exhibitions

BRAM VAN BREDA - MICHAËL DE KOK

from the inside out 17 Oct - 3 Nov 2024 Kortrijk De tentoonstelling from the inside out verbindt de nabije omgeving, de stedelijke context en uitgestrekte landschappen met de wonderlijke verbeeldingskracht van de mens. Steeds duidelijker blijkt hoe er gezocht wordt naar narratieve alternatieven en vernieuwende denk- en maakprocessen. De werken van deze kunstenaars zijn dan ook een uiting van deze... Read more

MICHAËL AERTS

the possibility of the simultaneous 11 Aug - 8 Sep 2024 Watou REQUEST AVAILABLE ARTWORKS In het oeuvre van Michaël Aerts blijkt een grote interesse voor de complexiteit van waarneming, ervaring en beschouwing. Hij verbindt zijn zin voor analyse en reflectie met vormen, vlakken en kleuren in twee- en driedimensionale werken. Hij maakt objecten, sculpturen, installaties, tekeningen en schilderijen waarbij thema’s als... Read more

JO VAN RIJCKEGHEM

ruimte aan de tijd 30 Jun - 28 Jul 2024 Watou Jo Van Rijckeghem beweegt zich in een beeldend verhaal van transformatie, waarbij niet alleen de materialen, maar ook de gelaagdheid van de kunstwerken referenties oproepen. En op het eerste zicht zijn de vlakken, lijnen, groeven en barsten geabstraheerde schetsen van mogelijke landschappen. Het zijn omgevingen in constante verandering, die zoals... Read more

ARPAÏS DU BOIS

donner la parole à la brise 5 May - 2 Jun 2024 In collaboration with Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp (BE) Paint with words, write with the stroke or paint! If we must indeed focus intently on what Arpaïs Du Bois inscribes on her works, we must devote the same attention to the images, see how they appear as pure spaces of colour... Read more

MIRCO MARCHELLI

iconoclash 03 : an echo of flowers 10 Mar - 7 Apr 2024 Mirco Marchelli’s first solo show in Belgium, at our gallery in Watou, bear the title of one of the Italian artist’s imaginative syntagms: “An echo of flowers”. Where the echo represents the resonance produced by these modest little presences, almost like sudden epiphanies of the past, in the form of... Read more

MICHAËL AERTS - DANNY HOORELBEKE

iconoclash 03 : an echo in time 10 Mar - 7 Apr 2024 Het kunstproject ICONOCLASH is een samenwerking tussen Hilde Vandaele Gallery en De Queeste Art waar geschiedenis en hedendaagse kunst in dialoog gaan. De curatoren vinden inspiratie in de tumultueuze gebeurtenissen van 1566, toen de Beeldenstorm zijn oorsprong vond in Steenvoorde, vlakbij Watou. Binnen het luik an echo in time wordt... Read more

BRAM VAN BREDA

before it slips away 24 Sep - 12 Nov 2023 PUBLICATION & COLLECTOR'S EDITION On the occasion of the solo exhibition ‘before it slips away’ by Bram Van Breda a publication has been published, numbered and signed from 1 to 100. Text by Lut Pil A collector’s edition has also been published, including 10 unique textile works with 10... Read more

WILLY DE SAUTER

hidden layers 6 Aug - 3 Sep 2023 Kunstenaar Willy De Sauter werkt al sinds de jaren 1960 aan een oeuvre met een fundamentele vormentaal. Terwijl zijn eerste werken voornamelijk opgebouwd waren door het systematisch herhalen van lijnpatronen, is hij zich steeds verder gaan toeleggen op éénkleurige krijtschilderijen. De eenvoud en schraalheid ervan zijn het resultaat van zijn... Read more

MOATAZ ALQAISSY - HILDE OVERBERGH - LEEN VAN TICHELEN

twist. add. stack. 1 - 30 Jul 2023 The gallery is open during the exhibition Friday, Saturday, Sunday 14:00 - 18:00 and by appointment Collecting, distorting, adding and stacking are artistic acts that these artists deploy during their working process. Different backgrounds and sources of inspiration contribute to the diversity and individuality of their oeuvre, resulting in rich... Read more

JEAN GODECHARLE

confusion or wonder 7 May - 4 Jun 2023 www.theartcouch.be De onderwerpen van zijn foto’s verzamelt Godecharle tijdens wandelingen. Hij noemt zijn tochten door bossen en natuur ‘walkabouts’, naar het overgangsritueel van de Aboriginals in Australië waarbij een parcours van soms meer dan 1.600 kilometer wordt afgelegd. Behalve uiteraard overleven en in afzondering rondzwerven, staan in deze ritus reflecteren... Read more

