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JOREN VAN ACKER
'BEYOND THE BLUE STONE'
Opening Oct 30
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GALLERY STUDIO23
DUBLINSTRAAT 35-006
9000 GENT (BE)

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‘BEYOND THE BLUE STONE’
JOREN VAN ACKER
30.10 - 20.12.2026

We are proud to present ‘Beyond the Blue Stone’, the third solo exhibition by Joren Van Acker at the gallery.

Continuing to draw from the world around him, Joren broadens his horizons by capturing the often closed-off world of maritime and harbour life.

His As a boatsman, he has privileged access to a world that remains hidden in plain sight. His colleagues, the ships he steers, and the horizons he gazes towards become a constant source of inspiration — an ongoing state of creative overload.

The title refers to the one-metre strip of stone separating the dock from the water. For Joren, this boundary is both a tangible reality and a metaphor. It marks the edge of one world and the threshold of another. To step beyond it is to embrace freedom, venture into the unknown, and discover new horizons.

In ‘Beyond the Blue Stone’, Joren presents a new body of work in which he continues to explore his surroundings while experimenting with new techniques and materials.
We look forward to welcoming you to discover this new chapter in his practice.

Join us in this new adventure.
Tim, Simon and Joren by @studio23gent

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6 days ago

‘The Linesman’ III, 2026.
Charcoal on paper, 150 x 115 cm.

On view in ‘LABEUR’, Kapel Rozenkrans @koksijde_oostduinkerke
Curated by @vdbfemke

20.06 - 30.08.2026

@studio23gent

#charcoal #drawing #paper #exhibition by @studio23gent

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3 months ago

'Wat de Zee Bewaart' / 'What the Sea Preserves' has just opened its doors. Additionnally to the exhibition of Belgian sculptor Johan Tahon, the city of De Panne has unveiled 'Kykhill', a bronze sculpture recently acquired by the city, which is now on view at one of the city's most captivating locations.
We cannot wait for you to discover Johan Tahon's works at the Belgian coast this summer.

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JOHAN TAHON
'WAT DE ZEE BEWAART'

Cultuurhuis De Scharbiellie
Kasteelstraat 34
8660 De Panne, Belgium

SUNDAY JUNE 28 - SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27
DAILY | 14.00 - 18.00
CLOSED ON MONDAY

#johantahon #studio23 taken in De Panne, Belgium by @studio23gent

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4 months ago

Currently on view, solo exhibition ‘LABEUR’ at Kapel Rozenkrans @koksijde_oostduinkerke until the 30th of august.
With works of Constantin Meunier and George Minne.

Curated by the wonderful @vdbfemke

‘Het labeur, de noeste arbeid, is geen voyeurisme: de kunstenaar werkt er echt, op ontiegelijke uren en door weer en wind. Als havenarbeider is hij deel van zijn onderwerp.

Met zinderend licht en donker, bewust van avontuur en gevaar, is de poëzie van zee en haven zijn moedertaal. Geen ode of symbool, maar vertrouwd terrein. Een labour of Love zo oprecht en artistiek betrokken dat het zonder franjes maar rijk aan betekenis, haast terloops, hele werelden van economisch en ecologisch besef opent.’

@studio23gent
@astridbonduel
@navigomuseum
@museum_dhondt_dhaenens

Inkadreur sublime: @atelierderycke

Installation view: Joren Van Acker, ‘LABEUR’, kapel Rozenkrans.
Photo: @timtronckoe

https://www.koksijde.be/nl/labeur-joren-van-acker

#koksijde_oostduinkerke #charcoal #exhibition #constantinmeunier #georgeminne taken in Oostduinkerke by @studio23gent

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4 months ago

We are pleased to invite you to 'Landforms', the first solo exhibition in the gallery by Dutch artist Mariette van Erp, opening on Friday, April 24, at 7 PM.

A true powerhouse of an artist, van Erp has built a prolific and deeply personal body of work spanning more than four decades. Her paintings and drawings are not distant or observational—they are lived-in, grounded in experience, and shaped by an ongoing engagement with land, life, and existence. For van Erp, seeing is an act of surrender: a way of absorbing what is before her and allowing it to transform into something both tangible and elusive.

Born in 1953 in Gemert (NL) and raised on a farm, van Erp was marked early on by the intimacy and violence of rural life. Drawing became a refuge, and over time she developed a direct, physical approach to making—one that strips away excess to reveal what is essential.

The works presented in 'Landforms' are strongly expressive and often autobiographical. Created through quiet immersion rather than observation, her paintings emerge from being within the landscape rather than looking at it. Working outdoors, she allows rhythms, textures, and atmospheres to register physically before they surface in paint.

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MARIETTE VAN ERP
'Landforms'

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Vernissage
Friday, April 24, 19.00

Exhibition Run
Saturday April 25 - Sunday May 31
Open every weekend: 14.00 - 18.00

@mariette_van_erp
#mariettevanerp #landforms #studio23 #paintings #artgallery by @studio23gent

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6 months ago

In Full Swing: Art Paris 2026

The fair has been a wonderful success so far, and we are thrilled to present our booth at Art Paris.

