Joris Van de Moortel b. 1983
Joris Van de Moortel has developed a multidisciplinary practice in which painting, sculpture, installation, film, music and performance continuously intersect. At its heart lies a fascination with energy and transformation: through sound, movement and ritual, his performances activate and transform the spaces they inhabit, while paintings and objects often carry traces of these actions. Drawing on art history, religion, mythology and his own evolving cosmology, Van de Moortel creates encounters between work and audience, bringing chaos and order, past and present, destruction and creation into constant dialogue.
Recent solo exhibitions include S.M.A.K., Ghent; Ghisla Foundation, Locarno; Cultuurhuis de Warande, Turnhout; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris and Brussels. His work has also been presented at BOZAR, Brussels; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq; and the Cairo Biennial, where he received the Grand Nile Prize in 2019.
His work is held in collections including the Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Belfius Art Collection; Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap; and Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno.
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Celebrations Part 1 - Let there be light
Group exhibition 7 Dec 2017 - 21 Jan 2018 New SouthGuillaume Bijl, Navid Nuur & Joris Van de Moortel. Curated by Joris Van de MoortelRead more -
Wordswordswords
Group exhibition 14 Oct - 28 Dec 2017 New SouthRein Dufait, Max Pinckers, Rik De Boe, John Stezaker, Navid Nuur, Philippe Vandenberg, Joris Van Moortel, Guillaume Bijl, Bernd Lohaus & Saâdane Afif. “Magritte didn’t mean Les Mots et les...Read more -
Joris Van de Moortel
Ne Vacuum 20 - 22 Nov 2015 Groen Kwartier (former location)performance by Joris Van de Moortel and AF VandevorstRead more -
Joris Van de Moortel
21 Mar - 24 May 2013 Groen Kwartier (former location)Read more
Solo Exhibitions
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2027 |
Solo exhibition, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, FR Solo exhibition, Galerie Sofie van de Velde, Antwerp, BE |
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2026 |
Solo booth, Art Antwerp, Galerie Sofie van de Velde, Antwerp, BE La Tana del Matto, Ghisla Foundation, Locarno, CH |
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2025 |
Rebels and Devils a song from the heart, The Drawing Room, Manila, PH Le poids du ciel illumine la terre, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, FR |
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2024–25 |
Hell on Earth, in search of PUR NUR FUR, S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, BE |
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2024 |
L’apocalypse excite les nerfs de la nef, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, BE Fragments, Passages, Descent & Return, De Warande, Turnhout, BE |
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2023 |
Why do you tear me from myself? A tête-à-tête with Marsyas, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, FR |
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2022 |
Foolhardy Boarding a Lost State of Mind, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, BE |
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2021 |
Les Paradis Artificiels, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, BE |
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2020 |
Hoe maakt u het, IETS, Ghent, BE |
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2019 |
The ne’er do wells set out for a dubious pilgrimage, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, FR A love affair with excess, Art On Paper, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, BOZAR, Brussels, BE Guitare Préparé, Sint-Lukas Galerie, Brussels, BE Weird Weirdness, with Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Art Cologne, Cologne, DE |
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2018 |
Cachivache Bugui Bugui, Palais des Beaux-Arts, BOZAR, Brussels, BE Das Geräusch von Weißen Rauch, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna, AT European Son, Raised Catholic, Drawing Room Gallery, Manila, PH This incomplete mythical world whose perfection lay outside it, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, BE |
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2017 |
Closer Festival Installation “De Grot”, Montevideo, Antwerp, BE 12 X, BANG Festival 5 / KultuurKaffee, curated by Joris VdM, Brussels, BE |
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2016 |
The 10 Commandments for Vienna, Krinzinger Projekte, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, AT Pink Noises, SCAD Museum Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Birds, Robin Hood, Acoustics, “noise”, Notating, Detail, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, FR Tragedy by the everyday and the absurd by the logical, ARCO with Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Madrid, ES |
