November 2024
OFFSCREEN
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 6 Blueprints on them. One side was presenting 3 waves of Ostend, the other side 3 of Cornwall. These where accompanied by 2 colorscape paintings based on 2 pictures from Ostend and Cornwall.
June 2024
Beyond Horizons @Dorotheum
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
April 2024
Art Paris 2024
Solo booth @Art Paris with Irène Laub Gallery
December 2023
Gardening the Forest Stijn Cole – Elise Peroi January 2024 @ Irène Laub Gallery
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 the canvas was given a prominent role just as a side action, in Elise’s case there is just more color in her latest works.
October 2023
Analyse van een verschijning (het landschap) / Emergent
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 is the same size as if the photo had not been folded. The fold is hung at 158cm high, coinciding with my eye level and forming a horizon. I also showed some “souvenirs” and a couple of drawings from the “two steps aside” series I made in 2013.
Other artists in the show where: Marcel Berlanger, Dirk Braeckman, Eric Colpaert, Marc De Blieck, Griet Dobbels, Jan Kempenaers, Mira Sanders, Philip Van Isacker, Laura Viale,…
September 2023
Chaque nuit j’entre dans les creux des troncs et j’écoute @ Galerie C
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 of the same tree are visible, one on the shelf below and one on the wall. The other states are hidden from view. The work was shown in the expo “Chaque uit j’entre dans les crux des troncs et j’écoute” at Galerie C in Neuchâtel Switzerland.
September 2023
Alt+1000 photo-festival
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 as a timeline. The work was part of the alt+1000 photo festival near Lake Taillères in Switzerland
July 2023
àmare
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 were placed so that the top is level with my eye level. They form a horizon that cuts the tree-lined landscape.
April 2023
Drawing Now 2023 / Irène Laub Gallery
Drawing Now 2023 @Le Carreau du Temple Paris
Artist in Focus @ Irène Laub Gallery / Part of the Parallax selection
December 2022
Art Antwerp / Irène Laub gallery
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 the booth was a marble sculpture consisting of a slab of Belgian red marble and an Italian Calacatta marble. Both slabs are different sizes and appear in a fragile balance.
November 2022
Emergent Invites / 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.
November 2022
El cuarto Flamenco / AVALANCHA / GHG Madrid
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 and
expressive component, is articulated as a consequence of the superficialization of ideas, the
devastation of the landscape and the destruction of the territory, while emphasizing
individual, subjective and philosophical processes in relation to the contemporary world.
The word "avalanche" within the title implies an external, inevitable and unstoppable
phenomenon, as an analogy to different aspects of the four artists' practice, seductive and
aesthetic, but equally entropic.
September 2022
Horizontes – Hilario Galguera Gallery Mexico City
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 level of the viewer. In the various works, I use my own eye level to determine the perspective of my memories. For this expo I presented for the first time ceramic work and work with two marble slabs each.The other work continued to build on series I developed earlier.
May 2022
Stormloop 2022
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 twice a day by the sea and which, as the sea level rises, will disappear forever. In a second chapel, I combined a small triptych representing the colours over the sea from Fisterra (the end of the world) with the fantastic Retable of St. Crispien and St. Crispinian, which depicts the martyrdom of the patron saints of the skin flayers and the cobblers (for them also the end of the world :)).
February 2022
Sevilla / Cordoba / Granada – New flags – LEAF Brussels with Irène Laub Gallery
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. The idea of linking the images of seemingly random trees to flags that are often connected to a location, which is still the case for me, seemed interesting. So did the movement that brings the images back to life. Each flag has an edition of three and is largely distributed among friends and family.
January 2022
Souvenirs – Irène Laub Gallery
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 to visually capture specific moments in time, the artist came to realize that he was also, in a broader but more straightforward sense, representing moments in his own lifetime. In addition to several new paintings, he will be presenting sculptures made out of Carrara marble and Rouge de Rance marble, as well as two new bronze sculptures.
December 2021
Time and Tide – Ter Posterie Roeselare
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
October 2021
Memory shop – Casa Wabi Puerto Escondido
Memory shop – Casa Wabi Puerto Escondido
group show curated by Nicholas Bourriaud
October 2021
Een boom is meer dan er staat – Egelantier Otegem
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.
