Berserk

Berserk Art Agency is an art agency for visual artists who are redefining and exploring their art form. We do not run a physical space, we are nomadic.

We do organise studio visits and exhibitions. We work with artists who are, just like us, fascinated by the unknown and push boundaries far beyond imagination. Our policy is setting up long-term relationships with artists and create the ideal setting for artistic processes and production. Berserk Art Agency does not run a physical gallery, we prefer to be nomadic. We offer studio visits for collec

tors and art professionals to see the body of work in real life. Berserk has collaborated with HeK Basel (Switzerland), Berkeley University (USA), Museum Victoria (Australia), Opera Flanders (Belgium), Vejle Museum of Art (Denmark), Festival of Flanders (Ghent), European Creative Forum (E.U), The Nunnery Gallery (U.K.), Uppsala University (Sweden), The Crystal Ship Street Art Festival (Belgium), OCT Boxes Art Museum (China), Guangdong Art Museum (China), Museum M (Leuven, Belgium), De Studio (Antwerpen, Belgium), Netwerk Aalst (Belgium), Ultima Vez (Brussels, Belgium), Watou Kunstenfestival (Watou, Belgium), INEA (Montevideo, Uruguay), OK Center for Contemporary Art (Linz, Austria), Into The Great Wide Open (The Netherlands) CCDC Festival (Hong Kong), ...

18/01/2026

It’s a wrap 🫧
Showcase #4 with works, wip and research by Pierre Coric + Karen Vantvelt (in collaboration w/ Mohamed Diakite + Yacouba Diarra) closed its doors last night

Thanks to all of you to pop in, meet, connect, exchange and for the good laughs 🎈🎈
🙌🏾🙌🏾 to team Secondroom + for another fab collaboration 🙌🏾🙌🏾
Shout out for hosting the open rehearsal Karen Vantvelt +Mohamed Diakite 🫶🏽🫶🏽
Thank you for your photos of Karen + Mohamed 👌🏾👌🏾
And above all thanks to the artists 💕💕

Next showcase in September 2026. Stay tuned 📡

16/01/2026

Congratulations to Lawrence Kudria | for receiving his first bursary upcoming talent with the Flemish Arts Decree. 🙌🏾🥳

Lawrence is a Ukrainian 🇺🇦 born media artist, with a focus on embodied VR, who researches the potential of virtual sensorial experiences. In his work Lawrence explores perception, connection, inner states and his work invites audiences into shared vulnerability.
With this 1 year bursary, Lawrence will be able to dedicate time and means to the artistic and technological development of his practice.

📆 You can experience Lawrence’s VR work, To Know You By The Hand, at the Digital Arts Lab exhibition from 06.02 - 08.03.2026

📷 courtesy

06/01/2026

and welcome you to showcase #4 with Karen Vantvelt ( ) and Pierre Coric.

Opening 10.01.2026, between 4-8pm 🫧 👇🏽👇🏾👇🏿

Karen Vantvelt in collaboration with Mohamed Diakite and Yacouba Diarra invite you to the ongoing open rehearsal of their wip performance 10.01 between 6-8pm

Showcase 🤔
Twice a year Anouk Focquier, in collaboration with Secondroom invites artists to show their wip, research, experiments, failures and learning processes.
This format wants to focus and value these processes and shift away from the pressure of completed work.

Pierre Coric is an artist based in Antwerp.
Through a multiform practice mixing d.i.y. technologies, crafts, and audience participation, he investigates the processes through which meaningless elements sometimes become meaningful ensembles. Pierre finds his inspiration in various fields such as languages, computer sciences, electronics, textile, rivers, highways, forests, boats, bacteria, … Pierre is also a skilled sailor; lives on his boat the Maya and both the boat, sea and sailing codes find their ways back into Pierre’s practice.

The artistic practice of Karen Vantvelt resists confinement to a single discipline. Working from specific sites, she unfolds experiential worlds in search of a language of feeling that moves beyond the cognitive. Her work takes shape as a poetic constellation of objects, movement, performance, sound, drawing, and non-verbal exchanges with others.

