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Born 1990 in Gent.
Lives and works in Ostende, Belgium.
Max Kesteloot delves up images from an extensive and chaotic archive of photographs and short films, looking for what he calls “things he could have painted”. Following the classical idea of what a painting is, he works with acrylic and ink pigment on Belgian linen. The works of Kesteloot seem to frame the almost unnoticed background, the square centimeters next to a movie star’s head, or a vague memory, halted. (…)
Having “a five finger discount on everything he sees”, Max Kesteloot pickpockets images. A twig put on a windshield or a streetcorner view, they are stills from short films, often frozen mid-zoom. Working on canvas now with digital images rather than on wood with analogue print as he used to, allows him agility in size while letting him reframe the painting until the last minute, playing with its negative space. (…) His choice of scenes suggest a presence of a “before” and an “after”, as the grain of the filmic early digital camera grants movement to his still lives.
A life between stillness and motion, he either spends stretches of time on each one of these paintings hibernating in the Ostend studio, or driving around the South with a mattress in the trunk, snapping images in a trail of continuity, like bugs on the rear window. Kesteloot, moved by a will to paint, looks for “good lost corners, places that appeal to him”. (…) Max Kesteloot’s aesthetics have a strong air of that, and a salty sunny gush of America. A single yellow rose, a blurry palmtree outline, it’s the type of images you could imagine living in the corner of Lana del Rey’s batting lashes.
(excerpts from a text by Céline Mathieu, April 2023)
Lives and works in Ostende, Belgium.
Max Kesteloot delves up images from an extensive and chaotic archive of photographs and short films, looking for what he calls “things he could have painted”. Following the classical idea of what a painting is, he works with acrylic and ink pigment on Belgian linen. The works of Kesteloot seem to frame the almost unnoticed background, the square centimeters next to a movie star’s head, or a vague memory, halted. (…)
Having “a five finger discount on everything he sees”, Max Kesteloot pickpockets images. A twig put on a windshield or a streetcorner view, they are stills from short films, often frozen mid-zoom. Working on canvas now with digital images rather than on wood with analogue print as he used to, allows him agility in size while letting him reframe the painting until the last minute, playing with its negative space. (…) His choice of scenes suggest a presence of a “before” and an “after”, as the grain of the filmic early digital camera grants movement to his still lives.
A life between stillness and motion, he either spends stretches of time on each one of these paintings hibernating in the Ostend studio, or driving around the South with a mattress in the trunk, snapping images in a trail of continuity, like bugs on the rear window. Kesteloot, moved by a will to paint, looks for “good lost corners, places that appeal to him”. (…) Max Kesteloot’s aesthetics have a strong air of that, and a salty sunny gush of America. A single yellow rose, a blurry palmtree outline, it’s the type of images you could imagine living in the corner of Lana del Rey’s batting lashes.
(excerpts from a text by Céline Mathieu, April 2023)
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MAX KESTELOOT — CV
CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2024 Things a nice evening can solve
Groupshow with Enrico Bach & Cosimo Casoni at Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg (LU)
2024 "No one else can feel it for you."
November 7th – December 21st 2024, soloshow at PONTI, Antwerp (BE)
2024 Luxembourg Art week
Groupshow at Luxemburg Art week, Luxemburg (LU)
PAST EXHIBITIONS
2024 Body moving, Duoshow with Maarten Van Roy at 10N, Menorca (ES)
2024 Aesthetic Echoes, Groupshow at PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2024 Art Brussels, Group presentation during Art Brussels with 10N featuring Julien Auregan, Nicolas Bourthoumieux, Max Kesteloot and Maarten Van Roy, Brussels, (BE)
2024 LA INVITACIÓN, Groupshow at Burr studio, Madrid (ES) with Michael Swaney, Juan Narowé, Amaya Suberviola, Secundino Hernández, Miguel Marina, Marie-Cêcile Aptel, ChiaoHan Chueh, Eloy Arribas, Tracey Slater, Julián Cruz, Maíllo & Max Kesteloot.
