BARBÉ

BARBÉ Contemporary art gallery in Ghent, Belgium Contemporary art gallery in Ghent

ON VIEW: ‘Works On Paper’ with works by Willem Boel | Kato Bouckaert | Stefaan De Croock | Thomas Decuypere | Oh de Lava...
04/06/2026

ON VIEW: ‘Works On Paper’ with works by Willem Boel | Kato Bouckaert | Stefaan De Croock | Thomas Decuypere | Oh de Laval | Charlie De Voet | Adelheid De Witte | Ellen Dhondt | Phebe Hermans | Victoria Iranzo | Gideon Kiefer | Jens Kothe | Flexboj & L.A. | Kris Martin | Ellen Meers | Joost Pauwaert | Jef Staut is on view until 28 June 2026 at our space at Baudelostraat 23, 9000.

Contact us for more information or availabilities:
+32 (0)9 391 39 13
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BARBÉ, Baudelostraat 23 / Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent

ON VIEW: ‘Take Back the Joy’ with works by Nelleke Cloosterman, Nokukhanya Langa, Paulo Nimer Pjota and Pieter Vermeersc...
03/06/2026

ON VIEW: ‘Take Back the Joy’ with works by Nelleke Cloosterman, Nokukhanya Langa, Paulo Nimer Pjota and Pieter Vermeersch is on view until 28 June 2026 at our space at Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent.

Image: Pieter Vermeersch, Untitled, 2023
oil on canvas, 250 x 180 cm.
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Greta Meert.

Over the past two decades, his work has been exhibited internationally at galleries with Galerie Greta Meert (Brussels,BE), Perrotin (New York, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai) and P420 (Bologna) and institutions including S.M.A.K., South London Gallery, M Leuven, Fondation Louis Vuitton, and Fondazione Prada and realised monumental architectural interventions for locations such as Schuman Station in Brussels and Galeries Lafayette in Biarritz. Pieter Vermeersch has held several solo exhibitions with Galerie Greta Meert in Brussels including his current solo exhibition ‘Double Trouble’ on view from 21st of May until the 4th of July 2026.




Contact us for more information or availabilities:
+32 (0)9 391 39 13
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BARBÉ, Baudelostraat 23 / Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent


ON VIEW: ‘Take Back the Joy’ with works by Nelleke Cloosterman | Nokukhanya Langa | Paulo Nimer Pjota | Pieter Vermeersc...
02/06/2026

ON VIEW: ‘Take Back the Joy’ with works by Nelleke Cloosterman | Nokukhanya Langa | Paulo Nimer Pjota | Pieter Vermeersch is on view until 28 June 2026 at our space at Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent.

Positivity as an Act of Resistance:
In a climate where attention is increasingly driven by outrage, fear, and division, this exhibition proposes another mode of engagement. Rather than amplifying friction, it brings together practices that reshape how we relate to complexity, tension, and one another. Positivity is approached here not as naive optimism or denial, but as a deliberate stance, a way of holding space for questioning, ambiguity, multiplicity, and transformation. Across the works, objects, images, bodies, materials, and colours do not oppose one another, but coexist, overlap, and shift in meaning. Fragments are not resolved into a single narrative; instead, they form constellations in which different temporalities and references remain simultaneously present.

Contact us for more information or availabilities:
+32 (0)9 391 39 13
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BARBÉ, Baudelostraat 23 / Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent



TOMORROW: ‘Take Back The Joy’ opens tomorrow, Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Nelleke Cloosterman | Nokukhanya Langa ...
22/05/2026

TOMORROW: ‘Take Back The Joy’ opens tomorrow, Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Nelleke Cloosterman | Nokukhanya Langa | Paulo Nimer Pjota | Pieter Vermeersch. Join us from 15.00-19.00 at our space at Penitentenstraat 29, 9000

Image: Nokukhanya Langa, ‘n., Zulu — light; she who comes with brightness; the one in whose presence nothing stays hidden’ , 2026, oil, acrylic, pastel, marker, coloured pencil & spray paint on canvas, 160 x 160 cm


Contact us for more information or to request a preview catalog.
+32 (0)9 391 39 13
[email protected]
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BARBÉ, Baudelostraat 23 / Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent


TOMORROW: ‘Works On Paper’ opens tomorrow, Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Willem Boel | Kato Bouckaert | Stefaan De ...
22/05/2026

TOMORROW: ‘Works On Paper’ opens tomorrow, Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Willem Boel | Kato Bouckaert | Stefaan De Croock | Thomas Decuypere | Oh de Laval | Charlie De Voet | Adelheid De Witte | Ellen Dhondt | Phebe Hermans | Victoria Iranzo | Gideon Kiefer | Jens Kothe | Flexboj & L.A. | Kris Martin | Ellen Meers | Joost Pauwaert | Jef Staut. Join us from 15.00-19.00 at our space at Baudelostraat 23, 9000.

Image: Phebe Hermans, Expected and Unavoidable, 2026, acrylic & coloured pencil on paper, 21 x 30 cm


Contact us for more information or to request a preview catalog.
+32 (0)9 391 39 13
[email protected]
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BARBÉ, Baudelostraat 23 / Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent

NEXT: ‘Take Back The Joy’ opens Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Nelleke Cloosterman | Nokukhanya Langa | Paulo Nimer...
21/05/2026

NEXT: ‘Take Back The Joy’ opens Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Nelleke Cloosterman | Nokukhanya Langa | Paulo Nimer Pjota | Pieter Vermeersch. Join us from 15.00-19.00 at our space at Penitentenstraat 29, 9000

Image: Nelleke Cloosterman, Read and Riot, 2026, oil on linen, 110 x 100 cm


Contact us for more information or to request a preview catalog.
+32 (0)9 391 39 13
[email protected]
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BARBÉ, Baudelostraat 23 / Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent


NEXT: ‘Works On Paper’ opens Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Willem Boel | Kato Bouckaert | Stefaan De Croock | Thoma...
20/05/2026

NEXT: ‘Works On Paper’ opens Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Willem Boel | Kato Bouckaert | Stefaan De Croock | Thomas Decuypere | Oh de Laval | Charlie De Voet | Adelheid De Witte | Ellen Dhondt | Phebe Hermans | Victoria Iranzo | Gideon Kiefer | Jens Kothe | Flexboj & L.A. | Kris Martin | Ellen Meers | Joost Pauwaert | Jef Staut. Join us from 15.00-19.00 at our space at Baudelostraat 23, 9000.