TAMARA VAN SAN

confusion or wonder 7 May - 4 Jun 2023 The gallery is open during the exhibition SAT - SUN 14:00 - 18:00 and by appointment Hilde Vandaele +32 477 438 593 Kasteelstraat 1, Watou (BE) www.theartcouch.be Tamara Van San draait haar klei rond een sfeer van een ontembare, geheel individuele speelsheid. Haar grillige vormen rollen voort uit doorgedreven materiaalonderzoek... Read more

LIEN BUYSENS

folded stories 5 Mar - 2 Apr 2023 available artworks We fold something to hide, treasure and preserve. Furthermore, we fold with the intention to unfold later. This particular dynamic is being explored in the solo exhibitions of Lien Buysens and Johan De Wit, which is called ‘Folded Stories’. By using everyday scenes and objects, they welcome the... Read more

JOHAN DE WIT

folded stories 5 Mar - 2 Apr 2023 Enquiries about available artworks expo 'Folded Stories' Johan De Wit’s creations often refer to classics from art history from Antiquity to the present. His work evokes traditional themes such as landscapes, still lifes and genre pieces. In addition, they also play on the conventional philosophic and religious themes: the insignificance... Read more

HERMAN BELLAERT. PAUL BOURGEOIS.

EMERGENT INVITES 30 Oct 2022 - 8 Jan 2023 'Emergent Invites' is a project in which 9 galleries are invited to make a presentation in the spaces of Emergent. Our gallery presents artworks by PAUL BOURGEOIS and HERMAN BELLAERT. EMERGENT nodigt uit is een project waarbij 9 galeries uit het binnenland uitgenodigd worden om een presentatie in de ruimtes... Read more

CONRAD WILLEMS

PLAY BOX 23 Oct - 20 Nov 2022 The Belgian artist Conrad Willems (°1983) presents a series of architectural works based on play. The basic shapes are those of the well-known wooden toy blocks developed by pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel in the 19th century. By freely playing with these blocks, Conrad creates constructions or compositions which he then rescales... Read more

MARC ANGELI

THE PAINTING AND THE VIEWER 7 Aug - 4 Sep 2022 Monochrome simply means painting in one colour. However, there exist as many types of monochrome abstractions as there are monochrome abstract painters. Marc Angeli has been exploring the art of painting for over forty years. Since 1986 he has been painting, either with or without multiple layers of colours on... Read more

CATHARINA DHAEN

A GOLDEN EMOTION 3 - 31 Jul 2022 With a great sense of artistic freedom, Catharina Dhaen creates paintings that are composed of different layers and are then overpainted. Personal moments from her daily life, from an autobiographical memory to an observed event, appear as pictorial motifs on her canvases... Catharina Dhaen creëert met een grote zin voor... Read more

PAUL GEES

IN CONVERSATION 3 Jul - 4 Sep 2022 In collaboration with Gallery Valerie Traan, Antwerp, Belgium Paul Gees (°1949, Aalst, Belgium – who lives and works in Schoonaarde, Belgium) graduated in interior architecture at the Saint-Lucas School of Arts and Architecture in Brussels in the mid-seventies. Fascinated by the versatility and flexibility of the concept of ‘architecture’, the... Read more

MICHAËL DE KOK

SPANISH NIGHT 8 May - 5 Jun 2022 Michaël de Kok’s paintings have their roots in an imaginary landscape, that is not recognizable in a topographical reality, but is born out of the artist’s imagination. In his mind, memories or impressions of walks are carefully selected and stripped of any form of narrative. What follows are colours that,... Read more

JASPER RIGOLE

RESIDU 6 Mar - 3 Apr 2022 Jasper Rigole (°1980) verzamelt al jaren amateurfilms, reisverslagen en familiedocumenten en is vooral gekend voor zijn multimediale en audio-visuele projecten. Hij verwerkt die gevonden herinneringsdocumenten via foundfootage-technieken tot autonome films, foto-installaties en grafische werken en lijkt zo de originele emotionele waarde van herinneringen terug op te roepen. In de tentoonstelling... Read more

