Exhibitions

Folkert de Jong

In Limbo 10 May - 22 Jun 2025 New South Read more

Klaas Rommelaere

BLOOD 10 May - 22 Jun 2025 New South Read more

Kees Goudzwaard

An Optimist's View 29 Mar - 5 May 2025 New South Kees Goudzwaard (b. 1958 in Utrecht, NL) currently resides in Antwerp (BE) and works in Reusel (NL). At first glance, Goudzwaard's artworks appear to be minimalist color studies composed of rectangular pieces of paper and tape. However, upon closer examination, these works reveal themselves as meticulously crafted trompe-l’oeil paintings. He... Read more

Words are very Unnecessary

Group Exhibition 29 Mar - 4 May 2025 New South Read more

Heidrun Rathgeb

As we walked 22 Feb - 23 Mar 2025 New South Read more

The Wall of She

Group Exhibition 22 Feb - 23 Mar 2025 New South Read more

Ives Maes

TROPES 11 Jan - 2 Feb 2025 New South In Ives Maes' book Recyclable Refugee Camp (2008), Dieter Roelstraete wrote about “the painful association of the refugee with the Deleuzian concept of nomadology as a popular intellectual metaphor for this condition of globalization, a defining trope of our contemporary cultural condition.” Using this thought as a starting point, Ives... Read more

Eline Rausenberger / Irène Battaille

Les extrêmes se touchent 11 Jan - 16 Feb 2025 New South Read more

Catharina Dhaen

Metamorphosis 30 Nov 2024 - 5 Jan 2025 New South Catharina Dhaen (b. 1992, Antwerp) approaches painting in a contemporary and innovative way. She graduated from KASK in Ghent and belongs to a generation of artists who play with the boundaries between abstraction and figuration. Her work, rich in color and texture, reflects a playful artistic freedom and a strong... Read more

Dirk Van Saene

All Good Here 30 Nov 2024 - 1 Feb 2025 South (former location) Dirk Van Saene – All Good Here We are delighted to present Dirk Van Saene – All Good Here at our South Gallery, showcasing the artist’s acclaimed presentation as seen at Paris Internationale in October 2024. The exhibition will be on view from November 30, 2024, until January 5, 2025... Read more

Sarah De Vos

Ark 30 Nov 2024 - 5 Jan 2025 New South 'When you leave, all you take is your memories. And I wanna take mine of you with me” - Lana Del Rey Sarah De Vos (b.1985) is a Belgian artist, known for her visually engaging work, of almost photographic quality, that explore themes of transformation, reflection, and the interplay between... Read more

Gommaar Gilliams

Awake, Sleep 12 Oct - 17 Nov 2024 New South Read more

John Stezaker

Strange Love 12 Oct - 24 Nov 2024 South (former location) Read more

Charline Tyberghein

Unapologetically Sorry 9 Sep - 6 Oct 2024 New South Read more

Shirley Villavicencio Pizango

À mon regard tu te dérobes 7 Sep - 6 Oct 2024 South (former location) Shirley Villavicencio Pizango (°1988), born in Lima, Peru, was raised both in the vibrant capital and the small village of Santiago De Borja in the Amazon region. At the age of eighteen, she moved to Ghent, where she completed her art studies at KASK and HISK. Her work, characterized by... Read more

Roger Raveel

Wegdromen in een landschap 22 Jun - 1 Sep 2024 South (former location) 'Wegdromen in een landschap' ['Dreaming away in a landscape'] Curated by Joost Declercq Exhibition 'Wegdromen in een landschap' is dedicated to atypical work on paper from the Belgian artist Roger Raveel. This exhibition wants to provide an intimate look at Raveel's creative process. The works range from the years 1950... Read more

Stef Driesen

Undertone 22 Jun - 1 Sep 2024 New South Stef Driesen, Ondertoon/Undertone Text by Céline Mathieu Colour patches like a child’s recollection depicted something of a landscape paint applied, scraped, washed dynamic full body shapes an absence body as architect, host patches of light, colours like scarves or more defined in-between spaces, presence as opposed to grey purple voids... Read more

Don't think twice, it's all right

Group exhibition 16 May - 16 Jun 2024 New South During this edition of Antwerp Art Weekend, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde wants to present two “strands of looking”. While one exhibition will be more focused on narrative in figurative painting, the other one will touch on the momentary, cerebral and conceptual works. Titled after the Bob Dylan song, this... Read 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. The exhibition shows abstract works, artists fitting in a more minimal, still, and conceptual thinking; and figurative narrative works on... Read more