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2015 |
Ça vous intéresse l’architecture? Be Part, Waregem, BE Rotten Sun, Art Untitled Miami Beach, Denis Gardarin Gallery NY, Miami Beach, USA It's no longer a thing but a performance group, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels, Brussels, BE |
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2013 |
Getting comfortable slowly, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels, Brussels, BE Fruchtfleisch unserer Architektur, duo show with Paul Schwer, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, München, DE Bronze on bronze, edition presentation, G262, Antwerp, BE Schwarz oder weiss es ist mir gleich, es gibt keine farben in diesem blauen reich, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE |
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2012 |
Inside the white cylinder, Le Transpalette / Centre d'art Contemporain, Bourges, FR Erratum musicale for what for and who for I don't know, Galerie Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FR Duo show with Lili Dujouri, Art Brussels, Michael Janssen Gallery, BE |
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2011 |
I can’t live in a living room b-side, Artorama, Marseille, FR I can’t live in a living room a-side, VILLA II, Knokke, BE The shortest song goes on and on -1.8 sec, Open Space Art Cologne, Michael Janssen Gallery, Cologne, DE |
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2010 |
Like a hurricane (you are like), Michael Janssen Gallery, Berlin, DE All bound, rubber sound, Art Brussels with Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Brussels, BE Sketches and small stuff growing at, Gustave 10, Knokke, BE |
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2009 |
La grande verre, zelfs, Volta Basel, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Basel, CH Being Alice, the instructors at the white rabbit, The White Rabbit, Berlin, DE Caves and intestines, Lokaal 06, Antwerp, BE |
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2008 |
The door and the floor, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, BE |
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2007 |
A room full of OSB on two levels, Untitled, Antwerp, BE Culture flux 45, nogallery, Antwerp, BE |
Group exhibitions
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2026 |
Museumnacht, performance & tarot, M HKA, Antwerp, BE LARA Art Fest, Laarne, BE More Projects, Art-O-Rama, Marseille, FR Folded Memory, KU Leuven, BE Folded Memory, KADOC KU Leuven, BE Eb&Flow, Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris-Brussels, BE Sabotage, Kasteel Cortewalle, Beveren, BE Salon de la muse, M HKA, Antwerp, BE Post Festum Echoes, Barbé Gallery, Ghent, BE |
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2025 |
Fire, curated by Louma Salamé, Villa Empain-Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, BE Witboek, a project by Hopper&Fuchs and Fred&Ferry, Antwerp, BE Pastorale, Kasteel Hof d'Intere, Wechelderzande, BE The Last Cowboy, Uitstalling, Genk, BE |
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2024 |
Oeuvres choisies I, RhinocerosXObadia, Rome, IT Piste 3: A Host, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, FR Aesthetic Echoes, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, BE |
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2023 |
Visions from the Underworld, European Capital of Culture Elefsina, Athens, GR |
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2022 |
Finis Terrae, Antwerp, BE |
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2021 |
Kortrijk Triënnale; Paradise, curated by H. Teerlinck & P. Ronse, Kortrijk, BE Watou 40, curated by C. Patyn, B. Goesaert & P. Verhelst, Watou, BE Pass II, curated by Kris Martin & Jan Hoet Jr., Vlaamse Ardennen, BE Het Leienpaleis, curated by Koen van den Broek, Antwerp, BE Fiat Lux, curated by Willem Elias, Pilar, Brussels, BE Ballroom Projects, solo project with Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Antwerp, BE Chapter 3: Mirrored Infinities, The Agprognostic Temple, Brussels, BE Prix de Jeune Peinture (Young Belgian Painters Award), Palais des Beaux Arts (BOZAR), Brussels, BE Art in the City, group show (Award), Brussels, BE |
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2020 |
High Emision, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, FR Een blik achter de muur, curated by Lieven Segers, Blikfabriek, Antwerp, BE Campari Creates, Collectible Art Fair, Brussels, BE Winterhard, Hoge Rielen by de Warande, Turnhout, BE |
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2019 |
Eyes East Bound, 13th Cairo Biennial, Cairo, EGOn Stage, 38CC, Delft, NL |
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2018–19 |
Danser Brut |