Our presentation brings together Joren Van Acker and Johan Tahon, two of our key artists united by a shared sensibility and a deeply tactile approach to their practice. While Van Acker explores this through his maritime charcoal works, Tahon expresses it through his transcendent sculptural forms. Their dialogue unfolds through material and gesture, creating a quiet yet powerful resonance between drawing and sculpture.

For this occasion, Joren Van Acker created an entirely new series especially for Art Paris, further expanding his nuanced exploration of atmosphere and artistic depth.

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Fair Details: ART PARIS 2026

Location: Grand Palais, Paris, France
Dates: April 9 – 12, 2026 (Preview and Vernissage: April 8)
Booth: I24 | STUDIO23

@artparisartfair @jorenvanacker @johantahonwerkstatt
#artparis #jorenvanacker #johantahon #studio23 #artgallery taken in Art Paris by @studio23gent

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6 months ago

Coming Up: ART PARIS 2026

We are honoured to invite you to join us this week at Art Paris, taking place at the Grand Palais from April 9 to 12 (Vernissage and Preview on April 8).
On this occasion, we are proud to present a dialogue between new works by Joren Van Acker and Johan Tahon.

Joren Van Acker brings a fresh, intuitive energy that explores the maritime realm with a sense of immediacy and openness. Johan Tahon offers a deeply rooted and contemplative body of work shaped by years of refinement and reflection. Together, their works enter into a compelling symbiosis: a conversation where emerging sensibilities meet seasoned mastery, where fragility encounters monumentality, and where both artists expand and challenge each other’s visual language.

We would be honored to welcome you to experience this encounter firsthand.
Please feel free to reach out if you would like a preview. We have tickets available.

Art Paris 2026
Grand Palais, Paris
April 9 – 12, 2026 (Preview and Vernissage: April 8)
Booth: I24 | STUDIO23

Featured:

1. Joren Van Acker - Unto The North Sea, 2026
Charcoal on paper
150 x 180 cm

2. Johan Tahon - L'oeil sauvage, 2026
Stoneware
58 x 34 x 17 cm

@artparisartfair taken in Art Paris by @studio23gent

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6 months ago

Opening Today: Art Rotterdam 2026

Our presentation at Art Rotterdam 2026 is now open, featuring works by Joren Van Acker, Johan Tahon and Mariette van Erp.

With Joren Van Acker, we are unveiling a series of works that drift along the tides of the human condition—ever drawn toward distant horizons, forever seeking what lies beyond. Six monumental charcoal drawings emerge here, like uncharted shores revealed in shadow and light.

A particular highlight of our booth is a compelling group of bronze and stoneware sculptures by Johan Tahon. With unmatched sensitivity, Tahon delves into the human soul—its longing for transcendence and its quiet, profound transformations from within.

A luminous thread unfolds in the paintings of Dutch artist Mariette van Erp. Her abstract-figurative landscapes hover between perception and memory—where traces of the natural world dissolve into something inward and contemplative. Painted directly from life, her works echo the human condition’s enduring search for tranquility, as if each canvas were a place to arrive, to pause, and to be at rest.

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Fair Details: ART ROTTERDAM 2026

Location: Rotterdam Ahoy, Ahoyweg 10, 3084 BA Rotterdam (NL)
Dates: March 27 – 29, 2026 (Preview and Vernissage: March 26)
Booth: C5 | STUDIO23

@art_rotterdam @jorenvanacker @johantahonwerkstatt @mariette_van_erp
#artrotterdam #studio23 #jorenvanacker #johantahon #mariettevanerp taken in Rotterdam, Netherlands by @studio23gent

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7 months ago

« Pour sa première participation à Art Paris, STUDIO23 (Gand) initie un duo show entre deux artistes belges qui expérimentent les liens fragiles entre identité et paysage. Oscillant entre la pesanteur terrestre et un détachement spirituel, les œuvres de Johan Tahon ouvrent un espace inédit au cœur duquel le visiteur peut se retrouver à travers l’expérience de l’inachevé et de l’incomplet. Joren Van Acker dirige quant à lui son regard vers le monde maritime, qu’il aborde comme un horizon mental et symbolique. Ses dessins, réalisés au fusain d’un noir profond, considèrent ainsi l’infini de l’océan comme un espace à la fois d’orientation et de perte, de contrôle et d’abandon. »

“For its first participation at Art Paris, STUDIO23 (Ghent) is bringing together two Belgian artists who both explore the fragile connections between identity and landscape. Shifting between earthly gravity and spiritual detachment, the works of Johan Tahon works open up a new space, a place where visitors can experience the unfinished and the incomplete and, in so doing, perhaps find themselves. In parallel, Joren Van Acker turns his gaze towards the world of the oceans, which becomes a mental and symbolic horizon. His deep black charcoal drawings consider the infinite ocean as a place of both orientation and loss, of control and abandon.”

