A Legato or Your Perfect Hair In The Bathroom Sink, Adorning, solo exhibition, Pizza Gallery, Ghent. 09-10.2025
Twelve Flower Festoon, solo presentation, Brussels Artist Run Fair, Reset Atelier, Brussels. 05.2025
Double Minutes artist’s talk with Nicholas Goudket at CC Strombeek. 05.2025
Painting after Painting, group exhibition, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent. 04-11.2025
Publiek Park, group exhibition, Koning-Albertpark, Antwerp, 09-10.2023
A folly, in architecture, is a primarily decorative building which through its appearance suggests a fictional history, for example a fake ruined castle or grotto. This work is a sculptural proposal for a dilettantistic park folly in the shape of a tin-foil hat: A homemade protective device, and a symbol of paranoia and thinking marked by fears of conspiracy. It expands on the visual language of Dehnen’s paintings and drawings, which for several years have integrated themes such as the painted landscape, maps of historical garden designs, automata, vernacular architecture and hermitages. The sculpture accompanies an artist’s book entitled ‘Fontanelle’, that features a series of drawings. The sculpture is partially made of the plates used to print the book, using an economy of means and material to arrive at a delicate pseudo-architectural outcome that gently inserted itself into the public context of the park.
Fontanelle
Year: 2023
Pages: 95 unnumbered pages with colour reproductions, in a loose paper cover
Size: 28,8 x 20,5 cm
Graphic Design: Leroy Meyer
Texts: S Deeper by Céline Mathieu, and a Q+A with Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte
Printing: Die Keure, Bruges
ISBN: 9789464753660
Copies: 200
Price: 25€
Hunger for Paradise, Group exhibition, claptrap, Antwerp. 12.2022
Fontanelle, Solo exhibition, moonstreet projects, Antwerp. 06.2022
Freundschaftsinseln, solo exhibition, Pizza Gallery, Antwerp. 09-10.2022
Waldeinsamkeit, group exhibition, Wildenburg. 07.2020
Xypy is a self-immolating wooden sculpture and a series of accompanying actions that took place in a forest in Wildenburg, West-Flanders. The fire heats a steel pot to prepare rabbit skin glue, traditionally a painter’s material used to prime canvas. This is then used to paste a series of drawings made in the surroundings onto trees and surfaces within the forest.
Currents #7: Birds of a feather, group exhibition, Z33, Hasselt. 05-08.2020
The group exhibition Currents #7: Birds of a Feather, featured a series of paintings on anodised aluminium panels. Their mode of presentation is based on the display of pub signs. In the UK, pub signs developed as simple painted images that served to distinguish a public house from other buildings in times of widespread illiteracy - a written signifier would have been redundant. The name of the establishment was then often derived from this image, effectively making it the title of painting. Together with the sculpture Ernst, the works form an spatial ensemble. This sculpture consists of a ready-made felt hat that is presented in an extreme outer corner of the exhibition space, pinned in place using a locally found stick.
Dream of Venus, group exhibition, In de ruimte, Ghent. 09.2019
Mfa Jury, KASK & Conservatorium, Ghent. 06.2019