Stan Van Steendam

Bio | Selected works

Stan Van Steendam's (BE,1985) enigmatic work, made with his bare hands, challenges our ideas of tradition and modernity: sculptural objects and monochromatic explorations, respectively tactile and meditative. Van Steendam's practice, whose matrix is intuitive, aims to deconstruct the materiality of painting, which he explores through an extensive process of layering raw pigments, plaster and other materials such as ash, dirt and dust. A new approach to tradition that enables new perceptive experiences.

STAN VAN STEENDAM
Born 1985, Belgium, Lives and works between Brussels and Lisbon

EDUCATION
2003 — 2007, Master in Visual Arts, Ghent, BE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Traces / Jacob Bjorn Gallery / Aarhus, DK Solo / Uma Lulik / Lisbon, PT Down the Trail / Barbé Urbain / Ghent, BE

2021 Dust Road / Galeria Nordés / Santiago de Compostela, ES

2020 Lá de além / Bjorn & Gundorp Gallery / Aarhus, DK
Palazzo Monti in collaboration with Sunday-S gallery and Bjorn & Gundorph Gallery / Brescia, IT

2019 Poeira / Magazyn / Antwerp, BE Lagoas / Archiraar / Brussels, BE

2018 I’ve never built anything on new land / Barbé Urbain / Ghent, BE  Chiarificazione / Theca Gallery / Milan, IT New Works / Asphodel / New York, USA
Cinzento / Archiraar / Brussels, BE
What does it matter / Boeckercontemporary / Heidelberg, DE
Kosmos / Galerie LOOF / Jubbega, NL
Pico installation / vitrine jeune artiste / Les Brasseurs art contemporain / Liège, BE

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 XL / group show / Barbé Urbain / Ghent, BE G/ART/EN / duo show with Sarah Loibl / Como, IT ART ROTTERDAM / Duo with Middernacht & Alexander / Barbé Urbain / Rotterdam, NL
Visible Invisible / Barbé Urbain, Ghent, BE / curated by Domenico de Chirico

2020 Staycation / Barbé Urbain / Ghent, BE

2019 Galerie Albert Dumont / Brussels, BE
Summer Group Show including works from Private collections / Sunday-S Gallery / Copenhagen, DK BREATHE and FREE / Museum St. Wendel, DE
ZWRT / Barbé Urbain / Ghent, BE

2018 The future has no presence / Asphodel / New York, USA Absolute / Boeckercontemporary / Heidelberg, DE

2017 Harvest / Theca Gallery / Milan, IT
Aspetti di superficie / Theca Gallery / Milan, IT Panach / D’apostrof / Meigem, BE

2016 Galerie Albert Dumont / Brussels, BE  (in)cohérences / Abstract Project / Paris, FR

2015 Pico installation / vitrine Hidden project / Brussels, BE

FAIRS
2021 Art Rotterdam / represented by Barbé Urbain
2019 Enter Art Fair / Copenhagen / represented by Gallery Jacob Bjorn 2019 Collectible / art & design fair, Brussels
2018 Galeristes / art fair Paris / represented by Archiraar
2017 Galeristes / art fair Paris / represented by Archiraar

ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2021 Valke Vleug / Puurs (BE)

2019 Palazzo Monti / Brescia (IT)

2017 Cripta747 / Torino (IT)
2016 Syntax / Lisbon (PT)
2015 Prainha / Pico (PT)