Past
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William Ludwig Lutgens, 'Fantasy Supplement'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 12 Oct - 17 Nov 2024 William Ludwig Lutgens (1991, Turnhout), two years after his last solo exhibition on Belgian soil, invites us into his world again, which has lately been populated by new and transformed archetypes. A man with devil ears and a tie stares before him while dragon-like hand puppets seem to conjure him.... Read more -
Beni Bischof, 'No More Reality'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 12 Oct - 24 Nov 2024 “I translate spontaneous thoughts on social and political topics into bizarre and comical messages, into words and symbols of disarming immediacy. At the same time, I transport the promising and illusory world of glamour into subtle quotations of pictures and text. The banality of everyday life is disregarded, as are... Read more -
Florian Tomballe, 'Sculptures and Drawings'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 7 Sep - 6 Oct 2024 PLUS-ONE Gallery is very excited to announce the first solo exhibition by Florian Tomballe at the gallery. Florian Tomballe, born in 1988, lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. He is skilled as both a draughtsman and a sculptor, blending traditional craftsmanship with modern aesthetics. After graduating as a sculptor from... Read more -
Hadassah Emmerich, 'Creole Collidoscope'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 7 Sep - 6 Oct 2024 PLUS-ONE Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by Hadassah Emmerich at the gallery (New South). Hadassah Emmerich is regarded as one of today’s most important Dutch painters. She makes exuberant, sensual paintings that stimulate the senses. Her creative process has a cyclic character, in which shapes and patterns keep recurring... Read more
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'Liquid Marks'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 22 Jun - 1 Sep 2024 With Liquid Marks, PLUS-ONE Gallery brings an ode to Summer, by hailing water in its many facets. As the summer sun peaks, water’s cool presence balances the heat, symbolizing life's harmony. An exhibition revolving around water with watercolor works and/ or water-themed works during this time captures this balance. Water-themed... Read more -
'Whispers in the breeze, seeking shade'
PLUS-ONE Gallery (NEW SOUTH) 22 Jun - 1 Sep 2024 PLUS-ONE Gallery presents the summer group exhibition 'Whispers in the breeze, seeking shade' at the gallery (New South). In the ephemeral dialogue between light and shadow, where the whispers of nature merge with human expression, artists come together to explore the delicate interplay of visibility and darkness. The summer group... Read more -
Sébastien Reuzé, 'Mascletà'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 16 May - 16 Jun 2024 Sébastien Reuzé ‘Mascletà’ 16.05 – 16.06.2024 In the warmth of a compact crowd, staring up at the sky, the anticipation is palpable. The first explo-sion suddenly breaks the silence and lacerates the blue sky with its powdery trail. It is instantly fol-lowed by a succession of other explosions, countless in... Read more -
'Aesthetic Echoes'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 16 May - 16 Jun 2024 With Aesthetic Echoes, PLUS-ONE Gallery wants to revive the appreciation, intimacy and ritual of the iconic format. Through paying homage to the significance of the album cover artwork, while embracing the feasibility of contemporary artistic interpretation. It endeavors to revive the profound appreciation, while capturing the nostalgic importance associated with... Read more
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Bert Danckaert, 'THE STATE OF THINGS'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 30 Mar - 5 May 2024 PLUS-ONE Gallery presents the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Bert Danckaert. Belgian photographer Bert Danckaert's first solo exhibition 'THE STATE OF THINGS' at PLUS-ONE Gallery brings together work from the series Horizon, True Nature and Unfinished Cities made between 2014 and 2023. Each of the images is a... Read more -
Roy Mordechay, 'Silent Partners'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 24 Feb - 24 Mar 2024 Rising from the primordial chaos as it strives towards entropy, it penetrates ever up upwards, dreaming itself out of the numinous. The darkness reveals translucent figures painted as if with light itself: creatures that are lone, disembodied heads and fragmented body parts. They float in a vacuum, rotating on their... Read more -