Eucalyptus

Guy Mees / Johanna von Monkiewitsch 30 Mar - 5 May 2024 South (former location) For the occasion of this duo exhibition 'Eucalyptus' with Guy Mees (b.1935, Mechelen – d. 2003, Antwerp), Johanna von Monkiewitsch (b.1979, Rome, lives and works in Cologne) made a selection from Guy Mees' archive. In this exceptional way of relating contemporary with avant-garde history, both practices are re-framed and enlivened.... Read more

Voice-Calling-Echo-You

Sara Sizer / Bernd Lohaus 3 Mar - 5 May 2024 New South Gallery Sofie Van de Velde at New South presents 'Voice-Calling-Echo-You', a duo- exhibition showcasing paintings by Sara Sizer and the sculptures of Bernd Lohaus. Both Sizer and Lohaus use materials that already have a story to tell, and employ forms as metaphors for human interaction. The azobé wood in Lohaus’s... Read more

Eline Rausenberger

'Où est Eline' 24 Feb - 24 Mar 2024 New South Read more

Amber Andrews

Flâneuse 13 Jan - 18 Feb 2024 New South Amber Andrews, Flâneuse 13.01—18.02.2024 Nieuw Zuid For her third solo presentation with gallery Sofie Van De Velde, Amber Andrews has developed a new body of work under the title Flâneuse . Rarely encountered under this female rendition, flâneur is a term first coined in 1585 but popularised in the 19th... Read more

Christopher Colm Morrin

notes 13 Jan - 18 Feb 2024 South (former location) Read more

Leon Vranken

Partly Cloudy 25 Nov 2023 - 7 Jan 2024 New South Read more

Felix De Clercq

Apple 14 Oct - 19 Nov 2023 New South Read more

Pieter Jennes

A number of days lead to nothing 2 Sep - 8 Oct 2023 New South Read more

Jesse Tomballe

Waiting for Summer 2 Sep - 8 Oct 2023 South (former location) Read more

Heidi Ukkonen

Forever... and ever... and ever... 24 Jun - 27 Aug 2023 New South Read more

Willy De Sauter

24 Jun - 27 Aug 2023 South (former location) Read more

Dirk Van Saene

An angel, kissing spring 13 May - 18 Jun 2023 New South Read more

Karin Hanssen

Secret Escape 1 Apr - 7 May 2023 New South 'The hysteria of survival makes life radically transient. Life is reduced to a biological process, which must be optimized. It loses any meta-physical dimension. Self-tracking becomes a cult. Digital hypochondria, permanent self-measurement with health and fitness apps relegates life to a function. Life is robbed of any meaningful narrative. It... Read more

Sarah De Vos

Palindroom 1 Apr - 7 May 2023 South (former location) Read more

Real Life

Group exhibition 25 Feb - 26 Mar 2023 New South Ilse D’Hollander with Lois Dodd, Christopher Colm Morrin, Jesse Murry, Heidrun Rathgeb, Peter Shear, Trevor Shimizu, Frank Walter. Real Life brings together a group of eight artists of different generations and from different geographies who, like Ilse D’Hollander, use paint to engage with reality in its most porous and capacious... Read more

Santiago Evans

Voyeuristic intentions 21 Jan - 12 Feb 2023 South (former location) Read more

Bendt Eyckermans

Beeldmaker 14 Jan - 19 Feb 2023 New South Read more

Ives Maes

Forbidden Fruits Create Many Jams 26 Nov 2022 - 8 Jan 2023 New South Read more

Natasja Mabesoone

OMG STACYyyyyyy, that type of thing 22 Oct - 27 Nov 2022 South (former location) Read more

Neo Matloga, Paula Rego

Equivocations 15 Oct - 20 Nov 2022 New South Read more

'I Can Live Forever'

Group exhibition 3 Sep - 9 Oct 2022 New South Artworklist Gallery Sofie Van de Velde is happy to announce 'I can live forever', a group exhibition curated by Folkert de Jong. The show will display various works by: Guillaume Bijl Folkert de Jong Kasper De Vos Marcel Duchamp James Ensor Anouk Kruithof Paul McCarthy Bruce Nauman Paula Rego Idris... Read more

Katarina Janeckova

'Maternity Vacation' 27 Jul - 28 Aug 2022 New South, South (former location) Katarina describes ‘Maternity Vacation’ in the following way: In Slovak language maternity leave is translated as “Maternity Vacation” which is very comical-incredibly rude name for the tough mission of raising a solid human being. My exhibitions (of the past eight years) are about gradually telling my story as a European... Read more

