22 November - 20 December 2025
The edition on top of it VOGUE May 2025, two specimen of the Dutch publication, one specimen visible, one unvisible.
to the right PUTTING UP WALLS by Babs Decruyenaere,
to the left GEDACHTEN by Giacomo Leopardi, Owen beneath Leopardi,
The Collected Poems by Wilfred Owen, a New Directions paperback,
beneath Owen OEI a posture volume by Guy Rombouts
and in the morose depth beneath all that, hidden beneath one of above-mentioned volumes, THE FELT HAT, a Joseph Beuys biography,
Picabia provocations,
a pencil,
a notebook
open on a blue ballpoint drawing,
a draft
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vanaMir fällt zu Hitler nichts ein, 2025Olieverf potlood61 x 71 cm -
vanaStudie voor een stilleven met Jan Bas Ader, 2025Olieverf potlood53 x 63 cm
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vanaStilleven met soepkom van Chaim Soutine. , 2020Olieverf potlood70 x 89 cm
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vanaA Portrait of Sophie Podolski , 2025olieverf potlood157 x 203
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vanaZ. t., 2020Olieverf potlood40 x 51 cm
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vanaZu wie alles zu Unrat wird , 2023Olieverf potlood90 x 120 cm
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vanaTable, 2023Olieverf potlood69 x 91 cm
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vanaFor Rent, 2023-2024Olieverf potlood65 x 57 cm
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vanaOn reading Cavalli late at night, 2024Olieverf potlood95 x 110 cm
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vanaJewish Couple Next Door, 2024-2025Olieverf potlood90 x 110 cm
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vanaLa dissoluzione della Compostela, 2023-2025Olieverf potlood157 x 203 cm
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vanaAnd Nothing Dangerous At All, 2019-2023Olieverf57 x 71 cm
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vanaStilleven met landschap, 2020Olieverf potlood70 x 90 cm
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vanaOnly a few months before I first read Gerald Murnane, 2020Olieverf potlood71 x 90 cm
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vanaAlle schilderijen van Van Gogh, 2024Olieverf potlood53 x 47 cm
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vanaStilleven met leesbril, 2023Olieverf potlood59 x 77 cm
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vanaThoughts. Bedenkingen., 2022Olieverf potlood73 x 90 cm
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vanaAspecten van het Braziliaanse regenwoud, 2023Olieverf potlood89 x 110 cm
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vanaIn those uncertain moments, Patricia Cavalli page 104, 2024Olieverf potlood89 x 66 cm
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vanaStilleven met Messerschmitt, 2023Olieverf potlood47 x 43 cm
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vana15 things to do while birdwatching, 2023Olieverf potlood65 x 55 cm
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vanaI passed the belvedere again half an hour later, 2020Olieverf potlood70 x 90 cm
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vanaTypewriter, 2019-2024Olieverf potlood51 x 60 cm
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vanaStudie voor stilleven met Caspar David Friedrich, 2025Olieverf potlood63 x 71 cm
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vanaEverything is wrong, 2025olieverf potlood gouache inkt stylo69 x 79 cm
vana (1957) presents recent works alongside a selection of earlier paintings. The artist works without any photographic point of departure, drawing inspiration from what unfolds on his table. The paintings are anecdotal and autobiographical, shaped by the immediacy of gesture and moment. Each still life layers fragments of language, coffee stains, scraps of paper, and subtle greys, evoking the illusion of piled books and cluttered tables. These muted, timeless works recall artists such as Corot, Vuillard, Soutine, Cézanne, or Corinth.
Painting lies at the heart of vana’s artistic practice—the medium through which his visual language unfolds: intuitive, layered, and deeply connected to the broader conversations that inform his work. Although he is widely known as the artistic director of CROXHAPOX, the non-commercial platform for contemporary art in Ghent (founded in 1990), painting has always remained one of his central pursuits.
Painting lies at the heart of vana’s artistic practice—the medium through which his visual language unfolds: intuitive, layered, and deeply connected to the broader conversations that inform his work. Although he is widely known as the artistic director of CROXHAPOX, the non-commercial platform for contemporary art in Ghent (founded in 1990), painting has always remained one of his central pursuits.