2024 Gaverprijs 2024, Groupshow, finalists of the Prize, Be-Part, Waregem (BE)
2023 Darling, it could have been anywhere, solo exhibition at Everyday Gallery, Antwerp (BE) 2023 Art Brussels, Group booth participation with Everyday Gallery
together with Bram Kinsbergen, Daan Gielis, Erik Chiafele, Max Kesteloot, Michiel Ceulers, Tom Volkaert, touche—touche 2023 B-SIDES & RARITIES, Groupshow at Fred & Ferry, Antwerp (BE)
2023 PANORAMA, Groupshow, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca (ES)
2023 LET'S FILL THIS TOWN WITH ARTISTS, Groupshow curated by Charlotte Crevits, AHWNN gallery, Ostend (BE)
2022 ULTERIEUR 2022, Broeltorens – 8500 KORTRIJK
2022 BILDNIS, Public lecture for Bildnis, Mu.Zee – Oostende
2022 CENDAR BRUSSELS, Group show at Galerie Zotto,Brussels (BE)
2022 TOMORROW NEVER DIES, Groupshow at Platform 6a, curated by Tanguy Van Quickenborne – in collaboration with Demain, Otegem (BE)
2022 CLUB TERMINUS, Groupshow with Benoit Plateus, Tom Volkaert, Ricardo Passaporte, Max Kesteloot, Natasja Mabesoone, Simon Laureyns & Nazif Lopulissa, Ostend (BE)
2021 POTLUCK, Groupshow at Everyday Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2021 A STANDARD. THE REAL FAKE BOOK, Soloshow at NIGHTTIMESTORY, Los Angeles (USA)
2021 ULTERIEUR 2021, Groupshow at Avee Gallery, Kortrijk (BE) 2021 TAYLLOORE, Groupshow at former bakery of King Pistolet, curated by Floris Hoorelbeke, Ostend (BE) With works and performances by – amongst others – Bert Huyghe, Matthieu Ronsse, Dieter Durinck, Karel Tienpoint, Floris Horelbeke, Natasje Mabesoone, Louise Delanghe & Meyer Leroy.
2021 F/a - workshop, Workshop for Festival van de architectuur in collaboration with mu-zee-um, Ostend
2021 F/a, Festival van de architectuur – Vlaams Architectuurinstituut VAi
Curatorial program for the Flemish Architecture Institute VAi – WE ZULLEN ZIEN – “WE SHALL SEE”, Ostend (BE)
2021 BACKYARD, Groupshow with – amongst others – Andy Wauman, Simon Laureyns, Manor Grunewald, Natasje Mabesoone, Joselito Verschaeve, Thomas Vandenberghe & Sybren Vanoverberghe at BACKYARD. An exhibition by Platform 6A, Deweer Gallery & Backyard. Curated by Sybren Vanoverberghe, Otegem (BE)
2021 BELGIAN ART & DESIGN FAIR
Groupbooth with Kunst aan Zet & Barbé Urbain Gallery, Curated by Wim Lambrecht, Ghent (BE)
2021 Duoshow with atelier Pica Pica at Gevaertsdreef 01 September 2021, Oudenaarde (BE)
2021 XL, Groupshow at Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent (BE), With works by Adelheid De Witte, Charlie De Voet, Flexboj & L.A., Joost Pauwaert, Manor Grunewald, Max Kesteloot, Middernacht & Alexander, Nokukhanya Langa, Ritsart Gobyn, Sharon Van Overmeiren, Stan Van Steendam, Sybren Vanoverberghe, and Willem Boel.
2021 LIMITED EDITIONS, Groupshow at Gevaertsdreef 01, Oudenaarde (BE)
2021 ADAPTATION, Groupshow at NIGHTTIMESTORY, Los Angeles (US)
2021 NEYBOR, Groupshow at Neybor, Brussels (BE), With works by Ilan Weiss, Vincent Chenut, Heidi Ukkonen & others, Curated by Demain.
2021 NINE TOOLS AND SOME FRAGMENTS, Soloshow at NO/ gallery, Ghent (BE)
2020 GOOD LOST CORNERS, PLACES THAT APPEAL TO ME, Soloshow at CENTRALE.box, 2020, Brussels (BE), Curated by Tania Nasielski & Carine Fol
2020 STAYCATION, Groupshow at Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent (BE) With works by Adelheid De Witte, Adriaan Verwée, Benjamin Moravec, Benoît Platéus, Charlie De Voet, Jan De Cock, Flexboj & L.A., Erlend Grytbakk Wold, Jens Kothe, Joost Pauwaert, Just Quist, Louise Delanghe, Manor Grunewald , Marijke Vasey, Max Kesteloot, Middernacht & Alexander, Natasja Mabesoone, Panamarenko, Roeland Tweelinckx, Simon Laureyns, Stan Van Steendam, Sybren Vanoverberghe, Tamara Van San, Xavier Mary and Xavier Robles de Medina.