Image: Ellen Dhondt, Envelope, 2026, acrylic, marker, coloured pencil & spray paint on paper, 54 x 63 cm

(°2000, Belgium) lives and works in Ghent. In 2023, she obtained her Master’s degree in Fine Arts at KASK – School of Arts in Ghent. Through a spontaneous and seemingly innocent visual language, Dhondt creates a pictorial world that allows her to foreground the often trivialized experiences of women. Inspired by the cut-out paper dolls of the 1920s, she developed an alter ego: Ellie Dolly. This character appears in various situations and environments through which Dhondt explores complex female identity, universal themes, and taboos.

She has participated in several (group) exhibitions at BARBÉ (Ghent, 2025), Michèle Schoonjans Gallery (Brussels, 2025), Kunsthal Gent (Buy Local, 2025), Pizza Gallery (Antwerp, 2024), Maison des Arts (Brussels, 2024), Giftshop (Ghent, 2024), and Het Bos (Antwerp, 2023). She was awarded second prize at Art Contest 2024. In 2025, she completed the M-Residency at Cas-co, followed by a solo presentation from October 2025 until February 2026 at M Leuven, BE.

Contact us for more information or to request a preview catalog.
+32 (0)9 391 39 13
[email protected]
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BARBÉ, Baudelostraat 23 / Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent

NEXT: ‘Take Back The Joy’ opens Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Nelleke Cloosterman | Nokukhanya Langa | Paulo Nimer...
19/05/2026

NEXT: ‘Take Back The Joy’ opens Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Nelleke Cloosterman | Nokukhanya Langa | Paulo Nimer Pjota | Pieter Vermeersch.

Join us from 15.00-19.00 at our space at Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent

Image: Paulo Nimer Pjota, ’A semântica entre vida e morte - The semantics between life and death’, 2020, acrylic, tempera and oil on canvas, 200 x 155 cm

Thank you for the opportunity to collaborate.

‘Take Back The Joy’ will be on view until 28 June 2026.

Be sure to also check out current solo exhibition, ‘Encantados’, at , on view until 23 August 2026.

Contact us for more information or to request a preview catalog.
+32 (0)9 391 39 13
[email protected]
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BARBÉ, Baudelostraat 23 / Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent

NEXT: ‘Works On Paper’ opens Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Willem Boel | Kato Bouckaert | Stefaan De Croock | Thoma...
18/05/2026

NEXT: ‘Works On Paper’ opens Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Willem Boel | Kato Bouckaert | Stefaan De Croock | Thomas Decuypere | Oh de Laval | Charlie De Voet | Adelheid De Witte | Ellen Dhondt | Phebe Hermans | Victoria Iranzo | Gideon Kiefer | Jens Kothe | Flexboj & L.A. | Kris Martin | Ellen Meers | Joost Pauwaert | Jef Staut. Everybody welcome to join us from 15.00-19.00 at our space at Baudelostraat 23, 9000.

Image: , ‘Fading’, 2026, oil paint on Canson paper, framed with UV-resistant and anti-reflective Art Glass, 32,5 x 42 cm (framed)

A fingerprint is generally used to register a person’s identity, reducing the individual to a single print. By repeatedly imprinting it onto paper, the identity slowly fades and the ego gradually disappears. Typical of Kris Martin’s oeuvre, the work reflects on impermanence, disappearance and the dissolution of the self through an extremely minimal gesture.

Contact us for more information or to request a preview catalog.
+32 (0)9 391 39 13
[email protected]
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BARBÉ, Baudelostraat 23 / Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent

NEXT: ‘Take Back The Joy’ opens Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Nelleke Cloosterman | Nokukhanya Langa | Paulo Nimer...
17/05/2026

NEXT: ‘Take Back The Joy’ opens Saturday 23 May 2026 with works by Nelleke Cloosterman | Nokukhanya Langa | Paulo Nimer Pjota | Pieter Vermeersch. Everybody welcome to join us from 15.00-19.00 at our space at Penitentenstraat 29, 9000

Image: in her studio in Rotterdam, NL by Charlize Masquelin

Nokukhanya Langa (1991, USA/SA) holds a MA in Painting from Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, NL and a Post Graduate at HISK, Ghent, BE. BARBÉ has presented her works in many exhibitions in and outside the gallery with a solo exhibition ‘nana’ in 2025. In 2024 she had a duo show with Bruce Nauman ‘Noku / Nauman’ at Saatchi Yates (London, UK) where she previously she had her debut solo in in 2022 ‘There’s A Ghost In Every Town’. In 2025 she participated in ‘It Goes Without Saying’ at Kunsthal Extra City (Antwerp, BE). Nokukhanya Langa’s work has also been exhibited at major institutions including, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2020-2021); Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL (2022) and chi K11 Art Museum in Shanghai, CN (2023) and SMAK, Ghent, BE (2025).

Contact us for more information or to request a preview catalog.
+32 (0)9 391 39 13
[email protected]
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BARBÉ, Baudelostraat 23 / Penitentenstraat 29, 9000 Gent

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