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Richard Klapwijk (1968) is a Dutch performance and installation artist who lives between Borgerhout (Antwerp) and the Netherlands. Using makeshift materials, humour and direct participation he turns streets, shop-windows and project spaces into stages where passers-by become co-authors.
He is currently completing the (Pre)Master Autonomous Context at Sint Lucas Antwerpen (2024-26) after three years in Projectstudio Monumental Art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (2021-24). Earlier he studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2015-16), the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (2014-15), and holds an MSc Architecture from Delft University of Technology (1993).
Recent highlights include the solo exhibition I Hate Fish (Antwerp 2024), the participatory installation Een Hoekje voor Lieve (Borgerhub, Antwerp 2024), the group show UNTILL (Antwerp 2025) and the Premaster expo Hanging Grounds at the Verbeke Foundation (2024) . Street pieces such as Are You by Any Chance Jewish? (2022) and Seven Surfdudes (2023) show his love for unsettling public encounters that question identity and community . Across media Klapwijk invites audiences to connect, move and dance—testing new positions in public space.

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I’d like to tell my story about what I enjoy in art — art as a free zone for experimentation, where ideas don’t clash so harshly, where you can try out positions and gather experiences by briefly becoming the other. I hope that by stepping into places outside our usual stance, we can name the new sensation: a kind of freedom, a release from body, mind, and context. My wish is that this offers people something essential in their own lives — breathing room, a liberation that lets them begin again, live again, relearn how to think, look, and feel.
From there, I’d like people to seek a fresh connection with the world around us — nature, people, the immediate environment. That link can keep shifting through new encounters; it isn’t about building a safe space, but creating a “safe self.” And hopefully, we meet people and situations that want the same: a self that can connect, that can move, and that can finally dance — alone, together, and with the things around us.
CONNECT, MOVE, DANCE.

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