Kamiel Verschuren

Responsibility, the ability to respond Doual'art, Douala Cameroon, 2010 Social specific installation for the award ceremony for the Prins Claus Prize 2010 to Doual'art

Kamiel Verschuren is a conceptual artist with a broad international practice with a special attention to the public domain and urban space, in different capacities; as curator, producer, organiser, initiator, urban adviser, drawer, designer, landscape artist, publisher and social activist, working independently or in collaboration with other artists and organisations. He is a member of the artists’ initiative foundation B.a.d (1989), artists’ workshop Studio Pompstraat, project organisation Studio NL 01.08.04 foundation (2004), the international project organisation iStrike foundation (until 2009), member of the advisory board of TENT./Centre for Visual Arts Rotterdam since 2004, and chairman of the self-management organisation for new studio spaces in Charlois, Rotterdam, foundation NAC (since 2004).

He works on several durable collaborations with organisations S-Air, La Source du Lion and Doual’art, in Sapporo Japan (since 2004), Casablanca Morocco (since 2003) and Douala Cameroon (since 2007).