Milan Kunc

'Timeless' 25 Jun - 21 Aug 2022 New South Read more

Rik De Boe

'Raamblind' 16 Apr - 15 May 2022 South (former location) Lees eerst dit ! , 'oH jay' ! (tlhIngan toy'wI'vo' tlhIngan) “Ik hou niet van die Gouden-Eeuwse kostuums”, zegt collega Michael, “maar ik hou wel van zijn werk. Ik beheers zijn taal niet maar ik versta ze wel, zoals ik Klingon wel kan lezen maar het niet spreek. Zijn tekeningen... Read more

Amber Andrews

You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours 14 Apr - 19 Jun 2022 New South Read more

Guy Mees

Talking back to Ellsworth Kelly and Blinky Palermo: Guy Mees' cut-out horizon 2 Apr - 8 May 2022 New South From 02.04 until 08.05.2022 Guy Mees will be on view together with Ellsworth Kelly and Blinky Palermo in Gallery Sofie van De Velde. This exhibition is curated by Dirk Snauwaert and presents a dialogue of form, colour and their sensitivity. Read more

Gommaar Gilliams

Sunkissed, Moonlit 26 Feb - 27 Mar 2022 New South Read more

Max Pinckers

ARRANEMENTS 22 Jan - 6 Mar 2022 South (former location) Max Pinckers’ work contains diverse aspects, usually in the form of documentary series in which stories are told through various image sequences using different photographic approaches. This exhibition highlights a recurring element of metaphorical still lives that he composes or encounters as Arrangements . These images are poetic references to... Read more

Note to self

Group exhibition 15 Jan - 20 Feb 2022 New South The 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

Felix De Clercq

Blackbird on a shoulder 27 Nov 2021 - 9 Jan 2022 New South We had been outside that time, our heads sunk deep into our collars. We had not spoken, or in any case not in the way we used to do: ingesting scaffolding with which to support ourselves, prop ourselves up when needed. Now we were worlds away from that. Our hands... Read more

Sara Sizer

Gestalten 23 Oct - 28 Nov 2021 South (former location) Gestalten Gallery Sofie Van de Velde proudly announces ‘Gestalten ', the second solo exhibition by American artist Sara Sizer (°1967, Dallas, US) in the gallery. The exhibition shows a body of new painted velvet works. Sara Sizer lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Sara Sizer continues to use velvet as... Read more

Willy De Sauter

De perfecte afstand 16 Oct - 21 Nov 2021 New South Willy De Sauter (°1938, Bruges) After many months of enforced separation between us, Willy De Sauter reminds us of the possibility of the perfect distance. This distance lies between the work and the viewer, and between the works and the space in which they are shown. When the works are... Read more

Charline Tyberghein

Worrier princess 4 Sep - 10 Oct 2021 New South Gallery Sofie Van de Velde presents 'Worrier princess', the second solo exhibition of Charline Tyberghein in the gallery. (...) Worry has been a prevalent emotion these last eighteen months, for pretty much everyone I know. A constant, low-level worry at times, at others, a drilling, pounding concern, like the throb... Read more

Gommaar Gilliams

What do you want? 21 Aug - 12 Sep 2021 South (former location) Gallery Sofie Van de Velde proudly announces 'What do you want?', the third solo exhibition by Gommaar Gilliams in the gallery. The exhibition shows a body of new work and presents Gommaar Gilliams' first artist book, published by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde. 'Gommaar Gilliams’ relationship to art history is... Read more

Pieter Jennes

‘Gezelligheid op een druilerige dag’, Book Launch 22 Jul 2021 South (former location) Gallery Sofie Van de Velde proudly presents the book launch of 'Warm copany on a dreary day', an artist book by Pieter Jennes, in collaboration with Posture Editions. The book presentation will take place in our gallery on the Vlaamsekaai 74. You are very welcome to join us on July... Read more

Pieter Jennes

I can tell you stories 26 Jun - 15 Aug 2021 South (former location) Read more

Folkert de Jong

The Game 19 Jun - 22 Aug 2021 New South Born in 1972 in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands Lives and works in Amsterdam Gallery Sofie Van de Velde proudly presents the first solo exhibition 'The Game' by Folkert de Jong in the gallery. The Dutch artist Folkert de Jong has made an international name with life size sculptures made... Read more

