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Jonas Vansteenkiste lives and works in Kortrijk. He is a visual artist who investigates the field of tension between architectural spaces and the psychological impact of space. He has a broad visual language that ranges from installation, sculpture, video to drawings. He obtained a Master in Media Art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and later a second Master in Research in Art and Design at the ST Lucas in Antwerp.
Next to his solo career he works as a duo with artist Veerle Michiels, together they develop site-specific installations and investigate how fragile history can be.
Vansteenkiste is also a curator and has created several shows with artists such as Manon de Boer, Anouk De Clercq, Ronny Delreu, Freddy Tsimba, Eva Koch, Renato Nicolodi, etc.
Vansteenkiste is internationally active, he was invited as a resident at the renowned cité des arts international in Paris, he was selected for the ZK/U Residency in Berlin where he researched urbanism and scale models.
During both his residencies at Sundaymorning@EKWC, the Netherlands, he developed a complementary visual language by working with ceramics, which he incorporates into his installations.
He was selected and won several prizes, including the provincial prize for visual arts in East Flanders.
His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in various shows.
Next to his solo career he works as a duo with artist Veerle Michiels, together they develop site-specific installations and investigate how fragile history can be.
Vansteenkiste is also a curator and has created several shows with artists such as Manon de Boer, Anouk De Clercq, Ronny Delreu, Freddy Tsimba, Eva Koch, Renato Nicolodi, etc.
Vansteenkiste is internationally active, he was invited as a resident at the renowned cité des arts international in Paris, he was selected for the ZK/U Residency in Berlin where he researched urbanism and scale models.
During both his residencies at Sundaymorning@EKWC, the Netherlands, he developed a complementary visual language by working with ceramics, which he incorporates into his installations.
He was selected and won several prizes, including the provincial prize for visual arts in East Flanders.
His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in various shows.
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1984 born in Kortrijk, Belgium
1996-2002 DAS art high school, Kortrijk
2001-2003 sculpture classes
2003-2004 KASK Gent 3D
2004-2006 KASK Gent Combined Media
2006-2007 KASK Gent New Media (Bachelor)
2008-2009 KASK Gent Media Art (Master)
2015-2016 research in arts & design, St-Lucas Antwerpen
(Master After Master)
Lives and works in Kortrijk, Belgium
Group exhibitions (selection)
2022
"Modernism for the Future 360/365", Kaunas (LT)
a collaboration with Leiedal,Kaunas and Kaunas District –European Capital of Culture 2022
"We Are Vessels" Het nieuwe instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
"4 x 4" Warp, St-Niklaas (BE)
"New Memories" Duo show with Joke Raes, Gallery Sofie Van den Bussche, Brussels (BE)
"Memento" Kortrijk, (BE)
2021
"Ulterieur 2021", curator Petrus Paklons, ntgrate, Kortrijk (BE)
"Fragile Bricks", curator Frederik Van Laere, Tielt (BE)
"HEAT/ENERGY"Curators: Martin Ålund, Torbjörn Johansson and Jonas Ellerström, Kummelholmen, Stockholm, (SWE)
