Natasja Mabesoone 

BIO | SELECTED WORKS

Natasja Mabesoone’s (Knokke, 1988) works and lives in Brussels. Her work is built around the ephemeral yet elaborate pressing and printing techniques and the playful exploration of imagery and storytelling.

In the soft-etching technique known as 'vernis mou', objects such as flowers, textiles or textured paper are printed in a soft varnish, after which the plate is immersed in etching fluid. This colourful base layer forms a background for other images (drawings or monoprints) that go on top, through or behind them. Natasja Mabesoone’s rather associative, sometimes funny etchings dig into metaphors and play a scenographic and poetic game. Mabesoone’s visual language is inspired by bus trips, Disney's Silly Symphonies, board games, J.F. Vogelaar's essays, S. Mallarmé's poems, Hannah Weiner's sudokus and puns.
The narrative aspect lies rather in the images, the materiality, the underlying cultural associations or worlds of imagination, the etymological background.

In 2019 Natasja Mabesoone finished her residency at WIELS and was a laureate of the ArtContest, Bxl

Education:
2011 – 2013 Specifieke lerarenopleiding, Sint-Lucas, Gent
2010 – 2011 Master in de Beeldende Kunsten, KASK, Gent
2007 – 2010 Bachelor Grafisch Ontwerp optie Vrije Grafiek, KASK, Gent

Prizes and honours:
Laureaat ArtContest, Espace Vanderborght, Brussel 2019
Laureaat Ronse Drawing Prize, CC De Ververij, Ronse, 2017
Laureaat Prijs voor Grafiek, 1e prijs, CC Zwanenberg, Heist-op-den-Berg, 2017 Selectie Hommage, Bozar, Brussel, 2016
Laureaat Prijs Buggenhout, grafiek, 2013
Selectie CC Zwanenberg, Heist-op-den-Berg, 2012
Selectie Harelbeke, 2011
Laureaat Arnoevoo, Bredene, 2010 II

Exhibitions:
2020
GREAT SMALL WORKS, Stephane Simoens, Knokke
2019
Reflections in transition, Barbé-Urbain Gallery, Gent
The road is clear, gecureerd door Bjornus Van Der Borght en Nathalie Vanheule, In De Ruimte, Gent
Mars, Media Naranja, Marseille en Parijs, Frankrijk
ArtContest, Espace Vanderborght, Brussel
Taart in de brievenbus, Taart in de brievenbus, Mariakerke
Boerenbont & Bonter, Solo, Boghossian Fondation, Rivoli, Brussel
Hors d’oeuvres, Wiels, Brussel WIELS Residentieprogramma, Brussel
Een ‘Amerikaans’ worsthondje, Doubts of Hoelang?, i.s.m. Tim Depraetere, Brussel
2018
ALL YOU NEED IS THE LAVATORY, Croxhapox, Gent TUINFEEST & Veilingen MDD, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
GOLDENBROW, solo, Intimnoe mesto, St. Petersburg, Rusland
De Nieuwe Garde, Kunst in Huis, Zuiderpershuis, Art weekend, Antwerpen
Open Atelier Weekend, Groepstentoonstelling met o.a. buren, Dirk Zoete, Frank&Robbert Robbert&Frank, Peter Aers, Maud Vande Veire, CMMC, Gent
5 year buren birthday party, Groepstentoonstelling met o.a. Pieter Van Troos, Nikolaas Demoen, Dominiek Colpaert, Marlies De Clerck, Gouvernement. Gent Vuurpeloton, Groepstentoonstelling met o.a. Jade Kerremans, Bert Huyghe, Jonas Aapers, Karel Thienpont, Bart De Clerq, Rosita Jeronimo, Danny Deprez, Jan Vercruysse †, gecureerd door Matthieu Ronsse, Etikhove The Peer Group, Groepstentoonstelling met Dieter Ravyts, Dieter Durinck, Elke Van Kerckvoorde, Bert Huyghe, Floris van Hoorelbeke en Jan Laroy, Social Harmony, Gent
2017
Laureaten Drawing Prize Ronse, CC De Ververij, Ronse Laureaten Prijs voor Grafiek, Cultuurcentrum Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-Berg
Tien om te zien in Aalst, Galerie Van Caelenberg, Aalst
Op z’n janboerenfluitjes, solo, Barbé Gallery, Gent
Tien om te zien, Gevaertsdreef 01, Oudenaarde
2016
VOSSEN IN DE BOSSEN, In De Ruimte, Gent It’s kind of like she knows how to eat her sand properly, Zeedijk, Knokke - Zoute Fragments d’un discours amoureux, Hommage aan Barthes, Bozar, Brussel TUMULT #4, Gouvernement, Gent
Zeg Chantal, droom je nog wel eens in het West – Vlaams?, Het Bos, Antwerpen No one said it would be this nice, Moeskop, Antwerpen
2015
Performer voor Parade/Promenade by buren, Croxhapox, Gent
In search of De Bedoeling, i.s.m. CLUBHUIS, In De Ruimte, Gent All day I dream about Sabine, Ithaka, Leuven
I’ll be your mirror, NVT, Gent To draw on a high chair, SMAK, Gent
2014
Je t’attends dans la saison de nous deux/ I wait for you in the season that is ours, Kaaisalon, Brugge
Are you there, yet?, These Things Take Time, Gent
Oeillet sauvage, Zierikzee, Nederland
2013 - 2011
Performer buren by buren by buren,
La Bellone, Brussel, SMAK, Gent
Assistent Kabinet Devriendt i.s.m. Isolde Vanhee, Hans Demeulenaere en Lucas Devriendt, Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent
Pour la fille Zoë D, SOSCASTOA, Gent
Singing the lambs to sleep, solo, SEAS, Knokke-Heist
Oeillet Sauvage, Bogardenkapel, Brugge
Petit air, solo, Molen van Callant, Ramskapelle
The waste land, CC Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist
Arnoevoo 2011, Met Staf Versluys, Bredene
Label #08, Tramzwart, Gent
R.M., wytwórca urojén, Entrepot, Brugge
De nieuwe narratieven, Kunsttoren, Gent Art its, Zwarte Zaal, Gent

Installation view Natasja Mabesoone, ArtContest (2019), Brussels

Installation view Natasja Mabesoone, ArtContest (2019), Brussels