August 2021
Le weekend, Stijn Cole / Gert Verhoeven – Salon Blanc Oostende
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.
July 2021
Endgame – Orto Botanico Corsini Puerto Ercole
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 was taken in a nature reserve in Ghent, the city where I live. The photographic image allows me to place what appears at first sight to be an ordinary cutout of a disordered Belgian landscape in the context of a Botanical Garden. This inclusion adds some less appealing species to their collection of carefully chosen Mediterranean plants. The picture is mainly defined by the presence of wild nettles, an invasive species that often supplants nature in Belgium because there is too much nitrogen in the air. Other more fragile species are disappearing and biodiversity is under threat. The monumental photographic image (2 x 3 meters) consists of two parts connected by hinges that give the image a spatial dimension and allow the light to fall on the work in two different ways. Due to the aluminum surface of the print, the colors from the environment are reflected in different ways on the image. This gesture of the folding the image in two gives it a structure, the overflowing cutout of nature becomes a land-scape. The work stands on a table making it seem like an altar in its
surroundings.
April 2021
Ballroom project #3 – Antwerp – Irène Laub Gallery
Ballroom project #3 – Antwerp – Irène Laub Gallery
The curated art fair during Art Antwerp, 40 artists @borgerhub
March 2021
Leaf – Villa Empain Brussels
Leaf – Villa Empain Brussels – Irène Laub Gallery
In LEAF (Limited edition art fair) I presented 3 new multiples, 3 Fold works.
March 2021
‘Mémoires’ – Kasteelstraat 1, Watou
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 minerals, for example, I place this surface horizontally and out of sight. The fragments become sculptures and refer to the landscape through the horizontal plane. In the exhibition I also showed 3 new 1:1 drawings and the work Fold#3.
January 2021
Post tenebras spero lucem – Hilario Galguera gallery Mexico City
Post tenebras spero lucem – Hilario Galguera gallery Mexico City
curated by Hilario Galguera
January 2021
The intimate consciousness of time – Irène Laub Gallery Brussels
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
September 2020
‘SSTT’ – D’apostrof Meighem
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 map of the same landscape filled in in oil paint. These were based on walks in Scotland, Forges & Seloignes.
A third type of work were the “souvenirs” where I give structure to a photograph of an uncontrolled wilderness by folding the image.
September 2020
La colère de lud – BPS22 Charleroi
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 attachment. The exhibition thus evokes in a poetic, romantic and political way different situations of dispossession that human beings can be led to live, in a more or less conscious way.
Borrowed from a book by Julius Van Daal, the title of the exhibition refers to the revolt of English workers who, at the height of the industrial revolution, tried to resist technical progress. Led by the legendary general Ned Ludd, these insurgents destroyed machines, which in their eyes were responsible for the dispossession of their know-how, their property and their rights.
In a capitalist society dominated by the logic of possession, at a time when fundamental human rights are still flouted and freedoms are constantly being called into question, how does the human being construct himself on this succession of dispossessions? Through works in a variety of media and aesthetics (painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, tapestry, etc.), Ludd’s Wrath highlights different forms of deprivation (of time, territory, identity, work, etc.) but also different voluntary approaches aiming to free oneself and to think more freely about these constraints.
September 2020
‘De terre et de ciel’ – Biënnale d’Enghien, Enghien
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 halves that are at an angle to each other. The image is printed on a brushed aluminum so that the colors of the environment reflect in the image and the position from which you look as a spectator thus colors the image. In the chapel I showed three “Maaskeien” on neo classicist pedestals of which the part above my eye level has been sawn away. The sawn surface was polished. Through this simple action the boulders become sculptures, form a horizon and refer to the landscape.
June 2020
Toutes les lignes droites sont courbes – Villa Carpentier Ronse
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 group show brings together the works of twenty visual artists, both established and emerging.
The sublime Villa Carpentier, designed by Victor Horta, was the high point of this project. A group of contemporary sculptures will punctuate the vast Villa’s garden, offering a scenography that departs from the usual presentation codes existing in neutral museum spaces.
June 2020
Sautadet 1:1
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 permanent place at the Emiel Van Doren Museum in Genk.
