Max Kesteloot

Index,ABOUT

About

Max Kesteloot, 1990 (BE) – delves up images from an extensive and chaotic archive of photographs and short films, looking for what he calls “things he could have painted”. Following the classical idea of what a painting is, he works with acrylic and ink pigment on Belgian linen. The works of Kesteloot seem to frame the almost unnoticed background, the square centimeters next to a movie star’s head, or a vague memory, halted. (…)

Having “a five finger discount on everything he sees”, Max Kesteloot pickpockets images. A twig put on a windshield or a streetcorner view, they are stills from short films, often frozen mid-zoom. Working on canvas now with digital images rather than on wood with analogue print as he used to, allows him agility in size while letting him reframe the painting until the last minute, playing with its negative space. (…) His choice of scenes suggest a presence of a “before” and an “after”, as the grain of the filmic early digital camera grants movement to his still lives.

A life between stillness and motion, he either spends stretches of time on each one of these paintings hibernating in the Ostend studio, or driving around the South with a mattress in the trunk, snapping images in a trail of continuity, like bugs on the rear window. Kesteloot, moved by a will to paint, looks for “good lost corners, places that appeal to him”. (…) Max Kesteloot’s aesthetics have a strong air of that, and a salty sunny gush of America. A single yellow rose, a blurry palmtree outline, it’s the type of images you could imagine living in the corner of Lana del Rey’s batting lashes.
(excerpts from a text by Céline Mathieu, April 2023)

info@maxkesteloot.be
www.instagram.com/maxkesteloot

CURRENT & UPCOMING

GROUPSHOW

Groupshow at Valerius Gallery, Luxemburg (LU)
October 24th – November 24th 2024

"No one else can feel it for you."

November 7th – December 21st 2024, soloshow at PONTI, Antwerp (BE)

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Luxemburg Art week

Groupshow at Luxemburg Art week, Luxemburg (LU)
November 20th – 24th 2024

PAST SHOWS

Aesthetic Echoes

Groupshow at PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
May 16th – June 16th 2024

"Body moving"

Duoshow with Maarten Van Roy at 10N
March 28th – June 15th 2024, Menorca (ES)

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Art Brussels 2024

Group presentation during Art Brussels with 10N featuring Julien Auregan, Nicolas Bourthoumieux, Max Kesteloot and Maarten Van Roy.
April 25-28, 2024, Booth / 6B-31
Brussels, BE

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LA INVITACIÓN

Groupshow at Burr studio, Madrid (ES) with Michael Swaney, Juan Narowé, Amaya Suberviola, Secundino Hernández, Miguel Marina, Marie-Cêcile Aptel, ChiaoHan Chueh, Eloy Arribas, Tracey Slater, Julián Cruz, Maíllo & Max Kesteloot.
April 17th – 28th.

Gaverprijs 2024

Groupshow, finalists of the Prize
Januari – Februari 2024, Be-Part, Waregem (BE)

Darling, it could have been anywhere.

solo exhibition at Everyday Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
1 April – 7 May 2023

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Art Brussels 2023

Group booth participation with Everyday Gallery together with Bram Kinsbergen, Daan Gielis, Erik Chiafele, Max Kesteloot, Michiel Ceulers, Tom Volkaert, touche—touche
20 – 23 April 2023

B-SIDES & RARITIES

Groupshow at Fred & Ferry, Antwerp (BE)
April, 2023

PANORAMA

Groupshow,
Januari – Februari 2023, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca (ES)

LET'S FILL THIS TOWN WITH ARTISTS

Groupshow curated by Charlotte Crevits
Januari – Februari 2023, AHWNN gallery, Ostend (BE)

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ULTERIEUR 2022

20.10.2022 – 27.11.2022 – EXTENDED
Broeltorens – 8500 KORTRIJK
ULTERIEUR 2022

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BILDNIS

Public lecture for Bildnis, Mu.Zee – Oostende
Sunday December 4th, 11 AM
Tickets & info

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CENDAR BRUSSELS

Group show at Galerie Zotto,
April – May, Brussels (BE)

TOMORROW NEVER DIES

Groupshow at Platform 6a, curated by Tanguy Van Quickenborne – in collaboration with Demain.
February – March 2022, Otegem (BE)

CLUB TERMINUS

Groupshow with Benoit Plateus, Tom Volkaert, Ricardo Passaporte, Max Kesteloot, Natasja Mabesoone, Simon Laureyns & Nazif Lopulissa.
March 2022, Ostend (BE)

POTLUCK

Groupshow at Everyday Gallery.
December – January 2021, Antwerp (BE)

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A STANDARD. THE REAL FAKE BOOK.

