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Gerda Van Damme is an artist based in Charleroi. Creating in (hyper)realistic, figurative, sometimes naïve genres, her works explore themes relating to death, mourning, despair, cruelty, unhappiness. They reveal what we normally try to hide in the "catacombs of our subconscious". In addition, Gerda Van Damme examines memories, the past, and the loss it represents. She primarily creates using oils on canvas.
EXHIBITIONS
2021 “A moitié vide” – Solo show in Centre Culturel “Haute Sambre” & desacrated church “Mont Carmel” in Thuin
2021 “Scène de vie, scène de mort” – Solo show in La Cellule, Charleroi
2021 Envision Arts online – BLACK + WHITE IV: A Contemporary Collective (Honorable Mention)
2020 Figures de Femmes, group show at Maison du Hainaut, Charleroi
2020 Sur le fil, group show at Académie des Beaux-Arts Alphonse Darville de Charleroi
2020 “The Balcony” – at LaM.U (La Manufacture Urbaine), Charleroi.
2019 “Ashes to Ashes” at West Station Skatepark in Charleroi (at the Pitch Café).
2019 August 2 – August 30 Group show at LaM.U (La Manufacture Urbaine), Charleroi.
2019 Salon Artistique de Charleroi.
2019 Open-door at Académie des Beaux-Arts Alphonse Darville de Charleroi.
2019 Arts-sur-Heure, Nalinnes, Belgique.
2019 Parcours d’artistes, Manoir du Capitaine, Feluy
2019 Chroma, group show at Académie des Beaux-Arts Alphonse Darville de Charleroi.
2018 Arts-sur-Heure, Nalinnes, Belgique.
2018 Open-door at Académie des Beaux-Arts Alphonse Darville de Charleroi.
2018 Frigobox, group show at Académie des Beaux-Arts Alphonse Darville de Charleroi.
1990 Group show ‘Salon of naïvism II, Fêtes de la Saint-Martin, Tourinnes-la-Grosse.
1989 Group show ‘Salon of naïvism I’, De Spuye, Louvain (group show concept and participation).
1988 Solo show Diest
1988 International amateur video festival Arnhem, Netherlands, selected in official selection with ‘The Bee’.
1987 Group show at the “Irish College”, Louvain.
1986 Group show “Kot Art”, Louvain.
1982 Group show “Southern Virginia University”, Buena Vista, Virginia, USA.