Stijn Cole _ POV Wanneer het landschap dient als vertrekpunt van een creatief concept, blijkt het een genereus onderwerp te zijn dat een bijzondere dynamiek onthult tussen de afgebeelde plek en de persoon die zich erin bevindt. Het is een van de weinige situaties waarin een kunstenaar, een waarnemer, geconfronteerd wordt met zo’n allesomvattende kracht … POV
Stijn Cole _ POV Landscape, when it serves as the starting point of a creative concept, proves to be a generous subject matter, revealing a peculiar dynamic between the depicted place and a person situated within it. It’s one of the few instances in which an artist, an observer, faces such an … POV
In Intra Extra, a group show as part of the OFF program of Antwerp Art Weekend, I presented two new types of work for the first time. In A space, I created a composition of two paravents, each containing two stained glass windows. Their imagery is structured in a 50/50 balance between color and figurative … Intra Extra @ Antwerp Art weekend
In an abandoned house in Ghent, I found a box of slide positives by an unknown photographer. The images depict only landscapes, taken in France and Belgium in the 1980s. To me, they felt like fragments of my own youth—places we once visited as a family, yet now stripped of any trace of us. These … POV @ Ontsteking, Ghent
For Drawing Now Paris (with Irène Laub Gallery), I created the 50/50 works. These consist of a pencil drawing over which a green grid is printed. The grid covers half of the image, while the other half remains untouched.
The Rococo works have a lyrical abstract underlayer in oil paint. On top of this, a detail of the landscape is printed. The photographic images appear to be partially coloured in. In the first series, the oil paint was applied to a light-reflecting aluminium plate, so that their position in space determines how they appear. … Rococo
In my first solo exhibition at Galeria Hilario Galguera in Madrid, I brought together work from two series. A new series of paintings from the “colourscape” series and the first works from a new series, the “rococo” paintings. Whereas the former show an abstract landscape in the form of a colour palette of 16×16 colours, … El tiempo suspendido @galeria Hilario Galguera, Madrid
In this solo exhibition at Les Jardiniers, an exhibition space in Montrouge near Paris, I presented an ensemble of works, each of which contained a duality. I entered into dialogue with the industrial character of the exhibition spaces and used raw (construction) materials in dialogue with refined materials and images. with the support of Flanders … Paysage en stéréo @Les jardiniers, Montrouge
My contribution to Alt+1000 Photo festival in Vue des Alpes (CH) is a first one of a new series “POV” 2025 – 2x3m The work presents a black and white image of the tree standing just behind it in the landscape the. At first glance from a distance it looks like an ordinary black and … POV
My contribution to Alt+1000 Photo festival in Vue des Alpes (CH) is a first one of a new series “POV” 2025 – 2x3m The work presents a black and white image of the tree standing just behind it in the landscape the. At first glance from a distance it looks like an ordinary black and … Alt +1000 photo-festival
Painting After Painting showcases the work of over seventy contemporary painters. Without striving for completeness, S.M.A.K. attempts to outline the recent developments and trends in the medium. Artists today draw on the motifs and techniques of the past, but equally explore and push the boundaries of the discipline. Some create narrative works addressing their daily … Painting after Painting @ SMAK Ghent
These works were composed of two A4 fragments from a larger drawing. Together, the two parts fall within the limits of an A3 size = 42×29.7cm. They were made for an exhibition where a drawing at maximum A3 size was requested.
Offscreen is an art fair in Paris, focussed on installations, still and moving images. For this edition in the Grand garage haussmann I’ve created an installation that could stand free in the space and could be adapted to a possible next space. I’ve squeezed 6 poles in between the ceiling and the floor and hung … OFFSCREEN
During the Egmont Art Days, Yolande Debontridder curated a groups how at Dorotheum, the auction house for classical art. Around the theme of “beyond horizons” she selected works from: Stijn Cole Antoinette d’Ansembourg, Charlotte Cuny, Céline Cuvelier Anne Marie Finné, Rémy Hans, Megane Likin, Alba Suad & Emilie Terlinden
Solo booth @Art Paris with Irène Laub Gallery
These works are composed of an image printed on canvas over which a layer of acrylic was applied to half the surface.
