The Belgian duo Jos de Gruyter (*1965) & Harald Thys (*1966) take over the large Salle Poma, conjuring up an eerie, nightmarish world of strange creatures. In recent years, the two artists have worked a lot with models or dolls. These scraped, assembled objects play a central role in their artistic practice: they are the remnants of a complex human existence and, if they are lucky, find their last stop in a dusty second-hand shop before they wither away completely. All the works on display at the Kunsthaus Biel are interconnected and function like an old automated Swiss clock programmed according to a coded script
With the support of Flanders State of Art and gallery /DuflonRacz/Bern.
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, «Impressions de Biel», exhibition view, 2024, KBCB, Courtesy of the artists; photo: Lea Kunz
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, «Impressions de Biel», exhibition view, 2024, KBCB, Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (DE); KIN Brussels (BE); STUDIOLI, Rome (IT); photo: Thomas Annaheim Lambert
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, «Impressions de Biel», exhibition view, 2024, KBCB, Courtesy of the artists; photo: Lea Kunz
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, «Impressions de Biel», exhibition view, 2024, KBCB, Courtesy of the artists; photo: Lea Kunz
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, «Impressions de Biel», exhibition view, 2024, KBCB, Courtesy of the artists; photo: Lea Kunz
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, «Impressions de Biel», exhibition view, 2024, KBCB, Courtesy of the artists; photo: Lea Kunz
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, «Impressions de Biel», exhibition view, 2024, KBCB, Courtesy of the artists; photo: Lea Kunz