'Disabstraction Sunrise'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 24 Feb - 24 Mar 2024 'Disabstraction Sunrise' Group exhibition curated by Xavier Noiret-Thomé in collaboration with Jason Poirier dit Caulier. The Disabstraction Sunrise exhibition is a highly personal ode to the magnificent playground now open to artists of all media. An infinite field of possibilities where we can navigate between Pop figures, monochromy, tachism, subterranean... Read more -
Laurens Legiers, 'A Whimsy Odyssey'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 13 Jan - 18 Feb 2024 Born in 1994 in Antwerp, Legiers already started drawing landscapes before enrolling at the Painting Department of Antwerp’s Fine Art Academy, where he finally was able to focus solely on his artistic work. While landscapes remained a constant fixture in his practice, his way of conveying them has developed progressively... Read more
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'FACE TIME'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 25 Nov 2023 - 7 Jan 2024 A genre with such extensive history like portraiture, proves to be a generous, yet challenging subject matter for an ambitious and playful group show. FACE TIME presents a large-scale selection of artworks so diverse, that it makes us face age-old questions regarding portraits: What's the desired impression that an image... Read more -
Nelleke Cloosterman 'Dawn goes down to day'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 25 Nov 2023 - 7 Jan 2024 Playing with chance through a book of poetry for each day of the year, Cloosterman picked a poem that was to give title to her exhibition, choosing only the date which she (wrongfully) thought to be the opening of her debut solo at PLUS-ONE gallery. ‘Dawn goes down to day,’... Read more -
Sven 't Jolle, 'Vroeger was ik ook voor de vrede'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 14 Oct - 19 Nov 2023 PLUS-ONE Gallery presents the solo exhibition by Sven 't Jolle at the gallery (New South). In the promotional image for Sven ‘t Jolle’s latest exhibition, an illustration depicts a figure standing at a grand window, looking down at a crowd that appears to be protesting outside. Some of the protesters... Read more -
Judit Kristensen, 'Vanity'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 14 Oct - 19 Nov 2023 PLUS-ONE Gallery presents the solo exhibition 'Vanity' by Judit Kristensen at the gallery (South). Poised between phenomenological rituals and capitalist violence, sleep and dream, hysteria and catalepsy, the actors animated by Judit Kristensen’s vital and creative drive, thoroughly examining the physiological and psychological parameters of this inner, translucent theater, they... Read more
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... And that's only (half) the story
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 2 Sep - 8 Oct 2023 In every century the ‘roaring ‘20’ provide new insights in society, technology and art. One can’t neglect the fuzz and impact deepfakes, AI, Chat GPT and other less visible technologic innovations are having on our daily life. The current web3, a more decentralised and user controlled internet is inspiring and... Read more -
Céline Mathieu, 'Hifi Stereo Vacuum Tube'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 24 Jun - 27 Aug 2023 In her first exhibition in a commercial gallery, Céline Mathieu (1989, Belgium) looks into the (in)visible circulation of goods. The idea of a constant stream of material and its crossings with value, economy and feelings, forms the basis for Hifi Stereo Vacuum Tube. Her practice is both conceptual and sensory,... Read more -
Manor Grunewald, 'EXTERNAL HARD DISK / WORK' Part I & II
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 24 Jun - 27 Aug 2023 With his second solo exhibition at PLUS-ONE Gallery, Manor Grunewald will present a new line of work spread in to two parts: EXTERNAL HARD DISK /WORK part 1 EXTERNAL HARD DISK /WORK part 2 A girl looking sideways at her phone someone softly breathing an industrious student with hiking boots.... Read more -
Ritsart Gobyn, 'Prologue'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 18 May - 18 Jun 2023 Exhibition text by Koi Persyn. Click here to read. At first sight, Ritsart Gobyn's paintings appear to be a random collection of traces of a creative process. Paint splashes, smudges, wood remnants, pieces of tape or shreds of paper cover unprimed pieces of linen. All around there are pieces of... Read more
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Mevlana Lipp, 'Soleil'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 13 May - 18 Jun 2023 Mevlana Lipp's artworks glow in the dark. The security of a nightlight, the neon dream of a rave party, the bioluminescent power of nature, the dawn of spiritual awakening, the phosphorescent rapture of a galaxy-far-far-away, afterimages stinging on the retina, the glow of comfort in dark times, the blast of... Read more -