RANDOALD SABBE

UNCOPYRIGHTABLE 6 Mar - 3 Apr 2022 Randoald Sabbe (°1973) has a well-earned reputation as a graphic designer who combines his many years of experience gained in his independent art work practices with an intuitive study of the creation of images relating to the conception of visual design. In the exhibition UNCOPYRIGHTABLE he reveals for the first... Read more

LANGZAAMAAN

SELECTED ARTWORKS BY ... 24 Oct - 21 Nov 2021 EIGHT ARTISTS - TWO QUESTIONS 1. What makes creating so unique is the passage of time. Paintings, photographs, sculptures, drawings or installations do not seem like sudden snapshots. Is delay a concept that plays a role? At what point in your process, between the development of your work and the... Read more

BRAM VAN BREDA - JO VAN RIJCKEGHEM

SPOREN VAN BINNEN EN BUITEN 8 Aug - 5 Sep 2021 A common theme in the art of Jo Van Rijckeghem and Bram Van Breda is their fascination for residual materials and their tactility. The closeness of the perceptible world around us, both inside and outside, and the way we relate to it, is their main source of inspiration. By using... Read more

MARIO DE BRABANDERE

VERKWIKKING AAN DE ZIELEN 3 Jul - 1 Aug 2021 Form, composition and colour make up the three fundamental anchor points in the development of each work created by Mario De Brabandere. Each element is given equal attention and loving care during the creation of his sculptural objects and drawings on paper, which have been brought together for this exhibition.... Read more

MARLEEN VAN MOERE - JOHN VAN OERS

HAVE WE EVER MET 2 - 30 May 2021 Have we ever met? Not necessarily in real life, but in our thoughts; in the glances we cast at everything that surrounded us. While exploring the connections by which things find each other and their core value dawned on us. While transcending whatever it is that marks us out as... Read more

STIJN COLE - YVES VELTER

MÉMOIRES 7 Mar - 4 Apr 2021 The Memories of Stijn Cole and Yves Velter The memories that we hold onto can never be considered as detached from our present. More than that, the past and the present always engage in a dialogue, a conversation with one another in such a way that a new kind of... Read more

PAUL BOURGEOIS

DE TIJD DOORPRIKT 25 Oct 2020 - 17 Jan 2021 Het tastbare oppervlak is een ankerpunt waar het oeuvre van de Belgische kunstenaar Paul Bourgeois (°1941) nauw mee verbonden is. Zijn gekende poëtische perforaties als puntjes of gaatjes in kwetsbare materialen zijn vormen van aanwezigheid die voorbij de pure grondstof ruimte bieden aan zijn verbeelding. De verweerde dragers die al... Read more

HENK DELABIE. JULIEN JONAS. FRANZISKA REINBOTHE.

HOLDING A SELF-CONTAINED SECRET 15 Aug - 13 Sep 2020 Read more

PERRY ROBERTS - DIRK VANDER EECKEN

DUS TOCH GEEN TOEVAL 11 Jul - 9 Aug 2020 In the exhibition 'dus toch geen toeval' ('so it is no coincidence after all') a series of artworks by Dirk Vander Eecken and Perry Roberts will be exhibited this summer in the peaceful and natural surroundings of Kasteelstraat1. Although both artists approach their work from different perspective, they tend to... Read more

HERMAN BELLAERT

RETROSPECTIEVE 1986 - 1996 8 Mar - 28 Jun 2020 In his brief but remarkable professional career as an artist, Herman Bellaert evolved from the expressionism of the 1980s to more abstract work, particularly in his intriguing, vigorous canvases that embrace mystery, before later on experimenting with various materials such as lead, reclaimed wood and pure colour in which silence... Read more

WORKS OF ART

SELECTED ARTWORKS BY ... 21 Dec 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 HERMAN BELLAERT (BE) PAUL BOURGEOIS (BE) DAVID BRUNEEL (BE) TREES DE MITS (BE) CHRISTOPHE DENYS (BE) WILLY DE SAUTER (BE) ISA D’ HONDT (BE) LAURE FORÊT (FR) PAUL GEES (BE) JEAN GODECHARLE (BE) LUC HOEKX (BE) ARJAN JANSSEN (NL) SABINE OOSTERLYNCK (BE) JOHAN PARMENTIER (BE) BERNARD SERCU (BE) PHILIPPE TIMMERMANS... Read more