Gardening the Forest Stijn Cole / Elise Peroi 1/2024 @ Irène Laub Gallery This duo exhibition places the work of Stijn Cole in dialogue with the textile works of Elise Peroi. Both were inspired by the other’s practice to create new works. In Cole’s case, this results in a new series of paintings in which … Gardening the Forest Stijn Cole – Elise Peroi January 2024 @ Irène Laub Gallery
Analyse van een verschijning (het landschap) / Emergent In this group exhibition at Emergent I presented a work from the new series “158cm” for the first time. The work consists of a double-folded photograph of a view of a Swiss glacier in Arolles. This is placed in a plexiglass box, the size of the box … Analyse van een verschijning (het landschap) @ Emergent
Chaque nuit j’entre dans les creux des troncs et j’écoute @ Galerie C 2 trees This series consists of two sets of ten souvenirs each with the same tree on them. I photographed two trees at different times on a walk in the Bourgoyen in Ghent, the composition slightly different. Each time, only two versions … Chaque nuit j’entre dans les creux des troncs et j’écoute @ Galerie C
Alt+1000 photo-festival Longest day 21/6/2023 This work shows the evolution of colours during the longest day of 2023. Every minute the landscape in which the work eventually became presented was photographed. The colours of the sky, the pine tree row in the background and the field were abstracted to 1 average colour and edited together … Alt+1000 photo-festival
This work is based on an existing 1933 painting by M. Rakowski. A Polish painter who lived in Brussels. After a trip to his homeland, he made a series of paintings as souvenirs. I’ve bought the original painting (oil on panel) at a flea market in Couvin. For me, this work is a souvenir of … Souvenir (Bronze)
àmare àmare is the first edition of a sculpture walk in the beautiful area around the Damme canal in Bruges and Damme. On the bridge at bistro ‘t Apertje I integrated 3 concrete pedestals that copied the profile of the bridge. On top were placed 3 “souvenirs “. 3 Maas boulders with a flattened top … àmare
Souvenir / jumeaux These sculptures consist of a bronze replica of a branch in spring, the flower/leaf buds visible. The casting channels have been preserved, these form an interpretation of the branch due to the nature of the subject, mirroring it. The branch was patinated and the channels kept untreated bronze.
Drawing Now 2023 @Le Carreau du Temple Paris Artist in Focus @ Irène Laub Gallery / Part of the Parallax selection
During Art Antwerp, I presented my first solo presentation at a fair. The ensemble consisted of 20 souvenirs based on 20 photos of the sea I took while walking the 64-km-long Belgian coast. I also showed 2 Blue -Prints, photos of a wave with a time fragment between both image layers. At the centre of … Art Antwerp / Irène Laub gallery
Emergent Invites is a small art fair in Veurne based art Center/gallery Emergent. Irène Laub gallery presented my works in combination with the work of Bernard Villers in one of the rooms.
These works are composed of two marble slabs leaning against each other. Both slabs have a different size so there is no symmetrical angle but one of the two slabs is more slanted than the other. The top of the work forms a horizon at my eye level. I see these works as sublimated landscapes, … Solid Horizon (Marble)
These works are composed of a number of ceramic plates arranged at an angle against the wall. Each tile has a different size. At the top, they form one straight line, a horizon at my eye level of 158cm. To achieve this, the tiles lean against the wall at different angles. The tiles where made … Solid Horizon (ceramics)
El cuarto Flamenco / AVALANCHA The Flemish Room. Avalancha is the second exhibition presented by Hilario Galguera Gallery in Madrid and will open on the 19th of November. The group show is comprised of works by four Belgian artists: Willem Boel, Maxime Brigou, Marie Cloquet and Stijn Cole, whose predominant materiality, as a symbolic, conceptual … El cuarto Flamenco / AVALANCHA @Galeria Hilario Galguera, Madrid
For my first expo at Hilario Galguera’s Mexican Gallery, I went to Mexico for a month in the spring with the plan to collect various “souvenirs” that I incorporated into new works. The title Horizontes refers to the line separating the visible from the invisible. The position of that line is determined by the eye … Horizontes – Hilario Galguera Gallery Mexico City
In the “Variations sur les mêmes thèmes” works, Cole uses a limited number of ingredients to create series in which each work is slightly different from the others. On top of a vertical photograph of the sea with the horizon perfectly in the middle, two areas of colour are screen-printed that together make up half … Variations sur les mêmes thèmes
The monochrome works always play with the reflection of light. By applying several layers of varnish or by using a spotlight to light up a part of the surface, rudimentary landscapes become visible, a horizon emerges and the surface evolves depending on the viewer’s angle of view.
