02 september 2025, Flor Linckens
13 exciting artworks on a small budget (<€500)
Did you know that GalleryViewer platforms more than 23,000 artworks from galleries in the Netherlands and Belgium? You can easily search by medium, such as photography, video art or sculpture, but also by artists that are represented in the collections of leading museums like Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, M HKA or the MoMA. You can also filter by price. Right now, there are about 1,300 works featured on the platform that are priced under €500. In this overview, we highlight thirteen compelling works that fall within that price range.
For his intimate series "Galaxy S6", Salim Bayri (Galerie van Gelder) creates small gouaches that take on the form of a smartphone, effectively combining traditional techniques and a contemporary visual language.
For her project "Toujours la liberté / Always freedom", Elsa Leydier (Galerie Caroline O’Breen) affixes photographs to shells, age-old symbols of motherhood and birth, as a metaphor for autonomy over the female body and as a gesture of support for the threatened maternity clinic Maternité des Lilas in France. The work is part of "The Disobediences", a broader ecofeminist series that questions the exploitation of both women and nature.
The work of Alice Janne (EVA STEYNEN GALLERY) is often described as "scientific pop art" or "archaeology of the present". In her 3D animations, the artist explores the interplay between the real and the virtual, questioning the boundaries of painting and sculpture.
For his exhibition 'I can’t ask you to hike one mountain while I hike the other', François Dey invited his gallerist Kees van Gelder (Galerie van Gelder) on a multi-day hike through the Swiss mountains. Walking together symbolised connectedness, resulting in a series of twelve unique iris screen prints that capture their shared experience as an ephemeral travelogue.
Lothar Wolleh (Coppejans Gallery) was a German photographer closely associated with the international avant-garde of the 1960s. He portrayed over a hundred leading artists and his intense collaborations, including with Joseph Beuys, produced iconic images that continue to shape how we remember these figures today.
With her projects, Yamuna Forzani (Rademakers Gallery) builds towards a queer utopia where textiles, typography and performance serve as powerful tools for emancipation and self-expression. Through her artistic practice and her involvement in the ballroom scene, she creates communities that are centred on freedom, creativity and solidarity.
For the series "Blisters (Me and Mum)", David Haines (Upstream Gallery) casts various pill strips that belong to himself and his mother in porcelain, turning care and dependency into a tangible form in a material that is both fragile and resilient. The imperfections of the casts create an intimate, almost autobiographical portrait.
Martha Scheeren (Rik Rosseels Gallery) explores in her paintings how colour and light interact, creating works that seem almost palpable in their intensity.
Rainbow Soulclub (Ellen de Bruijne Projects), founded by Saskia Janssen and George Korsmit, is a collective where artists and people from diverse backgrounds collaborate from the Blaka Watra drop-in centre. Within this open structure, artistic projects emerge alongside mutual support, ranging from joint productions to practical help in daily life.
Hemaseh Manawi Rad (Galerie Bart) translates personal stories and Persian fables into brightly coloured, padded textile works where patterns and symbols form a unique visual language. Drawing from both her Iranian and Western background, she investigates how contrasts and layers can generate new forms of recognition and meaning.
In "Vessels of Home", Rowan Moonlion (Galerie Caroline O’Breen) examines how rituals, myths and objects can evoke a sense of home and belonging. The resulting work envisions a world where humans, nature and history are woven together as equals.
Xavier Duffaut (Ballroom Gallery) transforms everyday objects into aesthetic and poetic interventions in which art history and popular culture converge. With wit and precision, he challenges the values and meanings attached to these seemingly banal forms.
For nearly twenty years, Wannes Lecompte (EVA STEYNEN GALLERY) has been investigating painting as an autonomous act, with colour, rhythm and texture at the forefront. His layered brushstrokes create compositions with a distinct musicality, balancing between intensity and silence.