Soloshow at NIGHTTIMESTORY.
December – January 2021, Los Angeles (USA)

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ULTERIEUR 2021

Groupshow at Avee Gallery.
October – November 2021, Kortrijk (BE)
Synchronised with the hybrid fair / exhibition event the organization of BIENNALE INTERIEUR Kortrijk is preparing, this year the fair returns to its roots on the original industrial site where the De Coene workshop at the origins of INTERIEUR was located.

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TAYLLOORE

Groupshow at former bakery of King Pistolet, curated by Floris Hoorelbeke.
November 2021, Ostend (BE)
With works and performances by – amongst others – Bert Huyghe, Matthieu Ronsse, Dieter Durinck, Karel Tienpoint, Floris Horelbeke, Natasje Mabesoone, Louise Delanghe & Meyer Leroy.

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F/a - workshop

Workshop for Festival van de architectuur in collaboration with mu-zee-um.
October 2021, Ostend (BE)

F/a

Festival van de architectuurVlaams Architectuurinstituut VAi

Curatorial program for the Flemish Architecture Institute VAi – WE ZULLEN ZIEN – “WE SHALL SEE”.
October 2021, Ostend (BE)

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BACKYARD

Groupshow with – amongst others – Andy Wauman, Simon Laureyns, Manor Grunewald, Natasje Mabesoone, Joselito Verschaeve, Thomas Vandenberghe & Sybren Vanoverberghe at BACKYARD. An exhibition by Platform 6A, Deweer Gallery & Backyard. Curated by Sybren Vanoverberghe.
September – October 2021, Otegem (BE)

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BELGIAN ART & DESIGN FAIR

Groupbooth with Kunst aan Zet & Barbé Urbain Gallery, Curated by Wim Lambrecht.
7 – 10 October 2021, Ghent (BE)

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☝︎

Duoshow with atelier Pica Pica at Gevaertsdreef 01
September 2021, Oudenaarde (BE)

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XL

Groupshow at Barbé Urbain Gallery.
August – September 2021, Ghent (BE)
With works by Adelheid De Witte, Charlie De Voet, Flexboj & L.A., Joost Pauwaert, Manor Grunewald, Max Kesteloot, Middernacht & Alexander, Nokukhanya Langa, Ritsart Gobyn, Sharon Van Overmeiren, Stan Van Steendam, Sybren Vanoverberghe, and Willem Boel.

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LIMITED EDITIONS

Groupshow at Gevaertsdreef 01
August 2021, Oudenaarde (BE)

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ADAPTATION

Groupshow at NIGHTTIMESTORY
July 2021, Los Angeles (US)

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NEYBOR

Groupshow at Neybor.
November 2020 – February 2021, Brussels (BE)
With works by Ilan Weiss, Vincent Chenut, Heidi Ukkonen & others.
Curated by Demain.

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NINE TOOLS AND SOME FRAGMENTS

Soloshow at NO/ gallery
October – November
EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARI 2021, Ghent (BE)

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GOOD LOST CORNERS, PLACES THAT APPEAL TO ME

Soloshow at CENTRALE.box
September – November 2020, Brussels (BE)
Curated by Tania Nasielski & Carine Fol

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STAYCATION

Groupshow at Barbé Urbain Gallery.
August – September 2020, Ghent (BE)
With works by Adelheid De Witte, Adriaan Verwée, Benjamin Moravec, Benoît Platéus, Charlie De Voet, Jan De Cock, Flexboj & L.A., Erlend Grytbakk Wold, Jens Kothe, Joost Pauwaert, Just Quist, Louise Delanghe, Manor Grunewald , Marijke Vasey, Max Kesteloot, Middernacht & Alexander, Natasja Mabesoone, Panamarenko, Roeland Tweelinckx, Simon Laureyns, Stan Van Steendam, Sybren Vanoverberghe, Tamara Van San, Xavier Mary and Xavier Robles de Medina.