József Csató, 'Hair hours, Skin minutes, Bone seconds'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 1 Apr - 7 May 2023 József Csató's oeuvre evokes an immediate feeling of reliance. It is like coming home to well-known genres such as landscape, portrait, still life, narrative, and abstraction. Hints of recognition play with imagination. With a colour palette that makes sombre and lively clash until they embrace each other, the artist creates... Read more -
INTERSTATE OF MIND
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 25 Feb - 26 Mar 2023 Jenny Brosinski, Corydon Cowansage, Max Frintrop, Tatjana Gerhard, Nicholas William Johnson, Judit Kristensen, Jean-Pierre Temmerman, Julia Trybala, Sharon Van Overmeiren The group exhibition INTERSTATE OF MIND was born from the feeling of being mesmerised by 'something', something mysterious, something not quite right that just makes us feel drawn to it.... Read more -
Filip Vervaet, 'Passages'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 24 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 Text by Anna Laganovska passage /ˈpæsɪʤ/ noun plural passages 1 a long, narrow space that connects one place to another A wavering spray-painted line on a wall marks a distance crossed within a given amount of time in passing. Architecture is turned into a canvas by a gesture that is... Read more
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Kasper De Vos, 'Sluimertijd'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 14 Jan - 19 Feb 2023 Aan de andere kant van de sluimertijd: art as a waking dream “We willen je wiegen naar de andere kant van de sluimertijd.” Marieke Lucas Rijneveld “L’acte de peindre s’accomplit pour qu’apparaisse la poésie et non pour que le monde soit réduit à la variété de ses aspects matériels.” René... Read more -
Victor Verhelst Victor Verhelst, 'TOXIC HAWAII' Art Hack Antwerp
ART ANTWERP 15 - 18 Dec 2022 'TOXIC HAWAII' Art Hack Antwerp is Victor Verhelst’s (°1997) virtual VR hijack of the physical collaborative booth by ‘PLUS-ONE Gallery’ and ‘Gallery Sofie Van de Velde’ during Art Antwerp where he presents both previous and new work from his current solo exhibition ‘TOXIC HAWAII’ at PLUS-ONE Gallery. As scale and... Read more -
Victor Verhelst, 'TOXIC HAWAII'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 3 Dec 2022 - 8 Jan 2023 Victor Verhelst (born 1997) is a Belgian visual artist whose work lies between autonomous and commissioned artistic projects. Always started from a digital art piece the output consists of very diverse mediums. Victor's solo exhibition 'TOXIC HAWAII' is a sequal an his ever ongoing series 'TRIPPY VEGAS': his conception of... Read more -
Damien Meade
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 26 Nov 2022 - 8 Jan 2023 In looking at Damien Meade’s recent work we are reminded that there is a cleaving at the heart of painting. Painting is not singular, it is noun (the thing of it) and it is verb (the doing of it); it is object and it is process. Cleaving is a helpful... Read more
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Carole Vanderlinden 'A slipping glance'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 15 Oct - 20 Nov 2022 Carole Vanderlinden keeps her options open, without committing to any stylistic idiom, any signature-like manner of painting. Vanderlinden’s painterly approach can be described as a ‘neither/nor’ attitude; neither purely figurative nor strictly abstract, but both and none at the same time. Vanderlinden’s painterly practice is invested in matter, in the... Read more -
William Ludwig Lutgens 'My mind is the mind of a fish'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 3 Sep - 10 Oct 2022 My mind is the mind of a fish is a solo exhibition by William Ludwig Lutgens, presenting a selection of the artist’s most recent drawings and paintings. The works of Lutgens often emerge as a condensation of the streams of information that flow through his mind, from news programmes to... Read more -
Lysandre Begijn, 'Echo's Answer'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 1 Sep - 16 Oct 2022 Echo’s Answer, the title of this exhibition, encompasses a contradiction. Since an echo is a repetition, a resonance of a sound or something that was said before, it cannot be an answer. Yet, perhaps, in the resonance of repetition a visceral answer may hide. In its ritualistic, almost shamanistic repetition,... Read more -
Infinite Flowers, part 4
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 25 Jun - 21 Aug 2022 A blooming group show about the infinite inspiration of flowers 25.06 - 21.08.22 “From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves half way up and unfurling at the tip red or blue or yellow petals marked with spots of colour raised upon... Read more
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Proof of Work, What's at Stake?
