Visite is a new project that invites artists to make a personal selection from Vandenberg’s oeuvre and bring it into dialogue with their own work in his former studio in Brussels—the place where he worked and which today houses his artistic legacy—opening up a new, in situ reading of his work. For this first presentation, Vanderlinden brings together works by Vandenberg that have remained particularly resonant for her, shown alongside a group of her own paintings. The resulting encounter traces affinities, divergences and continuities between two practices grounded in the possibilities and demands of painting.

A major figure in postwar Belgian painting, Philippe Vandenberg (1952–2009) pursued a restless and uncompromising practice defined by continual transformation. Resistant to a fixed style, he repeatedly dismantled and redirected his own visual language in pursuit of new possibilities.

Since the mid-1990s, Vanderlinden has developed a highly individual pictorial language that moves fluidly between abstraction and figuration. Her work is currently the subject of Keep a promise, her first solo exhibition at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, presenting paintings and works on paper made over the past five years.