March 2020
Van Eyck in depth – GUM Ghent
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 in the botanical garden in Rio de Janeiro. 2 different interpretations of paradise, on the one hand a “wild” landscape close to home, on the other a composed exotic garden.
October 2019
Landscape 2.0 – Buda Kortrijk
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 prints out in the sun during the entire summer (from June 21 to September 21), half covered. The sun has tarnished the photos, time has done its job, the image has faded. In Kortrijk I showed the series and I also placed 2 billboards in the public space.
Expo with Stefan Peters & Meggy Rustamova
September 2019
Shore – (re)D Gallery Antwerp
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”
July 2019
Grey Blue Brown – White Gallery Ostend
Grey Blue Brown – White Gallery Ostend
During the summer of 2019 I presented a range of marines in a small gallery space in Ostend
July 2019
GENESIS – LAC Narbonne
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
April 2019
Art Brussels – 2019 -(re)D Gallery
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
April 2019
Variations sur les mêmes thèmes – Anna Wenger gallery
Variations sur les mêmes thèmes – Anna Wenger gallery
This was my second solo show in the Zurich based gallery Anna Wenger
April 2019
Intersecties – White House Gallery Lovenjoel
Intersecties – White House Gallery Lovenjoel
duo show with Greet Van Autgaerden
March 2019
Variations sur les mêmes thèmes – BPS22 Charleroi
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 series, supplemented with more recent works from the same series, are part of the museum’s collection. A number of things interested me in this work, Marthe Wéry allows to play with the presentation of the series. With her abstract works whose colours are chosen intuitively she evokes the association with the sea, without an image she creates a navy. Parts of the series were sold and supplemented with new works of a different format, so that the series evolved over time. I decided to make a new series of 17 paintings based on the real colours of Calais and to mix them with the works of Wéry. During the exhibition, “Variations sur les mêmes thèmes”, we, Pierre-Olivier Rollin and I changed the arrangement 4 times.
February 2019
The Gulf Between – De Warande Turnhout
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 photography
photography ensured that for more than 50 years – until well after WWII – people got to see their information about the world in black and white. The impact of this on art is undoubtedly enormous. For although works of art existed in black and white from the Middle Ages onwards, it was not until the 20th century that this phenomenon increased enormously.
In the work of the artists in this exhibition, white, black and tones of gray predominate.
of gray predominate. The disappearance of color is part of the core of their practice. There are various motives that have led these artists to abandon color.
Some create in this way a twilight world that connects to reality in a different way. A world in gray tones refers to memories and visions. This world alienates the viewer. Contrary to what we sometimes suspect with the word gray, these works often just hold a great tension. In the 1980s, specifically in Belgium, there was a movement within painting in which color became more obscure, with painters such as Luc Tuymans and Bert De Beul. In their work they evoke associations with politics, power and distorted sexuality.
For others, this omission of color is an investigation into the core of what an image is. They reduce the work of art to its purest
form. They go through a search similar to the early avant-garde artists, but also linking to the spiritual use of black and white images in the Middle Ages. For example, the exterior shutters of altarpieces were often painted in black and white and displayed during Lent. Indeed, the omission of color encouraged meditation and prayer.
Working in black and white is also a way of showing technical mastery. There are very early examples of this too
in painting. For example, we think of the grisaill technique that emerged in the 15th century. These works are a play of illusion or trompe- l’oeil. Even in contemporary art, for example, hyperrealists often work in gray tones. More recently, there are artists who have pushed this even further to extremes. For example, Hans Op de Beeck who has also applied this in sculpture, creating a parallel reality.
Photography is to this day an obvious medium for working in black and white. When color photography made its appearance, photographers stuck to black and white photography.
Consequently, black and white photography often offers a more intense viewing experience.
Recently, among a younger generation of artists, charcoal is a commonly used material. Again, this is an explicit choice by the artist not to use color. She explicitly refers to the fictional nature of what is depicted.
In this exhibition De Warande brings together
a rich selection of contemporary works of art in a palette of black, white and gray that make you experience the power of colorlessness in different ways.
