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The work of Greet Van Autgaerden (b. 1974, Mechelen) inhabits the space between nature and culture. Her paintings, drawings, and installations reflect on landscape, territory, and history — exploring not only the visible surfaces of hills, trees, skies, and fields, but also the geological, cultural, and psychological layers that shape our experience of place.
Often working on a large scale, her works invite more than passive viewing: they ask viewers to step in, to wander, and to reorient. Brushstrokes, textures, and shifting perspectives merge with traces of memory and terrain, turning landscapes into experiences that are at once familiar and unsettling.
Her recent series emerged from walks through the Belgian countryside, observing light, time, and season. These impressions are woven together — compressed, fragmented, and rearranged — into images that evoke both external landscapes and inner journeys.
At the core of her practice lies a tension between orientation and disorientation: between what is known and what escapes recognition, between what lies beneath the surface and what slowly rises. Van Autgaerden does not simply paint a view — she makes visible how we relate to landscape, place, and time itself.
Often working on a large scale, her works invite more than passive viewing: they ask viewers to step in, to wander, and to reorient. Brushstrokes, textures, and shifting perspectives merge with traces of memory and terrain, turning landscapes into experiences that are at once familiar and unsettling.
Her recent series emerged from walks through the Belgian countryside, observing light, time, and season. These impressions are woven together — compressed, fragmented, and rearranged — into images that evoke both external landscapes and inner journeys.
At the core of her practice lies a tension between orientation and disorientation: between what is known and what escapes recognition, between what lies beneath the surface and what slowly rises. Van Autgaerden does not simply paint a view — she makes visible how we relate to landscape, place, and time itself.
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