The “Souvenir” works were created when Cole decided to move back to Flanders from the Walloon town of Chimay. As a souvenir of the landscape, he photographed solitary trees during the spring. These images were developed on Lambda paper and exposed to the sun throughout the summer. The left half was covered so that only … Souvenir
De tekeningen van Stijn Cole lijken machinaal gemaakt, Cole leerde zichzelf een techniek aan waarbij hij via arceringen eenzelfde intensiteit kan aanhouden gedurende lange periodes. De 1:1 tekeningen verwijzen naar de schaal van het onderwerp. Cole plaatste een kader in het landschap en fotografeerde vanop een bepaalde afstand het landschap door dit kader. De positie … 1:1 drawings
Timescapes” are photographic works that depict the evolution of a landscape’s colours over a period of time. Cole photographs the same landscape every minute for a certain period of time, a few hours, a day. All the colours of the sky are then converted into one average colour, and the same happens with those of … Timescapes
In Stormloop 2022, a group exhibition in Herentals with the theme “water”, I placed a 1:1 sculpture in the church. The work was in dialogue with a 16th century painting that represents Noah entering the ark together with his family. The work is a replica of a part of the French coast that is flooded … Stormloop 2022
In these works, a three-dimensional component is added to a two-dimensional photograph. The image always consists of a disordered landscape, an image of the middle of a forest, the jungle. The work is printed in two parts on brushed aluminium, both parts are attached to each other by hinges that allow the angle to be … Land-scape
These works consist of exact bronze replicas of tree branches that may or may not be attached to a brass construction strut. These works are stretched between the ceiling and the floor. As in many of his other works, Cole adds a geometric gesture to a natural element. The works become part of the architecture; … Souvenir Bronze
In these A3-size works, a photographic image is split up into the image (in black and white) and the colours. The colours present in the snapshot are listed from light to dark within a grid of 16×16 squares. Because the light colours end up at the top of this mathematical, computer-controlled list, many of these … Souvenirs
The marble “souvenirs” were created when Cole decided to move back to the city after 10 years of living in the countryside near Chimay. To remember the region, he started the souvenir works, one series consisted of photographic images, another of fragments of marble that Cole found in the woods around Chimay where Belgium’s red … Souvenir Marble
The “Blue prints” are photographic works. 2 snapshots, with a fraction of a second in between, of the same wave are mounted in front of each other. The first image is printed in a monochrome blue/green tint, the moment that follows in black and white on Plexiglas. The works acquire a three-dimensional character due to … Blue print
In these works, an image is divided into image and colour. The image is drawn, the colours placed on top within a grid of 16×16 squares, listing them from light to dark. A rudimentary two-part collage emerges.
These flags show part of the crown of a tree. Waving in the wind, they evoke the movement of the leaves. Just like normal flags, they represent a location; for Cole himself they are very concrete places, but for a viewer the images become more universal or refer to places from their frame of reference.
Sevilla / Cordoba / Granada – New flags – LEAF Brussels with Irène Laub Gallery After 2 years of lockdown and reduced movement, my wife and I flew to Spain for a short trip between Seville, Cordoba and Granada. during that trip, I photographed the crowns of various trees to make a series of flags. … Sevilla / Cordoba / Granada – New flags – LEAF Brussels with Irène Laub Gallery
Gedeelde werelden “Mémoire — mes moires…”, schreef de auteur Michel Leiris in zijn boek Langage tangage ou ce que les mots me disent, waarmee hij aangaf dat het geheugen een onstabiele faculteit is, even veranderlijk als de weerkaatsing van het licht op een zee met een onzekere horizon. Souvenirs d’été (Zomerherinneringen) is de titel die … Gedeelde werelden
«Mémoire – mes moires…», writes Michel Leiris in his book Langage tangage ou ce que les mots me disent; emphasizing how unstable the faculty of memory is, as shifty as light reflections on a sea with an undefined horizon. ‘Souvenirs d’été’ is precisely the title Stijn Cole gave to his latest series of works, which … Stijn Cole / Shared Worlds
Stijn Cole has his first solo exhibition in Brussels, at Irène Laub: landscape ‘abstractions’ with an almost romantic evocative power. We remember his bronzes installed by Yolande De Bontridder in the opulent garden of the Villa Carpentier in Ronse, but also more monumental exhibitions at the S.M.A.K. and the MSK in Ghent, not forgetting a … Abstractions on the horizon
« Mémoire — mes moires… », notait l’écrivain Michel Leiris, dans le livre Langage tangage ou ce que les mots me disent, soulignant combien la mémoire est une faculté instable, aussi changeante que des reflets de lumière sur une mer à l’horizon incertain. Souvenirs d’été est justement le titre qu’a donné Stijn Cole à ses dernières séries … Stijn Cole/ Des Mondes en partage
Stijn Cole’s black-and-white photos are Camera obscura images (L’heure bleue) in which the camera captures the light for an hour during the morning twilight. Cole made these works for the Images & Colors exhibition. White rainbow is a photograph of a rainbow converted to black and white. It forms a white arch in the image.
