Bas Burghard

Bas Burghard explores the duality of nature as both a romanticized ideal and a discarded relic of childhood wonder. His practice centers on the tension between nostalgia and the fantastical, investigating the moment our primal connection to the earth shifts from an immersive reality to a distant, fairytale-like memory.

A large part of his practice lies in transforming materials. Burghard takes industrial building supplies and heavily modifies them to mimic organic forms and fragments of idyllic landscapes, resulting in scuptures and relief-works that are both comforting and eerie.

Bas employs a diverse range of techniques, both digital and manual, guided by the desired aesthetic. His objects and sculptures carry a deliberate tension between the unpolished and the precise, the makeshift and the meticulous.

Bas Burghard lives and works in Amsterdam. Next to his artistic practice, Bas is a workshop specialist at the Cadcam workshop of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.