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 26 May - 26 Jun 2022 During Antwerp Art Weekend, PLUS-ONE Gallery will presents under the title “Proof of Work - What’s at Stake?”, an exhibition dedicated to digital art and will it explore the possibilities of NFT-technology can bring to artists and the gallery. Participating artists are Nicholas William Johnson, Victor Verhelst, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven,... Read more -
Tatjana Gerhard, 'THE POWER OF ILLUSION - THE ILLUSION OF POWER'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 14 May - 19 Jun 2022 Tatjana Gerhard (born 1974) has been living and working in Ghent, Belgium, since 2010. Born and raised in Switzerland and with a partly Croatian background, she started her artist life there after studying at the art academy in Zurich. With (participation in) exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Italy and France,... Read more -
Altered States
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (NEW SOUTH) 2 Apr - 8 May 2022 PLUS-ONE Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming group exhibition, entitled 'Altered States'. Participating artists are Mevlana Lipp, Ritsart Gobyn, Filip Vervaet, Roy Mordechay & Nelleke Cloosterman. Altered States Take me there Concept of Words Tober & Tober, Darpe Ciem We have a suggestion that before we decide either to... Read more -
József Csató, 'Crickets in the carpet'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY (SOUTH) 12 Mar - 10 Apr 2022 The chirping sound of crickets scraping the edges on their wings is often a trigger for memories of untouched nature and relaxing getaways, echoing the ambiance of calmness, peace, and the lightness of being. Yet, seeing one of these robust insects in a home surrounding is likely to induce a... Read more
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Xavier Noiret-Thomé, 'Metastudio'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 26 Feb - 27 Mar 2022 Xavier Noiret-Thomé's proposal for his first solo exhibition at PLUS-ONE Gallery perfectly encapsulates the visual and conceptual richness of his artistic practice. It is nourished by the history of art and painting, perfectly anchored in its era and at the same time completely aware of the challenges of painting in... Read more -
Laurens Legiers, 'Dusk till Dawn'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 15 Jan - 20 Feb 2022 Considering his young age, artist Laurens Legiers (1994) has a very recognizable style. His work is clearly legible, his painting technique, even. He uses soft, rounded visuals and modest colours, focusing on the entire motif rather than on minute details. This keeps the surface tempered, mild. As a viewer you... Read more -
Manor Grunewald, 'COPY & DUPLICATE'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (SOUTH) 4 Dec 2021 - 16 Jan 2022 In the work of Manor Grunewald images become self-reflexive entities referring to the techniques through which they are generated, as well as to the situations in which they are perceived. Grunewald!s work is processual, turning the procedures in which it is made into the message it conveys. Recasting its outer... Read more -
Sergio De Beukelaer, '- Spot.Light'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 27 Nov 2021 - 9 Jan 2022 The use of light in painting has a long history. In the Old Masters’ paintings light often falls through the window as a kind of holy intervention, light that depicts silence. In the Clair Obscure, for example, it’s the absence of the light source that plays a leading role. De... Read more
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Nicholas William Johnson, 'They Regard Us As We Regard Them'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 16 Oct - 21 Nov 2021 ‘A Pure and Rigorous Aesthetic’ The botanist Francis Hallé observes that, ‘plants elaborate themselves according to strict rules, rules that lead to the conceptualisation of models’. The dynamics of these models and their further implications are investigated in Nicholas William Johnson’s new paintings. In his works these rules are altered... Read more -
