Bert Jacobs
For PLAN B, Bert constructed a bizarre greenhouse, creating a microclimate for random plants. This peculiar shelter, built from recycled windows, was a cross between wild growth and coordinated growth, a forgotten place where nature could still take over. With minimal maintenance, this installation tested its maximum scope and raison d'être. Gradually, this overgrown vegetable garden became a mini-jungle, subject to the seasons and the passage of time. The evolution of this construction could be followed during various editions of the PLAN B Arts Festival.
BIO
Bert Jacobs (born 1987, Belgium) studied Free Graphics at KASK Ghent, after which he settled in Brussels. As a multidisciplinary artist, Bert works with drawings, sculptures, installations, environments and happenings. Through these different media, Bert's oeuvre touches on various themes: from the mechanisms of memory and imagination to the act of collecting. Bert develops his idiosyncratic practice from found objects and/or chance situations. His work has been exhibited at Noplace (Oslo, NOR), Air (Antwerp), KunstWerke (Berlin, DE) and the Beursschouwburg (NIGHT SHIFT from dusk till dawn, Brussels). He has had residencies at Het Entrepot (Bruges) and ADATA Air in Bulgaria, among others.
