Represented by Keteleer Gallery in Antwerp
& Thomas Rehbein Gallery in Cologne, Germany
UPCOMING
APRIL 2024
Art Düsseldorf - Thomas Rehbein Gallery - Düsseldorf (DE): 12/04/2024 - 14/04/2024
Close to you - Kunsthalle Fürth/Städtische Galerie - Fürth (DE) : 26/04/2024 - 30/06/2024
Wear Sunscreen - Villa Les Zéphyrs - Middelkerke : 27/04/2024 - 03/11/2024
MAY 2024
Les Liaisons Délireuses - Kasteel D’Ursel - Bornem : 26/05/2024 - 13/10/2024
Love Matters - Bozar - Brussel : 04/10/2024 - 05/01/2025
CURRENT
MARCH 2024
5+1: Paul Delvaux in dialoog - Kunstencentrum Ten Bogaerde - Koksijde
23/03/2024 - 29/09/2024
Van zaterdag 23 maart tot en met zondag 29 september nodigt Philippe Van Cauteren (artistiek directeur S.M.A.K., Gent) een bont gezelschap eigentijdse kunstenaars uit in Kunstencentrum Ten Bogaerde. In de tentoonstelling “5 + 1: Paul Delvaux in dialoog” brengt hij Lysandre Begijn, Joëlle Dubois, Neoza Goffin, Liliane Vertessen en Shirley Villavicencio Pizango samen met Paul Delvaux.
Paul Delvaux is één van de iconen uit de Belgische kunst die iedereen kent. De kunstenaar heeft ons een verstilde mythologische wereld achtergelaten vol vrouwelijk naakt en treinstations. Dertig jaar na zijn dood is het tijd om het werk van Paul Delvaux in dialoog te brengen met een aantal hedendaagse kunstenaars van verschillende generaties. Elk op hun manier dialogeert hun werk met het oeuvre van Paul Delvaux. Elk op hun manier verkennen de kunstenaars de menselijke figuur in een sterk veranderende wereld.
Benieuwd naar deze fascinerende uitwisseling? Bezoek ons dan zeker en ontdek tevens de permanente collectie met werken van George Grard, de artistieke vriend van Delvaux.
JULY 2O23 - JANUARY 2024
PRIVATE PARTS - Kunstencentrum Ten Bogaerde - Koksijde (BE)
Vernissage: 01/07/2023 - Expo tem 07/07/2023
https://www.koksijde.be/private-parts
Kunstencentrum Ten Bogaerde
Ten Bogaerdelaan 10, 8670 Koksijde
De gemeente Koksijde en Kunstencentrum Ten Bogaerde presenteren vanaf 1 juli de expo Private Parts, een solotentoonstelling van Joëlle Dubois. De expo wordt samengesteld door Philippe Van Cauteren (artistiek directeur van het S.M.A.K.-Gent).
Met gedurfde en kleurrijke schilderijen onderzoekt Joëlle Dubois (°1990, Gent) de impact van sociale media en de rol van de mens in onze moderne samenleving. Geïnspireerd door de constante stroom foto's en videoclips van het internet confronteert ze de kijker met expliciete scènes uit het privéleven. Door middel van speelse geïmproviseerde composities vangt Dubois zowel de overdaad als de vergankelijkheid van de beelden. In haar figuratieve schilderijen op houten panelen behandelt ze onderwerpen als gender, seksualiteit en fetisjisme. In een mengeling van lethargie, obsessie en droefheid toont Dubois haar personages in compromitterende en intieme posities en vangt daarmee doelgericht de hedendaagse hectische, verwarde tijdgeest.