Stef Driesen & Leon Vranken

'BEND, STRETCH, RELAX' 13 May - 13 Jun 2021 New South ‘BEND STRETCH RELAX’ shows the first duo exhibition of Stef Driesen (°1966, Hasselt) and Leon Vranken (°1975, Maaseik). ‘BEND STRETCH RELAX’ is about tension: building tension, stretching it and finally letting go. The rhythm of this exhibition is determined by a sequence of images, sculptures and interactions. Together they create... Read more

Karin Hanssen

EVERYTHING NOW/Variations on Desire 17 Apr - 16 May 2021 South (former location) Solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Karin Hanssen The show ‘EVERYTHING NOW/Variations on Desire’ originated from the theme of desire and loss (in the broader sense). The depicted people in this exhibition are almost all women. The picture of the female body and how it was/is ‘constructed’ (shame and shamelessness,... Read more

Over ritme, motief en ruimte

Group exhibition 10 Apr - 9 May 2021 New South Daniel Buren, Willy De Sauter, Guy Mees, Charlotte Posenenske & Perry Roberts. Art is a story about encounters, a combination of specific qualities: head and heart, thoughts and feelings. Although a translation remains necessary to indicate this feeling. ‘Over ritme, motief en ruimte’ (About rhythm, motif and space) brings together... Read more

John Stezaker

Double Shadow 27 Feb - 4 Apr 2021 New South Solo exhibition of the British artist John Stezaker. The Double Shadow collages are the latest in a series of collages involving silhouette cut-outs which began in the late 1970s. Cut from cinema annuals of the 1940s and 50s, the inspiration for the Double Shadows comes from much earlier - the... Read more

Amber Andrews

Tohubohu 20 Jan - 28 Feb 2021 South (former location) Solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Amber Andrews. 'I don’t think you can ignore art history. As a contemporary artist it’s impossible to shield yourself from your contemporaries, let alone your predecessors. Everything starts with a love for painting, it’s history and key players, but simultaneously it’s also a technical... Read more

Dirk Van Saene

Stories of hope and despair 16 Jan - 21 Feb 2021 New South Dirk Van Saene, the Belgian fashion designer and artist, will present his solo exhibition with ceramic sculptures on 16.01.2021 in Gallery Sofie Van de Velde. The artworld has always been rather suspicious of any form that is purely visual, a form where beauty or emotion prevails. A form that is... Read more

Catharina Dhaen (extended)

Through the looking-glass 29 Oct - 13 Dec 2020 South (former location) Solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Catharina Dhaen Catharina Dhaen – ‘Through the looking-glass’ ‘My approach to painting is based on sensitivity’, says Catharina when I ask her about her artistic practice. 'The way I paint comes from an insecurity. Painting is a slow process, one where you make many... Read more

Ilse D'Hollander (extended)

Land(e)scapes 17 Oct 2020 - 3 Jan 2021 New South Gallery Sofie Van de Velde in collaboration with The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander presents a selection of paintings and gouaches by the Belgian painter Ilse D’Hollander (1968-1997). Though the works have the character of landscapes, they do not depict any specific location, but rather a mental space that is sometimes... Read more

Bendt Eyckermans, Book launch

' A dream of thirst' 24 - 27 Sep 2020 South (former location) Gallery Sofie Van de Velde proudly presents the book launch of 'A dream of thirst', an artist book by Bendt Eyckermans, in collaboration with Posture Editions Update: Due to the current travel restrictions the conversation and live broadcast between Dominic van den Boogerd and Bendt Eyckermans will not take place.... Read more

Guy Mees

5 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 New South, South (former location) Solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Guy Mees Though slower than in the United States, the visual arts in Europe post-1945 were also fundamentally changing in terms of both status and character. The boundaries between artistic disciplines, between high and low culture, became blurred or were boldly overstepped. The generation... Read more

Felix De Clercq

Jongensgeheimen 3 - 27 Sep 2020 South (former location) Tuesday - Sunday 13 - 18h New second location Vlaamse Kaai 74-75 2000, Antwerp In ons huidige internettijdperk lijkt het geen vanzelfsprekende keuze om vandaag de dag voor schilderkunst te kiezen. Maar als jonge kunstenaar neemt Felix De Clercq de vrijheid om elk thema te benaderen, hij schildert en tekent... Read more

L'Heure Bleue - Part II

Groupshow 1 - 23 Aug 2020 New South L’Heure Bleue Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and PLUS - ONE Gallery present ‘L’Heure Bleue’. L’heure bleue is the moment when the sun has set - artists/but the night has not fallen yet. The phenomenon of the blue hour happens right before sunrise or sunset when a state of natural... Read more

