Bosse Provoost and Ezra Veldhuis have been exploring the borderlands between theater, performance and installation art together since 2018. Their work is infused with a fascination for light, space and scenography.
Through compositions of light shifts, sound patches and silences, they create ever-changing spaces populated by semi-human-looking figures. Theater spaces are energized into ‘environments’, in which metatheatrical and ecosystemic logics diverge.
Poetry is not only at the origin of most of their work (Celan, Christensen, Brautigan…), the performances are also constructed following poetic principles and can be read as scenic poems.
Between 2017 and 2021 they created the performances Matisklo (2018), SUN-SET (2020) and Indoor Weather (2021) at Toneelhuis.
Currently, the artistic practice of Ezra Veldhuis and Bosse Provoost is supported by Hiros.
Their first work with Hiros was All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2023), the staging of an idyllic/dystopian “cybernetic meadow”, as dreamed up in a Richard Brautigan poem of the same name .
In november 2024 Ezra and Bosse presented a pulse with no body a sun with no sky, the first version of an immersive installation for the blackbox that explores among other things animal and human consciousness, ufology, factory farming and pregnancy. CAMPFIRE, the new and final version of this installation-performance, will premiere in May 2026 at SPRING Performing Arts Festival.
In 2026, they will also create HIKER, a solo with Gerben Vaillant. The entire world of the performance (scenography, lighting, sound, fictions, unexpected images, shapes, and volumes) emerges from a figure laden with hiking gear. HIKER will premiere in November 2026 in Kaaitheater.
A Stone Flies Up Over the Mountains (EN+NL) is a labyrinthine hybrid book that can be read and viewed in different ways, linearly or jumping between pages.
Red Planet Sunset is a custom made edition of 550 pieces, made of colored gel filters normally used in theater spots. Commissioned by Auawirleben Festival (Bern, CH).
Bosse Provoost (°1993, BE) is a performing artist/director. He completed the master’s degree in Drama at KASK Ghent in 2016. He’s been collaborating with Ezra Veldhuis since 2018.
In his first performances (Herberg, Moore Bacon! and The Act of Dying) with Kobe Chielens, he explored the physical idiom of figures in animated films. In 2016, Kobe and Bosse received the KBC-Jongtheaterprijs at Theater Aan Zee for their performance Moore Bacon!
Between 2017 and 2021, Bosse was part of the Project for Upcoming artists for the Large Stage trajectory (P.U.L.S.) of Toneelhuis.
Throughout the years his performances have evolved from theatre with a strong visual signature to installation-performances, which play on theatricality, but are rather grounded in poetry, scenography and choreography.
A Stone Flies Up Over the Mountains (EN+NL) is a labyrinthine hybrid book that can be read and viewed in different ways, linearly or jumping between pages.
Red Planet Sunset is a custom made edition of 550 pieces, made of colored gel filters normally used in theater spots. Commissioned by Auawirleben Festival (Bern, CH).
Ezra Veldhuis (°1991, NL) is a visual artist.
She completed the master’s degree in painting at the School of Arts|KASK Ghent in 2017. In her installations, paintings and videos, light as a material and as a subject is at the core. She also works as a lighting designer and scenographer and has been creating her own performances since 2018. Her paintings were selected for the KOMASK Prize 2017 and the Great Ernst Albert Prize 2018, for which she received an honorable mention.
Since 2021, she has been affiliated with School of Arts|KASK Ghent as a researcher through the Reflecting Light Research Group.
A Stone Flies Up Over the Mountains (EN+NL) is a labyrinthine hybrid book that can be read and viewed in different ways, linearly or jumping between pages.
Red Planet Sunset is a custom made edition of 550 pieces, made of colored gel filters normally used in theater spots. Commissioned by Auawirleben Festival (Bern, CH).
Nebula tetralogy departed from details of a Hubble photograph of a cosmic gas cloud, a place where stars are born. In the series of panels (created between 2015 and 2018), an immeasurably large volume is suggested in the empty space between the different frames, as if the paintings are merely fragments of a hyperobject that cannot be captured in any space.
