Michiel ten Bokum 2023

Selected works 1999 - 2024


Michiel ten Bokum (Bilthoven, NL, 1973), studied Fine Arts at the Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, Den Bosch and at De Ateliers Amsterdam. He works primarily in the field of painting, drawing and sculpture.

The overall thematic of his work is propelled by his never ceasing anthropologic interest in the social structures of the local community, while humour and self-mockery serve as the fundamental tools in shaping his ideas. In a gritty mix of fine art and twisted pop culture, his work reflects an obvious love for underdogs and outsiders. Subjective observations of violence, individual insanity and all forms of abjectness, are moulded into paintings and objects in a most ironic, humorous and politically incorrect way.