January 2019
Finistère / Fisterra – Haus der Kunst Sölothurn
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 other. The older of the two (2 tenths of a second older) is printed in a monochrome blue, the newest in black on plexiglass.
The two altar pieces I made 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 of the sunset in three directions, a few days later I did the same in Fisterra in Spain, another “end of the world”. The two actions resulted in 2 painted altarpieces.
July 2018
‘Biënnale van de schilderkunst 2018’ – Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen
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 Camino (LAC Narbonne), I made a road trip to Santiago togetherwith 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 of the sunset in three directions, a few days later I did the same in Fisterra in Spain. The two actions resulted in 2 painted altarpieces.
June 2018
De zindering van de zee – Mesdagcollectie Den Hague
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 classic collection. My work “Cancale 1:1” an exact replica in bronze of a piece of Breton rocky coast entered into a dialogue with a Golf by Thierry Decordier
May 2018
Works on paper – (re)D Gallery Antwerp
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 and makes a viewer dwell on an image more attentively and for a longer period of time.
The drawings in this group exhibition are from two series, one where I scan a landscape and transfer the side-by-side spacing between the capture of 2 images, the other is about the scale of the image. For these images I take pictures from a certain distance through a frame, the images are drawn to the same size of the frame and the distance marked by a disk on the ground.
April 2018
Art Brussels 2018 – (re)D Gallery
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
February 2018
l’extase -Belfius Tower Brussels
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 bedroom window were painted on a glass plate the same size as the painting. The composition of Vandenberghe was maintained. On a second glass plate the colors of a bouquet were applied, a depth is created and the colors of the lower surface get a reflection layer.
September 2017
Entre terre et mer – (re)D Gallery Antwerp
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.
September 2017
1:1 Marine – C-mine Genk
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 first layer in a monochrome colour and a second image that floats a few centimetres in front of it in black and white printed on plexiglass. Both images are of the same wave with a delay of 2/10 of a second in between. Because there is a space between both images, the work gains an extra dimension and the image seems to move.
June 2017
New colors – Designmuseum Ghent & 019
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
May 2017
Vloed / Flood – Ten Bogaerde Koksijde
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
April 2017
1:1 – Château de Chimay
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 you could visit the “maison des artistes” or the castle itself. In the “maison des artistes” I showed the “60 Journees d’été” series in dialogue with two works by Marthe Wery as I had already done in the Raveel Museum. In the castle itself, I dug deeper and deeper into time in a number of works. This started with two 1:1 drawings of classified trees found in the domain of the castle. In the next room I showed 2 wax sculptures that are exact replicas of pieces of the surface of mont Sainte Victoire in Aix en Provence. On two tables in the next room I printed 2 pictures of the Hubble telescope that at first glance have the drawing of marble but are images of parts of the universe. In the beautiful little theater, a copy of the theater in Fontainebleau, I left the documentary nature of the previous images and relied on photos I found on Google for a series of little works that were always divided into 2 plans. In the first and second scene of the stage, I hung two paintings based on a found photo “Sankt Gilgen en éte”.
January 2017
Entre terre et mer – book
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.
December 2016
Casa Wabi residency – Casa Wabi Puerto Ercole Mexico
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 the blue prints where I printed the first image in a monochromatic blue hue, these images are in CMY, on the plexiglass floating in front of them it is printed in black. The works are more rich than the previous series.
November 2016
’60 journées d’été’ – Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen
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 in the village Macquenoise. 40 years later I made a tribute to her and that series of works. 60 summer sunsets I captured the landscape and transpose 60 Timescapes of it. Each time the same landscape, each time from 19:00 to 24:00. Every time again different.
July 2016
EL CAMINO – LAC Narbonne
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 of the sunset in three directions, a few days later I did the same in Fisterra in Spain, another “end of the world”. The two actions resulted in 2 painted altarpieces.
A second work existed in 12 colors capes that referred to 12 stops on our trip. I’ve showed them in a rhythm that was based on the distance between every stop. Each cm of space between the works was 1km of distance.
with: Renato Nicolodi, Ronny Delrue, Jonas Vansteenkiste, Cel Crabeels, Christine Clincx & Stijn Cole
Curated By Christa Vyvey
June 2016
New dialogues – Anna Wenger Gallery
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.