L'heure bleue Part I

Groupshow 9 Jun - 31 Jul 2020 New South L’Heure Bleue Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and PLUS - ONE Gallery present ‘L’Heure Bleue’. L’heure bleue is the moment when the sun has set, but the night has not fallen yet. The phenomenon of the blue hour happens right before sunrise or sunset when a state of natural lighting... Read more

Gommaar Gilliams

In the ballpark 7 Mar - 30 May 2020 New South Gommaar Gilliams – In the ballpark Monumental paintings occupy the space. All works are communal, as if they belong together. Every painting builds on the previous one. They hold ground between a conscious manipulation of meaning and an almost physical desire for expression. This merger of serious research and spontaneous... Read more

Felix De Clercq

@thewunderwall 11 Jan - 1 Mar 2020 New South In our current digital age it doesn’t seem like an obvious choice to choose painting today. But as a young artist, Felix De Clercq takes the freedom to approach every theme, he composes his surroundings by drawing and painting. The work hops on two thoughts. On the one hand he... Read more

Implicit Movement

Group exhibition 11 Jan - 1 Mar 2020 New South Group exhibition with: William Anastasi Kirstin Arndt, John Beech, Monika Grzymala, Jochem Hendricks, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sandra Kranich, Axel Malik, Guy Mees, Hiroko Nakajima, Charlotte Posenenske, Franziska Reinbothe, Michael Reiter, Willy De Sauter, Herbert Warmuth, Martina Wolf Curator: Burkhard Brunn About the implicit movement. Movement is the quintessence of vitality.... Read more

Bendt Eyckermans

Blue Shadow 30 Nov 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 New South On the work of Bendt Eyckermans, provisionally In an era without great artistic currents, Bendt Eyckermans works consistently in a characteristic, near-realistic visual language. Whereas during the last decades many artists have taken all pains to produce “global” images, Eyckermans explicitly strives for an anchorage that is local and historical:... Read more

Raoul Van den Boom

@thewunderwall 30 Nov 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 New South Read more

Charlotte Posenenske / Ilse D'Hollander

Private view 22 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 Groen Kwartier (former location) Private view of Charlotte Posenenske and Ilse D'Hollander. Gallery Sofie Van de Velde Lange Leemstraat 262 Please make an appointment to visit +32486 79 19 93 For more information: sofie@sofievandevelde.be Read more

Ilse D'Hollander

Private view 22 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 New South In this private view we show a selection of works on canvas by Ilse D'Hollander. This exhibition can be visited by appointment. Read more

Navid Nuur

Fight Light Fight 19 Oct - 24 Nov 2019 New South In titling his exhibition Fight I Light I Fight Navid Nuur (°1976, Teheran) offers a clear indication of the stakes. What we are about to see, are the assorted results of the artist’s relentless struggle with light. With Nuur that battle is at once personal and universal. In Arabic the... Read more

Carline Tyberghein

BORN TO BE MILD 7 Sep - 13 Oct 2019 New South Modesty First a talk with Charline Tyberghein Charline Tyberghein has recently had successful gallery and institutional exhibitions, and seems cut out for a perfectly brilliant artistic career. In 2018, she received the KoMASK Masters Salon Painting Award – a prize for best master student in the arts, which offered her... Read more

Carole Vanderlinden

One Piece at a Time 5 - 28 Sep 2019 Groen Kwartier (former location) Opening 05/09/2019: 18- 21u Until 28/09/2019 Friday-saturday 14-18u Carole Vanderlinden - One Piece at a Time Carole Vanderlinden doesn’t make it easy for the viewer. Her paintings and drawings often look playful and colourful but at the same time they are self-willed and self-absorbed. They are seductive and yet they... Read more

Maaike Schoorel

Residency - Woning Van Wassenhove, MDD 1 Sep 2019 - 8 Mar 2020 Maaike Schoorel at House Van Wassenhove Maaike Schoorel’s work is informed by her research into the human mind’s ability to perceive and understand the visual world. The subjects of her paintings seem at once recognisable and elusive. Using photographic source material of people, places and objects, her compositions simultaneously appear... Read more

Pieter Jennes

Tomorrow is so far away 22 Jun - 25 Aug 2019 New South Och veele die hier Dansen en maecken Jolijt… groot, Om dat – haer de Weerelt soo Schoonen Saecken biedt: T is maer een Bobbel, vol wints, die u Verblijdt… bloot: [Oh to the many dancing here and making merry, Because the world offers so many beautiful things: It’s just a... Read more

