 x 365 cm , 2011

Born in 1942, Burcht (near Antwerp), Belgium

1957/66 He studies at the ‘Royal Academy’ and the ‘National Higher Institute for Fine Arts’ in Antwerp.
1961 He is awarded the Laurent Meeus prize.
1963 He is awarded the Camiel Huysmans prize.
1964 He is a laureate on the occasion of the Academy’s tricentenary celebrations.
1964/68 He regularly visits Paris with Maurice Wijckaert, who brings him into contact with Asger Jorn.
1965 Creation of the so-called ‘Cobras’.
1966 He is awarded the Oppenheimer prize (Club of XII).

He concludes a contract with gallery Stéphane Janssen in Brussels, Belgium.
1969 First participation in exhibitions at gallery De Zwarte Panter, in Antwerp.
1970 Creation of the so-called ‘Spaghettis’.
1974 Creation of the so-called ‘Totems’ and ‘Kasten’ (mixed-media).
1978 Creation of the so-called ‘Greys’.
1981 Creation of a series etchings ‘Hommage to a Friend’ after the demise of Jan Cox.
1982 Exhibition ‘Fred Bervoets, Paintings and Graphic Art’ at the Royal Museum for Fine Arts in Antwerp.
1983 He is awarded the ‘Lobende Anerkennung’ by the jury at the Third Biennial of European Graphic Art in Baden-Baden.

He takes part in the 17th Biennial of Sao Paulo.
1985 Exhibition (ti:jkene) in the new exhibition room of the I.C.C. in Antwerp.
1986 He takes part in the 16th International Art Exhibition Japan – Tokyo Biennial.
1986/87 With Albert Szukalski, he travels to the Nevada desert in Rhyolite U.S.A.
1987 Creation of the so-called ‘Cicatrices’ and the so-called ‘Nevadas’.
1988 Creation of the so-called ‘Whites’.
1989 Exhibition ‘Open Mind – Gesloten Circuits’ in the SMAK, Ghent, Belgium.
1991 He is awarded the National Prize for Visual Arts of the Flemish Community.
1992 Retrospective in the ‘P.M.M.K’, Oostende, Belgium.
1994 Exhibition ‘A museum in the making’ with Jean Michel Basquiat in the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, U.S.A.

Realisation of ‘A Tribute to Shorty Harris’, a sculpture in weathering stealfor the Gold Well Open Air Museum, Death Valley, U.S.A.
1995 ‘Palette on paper’, Belgium Flanders Exchange Center, Osaka, Japan.
1997 Exhibition ‘Formes de Flandes’, Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain.
2001 Exhibition in the Humanitarian State University of Moscow, Russia.
2004 Exhibition in Galeri Artist, Berlin. He is awarded the Louis Paul Boon prize.
2005 Exhibition in Galeri Artist, Istanbul
2007 Exhibition ‘Welcome Home’ in the MuHKA in Antwerp for his 65th birthday and exhibition ‘The Floor’ with Koen Van den Broek in De Zwarte Panter, Antwerp.
2011 Exhibitions ‘Fred Bervoets. Neighbours.’ In De Zwarte Panter, Antwerp And ‘Fred Bervoets, 1990-2011’, De Markten, Brussels.
2012 Exhibition in gallery Sorry We’re Closed in Brussels.