Sven Verhaeghe

In addition to his paintings and drawings, the work of Sven Verhaeghe (1974) also includes video work and installation art. Landscape and nature are his most important subjects, in particular the (often disturbed) relationship between man and nature. His work seems to bring us into the atmosphere of the idyllic landscape of the 18th and 19th centuries, but in contrast to these ideal images of the past, the subjects of that time seem forgotten or disappeared. Background has become the foreground. Verhaeghe somehow manages to incorporate our history into his work without becoming too explicit or anecdotal. The work wavers between abstract and realistic. It seems timeless, because it cannot be placed indiscriminately in the contemporary, but within the tradition it is also strange. Verhaeghe’s work constructs its own time frame and dimension.

2014: OKV
2013: Hilde vraagt, Hilde Van Canneyt interviewt 85 Belgische Kunstenaars
2013: Deus ex Machina, ‘Black Blood’, Roderik Six & Sven Verhaeghe
2011: VIXI, Sven Verhaeghe

2022
Connecting minds – Tale Art Gallery, Sint-Lievens-Houtem
The Animal World – Reichmanns Galerie, Ieper
This is not a landscape #2 – PAK, Gistel
Duet – CC De Steiger, Menen
Klem – Publicatie Roderik Six en Sven Verhaeghe, 100 exemplaren

2021
Entre deux nuages – PAK, Gistel
White Sheet – Wijtschate
Above us only sky – Qualicanes (FR)
Onverbloemd – Stad onder stroom, Diksmuide
Dirty Black Summer – Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent

2020
Beestig – Stadsfestival, Stichting IJsberg, Damme
Crucifixions – PAK, Gistel

2019
Monster – Bibliofiele uitgave, Roderik Six
We are water, project over de IJzer – Isara, songs of the valley, een audiovisueel getijdenboek, vinyl & DVD

2018
The Belly of Trees – Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent
Cross-over-sense – CC Bornem
Don’t mention the war – Kunstenhuis, Harelbeke
Lettre à Courbet – La Ferme Courbet, Flagey (FR)
Omtrent Brel – Zandvoorde
Momentum – Kerken Ieper
We Are Water – Artistiek project in de IJzer- en Handzamevallei i.s.m. Regionaal Landschap Westhoek

2017
De verzakelijking van het ondoorgrondelijke – 37PK Platform voor kunsten, Haarlem (NL)
Memoires van een Meeloper – Gasthuiskapel, Poperinge

2016
De geschreven oorlog – In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper
Committed to the sea – Bibliotheek Oostende
Meninroad/Ypernstrasse (curator Johan Tahon)
Dundic & Verhaeghe – Centre Culturel de Marchin/Den Bouw
Im Walden – SITE 25, Ruiselede
In Order of Disappearance – Galerie SH De Buck, Gent
40 minutes: daydreams and blackholes (If I was an insect) – offOFF cinema, Gent

2015
The silence of the night sky is golden – CC Hasselt
WHO IS WHO? – Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent
Art-Traces across the western front – Langemark/Poelkapelle

2014
Forecast Horizons – Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent
Citadel’Arte –Citadel Diest
Warum? – Bibliotheek De Letterschuur/Kasteeldomein/Kerk/Museum Passchendaele 1917,  Zonnebeke
UMland – CC Belgica, Dendermonde/Villa Olmen, Wieze

2013
Cosmos in earth and in the sky – Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent
Coup de Ville – Sint-Niklaas
I believed everything you told me – Galerie Majke Hüsstege, ‘s Hertogenbosch (NL)
LUX – Kerk Wulvergem, Heuvelland

2012
Exotica – Le Coin C Gallery, Knokke
Het Paradijs/Le Paradis/The Paradise – Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent
Mail l’aile ne fait pas l’oiseau – Villa Olmen, Wieze
Exodus – Kunstwerk(t) i.s.m. SMAK, de Vijvers, Gent

2011
Atmos – Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent
It’s Saturday at the Breadsun Teichoscopia – Galerie Majke Hüsstege, ‘s Hertogenbosch (NL)

2010
Sheep May Safely Graze – Galerie Hugo Godderis, Veurne
Kaoz Lilly, Berchem

2009
Elysian Fields – Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent
Tremendum et fascinans – Sint Michielskerk, Leuven

2008
Imaginäre zahl – Oud Station, Oudenaarde
A flowery band to bind us to the earth – Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent
Over-winteren 08 – Montanus vijf, Diksmuide
When dead deer die, global warning – Diksmuide