Ilse D'Hollander

Private view 22 Apr - 5 May 2019 Groen Kwartier (former location) Read more

The Bare Necessity

Group exhibition 16 Mar - 5 May 2019 New South Charlotte Posenenske, Willy De Sauter, and Guy Mees: three artists of the same generation, who found an artistic voice in the sixties, and defied the conventional attitudes of the art world in their search for an absolute essence, the bare necessity, in art. The Bare Necessity, the new exhibition at... Read more

Karin Hanssen

RTG/Frames&Fragments 14 Feb - 2 Mar 2019 Groen Kwartier (former location) Solo exhibition of Karin Hanssen at Groen Kwartier (Lange Leemstraat 262, 2018 Antwerp) Opening: 14/02 from 7 pm Open: Friday & Saturday (and by appointment) 'To gaze implies more than to look at - it signifies a psychological relationship of power, in which the gazer is superior to the object... Read more

Looking at the world through rose colored glasses

Group exhibition 19 Jan - 3 Mar 2019 New South Germaine Kruip Sara Sizer Guy Mees Bendt Eyckermans Pieter Jennes Max Pinckers Charline Tyberghein Willy De Sauter Jacques-Louis Nyst Gommaar Gilliams Perry Roberts Catharina Dhaen Rik De Boe Ives Maes John Stezaker Navid Nuur Maaike Schoorel Karin Hanssen Frida Kahlo Stef Driesen Francis Picabia Robert Devriendt Read more

Pendant Pair

Anouk De Clercq / Tom Callemin 15 Dec 2018 - 20 Jan 2019 .Duo exhibition from Tom Callemin and Anouk De Clercq In collaboration with tegenboschvanvreden and Galerie Zink. Open Saturday - Sunday from 2-6 pm At Antwerp Art Pavilion (Hanzestedenplaats 15, 2000 Antwerpen) next to MAS Read more

Bruce Nauman

There are no excuses 1 Dec 2018 - 13 Jan 2019 New South In 2017 the gallery presented for the first time editions of the well known and highly influential American artist Bruce Nauman in the exhibition Live or Die, together with works of Philippe Vandenberg. Motivated by the high relevance of Nauman’s oeuvre, not only for a whole generation of artists but... Read more

Rein Dufait

van wind, vuur en grond 24 Nov - 15 Dec 2018 Groen Kwartier (former location) Read more

Interaction

Group exhibition 20 Oct - 25 Nov 2018 New South Read more

Soft?

Group exhibition 28 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Groen Kwartier (former location) In collaboration with Fashion Museum Antwerp and PLUS-ONE Gallery. Sara Sizer Gommaar Gilliams Pieter Jennes Perry Roberts Rik De Boe Bernd Lohaus Read more

Bendt Eyckermans

A stranger's hand 22 Sep - 4 Nov 2018 In de voormalige bibliotheek van het museum en in het zog van Raoul De Keyser tonen Bendt Eyckermans, Alfred D’Ursel en Wim De Pauw hun werk. Eyckermans komt als eerste kunstenaar aan bod: in een summier overzicht ontdek je zijn werken uit de twee laatste jaren van zijn prille oeuvre.... Read more

Sara Sizer

Third Person 1 Sep - 14 Oct 2018 New South “Third Person” will be the first solo exhibition at Sofie Van de Velde Gallery of the American artist Sara Sizer who has lived and worked in Berlin since 2004. Her exhibition, “Third Person”, consists of a selection of thirty new canvases made between 2014 and 2018. All of these works... Read more

Rein Dufait

Open Studio Rein Dufait - A dialogue with works by Hans Demeulenaere, Maria Zahle, John Wallbank 11 - 12 Aug 2018 Open Studio of Rein Dufait in Ostend - a dialogue with works by Hans Demeulenaere, Maria Zahle, John Wallbank in collaboration with Arcade Gallery. Read more

Gommaar Gilliams

Romeo's Tune 30 Jun - 19 Aug 2018 New South Gommaar Gilliams - Romeo’s Tune De schilderijen van Gommaar Gilliams zijn niet oppervlakkig te beschrijven. Het zijn assemblages van verscheidene materialen, kleuren, texturen, symbolen en kunsthistorische elementen die hem inspireren. De kunstenaar lijkt in de eerste plaats een evenwicht te zoeken tussen abstractie en figuratie. Zijn genereuze, gesterijke penseelvoering herinnert... Read more

Hannelore Van Dijck

The lasting one, that didn’t last, that still lasts 25 - 27 May 2018 Groen Kwartier (former location) During Antwerp Art Weekend 2018 we show new works by Hannelore Van Dijck to celebrate her new book. “The lasting one, that didn’t last, that still lasts” is an overview of Hannelore Van Dijcks most recent work. Van Dijck works with charcoal on paper and in situ. With text contributions... Read more