May 2016
Halfway – ICC Brussels
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 4 places and in quadrangle. The 4 paintings were hung in corresponding places in the room in exactly the same direction.
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May 2016
Chimay Cancale – (re)D Gallery Antwerp
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.
April 2016
Lumiere Matière – ARBA ESA Brussels
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 opening was on the first day of spring.
October 2015
‘Octobre’ – Gallery René Blouin, Montreal
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 5 Timescapes.
March 2015
Art Brussels 2015 – (re)D Gallery
Art Brussels 2015 – (re)D Gallery
December 2013
Images and colors – (re)D Gallery Antwerp
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 Bleue, camera obscura images that captured the light of 1 hour during a sunrise.
June 2013
Onder de loep – Emile Van Doren museum & C-Mine Genk
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 where both scientists and artists investigated the landscape. The scientists’ gaze was directed downwards, while the artists’ gaze was directed towards the horizon. I made 3 drawings that scan a part of the landscape of the Maten and moved this part to an exhibition room in the museum.
Curated by Kristof Reulens
September 2012
Façades – Be Part Waregem
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), I visited a landscape park in Branitz (Germany). In this park, designed by Fürst Pückler Muscau, nature was composed for the first time in function of a visitor on foot. Previously, avenues were created in landscape parks so that people could move from one spectacular view to another by carriage. In Branitz, new views are constantly emerging. I made three pairs of photos in which I took two steps sideways in between the images. I converted these images into three times two drawings that were presented with the same spacing as in which the photos were taken (2 steps).
This photo was taken at Be-Part, the expo room there is round so I brought the left and right sides forward a bit to position both works in a straight line next to each other.
Façades was an expo with Hans Demeulenaere, Wesley Meuris, Honoré d’O & Stijn Cole
September 2011
Characters makes stories – NICC, Antwerp
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 that the image was mirrored again. A second project was a search for 3 color series that had the same gray tone in black and white reproduction. The work was shown as 3 collages with a black and white reproduction of the three framed works next to them.
cur. Sofie Dederen and Mieke Mels
October 2010
Preview Art Fair – Tempelhof Berlin – Geukens & De Vil
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 an outstanding overview on the art of our time. This year’s fair concept, which was developed out of the experience from the last five years, is considered to be both a summarisation of previous fair concepts and proclamation of a new fair format for 2011.
I presented “2 large Windows”, 2 large paintings representing a landscape in Ireland and the iconic Windows landscape
July 2010
‘Sunset / Sunset’ – MSK, Ghent
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 artist in residence programm.
March 2010
Provincial Prize 2010 – Caermersklooster Ghent
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.
July 2007
Sur la route – SMAK Ghent
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 into a Timescape. The works were presented all over the city in 20 supporters’ cafes. On various TV screens in the café, the broadcast of the Tour de France was alternated with landscape photos that were provided with GPS coordinates. That day, Gert Steegmans defeated his own captain Tom Bonen in the sprint on the Charles Dekerckhovenlaan.
July 2007
Kunst & Zwalm 2007
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 the tinescapes presented evolved from brown to fresh green, influenced by the light intensity of the moment and the colours of the sky.
June 2006
Ohne Titel – Kunstverein Ahlen
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 green-key and blue-key with the horizon at my eye level on one (32 metre long) wall of the room. The room was darkened and 7 slide projectors were used to project light patches in the format of classic landscape paintings from various museum collections on top of it. The height of those patches was adjusted according to the position of the horizon on the paintings. In presentations, paintings are always hung with the centre at “eye level”, which usually varies from 155 to 160 cm. I found that when showing landscapes with a visible infinite horizon, a problem arose and adjusted the horizon of all those landscapes to my own eye height. Since then, the horizon, the subjective line that separates the visible from the invisible, has been a motif that recurs in many of my works.
April 2006
Picture This! – MDD Deurle
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 light from outside with a sensor. on the daylight works, the colors of the sky are listed from left to right in a time bar. One of the two was an ordinary day, the other the birthday of my daughter, where the day normally starts at 0:00h this time bar started at 8:13 so the night falls in the middle of the image.
May 2005
Betoverd Bos / Artificial landscape – Aalter
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