Mevlana Lipp, 'Pacific'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (SOUTH) 18 Sep - 17 Oct 2021 Solo exhibition of Mevlana Lipp (1989, DE), who lives in Leverkusen and works in Düsseldorf. Strange Creatures It stretches, furrows, snakes about. It grows like a vine, inexorably. It feels and grasps its way. It nudges and sniffs. Glowing and wafting, one arm stretches to the next. All is connected.... Read more -
Carole Vanderlinden & Carlos Caballero
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 4 Sep - 10 Oct 2021 Duo exhibition with works by Carole Vanderlinden & Carlos Caballero. Carole Vanderlinden (b. 1973, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium) Carlos Caballero (b. 1983, Camagüey, Cuba. Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium) Carole Vanderlinden: Reflections on her recent works during an animated studio visit It is rare to encounter... Read more -
Beni Bischof, 'Mom, are we in a movie?'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 19 Jun - 22 Aug 2021 Beni Bischof works unrestrainedly and intuitively. He playfully condenses the grotesque, ridiculous, banal, and absurd in a cryptic and ironic manner using a wide variety of media. In addition to drawings, collages, paintings, sculptures, and installations, his self-published magazine Lasermagazin, which has appeared since 2005, attests to his eruptive creative... Read more
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Sharon Van Overmeiren, 'Take Out'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (SOUTH) 22 May - 20 Jun 2021 Looking for a state of rapture that leaves the body stupefied while the spirit is out? You have come to the right place for an abundance of soul food to fill the hollow body. Don’t eat with your hands, don't forget to compliment the chef,but as long as your mouth... Read more -
Ritsart Gobyn, 'The Endless Rehearsal'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 13 May - 13 Jun 2021 After breakfast, back at his workstation, he scans the screen with his eyes. The image is sharp as a tack, his eyes rove over the paintings as far as his gaze can stretch, as if reproducing them with his stare. And yet he feels he’s not close enough, because he’s... Read more -
'Lost In Translation'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 10 Apr - 9 May 2021 Vaast Colson, Sergio De Beukelaer, Tatjana Gerhard, Ritsart Gobyn, Laurens Legiers, Mevlana Lipp, Damien Meade and Filip Vervaet show the volatility. A moment that never becomes reality, this theme was passed on from artist to artist and thus became more distorted. It is tempting to see links between the different... Read more -
Kasper De Vos, 'A Shepherd's poem'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (SOUTH) 4 Mar - 11 Apr 2021 With the title ‘A Shepherd’s Poem’ the Belgian artist Kasper De Vos refers to the tradition of the Pastoral Poetry. This tradition leads back to the Greek poet Theocritus (3rd century BC) who seduced the elite of Alexandria in his poems with a glorification of the rustic rural life of... Read more
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Nel Aerts, 'SWALLOW MAELSTROM HUT HEADS'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 27 Feb - 4 Apr 2021 NA is a jack-of-all-trades. By resolutely embracing the pseudonym, Nel Aerts becomes NA. She makes her debut with performance, then turns to painting, immediately taking on monumental textile works, bizarre objects and colourful seating. A hectic trail of large international solo exhibitions follows from 2019–2020, after which she retreats to... Read more -
Jenny Brosinski, 'Wish you were here'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 16 Jan - 21 Feb 2021 Brosinski is not only a painter. Of course, there are painterly aspects such as colors, forms, lines and composition. But together, they reveal a story. ‘Wish You Were Here’ shows large canvases, often larger than life. Brosinski uses these formats because they seem more challenging, it’s as if her body... Read more -
William Ludwig Lutgens, 'A Comedy of Humours'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (SOUTH) 17 Dec 2020 - 17 Jan 2021 All the world's a stage and according to William Ludwig Lutgens (1991) the theatre unfolding itself on it is a comedy. The scenes he brings together in this exhibition express his understanding of the human condition in all its vibrant absurdity. Seemingly banal sequences from the everyday life are enriched... Read more -
