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In terms of the different media used, the work of Stijn Cole includes: video, sculptures, models, installations, paintings, graphic work and mixed media. In terms of content however, his work reveals a high degree of coherence and cohesiveness. In his work the perception of the environment is made abstract so that it gains a universal and conceptual value. The relationship between viewer, the work of art and the environment plays an important role each time.

Stijn Cole uses contemporary techniques in order to research recurrent classical themes: time is transformed through computer manipulation and security software into multi-coloured time bands that represent the colours of the air during a certain period, landscape painting is sublimated into two key colours and daylight has to pass first through a sensor and then a computer programme before it is transformed into the same daylight, but through tube lighting. The result is more than formal beauty, it forces us to see and experience light, colour, landscape or time anew.

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2011

'Docu', Galerie Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp (Belgium)

2010

'Stijn Cole', Galerie Mercator, Antwerp (Belgium)

2009

'Found footage', Galerie Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp (Belgium)

2008

'Stijn Cole @ Witte Zaal Extra', Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium)
'Stijn Cole', SEAS CC Scharpoord, Knokke (Belgium)

2007

'Stijn Cole - Koert Declercq', Galerie Kunst-Zicht, Ghent (Belgium)
'Week 5 Stijn Cole', SECONDroom, Brussels (Belgium)

2006

'Willy de Sauter - Stijn Cole', Grusemeyer galerie, Deurle (Belgium)
'Stijn Cole', De Garage, Mechelen (Belgium)
'Picture This!', Kunstverein Ahlen, Ahlen (Germany)
'Stijn Cole', Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Mechelen (Belgium)
'Ignace Van Ingelgom - Stijn Cole', galerie c. de vos, Aalst (Belgium)

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Group Exhibitions (selection)

2011

'Tender Buttons. Becoming Gertrude Stein', Kunst-Zicht, Ghent (Belgium)

2009

'Summer Show', Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (Belgium)
HOT art Fair Basel, Basel (Germany)
Art Brussels, Brussel (Belgium)

2007

Sur La Route, een tour van kunstenaars, S.M.A.K., Ghent (Belgium)
Kunst & Zwalm, Zwalm (Belgium)
Stijn Cole, Koert Declercq, KunstZicht , Ghent (Belgium)

2005

'Artificial Landscape', Aalter (Belgium)
'Versus III', Oudenaarde (Belgium)

2003

'Young Artists', Witte Zaal (Belgium)
'Stijn Cole, Hannes Vanseveren, Fien Muller', CC Strombeek (Belgium)

2002

'Coming People' S.M.A.K., Gent (Belgium)

biblio

Museum Doordacht 3, (publicatie MDD)
Versus III, cataloog
Artificial Landscape, cataloog
Young Artists, cataloog
Kunst Nu, S.M.A.K., 2002
Ohne Titel - Stijn Cole, Amsterdam: Roma Publications 85-2, 2006