Activiteiten
Art talk met Joëlle Dubois en Philippe Van Cauteren
zaterdag 14 oktober om 14 uur
NOVEMBER 2023
ART COLOGNE - Keteleer Gallery & Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne
16/11/2023 - 20/11/2023
OCTOBER 2O23
INSIDE OUT - Bonnefanten Museum - Maastricht (NL)
Vernissage: 13/10/2023 - Expo tem 03/11/2023
https://www.bonnefanten.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/binnenstebuiten
Bonnefanten Museum
Avenue Ceramique 250, 6221 Maastricht
MAY 2O23
YOURS TRULY - Museum Morsbroich - Leverkusen (DE)
13/05/2023 - 29/10/2023
https://www.museum-morsbroich.de/en/exhibition/yours-truly/
With works by James Bantone, Heike Kati Barath, Michaël Borremans, Cihan Çakmak, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Rineke Dijkstra, Joëlle Dubois, Lucio Fontana, Katsura Funakoshi, Alex van Gelder, Gotthard Graubner, Thomas Grünfeld, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Ernst Hermanns, Edgar Hofschen, Jean Ipoustéguy, Elizabeth Jaeger, Tarik Kiswanson, Yves Klein, Imi Knoebel, Maria Lassnig, Simon Lehner, Francesco Lo Savio, Horst Münch, Juan Muñoz, Bruce Nauman,Grace Ndiritu, Tony Oursler, Arnulf Rainer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Thomas Schütte, Kiki Smith, Manabu Yamanaka, Franz Erhard Walther, Remy Zaugg
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
From the perspective of the artwork, the viewer is a counterpart. Presence occurs in the here and now between an I and a you, also between artwork and viewer. Because of its openness, an artistic work has the ability - unlike a personally addressed letter - to address all those who view it in a very individual way. This direct address can take place in very different ways and depends on the respective counterpart. To what extent are the viewers willing to be touched aesthetically, moved emotionally, inspired spiritually, or irritated in their understanding of themselves and the world?
yours truly, creates an arrangement of figurative as well as abstract and concrete works of art, which enter into dialogues with each other that are as non-obvious as they are provocative, and which nevertheless always first seek a dialogue with the viewer. In front of the figurative work of a single figure, it is easy to place oneself in relation to it. It is even relatively obvious to feel addressed as oneself. In the case of a concrete, decidedly non-representational work, this seems quite different. But these works, too, provoke visual experiences that can become existential in relation to the viewing counterpart.
AUGUST 2O23
BARBÉ x KETELEER GALLERY (Part two) - Woning Dr. De Beir - Knokke (BE)
KETELEER GALLERY presents a new temporary exhibition space at “Woning Dr. De Beir”, Knokke, the famous 1924 modernist building by Huib Hoste. This architectural gem will be shared with Barbé Gallery to host two group exhibitions.
For part two, KETELEER will presents solo exhibitions by Stephan Balkenhol, Leo Copers and Joëlle Dubois.
https://www.architectenwoning.be/projecten/woning-dr-de-beir
Opening Sunday 6 August, 2 - 6 pm
At Woning Dr. De Beir, Dumortierlaan 8, Knokke
Visiting hours: Thu – Sun: 2 – 6 pm
APRIL 2O23
ART BRUSSELS - Keteleer Gallery - Brussels (BE)
Brussels Expo: Booth 5B - 18
20/04/2023 - 23/04/2023
APRIL 2O23
JOËLLE DUBOIS - FUTURE NOSTALGIA BOOK LAUNCH & SIGNING - Keteleer Gallery - Antwerp (BE)
15/04/2023, 14u - 16u
Joëlle Dubois presents her first catalogue “Future Nostalgia” (Distanz, 2023). This monograph is the first to offer a comprehensive cross-section of the Joëlle Dubois’ work. With texts by Philippe Van Cauteren (director S.M.A.K., Ghent), Maurice Funken (director NAK, Aachen) and Femke Vandenbosch (art historian and critic, Ghent).
The book will be officially presented at the gallery on 15 April, 2 – 4 pm. The artist will be present to sign copies. You’re welcome to bring your own copy or you can buy one at the gallery (€38,-). Or you can order a copy online HERE.
APRIL 2O23
THE CHRYSTAL SHIP 2023 - Ostend (BE)
01/04/2023 - 08/04/2023
In 2016, The Crystal Ship dropped anchor in Ostend. Ever since, the arts festival has turned the coastal town into Belgium’s leading open-air gallery, with over a dozen world-renowned street artists setting sail for it every year.
JANUARY 2O23
‘FUTURE NOSTALGIA’ - NAK - Aachen (DE)
Vernissage: 21.01.2023, 7 p.m.
Exhibition: 22.01. – 12.03.2023
Finissage: 11.03.2023, 6 p.m.
