Originally sent by email on 02.09.25.
nodenaysteen nieuwsbrief #17 — september 2025
September 5, 2025: Vernissage Vestiges, a duo exhibition by Chantal Pollier and Guillaume Van Moerkercke
September 20, 2025, 2:00 PM: Robrecht Kessels, musical reinterpretation of Vestiges
Robrecht Kessels obtained his Master's degree in music (cello) at the Conservatory of Ghent, where he focused on the classical repertoire. Soon after, he broadened his horizons and became active in a wide range of musical projects, performing with bands such as Orange Pecco (Kinky Star Records), Zjef Vanuytsel, Hooverphonic, and Room 13 (featuring Stijn Meuris, among others).
September 27, 2025, 11:00 AM: Artist talk with Guillaume and Chantal
The exhibition runs from 5/9 through 28/9.
vernissage 11/10 16u00, the artist will be present.
Lee Ranaldo (USA, °1956) is a multidisciplinary artist best known as co-founder of the groundbreaking experimental rock group Sonic Youth.
Alongside his celebrated musical career, he has developed a versatile practice as a sound artist, performer, visual artist, and writer. At Nodenaysteen, we present a selection of drawings and prints in which rhythm, movement, and repetition take center stage—characteristics that also define his music.
For your information: On October 10, 2025, you can see Lee Ranaldo perform at 404: Lee Ranaldo x 'Quick Billy'. Check it out here.
Visual artist Merel Jansen (NL, °1990) graduated in Fine Art Painting from ArtEZ/AKI and the LUCA School of Arts in Ghent.
In 2023, she was one of the winners of De Nieuwe Vermeer, a competition and TV program accompanying the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. That same year, Merel exhibited at Museum Arnhem with her own interpretation of The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck and also participated in the Klaas Gubbels exhibition. This past February, her paintings were on display at Museum MORE.
In recent years, Merel has worked with great dedication on abstract paintings, where her fascination with the interplay between form and color takes center stage.
DeNode Foundation supports the publication of artists' books.
Kat Bové … is a visual artist whose work and diary are inextricably intertwined.
For over three decades, she has documented her life in diaries, translating her experiences, loves, and contradictions into drawings and paintings. Both her personality and her art breathe contrast: hilarious and deeply sad, vibrant and colorful, yet at the same time searching for the silence of a deep, personal darkness.
With this publication, Kat builds a bridge between her personal life and her art.
The result is a unique artistic object: a mysterious diary of a complex soul, inviting the reader to explore their own light and shadow.
Björn Wandels … continually seeks to confront his photographic work with diverse media (sculpture, painting, video, language, etc.). He is currently finalizing his first artist book, in which he develops all aspects of his visual language within the medium of the visual book. He considers the book an autonomous artwork, to be published as a numbered edition.
Hope to meet you this Friday at 6pm for the opening of VESTIGES