Joost Pauwaert 

BIO | SELECTED WORKS

Joost Pauwaert (1985, Bretzenheim, DE) ’s work explores the relationship between power, beauty, and poetry, often infused with a playful, childlike curiosity. He integrates familiar and symbolic imagery that evokes both recognition and tension. Pauwaert is drawn to the aesthetic of the imposing and the monumental, balancing this with a sense of the caricatural and symbolic wonder that softens its intensity and opens up imaginative possibilities.

Joost Pauwaert works and lives in Zwijnaarde, BE. His solo 'The End Is Near' is his 2nd solo exhibition at BARBÉ. The solo exhibition is accompanied with a performance ‘Apocalyptic Triumph Parade’ during the opening on 24 October 2024. Video will be released soon.

In the past years his works have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions during several gallery group show at BARBÉ and other venues such at Ooidonk Art Festival, C-MINE in Genk, Art Brussels w/ Dauwens & Beernaert, Art Cologne w/ Galerie Eric Mouchet (FR), Archipel at Deweer Gallery Estate (Otegem), Art Rotterdam w/ BARBÉ, Ponti gallery (Antwerp), Pizza gallery (Antwerp), Gevaertsdreef (Oudenaarde), PASS kunstroute (Lede) and Emergent in Veurne.

More information about his solo ‘The End Is Near’

Watch Joost Pauwaert’s performance ‘A new study for an end of the world’ - Homage to Jean Tinguely.
The performance was executed on Sunday August 14th 2022 at 21.00 in front of an audience in Beernem, Belgium.

The artistic beauty of these ventures derives from the originality of the questions, on the opposite side of the usual forms of artistic expression.
Actually, they precede and take us back to times when science and art were closer to each other than today. Or they lead us back to fundamental questions in sculpture, which always had to do with gravity and density.

Here we come closer to a fundamental poetry, which stems from the beauty of things themselves.

(text by Hans Theys)

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Joost Pauwaert
°1985
Lives and works in Gent (BE)

Education

Photography (2014)
KASK, Gent, BE

Selected exhibitions

2024
OOIDONK ART FESTIVAL 2024 / solo exhibition / Francis Maere Fine Arts / Ooidonk (BE)
ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS / group show / C-MINE / Genk (BE)
BALLROOM PROJECT / group show / Borgerhub / Antwerp (BE)
REMAINS / solo exhibition / Coppejans Gallery / Antwerp (BE)
ART BRUSSELS 2024 / group show / Dauwens & Beernaert / Brussels (BE)
DINOSAURS & BUTTERFLIES / solo exhibition / Barbé / Ghent (BE)
WORKS ON PAPER / solo exhibition / Barbé / Ghent (BE)

2023
WORKS ON PAPER / group exhibition / Barbé / Ghent (BE)
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ART ANTWERP / group exhibition / Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery / Antwerp (BE)
PROBINGS, OBSERVATIONS, ACTIONS & ARTEFACTS / Solo exhibition / Barbé Gallery / Ghent (BE)
LUXEMBOURG ART WEEK / group exhibition / Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery / Luxembourg (LU)
ART COLOGNE / group exhibition / Galerie Eric Mouchet / Cologne (DE)
HOF TER SAKSEN / group exhibition / Beveren (BE)
ELDORADO / group exhibition / Dudzele (BE)
HOLD YOUR HORSES / duo exhibition with Alice Vanderschoot / Ponti Gallery / Antwerp (BE)
DE GROTE VOGELSHOW / group exhibition / Pizza Gallery / Antwerp (BE)
ART BRUSSELS / group exhibition / Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery / Brussels (BE)
LA PRIMAVERA / group exhibition / Archipel / Otegem (BE)
IN MEDIAS RES / group exhibition / Barbé / Ghent (BE)
ART ROTTERDAM / duo exhibition with Charlie De Voet / Rotterdam (NL)
EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN UNTIL THEY GET PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH / group exhibition / Barbé Urbain / Ghent (BE)

2022
ART ON PAPER / group show / Vanderborght Building / Brussels (BE)
STURM UND DRUNK / duo exhibition with Marco De Sanctis / Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery / Brussels (BE)
PERFORMANCE ‘A NEW STUDY FOR AN END OF THE WORLD, HOMAGE TO JEAN TINGUELY’ / performance / Pizza Gallery / Beernem (BE)
GROUP SHOW / ‘Works on Paper’ / solo exhibition / Barbé Urbain / Ghent (BE)
DUO SHOW WITH KRIS MARTIN / solo exhibition / Gevaertsdreef01 / Oudenaarde (BE)
HET VLIEGENDE AAMBEELD / solo exhibition / Emergent / Veurne (BE)
DEAD PARROTS AND FLYING HAMMERS / duo exhibition with Guy Slabbinck / Bruthaus Gallery / Waregem (BE)

2021
PASS Kunstroute / group exhibition curated by Jan Hoet Jr. / Mullem, Huise, Wannegem / Lede (BE)
XL / group exhibition / Barbé Urbain Gallery / Ghent (BE)
CONCERTO FOR TWO CANNONS, A SAW, AN ANVIL AND SOME HAMMERS / solo exhibition / Barbé Urbain Gallery / Ghent (BE)

2020
STAYCATION / group exhibition / Barbé Urbain Gallery / Ghent (BE)
TWEE GROTE HAMERS / presentation of permanent installation / Verbeke Foundation / Kemzeke (BE)

2019
FOUDROYÉ / group exhibition / Barbé Urbain Gallery / Ghent (BE)
JETSAM / group exhibition / Avee Gallery / Kortrijk (BE)
BIENNALE VAN BELGIE / group exhibition / Floralïenhal / Ghent (BE)
BEATING THE BUSHES / duo show / In de Ruimte / Ghent (BE)

2018
NIGHTSHIFT / group show / De Studio / Antwerp (BE)
PERFORMANCE ART WEEKEND / group show / P/Rops Ghent (BE)
13 YEARS OF HYSTERIA / duo exhibition / Blanco / Ghent (BE)

2017
SOUTERRAIN / solo exhibition / Artist's Studio / Ghent (BE)