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— Gallery Viewer
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“A moving dialogue between art, poetry & music that explores the human soul”
— Denderjournaal
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“Grenzeloze abstractie: een zoektocht naar het onbegrensde”
— Gallery Viewer
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© OKV Tijdschrijft & Saskia Vanderstichele
The City as a Mirror
Inge Dompas’s paintings capture fleeting moments and anonymous passersby, presenting the city as a living character. Dompas’s work becomes a poetic dialogue about connection, identity, and the dynamics of urban experience—inviting viewers to rediscover themselves. Her art encourages us to pause precisely where the city usually pushes us forward.
Inge Dompas paints the modern city as it is experienced: fragmented, mirrored, full of transient impressions. Yet she adds a layer of tenderness and contemplation. Her work is not an indictment of the city but rather an attempt to distill meaning from within it.
Inge Dompas’ work is about the transiency and volatility of life.
Oil is her favourite medium. Her paintings are a way to put on hold everything that comes and goes and bring it to the attention of the spectator.
Text: Yves Joris, October 14, 2025, kunstflaneur.be
° 1961 Leuven, België
Independent artist since 2007 with art studio in Winksele, Leuven.
All of her work is about the transiency and volatility of life. It has been included in public and private collections all over the world.
Art has fascinated her since early childhood. Over the course of twenty years she completed several classes in drawing, graphics, photography and painting and graduated at the Municipal Academy of Arts in Leuven (Belgium). This taught her a myriad of techniques through which to express her art, though her preferred medium remains oils.
From her background in urban planning she is especially interested in the movements of large crowds and their relation to the urban environment and its rules and regulations. By visually balancing between the abstract world and her once so outspoken figures, the artist wants to emphasize the anonymity of the individual in today’s world.
Her paintings are a way to put on hold everything that comes and goes and bring it to the attention of the spectator.
As globalization is shaping our world, our lives are moving faster and faster. One the artist’s recurring subjects is the hectic pace of today’s society in which we are forever on our way.
Master teachers: Hilde Overbergh, Tim Benson, Greg Hansell
2016 Masterclass Portrait painting with Tim Benson, Art Academy London
2001-2007 Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Leuven, Oil Painting
1997 Masterclass Pastel drawing with Greg Hansell, Art Academy Sydney
1990-1993 Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Leuven, Drawing
1979-1983 Master of Bio-engineering, KULeuven
1982-1983 Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Leuven en Antwerpen, Graphic Art
1980-1981 Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Leuven, Photography
1969-1979 Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Antwerpen, Drawing
2024 Galleri Garaget, Berg, Sweden
2023 Yes Art Gallery, Koksijde
2022 Yes Art Gallery, Koksijde
2022 FOD werkgelegenheid, Brussels
2022 CC De Warande, Turnhout
2021 Pand 108, Aalst
2020 Brabanthal, Leuven
2020 Yes Art Gallery, Koksijde
2018 Yes Art Gallery, Koksijde
2018 Brabanthal, Leuven
2016 Yes Art Gallery, Koksijde
2014 Galerie Hans Persoon, Eindhoven, NL
2013 Yes Art Gallery, Koksijde
2012 Galerie C@K, Grimbergen
2012 CC De Brouckère,Torhout
2011 Galerie Charlotte Van Lorreinen,Tervuren
2010 Galerie G14, Gent
2010 Galerie Frans Vanhove, Leuven
2009 Galerie Corbyn, Knokke
2007 Exporuimte De Melkerij,Veltem-Beisem
1999 Porters Gallery, Kenthurst, ,Australia,
1999 Bruce McFee Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2025 TaLe Art Gallery, Vlierzele
2024 CC Romaanse Poort, Leuven
2024 Gallery In Between Art, Brugge
2024 Galerie Lurquin, Dinant
2023 Galerie Mizart, Zutendaal
2023 Kasteel Cortewalle, Beveren
2023 Gallery Nostrum, Wavre
2022 TaLe Art Gallery, Vlierzele
2022 Fay-Art, Brugge
2021 Art3F Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels Expo
2021 Kunst in het Dorp, Bellingen
2016 Galerie ’t Rood Huis, Leuven
2015 Kasteel Hof d’Intère, Wechelderzande
2015 CC De Camme, Perk
2014 Galerie Hans Persoon, Eindhoven,, NL
2013 Kunsttentoonstelling De Troost, Vilvoorde
2012 Galerij Artio, Herent
2012 Expo Dirk Bouts, CC Romaanse Poort, Leuven
2011 Contemporary Art Fair, Amsterdam
2010 Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels
2010 Galerie Art Cézar, Rotselaar
2009 Galerie Art Cézar, Rotselaar
2008 selectie VRT (Belgian television) Canvascollectie online
2008 selectie Talens Palet Art Competition:, eerste prijs afdeling Kortenberg
1999 Hills Art Show, Dural, Australia: First Prize
1997 Windsor Art Show, Australia: Public Prize
– Multiple Art and Poetry books, edited by J.P. van der Poorten in 2010, 2013, 2015, 2024
– Art catalogue, ZwART licht Zwart, edited by Dirk Boutsstichting 2012
– Standaard National Newspaper, katern Wonen, 2015
– Art works in Auwch!, a Belgian Televison series, 2019
– Saatchi Art Magazine, Selection of the week, 2019 en 2020
– Singulart Art Collection, 2020
– Spotlight Magazine n°21, Circle Arts Foundation, 2020
– Reflections by Yves Joris, kunstflaneur.be 2025
