Thomas Hitchcock
KIOSK, Ghent Belgium
26 January – 16 March 2025
Founded in 2010 in a former anatomical auditorium, KIOSK presents new works by both established and emerging artists. It keeps its finger on the pulse of developments within art and society, producing exhibitions that are the result of a close dialogue between artists and the institution. KIOSK will begin the year with an exhibition by Thomas Hitchcock, which draws on the artist’s research into Belgian Art Nouveau and the cultural movements of the Fin de Siècle linking it to more contemporary technological developments. At the time Belgium was the colonial ruler in Congo, exoticized images of which, concerning Nature and its people as well as the exploited resources strongly influenced back into Art Nouveau designs. The exhibition Abstract Entities will critically examine themes of exploitation within a broader movement of retreating into interiority and dream-like realms through an especially for KIOSK created installation and sculptures inspired by historical design and contemporary visual culture.
Thomas Hitchcock (born 1989) graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2017. From 2012-2013 he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris Cergy and was part of the Independent Study Programme Maumaus in Lisbon in 2020. Interested in notions of time and space, he explores the political effects that past events have in both the short- and long term. Hitchcock often presents his complex works in stage-like settings. He had solo exhibitions at The Green Corridor, Bruxelles; Hush/Hush, Bruges; Cité des Arts, Paris; Wien Museum MUSA, Vienna and participated in group exhibitions at Kunstverein Eisenstadt; Art Space Styria; Neue Galerie Graz and Campo dos Martires da Patria, Lisbon.
This is his first collaboration with Phileas.
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Thomas Hitchcock at KIOSK