Filip Vervaet, 'Sedimental Journey'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 17 Oct 2020 - 3 Jan 2021 The strata of the Earth is a jumbled museum. Embedded in the sediment is a text that contains limits and boundaries which evade the rational order, and social structures which confine art. -Robert Smithson, A Sedimentation of the Mind, 1968 The final decades of last century saw the proliferation of... Read more
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Laurens Legiers, 'Soft Thoughts'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (SOUTH) 1 - 25 Oct 2020 When Romanticism evolved around the idea of glorifying emotions, imagination, subjectivity, and the beauty of nature in late 18th century Europe, many works of art were a direct response to the industrial revolution that was rapidly changing every aspect of life. Now, some 200 years later, Belgian painter Laurens Legiers... Read more -
Groupshow 'Extra Time'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 5 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 This international group show looks from various angles at the different roles of sport in our society with its visual language of colors and formations. The human body has been a focus point in art throughout history. The sculpted male torso, streamlined by athletics or gymnastics, is the ideal image.... Read more -
Groupshow L'Heure Bleue (Part II)
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 1 - 23 Aug 2020 L’heure bleue is that moment when the sun has set, but the night has not fallen yet. This phenomenon of the blue hour takes place just before sunrise or sunset, when a ray of natural light hits the sky and turns everything blue. This twilight moment only lasts a short... Read more -
Groupshow L'Heure Bleue (Part I)
PLUS-ONE GALLERY , (NEW SOUTH) 9 Jun - 23 Aug 2020 L’heure bleue is that moment when the sun has set, but the night has not fallen yet. This phenomenon of the blue hour takes place just before sunrise or sunset, when a ray of natural light hits the sky and turns everything blue. This twilight moment only lasts a short... Read more
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Jean Schwind Provocations Part I: Erotic Works
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 7 Mar - 31 May 2020 Jean Schwind. Provocations Part I: The Erotic Works Jean Schwind (1935-1985), the most infamous and enigmatic figure in Belgian art of the 1970s, is the pseudonym of Jean Warie. He studies Romance Philology at Ghent University, and from 1966 to 1972 is an academic assistant there. In 1969 he has... Read more -
Carole Vanderlinden 'À Double Face'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 11 Jan - 1 Mar 2020 Carole Vanderlinden makes paintings. Like almost all painters, she draws too. You could say that Vanderlinden’s work rises up out of her sketchbooks, which don’t contain preparatory studies in the classic sense, but rather visual jottings: a constant stream of copied things and small formal experiments, sometimes interspersed with a... Read more -
Vivien Zhang + Matt Hansel, Antwan Horfee, Sarah & Charles, Sergio De Beukelaer, Vaast Colson 'Echo Chamber'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 30 Nov 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 Antwan Horfee, Matt Hansel, Sarah & Charles, Sergio De Beukelaer & Vaast Colson The title of this group show is self-reflexive. An echo chamber is a metaphorical description of a situation in which beliefs are amplified or reinforced by communication and repetition inside a closed system. The exhibition, by bringing... Read more -
Nel Aerts, William Ludwig Lutgens, Kasper De Vos, Filip Vervaet, ... 'Off Balance'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 19 Oct - 24 Nov 2019 PLUS – ONE Gallery presents OFF BALANCE. A group exhibition with works from gallery artists Kasper De Vos, Nel Aerts, Filip Vervaet, William Ludwig Lutgens and Dennis Tyfus & Antoine Vandewoude, Baldvin Einarsson. Rather than showing a chain of selected objects within a curatorial frame, OFF BALANCE aims to expose... Read more
