Hilde Vandaele Gallery

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België
Watou
Hilde Vandaele Gallery

The gallery for contemporary art and is situated along a row of trees and offers panoramic views ove

During the year several exhibitions are organised at the pavilion with the main focus on minimal abstract and contemporary art. We collaborate with Belgian and international artists, galleries and curators.

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De galerie voor hedendaagse kunst is gelegen langs een bomenrij met zicht op het weidse landschap van Watou. Tijdens het jaar worden in het paviljoen verschillende tentoonstellingen ge

organiseerd met een focus op minimalitisch, abstracte hedendaagse kunst. Wij werken samen met Belgische en internationale kunstenaars, galeries en curatoren.

29/05/2026

JEAN GODECHARLE discovers his images during walks, where looking becomes a slow and attentive process. His photography transcends the medium itself: analogue and digital techniques, reworked imagery, and subtle ink interventions keep the image open, fluid, and in motion.

We will close the exhibition ‘Devenir’ with a finissage in the presence of Jean Godecharle.
Join us, meet the artist, and discover more about his recent work.

Finissage:
Saturday 30 May 2026
2.00–6.00 pm

Location:
Doornstraat 6.0001
8500 Kortrijk

Also open today
Friday 29 May
2.00–6.00 pm

For inquiries, please contact [email protected]

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Photos:

1. Exhibition view Kortrijk
ObjetT #027, 2025-2026
120 x 180 cm

2. study #605/Y MT, 2018-2026
44,3 x 32,8 cm, unique

2. Exhibition view Kortrijk
untitled /Y, 2024-2026
140 x 140 cm
godecharle

abstractphotography

19/05/2026

JEAN GODECHARLE — solo exhibition ‘Devenir’ in Kortrijk.

In Jean Godecharle’s work, the image gradually reveals itself, never entirely fixed, but constantly shifting within the viewer’s gaze. Discover the recent works at our gallery in Kortrijk, until 30 May.

This weekend open on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
from 14:00—18:00
or by appointment

For inquiries, please contact [email protected]

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Photos:

1. UNTITLED /Y, 2025-2026
Monotype with intaglio ink
on digital Fine Art Print
104 x 100 cm
Unique

2. Exhibition view Kortrijk
godecharle

15/05/2026

We are delighted to present our second solo exhibition by Mario De Brabandere within the unique setting of our home gallery in Watou.

Featuring a compelling selection of recent works, the solo exhibition by Mario De Brabandere offers an insight into his distinctive visual language, in which form, rhythm, colour and materiality converge in quiet yet powerful compositions.

We warmly welcome you to celebrate the opening with us on Sunday 14 June, from 2 pm to 6 pm.

Exhibition
14 June – 20 July 2026

Location
Kasteelstraat 1, Watou, Belgium

Open:
Fri - Sat - Sun
14:00 - 18:00
and by appointment

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Photo:
Zonder Titel, 2025,
Olieverf op karton op paneel,
33,5 x 27,5 cm

13/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who visited the gallery during Kortrijk Art Weekend — the atmosphere, the conversations, and the shared love for art made it an incredibly inspiring and successful weekend.

We were especially proud to present Jean Godecharle’s solo exhibition, while simultaneously seeing his work featured in the Dejagere Aerts Collection just down the street — creating a beautiful dialogue between both spaces during this vibrant weekend in Kortrijk and Doornstraat.

The solo exhibition ‘DEVENIR’ by JEAN GODECHARLE remains on view until Saturday, May 30.
The artist will be present on Sunday May 17 and Saturday May 30.

Location:

Doornstraat 6.0001
Kortrijk

Open:
Friday — Saturday — Sunday
14:00 — 18:00

See you soon!
godecharle

06/05/2026

Discover “Devenir”, a inspiring solo exhibition featuring artworks by JEAN GODECHARLE — on view during this Kortrijk Art Weekend.

Join us in our gallery and meet the artist in person to talk about his recent work.

Friday 8 May, Saturday 9 May, Sunday 10 May
10:00 - 18:00

Just 50 metres down the same street (Doornstraat 10), explore the Dejagere Aerts private collection, exceptionally open to the public throughout this Art Weekend — presenting the exhibitions “analyses” and “the sublime”.

And within walking distance, in Noordstraat, Texture presents the exhibition “Tablescapes”.

So much to see. So close together !!!
godecharle

30/04/2026

Excited and all set to open this wonderful solo exhibition featuring new work by JEAN GODECHARLE.

You are warmly invited to the opening
this Sunday, 3 May
from 14:00 to 18:00
in the presence of the artist

Location: Doornstraat 6.0001, Kortrijk

The exhibition runs from 3 to 30 May.
Open on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
from 14:00 to 18:00, or by appointment.

