ABOUT

MICHEL VAN COLLENBURG IS A JACK OF ALL TRADES.

AN OMNIVOROUS CREATOR IN THE FIELDS OF VISUAL ART, PHOTOGRAPHY AND MUSIC. 

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THEIR WORK FOCUSES ON IDENTITY, GENDER (POLITICS), DAILY LIFE AND LEANS HEAVILY ON COLLAGING. BOTH IN IMAGES AND IN SOUND.

 

THE CENTRAL IDEA BEING THAT WE ARE ALL JUST FRAGMENTS, OF OUR UPBRINGING, OUR EXPERIENCES, OUR IMAGINATION. JUST AS SOCIETY AS A WHOLE IS FRAGMENTED. THIS LEADS TO OFTEN CALEIDOSCOPIC WORKS THAT BOTH  CHALLENGE AND ALIENATE THE AUDIENCE. 

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BORN IN 1972 IN SCHIEDAM, A TOWN CLOSE TO ROTTERDAM IN THE NETHERLANDS, MICHEL VAN COLLENBURG NOW LIVES AND WORKS IN NIJMEGEN AND IN BERLIN.

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MICHEL IS NON-CONFORMING IN ALL SORTS OF WAYS: 

IN THEIR WORK, IN GENDER AND IN LIFE. MICHEL APPRECIATES THE USE OF EITHER HE/HIM OR THEY/THEM PRONOUNS. 

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