Biography
© Anna Yevstihnieieva (2023)
Levi van Huijgevoort, born and raised in the Netherlands (1987), is also known as Flux Wildly - a live action painter, visual artist, DJ and radio & event host currently living in Dresden, Germany.
Since grabbing the brush on-stage in 2007, he has performed over 280 live action shows, both in artistic collaborations and as a stand-alone act, with over 100 live paintings sold.
Through his live painting work, the self-taught artist has gained attention throughout the Netherlands and Germany. Flux Wildly has been the subject of multiple articles, short documentaries, broadcasts on Dutch TV, and screenings, for example, at the celebrated Paaspop Festival in the Netherlands.
Highly active in the local scene, Levi hosted the Reverberation Festival (2019 to 2022) and the monthly radio show Radio Brain Wave for twenty episodes on ColoRadio rADIO³ during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He is a member of the artist residency collective Kollision der Künste and he is currently active as a collaborative solo artist and with his band Joywire. Since 2023, he has been doing press & publicity for the long-standing sociocultural centre Scheune.
Artistic collaborations
Recent team-ups in Germany include: 4RoomsCompany (for theatrical dance pieces houseofchange, Fensterblicke and Quakes) and the About Blank Collective (for their format debut Vision Danceable), as well as live art collaborations with MUAH, Joe Richter and Annina Münch.
In the Netherlands, his band Machinery opened shows for Mr. Vast (known from the witty UK group Wevie Stonder) and for “The God Of Hellfire,” sixties legendary trip The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (UK).
Live art collaborations have also taken place with bands and artists such as Ryosuke Kiyasu (JP), GNOD (UK) + Sophie-T, Love’n’Joy (UA), NOIX (CZ), Mallorca, SDW, Newmaker, Martha Laux and Giant Drag (US).
Artworks & Exhibitions
Six imaginative art series have appeared over the past twenty years in more than 40 exhibitions, alternating between studio canvases and large onstage performance works.
“De Snuit”, a new studio painting series, is planned for 2026.
© Bilderfeld (2023)