Greeting: Dr. Werner Dohmen (Chairman of the Board NAK)
Introduction: Maurice Funken (Director NAK)
http://www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de/content/
NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein is pleased to present Future Nostalgia, the first institutional solo exhibition of artist Joëlle Dubois.
Joëlle Dubois is a precise observer of today’s society. And of herself. The stories her works tell are therefore both: at once universal and personal. The artist’s paintings are strongly influenced by personal memories and experiences and penetrate the realms of femininity, fertility, loss and sexuality, which are symbolically inscribed in the images and waiting to be decoded.
In her works, which are strongly inspired by non-Western art and culture, the Belgian artist also negotiates the absurdities of self-presentation after previous supposed self-optimization of the body, the voyeuristic aspects of digitization through social media, explicit scenes from the private sphere, strange situations and twists of life, and the peculiar experience of being human in general. Her mostly female protagonists are of multi-ethnic origin and often contradict the common, since standardized, ideals of beauty. The depiction of the female form fascinates the painter; she longs to normalize the body, to portray body positivity.
Dubois’ works are also skillfully peppered with allusions to art history: quotations from famous works, painters, compositions or styles, as well as the iconographic use of symbols are not uncommon. In addition, the artist is committed to today’s zeitgeist, pop cultural references permeate her oeuvre incessantly.
NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein has now succeeded for the first time in bringing together works from all of Dubois’ creative phases at the Kunstverein. The result is not only an overview of the artist’s entire oeuvre, but also a multi-layered exhibition that reveals cross-references within itself and to the outside world, provides new artistic as well as social impulses, and thus makes it unmistakably clear: Joëlle Dubois is currently one of the most important feminist positions in contemporary art.
Joëlle Dubois (*1990 in Ghent, Belgium) studied at the LUCA School of Arts in Ghent. She lives and works in Ghent.
Catalog:
Parallel to the exhibition, the eponymous catalog Future Nostalgia will be published by Distanz Verlag. On the occasion of the exhibition’s finissage on March 11, 2023, the extensive monograph with texts by Maurice Funken (director NAK, Aachen), Philippe Van Cauteren (director S.M.A.K., Ghent) and Femke Vandenbosch (art historian and critic, Ghent) will be presented in Aachen with an artist talk.
Edition:
In addition, there will be a limited enamel edition by the artist, which will be available for purchase at the Kunstverein.
DECEMBER 2O22
‘ART ANTWERP’ - Keteleer Gallery - Antwerp (BE)
15/12/2022 - 18/12/2022
Floris Van Look, Joëlle Dubois, John Kørner, ROA, Valgerður Sigurðardóttir, Sybren Vanoverberghe
https://www.art-antwerp.com/en/?campaignid=18651013577&adgroupid&keyword&device=c
‘There was a kind of madness to it’ 90x120 cm, 2022
NOVEMBER 2022
‘Finis Terrae’, Geukens & De Vil Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
17/11/2022 - 26/02/2023
Stevie Dix - Sam Druant - Joëlle Dubois - Pélagie Gbaguidi - Lisa Ijeoma - Nadia Naveau - Nina Van Denbempt - Marilou van Lierop - Jan Vanriet
Mechelsesteenweg 8, 1e verdieping
Exact vijf jaar na de succesvolle tentoonstelling ECCE HOMO. Zie de mens (2017-2018) - organiseert Galerie Geukens & De Vil opnieuw een grootschalige kunstwandeling in Antwerpen, rond één universeel thema: onze planeet.