"Drop in drop out" De ontsteking, Gent (BE)
"Niemand is een eiland" Stichting ijsberg, Damme (BE)
'Art@Work', Curator Benedict Vandaele, De cellen, Oostkamp(BE)
"L’Épilogue C2L3Play", Click, Mons (BE)
2020
"HEAT/ENERGY"Curators: Martin Ålund, Torbjörn Johansson and Jonas Ellerström, Kummelholmen, Stockholm, (SWE)
"INSIDE/OUT,Borluut Castle, Gent (BE)
"Heat/Energy" Martin Ålund, Torbjörn Johansson and Jonas Ellerström,Körsbärsgården(SWE)
"Borrowed spaces" WARP, St-Niklaas (BE)
"Ménage à deux"Het Stadsmus, Hasselt (BE)
2019
“Measures of poetry” curator Jan Van Woensel, Bogaerden kapel, Brugge (BE)
"Landscapes 2.0" Bubox, Kortrijk (BE)
"The wrong house" the wrong house, Kortrijk (BE)
“Genisis” curator Christa Vyvey, L.A.C. Sigean, (FR)
"hier und dort", Bad Godesberg (DE)
"Home sweet home" curator Jan Leysen, Kunstenhuis, Harelbeke (BE)
"Open House" ZK/U, Berlin (DE)
"Test case xIx"@EKWC, Oisterwijk, (NL)
"Seeing the invisible", Novi Sad, (Serbia)
"Point in Time",@EKWC, Heusden, (NL)
2018
"Les Traversées du Marais, sur le fil, Paris (FR)
"50th Grand Prix of Actual Drawing", Ronse (BE)
"On Show", the South African Association, Cité des Arts, Paris (FR)
"Don't Mention the War", Kunstenhuis, Harelbeke, (BE)
"SHOWROOM: MIA CHAPLIN, JONAS VANSTEENKISTE, SARAH BLOOD, ELLE VAN UDEN & MARTIN ÅLUND", Cité des Arts,Paris(FR)
"Botanical stills II" de Mijlpaal, Knokke-Heist (BE)
"About desire and consolation", Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou, (BE)
"The Homecoming", curator Jan Van Woensel, 252 CC, Ekeren (BE)
"Viriditas", de mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder (BE)
"Blind date", DAK, Amsterdam (NL)
"Le pays le plus laid du monde?", Halluin (FR)
"Dolers", Dendermonde (BE)
"Botanical stills" de Mijlpaal, Knokke-Heist (BE)
2017
"Inspiratie - Landschap", curators Kristof Reulens & Eddie Guldolf, C-Mine, Genk (BE)
"Provinciale prijs beeldende kunsten 1997-2017", Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen (BE)
"El Camino- a way between two pionts", curator Christa Vyvey, KADOC, Leuven (BE)
‘You don’t need an app to experience the real thing’, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels (BE)
"Yart",Gent, (BE)
"Celibataire Divas", Hasselt, (BE)
"Southern Comfort", Fort 5, Edegem, (BE)
2016
"Coup de ville", curator Stef Van Bellingen, St Niklaas (BE)
"Périples", espace culturel de la FDE, Montpellier (FR)
"Tradition doesn't graduate", curator Nikolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk/KOMPLOT, Brussels (BE)
"Hommage", BOZAR, Brussels (BE)
"MANAMA@Hole of the Fox", Antwerpen (BE)
"Interrupting The City", Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp (BE)
"El Camino- a way between two pionts", curator Christa Vyvey L.A.C. Sigean, (FR)
"Provencial price east-flanders", Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen (BE)
"Water WAR", curator Christophe De Jaeger, Buda Kortrijk (BE)
"El Camino- a way between two pionts", curator Christa Vyvey , Brugge (BE)
2015
"PLATFORM",Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin (IE)
"Fabric Spaces", Curator: Sevie Tsampalla, Piano Fabriek, Brussel (BE)
"Aandacht Aandacht!", De warande Turnhout/C-mine Genk (BE)
"St-Lucas @Biënalle of Venice", Arsenale, (IT)
"Line-up", Gent (BE)
Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou (BE)
