Vico Persson is a visual artist based in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2025, he was a guest artist at the Boghossian Foundation's Villa Empain in Brussels.
After graduating from the Fine Arts department at the Rietveld Academy, where he worked with sculpture and video installation, Vico attended the post-graduate Fine Arts program at the Dutch Art Institute. There, he became interested in curating. This led to a career on the organizational side of art production. During these years, he abandoned his own art practice, in order to focus on the creative aspects of working with other artists. He started writing for Artmatter, curated numerous exhibitions, was commissioned as exhibition designer for the Anni Albers exhibtion "Touching Vision" at the Guggenheim Museum, and gave workshops in prisons, homeless people's centres, as well as in art academies, and at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He was also running the ephemeral curating project Transient Projects To People which had several pop-up locations in Paris and abroad.
In 2022, after several years of working collaboratively in Paris and Internationally, he moved to Belgium and returned to his art studio. There, he works across several media, including photography, painting, drawing, assemblage art, and collage.
His collage series "Forms of Residue" is an ongoing production of works, started in 2022, in which he transforms leftover materials - such as food packaging and the last bit of residue paint - into abstract creations. This series of works is made in a continuous manner, often while travelling, and in that sense it refers to journaling.
Other ongoing collage series are "Double Truth" and "Twin Flowers": Here, the artist combines actual photos of real subjects with images of their AI-generated counterparts, to question our perception of reality and the increasing digitalisation of our world.
Since 2025, Persson also makes sculptural installations, combining old, recycled objects with wood, clay and paint.
During the last two years, he has been a resident at Espace de l'Art Concret (France), the Boghossian Foundation's Villa Empain (Belgium) and B.A.D. Foundation (Netherlands), and has participated in numerous exhibitions in venues such as NDSM Fuse (Netherlands) and Ghent Design Museum (Belgium).
CV: Exhibitions & residencies
March 2026 - March, 2027
Group exhibition "The Residents of The Albers Foundation" at Espace de l'Art Concret
May - June, 2026
"Two Suns at Once" - a group exhibition co-curated by Vico Persson and Mulan Go, on artistic friendships between musicians and visual artists
May, 2026
Solo exhibition "Freed from Desire" at Treehouse NDSM
April, 2026
Group exhibition Tracks & Traces at 3 Art Park, Antwerp with Griet Loix & Yoni de Muynck
Jan - May, 2026
Exhibiting for 5 months at the Fuse Glass Containers, NDSM LOODS, Amsterdam
01 November, 2025
Installation "Freed from Desire" for the Museum Night Amsterdam
Sept - Oct 2025
Residency at Espace de l'Art Concret, France
July - August, 2025
Summer Salon 2025 at Kunsthal Ghent, Belgium
July - August, 2025
Group exhibition Out in the Open, Treehouse NDSM, as part of Pride Amsterdam Art Route
June, 2025
Solo presentation in the Special Projects space at This Art Fair, Amsterdam
May - June, 2025
Group exhibition "Remnants" at T-Space, Antwerp (also part of Antwerp Artweek's Off Program)
May - June, 2025
Solo exhibition Double Exotic at Timorplein 21, Amsterdam
May 2025
Atelier-in-Beeld 2025
Open Studios at T-Space, Antwerp
April, 2025
Group exhibition Masks & Mirrors, Treehouse NDSM, Amsterdam
Feb - March, 2025
Residency at Villa Empain, Brussels
Dec, 2024 - Jan, 2025
Creatures of Mass-Production & Reveries,
Solo exhibition, Treehouse NDSM, Amsterdam
Sept, 2024
WE ARE ALL GUESTS, group exhibition, BAD Rotterdam
April - Sept, 2024
Group exhibition: the contemporary section of Anni and Josef Albers exhibition at Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
August, 2024
NDSM (c)art sale
April, 2024
WE ARE ALL GUESTS #13, group exhibition, BAD Rotterdam
December, 2023
Art For Christmas, Ghent
Sept / Oct / Nov, 2023
Residency at Stichting BAD, Rotterdam
October, 2023
Participation in Belgian Art and Design Fair, Ghent
October, 2023
Interactive installation at NDSM Open, Amsterdam
August - September, 2023
Group exhibition at Treehouse NDSM, Amsterdam
June - August 2023
Group exhibition at exhibition CODE at Ding / Designmuseum Ghent
April - August 2023
Group exhibition at FUSE NDSM, Amsterdam
February, 2023
Group exhibition at Atelier de Vertus, Paris
January, 2023
Solo exhibition at de Bouwput, Amsterdam
July, 2022
Exhibiting at This Art Fair, Amsterdam
Spring, 2022
Residency at World of Co (online residency)
January–February, 2018
Residency period at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut, USA
August, 2016
Group exhibition Cabane Georgina, Marseille, France
January–February, 2016
Residency period at Thread, Sinthian, Senegal
August–December, 2016
Residency period at 59 Rivoli, Paris
CV:
Curating
experience, selected projects
May - June, 2026
Two Suns at Once
Group exhibition featuring collaborative works by visual artists and musicians, co-curated with Mulan Go.
