Liesbeth Bik (born 1959) is a visual artist and has worked with Jos van der Pol as the artist duo Bik Van der Pol since 1995. They see art as a tool for exploration and reflection on social and political changes in a constantly changing landscape.
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Liesbeth Bik
- Visual artist
- Chair
The focus of their ongoing examination of the meaning and creation of 'making public' and 'public making' is the role and visibility of knowledge in the public realm. They deploy every possibility that art offers to create other visions and experiences that activate the imagination and dialogue.
Bik van der Pol co-founded the artists' initiative Duende in Rotterdam and, in 1999, Nomads & Residents in New York. They co-founded the School of Missing Studies (2003), taught at MIT (2016), and served as advisers for the Jan van Eyck Academie. Bik is a core tutor at the Piet Zwart Instituut.
Their work has been exhibited in various museums and institutions, including The Powerplant in Toronto (2015), Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam (2016), ACCA in Melbourne (2017), Public Knowledge, with SFMoMA and the Public Libraries network in San Francisco (2018- 2020), and Kunstmuseen Krefeld in Krefeld. It has also been shown at biennales in Istanbul (2007), Mercosul (2013), São Paulo (2014), Jakarta (2015), and GwangJu and Seoul (2016).
In 2010 they won the prestigious Enel Award (MACRO, Rome), and in 2014 they received the Hendrik Chabot Prize. They live and work in Rotterdam.