🖋️ Marc Donnadieu

🖼️ STUDIO23 (@studio23gent)
1. Johan Tahon, Taboo, 2018
2. & 3. Joren Van Acker, The Search, 2026
4. Johan Tahon, Tanagra, 2026
5. Joren Van Acker, Docker Looking Up, 2025
💡 Secteur Promesses / Promises Sector

#ArtParis #ArtParis2026 #STUDIO23 #JohanTahon #JorenVanAcker
@johantahonwerkstatt @jorenvanacker @marc.donnadieu taken in Art Paris by @studio23gent

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Coming Up: ART ROTTERDAM 2026

We are delighted to invite you to join us at next week's Art Rotterdam, from March 26 to 29.
Our presentation will feature works by Joren Van Acker, Johan Tahon and Mariette van Erp.

Bringing these artists together, the presentation explores a shared sensitivity to form, material, and the human condition. While differing in medium and approach, the works resonate through a quiet tension between presence and absence, figuration and abstraction. Together, they create a contemplative dialogue that invites reflection on fragility and transformation.

We would be pleased to welcome you at our booth and guide you through the presentation.
Please feel free to reach out if you would like a preview. We have tickets available.

Art Rotterdam 2026
Rotterdam Ahoy
March 27 – 29, 2026 (Preview: March 26)
Booth: C5 | STUDIO23

Featured:

1. Joren Van Acker - 'Fisherman Knotting His Nets', 2026
Charcoal on paper
172 x 147 cm

2. Johan Tahon - 'Cluny', 2026
Stoneware
126 x 40 x 32 cm

3. Mariette van Erp - 'Tripkau', 2023
Acrylic on hessian
30 x 40 cm

@art_rotterdam taken in Rotterdam, Netherlands by @studio23gent

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7 months ago

STEVEN BAELEN

Grammar of Melancholy

23.01 – 15.03.2026

We are delighted to invite you to our next exhibition. In Grammar of Melancholy, Steven Baelen explores drawing not as a way of reproducing reality, but as a way of being present within it. His work moves across paper and canvas, pencil and paint, where lines, smears, and empty spaces become a visual language of memory, time, and emotion.

Rooted in close observation of his intimate surroundings, Baelen transforms small, domestic impressions into new compositions. Human presence is absent, yet traces of lived time, atmosphere, and quiet tension remain. Drawing becomes a fragile, ephemeral act in which strokes shift roles, dissolve, and merge in the viewer’s psyche rather than on the page.

After returning to oil paint, Baelen allows painting to behave like drawing. Lines remain delicate and expressive, contours are filled in like acts of recollection, and the surface itself plays an active role. Order and memory, structure and feeling, exist side by side.

Steven Baelen (°1981) lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. He is a graduate of KASK and HISK in Ghent, and an alumnus of the JUNGE AKADEMIE in Berlin. His work has been recognized with a shortlist for the MAC International Prize (2014) and the ARTS laureateship from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium (2016).

Across the exhibition, drawing becomes both a rational system and a sensuous, intuitive moment of presence. Images emerge, shift, and dissolve, leaving behind subtle residues of experience — a quiet grammar of time, between revealing and concealing, hope and melancholy.

The Vernissage is scheduled for Friday, January 23, starting at 7PM. We hope to welcome you soon.

@steven_baelen

#stevenbaelen #grammarofmelancholy #art #exhibition #studio23 by @studio23gent

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9 months ago

Luxembourg Art Week 2025⁠

We are delighted to announce that our booth at Luxembourg Art Week 2025 opens today, 20 November, from 5–10 PM. The preview takes place this evening, with public visiting days beginning tomorrow. Come visit us to explore a curated presentation of works by Johan Tahon, Joren Van Acker, Steven Baelen, and Mauro Desmedt, complemented by a selection of recent artistic discoveries.⁠
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We are presenting a series of four large charcoal drawings by Joren Van Acker, centred on his enduring fascination with the maritime world and echoing themes from his recent exhibitions in Paris, Amsterdam, and at the gallery.⁠
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Johan Tahon is prominently featured with a compelling range of both earlier and newly created sculptures that capture human transformation in its most essential form. On view are ten ceramic works and three bronzes.⁠
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This year, we are pleased to introduce Ghent-based artist Steven Baelen, who will hold his first exhibition with us in early 2026. Baelen’s paintings and drawings move beyond the figurative, inviting the image to take shape within the viewer’s imagination.

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Luxembourg Art Week 2025⁠
Glacis Square
20–23 November 2025

@jorenvanacker
@johantahonwerkstatt @steven_baelen @desmavro @luxembourgartweek #johantahon #jorenvanacker #stevenbaelen #maurodesmedt #law25 #luxembourgartweek #art #gallery #studio23 by @studio23gent

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