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Image: Karen Vantvelt, selected by Yacouba Diarra

31/12/2025

Oh dear 2025…you where quite overwhelming 💕🫧
So many (new) encounters, so much generosity and kindness for which I am grateful 🙏🏾

1-3. kicking off the year with Cities and Eyes, an exhibition on imagination as an ode to Italy Calvino I curated w/ works/performances by .babaali Sky Hopinka .art 🇺🇸
Also, I have the best friends…enthusiastically supporting and following me wherever/whenever
All the love to 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
4. Food is the common language w/
5. Studio visit by under a Brussels shining sun Pierre Coric and
6. Margate is always a treat w/ 🇬🇧
7-8. London w/ + 🇬🇧
9. Finally visiting beloved Parys Mountain in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
10. The best exhibition of 2025 could be found gallery with a solo exhibition by 🇬🇧
11. Showcase #3 w/ + in collaboration w/
12. The best trip of the year: field trip to Lima 🇵🇪 w/ the wonderful talk on the necessity of time in art practices. Thx for being my impulsive partner in crime 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
13. Lovely who helped us to realise our Lima field trip 🇵🇪
14. Warmly welcomed by team in Brazil 🇧🇷 to speak about architecture and imagination
15. Concluding the year w/ Younes + Aude wedding in Taroudant 🇲🇦 with 💕

Looking forward to be sharing 2026 w/ you.

19/10/2025

Second leg of Peru 🇵🇪- Brazil 🇧🇷 field trip:
São Paulo 4 day speed course >> São Paulo biennial (left behind w/ a lot of critical thinking on the presented subjects of ecologies, rekindling w/ environments and the Afro-Latin-American dialogue), meeting gallerists, seeing exhibitions and meandering downtown w/ Todd to deliver a birthday cake 🎂 to .remor and discover their shared practice which they generously extend in a residency up north 💕
Flying ✈️ to Gàucha territory Porto Alegre to meet with the team (💃🏻 + + ) and its instigator, curator, host who was kind enough to, in between running his festival (multi tasking next level, folks), take me on a trail to many different art practices, a beach (🥳🥳), musea, and all the corners of Porto Alegre i didn’t know i eagerly wanted to see. Thx for your kindness + generosity 🤸🏾‍♀️🤸🏾
Thx for inviting me to give a talk on the importance of imagination (and boredom, white/headspace) in urban spaces. A talk inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. I enjoyed our q&a 🙂
Thank you for welcoming me in your studios or for introducing me to your practice Marina Camargo, Guilherme Dable, Henrique Fagundes, Estevão de Fontoura, Santiago Potter, Leo Caobelli, Andressa Cantergiani, Leticia Lopes, Sophie Roger’s & Troyani

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

📷 talk for Kinobeat:
Thx Gabriel for taking pictures of studio visits where I forgot…I can only focus on one thing at a time 🙃

18/10/2025

Peru 🇵🇪 - Brazil 🇧🇷 field trip:
Last week i returned from a 3 week intensive field trip to Lima (Peru), São Paulo (BR) and Porto Alegre (BR).
These moments are essential to broaden my understanding of the dynamics in different international and local art scenes and the artists, organisations and institutes that make them.
It is this know how, these people and practices that I bring back to this part of the world to share and hopefully activate.
On this trip i was accompanied by my dear friend who made this trip whole by her energetic, inspiring presence and by sharing her vast knowledge.
Together we visited numerous artist studios, institutions, organisations and museums and gave a talk and workshop on the importance of time and the position of residencies in the development of an art practice on the invitation of the thank you for welcoming us in your beautiful galleries.
i especially want to thank who meticulously took care of our planning and for being our local partner (in crime). No Lima field trip without your work 🌸💕🌸
Also thank you to all welcoming artists and organisations for having us with them: Prin Rodriguez, Fernando Criollo, El Paradero, Mariana Tshudi, Santiago Pillado, Pierina Masquez, ICPNA, Moico Yaker, Lorena Noblecilla, Lucho Soldevilla, Luz Maria Bedoya, Proyecto Amil, Livia Benavides gallery, Crisis gallery, MAC museum, Lima Museum, Jimmy Carrillo, Correlacion Contemporana, Nicole Franchy and Fernando Bryce. Tagging you all would earn me Instagram’s wrath, i am afraid.
Thanks to all the participants of the workshop and talk.