'Stille, stomme getuigen', A Gallery Named Sue, The Hague (NL)
'ART TRACES', Langemark-Poelkapelle (BE)
'Immersie!', De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder (BE)
2014
'Tussentijd', Oosterzele (BE)
"Citadellarte",colaboration with M HKA, Diest (BE)
'Private Shelter', Vrijstaat O, Oostende (BE)
"Cuesta"curator Frederik Van Laere, Tielt (BE)
"MDD veiling, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
"Kunstenfestival Can'Art", Kuurne (BE)
"Nightshop",MDD, Knokke (BE)
‘Tussenwereld, Intercommunale Westlede, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
‘Warum? Iedereen zijn oorlog’, Zonnebeke (BE)
‘The medium of everything’, School of arts Ghent, Ghent (BE)
‘Crox 458’, Croxhapox, Ghent (BE)
2013
‘Over Liefde die we niet begrijpen’, Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou (BE)
‘Museum aan de overkant’, VZW Wit.H, Kortrijk (BE)
‘Cantaté’, Kunstenhuis, Harelbeke (BE)
‘Spiegelbeelden,’ MADO, Kortrijk (BE)
‘The Big Draw, we draw our relationship’, The Big Draw, Ghent (BE)
2012
'de Canvascollectie/ la collection RTBF', BOZAR, Brussels (BE)
‘OFF TRACK', Ghent (BE)
‘BHArt#01', Red Fisch factory, Borgerhout (BE)
‘Kunstensalon Sant’, Bruges (BE)
2011
'Paradise lost Paradise', Sint-Maartenskerkhof, Kortrijk (BE)
'Label 08', KASK, Ghent (BE)
2010
The Swan Song of parking palace, Kortrijk (BE)
'Canvas collectie', BOZAR, Brussels (BE)
'fast forward', M HKA, Antwerp (BE)
'privat public painting', MuZEE, Ostend (BE)
'CERTIFIED COPY', Verbeke foundation, Kemzeke (BE)
2009
'How to save the world in 10 day's scrapbook', Vooruit, Ghent (BE)
'Places of memory, Places of vision', Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome (IT)
'Wie biedt meer?', Flagey, Brussels (BE)
Logement, Antwerp (BE)
'The ever mass land', Nadine, Brussels (BE)
'Nowhere/ Now here', Art track, Ghent (BE)
'New Times Roman', timefestival, Ghent (BE)
'The Apartment Project",Curator Laurence Dujardyn, London (UK)
2008
'KASKweek', KASK, Ghent (BE)
'At first sight', iMAL, Brussels (BE)
'Canvas collectie', BOZAR, Brussels (BE)
2007
'KASKweek', KASK, Gent (BE)
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2020
"ruins", Drongenhof chapel, Gent(BE)
"Bang, Bang" show with Veerle Michiels, Raverzyde, Oostende (BE)
2019
"Denkraum", Gasthuiskapel, Borgloon (BE)
"Reflections",THE WRONG HOUSE, Kortrijk (BE)
2018
"Mr. House"(an introduction), Cité international des Arts, Paris (FR)
"Palimpsest interventions", streetart project, Paris (FR)
2017
"Mr.House", The Trophy Room, Curator Sevie Tsampalla /Alexander J. Croft , Liverpool (UK)
"Double Standard, Yart,Gent (BE)
"WANDER MEANDER II", curator Lieven Van den Abeele &Hendrik Tratsaert in the private home of Julie Vandenbroucke & Michel Espeel, Wander Meander is an initiative of the artist duo Sarah & Charles (BE)
2015
"A Pile of Homes", curator Sandra Rogier,Tour & Taxis, Brussels (BE)
"A House is not a Home, Mike Kelley version", curator Gerry Van Tendeloo, permanent installation @ Libaert projects, Kortrijk (BE)
2013
"Mentale ruimtes",Zottegem (BE)
"Form Follows Fiction ", Waregem (BE)
2012
"Habitat, un séjour à titre temporaire", Bortiergalerij, Brussels (BE)
2011
"A Space of Confinement", Benedengalerie,Kortrijk (BE)
"A Space of Confinement", Hopstreet, Brussels (BE)
"Front", Fotorama, Wevelgem (BE)
2010
"Beyond the story", CC SPOOR, Harelbeke (BE)