The 1:1 sculptures are exact replicas of parts of the landscape. Cole moulds a part with a rectangular surface in places that are meaningful to him but, as with the other works, take on a universal character once they are shown to the public. The first ” recordings ” of the landscape were 2 parts … 1:1 Sculptures
In the “Colorscape” paintings, the same process is always applied: the colours from a photograph are ordered from light to dark within a grid of 16×16 squares. Because the light colours end up at the top of this mathematical, computer-controlled list, many of these works create the illusion of a horizon and an abstracted landscape. The … colorscapes
By simply adding a fold where the hidden horizon in a misty landscape was, a new horizon appears. The work reacts to the rhythm of the light; the horizon formed by the shadow is sometimes more, sometimes less, or not visible at all.
Souvenirs – Irène Laub Gallery Brussels For his first solo exhibition at Irène Laub gallery, Stijn Cole presents a new body of work entitled «Souvenirs». Cole started creating these pieces upon moving back to Ghent during the first lockdown, as a tribute to the area of Chimay where he lived for several years. While seeking … Souvenirs – Irène Laub Gallery
2 steps aside: For this work, Cole made a journey from Texel (the Netherlands) to Bialowieza (Poland), a journey from a cultural landscape, the Dutch polders recently reclaimed from the sea, to the only remaining piece of primeval forest in Europe. In the middle of that journey (geographically and mentally), Cole visited a landscape park … 2 steps aside
Time and Tide – Ter Posterie Roeselare Time and Tide was a groupshow at Terposterie with Frank & Robert, Tinus Vermeersch, Stief Desmet, Joost Gevaert and Stijn Cole curated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte
Belgian artist Stijn Cole draws inspiration from the environment to express concepts like time, perception, light and color, and how people see and experience reality. In his works Cole employs a wide range of mediums, combining abstract and figurative media to produce a cohesive whole in which content and form complement one another, demonstrating a … Interview with Alice Zucca : XIBT Magazine
Het woord ‘Timescape’ heeft onmiskenbaar reminiscenties met ‘Landscape’. En met enige zin voor overdrijving zou je dit aspect van het kunstoeuvre van Stijn Cole zelfs kunnen linken aan het ‘pleinairisme’. Want Coles ‘Timescapes’ zijn in feite ‘landschappen in de tijd gezien’ en ze draaien om licht, lucht, landschap en/of zee. Maar daar houdt elke gelijkenis … Het licht van Stijn Cole
Memory shop – Casa Wabi Puerto Escondido group show curated by Nicholas Bourriaud
Een boom is meer dan er staat – Egelantier Otegem This expo was about trees, I showed there 2 flags in the garden showing a crown of the acacia that was visible from our bedroom window in our house in Chimay.
Le weekend, Stijn Cole / Gert Verhoeven – Salon Blanc Oostende In the project space Salon Blanc in Ostend, run by Els Wuyts, I presented 2 folding screens that entered into a dialogue with the bronze massage sculptures of Gert Verhoeven.
Endgame – Orto Botanico Corsini Puerto Ercole In the exhibition Endgame I am showing 2 bronze sculptures entitled “Cancale 1:1 #4” and “Cancale 1:1 #5 », as well as a photographic sculpture called “Souvenir 2021”. Both could be seen as documentary sculptures: the bronze works are replicas of parts of the Breton coast and the photograph … Endgame – Orto Botanico Corsini Puerto Ercole
Ballroom project #3 – Antwerp – Irène Laub Gallery The curated art fair during Art Antwerp, 40 artists @borgerhub
Leaf – Villa Empain Brussels – Irène Laub Gallery In LEAF (Limited edition art fair) I presented 3 new multiples, 3 Fold works.
