Joost Pauwaert 

BIO | SELECTED WORKS

(Belgium, 1985), lives and works in Gent

Joost Pauwaert (BE, °1985) loves heavy wooden and metal machines and objects such as anvils, cannons and giant saw blades. He makes the machines himself, starting from technical challenges. Can he make a heavy anvil balance on a spring? Or catapult it and catch it in a funnel? Can he make his own cannon? Or make two cannons fire at each other simultaneously so that the cannonballs hit each other and deform?

Watch Joost Pauwaert’s latest performance ‘A new study for an end of the world’ - Homage to Jean Tinguely.
The performance was executed on Sunday August 14th 2022 at 21.00 in front of an audience in Beernem, Belgium.

The artistic beauty of these ventures derives from the originality of the questions, on the opposite side of the usual forms of artistic expression.
Actually, they precede and take us back to times when science and art were closer to each other than today. Or they lead us back to fundamental questions in sculpture, which always had to do with gravity and density.

Here we come closer to a fundamental poetry, which stems from the beauty of things themselves.

(text by Hans Theys)

CV

Joost Pauwaert
Born in 1985
Lives and works in Gent, Belgium

Education
Photography (2014)
KASK, Gent, BE

Selected exhibitions:

2023 <…> / group show / Barbé / Ghent, BE Art Antwerp / Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery / Antwerp, BE Probings, Observations, Actions & Artefacts / Barbé gallery / Ghent, BE Luxembourg Art Week / Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery / Luxemburg, LU Art Cologne / Galerie Eric Mouchet / Cologne, DE Hof Ter Saksen / group show / Beveren, BE Eldorado group show / Dudzele, BE Hold Your Horses / Ponti Gallery / Duo Alice Vanderschoot / Antwerp, BE De Grote Vogelshow / Pizza Gallery / Antwerp, BE Art Brussels / Dauwens & Beernaert gallery / Brussels, BE   La Primavera / Archipel / Otegem, BE   In Medias Res / Barbé / Ghent, BE   Duo show with Charlie De Voet / ART ROTTERDAM / Rotterdam, NL Everybody Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth / Barbé Urbain / Ghent, BE

2022 Art on paper / Group show / Vanderborght Building / Brussels, BE Duo show / Marco De Sanctis ‘Sturm und Drunk’ / Dauwens & Beernaert gallery / Brussels, BE
Performance ‘A new study for an end of the world, Homage to Jean Tinguely’ / hosted by Pizza gallery / Beernem, BE
Group show / ‘Works on paper’ / Barbé-Urbain / Ghent, BE
Duo show w/ Kris Martin / Gevaertsdreef01 / Oudenaarde, BE
Solo show / ‘Het vliegende aambeeld’/ Emergent / Veurne, BE
Duo show / Joost Pauwaert & Guy Slabbinck ‘Dead Parrots and Flying Hammers’ / Bruthaus gallery / Waregem, BE

2021

Group show / ’PASS kunstroute’ / initiated by Krist Martin / curated by Jan Hoet Jr. / Mullem, Huise, Wannegem / Lede, BE
Group show / ‘XL’ / Barbé Urbain gallery / Ghent, BE
Solo show / ’Concerto for Two Cannons, a Saw, an Anvil and Some Hammers’ / Barbé Urbain gallery / Ghent, BE

2020
Group show ‘STAYCATION’ / a group show on location / Barbé Urbain gallery / Ghent, BE
Presentation of permanent installation ‘Twee Grote Hamers’ / Verbeke Foundation / Kemzeke, BE

2019
Group show / ‘Foudroyé’ / Barbé Urbain gallery / Ghent, BE

Group show / JETSAM / Avee gallery / Kortrijk, BE

Group show / BIENNALE VAN BELGIE / Floaralïenhal / Ghent, BE Duo show / BEATING THE BUSHES in de ruimte / Ghent, BE

2018
Group show / NIGHTSHIFT / de studio / Antwerp, BE

Group show / PERFORMANCE ART WEEKEND / P/Rops Ghent, BE

Duo expo / 13 YEARS OF HYSTERIA / Blanco / Ghent, BE

2017

Solo / SOUTERRAIN / Artist’ studio / Ghent BE