Kasper Bosmans is a storyteller. Fascinated by tales that resonate across time, he unpicks their threads and playfully weaves them into new stories. Starting from specific examples – whether an obscure anecdote, artisanal recipe, or news item – Bosmans employs local, vernacular traditions to speak about today’s global questions. In our era of increasing polarization, he mixes references from different periods and cultures as a way to tease out their similarities, highlighting just how much we have in common.

His works take the form of bold murals, installations, sculptures and his signature Legends. These small painted wooden panels fuse formal traditions such as heraldic shields or illuminated manuscripts with an iconography culled from children’s books or flat, digital imagery. Avoiding the didactic explanation of his other pieces, the Legends instead offer enigmatic clues to Bosmans’ thought process, while existing as artworks in their own right. Bosmans is intrigued by the possibilities offered by diverse techniques and materials. ​

Kasper Bosmans was born in Lommel, Belgium, and currently works between Brussels and Amsterdam. Solo exhibitions of Bosmans’s work have been mounted worldwide at institutions including: Fuerstenberg Zeitgenossich, Donaueschingen, Germany; De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands; S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium; Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels; CIAP, Brussels; and MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium. In the coming year, solo presentations of his work will be held at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels and Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milan. Additionally, a major monographic catalogue of Bosmans’s work was recently published by Walther König, tracing a decade of Bosmans’s practice and artistic output.​