Kat Bové is a Belgian artist who seems to dance through life in bright colours and leopard prints. Behind that cheerful façade hides an introverted maker who has worked through her demons, doubts and questions on paper for years. For a long time she painted only for herself; only recently has she shared her work with a wider public.
Alongside her artistic practice, Kat works as a flight attendant. On the road her pen and paper always travel with her; she portrays her colleagues and thus builds an intimate visual archive. In her work, duality, masks and the search for an idealised, powerful version of herself return again and again, often with a healthy dose of (self-)humour.
'Give me a sketchbook to live in' (Stichting DeNode, 2026, almost 300 pages) gathers more than twenty years of inner struggle, peopled by angels and demons. It opens with the warning 'DON'T READ A WORD IN THIS DIARY, OTHERWISE KARMA WILL FIND YOU' and ends with 'FUCK DE MENSEN'.