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ZOMERSALON

Groupshow at Kunsthal
July – August 2020, Ghent (BE)

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EINMAL ALLES - ALLES EIN MAL

Groupshow at Goeben Berlin
July 2020, Berlin (DE)

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Raus Project vol. 2

May 2020
Groupshow in Hamburg, (DE) – Curated by Pol Summer.
Raus Project

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REFLECTIONS IN TRANSITION

December 2019 – January 2020
Groupshow at Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent (BE)
With Marlies De Clerck, Erlend Grytbakk Wold, Max Kesteloot, Natasja Mabesoone & Marijke Vasey.

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EXPOSURE

December 2019
Groupshow at mjfinearts, Ghent (BE)
With amongst others, Sybren Vanoverberghen, Felix Fasolt & Willem Boel.

ARTCONTEST

September – October 2019, groupshow at Espace Vanderborght, Brussels (BE)

With Bas Van Den Hout, Léo Luccioni, Lien Van Ranst, Luke James, Maika Garnica, Marlies De Clerck, Max Kesteloot, Mostafa Saifi Rahmouni, Natasja Mabesoone & Yoel Pytowski.

Granted 2nd laureate with both the Prize Collectioneurs et Amateurs d’art as well as the Prize CENTRALE for contemporary art during the 15th ArtContest!♥

Created by ArtContest.

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MDD PARTY & AUCTION

August 2019, Ghent (BE)
museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

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Biënnale van België III

June 2019, Floraliënhal (SMAK) Gent (BE)
Festival van Belgische hedendaagse kunst – with 019
www.biennalevanbelgie.be

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ASANNAT

June 2019, Ostend (BE)

Independent groupshow with works by Atelier Pica Pica, Dieter Durinck, Leo Gabin, Lucas DupuyManor Grunewald, Max Kesteloot & Simon Laureyns.

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TROPICAL NIGHT

May – June 2019, soloshow at 019, Ghent (BE)

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Feet First Fair

April 5-6-7 2019, Brussels/Ostend (BE)

SALON BLANC 37

February 2019, groupshow at Salon Blanc, Ostend (BE)

Max Kesteloot, Simon Laureyns, Yoann Van Parys.

Curated by Els Wuyts.

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NEIGHBOURS VOL. 8 'ARTIST COLLECTIONS'

February – March 2019, groupshow at RIOT, Ghent (BE)

Groupshow with an insight in personal private collections of Leo Gabin, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Xavier Mary, Max Frintrop & Manor Grunewald. 

Works by Landon Metz, Harmony Korine, Eric Croes, Benoit Platéus, Max Kesteloot, Marius Lut, Luc Fuller, Bert Huyghe, Jana Schröder, Walter Swennen & more.

Brought together by NEIGHBOURS

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Residency at ‘woning Vanwassenhove – Juliaan Lampens’

January 2019, Curated by museum Dhondt Dhaenens – Deurle (BE)

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Extended call Pt. 3

September 2018, groupshow at Subsidiary Projects, London (UK)

Curated by Nelle Gevers & Billy Fraser.

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Ghent Art Book Fair

May 2018, 019 – Ghent (BE)
Screening of film Spot Spots – prologue due to circumstances

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Feet First Fair

June 2017, MACAO – Milano (IT)
Screening of film Spot Spots – prologue due to circumstances

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The production of space

March 2015, NUCLEO – Ghent (BE)
Group exhibition entry with GAFPA.

Alongside Thierry Mortier, Olivier Goethals, Luanda Casella & Giovanni Barcella, Bert Heytens, Kristof Lemmens & Paul C. Luttik, Thomas De ridder & Bert Joostens. 

Curated by Felix Fasolt.

