Max Kesteloot

Max Kesteloot’s (BE, 1990) work combines a love for photography and the urban environment into a practice in which he is always carefully studying and juxtaposing fragments of images and subject matter together.His work develops around the paradox of the apparent absence of a subject in the final image. This gives every detail in his work the status of context. Max is also teaching at LUCA school of arts, Ghent. Where he’s currently instructing Mixed Media.

In January 2019 Kesteloot did a residency at Woning Vanwassenhove (Museum Dhondt- Dhaenens) and at the 15th ArtContest this year his work got granted 2nd laureate with both the Prize Collectioneurs et Amateurs d’art as well as the Prize CENTRALE for contemporary art.

CV

Max Kesteloot
Born in 1990
Lives in Oostende, works in Oostende and Gent (BE)

Selected exhibitions

2019
’Reflections In Transition’, group show Barbé Urbain gallery, Gent (BE)
’Exposure’ group show at mjfinearts, Gent (BE)
‘ArtContest’, group show Espace Vanderborght, Brussels (BE)
’Biënnale van België III’,group show Floraliënhal (SMAK) Gent (BE)
‘Assanat’, Oostende (BE)
‘Tropical Night’, solo show at 019, Gent (BE)
‘Feet First Fair’, Brussels/Oostende (BE)
‘Salon Blanc 37’, group show at Salon Blanc, Curated by Els Wuyts, Oostende (BE)
‘Neighbours vol. 8: ‘Artist Collections’, group show at RIOT, Gent (BE)
Residency at ‘woning Vanwassenhove – Juliaan Lampens’ Curated by museum Dhondt Dhaenens – Deurle (BE)

2018
’Extended call Pt. 3’, group show Curated by Nelle Gevers & Billy Fraser, Subsidiary Projects, London (UK)
‘Ghent Art Book Fair’, 019 – Gent (BE)
’Feet First Fair,’ MACAO – Milano (IT)

2015
’The production of space’, Group exhibition entry with GAFPA, NUCLEO – Gent (BE)

2014
’Nowhere – Part 1’, solo show in KERK, Gent (BE)

Books

‘Good Lost Corners’, APE#XXX, Good Lost Corners, Max Kesteloot
© 2020 Art Paper Editions 
, First edition of 500 copies, April 2020
Design: 6’56” (www.6m56s.com) 
Printed and bound in Tallinn
Text and images: Max Kesteloot, Prologue text: Bart Decroos

‘Spot spots’ SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances
A photographic essay in search of the most idyllic spot in Europe
concept, text & images by Max Kesteloot
Text Editing by Bart Decroos, Graphic Design: atelier Arthur Haegeman
Printed in an edition of 75

Films

‘TROPICAL NIGHT’, 2019, Belgium/Spain
HDR, 4:3, colour, stereo, text. Duration: 12’01”
Ottorino Respighi, Brazilian impressions – first movement “Notte tropicale”, 1928
performed by Orchestra Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit, recording 1999
Text editing: Bart Decroos
Video editing: Xerxes Heirman
Typography of graphics: Nana Esi

SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances
Accompanying film with the book, 2017, Belgium
HDR, 4:3, colour, stereo, text, 24’09” 
Camera & text : Max Kesteloot
Text editing: Bart Decroos
Video editing : Xerxes Heirman

Publications:

THE WORD MAGAZINE, interview, February, 2019, “Forlorn photography and brutalist structures: Max Kesteloot’s House Van Wassenhove residency” – Written by Carlos Álvarez Clemente Read more

YNGSPC, interview, October, 2018 “Max Kesteloot’s work combines a love for photography and the urban environment into a practice in which he is always carefully studying and juxtaposing fragments of images and subject matter together.” -by Kate Mothes, curator. 

UNDRSTND magazine, interview, August, 2018, Read more

DIVISARE, Cité radieuse, December, 2017, Read more

AFASIARQ, spaces places people, July, 2015, Read more