echobeach, a dedicated social platform for all Dutch artists
Artists are taking matters into their own hands online. We no longer want to contribute to the profits of ‘big social’. We want to be in control of our own content and connect with the world on our own terms. We decide what matters to us. We are reclaiming the internet as our radical playground. Out of love for our work and out of sheer necessity.
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26 aug 2024
Hollandse Meesters
Hollandse Meesters is a portrait on the work of Bik van der Pol, directed by filmmaker Ivan Barbosa.
more... 27 oct 2025
Mr Motley KUNST IS LANG: interview with Bik Van der Pol
more... 24 may 2026
Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum destroyed by drone attack
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 was one of the greatest disasters of the 20th century and ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. After the disaster, the Soviet authorities attempted to cover it up. The Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum in the city centre of Kyiv is dedicated to uncovering the secrets and to preserve and share the history of the nuclear disaster and its consequences. The museum was destroyed by a Russian missile and drone attack on cultural institutions in Kyiv on 24 May 2026.
more... 13 nov 2026
Double Bind
Commission for a permanent artwork to mark the renovation of the ‘Materniteit’ building on the Bijloke site by the City of Ghent.
more... 01 jan 2027
Upcoming: San Francisco scale model on display at Art+Water
So happy and honored that Art + Water in San Francisco will display this extraordinary piece, and that the final stage of Take Part will eventually, somehow, materialize as we imagined, as a dream coming true.
more... 01 jan 2027
In preparation: publication Far Too Many Stories to Fit into so Small a Box (2027)
in collaboration with Joanna Zilinska (curator at ( M HKA,, Antwerp) and Ujazdowski Castle Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw and Fontarte
more...Bik Van der Pol