Mike Bouchet

Energy Log 17 May - 24 Jun 2018 New South Mike Bouchet's recent series of works engages corporate stimulation as its primary material. Though the works range in form and material, what Bouchet is primarily working with is the immaterial cultural fabric that ties all of these objects together. The criticality of his perspective is tempered by the empathy and... Read more

Lust, Laughter, Liquor

Group exhibition 22 Mar - 6 May 2018 New South In May 2017, PLUS-ONE Gallery and Gallery Sofie Van de Velde decided to reinforce their projects in a shared and second gallery space in the Nieuw Zuid area in Antwerp. From a common sense of entrepreneurship in art, but with their own perspective on artistic choices, their philosophy is one... Read more

It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is ...

Group exhibition 27 Jan - 17 Mar 2018 New South It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there - William Carlos Williams Nowadays some of the tools of propaganda have become available to us all. Social media and mass media have become intertwined, making it possible for the voiceless to... Read more

Perry Roberts

Non finito 18 Jan - 21 Feb 2018 Groen Kwartier (former location) Perry Roberts isn’t finished – especially with his own oeuvre. In his latest exhibition at Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, he confronts his own artistic past. Though he comes from a post- minimalist tradition, Roberts today employs a rather different voice. ‘Non finito’ is a Renaissance-era concept: leaving paintings and... Read more

Celebrations Part 1 - Let there be light

Group exhibition 7 Dec 2017 - 21 Jan 2018 New South Guillaume Bijl, Navid Nuur & Joris Van de Moortel. Curated by Joris Van de Moortel Read more

In the Picture

Group exhibition 25 Nov 2017 - 13 Jan 2018 Groen Kwartier (former location) Read more

Germaine Kruip

Split Second 26 Oct - 3 Dec 2017 New South Gallery Sofie Van de Velde is pleased to announce Germaine Kruip's solo presentation, Split Second, providing an in-depth experience of the artist's ongoing concerns with time, perception, geometry and ritual. In the exhibition space's window sits a clock which counts down from four minutes to zero; inside, another clock counts... Read more

CAPARA Showcase

Rutger De Vries, Stef Van Looveren and Pandoras Jukebox 20 - 22 Oct 2017 New South A collision of art and fashion. With fashion brand CAPARA and collaborating artists Rutger De Vries, Stef Van Looveren and Pandoras Jukebox. Read more

Wordswordswords

Group exhibition 14 Oct - 28 Dec 2017 New South Rein 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 images (1929) to be an ‘aesthetic’ programme; he saw it as a how-to guide to creating disruptive images.” Jan Ceuleers... Read more

Ives Maes

HOLOLOOL 28 Sep - 11 Nov 2017 Groen Kwartier (former location) Hololool is the first exhibition in a new, deeply personal project called Sunville. After his family went through a number of emotional events, Ives Maes (Belgium, °1976) instinctively picked up his camera and went on a trip through his native village of Zonhoven, using expired negatives to record what he... Read more

Backstage: die Rückseite - the rear side

Group exhibition 7 Sep - 15 Oct 2017 New South Backstage: the rear side. The “Barberini Faun” in Munich’s Glyptothek has a coarse rear side, as originally it was joined to a garden wall. The faun is asleep and is presumably drunk. His legs are splayed apart and his genitals are displayed without shame. In the 19th century the museum... Read more

Zwischenebenen

Frederic Geurts / Reinhard Doubrawa 1 Jun - 19 Aug 2017 Groen Kwartier (former location) The observation of the spectator solidifies in Zwischenebenen. The title is a reference to an intermediary space, a transitional level, in which artists like Frederic Geurts (BE, °1965) and Reinhard Doubrawa (DE, °1963) sow doubt – What are we actually looking at? How does our observation process develop and how... Read more

Live or Die

Philippe Vandenberg / Bruce Nauman 30 Mar - 21 May 2017 Groen Kwartier (former location) In the exhibition entitled Live or Die, Sofie Van de Velde presents a dialogue between the Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952 - 2009) and the American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941). The title of the presentation is borrowed from a work by Nauman, and the curator is Dr. Brigitte Kölle... Read more

Rein Dufait

Halfs - om heels 24 Feb - 25 Mar 2017 Groen Kwartier (former location) Rein Dufait explores the opposition nature vs. culture and treats it in the most critical way. For Dufait, the process of creating an artwork from an idea corresponds to the selection, growing and evolution in nature. The artist is able to transform an object into a living being though the... Read more

