Hans Op de Beeck, in 1969 in Turnhout, Belgium, lives in Brussels. He is both a painter and sculptor as well as a theater and film director, composer and writer. Solo shows at the Kunsthalle Krems (2019), Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam (2018), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2017) and Sammlung Goetz, Munich (2014), among others. Selected group exhibitions: Reina Sofia, Madrid; Towada Art Center, Japan; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; MoMA PS1, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris. Participation in the Venice Biennale, Shanghai Biennale and Aichi Triennale. Selected films: Staging Silence (2019) and Night Time (2014, KDK 2015).