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Nowhere – Part 1

October 2014, Soloshow in KERK, Ghent (BE)

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BOOKS

GOOD LOST CORNERS

GOOD LOST CORNERS – Places that appeal to me

Max Kesteloot
In close collaboration with atelier Haegeman Temmerman.
© 2020 Max Kesteloot

First edition of 300 copies, August 2020
Design:atelier Haegeman Temmerman. 
Printed and bound in Belgium.
Text and images: Max Kesteloot, Prologue text: Bart Decroos

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SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances

A photographic essay in search of the most idyllic spot in Europe
concept, text & images by Max Kesteloot
Text Editing by Bart Decroos, Graphic Design: atelier Arthur Haegeman
Printed in an edition of 75

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FILMS

TROPICAL NIGHT

2019, Belgium/Spain
HDR, 4:3, colour, stereo, text. Duration: 12’01”
Ottorino Respighi, Brazilian impressions – first movement “Notte tropicale”, 1928
performed by Orchestra Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit, recording 1999
Text editing: Bart Decroos
Video editing: Xerxes Heirman
Typography of graphics: Nana Esi
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SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances

Accompanying film with the book

2017, Belgium
HDR, 4:3, colour, stereo, text, 24’09” 
Camera & text : Max Kesteloot

Text editing: Bart Decroos

Video editing : Xerxes Heirman

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PUBLISHED

"A STANDARD. THE REAL FAKE BOOK." at Nighttimestory chosen as #ECCHIGHLIGHT.

Januari, 2022
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"A STANDARD. THE REAL FAKE BOOK." at Nighttimestory featured on ArtViewer

Januari, 2022
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"MOOI LELIJK" Max Kesteloot story in Weekend Knack Black Edition

October 2021,
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Philosophy of adaptation at Nighttimestory featured on Artmirror

July, 2021
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Philosophy of adaptation at Nighttimestory featured on ArtViewer

July, 2021
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Centrale for contemporary arts - Podcast double interview with Henk Visch

December 2020
Listen on Spotify!

MUSIC FOR SHARING PLATES Vol. 8

November 2020,
Recorded music set for restaurant/club Amigos, Ghent (BE)
Listen here or read the article

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Focus Knack - De tussenstand

October 2020, interview with Kurt Blondeel for Knack.
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Centrale for contemporary arts - Podcast on GOOD LOST CORNERS

August 2020
Listen on Spotify!

Centrale for contemporary arts - video interview on GOOD LOST CORNERS

September 2020
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Sabato - De Tijd

May 2020
Demain featured Fragment #42 in Sabato Magazine.

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Centrale for contemporary arts - digital studio visit during COVID19

April 2020
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THE ARCHIVE HOTEL N. 3, contribution

February, 2020
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THE WORD MAGAZINE, interview

February, 2019

“Forlorn photography and brutalist structures: Max Kesteloot’s House Van Wassenhove residency” – Written by Carlos Álvarez Clemente 

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YNGSPC, interview

October, 2018

“Max Kesteloot’s work combines a love for photography and the urban environment into a practice in which he is always carefully studying and juxtaposing fragments of images and subject matter together.” -by Kate Mothes, curator. 

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UNDRSTND magazine, interview

August, 2018

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DIVISARE, Cité radieuse

December, 2017

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AFASIARQ, spaces places people

July, 2015

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graphic & web by atelier Arthur Haegeman
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Max Kesteloot

Index,ABOUT

ArtBrussels 2024

Group presentation during Art Brussels with 10N featuring Julien Auregan, Eliza Ballesteros, Nicolas Bourthoumieux, Valérian Goalec, Max Kesteloot, Anna Ruth, Maarten Van Roy & Myrthe van der Mark.
April 25-28, 2024, Booth / 6B-31
Brussels, BE

Body Moving

Duoshow with Maarten Van Roy at 10N
March 28th – June 15th 2024, Menorca (ES)

“He go tapping his chromium walls like a crazy dancer.

In the labyrinthine corridors of existence, where the echoes of past and future intertwine, there exists a poetic dance between chaos and order, control and surrender. Here, amidst the celestial symphonies envisioned by Johannes Kepler, and the intimate landscapes explored by Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space , we encounter the profound tapestry of the human experience.

