Philippe Vandenberg and Carole Vanderlinden
VISITE #1 — Carole Vanderlinden
Since its inception, the Philippe Vandenberg Foundation has approached the artistic legacy not as a closed body of work, but as something that remains alive through dialogue, interpretation and re-reading from the perspective of the present.
Over the years, this approach has largely unfolded beyond the studio, through encounters with other artists and disciplines: from the longstanding artistic dialogue between Vandenberg and Berlinde De Bruyckere to the collaboration with Raf Simons, who brought Vandenberg’s text works into a radically different context in his Spring/Summer 2023 collection.
With Visite, this movement is reversed for the first time. Rather than bringing Vandenberg’s work out into new contexts, the Foundation invites artists into his former Brussels studio — the place where he worked and where his artistic legacy is housed today. Artists are invited to make a personal selection from Vandenberg’s oeuvre and bring it into dialogue with their own work, opening up a new, in situ reading of his practice.
For this inaugural edition, Belgian painter Carole Vanderlinden brings together a personal selection of works by Vandenberg with a small group of her own paintings. Vanderlinden first encountered Vandenberg at a pivotal moment in her development, when he served on the jury of her graduation project at KASK in Ghent in 1996. Their subsequent exchanges and artistic affinities form the point of departure for this first Visite and will be further explored in a conversation between Vanderlinden and art historian Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte. (See Events).
On the occasion of RendezVous, the Foundation opens the studio to the public throughout the weekend. Visitors can freely discover Visite — Vanderlinden’s selection from Vandenberg’s oeuvre alongside a small group of her own paintings — while encountering the work in the place where Vandenberg worked for more than twenty years and where over a thousand of his works are housed today.
Open Studio: no registration required.
The conversation between Carole Vanderlinden and Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte has limited capacity and requires registration.
Carole Vanderlinden on Philippe Vandenberg
In conversation with Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte
On the occasion of the inaugural edition of Visite, Belgian painter Carole Vanderlinden joins art historian Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte for a conversation on Philippe Vandenberg and the enduring significance of his work for her own practice.
Vanderlinden first encountered Vandenberg at a pivotal moment in her development, when he served on the jury of her graduation project at KASK in Ghent in 1996. They remained in contact in the years that followed. In conversation with Van Eeckhoutte, Vanderlinden revisits their encounter, their subsequent exchanges and artistic affinities, and reflects on the ways in which Vandenberg’s work has continued to resonate within her own thinking about painting.
Moving between abstraction and figuration, Vanderlinden has developed a highly individual pictorial language since the mid-1990s. Her work is currently the subject of Keep a promise, her first solo exhibition at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, bringing together paintings and works on paper from the past five years.
The conversation accompanies the first edition of Visite, in which Vanderlinden presents a personal selection from Vandenberg’s oeuvre alongside a small group of her own paintings in his former Brussels studio.
Places for the conversation are limited. Registration is required.
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Saturday & Sunday, 11:00 - 17:00
Vanderstichelenstraat 68A, 1080 Molenbeek
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The Philippe Vandenberg Foundation, based in the artist’s former studio in Brussels, is dedicated to preserving, researching and bringing new perspectives to the artistic legacy of Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952–2009). The Foundation cares for an extensive collection of several thousand works, together with the artist’s archives, and supports research and the catalogue raisonné. Through exhibitions, publications, educational programmes and collaborations with artists, curators and institutions, the Foundation seeks to keep Vandenberg’s work alive and relevant for new generations.