He was educated at the
Montessori Lyceum and the
Willem de Kooning Academie both in Rotterdam, then at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He has worked as a cartoonist, and
performance artist, known as
DJ Chantelle, and was founder/curator of the Showroom MAMA - where he curated for several years. He has also been an artist in residence at a number of institutions, and was the Art Editor of
Rails Magazine Netherlands from November 2006 to August 2008. Boris Van Berkum has been a member of the
Thinktank, the
Voorrang Culturele Vakmanschaf (Committee for Advanced Craft and Technology Vocational Education) from 2008 onwards. He served on the Advisory Committee to the Dutch Secretary of State for Culture in 2002, the Selection Committee of the
Fonds Beeldende kunsten Vormgeving en Bouwkunst in 2001, and the Project Grants Committee for the Center for Fine Arts, Rotterdam, from 2000 to 2002. He is represented by the Witzenhausen Gallery in
Amsterdam. ==Solo exhibitions==