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Jenny Brosinski, Filip Vervaet, Maen Florin 'On My Way'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY , (NEW SOUTH) 7 Sep - 13 Oct 2019 PLUS-ONE Gallery presents ‘On My Way’, the opening exhibition of the season 2019-2020, representing works of Maen Florin (BE), Filip Vervaet (BE) and Jenny Brosinski (GER). The exhibition collects recent works of these three artists and places them in mutual dialogue. ‘On my way’, ‘onderweg’ in Dutch, implies both a... Read more -
Vaast Colson 'Exploring Nooks and Crannies'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 22 Jun - 25 Aug 2019 Episode I – DISPLAY 22.06.19 – 14.07.19 Opening 22.06.19 (14:00-18:00) Episode II - EXPEDITION 15.07.19-02.08.19 (Gallery summer closure) Episode III - EXHIBITION 03.08.19 – 25.08.19 Opening 03.08.19 (14:00-18:00) For the project ‘Exploring nooks and crannies’ PLUS-ONE gallery & Vaast Colson join forces. The project will be set in the PLUS-ONE... Read more -
Beni Bischof 'Bad Habits in the Museum Café'
(FOTOMUSEUM, PIXEL CAFÉ) 16 May - 16 Aug 2019 The Swiss artist Beni Bischof was given carte blanche to work on Pixel, the cafe of the Photo Museum. Bischof work can be read as an ironic commentary on the banality of everyday life. And where does that better come to the surface than at the café? As can be... Read more -
Antwan Horfee 'I'm the glue'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 11 May - 16 Jun 2019 ‘I’m the Glue’, Antwan Horfee’s second solo exhibition at PLUS-ONE Gallery, offers an overview of his recent artistic practice. Horfee spent his entire youth using the public spaces of his urban (and global) neighborhood to find a personal form of expression. Choosing not to settle for the most conventional life... Read more
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Marie Aly 'Drifters and Strollers'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 16 Mar - 5 May 2019 Strange, I've seen that face before, See him hanging 'round my door, Like a hawk stealing for the prey, Like the night waiting for the day. (Grace Jones / Barry Reynolds / Astor Piazzolla) PLUS-ONE Gallery and The Amazing Popping Eyes are proud to present - Drifters and Strollers -,... Read more -
Groupshow 'Looking at the world through rose coloured glasses'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 19 Jan - 3 Mar 2019 Looking At The World Through Rose Coloured Glasses, is: Adam Leech - Andy Warhol - Antwan Horfee – Arman - Bendt Eyckermans - Beni Bischof - Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx - Bent Van Looy - Bram Bogart - Carole Vanderlinden - Catharina Dhaen - Charline Tyberghein – Dadamaino - David... Read more -
Jenny Brosinski 'It Only Makes It Worse To Live Without It'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 1 Dec 2018 - 13 Jan 2019 Process and materiality, one could say, are Jenny Brosinski's main interests. The result of her painterly activity could be described as expressionist… or 'maybe it's a kind of neo-expressionist minimalism? ;-)' as the artists once put it herself ironically. In truth, she does not like to think in categories at... Read more -
Guillaume Bijl, Nicholas W Johnson, Stephanie Hier, Vivien Zhang 'BE:YO:ND'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 20 Oct - 18 Nov 2018 BE:YO:ND Groupshow with Guillaume Bijl - Nicholas William Johnson - Stephanie Hier - Vivien Zhang We live in a network culture. The current times are no longer easy to define with a set of intellectual ideas, such as modernism or postmodernism. Whereas historiography often defines periods of time with a... Read more
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Soft? Tactile Dialogues in Collaboration with MOMU
28 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 'Soft? Tactile Dialogues' is about the freedom with which artists move between various media, about unexpected textile applications, about tactility and aversion, and about the textures and the skin of sculptures. Exhibition in collaboration with MOMU (Fashion Museum of Antwerp) and curated by Elisa De Wyngaert. The exhibition is part... Read more -