JACQY DUVAL - KRISTEL VAN BALLAER

TOUCHER 20 Oct - 17 Nov 2019 The oeuvre of Kristel Van Ballaer and the artistic duo Jacqy duVal (Jacqueline Dehond (BE) and Koenraad Uyttendaele (BE)) touches in many ways: the pureness, the serenity, the desire for simplicity and the strict demarcations... Het oeuvre van Kristel Van Ballaer en het kunstenaars duo Jacqy duVal (Jacqueline Dehond (BE)... Read more

DAVID BRUNEEL - VINCENT DE RODER

BOUND TO HAPPEN 4 Aug - 1 Sep 2019 In this duo exhibition ‘bound to happen’ featuring David Bruneel and Vincent de Roder, two words emerge: inevitability and connectivity. The connection between a poetic attention to coincidence and a conscious composition of images is clearly evident in the oeuvre of both artists. In this exhibition, there is space for... Read more

ANNEKE LAUWAERT - JEAN GODECHARLE - YUMIKO YONEDA

FROZEN IN TIME 30 Jun - 28 Jul 2019 The exhibition 'Frozen in time' brings together the experiences, histories and stories of three artists. This is a momentary snapshot of a time that was and is, a time span that has passed and will continue into the future... Time is ticking and echoing in photographs, sculptures and installations created... Read more

ARJAN JANSSEN

WAAR BEGINT DONKER EN HOE EINDIGT LICHT? 25 May - 16 Jun 2019 Where does darkness begin and how does light end? In his drawings, paintings and installations, Arjan Janssen (NL) creates his own visual universe somewhere between black and white and occasionally with a touch of colour. He seems to want to free himself from the so-called reality and creates an abstract... Read more

ROEL GOUSSEY - SABINE OOSTERLYNCK - BERNARD SERCU

ICONOCLASH 01 7 Apr - 5 May 2019 ICONOCLASH refereert aan een historisch feit dat zich in Steenvoorde, in 1566, hier dichtbij, heeft afgespeeld en dat vanuit de schijnbaar rustige Westhoek Vlaanderen tot in Nederland heeft beroerd: de beeldenstorm. Samen met ‘De Queeste Art’, organiseert ‘Hilde Vandaele Gallery’ een tentoonstelling omtrent vernielen en herstellen, botsen en verzoening in... Read more

TIEMKE GAUDERIS - LUC HOEKX

HIDE AND SEEK 21 Oct - 18 Nov 2018 This autumn’s double exhibition ‘HIDE AND SEEK’ is devoted to the works of Tiemke Gauderis from Ostend and Luc Hoekx from Mol. As autumn takes hold, attention is drawn to a mise-en-scene where ‘appearing’ and ‘disappearing’ are placed in the spotlight, where the exhibition as a whole transforms foreground and... Read more

WILLY DE SAUTER

UNTITLED PAINTINGS 1 Aug - 2 Sep 2018 Artist Willy De Sauter has been working on an oeuvre with a fundamental language of form since the 1960s. While his first works were mainly built up by systematically repeating patterns of lines, he gradually concentrated his focus on single-coloured chalk paintings. Their simplicity and scarcity of definition are the... Read more

HERMAN BELLAERT. PAUL BOURGEOIS. IRIS BOUWMEESTER. TREES DE MITS. ILONA PLAUM

VOORBIJ DE AANWEZIGHEID 1 - 29 Jul 2018 This exhibition is the fourth in a row which is being held in the new pavilion for Contemporary Art in Watou. In the previous exhibitions we explored the boundaries of the abstract language of forms through themes such as the connection with nature, motility, light and silence, inside and outside.... Read more

CHRISTOPHE DENYS. BENOÎT FéLIX. PHILIPPE TIMMERMANS. TAMARA VAN SAN.

MOTILITY 22 Apr - 20 May 2018 With the exhibition “Motility.”, the beginning of spring not only causes an explosion of movement in nature, but has also appeared to have brought mobility to the pavilion with the works of Christophe Denys, Benoît Félix, Philippe Timmermans and Tamara Van San. The word “motility” is primarily a term derived... Read more

MARC ANGELI. JEAN-GEORGES MASSART. JOHAN PARMENTIER. ALEXANDRA ROOZEN.

INNER NATURE 2. SILENCE.LIGHT. 21 Oct - 12 Nov 2017 Through the exhibition “Silence.Light.” the artist’s endeavour is to make the pavilion come to life in a poetic manner, by seemingly choosing to make that which is absent visible. This is achieved by employing lines or colours, stone or wood, solid or soft, in sculptural installations or on paper. Every... Read more