Puck Verkade received her BFA from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London. Her work has been shown at various international venues, such as the 16e Biennale de Lyon: Manifesto Of Fragility, Artissima Art Fair in Turin, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum in Poland, Kunstmuseum The Hague, LISTE Art Fair and Kunstmuseum Gegenwart in Basel. She was selected as a 2017-2018 resident artist at Sarabande The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation in London. In 2021 she received the prestigious Charlotte Koehler Prize from the Prins Bernhard Culture Fund in The Netherlands.

Verkade’s work is held in private and public collections internationally such as Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Servais Family Collection in Brussels, EKARD Collection in Wassenaar, amongst others. Since 2018 Verkade has been invited to teach, lecture and host workshops at various BA and MA studies across Europe. 

Interviews & Essays

Essay by Heiko Klaas & Nicole Busing in Artist Das Kunstmagazin, 2023

Monsterlijke transformaties en spelenderwijs vermommen - in gesprek met Puck Verkade (Art Antwerp, 2022, In Dutch)

Editing Anxiety, in conversation with Zippora Elders (Artissima Art Fair Turin, 2019)

Breeder, a conversation between Tamar Clarke Brown and Puck Verkade (Sunday Art Fair, London 2017)

VICIOUS CIRCLES:CIRCULATION AND DEFIANCE IN THE WORK OF PUCK VERKADE, by Juliette Desorgues, 2017

A Vortex Of Considerations, by Kit Edwards, 2018, ThisIsTomorrow

Interview, Radio 1 Belgium, Culture Club, Art Antwerp Art Fair, 2022 (In Dutch)

Recent Press & Articles
Essay, by Nicole Büsing / Heiko Klaas, Nr. 134, Artist Das Kunstmagazin

Press about Plague, as part of Fun Feminism, Kunstmuseum Gegenwart, Basel, Switserland 2022-2023
https://kunstmuseumbasel.ch/de/ausstellungen/2022/fun-feminism/medienspiegel

Press about Plague, as part of the 16e Lyon Biennale, France 2022
https://www.calameo.com/biennale-lyon/read/005766747298f687855a4?authid=QjzaVzBSZ5lA