Puck Verkade

Puck Verkade’s artistic practice centers around moving image, installation and drawing. Delivered with humour and a distinct taste for the absurd, her videos and drawings tell stories from uncanny perspectives in which archetypal personas are reimagined to candidly expose the contradictions of human behaviour. Shifting between handcrafted stopmotion, low fi animation, green screen and direct to camera performance, her fast paced montages have the sensation of a moving collage; a dense juxtaposition of layered images and sounds composed into a cartoon reality.

Puck Verkade (1987) received her BA Fine Arts degree from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, London. Since 2011 her work has been shown at various international venues, such as the 8th edition of the Yokohama Triennial, the 16th Biennale de Lyon, Kunstmuseum Gegenwart Basel, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum in Poland, Kunstmuseum The Hague, LISTE Art Fair, Artissima Art Fair in Turin, and Art Antwerp. She was a 2017-2018 resident artist at Sarabande: The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation in London. In 2021 Verkade was awarded the Charlotte Koehler Prize by the Prins Bernhard Culture Fund in The Netherlands. Her video installations are held in private and public collections internationally such as Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Servais Family Collection in Brussels, the Zabludowicz collection in London, the EKARD Collection in Wassenaar, amongst others. Since 2018 she has been invited to teach, lecture and host workshops at various BA and MA Fine Art studies across Europe.

In 2024, next to her presentation at the 8th Yokohama Triennale,  Verkade’s work was shown at Talion Gallery in Tokyo, the Paper Biennale at Museum Rijswijk, The Netherlands, POST Arnhem,  and at The Biennial Of the Possible Image in Liege, Belgium.