OCTOBER 2O22
‘FORGET ME NOT’ - Keteleer Gallery - Antwerp (BE)
SOLO SHOW
Opening: Saturday 22 October, 2022
Exhibition: 22.10 – 26.1.2022
Pourbusstraat 3-5 - 2000 Antwerp
https://keteleer.com/exhibitions/joelle-dubois-exhibitions/joelle-dubois/
Mother with egg, 50x40cm, 2022
OCTOBER 2O22
‘Art on paper’ - Thomas Rehbein Gallery - Brussels (BE)
Joëlle Dubois - William Anthony - Bénédicte Peyrat
06/10/2022 - 09/10/2022
JULY 2O22
‘Out of the box’ - Galerie Hinten - Chemnitz (DE)
Rob Buelens - Gauthier Hubert - Mathis Bergez - Joëlle Dubois - Stephan Balleux - Emilija Terzic - Tamara Tasić - Yao Wang - Daliborka Djuric - Aleksandar Rakezic
16/07/2022 - 27/08/2022
JULY 2O22
‘The Painting Show’ - Keteleer Gallery - Antwerp
Marc Bauer – Joëlle Dubois – John Kørner – Thomas Kratz – George Little – Rebekka Löffler – Enrique Marty – Bjarne Melgaard – Benjamin Moravec – Jon Pilkington – Antoine Roegiers – Floris Van Look
09/07/2022 - 27/08/2022
Forgetting and being forgotten represents one of the greatest fears for humans, especially in the face of deep connection to another person. For what is left of us when memory fades away? What are we then and what were we before?
FORGET ME NOT is an imperative, a request and a personal wish - a reminder not to forget. And not to be forgotten. "Don't forget me" inevitably means farewell and an awareness that life's paths are diverging, physically or emotionally. The symbol, the "Forget-Me-Not" flower, carries the imagery of loss and pain, but equally deep emotion and connection. Remembering always means forgetting. The dichotomy of this reality and the process that precedes its acceptance are embodied in Joëlle Dubois' new paintings and 3 dimensional dedicated to the mother, the illness and the confrontation with it.
While Dubois always painted representations of her immediate surroundings in previous works, these works probably show the most intimate insight into the personal confrontation with one's own grief, decay, uncertainty and the role as a woman and mother. The universality of these themes makes the artist's personal story a platform that offers access to feelings that will cross almost every path of life in its course.
Joëlle Dubois | She has her mother's eyes, 2022
Edition of 20 + 5 a.p.
22 x 16 cm, screenprint on enamel LAF/EMC of 1,50 mm, casette border of 2 cm
All handsigned and numbered + Label Emaillerie Belge 2021
The work is on view at the hall of de Vrienden at S.M.A.K. - Ghent
https://smak.be/nl/nieuws/nieuwe-editie-joelle-dubois-she-has-her-mothers-eyes-2022
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ART BRUSSELS - Keteleer Gallery
28/04/2022 - 01/05/2022
NOVEMER 2021
ART COLOGNE - Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne (DE)
11.2 - B-01
William Anastasi - Gerd Bonfert - Heinz Breloh - Joëlle Dubois - Andreas Gefeller, Francois Jacob - Pauline M’barek - Stephan Melzi - Bénédicte Peyrat - Peter Tollens
17/11/2021 - 21/11/2021
MAY 2021
POES ‘Hoe de kat de mens vangt’- Yper Museum - Ieper (BE)
Vandaag zijn poezen populairder dan ooit, zowel op het internet als in onze huiskamer. Vanwaar komt de wereldwijde adoratie voor deze eigenzinnige dieren? Het Yper Museum ontrafelt de mysterieuze relatie tussen mens en kat doorheen de tijd en in andere culturen. Van aanbeden, over verketterd en genegeerd tot geliefd. POES brengt recent wetenschappelijke inzichten in dialoog met internationale historische en hedendaagse kunst. Met topnamen als Francisco Goya, Jan Fabre, Stephan Vanfleteren, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Théophile Steinlen, Stief DeSmet, David Teniers de Oude en Roger Raveel.
In negen thema’s verkent deze tentoonstelling de weg die mens en poes samen afleggen. Hoe de kat als dier evolueert. De kat vereerd als god en verketterd als duivel. De kat als muze, vrouw, vriend, collega en VIP – met de P van Puss. En natuurlijk de kat als reus in de Ieperse Kattenstoet. Je krijgt er niet alleen kunstwerken over katten te zien, maar ook archeologisch, historisch, archivalisch, natuurhistorisch, geneeskundig en immaterieel erfgoed. Het Yper Museum werkt hiervoor samen met andere musea, privéverzamelaars en wetenschappelijke instellingen.
