Nel Aerts
Nel Aerts
Nel Aerts
(°1987, BE)
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
Nel Aerts focuses on an intermedial versus a (semi-)iconic way of handling materials and media. Furthermore, she observes how the position of the artist is misrepresented by the world. In her drawings, paintings that look like woodcuts that have got out of hand, performative videos and sculptural installation she questions how various media, artistic calling and the world relate, using a mix of tragedy, poetry, fiction, humour and art historical references. Humour, loneliness, sadness, taboo, escapism, the journey, the boat trip, optimism, the mask/masquerade—all of these are elements that recur in her paintings, collages, sculptures and actions. At the same time her practice and work also bear witness to a stubborn faith in the creative, material and moving powers of contemporary art. (Sofie Van Loo)
Artworks
Exhibitions w/ Nel Aerts
Fairs w/ Nel Aerts
News
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Nel Aerts & Vaast Colson at BRASS
06.03.2020–08.03.2020 -
Nel Aerts Performance at M Leuven
16.11.2019 -
Nel Aerts at Museum M
24.10.2019–15.03.2020 -
Nel Aerts dubble solo at Kunsthalle Lingen and Westfaelischer kunstverein
08.03.2019–12.05.2019 -
Affiniteiten#1 Nel Aerts >< Vaast Colson
28.10.2018–02.12.2018 -
Nel Aerts - Ontmaskerd Maske - Warande
09.12.2017–18.02.2018
Downloads
- Biography
- De Tijd, 'Een Reis met Melancholie in de Zeilen', over expo Roger Raveel Museum - Unreadiness
- De Tijd, 'Dansen met de slangenbezweerder', Nel Aerts in Museum M Leuven
- De Standaard 'Nel Aerts maakt hoge verwachtingen waar in Turnhout'
- De Tijd, 'Sensueel of grappig kies maar'
- Gazet Van Antwerpen - 'Nel Aerts gaat Van Gogh achterna'
- Westfälischer Kunstverein: Nel Aerts
- Art Is Next - Nel Aerts: Haus der Wanderer
- Retrospektiven - NEL AERTS‚ HAUS DER WANDERER