Sharon Van Overmeiren
°1985, Antwerp (BE) - lives and works in Antwerp (BE)
The work of Sharon Van Overmeiren reflects on the images with which we surround ourselves. She thinks about how a specific image or a complete visual language is created, how the forms become bearers of meaning, and how this meaning changes – through time or through different cultures.
In concrete terms, this means that she creates new, composite images that are made up of a multitude of references. Van Overmeiren’s sources and references are extremely broad and cover both high and low culture: from cartoons to pre-Columbian motifs, from museum scenography to Pokémon. The images Van Overmeiren creates are literally layered, and the relationship between all the different layers of images constantly evokes new meanings.
Sharon van Overmeiren - Cesar Millan, 2019
Sharon van Overmeiren - Ebichu, 2018
Sharon van Overmeiren - Deep Blue, 2018
Sharon van Overmeiren - Installation view of The Vordemberge Gildewart Award at GEM, Den Hague in 2020
Sharon van Overmeiren - Mittere and Resurrection, 2019
Sharon van Overmeiren - The Hand That Keeps Giving, 2018
Sharon van Overmeiren - Installation view at Miart, Milan in 2019
Sharon van Overmeiren - Installation view at Miart, Milan in 2019
Sharon Van Overmeiren resided as an artist in Jan Van Eyck, Maastricht and Wiels, Brussels. She has shown her work at solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad, including Royal Museum of Fine Arts KMSKA, Antwerp; Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Brussels; Lucie Drdova Gallery, Prague; Neuer Aachen Kunstverein, Aachen; De Warande, Turnhout; HORST festival, Vilvoorde; Kerameikmuseum Princesshof, Leeuwarden; Garage, Rotterdam; Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam; Extra City, Antwerp: Damien & the Love Guru, Brussels; Kunsthal KadE, Amersfoort; M UHKA, Antwerp; and Wiels, Brussels.
Sharon Van Overmeiren is represented by the following gallery;
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