Kepler’s theories, like stars that guide sailors through the night, navigate us through the cosmic chaos, revealing the hidden harmonies of the universe. His celestial mechanics, a testament to humanities pursuit of control over nature’s whims, reflect our eternal quest for understanding amidst the vast unknown.

Within this quest lies the paradox of our human condition. We are but specks in the cosmic expanse, attempting to impose order upon boundless chaos. And as we grasp for control, we inevitably encounter moments of loss, where our best-laid plans crumble like sandcastles before the tide. In these moments of surrender, however, lies a beauty all its own. It is the beauty of remembering, of cherishing fleeting moments and ephemeral places that shape our lives. For in the fractures of memory, we find solace amidst the tumultuous seas of being.

Like the fragments of a forgotten dream, Max Kesteloot’s Untitled Paintings assemble in imperfect grids. Each part of the image is an image itself and the delicate white lines imbue proximity and distance with different meanings. Kesteloot documents his journeys with the camera, later selecting film stills to transfer onto canvas as pigment. He moves within his artistic practice between control and its loss. From this process emerge delicate, airy images depicting facades, window views, details of weathered surfaces, billboards and blurry light effects. We might be looking at the moving shadows of a leafless tree or the surface of a piece of marble.

Kesteloot presents memories with such openness that we can incorporate them as our own. The images bear noise, glitches and light disturbances. Small cracks and fractures deepen the poetic quest for traces when viewed from up close. These snapshots become abstract paintings, encapsulating the essence of different moments in time, blurring the lines between present and past, materiality and medium.

Maarten Van Roy’s sculptures and objects present a fusion of materials. The delicately crafted pieces are assembled in a way that they transcend their individual components. At their core, these creations evoke a sense of interconnectedness through their materiality. Whether fashioned from found objects or welded steel, they bear traces of their past encounters – a lamp stand reminiscent of a sunset stroll or a back-spinning wooden branch, chromed to a gleam.

Despite their laden memories, each of these sculptures possesses a distinct character. Each embodying a unique phenomenon, they seem to be everything from companions to ornaments, bearing titles like Diamonds, The Healing Game or Gravity Collapse. Like the broken glass object recalling the grace of a swan’s wing, these pieces find harmony within metal brackets and welding seems. Each connection, from cables to fasteners, crackles with tension, creating moments of synergetic alliance and evoking a unique sense of profound clarity. Van Roy’s works convey the feeling that they were fated from the outset, their parts moving through the cosmos, bound by an invisible thread until they ended up in the same place.

The artworks of Kesteloot and Van Roy appear to hint at the openness to the experience of life. It is the same notion that resonates within the walls of Bachelard’s poetic spaces, where the mundane becomes sacred and the ordinary transcendent. The secrets of their work lying in the visible, rather than the invisible, both artists conjure entities that connect us with the here and now and yet transcend time, space, and circumstance.

Flame on, I’m gone.”

Text by Luisa Schlotterbeck
Exhibition views by Jeroen Verrecht

Duoshow with Maarten Van Roy at 10N
March 28th – June 15th 2024, Menorca (ES)

LA INVITACIÓN

Groupshow at Burr studio, Madrid (ES)
Curated & taken care of by Eloy Arribas
April 17th – 28th

Darling, it could have been anywhere.

solo exhibition by Max Kesteloot
1 April – 7 May 2023, Everyday Gallery
Installation shots ‘Darling, it could have been anywhere.’Credits image: Michael Smits

Max Kesteloot (1990, Belgium) delves up images from an extensive and chaotic archive of photographs and short films, looking for what he calls “things he could have painted”. Following the classical idea of what a painting is, the resulting works in this exhibition are acrylic and ink pigment on Belgian linen. Often when trying to photograph his finished works, the camera, not unlike the human eye finds it hard to find focus between crystal sharp edges and the blow-ups. The works of Kesteloot seem to frame the almost unnoticed background, the square centimeters next to a moviestar’s head, or a vague memory, halted. As the title, taken from an overheard conversation, says: Darling, it could have been anywhere.