Erika Hock

The Phantom Table 20 Jan - 18 Feb 2017 Groen Kwartier (former location) “So now she always saw, when she thought of Mr Ramsay’s work, a scrubbed kitchen table. And with a painful effort of concentration, she focused her mind, not upon the silver-bossed bark of the tree, or upon its fish- shaped leaves, but upon a phantom kitchen table, one of those... Read more

John Stezaker

John Stezaker in dialogue with Marcel Broodthaers 13 Oct - 26 Nov 2016 Groen Kwartier (former location) John Stezaker (b. 1949) is a British artist who in the 1970s who was a student at the Slade in London, at the same time as Marcel Broodthaers was working on his films. They shared a fascination with literature, Surrealism, film and the obsolete image. Although Stezaker met Broodthaers on... Read more

Anouk De Clercq

The Odd Hour Cinema 2 Sep - 9 Oct 2016 Groen Kwartier (former location) With her first solo exhibition at Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, The Odd Hour Cinema, Anouk De Clercq (1971) proposes a possible solution to the recurring impasse of presenting time-based media in a visual arts context. An exhibition visitor spends an average of fifteen to thirty seconds in front of... Read more

More Canvas

Group show 13 May - 25 Jun 2016 Groen Kwartier (former location) “More canvas” is een groepstentoonstelling waarbij verschillende Belgische en Internationale kunstenaars de mogelijkheden en beperkingen van het medium ‘canvas’ verkennen. Een canvas is een middel en nooit een doel op op zich. Read more

Max Pinckers

Two kinds of memory and memory itself 22 Jan - 6 Mar 2016 Groen Kwartier (former location) Max Pinckers invites Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota for a duo exhibition at Gallery Sofie Van de Velde in Antwerp where Pinckers will be presenting work from the new series Two Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself, produced in Saitama prefecture during a residency for European Eyes on Japan with the... Read more

Gauthier Oushoorn

Gauthier Oushoorn 27 Nov 2015 - 16 Jan 2016 Groen Kwartier (former location) Read more

Joris Van de Moortel

Ne Vacuum 20 - 22 Nov 2015 Groen Kwartier (former location) performance by Joris Van de Moortel and AF Vandevorst Read more

Second Nature

Group Show 11 Sep - 18 Oct 2015 Groen Kwartier (former location) The exhibition presents works by three artists based in Berlin - a German painter, Julian Fickler, a Swedish sculptor, Sofia Hultén and an American painter, Sara Sizer. All of them are interested in processes of transformation and, seemingly non-chalantly, working with common materials. By revealing or focusing on nuances and... Read more

Dialoog

Group Show 4 - 28 Jun 2015 Groen Kwartier (former location) Vijf kunstenaars vragen om in dialoog te gaan, geeft verschillende manieren van kijken. Sommige samenwerkingen ontstaan bij gratie van toeval of bewondering, en de ene dialoog is al concreter dan de ander. Affiniteit staat echter voorop. Een dialoog vindt plaats vanuit de herkenning. DIALOOG dankzij TOEVAL Waar Gauthier Oushoorn een... Read more

That's all

Group Show 22 Apr - 31 May 2015 Groen Kwartier (former location) Read more

Johan De Wilde & Rik De Boe

Horizonten en meer 13 Mar - 19 Apr 2015 Groen Kwartier (former location) Read more

Geometric Abstractions

Group exhibition 23 Jan - 8 Aug 2015 Groen Kwartier (former location) In January 2015 G262 Sofie Van de Velde exhibits three artists, who created their work from a geometric abstract point of view. Svenja Deininger (1974) Perfect worlds are folded up inside the taut geometries of Svenja Deininger’s paintings. Lines are not edges but pleats, which gather concealed depths, meaning that... Read more

Germaine Kruip

To the magician's mind 14 Nov 2014 - 10 Jan 2015 Groen Kwartier (former location) Read more

Stanislas Lahaut

Stanislas Lahaut 4 Sep - 18 Oct 2014 Groen Kwartier (former location) Read more

Max Pinckers & Gauthier Oushoorn

The only thing you can't get is red ink 27 Apr - 27 Jun 2014 Groen Kwartier (former location) Read more

Ilse D'Hollander

Works on paper 21 Mar - 17 May 2014 Groen Kwartier (former location) Read more

Stef Driesen

Stef Driesen 14 Nov - 14 Dec 2013 Groen Kwartier (former location) Read more