2009
"Immersion: Atelier 7", SEAS CC Scharpoord, Knokke (BE)
Awards & selections in competitions
2018
selection: 50th Grand Prix of Actual Drawing", Ronse (BE)
2015
winner of provencial price East-Flanders, Gent (BE)
2014
Winner of Jan Van Rijswijck center, WARP, St-Niklaas (BE)
2013
3th price PBK City of Harelbeke (BE)
2012
selected for Canvas collection, Brussels (BE)
2010
Winner of the IMP award for young talent
selected for Canvas collection, Brussels (BE)
2008
selected by Jan Hoet for the Rodenbach award
selected for Canvas collection, Brussels (BE)
Residencies/Grants
2022
Werktank, Leuven, (BE)
2021
Sundaymorning@ekwc, Oisterwijk (NL)
Modernism for the Future, Leiedal & Kaunas – European Capital of Culture
2020
Rucka, Cesis,(LV) cancelled by Covid
2019
Sundaymorning@ekwc, Oisterwijk (NL)
ZK/U, Center for Art and Urbanistics Berlin, (DE)
2018
Cité internationale des arts, Paris (FR)
Grant, Government of Flanders, (BE)
2016-2017
Emile Vandoorne Museum, Genk (BE)
Grant, Government of Flanders, (BE)
2016
Our Institutional Futures, Winterschool, School of Creative Arts, Dublin(IE)
2014
Grant, Government of Flanders, (BE)
2008
Rome spring academy, Rome (IT)
1996-2002 DAS art high school, Kortrijk
2001-2003 sculpture classes
2003-2004 KASK Gent 3D
2004-2006 KASK Gent Combined Media
2006-2007 KASK Gent New Media (Bachelor)
2008-2009 KASK Gent Media Art (Master)
2015-2016 research in arts & design, St-Lucas Antwerpen
(Master After Master)
Lives and works in Kortrijk, Belgium
Group exhibitions (selection)
2022
"Modernism for the Future 360/365", Kaunas (LT)
a collaboration with Leiedal,Kaunas and Kaunas District –European Capital of Culture 2022
"We Are Vessels" Het nieuwe instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
"4 x 4" Warp, St-Niklaas (BE)
"New Memories" Duo show with Joke Raes, Gallery Sofie Van den Bussche, Brussels (BE)
"Memento" Kortrijk, (BE)
2021
"Ulterieur 2021", curator Petrus Paklons, ntgrate, Kortrijk (BE)
"Fragile Bricks", curator Frederik Van Laere, Tielt (BE)
"HEAT/ENERGY"Curators: Martin Ålund, Torbjörn Johansson and Jonas Ellerström, Kummelholmen, Stockholm, (SWE)
"Drop in drop out" De ontsteking, Gent (BE)
"Niemand is een eiland" Stichting ijsberg, Damme (BE)
'Art@Work', Curator Benedict Vandaele, De cellen, Oostkamp(BE)
"L’Épilogue C2L3Play", Click, Mons (BE)
2020
"HEAT/ENERGY"Curators: Martin Ålund, Torbjörn Johansson and Jonas Ellerström, Kummelholmen, Stockholm, (SWE)
"INSIDE/OUT,Borluut Castle, Gent (BE)
"Heat/Energy" Martin Ålund, Torbjörn Johansson and Jonas Ellerström,Körsbärsgården(SWE)
"Borrowed spaces" WARP, St-Niklaas (BE)
"Ménage à deux"Het Stadsmus, Hasselt (BE)
2019
“Measures of poetry” curator Jan Van Woensel, Bogaerden kapel, Brugge (BE)
"Landscapes 2.0" Bubox, Kortrijk (BE)
"The wrong house" the wrong house, Kortrijk (BE)
“Genisis” curator Christa Vyvey, L.A.C. Sigean, (FR)
"hier und dort", Bad Godesberg (DE)
"Home sweet home" curator Jan Leysen, Kunstenhuis, Harelbeke (BE)
"Open House" ZK/U, Berlin (DE)
"Test case xIx"@EKWC, Oisterwijk, (NL)
"Seeing the invisible", Novi Sad, (Serbia)
"Point in Time",@EKWC, Heusden, (NL)
2018
"Les Traversées du Marais, sur le fil, Paris (FR)
"50th Grand Prix of Actual Drawing", Ronse (BE)
"On Show", the South African Association, Cité des Arts, Paris (FR)
"Don't Mention the War", Kunstenhuis, Harelbeke, (BE)
