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Veerle Beckers 1976
Vit à Ghent (BE). Travaille dans Ghent (BE).
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Kristof De Clercq gallery
Veerle Beckers (b. 1976, Belgium) searches for a very strong sense of immediacy in her images. Her gaze is never detached or objectifying. She often creates fragile closeups of everyday or emblematic affairs. Her work resonates with a huge fascination for capturing the impermanence, the temporariness of things, efforts to hold on to them as if they were cherished memories.
Despite its immediacy, Beckers’s work is not photographic. It doesn’t want to ‘tie things down’ irrefutably. Beckers’s brush technique is not used to create a meticulously realistic account of things. Consciously not, for Beckers has all the technical skill to do so if she wishes. The abstraction in her work, its fundamental two-dimensional nature, her quest for clear often recognisable or even universal forms or figures: it all seems to be rooted in a deeper wish to develop a simple understandable language. Her own language, a language that has the right to exist alongside the many other languages in the art of painting that Beckers so fluently masters. And that language springs from a wonderful combination of abstracting gaze and one of extreme closeness. The former isolates things from their normal surroundings and tries to pare them down to their essence. The latter tries to make their fragile specificity even more tangible.
Despite its immediacy, Beckers’s work is not photographic. It doesn’t want to ‘tie things down’ irrefutably. Beckers’s brush technique is not used to create a meticulously realistic account of things. Consciously not, for Beckers has all the technical skill to do so if she wishes. The abstraction in her work, its fundamental two-dimensional nature, her quest for clear often recognisable or even universal forms or figures: it all seems to be rooted in a deeper wish to develop a simple understandable language. Her own language, a language that has the right to exist alongside the many other languages in the art of painting that Beckers so fluently masters. And that language springs from a wonderful combination of abstracting gaze and one of extreme closeness. The former isolates things from their normal surroundings and tries to pare them down to their essence. The latter tries to make their fragile specificity even more tangible.
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VEERLE BECKERS
Born in 1976 in Ghent, Belgium.
Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2023
Remparts, Kristof De Clercq gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2022
KunstINgang #19, Schouwburg Noord (CC Merksem), Merksem, Belgium
2020
Bonanza, Kristof De Clercq gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2017
Bernice, Nylonfabriek, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium (with Hans Everaert and Yves Velter)
2015
Echoes and Dust, Salon Blanc, Ostend, Belgium (with Harlinde De Mol)
2008
KBC Tower, Antwerp, Belgium (on the occasion of winning the KBC prize, Canvascollectie)
Warp, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium (with Katie Lagast and Carole Vanderlinden)
2004
Galerie De Vos, Aalst, Belgium (with Jiri Szeppan)
Galerie J&K Beckers, Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium
2003
Museum Leon Desmet, Deurle, Belgium (with Stief Desmet)
2002
This is Love in 2002, Galerie J&K Beckers, Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium (with Stief Desmet)
2001
Galerie J&K Beckers, Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2023
Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (with Kristof De Clercq gallery)
2022
KRASJ-6 (Biënnale Actuele Kunst) - De (on)mogelijke ontmoeting, Klooster van de Zusters der HH Harten, Ninove, Belgium
Verweven (curated by Marie Mees), Shönfeld Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Vier maal Vier (16 jaar kunstenplatform Warp), Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (with Kristof De Clercq gallery)
2021
[RR] Stemmingen, Platvvorm, Deinze, Belgium
2021
[RR] Stemmingen, Platvvorm, Deinze, Belgium
2018
Harry and Friends, Stoom, Oudenaarde, Belgium
Fair and Square II, CC De Ververij, Ronse, Belgium
2017
All You Need is the Lavatory, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium
Kabinet #5, Ghent, Belgium
2016
SX MT VRF, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium
Ghost, Handelsbeurs, Ghent, Belgium
Riso-expo, AMOK, Aalst, Belgium
TIG#4, Tumult in Gent, Campo, Ghent, Belgium
BAD, Eskimo-fabriek, Ghent, Belgium (curated by Stef van Bellingen)
2015
Kunst @ Rode Kruis, Ronse, Belgium
Veerle Beckers nodigt uit ... Lisette de Greeuw, Annelien Vermeir, Campo Santo, Ghent, Belgium
2010
Coup de Ville, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium (curated by Stef Van Bellingen and Jan Hoet)
2009
Uit het geheugen, Museum Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
2008
Fragile, Hoet - Bekaert gallery, Ghent, Belgium
De Canvascollectie, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
2004
De Selectie, Prijs voor Schilderkunst, CC Boechout, Belgium
Gaverprijs 2004, CC De Schakel, Waregem, Belgium
2003
Kunstnier, De Centrale, Ghent, Belgium
Born in 1976 in Ghent, Belgium.
Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2023
Remparts, Kristof De Clercq gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2022
KunstINgang #19, Schouwburg Noord (CC Merksem), Merksem, Belgium
2020
Bonanza, Kristof De Clercq gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2017
Bernice, Nylonfabriek, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium (with Hans Everaert and Yves Velter)
2015
Echoes and Dust, Salon Blanc, Ostend, Belgium (with Harlinde De Mol)
2008
KBC Tower, Antwerp, Belgium (on the occasion of winning the KBC prize, Canvascollectie)
Warp, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium (with Katie Lagast and Carole Vanderlinden)
2004
Galerie De Vos, Aalst, Belgium (with Jiri Szeppan)
Galerie J&K Beckers, Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium
2003
Museum Leon Desmet, Deurle, Belgium (with Stief Desmet)
2002
This is Love in 2002, Galerie J&K Beckers, Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium (with Stief Desmet)
2001
Galerie J&K Beckers, Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2023
Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (with Kristof De Clercq gallery)
2022
KRASJ-6 (Biënnale Actuele Kunst) - De (on)mogelijke ontmoeting, Klooster van de Zusters der HH Harten, Ninove, Belgium
Verweven (curated by Marie Mees), Shönfeld Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Vier maal Vier (16 jaar kunstenplatform Warp), Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (with Kristof De Clercq gallery)
2021
[RR] Stemmingen, Platvvorm, Deinze, Belgium
2021
[RR] Stemmingen, Platvvorm, Deinze, Belgium
2018
Harry and Friends, Stoom, Oudenaarde, Belgium
Fair and Square II, CC De Ververij, Ronse, Belgium
2017
All You Need is the Lavatory, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium
Kabinet #5, Ghent, Belgium
2016
SX MT VRF, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium
Ghost, Handelsbeurs, Ghent, Belgium
Riso-expo, AMOK, Aalst, Belgium
TIG#4, Tumult in Gent, Campo, Ghent, Belgium
BAD, Eskimo-fabriek, Ghent, Belgium (curated by Stef van Bellingen)
2015
Kunst @ Rode Kruis, Ronse, Belgium
Veerle Beckers nodigt uit ... Lisette de Greeuw, Annelien Vermeir, Campo Santo, Ghent, Belgium
2010
Coup de Ville, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium (curated by Stef Van Bellingen and Jan Hoet)
2009
Uit het geheugen, Museum Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
2008
Fragile, Hoet - Bekaert gallery, Ghent, Belgium
De Canvascollectie, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
2004
De Selectie, Prijs voor Schilderkunst, CC Boechout, Belgium
Gaverprijs 2004, CC De Schakel, Waregem, Belgium
2003
Kunstnier, De Centrale, Ghent, Belgium
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