Mémoires – Kasteelstraat 1 Watou In Watou, I presented in the duo exhibition together with Yves Velter for the first time some marble “souvenirs” the chunks of Marbre de Rance hang on the wall and are sawn off at eye level. The surface obtained has been polished so that the marble’s pattern becomes visible. Unlike … ‘Mémoires’ – Kasteelstraat 1, Watou
Post tenebras spero lucem – Hilario Galguera gallery Mexico City curated by Hilario Galguera
The intimate consciousness of time – Irène Laub Gallery Brussels This group exhibition was a first collaboration with my Brussels gallery Irène Laub. I showed 3 “timescapes” from my series 60 journées d’été and some “souvenirs”. In addition, work by Bernard Villers, Gauthier Hubert, Gudny Rosa ingimarsdottir Athina Ioannou & guillermo Mora
SSTT – D’apostrof Meigem In this duo show with Stief Desmet I showed bronze souvenirs for the first time, these replicas of an oak branch contained tumors of a gall wasp. I also showed a first series of “souvenirs” on A3 where I combined a black and white image of a landscape with a color … ‘SSTT’ – D’apostrof Meighem
La colère de lud – BPS22 Charleroi La colère de lud brings together some forty works recently acquired by the Province of Hainaut and, for the most part, never before exhibited in the museum. Starting from the notion of dispossession, the chosen works express experiences of uprooting, occupation, destruction, exhaustion; but also of resistance and … La colère de lud – BPS22 Charleroi
De Terre et de ziel – Biënnale d’Enghien 2020 For the Enghien Biennale, I chose the chapel and French garden as the location to create a new work for. In the formal garden, I presented a large photograph on a table. The image represents an uncontrolled, unkempt forest scene. The image is divided into 2 … ‘De terre et de ciel’ – Biënnale d’Enghien, Enghien
Toutes les lignes droites sont courbes – Villa Carpentier Ronse During the summer 2020, the exhibition “Toutes les lignes droites sont courbes”, curated by Yolande De Bontridder and Jennifer Plasman, was held in three exceptional locations within the city of Ronse (BE). Aiming to reflect the different aspects of Belgian and international contemporary sculpture, the … Toutes les lignes droites sont courbes – Villa Carpentier Ronse
Sautadet 1:1 – Emiel Van Doren museum Genk In the summer of 2018 I went to Sautadet in southern France, a small village where the biggest attraction is a vast waterfall that is partly dry in the summer. I molded part of the surface and converted it into a bronze fountain that was given a … Sautadet 1:1
Van Eyck in depth – GUM Ghent These two triptychs were made for the opening exhibition “Van Eyck in depth” in the Ghent university museum GUM, which is located in the botanical garden. I based the colors on three views of a forest landscape near Chimay (where I lived) and on those of three views … Van Eyck in depth – GUM Ghent
Landscape 2.0 – Buda Kortrijk When we decided to move from the wooded, rural Chimay to Ghent, I decided to make a series of souvenirs in which I tried to capture the landscape. During the spring I went looking for solitary trees in a field and had these images developed analogously. I put those lambda … Landscape 2.0 – Buda Kortrijk
Shore – (re)D Gallery Antwerp In this exhibition at the Antwerp (re)D Gallery, I brought together an ensemble of marines, 17 colors capes based on the colors of the sea in Calais, 4 bronze sculptures, 1 fold and a “Mexican wave”
Grey Blue Brown – White Gallery Ostend During the summer of 2019 I presented a range of marines in a small gallery space in Ostend
GENESIS – LAC Narbonne Berlinde De Bruyckere, Peter Buggenhout, Johan Tahon, Koen Vandenbroek, Renato Nicolodi, Ronny Delrue, Peter Decupere, Jonas Vansteenkiste, Pieter Vermeersch, Wesley Meuris & Stijn Cole in dialogue with the collection of the LAC: Piet Moet, Francois Morellet, Sol Lewitt, Yves Klein, Marlene Dumas,… curated by Christa Vyvey
Art Brussels – 2019 -(re)D Gallery Put your hand in mine was the celebration of 10 years (re)D Gallery, previous Galerie Van De Weghe. I showed a bronze from the Cancale 1:1 series and the new Fold#2
Variations sur les mêmes thèmes – Anna Wenger gallery This was my second solo show in the Zurich based gallery Anna Wenger
Intersecties – White House Gallery Lovenjoel duo show with Greet Van Autgaerden
