Biography


1980 Born in Antwerp, Belgium

2016 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, at the Royal Academy of Antwerp

2016 Selected for the Hugo Roelandt Price

2017 Professor at the Royal Academy of Antwerp

  • 2024

    'The Landscape is Our Alibi,' Galerie IDW, Antwerp, BE

    'Waiting for the Flowers to pop', Galerie Lloyd, Ostend, BE

    2023

    Presence Of A Mountain’, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, BE

    2022

    'Prensence of a Mountain,' MMaison, Bogota, COL

    The Walls Are My Sketchbook’, Hotel Flora, Antwerp, BE

    Searching For My Alibi’, La Romieu, FR

    Attempts At Civil Disobedience’, Galerie Lloyd, Ostend, BE

    2021

    Mon Pays des Merveilles’, Béraut, FR

    Splendid Quarantine’, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, BE

    2020

    Retracing Steps’, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, BE

    2019

    Chased by Light’, MMaison, Bogota, COL

    When Painting Becomes Sculpting’, Artesumapaz, San Bernardo, COL

    Prohibido Pintar Area Protegida’, Buenos Aires, AR

    2018

    Splendid Isolation’, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, BE

    Prohibido Pintar Area Protegida’, Kusseneers gallery, Brussels, BE

    2017

    11937 km’, CASSTL (artist-space founded by Carla Arocha, Stéphane Schraenen and Luc Tuymans), Antwerp, BE

    2011

    Einzelganger’, Studio Gert Voorjans, Antwerp, BE

  • 2024

    'The Landscape Is Our Alibi', Galerie LdW, Antwerp, BE

    2023

    ‘Gist’, Zenne Triënnale, Het Huis van Herman Teirlinck, Beersel, BE

    ‘Zandgrond, Hedendaagse kunst vanuit Jakob Smits’, De Warande, Turnhout, BE

    Aqualex IV’, Aqualex, Knokke, BE

    2022

    Kunst In Puurs’, Puurs, BE

    2021

    ‘Niemand is een Eiland’, Damme, BE

    ‘Expo Colere Deum Tuum’, Ronse, BE

    ‘Zomertijd in Emile Van Dorenmuseum’, Genk, BE

    ‘The shadow of the cross’, Brussels, BE

    2020

    ‘Redirected 4X4’, Antwerp, BE

    ‘The Clown Spirit’, Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE

    ‘Chasing Flowers’, WARP, Sint-Niklaas, BE

    2019

    ‘Meeting Point’, Hopland, Antwerp, BE

    ‘Artswap, Museo de Arquitectura y Diseño’, Buenos Aires, AR

    2018

    ‘Art Brussels’, Brussels, BE

    2017

    ‘De Opwarming, Royal Academy of Fine Arts’, Antwerp, BE

    ‘Art Brussels’, Brussels, BE

    ‘You don’t need an app to experience the real’, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, BE

    2016

    ‘A l’état sauvage, Maison d’art et design’, Troncais, FR

    ‘Beuling, ETAGE22’, Antwerp BE

    ‘Capital M’, Park Loods, Antwerp BE

    ‘Mapping Emotions’, with a.o. Bert De Beul, J-M Bytebier, Nick Andrews, Marie Cloquet and Stijn Cole, ETAGE22, Antwerp, BE

    ‘Zwarte Vijvers/Etangs Noirs – Intimi, double expo with Bendt Eyckermans’, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, BE

    2008

    ‘Nature-Nurture’, double expo with Michel Verkaeren, Martin Van Blerck Gallery, Antwerp, BE

    2002

    ‘How Music Becomes Painting’, Wolsack, Antwerp, BE

  • 2020

    Group Exhibition ‘ARE(N)A’, Brussel, BE

    2016

    Group Exhibition ‘ETAGE22’, Antwerp, BE

    Wake Up And Dream’, with a.o. Guillaume Bijl, Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen, Tina Gillen, Nadia Naveau and Dennis Tyfus.

    Mixed Emotions’ group expo, with o.a. Boy and Erik Stappaerts and Hans Everaert.

    Mapping Emotions/Landscapes’, group expo, with o.a. Bert De Beul, Jean-Marie Bytebier, Nick Andrews, Jan Kempenaers, Stijn Cole and Bert Denckaert.

  • 2021

    ‘The landscape is my alibi’

    2019

    ‘Chased by light’

    2018

    ‘Splendid Isolation’

    2017

    ‘Climbing and painting a volcano and letting the paint dray’, by CASSTL (Carla Arocha, Stéphane Schraenen en Luc Tuymans)

  • 2020

    Retracing Steps’, premiere docu, De Studio, Antwerp, BE

    2016

    ‘Nord, Performance’, Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp, BE