Jonas Dehnen
“Twelve Flower Festoon”
opening Thursday May 15
from 4 - 8 pm
May 15 - May 18, 2025
Place Sainte-Gudule 5,
1000 Brussels
Jonas Dehnen’s (DE. 1992) practice is stubbornly devoted to traversing the jaded landscape of painterly tropes and conventions. To him, the medium of painting feels like treacherous ground, despite the fact that it’s long been charted. Dehnen interrogates the way in which contemporary paintings and art objects in general performatively parade their purported authenticity.
A new series of 12 small-scale oil paintings by Jonas, created on self-made aluminium and tin supports. This body of work marks a point of convergence between Jonas’ established painting practice and his more exploratory, dilettantish sculptural activities.
The series takes the form of allegories for aesthetic taste, drawing from both art historical reference points and the pervasive visual noise of contemporary culture. The use of unconventional support materials—aluminium and tin—extends Jonas’ ongoing interest in collective rituals of belief: divination, fetish objects, the aura of artistic authorship, and the conspiratorial mindset that often accompanies these themes.
By integrating diverse visual and physical inputs into a singular constellation, the work aims to create a new dynamic that is mediated through Jonas’ idiosyncratic visual language. His examination of painterly codes and pictorial tropes offers a layered reflection on how taste is shaped, consumed, and reconfigured today.
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Currently in Antwerp
Dieter Ravyts
“The Short End of the Stick”
opening Friday April 18
April 18 - May 11, 2025
Dieter Ravyts (Belgium, 1988) work can be seen as a chain reaction, an ongoing story where one idea flows out of the other. Up until now, the main focus of his work has been manmade constructions (such as machines) and manmade abstractions (like written language). He also has a fascination with modernism and its utopias.
His Affiche-Painting series was a first exploration of these ideas. This series consists of large, painstakingly painted posters that announce works yet to come.
The artist began making these posters as a way to delay making the ‘main work’ out of fear of failure. Initially, they served as a means of postponement, but over time, they evolved into a body of work in their own right. However, the works they announce have yet to be made.
In the margins of the Affiche series, a new series emerged: Lettrism. In this series, the artist repurposes the letters from his posters to create figures and portraits and by doing so assigning new meaning to the letters. Lettrism also functions as a transitional phase between the posters and the figurative works the artist intends to create—works that, of course, have already been announced but have yet to come into existence.
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Currently in Ghent
“Based Painting III”
with Lisa Vlaemminck, Degive & Falcata, Jonas Dehnen, Veronika Bezdenejnykh, Dieter Ravyts, Julien Meert, Vedran Kopljar (&parents), Boris Magotteaux, Jari Rijckaert, Dieter Durinck, Michiel Ceulers, Robbe De Pestel, Bert Huyghe, Jan Laroy, Louise Delanghe, Dennis Tyfus & Vaast Colson
April 12 - May 25, 2025
Sa-Su
from 2 -6 pm
Pizza Gallery Gent
Walstraat 68
9050 Ledeberg
︎ Jonas Dehnen
︎ Veronika Bezdenejnykh
︎ Dieter Ravyts
︎ Dieter Durinck
︎ Michiel Ceulers
︎ Bert Huyghe
︎ Louise Delanghe
Simon Masschelein
“A Temple, a Lime tree leaf, a Boxwood moth, Alabaster Insulators and other Jolly Skeletons”
April 12 - June 06, 2025
Sa-Su
from 2 -6 pm
Pizza Gallery Gent
Walstraat 68
9050 Ledeberg
De levenshouding en het werk van beeldhouwer Simon Masschelein (Belgium, 1994) geven gestalte aan wat de oude dichter ‘manbare tederheid’ heeft genoemd: een ontroerend samengaan van volharding en zachtheid. De verborgen vormen van de materialen volgend, denkend vanuit het gewricht, de scharnier, de schakeling, de koppeling, komt hij tot onverwachte stapelingen van marmer, albast, steen, staal, hout en lijm: verrassende, nieuwe vormen, onttrokken aan droombeelden die zich traag ontvouwen in de werkelijkheid.
(Hans Theys, July 14 2024, 13u43)
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Upcoming in Antwerp
“Work On Paper”
with Vedran Kopljar, Bert Huyghe, Ian de Weerdt, Rufus Michielsen, Floris van Look, Sietske van Aerde, Jeffe De Brabandere, Antoine Goossens, Mariami Tsotazde, Robin Verslegers, Stijn Ter Braak, Tom Volkaert, Jorik Dzobava, Hans Wuyts, Hamer Kormeling, Jonas Dehnen, Rund Alarabi, Laurens Legiers, Sharon Van Overmeiren, Dora Brams, Veronika Bez, Arni Jonson, Sigurròs Björnsdottir, Michiel Ceulers, Mathieu Verhaege, Ken Verhoeven, Anne Beumer, ... tba.
opening Thursday May 29
︎ Bert Huyghe
︎ Rufus Michielsen
︎ Mariami Tsotadze
︎ Jonas Dehnen
︎ Veronika Bezdenejnykh
︎ Michiel Ceulers