2020 ZOMERSALON, Groupshow at Kunsthal, Ghent (BE)
2020 EINMAL ALLES - ALLES EIN MAL, Groupshow at Goeben Berlin Berlin (DE)
2020 Raus Project vol. 2, 2020, Groupshow in Hamburg, (DE) – Curated by Pol Summer. 2020 REFLECTIONS IN TRANSITION, Groupshow at Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent (BE), With Marlies De Clerck, Erlend Grytbakk Wold, Max Kesteloot, Natasja Mabesoone & Marijke Vasey.
2019 EXPOSURE, Groupshow at mjfinearts, Ghent (BE)
With amongst others, Sybren Vanoverberghen, Felix Fasolt & Willem Boel.
2019 ARTCONTEST, Groupshow at Espace Vanderborght, Brussels (BE)
With Bas Van Den Hout, Léo Luccioni, Lien Van Ranst, Luke James, Maik Garnica, Marlies De Clerck, Max Kesteloot, Mostafa Saifi, Rahmouni, Natasja Mabesoone & Yoel Pytowski.
Granted 2nd laureate with both the Prize Collectioneurs et Amateurs d’art as well as the Prize CENTRALE for contemporary art during the 15th ArtContest!
2019 MDD PARTY & AUCTION, Ghent (BE), museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
2019 Biënnale van België III, Floraliënhal (SMAK) Gent (BE) Festival van Belgische hedendaagse kunst – with 019 2019 ASANNAT, Ostend (BE), Independent groupshow with works by Atelier Pica Pica, Dieter Durinck, Leo Gabin, Lucas Dupuy, Manor Grunewald, Max Kesteloot & Simon Laureyns.
2019 TROPICAL NIGHT, soloshow at 019, Ghent (BE)
2019 Feet First Fair, Brussels/Ostend (BE)
2019 SALON BLANC 37, groupshow at Salon Blanc, Ostend (BE)
Max Kesteloot, Simon Laureyns, Yoann Van Parys.
Curated by Els Wuyts.
2019 NEIGHBOURS VOL. 8 'ARTIST COLLECTIONS’, groupshow at RIOT, Ghent (BE); Groupshow with an insight in personal private collections of Leo Gabin, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Xavier Mary, Max Frintrop & Manor Grunewald.
Works by Landon Metz, Harmony Korine, Eric Croes, Benoit Platéus, Max Kesteloot, Marius Lut, Luc Fuller, Bert Huyghe, Jana Schröder, Walter Swennen & more
2019 Residency at ‘woning Vanwassenhove – Juliaan Lampens, Curated by museum Dhondt Dhaenens – Deurle (BE)
2018 Extended call Pt. 3, groupshow at Subsidiary Projects, London (UK), Curated by Nelle Gevers & Billy Fraser.
2019 Ghent Art Book Fair, – Ghent (BE) Screening of film Spot Spots – prologue due to circumstances
2017 Feet First Fair, June 2017, MACAO – Milano (IT) Screening of film Spot Spots – prologue due to circumstances
2015 The production of space, NUCLEO – Ghent (BE) Group exhibition entry with GAFPA.
Alongside Thierry Mortier, Olivier Goethals, Luanda Casella & Giovanni Barcella, Bert Heytens, Kristof Lemmens & Paul C. Luttik, Thomas De ridder & Bert Joostens, Curated by Felix Fasolt.
2014 Nowhere – Part 1, Soloshow in KERK, Ghent (BE)
BOOKS
GOOD LOST CORNERS Max Kesteloot In close collaboration with atelier Haegeman Temmerman. © 2020 Max Kesteloot First edition of 300 copies, August 2020 Design:atelier Haegeman Temmerman. Printed and bound in Belgium. Text and images: Max Kesteloot, Prologue text: Bart Decroos
SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances
A photographic essay in search of the most idyllic spot in Europe concept, text & images by Max Kesteloot Text Editing by Bart Decroos, Graphic Design: atelier Arthur Haegeman Printed in an edition of 75
CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2024 Things a nice evening can solve
Groupshow with Enrico Bach & Cosimo Casoni at Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg (LU)
2024 "No one else can feel it for you."
November 7th – December 21st 2024, soloshow at PONTI, Antwerp (BE)
2024 Luxembourg Art week
Groupshow at Luxemburg Art week, Luxemburg (LU)
PAST EXHIBITIONS
2024 Body moving, Duoshow with Maarten Van Roy at 10N, Menorca (ES)
2024 Aesthetic Echoes, Groupshow at PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2024 Art Brussels, Group presentation during Art Brussels with 10N featuring Julien Auregan, Nicolas Bourthoumieux, Max Kesteloot and Maarten Van Roy, Brussels, (BE)
2024 LA INVITACIÓN, Groupshow at Burr studio, Madrid (ES) with Michael Swaney, Juan Narowé, Amaya Suberviola, Secundino Hernández, Miguel Marina, Marie-Cêcile Aptel, ChiaoHan Chueh, Eloy Arribas, Tracey Slater, Julián Cruz, Maíllo & Max Kesteloot.
