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.

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.

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.

Grey Blue Brown – White Gallery Ostend

During the summer of 2019 I presented a range of marines in a small gallery space in Ostend

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

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.

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.

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.

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