Having “a five finger discount on everything he sees”, Max Kesteloot pickpockets images. A twig put on a windshield or a streetcorner view, they are stills from short films, often frozen mid-zoom. Working on canvas now with digital images rather than on wood with analogue print as he used to, allows him agility in size while letting him reframe the painting until the last minute, playing with its negative space. By working from short 10 second filmic captures, he has 10 times 24 frames, from which to make a concise curation. His choice of scenes suggest a presence of a “before” and an “after”, as the grain of the filmic early digital camera grants movement to his still lives.

A life between stillness and motion, he either spends stretches of time on each one of these paintings hibernating in the Ostend studio, or driving around the South with a mattress in the trunk, snapping images in a trail of continuity, like bugs on the rear window. Kesteloot, moved by a will to paint, looks for “good lost corners, places that appeal to him”. It’s a bodily thing too; standing in front of the large red car zoom painting, Max shows with a sway of the arm, how his movement ratio corresponds to the curve in the image. The way the painting is executed though, can be left mysterious, as “his private Coca Cola recipe”. Growing up in Benidorm, Max Kesteloot’s aesthetics have a strong air of that, and a salty sunny gush of America. A single yellow rose, a blurry palmtree outline, it’s the type of images you could imagine living in the corner of Lana del Rey’s batting lashes.

Text by Céline Mathieu

Darling, it could have been anywhere.

solo exhibition at Everyday Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
1 April – 7 May 2023

EVERYDAY GALLERY AT ART BRUSSELS 2023

MAIN BOOTH –– 6B-18
WORKS BY: ASMA, Colleen Barry, Michiel Ceulers, Erik Chiafele, Daan Gielis, Serban Ionescu, Max Kesteloot, Bram Kinsbergen, Marc Leschelier, Mamali Shafahi, touche––touche, Dittmar Viane, Tom Volkaert

LET’S FILL THIS TOWN WITH ARTISTS.

Groupshow with Nienke Baeckelandt & Bram Van Breda curated by Charlotte Crevits
Januari – Februari 2023, AHWNN Gallery, Ostend (BE)
installation views vandenbussche-vandenbossche for AHWNN

Untitled painting #6

Madrid (ES)
200 x 150 cm
Acrylic, gesso and ink on Belgian linnen.
Stretched, signed in the back.
2022

Untitled painting #1 and Untitled painting #2

Studio view, Ostend (BE)
Untitled painting #1 Alicante (ES)
145 x 110 cm
Acrylic, gesso and ink on Belgian linnen.
Stretched, signed in the back.
2022

Untitled painting #2 Madrid (ES)
145 x 110 cm
Acrylic, gesso and ink on Belgian linnen.
Stretched, signed in the back.
2022

CLUB TERMINUS

Groupshow with Benoit Plateus, Tom Volkaert, Ricardo Passaporte, Natasja Mabesoone, Simon Laureyns & Nazif Lopulissa.
March 2022, Ostend (BE)

TOMORROW NEVER DIES.

Groupshow at Deweer Gallery.
February – March 2022, Otegem (BE)
With works by Paulien Föllings, Hannah De Corte, Max Kesteloot, Bram Kinsbergen, Odilon Pain, Maude Sauvage & Emma Verhulst. Curated by Tanguy Van Quickeborne. With Demain.

A STANDARD. THE REAL FAKE BOOK.

Soloshow at NIGHTTIMESTORY.
December – January 2021, Los Angeles (USA)

Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners. There is no definitive list of jazz standards, and the list of songs deemed to be standards changes over time. Songs included in major fake book publications – sheet music collections of popular tunes and jazz reference works – offer a rough guide to which songs are considered standards. Such as The Real Book, The New Real Book, The Fake Book or 557 Swing & Bepop Standards.

Notes on adaptation. Not every corner can be captured trough a photograph. Not every movement can be shot on video. Not every logo can be painted again.
Not every memory should be brought home.
Not every souvenir should be adapted.

A STANDARD.
A go-to verse, widely known – however adapted from it’s original function. Performed by so many before. Not distinguished by content but by details, the little things, to make the adaptation stand out, or not.

