Gert Verhoeven (b. 1964 Leuven), lives & works in Brussels is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes sculpture, installation, drawing and video.

Artists on Duty the title of Gert Verhoeven's exhibition is itself a “contradiction in terms”: after all, an artist is never “on duty.

G.V.:
Let's take John Chamberlain, another person whose work I love immensely. You then read about that as being about being American, bashed-up cars as a commentary on consumer society. But no! Chamberlain that's jazz, free jazz! He also made ‘seats’, which were fantastically displayed at the Guggenheim in New York. Franz West took a good look at Chamberlain, that's for sure. I am also reminded of the concept of the bricoleur as described by Claude Lévi-Strauss (in La pensée sauvage, kw). What does a bricoleur do? My chair is broken, a leg has fallen off. I'm not going to make a new leg. But I have a piece of umbrella lying around there somewhere and a bit of tape. And it will work with that too. So which is it: a chair or an umbrella? It's a chair umbrella, which doesn't really matter now, you can sit back on it. That's West all over: relieving life of overly heavy meanings.' (from interview with Kathleen Weyts - Glean)