The work of Yves Velter (°1967, Ostend) deals with questions that lack answers, fear that masks desires, words that fail to communicate. Anonymous personae are placed in a timeless environment, the silhouette of their faces erased and replaced by materials linked to a certain symbolism. Through these metaphors, Yves Velter creates image codes that communicate the expressiveness of the unreadable.

What prevails for the viewer is an overall sense of unease, incited by Velter’s ability to unv...

‘Perspective’ is a documentation of a performance directed by An Onghena and performed by Tom Elexmans, presented on 29 November 2017 at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.

This publication documents the work ‘Performance for the book’, which is about the love of paper and about the feelings of frustration with regard to paper, about the making of books, the contents and the folding, the binding and the cover. The performance operates as a visual experiment to give life to paper....

This publication is the first of a series of notebooks that documents the various projects and exhibitions that were on view at Cc Strombeek. Covering the exhibition year of 2017, this edition includes texts by authors such as Frederik Leen, Joris D’hooghe, Louis De Mey and Hugo De Greef (with whom the museum set up an artist-in-residence module this year in the context of The Gaasbeek School). Furthermore, the publication also includes an extraordinary set of artists’ pages that were rea...