https://www.ypermuseum.be/poes
01/05/2021 - 16/01/2022
AUGUST 2021
(Pr)oxymoron - Kustlaan 113 - Knokke (BE)
21/08/2021 - 04/09/2021
Sarah De Vos - Joëlle Dubois - Juan Pablo Plazas - Alice Vanderschoot - Adelheid de Witte - Nina Van denbempt - Emma Mortier - Lilianne Vertessen - Maria Degreve - Lore Rabaut - Jesse van Dun - Rik Moens - Jaqueline Peeters - Heidi Ukkonen - Ann Van Hoey - Bart Vandevijvere - Vincent De Rooder - Nico Vaereweijck
In tijden waarin het leven meer en meer in netjes afgebakende, al dan niet opgelegde of artificiële categorieën lijkt te worden opgedeeld, vormt het een verademing om deze grenzen los te laten, en een stroom aan contradictorische sensaties ongeremd op je af te laten komen. Het is het uitgangspunt van ‘Het Initiatief’, een samenwerking tussen vier kunstminnaars (Frans Penne, Yves Vanpevenaege, Alain V. en Johan Van Tittelboom) en een kunstenaar (Joëlle Dubois), die zichzelf als doel stelt om vastgeroeste conventies die her en der nog bij kunstliefhebbers bestaan grondig in vraag te stellen.
Dat doen ze voor het eerst in de tentoonstelling (PR)OXYMORON, die op 21 augustus de deuren opent op een gelegenheidslocatie in Knokke. De lijst van kunstenaars die men bijeenbracht geeft aan waarom de titel van de expo de lading dekt: jong of oud, bekend of niet, figuratief of abstract, speels of ernstig, de expo biedt een boeiende inkijk in de verscheidenheid van kunst, maar is vooral een rijkgevulde bloemlezing van hedendaagse Belgische kunstenaars. Sommigen lieten zich onmiddellijk inspireren door de locatie en maakten werk dat hierop inspeelt, al was het niet noodzakelijk de bedoeling. De organisatoren willen eerst en vooral verrassen, verbazen, aantonen dat schijnbaar onverzoenbare gevoelens harmonieus naast elkaar kunnen bestaan.
Deze gedachte wordt verder aangescherpt door de tweede tentoonstelling die parallel loopt met (PR)OXYMORON: Below the horizon, gecureerd door Hanna-Lee Daled en Lina Edjaa. De twee pas afgestudeerde kunstenaars kregen alle vrijheid om andere prille kunstenaars een platform te bieden om hun werk aan een breed publiek voor te stellen. De vijftien kunstenaars in deze expo bieden een razend boeiende inkijk in hoe een nieuwe generatie kunstenaars zich opmaakt om het kunstminnende publiek blijvend te verrassen, zij het op hun heel eigen, soms contradictorische manier. (Frederic De Meyer)
Triennial Bruges 2021 ‘TRAUMA’ - Bruges (BE)
From May 8th till Oct 24th, Triennial Bruges brings contemporary art and architecture to Bruges. For its third edition, Triennial Bruges 2021: TraumA delves beneath the surface, in search of the hidden dimensions of the city. For many, Bruges is a dream destination, seemingly picture perfect, but is it? Does the fabulous city that is Bruges also have a downside? And if so, dare we show it? Thirteen national and international artists and architects pondered this very question. They went in search of life behind the stately facades, how Bruges is experienced and lived. Their artistic interventions form a trail of imagination and wonder. They take you to places that oscillate between dream and reality, between what is real and what is delusional.
https://www.triennalebrugge.be/
08/05/2021 - 24/10/2021
MAY 2021
Headed for the finish line - Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem (BE)
Anna Lange - Camille Dufour - Evert Debusschere - Hugo Debaere - Joëlle Dubois - Les Monseigneurs - Nina van Denbempt - Pieter Jan Martyn - Steven Antonio Manes - Willem Boel
01/05/2021 - 06/06/2021
APRIL 2021
NAFT FESTIVAL - STEM Museum, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
Achttien kunstenaars uit binnen- en buitenland nemen van 22 april tot 2 mei de Tentoonstellingszaal Zwijgershoek in, voor het gloednieuwe kunstenfestival NAFT in Sint-Niklaas.
Zij gaan in interactie, met elkaar, met het publiek en met de ruimtes, zowel binnen als buiten. Er is street art, maar ook installatiekunst, video, performance en beeldende kunst. Kruip in de leefwereld van deze achttien verrassende kunstenaars, elk met hun eigen verhaal, een eigenzinnige creatieve koers, sommigen ook met lokale verankering.
