De Weerdt’s work is an outburst of explosive energy, which transcends the context of mediums and
disciplines to act as an erratic multi-disciplinary,
multi-mediumal way of being.
It is political but not merely; critical but not merely, reflexive but not merely.
It holds both an antagonistic expressive mode of action, without letting go of playfulness and personal experimentation.
It juxtaposes a conceptual exploration of semantics and materiality with an anarchic attitude ridiculing the construction of meaning as such.
Ory Dessau
Selection of works
Solo exhibitions
2024 PAY NO MIND, Life Art Project, (BE)
2024 (W8ING) APPETITE, Het bos (BE)
2022 Hearth wave hole/hard way home - 'Call us Company', LLS Paleis (BE)
2021 Love and Power, Life art project (BE)
2021 Mane Motif, Kunstenlab (NL)
2020 A tribute for the daughter of river 58, Forbidden city (BE)
2019 "And the name of the star was wormwood." (BE)
2018 Video screening Oh Great Kings Of Moulding, Atelier Arthur Rogiers (BE)
Group exhibitions
2023 'Burcht Malpertuus', CC Sint Niklaas (BE)
2023 Lady Rain, Faar (BE)
2022 Ulterieur, Broeltorens, Kortrijk (BE)
2022 A glittering ruin sucked upwards, HISK laureates exhibition,
Gosset site (BE)
2021 PONTIPONTIPONTI, Pontispace (BE)
2021 NowBelgiumNow, LLS Paleis (BE)
2021 The HISK Affair, Gosset site (BE)
2021 A beggars banquet, Gallery Gallery (BE)
2021 Beste kunstwereld, ... Lichtekooi Artspace (BE)
2020 Arttelex (BE)
2020 een blik achter de muur, blikfabriek (BE)
2019 Zonder kunstenaars geen kunst, NICC, Mhuka (BE)
2019 TOBE Antwerpen, Tersago/Dedecker (BE)
2019 De wilde expo, bar Letour (BE)
2019 OMG Is Pink the new Black? (BE)
2019 Anaconda Group Show (BE)
2018 Freedom explained logically Group Exhibition (BE)
2018 Freedom explained logically Group Exhibition (GER)
2017 WOEST: Group Exhibitions (BE)
2015 720HOURS: Group Exhibitions (BE)
2015 Pumas Van Quitatrue: Group Exhibition (BE)
Publications
2021 Zonder Kunstenaars Geen Kunstboek, NICC (BE)
Studies
2021-2023 HISK: Advanced Studies & Practice-based Research in Visual Arts
2018-2019 Master sculpture, Royal Academy, Antwerp
2015-2018 Fine arts, Sint Lucas Antwerpen