Natasja Mabesoone b. 1988

Biography
Natasja Mabesoone

° Knokke, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels, BE.

 

Natasja Mabesoone’s practice is a movement around printmaking, in which she goes back and forth between a conceptual analysis of the medium and a commitment to printmaking, drawing and painting processes. It strings together thoughts on reproducibility and repetition by using the printing press as a sensitive perceptual instrument. Reflections on femininity and its link to crafts, are paired to the cute and to the trivial. For that, she makes use of ‘minor’ aesthetics such as decoration or materials like marker, glitter, fake tattoos, scratch letters and stencils, which maintain a non-hierarchical relationship to underlying soft ground etchings, monotypes, drawings and silkscreens. The work deals with notions of tactility, power and powerlessness. Language is explored as a locus of politics and the erotic – and the social constructions they entail. Language exists as image and image as language, stained and smudged. In both fast and slow production the grammar of printmaking meets girly aesthetics, literary reference and display contexts.
Mabesoone seeks authority for these ambiguous and subversive aesthetics, making them a potential resistance; softly destabilising current dominant cultural realities. Natasja Mabesoone lives and works in Brussels and Ghent. She received a master's degree in visual arts from the School Of Arts, Ghent and took part in the Wiels Residency in 2019. Her works have been presented in institutions such as S.M.A.K., Ghent; WIELS, Brussels, Z33, Hasselt; KOMPLOT, Brussels; Fons Welters, Amsterdam; Intimnoe Mesto, Sint Petersburg and MDT, Stockholm. Her work has been acquired by the Flemish Government for the collection of MHKA Museum, Antwerp.

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Exhibitions
Works
News
Art Fairs
Bibliography
Natasja Mabesoone

Selected Exhibitions
2025

Forthcoming, Solo exhibition, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
'The Wall of She', Group presentation, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
'Painting After Painting - Hedendaagse Schilderkunst in België', Group presentation, S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
'MIART Art Fair 2025', Group presentation, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Milan, IT
2024

'Predella's Cut', Wiels project space Affiliate, Brussels, BE
'It's all right, don't think twice', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
‘This is us’, Z33, Hasselt, BE
2023

'perfect ratios', Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
'De Grote Vogelshow', Pizza Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'Of Off Offf', After After, Brussels, BE
2022

'OMG STACYyyyyyy, that type of thing', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, South, Antwerp, BE
Group show alongside Kerstin Brätsch, Ryo Kinoshita, Sarah Księska, and Anh Trần, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
'Note to self', Group exhibition, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
'Curtain Cabaret, a sequential exhibition', Vroom Space, Brussels, BE
'The Cipher of the Vast Planetary Rumour II, Spațiul Minitremu', Timișoara, RO
'IV', curated by Koi Persyn, Komplot, Clovis SB34, Brussels, BE
'CLUB TERMINUS', with Simon Laureyns, Nazif Lopulissa, Max Kesteloot, Ricardo Passaporte, Benoit Plateus, Tom Volkaert, Oostende, BE
'The Cipher of the Vast Planetary Rumour', Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest, RO
Group exhibition with William Ludwig Lutgens and Jesse Van Dun, 3J De Filatuur, Knokke, BE
'QUARTET', group exhibition curated by Alice Vanderschoot, Poortersloge, CC Brugge, Bruges, BE
2021

'Taylloorre', curated by Floris Hoorelbeke, Kings Pistolet, Ostend, BE
'One way or another - 10 jaar Posture Editions', S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
'Aqueous Humour', Platform 6a by Deweer, Otegem, BE
'De Deur op en Kier', curated by Sybren Vanoverberghe, backyard, Otegem, BE
'Bernice Bobs Her Hair', Island, Brussel, + book launch Posture Editions
Wunderwall, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'Tarot Editions', 019, Ghent, BE
'Salon Sale', Level five, Brussels, BE
2020

'STAYCATION', Barbé-Urbain gallery, Ghent, BE
'Zomersalon', Kunsthal, Ghent, BE
'This place / displaced', DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'Ballroom Project', Antwerp Art week, online
'Letters to Process, to Bob and Bernice', curated by Anne Vigeland, MDT, Stockholm, SE
'Bloemen voor Daniëlla', Denderland, Geraardsbergen, BE
'Great Small Works', Stephane Simoens Gallery, Knokke - Heist, BE
2019

