Veroniek Van Samang
In her ceramic sculptures, Veroniek Van Samang explores the relationship between balance, growth, and structural order. Her works are carefully constructed yet retain a sense of openness and vulnerability. Surfaces remain tactile, edges deliberate, and volumes finely calibrated, creating a quiet equilibrium in which forms appear stable yet never entirely fixed.
In the exhibition we show works out of the series Behind the Fence. This series consists of ceramic sculptures presented in combination with wooden supports, together forming a kind of sculptural garden. The works emerge from a layered visual language that is both repetitive and generative. Starting from collages of abstracted forms derived from nature, Van Samang develops sculptural structures that seem to expand outward, suggesting an organic and potentially endless universe.
Although firmly sculptural, the works can also be understood as spatial compositions that unfold much like paintings in three dimensions. Colour, surface, and rhythm interact across the ceramic elements, allowing the sculptures to be experienced as layered fields rather than closed volumes. This painterly sensibility is closely connected to Van Samang’s background: she obtained a Master in Fine Arts in painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp .
Van Samang gathers materials such as wood, plastic, paint, metal, and fragments of ceramic, combining them in new configurations. The resulting works reflect an ongoing negotiation between organic growth and human order, suggesting both the fragility of cultural structures and the enduring force of nature. In their quiet balance between expansion and restraint, these sculptures resonate closely with the sensibility that shapes The Quiet Between Things.
Veroniek Van Samang (b. 1988, Belgium) lives and works in Antwerp. She obtained a Master in Fine Arts (Painting) from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2013 and completed an Advanced Master of Research in Art & Design at Sint-Lucas School of Arts Antwerp in 2019. In 2024 she completed a Master in Fine Arts (Ceramics) at PXL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt. Her work has been presented in exhibitions including at the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren, SMAK in Ghent, and various galleries and project spaces in Belgium.