Variations sur les mêmes thèmes – BPS22 Charleroi When I was invited to do something at BPS22 in Charleroi, I decided to enter into a dialogue with the Calais series by Marthe Wery. In 1996, she made a series of 17 monochromes in blue and grey tones that she called Calais. Part of that original … Variations sur les mêmes thèmes – BPS22 Charleroi
The Gulf Between – De Warande Turnhout With ‘The Gulf Between’, the Warande presents an exhibition about black, white and everything in between. The title refers to the first American film production in technicolor. This film from 1917 has largely been lost. Only a few fragments survived. The invention of film and, earlier, of … The Gulf Between – De Warande Turnhout
Finistère / Fisterra – Haus der Kunst Sölothurn In the beautiful chapel that is the Haus der kunst in Solothurn, I showed 2 altarpieces based on the colors of nature. In the choir I exhibited some “blueprints”. The blueprints are works where I present 2 pictures of the same skipping wave on top of each … Finistère / Fisterra – Haus der Kunst Sölothurn
Biënnale van de schilderkunst 2018 – Raveelmuseum Every two years, the MDD, the Raveel Museum and the Museum of Deinze and the Liestreek collaborate with the Biennial of Painting. In 2018 the focus was on landscape and my triptych “Finistère 1/4/2016 – 20:15” was shown at Raveelmuseum. The work was made for the exhibition El … ‘Biënnale van de schilderkunst 2018’ – Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen
De zindering van de zee – Mesdagcollectie Den Hague This group exhibition, curated by Joanna De Vos had as its starting point “In search of the miraculous” by Bas Jan Ader. In the rooms of the fantastic Mesdag Collection, work by some twenty contemporary artists was brought into dialogue with each other and with the … De zindering van de zee – Mesdagcollectie Den Hague
Works on paper – (re)D Gallery Antwerp I started drawing within my body of work when I was eager to tell something about the depiction of the landscape and the position of the viewer/observer that determines that form. I realized that photography cannot hold a viewer’s gaze while a drawn image does raise certain questions … Works on paper – (re)D Gallery Antwerp
Art Brussels 2018 – (re)D Gallery For Art Brussels 2018 I mad my first bronze sculpture “Cancale 1:1” an exacte replica of a part of the Brittany coast
l’extase -Belfius Tower Brussels I made this work starting from the painting l’ecstasy by Frits Vandenberghe. Vandenberghe portrayed his young daughter in backlight while looking outside during spring. Next to her is a chair with a bouquet of flowers on it. I applied the same pattern, the colors of a spring landscape photographed from our … l’extase -Belfius Tower Brussels
Entre terre et mer – (re)D Gallery Antwerp In this exhibition at the Antwerp (re)D Gallery I brought together an ensemble of naval and landscapes, 5 Blue prints, 2 wax sculptures and 3 plaster works on which the sea is portrayed from 4 viewing angles.
1:1 Marine – C-Mine Genk In Genk I showed 4 types of work, 5 colorscape diptychs, 2 sculptures, a diorama in Blue key with a light projection.In the centre of the room I placed a metal structure on which 10 large photos of waves were placed. These images are built up in two layers. A … 1:1 Marine – C-mine Genk
On top of the structure 019 installed as an alternative entrance to the Designmuseum in Ghent (Provincial Price for Graphic design) I placed a flag with the colors of the sky taken from the top of the tower during sunrise on the 8th June 2017 – 4:00 > 7:45
Vloed / Flood – Ten Bogaerde Koksijde In this group show, works were collected that had a connection with the sea. Ten Bogaerde is a project space and the Georges Grard museum. The works were not only in dialogue with each other but also with Grard’s sculptures. Curated by Els Wuyts
1:1 – Château de Chimay At the Chimay Castle, a castle that has been run by the same family for 1,000 years, I mapped out two routes that departed from a flag that stood in the courtyard, depicting the colors of the sunrise of a day just before the opening of the exhibition. From there … 1:1 – Château de Chimay
Entre terre et mer – book This book consists of 7 sections, each section focusing on one medium. All sections are interlinked with “12 stops to Santiago 1:1” as the core.
