Tuur & Flup

Brothers Tuur & Flup Marinus live and work in Belgium (Antwerp).

Introduction to the artistic practise of Tuur & Flup Marinus

Tuur & Flup Marinus are a Belgian artist duo whose practice moves between painting, performance, and installation, questioning how cultural heritage, technology, and everyday gestures shape the way we see and move. Their work often reframes ordinary actions or familiar materials through repetition, rhythm, and composition, opening up poetic, humorous, and sometimes unsettling perspectives on the present.

Their painting project Belgisch Congo Belge reflects on Belgium’s colonial past and their own inherited position within it, and has been presented at institutions including BOZAR (Brussels), De Garage (Mechelen), and Beursschouwburg (Brussels). Their ongoing Stereoscope Project explores the entanglement of 3D technology and extractivism, and has already been shown at Beursschouwburg, Coup de Ville (Sint-Niklaas), and C-TAKT (Neerpelt).

In parallel, Tuur’s choreographic works, such as Still Animals and TH LNG GDBY, have toured widely across Europe in museums (M HKA, Museum M Leuven, Museum voor Natuurwetenschappen Brussels, Musée des Sciences Naturelles Paris), galleries (Warp), open-air contexts, and theaters (Beursschouwburg, deSingel, Tanzhaus NRW, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale in Paris). These performances share the duo’s fascination for the interplay between movement, materiality, and spectatorship.

Flup’s comic drawings and paintings add another layer to their shared practice. With a sharp yet empathetic eye, he portrays contemporary men searching for balance between inner drives, desires, and vulnerabilities, and the rapidly shifting cultural and social contexts that shape masculinity today. His work combines humor with a subtle psychological depth, opening a space for reflection on identity and adaptation in times of change.

Their most recent creation, A Walk in the Sculpture Park (2024), was commissioned by the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp and developed in collaboration with Spanish artist Ariadna Estalella. Extending their dialogue between performance and visual arts, the work guides audiences through an active, embodied encounter with sculpture in the open-air museum context. Across these diverse projects, Tuur & Flup Marinus continue to build a body of work that intertwines critical reflection with a precise, playful approach to form, inviting audiences to encounter the familiar from unexpected angles.