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 SouthRead more -
'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)Read more -
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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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
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Art Brussels 2026
24 – 26 April 2026 24 - 26 Apr 2026Art Brussels 2026 24 – 26 April 2026 Booth 5B-15, Brussels Expo Gallery Sofie Van de Velde is pleased to participate in Art Brussels 2026...Read more -
Art Antwerp 2025
11 - 14 Dec 2025For the occasion of Art Antwerp 2025, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde will collaborate with Martins&Montero, a contemporary art gallery with spaces in São Paulo...Read more -
Art Brussels 2025
24 - 27 Apr 2025At BrusselsRead more -
Miart 2025
4 - 6 Apr 2025At MilanRead more
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Selected Exhibitions |
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2026 |
Cher mouths Mary, Mary mouths Cher, Art Brussels Sexpo, ASS 406, Ghent Slash/Stroke, rhizome_, Kortrijk KINSHIP II, Kin Brussels Playgrounds, Plus-One, Antwerp The Wunderwall Enlarged, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp Groupexhibition, post:space, Ghent Double Minutes Afterwork, Brussels |
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2025 |
Extended Drawing Universe, CC De Ververij, Ronse Art Antwerp, Antwerp Het Resort, Groningen (NL) Playgrounds, Ghent Scaffolds, SET91, London (GB) It Girls, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp The Wall of She, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp |
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2024 |
Een dag, een nacht, een dag, Frans Masereel Centrum Digital Barbara, curation Emmanuel Lambion, Brussels Life in the Margin, Gevaertsdreef, Oudenaarde Kindred Spirits, studio Luke James, Paris (FR) Different Echoes, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp Owlet vision in a blinding time, Espace Labo, Genève (CH) Art Antwerp, Gallery Sofie Van De Velde, Antwerp 'Predella's Cut', Wiels project space Affiliate, Brussels, BE |
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2023 |
What Are Words Worth, CC De Adelberg, Lommel This is Us, gecureerd door Fabian Flückiger, Z33, Hasselt Sunset, Galerie de Rohan, Landerneau (FR) Fête de l’éléphant, Fonderiepark, Molenbeek The Postcard Party, CC Strombeek, Strombeek Body Tide, curated by Syzygy Collective, Casco Leuven Perfect Ratios, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle De Grote Vogelshow, Pizza Gallery, Antwerp Of, Off, Offf, After after, Off-program Art Brussels, Brussels Double Minutes with Francisco Correia, Brussels |
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2022 |
OMG STACYyyyyyy, that type of thing, solo Gallery Sofie Van De Velde Curtain Cabaret, Vroom Space, Brussels The Cipher of the Vast Planetary Rumour II, Spațiul Minitremu, Timișoara, (RO) Frans Masereel Residency, supported by Wiels QUARTET, Poortersloge, CC Brugge, Bruges The Cipher of the Vast Planetary Rumour, Salonul de proiecte, Boekarest, (RO) Group exhibition with Kerstin Brätsch, Ryo Kinoshita, Sarah Księska and Anh Trần, Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam, (NL) CLUB TERMINUS, with Simon Laureyns, Nazif Lopulissa, Max Kesteloot, Ricardo Passaporte, Benoit Plateus, Tom Volkaert, Ostend IV, curated by Koi Persyn, Komplot, Clovis SB34, Brussels Note to self, Gallery Sofie Vandevelde, Antwerp |
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2021 |
'Taylloorre', curated by Floris Hoorelbeke, Kings Pistolet, Ostend, BE |
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2020 |
'STAYCATION', Barbé-Urbain gallery, Ghent, BE |
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2019 |
'Reflections in transition', Barbé-Urbain Gallery, Ghent, BE |
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2018 |
'ALL YOU NEED IS THE LAVATORY', Croxhapox, Ghent, BE |
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2017 |
'Tien om te zien in Aalst', Galerie Van Caelenberg, Aalst, BE |
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2016 |
'VOSSEN IN DE BOSSEN', In De Ruimte, Ghent, BE |
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2015 |
'In search of De Bedoeling', i.s.m. CLUBHUIS, In De Ruimte, Ghent, BE |
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Prizes |
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2019 |
Laureate ArtContest, Espace Vanderborght, Brussels, BE |
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2017 |
Laureate Ronse Drawing Prize, CC De Ververij, Ronse, BE |
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2016 |
Laureate Strabag Art Award, Antwerp, 2017 Laureate Hommage, Bozar, Brussels, BE |
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2013 |
Laureate Prijs Buggenhout, BE, 2nd place |
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2012 |
Laureate CC Zwanenberg, Heist-op-den-berg, BE |
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2011 |
Laureate Harelbeke, BE |
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2010 |
Laureate Arnoevoo, 3rd place, Bredene, BE |

