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Vico Persson is a visual artist based in Antwerp and Amsterdam. He is currently a guest artist at the Boghossian Foundation's Villa Empain in Brussels.
After graduating from the Rietveld Academy, Vico attended the post-graduate program at Dutch Art Institute. There, he became interested in curating. This led to a career on the organizational side of art production (curating, exhibition design, teaching).
In 2022, after several years of working in Paris, he moved to Belgium and returned to his art studio. There, he freely mixes various materials and works across several media, including photography, painting, drawing, assemblage, and collage.
During the last two years, Vico has been a resident at Treehouse NDSM (Amsterdam) and B.A.D. Foundation (Rotterdam), and has participated in numerous exhibitions in venues such as NDSM Fuse (Amsterdam) and Ghent Design Museum (Belgium).
His collage series "Forms of Residue" is an ongoing production of works, started in 2022, in which he transforms leftover materials - such as food packaging and the last bit of residue paint - into abstract creations. This series of works is a playful comment to our throw-away culture, and play with thoughts around notions of absence, presence, and identity.
Other ongoing collage series are "Double Truth" and "Twin Flowers": Here, the artist combines actual photos of real subjects with images of their AI-generated counterparts, to question our perception of reality and the increasing digitalisation of our world.
Since 2025, Vico also makes sculptural installations, combining old, recycled objects with wood, clay and paint.
CV: Exhibitions & residencies
Feb - March, 2025
Residency at Villa Empain, Brussels
Dec, 2024- Jan, 2025
Creatures of Mass-Production & Reveries,
Solo exhibition, Treehouse NDSM, Amsterdam
Sept, 2024
WE ARE ALL GUESTS, group exhibition, BAD Rotterdam
April - Sept, 2024
Group exhibition: the contemporary section of Anni and Josef Albers exhibition at Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
August, 2024
NDSM (c)art sale
April, 2024
WE ARE ALL GUESTS #13, group exhibition, BAD Rotterdam
December, 2023
Art For Christmas, Ghent
Sept / Oct / Nov, 2023
Residency at Stichting BAD, Rotterdam
October, 2023
Participation in Belgian Art and Design Fair, Ghent
October, 2023
Interactive installation at NDSM Open, Amsterdam
August - September, 2023
Group exhibition at Treehouse NDSM, Amsterdam
June - August 2023
Group exhibition at exhibition CODE at Ding / Designmuseum Ghent
April - August 2023
Group exhibition at FUSE NDSM, Amsterdam
February, 2023
Group exhibition at Atelier de Vertus, Paris
January, 2023
Solo exhibition at de Bouwput, Amsterdam
July, 2022
Exhibiting at This Art Fair, Amsterdam
Spring, 2022
Residency at World of Co (online residency)
January–February, 2018
Residency period at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut, USA
August, 2016
Group exhibition Cabane Georgina, Marseille, France
January–February, 2016
Residency period at Thread, Sinthian, Senegal
August–December, 2016
Residency period at 59 Rivoli, Paris
CV:
Curating
experience, selected projects
September, 2023
Ideas of Something Vivid
Group exhibition featuring works by Jonas Vanderbeke, Jelle Spruyt, and Toon Jans.
Ti-Pi, Ghent
May, 2023
Plain, Simple Things
Solo exhibition featuring work by Elke-Andreas Boon
Ti-Pi, Ghent
February, 2023
Colors I Remember
Solo exhibition by Delphine Cuelenaere
Ti-Pi, Ghent
December, 2022
Art For Christmas
Cocurated with Femke Vandenbosch and Thomas Renwart,
Ti-Pi, Ghent
September, 2022
Marlon Wobst, Ghent Feltings
Ti-Pi, Ghent
June, 2022
The Most Sunny Hour of Your Night
Ti-Pi, Ghent
November, 2019
Roger da Silva photos from 1950's and 60's Senegal
AKAA Art Fair, Paris
October 2019
Duo exhibition with Silvia Rosi and Annie-Marie Akussah at 1-54 London.
Winter 2017
Exhibition design for the exhibition "Anni Albers: A Touching Vision", curated by Manuel Cirauqui at Guggenheim, Bilbao
February, 2013
Devils in Disguise , Christophe Beauregard
Transient Projects to People, Paris
CV:
Workshops and lectures
August, 2024
Collage workshop as part of "The Creative Garden" at Treehouse NDSM.
Collage workshops in 2023:
Color and collage workshops in collaboration with "I Amsterdam" and Treehouse NDSM, as well as an open drop-in workshop in public space, as part of a neighborhood engagement event in Amsterdam Noord.
Lecture/presentation: students from St. Joost School of Art & Design visited my art studio in October 2023.
Collage workshops
2021/2022: A series of several collage workshops based on the teaching of Josef Albers. The workshops were organized by Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and took part inside and outside the museum; in homeless people's shelters, prisons, etc, as part of the museum's outreach program
The basics of weaving
2021/2022: A series of several basic weaving workshops based on the work of Anni Albers. The workshops were organized by Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and took part inside and outside the museum; in homeless people's shelters, prisons, etc, as part of the museum's outreach program
AlbersForKids
I initiated and developed the concept and structure of this online platform to share the teachings of Anni and Josef Albers with children and their parents during the COVID lockdowns.
Lecture/presentation about the meaning of going to an artist residency program,
ENSAD school of design, September 2021
Lecture/presentation of the projects of the NGO Le Korsa and the art classes program I initiated to take place in Senegal. At École W, University for journalism, communication, and business studies, Paris, October, 2021.
1:54 art fair 2019
Moderation of a talk between Silvia Rosi and Annie-Marie Akussah