Casa Wabi residency – Casa Wabi Puerto Ercole Mexico In December 2016, I spent a month at Casa Wabi Mexico. A residence built by the sea by Tadao Ando. There I took countless photos of the majestic waves for a new series of works that I called Mexican waves in CMY_K for the occasion. Unlike … Casa Wabi residency – Casa Wabi Puerto Ercole Mexico
60 Journées d’été – Roger Raveelmuseum During the summer of 1976 Marthe Wéry (1930 – 2005), a famous Belgian painter, made a series of works called “60 working days – summer of ’76”. During 60 days she made series of each time 3 drawings and a blank page. She lived 6 km of my studio … ’60 journées d’été’ – Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen
EL CAMINO – LAC Narbonne Finistère / Fisterra For the exhibition El Camino (LAC Narbonne) I made a road trip to Santiago together with my daughter, who was 10 at the time. The first destination of our journey was Finistère in Brittany, the most western point of France. From the cliffs I took a picture … EL CAMINO – LAC Narbonne
New dialogues – Anna Wenger Gallery For my first solo show at the Zurich Anna Wenger Gallery, I went in search of new interactions between the different series within my work. The exhibition was an introduction to almost all of my different media.
Halfway – ICC Brussels At the Italian Cultural Center in Brussels, I exhibited 4 paintings that referenced 4 moments during a sunrise in Vittel. We chose Vittel as a location because this city is exactly in the middle between Laura Viale and my home. During the sunrise I photographed the landscape at 4 moments in … Halfway – ICC Brussels
Chimay Cancale – (re)D Gallery Antwerp In this exhibition I combined drawings and Colorscapes of the landscape (Chimay) with marines (Cancale). The drawings were conceived as rudimentary collages where the colors of a landscape were placed on top of a drawn image.
I The landscape has played a very important role in the development of Western art and culture in general and of painting in particular. Through the painting of landscapes, artists have developed a better understanding of the artistic meaning of what they were doing. This had led to the autonomy of art. Landscape imagery, landscape … Stijn Cole or the paradox of the horizon
Lumiere Matière – ARBA ESA Brussels At the Arba Esa art college, I curated an exhibition of student work with Laura Viale. We presented a series of works of our own in the courtyard and in the tour. I showed some colorcapes that all depicted winter landscapes and an ice slab in the courtyard. The … Lumiere Matière – ARBA ESA Brussels
I Het landschap heeft als genre in de ontwikkeling van de Westerse kunst en cultuur in het algemeen en van de schilderkunst in het bijzonder, een enorm belangrijke rol gespeeld. Kunstenaars hebben via het schilderen van landschappen een beter begrip ontwikkeld van de artistieke betekenis van wat ze aan het doen waren. Het heeft geleid … Stijn Cole of de paradox van de horizon
Octobre – Gallery René Blouin Montréal In october 2015 I was invited in Montréal for a residency at Fonderie Darling and a small solo presentation at Galerie Blouin. When I arrived the leafs where still green and left when they announced the first snow. That autumn month I processed in 2 paintings, 18 Colorscapes and … ‘Octobre’ – Gallery René Blouin, Montreal
Art Brussels 2015 – (re)D Gallery
Images and colors – (re)D Gallery Antwerp In my first solo exhibition at Hendrik Van De Weghe (re)D Gallery, I showed a series of drawings in which a glass plate was placed in front of the work each time, displaying 64 colors derived from the image. In between, I showed photographs from the series l’heure … Images and colors – (re)D Gallery Antwerp
Onder de loep / Under the magnifying glass – Emile Van Doren museum & C-Mine Genk Under the magnifying glass was an exhibition in the Emile Van Doren Museum where the work of Stefan Peters, Bert Jacobs and Stijn Cole was brought into dialogue with that of Emile Van Doren and contemporaries. Genk was a centre … Onder de loep – Emile Van Doren museum & C-Mine Genk
Façades – Be Part Waregem 2 steps aside: For this work, I made a journey from Texel (the Netherlands) to Bialowieza (Poland), a journey from a cultural landscape, the Dutch polders recently reclaimed from the sea, to the only remaining piece of primeval forest in Europe. In the middle of that journey (geographically and mentally), … Façades – Be Part Waregem
