Freerk creates kinetic artworks and light installations from experimental research into materials, movement and mechanics. In his work he is always looking for rhythms, in image, sound, time and space. This creates a calm, soothing sensory experience in which a complex whole is formed between the individual shapes and forms whose boundaries seem to disappear. Yet, the dynamics between the moving parts are not programmed or controlled. Rather his work is ‘aleatoric’, depending on chance, meaning he has no full control over what happens. His works share an element of renewal, a sense of unpredictability that follows automatically from the interactions between the laws of physics that operate on all parts.

2013 – 2017 Royal Academy in The Hague (KABK), Fine Art (BA)
2000 – 2008 TU Delft, Mechanical Engineering (MSc)

2021 – BigArt with Root Gallery – Zaandam, NL
2021 – Moving at Root Gallery – solo, Rotterdam NL
2020 – The New Current 2020 during Rotterdam Art Week – group, Rotterdam NL
2020 – Motives/Motifs at Art23 – Solo, Guangzhou, CH
2019 – De Aanschouw – Rotterdam, NL
2018 – Tantakel Festival – group, Rotterdam, NL
2018 – Open Studios – group, Rotterdam, NL
2017 – Onze Keuze… 2017 at Galerie Wit – group, The Hague, NL
2017 – Gradauation Festival at KABK – group, The Hague, NL
2017 – Everything Must Go at NEST – group, The Hague, NL
2016 – For I Know The Plans I Have For You at NEST – group, The Hague, NL
2016 – Spring Not Summer at Quartair – group, The Hague, NL
2016 – Exhibition Students KABK, Grafische Werkplaats, group, The Hague, NL
2016 – The Flip Collection VI at PrintRoom – group, Rotterdam, NL

2018
25x Extaze, Den Haag

2017
Review ‘Onze Keuze’ Galerie de Wit in de Gelderlander
Review: “Freerk Wilbers’ Fountain”, Lotte van Geijn, KLEI Keramiek magazine
“Graduation special Freerk Wilbers”, Mister Motley
Villa La Repubblica
Metropolis M
Lost Painters
Drie pagina’s in Extaze #22, literair magazine, Den Haag

Technische productie: oa. voor Marijn Ottenhof, Mickey Yang, Zoro Feigl, Dirk van Lieshout – 2017 – heden
Technisch management ateliergebouw Gantelstudio’s – 2019-2021
Gastdocent VAV, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam – 2018
Hoofd techniek, Nest, Den Haag – 2016-2018
Art handler, museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar – 2017-2018