2024 Gaverprijs 2024, Groupshow, finalists of the Prize, Be-Part, Waregem (BE)
2023 Darling, it could have been anywhere, solo exhibition at Everyday Gallery, Antwerp (BE) 2023 Art Brussels, Group booth participation with Everyday Gallery
together with Bram Kinsbergen, Daan Gielis, Erik Chiafele, Max Kesteloot, Michiel Ceulers, Tom Volkaert, touche—touche 2023 B-SIDES & RARITIES, Groupshow at Fred & Ferry, Antwerp (BE)
2023 PANORAMA, Groupshow, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca (ES)
2023 LET'S FILL THIS TOWN WITH ARTISTS, Groupshow curated by Charlotte Crevits, AHWNN gallery, Ostend (BE)
2022 ULTERIEUR 2022, Broeltorens – 8500 KORTRIJK
2022 BILDNIS, Public lecture for Bildnis, Mu.Zee – Oostende
2022 CENDAR BRUSSELS, Group show at Galerie Zotto,Brussels (BE)
2022 TOMORROW NEVER DIES, Groupshow at Platform 6a, curated by Tanguy Van Quickenborne – in collaboration with Demain, Otegem (BE)
2022 CLUB TERMINUS, Groupshow with Benoit Plateus, Tom Volkaert, Ricardo Passaporte, Max Kesteloot, Natasja Mabesoone, Simon Laureyns & Nazif Lopulissa, Ostend (BE)
2021 POTLUCK, Groupshow at Everyday Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2021 A STANDARD. THE REAL FAKE BOOK, Soloshow at NIGHTTIMESTORY, Los Angeles (USA)
2021 ULTERIEUR 2021, Groupshow at Avee Gallery, Kortrijk (BE) 2021 TAYLLOORE, Groupshow at former bakery of King Pistolet, curated by Floris Hoorelbeke, Ostend (BE) With works and performances by – amongst others – Bert Huyghe, Matthieu Ronsse, Dieter Durinck, Karel Tienpoint, Floris Horelbeke, Natasje Mabesoone, Louise Delanghe & Meyer Leroy.
2021 F/a - workshop, Workshop for Festival van de architectuur in collaboration with mu-zee-um, Ostend
2021 F/a, Festival van de architectuur – Vlaams Architectuurinstituut VAi
Curatorial program for the Flemish Architecture Institute VAi – WE ZULLEN ZIEN – “WE SHALL SEE”, Ostend (BE)
2021 BACKYARD, Groupshow with – amongst others – Andy Wauman, Simon Laureyns, Manor Grunewald, Natasje Mabesoone, Joselito Verschaeve, Thomas Vandenberghe & Sybren Vanoverberghe at BACKYARD. An exhibition by Platform 6A, Deweer Gallery & Backyard. Curated by Sybren Vanoverberghe, Otegem (BE)
2021 BELGIAN ART & DESIGN FAIR
Groupbooth with Kunst aan Zet & Barbé Urbain Gallery, Curated by Wim Lambrecht, Ghent (BE)
2021 Duoshow with atelier Pica Pica at Gevaertsdreef 01 September 2021, Oudenaarde (BE)
2021 XL, Groupshow at Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent (BE), With works by Adelheid De Witte, Charlie De Voet, Flexboj & L.A., Joost Pauwaert, Manor Grunewald, Max Kesteloot, Middernacht & Alexander, Nokukhanya Langa, Ritsart Gobyn, Sharon Van Overmeiren, Stan Van Steendam, Sybren Vanoverberghe, and Willem Boel.
2021 LIMITED EDITIONS, Groupshow at Gevaertsdreef 01, Oudenaarde (BE)
2021 ADAPTATION, Groupshow at NIGHTTIMESTORY, Los Angeles (US)
2021 NEYBOR, Groupshow at Neybor, Brussels (BE), With works by Ilan Weiss, Vincent Chenut, Heidi Ukkonen & others, Curated by Demain.
