Overview
°1979, Dendermonde (BE)
Lives and works in Ghent and Courtrai, Belgium

De werken van Michaël Aerts zijn doordrongen van een diepgaande fascinatie voor het onbekende en de complexiteit van kennis en waarneming. Zijn werk bevindt zich op het snijvlak van tweedimensionale en driedimensionale kunstvormen; de kunstenaar beweegt zich voort tussen vlakken en vormen met het oog op thema’s als tijd, ruimte en de menselijke drang en capaciteit om te begrijpen. Daarbij kleeft zijn interesse aan het verkennen van plaatsen en ruimtes die buiten het bereik van onze zintuigen liggen. Een blik op het licht dat onderweg is naar de Aarde vanuit het heelal geeft ons een glimp van vervlogen tijd met vertraging. Afstand en uren vallen in deze flits samen. 

Yasmin Van 'tVeld

 


 

Michaël Aerts' works are imbued with a profound fascination for the unknown and the complexity of knowledge and perception. His work is at the intersection of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art forms; the artist moves between surfaces and shapes in view of themes of time, space and the human urge and capacity to understand. In doing so, his interest attaches to exploring places and spaces beyond the reach of our senses. A glimpse of light on its way to Earth from outer space gives us a glimpse of bygone time with delay. Distance and hours coincide in this flash.

 
Biography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2024

the possibility of the simultaneous, HIlde Vandaele Gallery, Watou, Belgium

 

2023

Michaël Aerts & Vadim Vosters, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Michaël Aerts & Vadim Vosters, Salon 17, Pottes, Belgium

 

2022 

Launch Catalog + exhibition, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, germany

 

2021

Our New Cultures, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

2019

Planetarium, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany

Caché derrière mes poings, Whitehouse Gallery, Lovenjoel, Belgium

 

2018

That’s The Way (I Like It), Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany

Inauguration monument Bobbejaan Schoepen, Lichtaart, Belgium

 

2017

_Comme à Ostende, Salon Blanc, Ostend, Belgium

Slices, hotel Drie Eiken, Antwerpen, Belgium

 

2016

Something in the Way, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany


2015        

Michaël Aerts Would Like to Use Your Current Location, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

2014

It was like so, but wasn't, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

 

2013

Project Space, ART13, London, UK 

 

2012

Club 7.5, Paris, France

Everything Will Burn Baby Burn, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany

New Positions, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

 

2011 

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail it, upgrade it, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

 

2010

Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours!, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany

An O’Neill Drama, A Whistler’s Mama, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

 

2009

Please Please Me, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ridge Ecstacy – New drawings and paintings, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

A Night at the Playboy Mansion, Federico Luger Gallery, Milano, Italy

 

2008

Solo Show, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

The Immaculate Collection, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

 

2006

Onetwenty Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

 

2004

Galerie C. De Vos, Aalst, Belgium

 
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2023
Identity and Culture, Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Dusseldorf, Germany

 

2022
Eden, Augustijnenekerk, Roeselare, Belgium

 

2021

The shadow of the Cross, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

 

2020

Planetarium, (Kunst achter glas) Onze-Lieve-Vrouw kerk, Dendermonde, Belgium.

 

2019

Belgian Thoughts, Märkisches Museum, Witten, Germany

Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

 

2018

Under the parachute of colors, Artworks Advisory, New York, USA

 

2017

On the Go, Kunstroute maART, curated by Monia Warnez, Waregem, Belgium

 

2016

Coup de Ville, Triënnale for Contemporary Art, curated by Stef Van Bellingen, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

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