22/04/2021 - 02/05/2021
MARCH 2021
SHIFT & DRIFT - DISKUS X Bruthaus Gallery, Alost (BE)
Nathalie Vanheule - Joëlle Dubois - Alice Vanderschoot
A group show about the construction of reality & the human need for connection and creation at DISKUS, Diepestraat 4, 9300 Aalst
Please make a reservation for visiting the exhibition: HERE
13/03/2021 - 25/04/2021
MARCH 2021
TAROT EDITIONS - 019, Gent (BE)
78 tarot cards created by 78 artists
In the summer of 2020, 78 blank tarot cards were sent by post to 78 Belgian-based artists. A tarot deck came into existence, a set of 78 unique artworks that will be exhibited for the first time during this exhibition and edition launch. The complete deck is reproduced and brought together in the Tarot edition that will be made in an edition of 200.
Tarot is a card game in which the questioner asks personal questions about the past, the present and the future. Each card has it's specific meaning and by doing a Tarot reading an answer to your question unfolds. Some people think that these cards behold a mystical power, but we believe that it is a medium to start a deeper conversation. A dialogue/multilogue in which it becomes possible to discuss self-chosen topics in detail. Anyone can play Tarot cards regardless of your knowledge of the game.
26/03/2021 - 18/04/2021
NOVEMBER 2020
UNPACKED - Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem (BE)
Anna Lange - Camille Dufour - Nina Van Denbempt - Joëlle Dubois - Murielle Victorine Scherre - Merel van de Casteele - Mariana Rebola - Buren
Curator - Han Decorte & Joris Van der Borght
An exclusive female artist group show
21/11/2020 - 12/12/2020
OCTOBER 2020
GRAND OPENING - RUBY & FRIENDS- Ruby Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Isaac Cordal (Spain) - Joëlle Dubois - Case Maclaim (Germany) - Shirley Villavicencio Pizango (Peru/BE) - Telmo Miel (NL) - Wasted Rita (Portugal)
Curator - Bjorn Vanpoucke & Joris Van der Borght
The opening exhibition ‘Ruby & Friends’ is zooming in on something that has suddenly become a lot less self-evident in the past six months: social contact. For the first time in history, we had to collectively think about which friendships we hold most dear, who would fit into our social bubble and how we would interact with other people in our lives. The answers to these questions can be found in the opening exhibition of Ruby Gallery. A place where (street) artists and local residents feel at home and where the visitor becomes acquainted with a new generation of artists.
15/10/2020 - 15/01/2021
SEPTEMEBER 2020
PRIVAAT - Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem (BE)
Leyla Aydoslu - Ben Benaouisse - Gery De Smet - Joëlle Dubois - Juan Pablo Plazas (COL) - Merlyn Paridaen
Curator - Han Decorte & Joris Van der Borght
A group project on a particularly topical theme. What is private, what shift in meaning was given to the private space in these turbulent times. We gathered six artists' who show you a different view on the given PRIVATE.
19/09/2020 - 20/09/2020
Onder de titel Binnenskamers spitst deze editie van de Biënnale zich toe op het interieur binnen de traditie van de kunstgeschiedenis. Traditioneel vormt het interieur het decor van een tafereel, het omhulsel van een verhaal — een kader binnen een kader. Het interieur verhult en onthult. Ze bestaat binnen de grenzen van haar eigen intimiteit en geborgenheid. Toch veronderstelt dit ‘binnen’ ook een ‘buiten’.
Hoewel de thematiek van Binnenskamers al lang voor het uitbreken van het coronavirus werd gekozen, krijgt het een bijzonder krachtige weerklank na de opsluiting waarmee een groot deel van de wereld te maken had. De grenzen die het publieke scheiden van het private ontbinden en transformeren tot allerlei vormen van digitale collectiviteit en intimiteit. Nieuwe hybride ruimtes ontplooien zich in het spanningsveld tussen huiselijk leven, werk en vrije tijd. Wanneer ons gezichtsveld gelimiteerd wordt tot de afmetingen van onze ramen of ons computerscherm, en de wereld daarbuiten ingelijst lijkt te worden als een virtuele realiteit, klinkt de vraag naar de contouren van het ‘interieur’ luider dan ooit.