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

📷 Samantha Muñoz for Mali museum (Lima, Peru)

16/09/2025

From our newsletter 📮
Curiosity is our middle name, so once again, it’s time to pack our bags and hit the road.
A whirlwind 3-week prospection to Madrid, Lima, São Paulo and Porto Alegre 🌎 journey awaits, beginning at the ever-electrifying .

From there, we continue to Lima (Peru 🇵🇪)where I’ll dive into the local art scene alongside the brilliant and inspiring . Together, we’ll share the room to enter into dialogue with the local art scene and give a workshop, and a talk at the next Wednesday.

Next stop will be São Paulo, (Brazil 🇧🇷), where I’ll explore the Biennale and meet with local professionals shaping the scene. My final destination takes me further south, to Porto Alegre, where has invited me to connect with the local landscape, engage with the Kinobeat x exchange residents, and wrap things up with a talk on my ongoing research into the Invisible Cities exhibition cycle.

This prospection journey is part of my ongoing effort to build sustainable international ecosystems ♻️ where people, resources, and knowledge can be exchanged, stimulating new opportunities for collaboration and fostering mutual learning.

We embrace Italo Calvino because he was ‘always complicating his life’. That is why we can still enjoy his mastery today 😌😉🙏🏾

Design poster .desk
Video clip: interview with Italo Calvino, BBC

01/09/2025

From our newsletter 📮

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For the 3rd time Berserk Art Agency invites young and mid-career art practices to showcase their work and work-in-progress at Secondroom. It is an opportunity to discover what is cooking and to get in conversation with the artists on all things technology and sciences. 👩🏼‍🍳📡🪚

For this edition we invited and to present their work and the projects they are currently developing.

Join us for the opening 06.09 between 3-9pm or pop in 07.09 (1-3pm) or 13.09 (3-9pm) 🥳

📍 Secondroom
Marialei 33
2018 Antwerp

📷 renders: Daems Van Remoortere + Gijs Coenen
Graphic design: Andreas Stieglitz for Secondroom

31/08/2025

From our newsletter 📮

We are delighted to announce a new long-term collaboration with Brussels-based artist Gijs Coenen - (°1991), with whom we previously worked during the production of his work at Werktank. 🥳

Coenen’s multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections of sculpture and play, creating interactive works that transform spectators into participants.
His works combine traditional craftsmanship with advanced digital techniques, reflecting a curiosity for technologies that shape contemporary making. Projects such as Spinning Module and Werfberg operate as both art and playground, inviting movement and interaction. 🎡🪅🎈

Having recently completed a residency in Norway, Gijs is now developing a new playable sculpture based on hay as a material. 🌾🌿

You can come to see his work in progress and that of Daems Van Remoortere

06.09, 3–9pm, vernissage
07.09, 1–5pm
13.09, 3–9pm, finissage

30/08/2025

From our newsletter 📮

This Summer received a research grant from the Flemish arts degree 🥳 to develop their project Hortus Temporis.
Hortus Temporis is a research in which the artists explore the impact of the rising sea levels on vegetation, our food chain, and our soils. 🐚🪸
They kicked their research off with a residency at (Margate, UK) 🙏🏾 and will continue collaborating with partners (Liverpool, UK), .takt (Pelt, B), and (Antwerp, B).

In Margate they researched marine vegetation; kelps, seaweeds and other aquatic plants, to understand what flora the sea produces 🌿🌊

This research will lead Daems Van Remoortere to the development of a new bio-kinetic sculpture in the near future 🔮

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11/06/2025

Join us this Friday 13.06.2025, 8-10pm for an informal get together of artists and art workers.
Meet and exchange freely with peers 💜💛🤍
Because opportunities rise from connections, feel free to reflect with us on the need for (artistic) generosity and visualise who has played a pivotal role in the development of your professional path within the arts 🐚🫧🪸
As temperatures might be too much to bear for some of us (👋🏽), we open up the bar with fresh drinks 🥤 🧊
Design: .desk o

04/05/2025

Last week I had the pleasure and honour to give a blitz tour de Belgique to founder and director thanks to
Due to limited time we could only have a sneak peek on what is cooking here, but despite being compact it was dense. We focussed on practices and artist run spaces in Antwerp and Brussels w/ ties to sound, film and anything analogue technologies. We were generously welcomed by .brussels_ and paid a visit to

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