Natasja Mabesoone b. 1988
° 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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Natasja Mabesoone
It Girls 28 Jun - 24 Aug 2025 New SouthAriel sings. Yeah Ursula swallows her voice. Yeah Marilyn walks naked into the metaphor. Yeah A girl draws the curtain. Puts her finger between the spre@ds. Yeah The Plastics pose,...Read more -
The Wall of She
Group Exhibition 22 Feb - 23 Mar 2025 New South -
'It's all right, don't think twice'
Group exhibition 16 May - 16 Jun 2024 New South, South (former location)Titled after the Bob Dylan song, this double-exhibition which spans the two galleries of Sofie Van de Velde (South and New South), asks us to leave the matter behind us....Read more -
Natasja Mabesoone
OMG STACYyyyyyy, that type of thing 22 Oct - 27 Nov 2022 South (former location) -
Note to self
Group exhibition 15 Jan - 20 Feb 2022 New SouthThe exhibition 'Note to self' shows various works on paper by: Neo Matloga Evelyn Taocheng Wang Cris Brodahl Chantal Joffe Natasja Mabesoone Bent Van Looy.Read more
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an experiment in sweetheart; de-multiplying tongue, really, 2025
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At the hairdresser: Think Sol Lewitt but make it Leaky Vessel with ringlets, 2025
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Drawing room (*Objects behaving like girls, girls behaving like installations)*, 2025
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Drawing room (When The Working Day Is Done Oh), 2025
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Fan/Girl - A Family Business, 2025
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Mean Girls, 2025
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Quote I never consciously think of my mouth, but I do consciously think about what I’m thinking about unquote, 2025
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The living room (I don’t know how to live without your love, I was born to make you happy), 2025
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Ulysses/The sirens, it seems they did indeed sing, 2025
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It girl, 2024-2025
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La coiffure/Combing the hair (1), 2024-2025
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La coiffure/Combing the hair (2), 2024-2025
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La coiffure/Combing the hair (3), 2024-2025
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La coiffure/Combing the hair (4), 2024-2025
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La coiffure/Combing the hair (5), 2024-2025
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La coiffure/Combing the hair (6), 2024-2025
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La coiffure/Combing the hair (7), 2024-2025
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La coiffure/Combing the hair (8), 2024-2025
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La coiffure/Combing the hair (9), 2024-2025
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Marilyn Monroe in the role she always wanted (or) Ursula in Blonde of All Blondes, 2024-2025
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Tale shuts up, desire articulates edit, focus_has_lips, 2024-2025
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The Grotesque Body [...], 2024-2025
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[during gossip session] but hey, who are we to judge, 2024-2025
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La Coiffure/Combing the Hair, 2024
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2 unite in the same space, the Si-i-i-i–i—irens and U, 2022
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A text block is leaning back against the header says it’s just gossip sweetie, 2022
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Basically just the ooh’s and ah’s in all caps, 2022
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Blood milk fruit juice and seawater, 2022
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Leaky Vessel's taxi-ride chit-chat, 2022
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Sleeping in full makeup and other text-heavy drawings, 2022
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Ursula doing that Won Ton Ton song at the local karaoke bar, 2022
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BH, 2021
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Bobbie's caesura, 2021
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Hérodiade in Valentino Jeans, 2021
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Hérodiade in Valentino Jeans, 2021
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Old Molly Metcalfe, 2021
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Scopic Economy, 2021
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State of being/ Pink Steam, 2021
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A bit too much of that affective force babe , 2020/2021
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A touch of Folly/Soft contours suggest pliancy so um, 2020/2021
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All she has is a clamshell-bra and a dream in hr heart, 2020-2022
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Glossy flip-side to this malicious voice, 2020-2022
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I, too, overflow, 2020-2022
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Muisje5, 2020-2022
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Ode becomes episode (!), 2020-2022
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Ambiance core - To inject a sloppy climax, 2020
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Penny, 2020
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Bobbi Enrichers Hera, 2019
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BOOTES CHIEN CHEVEUX (CONSTELLATION IV312), 2019
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Breena Hirsch Robbie, 2019
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Artist Talk
Natasja Mabesoone July 18, 2025Artist Talk at Gallery Sofie Van de Velde: Natasja Mabesoone on It Girls In conversation with Brenda Guesnet, Curator and Deputy Director at IKOB -...Read more -
Digital Barbara
30/11/2024Digital Barbara with Doris Boerman, Aline Bouvy, Marc Buchy, Alessandro Carano, Natasja Mabesoone, Céline Mathieu, Willie Morlon, Felix Stöckle An exhibition curated by Emmanuel Lambion,...Read more -
Natasja Mabesoone - Salon De La Muse
24/11/2024 Read more -
Natasja Mabesoone - Life in the Margins
09/11/2024 until 05/01/2025Natasja Mabesoone at Gevaertsdreef 01 'Life in the Margins' 09/11/2024 until 05/01/2025 Group exhibition curated by Ellen Pil and Alice Vanderschootwith the work of Paul...Read more -
Natasja Mabesoone at AFFILIATE, the new project space of Wiels
11/09/2024Visit 'Predella's cut ', the solo exhibition by Natasja Mabesoone at AFFILIATE, the new project space of Wiels. Opening: Wednesday 11.09.2024, 18:00-21:00 Presentation: 12.09-28.09.2024, 14:00-18:00...Read more
Selected Exhibitions |
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2025 |
'It Girls', Solo exhibition, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE |
2024 |
'Predella's Cut', Wiels project space Affiliate, Brussels, BE |
2023 |
'perfect ratios', Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE |
2022 |
'OMG STACYyyyyyy, that type of thing', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, South, Antwerp, BE |
2021 |
'Taylloorre', curated by Floris Hoorelbeke, Kings Pistolet, Ostend, BE |
2020 |
'STAYCATION', Barbé-Urbain gallery, Ghent, BE |
2019 |
'Reflections in transition', Barbé-Urbain Gallery, Ghent, BE |
2018 |
'ALL YOU NEED IS THE LAVATORY', Croxhapox, Ghent, BE |
2017 |
'Tien om te zien in Aalst', Galerie Van Caelenberg, Aalst, BE |
2016 |
'VOSSEN IN DE BOSSEN', In De Ruimte, Ghent, BE |
2015 |
'In search of De Bedoeling', i.s.m. CLUBHUIS, In De Ruimte, Ghent, BE |
Prizes |
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2019 |
Laureate ArtContest, Espace Vanderborght, Brussels, BE |
2017 |
Laureate Ronse Drawing Prize, CC De Ververij, Ronse, 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 |