"SHOWROOM: MIA CHAPLIN, JONAS VANSTEENKISTE, SARAH BLOOD, ELLE VAN UDEN & MARTIN ÅLUND", Cité des Arts,Paris(FR)
"Botanical stills II" de Mijlpaal, Knokke-Heist (BE)
"About desire and consolation", Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou, (BE)
"The Homecoming", curator Jan Van Woensel, 252 CC, Ekeren (BE)
"Viriditas", de mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder (BE)
"Blind date", DAK, Amsterdam (NL)
"Le pays le plus laid du monde?", Halluin (FR)
"Dolers", Dendermonde (BE)
"Botanical stills" de Mijlpaal, Knokke-Heist (BE)
2017
"Inspiratie - Landschap", curators Kristof Reulens & Eddie Guldolf, C-Mine, Genk (BE)
"Provinciale prijs beeldende kunsten 1997-2017", Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen (BE)
"El Camino- a way between two pionts", curator Christa Vyvey, KADOC, Leuven (BE)
‘You don’t need an app to experience the real thing’, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels (BE)
"Yart",Gent, (BE)
"Celibataire Divas", Hasselt, (BE)
"Southern Comfort", Fort 5, Edegem, (BE)
2016
"Coup de ville", curator Stef Van Bellingen, St Niklaas (BE)
"Périples", espace culturel de la FDE, Montpellier (FR)
"Tradition doesn't graduate", curator Nikolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk/KOMPLOT, Brussels (BE)
"Hommage", BOZAR, Brussels (BE)
"MANAMA@Hole of the Fox", Antwerpen (BE)
"Interrupting The City", Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp (BE)
"El Camino- a way between two pionts", curator Christa Vyvey L.A.C. Sigean, (FR)
"Provencial price east-flanders", Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen (BE)
"Water WAR", curator Christophe De Jaeger, Buda Kortrijk (BE)
"El Camino- a way between two pionts", curator Christa Vyvey , Brugge (BE)
2015
"PLATFORM",Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin (IE)
"Fabric Spaces", Curator: Sevie Tsampalla, Piano Fabriek, Brussel (BE)
"Aandacht Aandacht!", De warande Turnhout/C-mine Genk (BE)
"St-Lucas @Biënalle of Venice", Arsenale, (IT)
"Line-up", Gent (BE)
Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou (BE)
'Stille, stomme getuigen', A Gallery Named Sue, The Hague (NL)
'ART TRACES', Langemark-Poelkapelle (BE)
'Immersie!', De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder (BE)
2014
'Tussentijd', Oosterzele (BE)
"Citadellarte",colaboration with M HKA, Diest (BE)
'Private Shelter', Vrijstaat O, Oostende (BE)
"Cuesta"curator Frederik Van Laere, Tielt (BE)
"MDD veiling, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
"Kunstenfestival Can'Art", Kuurne (BE)
"Nightshop",MDD, Knokke (BE)
‘Tussenwereld, Intercommunale Westlede, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
‘Warum? Iedereen zijn oorlog’, Zonnebeke (BE)
‘The medium of everything’, School of arts Ghent, Ghent (BE)
‘Crox 458’, Croxhapox, Ghent (BE)
2013
‘Over Liefde die we niet begrijpen’, Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou (BE)
‘Museum aan de overkant’, VZW Wit.H, Kortrijk (BE)
‘Cantaté’, Kunstenhuis, Harelbeke (BE)
‘Spiegelbeelden,’ MADO, Kortrijk (BE)
‘The Big Draw, we draw our relationship’, The Big Draw, Ghent (BE)
2012
'de Canvascollectie/ la collection RTBF', BOZAR, Brussels (BE)
‘OFF TRACK', Ghent (BE)
‘BHArt#01', Red Fisch factory, Borgerhout (BE)
‘Kunstensalon Sant’, Bruges (BE)
2011
'Paradise lost Paradise', Sint-Maartenskerkhof, Kortrijk (BE)