Treehouse NDSM
September, 2023
Ideas of Something Vivid
Group exhibition featuring works by Jonas Vanderbeke, Jelle Spruyt, and Toon Jans.
Ti-Pi, Ghent
May, 2023
Plain, Simple Things
Solo exhibition featuring work by Elke-Andreas Boon
Ti-Pi, Ghent
February, 2023
Colors I Remember
Solo exhibition by Delphine Cuelenaere
Ti-Pi, Ghent
December, 2022
Art For Christmas
Cocurated with Femke Vandenbosch and Thomas Renwart,
Ti-Pi, Ghent
September, 2022
Marlon Wobst, Ghent Feltings
Ti-Pi, Ghent
June, 2022
The Most Sunny Hour of Your Night
Ti-Pi, Ghent
November, 2019
Roger da Silva photos from 1950's and 60's Senegal
AKAA Art Fair, Paris
October 2019
Duo exhibition with Silvia Rosi and Annie-Marie Akussah at 1-54 London.
Winter 2017
Exhibition design for the exhibition "Anni Albers: A Touching Vision", curated by Manuel Cirauqui at Guggenheim, Bilbao
February, 2013
Devils in Disguise , Christophe Beauregard
Transient Projects to People, Paris
CV:
Workshops and lectures
April 2026
Public talk and panel chairing with Julian Wild & Susie MacMurray, as part of International Sculpture Day, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK
August 2025
Workshop "Transformations in Art and in Life" (about making art out of found materials) at Treehouse NDSM, Amsterdam
August, 2024
Collage workshop as part of "The Creative Garden" at Treehouse NDSM.
Collage workshops in 2023:
Color and collage workshops in collaboration with "I Amsterdam" and Treehouse NDSM, as well as an open drop-in workshop in public space, as part of a neighborhood engagement event in Amsterdam Noord.
Lecture/presentation: students from St. Joost School of Art & Design visited my art studio in October 2023.
Collage workshops
2021/2022: A series of several collage workshops based on the teaching of Josef Albers. The workshops were organized by Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and took part inside and outside the museum; in homeless people's shelters, prisons, etc, as part of the museum's outreach program
The basics of weaving
2021/2022: A series of several basic weaving workshops based on the work of Anni Albers. The workshops were organized by Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and took part inside and outside the museum; in homeless people's shelters, prisons, etc, as part of the museum's outreach program
AlbersForKids
I initiated and developed the concept and structure of this online platform to share the teachings of Anni and Josef Albers with children and their parents during the COVID lockdowns.
Lecture/presentation about the meaning of going to an artist residency program,
ENSAD school of design, September 2021
Lecture/presentation of the projects of the NGO Le Korsa and the art classes program I initiated to take place in Senegal. At École W, University for journalism, communication, and business studies, Paris, October, 2021.
1:54 art fair 2019
Moderation of a talk between Silvia Rosi and Annie-Marie Akussah