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Director Keteleer Gallery
curator
“Too sweet to be sour. Too Nice to be mean.”

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Just in time for the last day this weekend, I caught Dear someone, somewhere by @namiyokoyama at @keteleer_gallery .

A kind of conceptual hyperrealism that pleasantly surprised me. The witty play with words, form, meaning and fonts especially charmed me.

Another very nice discovery, and Keteleer Gallery once again confirming their eye for artists with a story to tell.

@leemans_koen

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A few moments from the opening day.
Thank you to everyone who came!

@keteleer_gallery

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CLAY MATTERS @keteleer_gallery — Antwerp shows again how this gallery is consciously and consistently building a reputation for well curated shows with a keen eye for the diversity and richness of the artists they represent.
First of all drawn by the work of the ever impressive #patrickvancaeckenbergh, steadily upcoming @claraspilliaert and established value @koen.theys .
Meanwhile (re)discovering :
@johan_creten
@justine.grillet
@cameronjamiestudio
@lucamonterastelli
@valgerdursigurdardottir &
@peihsuan_wang with an eye catching installation.
A special thank you to @leemans_koen for keeping the gallery open a bit longer after I got stuck in traffic and for the nice conversation we had sharing our admiration for the work of Patrick. #contemporaryart #antwerpart #ceramics

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@keteleer_gallery with the work of @mirceasuciu_studio confronting us with images of recognition and triggering associations that challenge us. Downstairs a small tribute to a surprising soft and almost fleeting part of the oeuvre by @philippe_vansnick

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"The Laborers"
aka
"Mixed-Blood/Mischlinge Motif"
2015
metallic and satin matelassé, cotton, foam batting, wood, faux gold paint, and rope

pink: 155 × 102 × 3.8 cm
61 × 40 × 1½ in.

bright blue: 200 × 128 × 3.8 cm
78¾ × 50⅜ × 1½ in.

Exhibited during Guy Van Bossche's retrospective exhibition, Unterseeboot über Malermeister, at the Cultural Center Mechelen, Belgium (2015–2016), and reproduced in the accompanying publication of the same title (Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2016).

My sincere thanks to @guy.van.bossche for including my work in this exhibition and publication, and for placing it in dialogue with the work of so many other artists.

#textileart #belgianart #contemporaryart #cultuurcentrummechelen #kunstwerk

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ANTWERP ART WEEKEND. PART 3.

TOBIAS RHEBERGER, Positives of a Daily Death, Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, (Photo 1-4).
Until June 6.
Based on Google Maps imagery the works depict locations marked by violence, including sites in Sudan, Berchtesgaden-Obersalzberg and
Mar-a-Lago. Intentionally restrained and deliberately unrefined in execution, the paintings contrast their understated appearance with the gravity of their subject matter.

MIRCEAA SUCIU, Champagne and Strawberries, Keteleer Gallery. (Photo: 5-7). Until June 20.

PHILIPPE VAN SNICK, Déjalat, Keteleer Gallery. (Photo 8-9). Until June 20.

THE WUNDERWALL ENLARGED, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde. With works of among others: SARAH DE VOS, (Photo 11), EWOUD VIANE, (Photo 10), NATASJA MABESOONE, AMBER ANDREWS, ANTOINE GOOSENS and PALATINE DEMOEN (12-14), Until June 21

BERND LOHAUS, The Way Things Settle, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde. (Photo 15, 16). Until June 21.

ROLLAND TWEELINCX, A Collection of Lies, Rik Rosseels. (Photo 17-18).Until June 21.

VAAST COLSON, Chalkboard, Blackboard, Stick-Slips, Kickflips and other Writings. ( Episode 47 a B.S. and Episode 47b b 47.B). Occasional address: Vlaamse Kaai, 47. (Photo 19-20). Until May 24.

#vaastcolson #tobiasehrlinger @michelineszwajcer #llspaleis @stellalohaus @sofie.van.de.velde @palatinedemoen @ewoudviane @rikrosseels @roelandtweelinckx @koenleemans #mirceasuciu #philippevansnick @philippe_vansnick @keteleer_gallery @saradevos

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Amaze our jury: Bruno Devos [HOPPER&FUCHS], Dinaya Waeyaert [Photographer - visual artist] and
Kristof Vadino [Photojournalist] to show your work to more than 2000 visitors.
https://www.unexposed.eu/phototwens-2026
[5 more days to submit]

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@keteleer_gallery mysterious worlds in explicitly figurative narrative symbolism, fire and masks, animals and landscapes. As well @enriquemarty as @antoineroegiers drag you down some worthwhile rabbit holes with respect for, you could say “tribute to”, there masterly predecessors in the arts. As a nice extra , a very friendly and interesting meeting with @leemans_koen #antwerpartgallery

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On view!

Daan Gielis
U'll be fine

"Neon light carries an ambiguous promise. It is intrusive and seductive, distant and intimate, cheap and precious at the same time. In Gielis’s hands, the medium gains a polyphonic charge: his neons do not speak in slogans. Their colors are bright, but their message is often nuanced. By abstracting and distorting symbols, Gielis slows down our interaction with a visual language we usually read automatically. The neon sculptures embody the paradox in which our social lives are entangled: the attempt to express a deeply personal story in a relentlessly generic language.
In art history, neon is known as a medium that balances between commerce and art, between the public and the personal. From Bruce Nauman, who fragments language and the body through neon, to Tracey Emin, who uses it to express vulnerability and intimacy—the medium is repeatedly employed to reflect on how meaning arises, how emotion is visualized. Gielis, too, aligns himself with this lineage, though with a distinctly contemporary perspective: his neons are not merely “images in light,” but fields of tension in visual form, in which the intimate is magnified into a shared experience." - from exhibition text by @leemans_koen

@daangielis
until 28 February

#daangielis #keteleer #keteleergallery #antwerpart

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Van een creatieve trefplaats tussen Atheense monumenten tot een atelierbezoek aan een visionaire ambachtsman: vijf niet te missen verhalen van afgelopen week lees je nu via de link in bio.

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Kunstenaar Daan Gielis overleed in 2023, amper 34 jaar oud, aan de gevolgen van een zeldzame auto-immuunziekte. De neons die hem bekend maakten, zijn nu te zien in de postume expo 'U’ll be fine'.⁠
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Via weekend.be: een dubbelgesprek met Gielis' weduwe en galerist over zijn leven, zijn werk en een expo samenstellen na zijn overlijden.

Door: @carabrems
Beeld: @anekin01

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Born 1968, Wilrijk (BE)

Stefan Serneels is a Belgian contemporary artist living and working in Aarschot, Belgium. He works mainly with drawing and sometimes film, with an expressive core in figurative draughtsmanship and compositional layering.

His visual language builds from fragments of film stills, photographs, old magazines, and digital images, which he recomposes and transforms into new, dream-like scenes. In Serneels’ work, everyday interiors, stairways, objects, and figures are often decontextualized or subtly distorted to evoke a sense of estrangement or silent narrative tension.

His works are marked by restrained palettes (often monochrome or limited tones) and an atmospheric balance between order and uncanny interruption. He is also interested in the psychological and symbolic dimensions of space, memory, and alienation.

video: @jan_weynants
interview by @leemans_koen

#stefanserneels @stefan_serneels #janenstefmakeneenfilm

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