2021 NINE TOOLS AND SOME FRAGMENTS, Soloshow at NO/ gallery, Ghent (BE)
2020 GOOD LOST CORNERS, PLACES THAT APPEAL TO ME, Soloshow at CENTRALE.box, 2020, Brussels (BE), Curated by Tania Nasielski & Carine Fol
2020 STAYCATION, Groupshow at Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent (BE) With works by Adelheid De Witte, Adriaan Verwée, Benjamin Moravec, Benoît Platéus, Charlie De Voet, Jan De Cock, Flexboj & L.A., Erlend Grytbakk Wold, Jens Kothe, Joost Pauwaert, Just Quist, Louise Delanghe, Manor Grunewald , Marijke Vasey, Max Kesteloot, Middernacht & Alexander, Natasja Mabesoone, Panamarenko, Roeland Tweelinckx, Simon Laureyns, Stan Van Steendam, Sybren Vanoverberghe, Tamara Van San, Xavier Mary and Xavier Robles de Medina.
2020 ZOMERSALON, Groupshow at Kunsthal, Ghent (BE)
2020 EINMAL ALLES - ALLES EIN MAL, Groupshow at Goeben Berlin Berlin (DE)
2020 Raus Project vol. 2, 2020, Groupshow in Hamburg, (DE) – Curated by Pol Summer. 2020 REFLECTIONS IN TRANSITION, Groupshow at Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent (BE), With Marlies De Clerck, Erlend Grytbakk Wold, Max Kesteloot, Natasja Mabesoone & Marijke Vasey.
2019 EXPOSURE, Groupshow at mjfinearts, Ghent (BE)
With amongst others, Sybren Vanoverberghen, Felix Fasolt & Willem Boel.
2019 ARTCONTEST, Groupshow at Espace Vanderborght, Brussels (BE)
With Bas Van Den Hout, Léo Luccioni, Lien Van Ranst, Luke James, Maik Garnica, Marlies De Clerck, Max Kesteloot, Mostafa Saifi, Rahmouni, Natasja Mabesoone & Yoel Pytowski.
Granted 2nd laureate with both the Prize Collectioneurs et Amateurs d’art as well as the Prize CENTRALE for contemporary art during the 15th ArtContest!
2019 MDD PARTY & AUCTION, Ghent (BE), museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
2019 Biënnale van België III, Floraliënhal (SMAK) Gent (BE) Festival van Belgische hedendaagse kunst – with 019 2019 ASANNAT, Ostend (BE), Independent groupshow with works by Atelier Pica Pica, Dieter Durinck, Leo Gabin, Lucas Dupuy, Manor Grunewald, Max Kesteloot & Simon Laureyns.
2019 TROPICAL NIGHT, soloshow at 019, Ghent (BE)
2019 Feet First Fair, Brussels/Ostend (BE)
2019 SALON BLANC 37, groupshow at Salon Blanc, Ostend (BE)
Max Kesteloot, Simon Laureyns, Yoann Van Parys.
Curated by Els Wuyts.
2019 NEIGHBOURS VOL. 8 'ARTIST COLLECTIONS’, groupshow at RIOT, Ghent (BE); Groupshow with an insight in personal private collections of Leo Gabin, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Xavier Mary, Max Frintrop & Manor Grunewald.
Works by Landon Metz, Harmony Korine, Eric Croes, Benoit Platéus, Max Kesteloot, Marius Lut, Luc Fuller, Bert Huyghe, Jana Schröder, Walter Swennen & more
2019 Residency at ‘woning Vanwassenhove – Juliaan Lampens, Curated by museum Dhondt Dhaenens – Deurle (BE)
2018 Extended call Pt. 3, groupshow at Subsidiary Projects, London (UK), Curated by Nelle Gevers & Billy Fraser.
2019 Ghent Art Book Fair, – Ghent (BE) Screening of film Spot Spots – prologue due to circumstances
2017 Feet First Fair, June 2017, MACAO – Milano (IT) Screening of film Spot Spots – prologue due to circumstances
2015 The production of space, NUCLEO – Ghent (BE) Group exhibition entry with GAFPA.
Alongside Thierry Mortier, Olivier Goethals, Luanda Casella & Giovanni Barcella, Bert Heytens, Kristof Lemmens & Paul C. Luttik, Thomas De ridder & Bert Joostens, Curated by Felix Fasolt.
2014 Nowhere – Part 1, Soloshow in KERK, Ghent (BE)
BOOKS
GOOD LOST CORNERS Max Kesteloot In close collaboration with atelier Haegeman Temmerman. © 2020 Max Kesteloot First edition of 300 copies, August 2020 Design:atelier Haegeman Temmerman. Printed and bound in Belgium. Text and images: Max Kesteloot, Prologue text: Bart Decroos
SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances
A photographic essay in search of the most idyllic spot in Europe concept, text & images by Max Kesteloot Text Editing by Bart Decroos, Graphic Design: atelier Arthur Haegeman Printed in an edition of 75
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