Stijn Cole

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    

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

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

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 / GHG Madrid

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  

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

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

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

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