Characters makes stories – NICC, Antwerp This exhibition was linked to a residency at the Frans Masereel Center. A place in Kasterlee where one can practice graphic techniques in various studios. During this period I made a series of etchings in which I copied old Dutch landscape etchings at full size and reprinted them so … Characters makes stories – NICC, Antwerp
Preview Art Fair – Tempelhof Berlin – Geukens & De Vil After last year’s successful edition in the main hall of Tempelhof Airport, PREVIEW BERLIN – The Emerging Art Fair is once again moving to Hangar2 for its sixth edition. 60 exhibitors from 19 countries were accepted for the PREVIEW BERLIN 2010, and will provide … Preview Art Fair – Tempelhof Berlin – Geukens & De Vil
Sunset / Sunset Enkele gedachten bij het residentieproject van Stijn Cole Na Jan De Cock, Philippe Van Den Berg en Raoul De Keyzer is Stijn Cole de vierde kunstenaar die resideert in het Museum voor Schone Kunsten. Het is een aantrekkelijke, maar moeilijke residentieplek. Het gevaar om, als jonge hedendaagse kunstenaar, de confrontatie aan te … Sunset/Sunset
Sunset / Sunset – MSK Ghent For this expo in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent I’ve made 7 installations, all 7 representing sunsets, in close dialogue with the collection and the building of the museum. Jan De Cock, Philippe Vandenbergh, Raoul De Keyser and Leo Copers where the former artists in this annual … ‘Sunset / Sunset’ – MSK, Ghent
Watzmann is one of the most famous mountain ranges used in German Romanticism. According to legend the range originated when King Watz and his family were turned into stone and some summits are referred to as Big Watz, Watzfrau ( Lady Watz) and Watzkinder. Casper David Friedrich never laid eyes on the mountains but used … Watzmann
One of the many challenges in art history is the quest for the ultimate spot in the landscape where great artists planted one’s easel and started creating their famous masterworks. It seems an impossible mission, the endless search for the needle in the haystack, but the satisfaction is immense : the discovery of the many … 2 large Windows
Provincial Prize 2010 – Caermersklooster Ghent In 2010 Hannes Van Severen won the provincial Visual Arts Prize of East Flanders, I was 2nd. We got a duo show in the Caermersklooster, now the Kunsthal.
Sur la route – SMAK Ghent In 2007, a stage of the Tour de France arrived in Ghent. SMAK asked 20 artists to each ride a stage of the tour and to make an artistic report of it. I drove from Gap to Marseille. Upon arrival, I photographed the setting sun and processed these images … Sur la route – SMAK Ghent
Kunst & Zwalm 2007 For the first time I added the colors of the land to my Timescapes. For six months, I went to photograph a landscape in Zwalm at regular intervals, each time during 2,5 hours. In the beginning a fallow field and in the summer a fully grown corn field. The colours on … Kunst & Zwalm 2007
Ohne Titel @KunstVerein Ahlen Philippe Vancauteren had just started as director of SMAK and he invited me to make an exhibition for Kunstverein Ahlen in Germany.The space there was much too big for me, I didn’t have enough works, let alone works with which I wanted to be seen. I painted an elementary landscape in … Ohne Titel – Kunstverein Ahlen
Die Landschaft Ce roc à Rio de Janeiro est célèbre. Autour de lui se dressent des montagnes échevelées; la mer les baigne. Des palmiers, des bananiers; la splendeur tropicale anime le site. On s’arrête, on y installe son fauteuil. Crac! Un cadre tout autour. Crac! Les quatre obliques d’une perspective! Votre chambre est installée face … Die landschaft
Het landschap ‘Ce roc à Rio de Janeiro est célèbre. Autour de lui se dressent des montagnes échevelées; la mer les baigne. Des palmiers, des bananiers; la splendeur tropicale anime le site. On s’arrête, on y installe son fauteuil. Crac! Un cadre tout autour. Crac! Les quatre obliques d’une perspective! Votre chambre est installée face … Het landschap
Picture this! – MDD Deurle In 2006 I was invited for a Picture This! expo (young artists) in MDD Deurle. I combined a painting in 2 key colors with all the landscapes with an infinite horizon from the museum’s collection. In addition, I showed 2 daylight works and a fluorescent tube lamp that copied the … Picture This! – MDD Deurle
Betoverd Bos / Artificial landscape – Aalter For the group show enchanted forest I chalked a number of trees at the edge of the forest white from eye level to the crown. From a distance, the edge of the forest seemed about 20 metres closer. Curated by Angelique Campens