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Kathleen Ramboer

Kathleen Ramboer needs to work on a variety of things simultaneously, using different techniques such as photography, drawing, collage, painting… and diverse themes such as Trees, Waterscapes, Seeds and Fruits, Arthur’s Herbarium, Outdoors, Limitles… for which she also regularly collaborates with others.

In her photography, where she initially focused on basic concepts such as light, shadow, darkness, hidden worlds, nature has now made its way into the foreground. Trees play a leading role in her work for several years. For Kathleen Ramboer, they are living beings that she follows over the seasons as a photographer, but also with an eye for drawings and paintings.

Kathleen Ramboer plays with sharpness and blur, with diffuse light and darkness, and with unusual muted colours. Her photographs create visual tranquility, inviting silence, concentration, and contemplation. There is so much to discover and experience.

Text: Gustaaf Vander Biest

Kathleen Ramboer literally and figuratively puts her love for nature into practice. Kathleen does this with mystical photographs that have a cinematic feel and resemble Art Movies. The images are simple, almost mundane, but through experimental photographic techniques and/or digital editing, Kathleen adds her own touch. What you see isn’t just another landscape photo; you see the landscapes, as it were, through the artist’s eyes. I also sense a hint of nostalgia lingering in the images. Some works are intensely black, as if they were charcoal drawings where you can almost smell the burnt wood. Other images are very airy, yet always with a mystical undertone. At times, I had to restrain my finger from touching them.

Text: Artist/curator Wim Baes

Website
www.kathleenramboer.com

° 1953 Roeselare

Artistic Education
PUFO, Visual Arts, LUCAS School of arts, Ghent

Screen Printing, vormingsinstituut voor KMO, Brugge

Graphics/Etching, stedelijke kunstacademie, Tielt

Figure drawing, LUCAS School of arts, Ghent

Career
Nature is a constant in the work of Kathleen Ramboer.
Collected, archived and catalogued nature forms part of her art/nature projects, such as ‘From Seeds and Fruits’ – ‘With or Without Dots’ – ‘Trees & Fungi’ – ‘Tipping Point’ – ‘Arthur’s Herbarium’.
Her ‘wanderlust’ translates into personal landscape photography.
Recently, her career in the graphic arts sector, particularly as a graphic designer, has influenced her artistry.
A fascination for vintage prints, paper types, and art prints leaves its mark on her art. Kathleen Ramboer combines photography with vintage prints, experiencing nature and visual art. This unusual combination evokes a world of fragrant printing inks, rattling presses, and stacks of paper. A digital paintbrush and/or drawing pen reconcile print with photographic material.

Solo exhibitions

2025
Arthurs Herbarium – Provincial Domain Het Leen, Eeklo
2023
Arthurs Herbarium – Het Objectief, Ghent
2018
De wondere wereld van zaadjes en doosjes – Gallery Arboretum Kalmthout – fieldwork Marc Haerssens
2018
Schaduw van het licht – Het Objectief, Ghent
2015
Van zaadjes en doosjes – The White Cube Roeselare – fieldwork Marc Haerssens
2014
Het Landschap – Great St Elizabeth Beguinage, Ghent
2010
Bomen & Zwammen – Great St Elizabeth Beguinage, Ghent
In collaboration with nature photographer Marc Haerssens
2009
Met of zonder stippen   – De wereld van Kina de Tuin, Natural History Museum, Ghent
In collaboration with nature photographer Marc Haerssens
2002
Flemish Watercolors – Fox Williams Ten Dominion Street London EC2M 2EE United Kingdom

Group exhibitions

2025
Estafette – Photo Exhibition Het Objectief, Ghent
2025
Biennial Art Event Lichtervelde Considers Participation with Photography
2025
Nieuwe Meesters I Oude Meesters – In Dialogue – Parts 1 and 2 – Galerie S&H De Buck, Ghent – Participation with Photography
2025
NATURE MORTE – deWeverij – Sleidinge – Participation with Photography
2024
BUITENSHUIS – Duo Exhibition with Christine Marchand – Artroze Wetteren
2023
Expo Barbaix Prize for Photography – Sint-Martens-Latem
2023
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, Mixed Media – Galerie S&H De Buck, Ghent
2022
Palimpsest #3 – galerie_dessers yoc Leopoldplein 9 and Ridderstraat 4, Hasselt
2021
Borstelgevoel installation – museum Eperon d’Or, Izegem
2021
You are here – photography Morbee Gallery Knokke curator Daan Rau
2020
Le parole, le immagini del desiderio – Galerie S&H De Buck, Ghent
2020
Tekenen in lockdown – museum SMAK, Ghent
2020
In de schemerzone photography and drawing – Carmelitana, Ghent with Jean De Groote painting
2019
BOMEN IN BEELD – photography Galerie S&H De Buck, Ghent with Jean De Groote UNE HISTOIRE DE SOLITUDE painting
2017
IedereenUGent! – Ugent – The DD Tower installation, a creation by the book tower team Kathleen Ramboer, Ann Vandaele, Charlotte Bollaert and Mia Reynaert
2016
Beelden en verhalen uit de Westhoek – Kathleen Ramboer, Mia Reynaert, Rudy De Potter, and Marc Haerssens
Vrijzinnig huis, Koksijde
2016
D U O V E R S I T Y with Free Pectoor – BLANCO, Ghent
2015
Tipping Point – Climate Art Trail organized by Ghent University
2015
H47 Ghent – Music and Art Under One Roof
Kathleen Ramboer collages, Joan Hus drawings, Ann Vandaele paintings, Robbrecht Van Cauwenberghe classical accordion
2015
3XK Kleine Kunst in Kluis – Bank Gallery Projects, Ghent
Kathleen Ramboer painting, Mia Reynaert installations, and Rudy De Potter author
2009
Special Days – interior design agency Wille, Ursel
2006
2 Open huizen at Great St Elizabeth Beguinage, Ghent
2001
Kunst en monumenten – Campo Santo Sint-Amandsberg, Ghent