Elke partnerinstelling in de Biënnale voor Schilderkunst benadert deze kwestie op een eigen manier, terwijl ze een gemeenschappelijk kader delen: werken uit hun eigen collecties gaan in dialoog met bruiklenen uit openbare en privécollecties, maar ook met hedendaagse kunstwerken.
JULY 2020
HUNGER NACH BILDER, Thomas Rehbein Gallery , Cologne (DE)
Joelle Dubois / Julia Jansen / Anya Janssen / Michael Kalmbach / Stephan Melzl / Ulrich Pester / Leif Trenkler
03/07/2020 - 22/08/2020
FEBRUARY 2020
ART ROTTERDAM - Bruthaus Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)
Solo/Duo Exhibition with Robin Vermeersch
05/02/2020 - 09/02/2020
JANUARY 2020
JOËLLE DUBOIS - Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne (DE)
Solo Exhibition
17/01/2020 - 29/02/2020
With its glass touchscreen the technical artefact called Smartphone, is the perfect permeable digital membrane between public and private space. The constant connectivity of social media is increasingly blurring that line. The constantly multiplying apps on the home screen generally promise social contacts, interpersonal communication and longed-for closeness. By hastily swiping to the left or right on dating apps, every second you judge others attractiveness and compatibility when it comes to sexuality and life planning. On the other hand, on audiovisual platforms a staged unrealistic and simplified self is being shared with a faceless mass of followers that critically evaluates every pose and mien. All of it is anticipated by the user’s consensus – an agreement to the current purport of a flaunted surface that is more important than attackable depth.
In her works, Joelle Dubois primarily negotiates the absurdities of the following a preceding supposed self-optimisation. Her mostly female protagonists are of multi-ethnic origin and often contradict the standardised ideals of beauty. They are, if any, scantily dressed and think themselves safe in the remoteness of a colourful but ambiguous world, so to say post-digital beyond public and private space, always technologically connected and therefore exposed on the World Wide Web.
Furthermore, the artist’s new works are strongly influenced by personal memories and experiences. They explore the fields of femininity, fertility, loss and sexuality, which are symbolically inscribed into the images that await to be deciphered. In the pictorial narrative the voyeuristic view to intimate moments simulates truthfulness, while the character’s nudity makes them deeply vulnerable. Yet the ubiquitous occupation with the smartphone or similar tools makes the character’s aura pulsate between ignorant obsession and the saddest apathy.
Moreover, Dubois is testing another medium for the exhibition. The delicate acrylic paintings on wood are countered by the fast line of ink drawings for the first time. The format of the paper dictates the content, as it were: naked, female bodies, but curved and limited in height and width to the sheet size. Trapped in this space defined by the artist and thus only confronted with themselves, the women use the still omnipresent smartphone to ask questions about their own sexuality and weigh them up against the unrealistic expectations placed on them by society. Here, her own obsession with technology is usefully converted, a positive view that the artist shares as well: according to her own statement Dubois also uses her smartphone almost obsessively. On the one hand as an archive, with which she explores her own biography, looking backwards. In addition, the device opens up communication options, even outside of your own comfort zone.
More risk than danger, here and everywhere, superficial and deep at the same time. This makes Joelle Dubois an exact observer of today's society. And of herself.
Maurice Funken, December 2019
OCTOBER 2019
CAMOUFLAGED PEARLS #2 - BruthausGallery , Waregem (BE)
Anna Lange (NL) - Ben Benaouisse - Camille Dufour - Evert Debusschere - Gery De Smet - Giovanni Ozzola (IT) - Hugo Debaere (+) - Jan Vandeplancke - Joëlle Dubois - Luk Berghe (+) - Merlyn Paridaen - Mohammed Alani (IQ) - Oleg Matrokhin (RU) - Pieter Jan Martyn - Peter Puype - Peter van Ammel - Robin Vermeersch - Sacha Eckes - Salam Att Sabri (IQ)
In Camouflaged Pearls #2, Bruthausgallery shows works by nineteen artists, artists connected to the gallery but also artists who will receive a project in the near future. We chose works with a special meaning for the artists themselves. Work with which the artists feel very closely connected and which show how it relates to this time. For this BruthausGallery chooses 'gems of works' that reveal the identity of the artist very closely. Sometimes harsh, sometimes beautiful, sometimes doubtful but above all 'emerging'. They are works that situate the artist in his own environment: covered, hidden pearls from the studio with a deeper, non-binding meaning. Many of these works have been kept by the artists for many years, visible in their private environment of their workshop. Some were never shown, others already have a museum past, others are completely new. By confronting these works with each other, Bruthausgallery also confronts the artists with themselves.