Devenir is the second solo exhibition of Jean Godecharle at the gallery and presents new work. The title refers to an open process of becoming, without a fixed endpoint.

Godecharle approaches the photographic image not as a finished entity, but as a continuously shifting field. Through an emphasis on light, materiality, and the tension between detail and landscape, the image resists fixation and instead takes shape gradually, also within the viewer’s perception.

In recent work, this dynamic is made explicit through localised interventions with ink. These manual additions function as subtle intensifications that guide the gaze without closing the image, thereby reinforcing the work’s processual character.

This exhibition will also be on view
during Kortrijk Art Weekend
8, 9, and 10 May > 10:00–18:00

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Photos
© JEAN GODECHARLE
1. Exhibition view
2. untitled #1022/Y
2025-2026
Monotype with intaglio ink on digital Fine Art Print
133 x 128 cm
Unique
godecharle

27/04/2026

Join us next Sunday 3 May from 14:00 to 18:00 for the opening of the solo exhibition ‘Devenir’ by JEAN GODECHARLE.

Be among the first to discover the exhibition in our gallery in Kortrijk and meet the artist in person to talk about his recent work.

Most welcome!

Doornstraat 6.0001 - Kortrijk
03.05 — 30.05.2026
Fr. Sa. Su. > 14:00–18:00

This exhibition will also be on view during Kortrijk Art Weekend
8, 9, and 10 May > 10:00–18:00

Although his practice remains grounded in photography, Jean Godecharle has consciously distanced himself from the medium’s conventional expectations. The constraints of the camera, the interplay between analogue and digital processes, and the reworking of archival material collectively open a space in which the image can evade fixation.
The recent, localised applications of ink render this dynamic explicit. As manual interventions, they delineate fragments within the image without enclosing them, functioning instead as intensifications, subtle modulations that direct attention while maintaining the image’s openness.

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Photo © JEAN GODECHARLE study #449/Y MT, 2018-2026, Monotype with intaglio ink on digital Fine Art Print, 44,3 x 32,8 cm, unique
godecharle

15/04/2026

We look back with great gratitude on a warm, beautiful closing moment of this remarkable solo in our gallery last Sunday.
Willo Gonnissen’s artistic introduction and the presence of Anne Voss made it a truly special and meaningful tribute to Horst Linn.

Many thanks to Anne, Willo and Frank Hendrickx for the wonderful collaboration, and to all who joined us to share this moment.

A selection of works remains available — please feel free to get in touch for more information at [email protected]

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11/04/2026

It’s the final weekend to experience ‘Notwendige Formen’, the striking solo exhibition by German artist Horst Linn (1936-2025) in Watou. This remarkable group show is coming to a close — and you won’t want to miss it.

Sat - Sun
14:00 - 18:00

Finissage
Sunday 12 April

Join us at 16:00 for an intimate artistic talk by Willo Gonnissen, who knew Horst Linn personally. Their connection dates back to 1991, when Linn discovered Gonnissen’s work at the Euregionale in the Ludwig Forum in Aachen — the beginning of a lasting friendship and rich artistic exchange.

You’re warmly invited to be part of this closing moment.

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Photo:
1. Exhibition view

2. Cherchez, 2017
aluminium, acryl
56 x 29 x 3 cm

You can also visit
Abele/Watou

09/04/2026

Sophie Ko (b. 1981, Tbilisi) lives and works in Milan and is represented in Belgium and the Netherlands by our gallery. At Art Rotterdam, we introduced her compelling work, in which ash, gold and pigment come together as carriers of memory and transformation.

Ko allows matter to speak through her ‘temporal geographies’: what burns, decays and re-emerges reveals a tension between destruction and revelation. Her works, composed of pure pigment, touch on the imaginal, a space between the visible and the invisible, inviting us to look beyond the surface.

Recent solo exhibitions include Sophie Ko. Manche Freilich müssen drunten sterben / Some must die below, of course, Galerie East featuring Sophie Ko, at EYES ONLY, Munich (2025); the Italian Cultural Institute, London (2024); the Estorick Collection of Italian Modern Art, London (2024); Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2022); and Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice (2019), among others. Her work has also been presented in group exhibitions at institutions including SAMoCA, Riyadh (2024) and MAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Lissone. In 2016, she was awarded the Lissone Prize for Painting.

For more information about the available works, please contact us at [email protected]

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Photo:
Geografia temporale. Silva imaginum 2.
2026
pure pigment
60 x 40 cm

Adres

Kasteelstraat 1
Watou
8978

Telefoon

+32477438593

Website

http://www.hildevandaele.com/

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