RINUS VAN DE VELDE

I Want to Eat Mangos in the Bathtub (solo show)
Art Sonje Center, Seoul
8 March – 12 May 2024

Installation view: I Want to Eat Mangos in the Bathtub, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2024, photo: Seowon Nam, courtesy of Art Sonje Center, 2024
Installation view: I Want to Eat Mangos in the Bathtub, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2024, photo: Seowon Nam, courtesy of Art Sonje Center, 2024

Rinus Van de Velde’s work is the subject of a new solo exhibition co-hosted by Art Sonje Center, Jeonnam Museum of Art, and Space ISU. Alongside the artist’s imaginative paintings, latest drawings, and a captivating film blending autobiography and fiction, I Want to Eat Mangos in the Bathtub presents a life-size recreation of a video set – an immersive installation offering unique insight into Van de Velde’s visual journeys.

Art Sonje Center

Installation view: I Want to Eat Mangos in the Bathtub, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2024, photo: Seowon Nam, courtesy of Art Sonje Center, 2024
Installation view: I Want to Eat Mangos in the Bathtub, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2024, photo: Seowon Nam, courtesy of Art Sonje Center, 2024

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RINUS VAN DE VELDE

The Armchair Voyager (publication)
Published by Museum Voorlinden, 2023

Courtesy of Museum Voorlinden
Courtesy of Museum Voorlinden

The catalogue accompanying Rinus Van de Velde’s solo exhibition, The Armchair Voyager, currently on view at the Museum Voorlinden until 29 May 2023, is now available for purchase. Alongside installation views, illustrations of the works exhibited, and photographs from the artist’s studio, the catalogue also includes a selection of the artist’s favourite excerpts from Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Restlessness, 1982.

Museum Voorlinden

Courtesy of Museum Voorlinden
Courtesy of Museum Voorlinden