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Machyta Giebels (Fine Art )
Final Year student Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht HKU A brief personal history: I was born in Nijmegen in the Netherlands in 1978. My mother was also born in the Netherlands, into a large Catholic family. I was raised an atheist. My father was a fugitive from Equatorial Guinee(Africa). I’ve been raised by my mother with my three other brothers, older and from different fathers. A very mixed company. My mother is a portrait painter, and she took me to museums and exhibitions when I was young. She always gave me the freedom to do things with art. For a long time I did not work seriously, but then I finished paint school and went to study fine art in Utrecht. Before my studies I traveled and worked a lot in Europe, Africa and lived in Israel for half a year. This paint school was not in art but more as a restorator and house painter and interior design. So that was more a study to start a company or go to a laboratory to study paint etc. When I got to art school I had a good basis for materials, and in the first years I studied how to use that. So my biggest interests at first were materials and later how to relate them in space. At the moment I work with instalations with light sculptures and paintings and so on.
1992 3 months travel in west Africa 1996-1997 6 months working and living in Israel 1999 4 months in sorth and south Spain 1999-2000 finished paint school 2000 study trip to Florence (Italy) 2000/2001 start art school in Utrecht (HKU) 2001 Portugal to visit artists 2001 Exposition ‘Work out’ utrecht 2002 Installations in HKU building May: study trip to Paris to visit L’ecole des Arts November: project for and with young fugitives November: Art Cologne in Koln (germany) 2003 February: study trip to Paris Premiere Vision April-May installations at Villa St. Jozef May-July: projects with my instalations and dancers/ etc. September-November projects with my paintings/instalations December: assignment for wall paints and light installations in a jazz/culture café 2004 Visiting Berlin for several weeks to see the art-scene and have lot of conversation
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