'Label 08', KASK, Ghent (BE)
2010
The Swan Song of parking palace, Kortrijk (BE)
'Canvas collectie', BOZAR, Brussels (BE)
'fast forward', M HKA, Antwerp (BE)
'privat public painting', MuZEE, Ostend (BE)
'CERTIFIED COPY', Verbeke foundation, Kemzeke (BE)
2009
'How to save the world in 10 day's scrapbook', Vooruit, Ghent (BE)
'Places of memory, Places of vision', Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome (IT)
'Wie biedt meer?', Flagey, Brussels (BE)
Logement, Antwerp (BE)
'The ever mass land', Nadine, Brussels (BE)
'Nowhere/ Now here', Art track, Ghent (BE)
'New Times Roman', timefestival, Ghent (BE)
'The Apartment Project",Curator Laurence Dujardyn, London (UK)
2008
'KASKweek', KASK, Ghent (BE)
'At first sight', iMAL, Brussels (BE)
'Canvas collectie', BOZAR, Brussels (BE)
2007
'KASKweek', KASK, Gent (BE)
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2020
"ruins", Drongenhof chapel, Gent(BE)
"Bang, Bang" show with Veerle Michiels, Raverzyde, Oostende (BE)
2019
"Denkraum", Gasthuiskapel, Borgloon (BE)
"Reflections",THE WRONG HOUSE, Kortrijk (BE)
2018
"Mr. House"(an introduction), Cité international des Arts, Paris (FR)
"Palimpsest interventions", streetart project, Paris (FR)
2017
"Mr.House", The Trophy Room, Curator Sevie Tsampalla /Alexander J. Croft , Liverpool (UK)
"Double Standard, Yart,Gent (BE)
"WANDER MEANDER II", curator Lieven Van den Abeele &Hendrik Tratsaert in the private home of Julie Vandenbroucke & Michel Espeel, Wander Meander is an initiative of the artist duo Sarah & Charles (BE)
2015
"A Pile of Homes", curator Sandra Rogier,Tour & Taxis, Brussels (BE)
"A House is not a Home, Mike Kelley version", curator Gerry Van Tendeloo, permanent installation @ Libaert projects, Kortrijk (BE)
2013
"Mentale ruimtes",Zottegem (BE)
"Form Follows Fiction ", Waregem (BE)
2012
"Habitat, un séjour à titre temporaire", Bortiergalerij, Brussels (BE)
2011
"A Space of Confinement", Benedengalerie,Kortrijk (BE)
"A Space of Confinement", Hopstreet, Brussels (BE)
"Front", Fotorama, Wevelgem (BE)
2010
"Beyond the story", CC SPOOR, Harelbeke (BE)
2009
"Immersion: Atelier 7", SEAS CC Scharpoord, Knokke (BE)
Awards & selections in competitions
2018
selection: 50th Grand Prix of Actual Drawing", Ronse (BE)
2015
winner of provencial price East-Flanders, Gent (BE)
2014
Winner of Jan Van Rijswijck center, WARP, St-Niklaas (BE)
2013
3th price PBK City of Harelbeke (BE)
2012
selected for Canvas collection, Brussels (BE)
2010
Winner of the IMP award for young talent
selected for Canvas collection, Brussels (BE)
2008
selected by Jan Hoet for the Rodenbach award
selected for Canvas collection, Brussels (BE)
Residencies/Grants
2022
Werktank, Leuven, (BE)
2021
Sundaymorning@ekwc, Oisterwijk (NL)
Modernism for the Future, Leiedal & Kaunas – European Capital of Culture
2020
Rucka, Cesis,(LV) cancelled by Covid
2019
Sundaymorning@ekwc, Oisterwijk (NL)
ZK/U, Center for Art and Urbanistics Berlin, (DE)
2018
Cité internationale des arts, Paris (FR)
Grant, Government of Flanders, (BE)
2016-2017
Emile Vandoorne Museum, Genk (BE)
Grant, Government of Flanders, (BE)
2016
Our Institutional Futures, Winterschool, School of Creative Arts, Dublin(IE)
2014
Grant, Government of Flanders, (BE)
2008
Rome spring academy, Rome (IT)
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