Antwan Horfee, Tom Volkaert, Stevie Dix, Jenny Brosinski 'Make Your Mark'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 1 Sep - 14 Oct 2018 Four young and promising artists, making their mark on the contemporary art scene. At the start of this new art season, PLUS-ONE Gallery brings together Jenny Brosinski, Stevie Dix, Antwan Horfee and Tom Volkaert in a group show that honours their individual practice and their professional respect for each other.... Read more -
Groupshow 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 30 Jun - 19 Aug 2018 Andy Warhol, Amélie Bouvier, Beni Bischof, Cleon Peterson, Georgina Gratrix, Karin Hanssen, Kasper De Vos, Koen Van den Broek, Max Pinckers, Mike Bouchet, Nicholas William Johnson, Sergio De Beukelaer, Sven ’t Jolle. As Summer comes closer, it is already undeniably obvious: days become longer, flowers start blooming, people share social... Read more -
Kasper De Vos 'The Dance For Mobile Reception'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (BERCHEM) 24 - 27 May 2018 On the occasion of Antwerp Art Weekend 2018, PLUS-ONE Gallery (Berchem) shows a solo presentation by Kasper De Vos. In 'The Dance for Mobile Reception', the artist takes us inside and around sculptures. He usually works with found materials, and especially previously disposed of objects. He transforms them into new... Read more
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Nel Aerts 'Checkered Checkmate'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 17 May - 24 Jun 2018 Her works are populated by harmless figures, tender colours and clouds in bright blue skies. At first glance, or to the indifferent eye, Nel Aerts’ (°1987, Turnhout) approach might appear innocent, or even naive. However, what matters is the world under and beyond those clouds. For this exhibition, Aerts has... Read more -
Groupshow 'Lust, Laughter, Liquor, Art Brussels 2018'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (ART BRUSSELS) 19 - 22 Apr 2018 Collaborating booth with Gallery Sofie Van de Velde. Read more -
Group Show 'Lust, Laughter & Liquor'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 22 Mar - 6 May 2018 Groupshow - In collaboration with Gallery Sofie Van de Velde Lust, Laughter & Liquor, is the first jointly curated exhibition with Gallery Sofie Van de Velde in their shared space in Antwerp and on Art Brussels. The three words form the framework for a concept revolving around a joyful and... Read more -
Beni Bischof 'Art Rotterdam'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (ART ROTTERDAM) 8 - 11 Feb 2018 Read more
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William Ludwig Lutgens 'Eat me up and spit me out, Junior'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 25 Jan - 17 Mar 2018 He absorbs an abundance of images and impressions and then ‘vomits’ them into his works. This is how William Ludwig Lutgens (°1991) describes his own art practice. His paintings and drawings have a chaotic character because of their ‘trashy’, almost anarchistic style. However, his artistic strength is in his intertwining... Read more -
Group Show 'Rewind-Forward'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (BERCHEM) 17 Dec 2017 - 28 Jan 2018 Happy +2 Years of PLUS-ONE Gallery. A group show featuring the exhibited artists (solo shows) at the gallery (2016-2017) Reception 17.12.17 3-7pm at PLUS-ONE Gallery Berchem (other dates by appointment only) Read more -
Beni Bischof 'We Must Go Deep Into The Forest'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 7 Dec 2017 - 20 Jan 2018 PLUS-ONE gallery presents a solo exhibition with new work on canvas and paper by Switzerland-based artist Beni Bischof. For the exhibition at PLUS-ONE, Bischof takes the iconographic figures Rambo and Bambi as a starting point. He watched both the film Rambo II (George P. Cosmatos, 1985) and Bambi (Walt Disney,... Read more -
Nicholas William Johnson 'Inns Of Molten Blue'
PLUS-ONE GALLERY, (NEW SOUTH) 26 Oct - 2 Dec 2017 Nicholas William Johnson Inns of Molten Blue Nicholas William Johnson paints flowers. Floral motifs are traditionally associated with the decorative or naive, but in Johnson's case, this would be an awkward simplification of a body of work charged with meaningful layers. There is more than meets the eye. In fact,... Read more