THE REAL FAKE BOOK.
A printed collection of standards. A document that obliges pieces that were once adapted -appropriated – from different cultures, countries as a rule, call it a standard. A piece that was never intended to be performed like that, suddenly changing its status.

Potluck

Groupshow at Everyday Gallery.
December – January 2021, Antwerp (BE)
With works by – amongst others- Tom Volkaert, Daan Gielis, Athos Burez, Benny Van den Meulengracht – Vrancx, Bram Vanderbeke, Ciro Duclos, Julien Saudubray, Thom Trojanowski, …

ULTERIEUR2021

Groupshow at Avee Gallery.
October – November 2021, Kortrijk (BE)
Synchronised with the hybrid fair / exhibition event the organization of BIENNALE INTERIEUR Kortrijk.

Duoshow with atelier Pica Pica at Gevaertsdreef 01
September 4-26 2021, SAT-SUN 2-6PM

XL

Groupshow at Barbé Urbain Gallery.
August – September 2021, Ghent (BE)
With works by Adelheid De Witte, Charlie De Voet, Flexboj & L.A., Joost Pauwaert, Manor Grunewald, Max Kesteloot, Middernacht & Alexander, Nokukhanya Langa, Ritsart Gobyn, Sharon Van Overmeiren, Stan Van Steendam, Sybren Vanoverberghe, and Willem Boel.

Short video on my paintings which find their origin in pictorial translations of fragments from my short videos.

Oil, lacquer & acrylics on guache, paper. Various sizes.
Digital MP4, 4:3, colour, stereo, various durations.
2021, Madrid (ES)

PHILOSOPHY OF ADAPTATION

June – July 2021, Groupshow at NIGHTTIMEPROJECTS, Los Angeles (USA)

Together with Christian Lagata, Katarina Zdjelar, Tommy Malekoff, Carl Andre, Matteo Cremonesi & Zhou Li Yang.
Exhibition views.

FRAGMENT #102

Fragment #102, Berlin (DE), Elche (ES)
110 x 145 cm
Magistra blueback 120 gr., acryllics, pigmented wall paste on board, 2020

GOOD LOST CORNERS – Places that appeal to me

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First edition of 300 copies August 2020
Official book launch September 2020 at Centrale, Brussels (BE)
– available online and in selected bookstores throughout Europe.
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design atelier Haegeman Temmerman
text & images Max Kesteloot
prologue text Bart Decroos

NINE TOOLS AND SOME FRAGMENTS

October – November 2020, Soloshow at NO Gallery, Ghent (BE)

“Tools are human-made objects for everyday life that exist out of the lack or disability to be able to fulfil a certain necessity. It’s a device to make something easier, or to just make it possible in the first place, although at first sight it would appear not to do so. The look of a tool finds it distinctive appearance most-likely in its functionality. Tools are for ever. What if we would take the aesthetics of found tools along the way. Parts of equipments that were once designed with care – although very neglect-able, I agree – for a very specific situation or place. A once required piece of equipment. Almost as if the witness of an urge. The witness of a result of a reply to an urge. Ah yes, tools are for ever and they come in very handy.”

GOOD LOST CORNERS – Places that appeal to me

September – November 2020, Soloshow at Centrale.Brussels, Brussels (BE)

STAYCATION

August – September 2020, Groupshow at Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent (BE)

Together with – amongst many others – Adriaan Verwée, Benoît Platéus, Jan De Cock, Flexboj & L.A., Jens Kothe, Just Quist, Manor Grunewald, Middernacht & Alexander, Natasja Mabesoone, Panamarenko, Simon Laureyns, Sybren Vanoverberghe, Xavier Mary , …
Exhibition views – Barbé Urbain

Einmal alles – alles ein Mal

July 2020, Groupshow at Goeben, Berlin (DE)

Together with – amongst many others – Maximilian Arnold, Jan Zöller, Jonas Weichsel, Conny Maier, Tobias Donat, Elisaveta Braslavskaja, …
Exhibition views – Stefan Haehnel

Fragment #79

Villajojosa (ES), Biarritz (FR) on view Demain Belgium‘s private viewing space, Brussels (BE). July 2020

REFLECTIONS IN TRANSITION

December – January 2019-2020, Groupshow at Barbé Urbain gallery, Ghent (BE)

Together with Marlies Declerck, Natasja Mabesoone, Marijke Vasey & Erlend Grytbakk Wold.
Exhibition views – Alexander Saenen for Barbé Urbain.