'Reflections in transition', Barbé-Urbain Gallery, Ghent, BE
'The road is clear', gecureerd door Bjornus Van Der Borght and Nathalie Vanheule, In De Ruimte, Ghent, BE
'Mars', Media Naranja, Marseille, Paris, Bordeaux, FR
'ArtContest', Espace Vanderborght, Brussels, BE
'Taart in de brievenbus', Taart in de brievenbus, Mariakerke, BE
'Boerenbont & Bonter', Solo, Boghossian Fondation, Rivoli, Brussels, BE
'Hors d’oeuvres', WIELS Residentieprogramma, Brussels, BE
'Een ‘Amerikaans’ worsthondje, Doubts of Hoelang?', with Tim Depraetere, Brussels, BE
2018

'ALL YOU NEED IS THE LAVATORY', Croxhapox, Ghent, BE
'GOLDENBROW', solo, Intimnoe mesto, St. Petersburg, RU
'De Nieuwe Garde', Kunst in Huis, Zuiderpershuis, Art weekend, Antwerp, BE
Open Atelier Weekend, Groupshow with buren, Dirk Zoete, Frank&Robbert Robbert&Frank, Peter Aers, Maud Vande Veire, CMMC, Ghent, BE
'5 year buren birthday party', Gouvernement, Ghent, BE
'Vuurpeloton', curated by Matthieu Ronsse, Etikhove, BE
'The Peer Group', Social Harmony, Ghent, BE
2017

'Tien om te zien in Aalst', Galerie Van Caelenberg, Aalst, BE
'Op z’n janboerenfluitjes', solo, Barbé Gallery, Ghent, BE
'Tien om te zien', Gevaertsdreef 01, Oudenaarde, BE
2016

'VOSSEN IN DE BOSSEN', In De Ruimte, Ghent, BE
'It’s kind of like she knows how to eat her sand properly', Zeedijk, Knokke - Zoute
Fragments d’un discours amoureux, Hommage aan Barthes, Bozar, Brussels, BE
'TUMULT #4', Gouvernement, Ghent, BE
'Zeg Chantal, droom je nog wel eens in het West – Vlaams?', Het Bos, Antwerpen, BE
'No one said it would be this nice', Moeskop, Antwerpen, BE
2015

'In search of De Bedoeling', i.s.m. CLUBHUIS, In De Ruimte, Ghent, BE
'All day I dream about Sabine', Ithaka, Leuven, BE
'I’ll be your mirror', NVT, Ghent, BE
'To draw on a high chair', SMAK, Ghent, BE
'Je t’attends dans la saison de nous deux/ I wait for you in the season that is ours', Kaaisalon, Brugge, BE
'Are you there, yet?', These Things Take Time, Ghent, BE
'Oeillet sauvage', Zierikzee, The Netherlands, NL
'Performer buren by buren by buren', La Bellone, Brussels, SMAK, Ghent, BE
'Pour la fille Zoë D', SOSCASTOA, Ghent, BE
'Singing the lambs to sleep', solo, SEAS, Knokke-Heist Oeillet Sauvage, Bogardenkapel, Brugge, BE
'Petit air', solo, Molen van Callant, Ramskapelle, BE
'The waste land', CC Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist, BE
'Arnoevoo 2011', Mec Staf Versluys, Bredene, BE
'Label #08', Tramzwart, Ghent, BE
'R.M., wytwórca urojén', Entrepot, Brugge, BE
'De nieuwe narratieven', Kunsttoren, Ghent, BE
'Art its', Zwarte Zaal, Ghent, BE
Prizes

 
2019

Laureate ArtContest, Espace Vanderborght, Brussels, BE
2017

Laureate Ronse Drawing Prize, CC De Ververij, Ronse, BE
Laureate Prijs voor Grafiek, 1st place, CC Zwanenberg, Heist-op-den-Berg, BE
2016

Laureate Strabag Art Award, Antwerp, 2017 Laureate Hommage, Bozar, Brussels, BE
2013

Laureate Prijs Buggenhout, BE, 2nd place
2012

Laureate CC Zwanenberg, Heist-op-den-berg, BE
2011

Laureate Harelbeke, BE
2010

Laureate Arnoevoo, 3rd place, Bredene, BE