Nick Geboers (1987) lives and works in Borgerhout, Belgium.
As an image-seeker fascinated by the rich history of photography, he is excavating the medium from the functional to the aesthetic.
First and foremost an image maker, he deploys a wide variety of photographic instruments and techniques. He is also a collector of photographs that were once made for scientific or descriptive purposes but which appear now - when their context has been lost - as enigmatic artefacts. He presents his own shots and the ‘acquired imagery’ in carefully thought out constellations. These visual constructions provoke a wide gamut of possible readings. Various layers of references and meanings grow thicker by negotiating between the human sensibility and sterile technology. Different photographic traditions and their visual languages form a broad frame of reference, suggesting different ideas and narratives. This allows Geboers to move in a free space between hard and soft sciences. Switching between the position of an archaeologist and a visual author.
Besides photography, Nick Geboers works together with close friends/confidants on a small number of specialized commitments:
After graduating, Jim Campers and Geboers started organizing exhibitions under the name Pikaia, with a main focus on photography. Under the same name they started a drumscan service with a Heidelberg Tango, offering high end scans made from analog films up to 460x430mm in size. Pikaia as a company seized to exist, but we still offer the service: http://www.pikaia.be (website needs an urgent update!)
Together with Stef Renard, Nick Geboers started Sorghelose. The name is taken from Middle Dutch and translates best to the word "Carefree". Sorghelose is focused on art framing and presentation methods for artists. More info can be found on https://www.sorghelose.com
Apart from art, Nick Geboers' interest in modernist design furniture expanded through working together with Gerry Vervoort. Initially they worked together on the production side of a number of museum exhibitions. For the past 20 years Vervoort's main focus has been on restoring modernist design furniture under the name Dierbaar Design: https://www.dierbaardesign.com