19/10/2019 - 01.12.2019
JULY 2019
FROM HERE TO THERE - Arcade Art Gallery, Taiwan
‘From Here to There’ showcases pieces from the Lowbrow, Graffiti and Street Art Movements. These artists have each greatly influenced their individual genres, and together, they have created a lasting impact on today’s art scene.’
‘From Here to There’, a Group Exhibition featuring work from:
ADELE RENAULT, ATOMIKO, ALEXANDER AZUKAR, BATES, BENNY WILDING, CANDY BIRD, EL CEKIS,DABS1, DARBOTZ, DASH(TC5), DOC(TC5), IMON, JOËLLE DUBOIS, KEEENUE, LABRONA, LAUREN YS, MURO, NASTY, PAOLA DELFIN, PATTER, EL PEZ, PREF, PSO MAN, SAME, SANER, SHOK-1, SKEE, SMOLUK, SPONE, STARE, STERN ROCK WELL, VINI MEIO, ZEST, ZOOK
27/07/2019 - 24/08/2019
JUNE 2019
HOME SWEET HOME - Kunsthuis, Harelbeke (BE)
Anton Delabie, Bart Stolle, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Caroline Van Den Eynden, Charif Benhelima, Ernest Verscheure, Filip Dujardin, Greet Desal, Joëlle Dubois, Jonas Vansteenkiste, Karel Wouters, Klaus Verscheure, Nick Ervinck, Peter De Cupere, Philip Aguirre, Robert Devriendt, Ronny Delrue, Sofie Muller, Steven Baelen, Tom Callemin, Vadim Vosters, Veerle Michiels, Wesley Meuris. Curator: Jan Leysen
16/06/2019 - 21/07/2019
APRIL 2019
ART COLOGNE - Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne (DE)
Solo Exhibition - New Positions
10/04/2019 - 1/04/2019
FEBRUARY - APRIL 2019
Ceci n'est pas un conte - Irene Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Heidi Voet - Georgia Küng - Joëlle Dubois - Gudny Rosa Ingimarsdottir
28/02/2019 - 28/04/2019
NOVEMBER 2018
Represented by Bruthaus Gallery in Waregem, Belgium
& by Thomas Rehbein Gallery in Cologne, Germany
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2018
ADA - Thomas Rehbein GALERIE, Cologne (DE)
Nel Aerts - Joëlle Dubois - William Anthony
19/10/2018 - 24/11/2018
JOËLLE DUBOIS paints and illustrates. With a wink she transfers the digital revolution and the resulting role of humans in our modern society into her works. The Gent-born artist is especially interested in the voyeuristic aspect of digitalisation. Social Media Platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat or Youtube, television programs such as Big Brother or the Bachelor fulfill our desire to anonymously observe others in their suffering, their love life, their failures and also their successes. Digitalisation has made communication faster, more purposeful and interactive. However, this also goes along with the fact that less and less privacy is possible, and that one presents him/herself more openly and more naked to
everyone else. Basically communication is increasingly superficial, impersonal and anonymous. Dubois devotes herself with passion to this complex of topics in an ironic and also comical way. She depicts her protagonists in an exposed and unadorned manner, steeped in a drastic realism that often turns out to be very distorted and untrue in the digital world. By showing hairy, obese women and men in compromising positions, she emphasizes her own strong role as an independent and emancipated woman and artist. For all that, Dubois herself is a silent observer, watching the world in her own display of idiosyncratic perfectionism.
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2018
The Title Is Just An Excuse - Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem
Peter van Ammel - Joëlle Dubois - Thierry Mortier - Anna Mazei
3/11/2018 - 9/12/2018