ArtContest 2019

September – October 2019, groupshow at Espace Vanderborght, Brussels (BE)

With Bas Van Den Hout, Léo Luccioni, Lien Van Ranst, Luke James, Maika Garnica, Marlies De Clerck, Max Kesteloot, Mostafa Saifi Rahmouni, Natasja Mabesoone & Yoel Pytowski.

Happy to share I got granted 2nd laureate with both the Prize Collectioneurs et Amateurs d’art as well as the Prize CENTRALE for contemporary art during the 15th ArtContest!♥

Created by ArtContest. – exhibition view

New edition TROPICAL NIGHT available

27 unique filmstills from the film.
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Stills 2, 19 & 22 added above as a reference.

De Biënnale Van België III

RE-EXHIBITING 019: MUSEUM OF MOVING PRACTICE
Part of the Tropical night installation found it’s place in 019 ‘s installation at the Biënnale van België. – June 2019, photo by Michiel de Cleene

ASANNAT
June 2019, groupshow in Ostend (BE)
Atelier Pica Pica, Lucas Dupuy, Dieter Durinck, Leo Gabin, Manor Grunewald, Max Kesteloot, Simon laureyns.
– exhibition views

TROPICAL NIGHT

Soloshow at 019, Ghent. BE
May 18th – June 2nd 2019

www.019-ghent.org

click here to read the introduction text by Bart Decroos.

Exhibition photos by Michiel Decleene.

 

TROPICAL NIGHT

SALON BLANC 37

February 2019, groupshow at Salon Blanc, Ostend (BE)

Max Kesteloot, Simon Laureyns, Yoann Van Parys.

Curated by Els Wuyts. – exhibition view

NEIGHBOURS VOL. 8 ‘ARTISTS COLLECTIONS’

February – March 2019, Groupshow at Riot, Ghent (BE)

Curated by Manor Grunewald. – brought together by NEIGHBOURS.

On show: Fragment #5 – Benidorm (ES) – collection Manor Grunewald. 

Exhibition view – Photo Riot.

Residency at ‘woning Vanwassenhove – Juliaan Lampens’

January 2019, Curated by museum Dhondt Dhaenens – Deurle (BE)

Extended Call pt.3

September 2018, Groupshow at Subsidiary Projects, London (UK)

Curated by Nelle Gevers & Billy Fraser.

On show: Fragment #16 – Alicante (ES), Benidorm (ES) 

Exhibition view – Juan Manuel, Max Kesteloot, Alexander Glass, Amanda Kyritsopoulou, Goncalo Lamas, Tristan Williams, Rhiannon R Salisbury, Alia Hamaoui & Fenella Brereton. Photo Nat Faulkner.

SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances
SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances
SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances
SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances
Screening of film SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances

May 2018, 019 – Ghent (BE)

Screening of film SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances

June 2017, MACAO – Milano (IT)

Scene at 8’23”

Videostill from SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances.

Scene at 17’06”

Videostill from SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances.

Scene at 11’08”

Videostill from SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances.

The production of space

2015, NUCLEO – Ghent (BE)
Group exhibition entry with GAFPA.

Alongside Thierry Mortier, Olivier Goethals, Luanda Casella & Giovanni Barcella, Bert Heytens, Kristof Lemmens & Paul C. Luttik, Thomas De ridder & Bert Joostens. 

The production of space

2015, NUCLEO – Ghent (BE)
Group exhibition entry with GAFPA.

Alongside Thierry Mortier, Olivier Goethals, Luanda Casella & Giovanni Barcella, Bert Heytens, Kristof Lemmens & Paul C. Luttik, Thomas De ridder & Bert Joostens. 

Nowhere – part 1

October 2014, Soloshow in KERK, Ghent (BE)

Nowhere – Part 1

October 2014, Soloshow in KERK, Ghent (BE)