Leo gabin biography


Solo Exhibitions



2022   Hearsay, 10N, Brussels, BE

2021   Sit with it, Tick Tack, Antwerp, BE

2019   Between you and me, duo with Middernacht & Alexander, Special Art Unit, London, UK

       Tennis Elbow, The Journal Gallery, New York, US

       Sean Horton (presents), Dallas, US

2018   No Panic Baby, VNH Gallery, Paris, FR

       Real Estate, 019, Ghent, BE

2017   Awesome, Atlanta Contemporary, US

       Hurt So Good, VNH Gallery, Paris, FR

2016   Exit/Entry, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

2015   A Crackup at the Race Riots, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE

       A Crackup at the Race Riots, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, US

2014   Inside the White Cube, White Cube, Mason's Yard, London, UK

2013   Tallahassee, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

       Mango, Kunstraum Muenchen, Munich, DE

 

Leo Gabin

"In this age of the excessive use of images, for us it’s now more relevant than ever to use found footage and recycled imagery. Especially with an abundance of amateurish made “private” imagery put readily available online, the idea of authorship becomes even more questionable. But raising this question can be seen as the essence of the work."

-Leo Gabin, Modern Matter, June 2013

Biography

The collective Leo Gabin was formed in 2000 by Lieven Deconinck, Gaëtan Begerem and Robin De Vooght. All three artists were born in Ghent and studied at the city’s fine arts school, one of the oldest in Belgium, where, as a collective, they have also taught.

Renowned on the contemporary art scene, Leo Gabin uses video, painting, drawing and sculpture in works that draw on contemporary media and internet imagery.

About the artworks

Now well known on the contemporary art scene, the Leo Gabin collective is interested in the thousands of images that form our visual and virtual, common and quotidian landscape. Internet represents a window onto the world where images of all kinds circulate and cohabit, providing a mass of information that must be deciphered. By appropriating these visions, the collective creates new works that capture this incessant movement on canvas, in silkscreen prints, videos and installations. Today, when everybody is an author and is helping enrich this virtual universe, the works of art elaborated by the trio attain a new dimensio

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