Born (°1990) in Beveren, Belgium info@dietervancaneghem.beLiving and working in Belgium +32472767597

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 200/3, Felix Art Museum, Drogenbos (BE) België, Belgique, Belgien, Photography Circuit Flanders, Traveling exhibition trough Flanders untill 2018

2015 Disarray, Gallery ’’TZIEN, Mechelen (BE)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 Art recycling terminal, The Replica: Johan Van Geluwe, Recyclart, WTC1, Brussel, (BE)

2017 Dia-loog, ARTchitect home Johan Van Geluwe, Waregem (BE) OPEN M, Cas-co, Leuven (BE) Arnoevoo, MEC Staf Versluys, Bredene (BE) 2016 TWENS, Unexpossed Fotografie Circuit, Leuven (BE) WAK, Beveren (BE)

2015 Espectro, Room Athena, Antwerp (BE) Festival of the future, Concert hall, Brugge (BE) Flemish port day, MBZ nv, Zeebrugge (BE)

2014 Check, M museum, Leuven (BE) Kirchberg a form of Europe, A. Demeulemeester, Brussel (BE) Ithaka 22, Metamorphosis, Leuven (BE) Testcase, SLAC, Leuven (BE)

2012 #3, Recyclart, Brussel (BE) Street View, Sint-Lukasgalerie, Brussel (BE) End-of-year exhibition Urbanism & Spatial Planning Ghent, Sint-Lucas Ghent (BE) Green Room, International Photo Festival Knoke-Heist, Knokke (BE) KADOC/ EXPO 8, Migrant associations in Flanders, Leuven (BE)

MAGAZINES / PUBLICATIONS

2018 66 Photo’s, 2015-2017, Therapy Tower Pellenberg, Leuven, March 2018, // ISBN: 9789492944047 Johan Van Geluwe, Remake 1:1, Brussel, September 2018

2016 D!NG 3 year Anniversary issue

2014 Seminarch 6, Thing Theory & Urban Objects for the European Capital City: Kirchberg Plateau, Eindhoven, November 2014, // ISBN: 978-90-386-3750-1 Kirchberg a form of Europe, Andreas de Boeck, KU Leuven, LUCA, Leuven, 2018

2013 Art Magazine Flanders, n°347, Filled Flanders between city and open space, Gent, december 2013

2012 Math Art Summit, Dirk Huylebrouck, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for sciences and art, 2012 // ISBN: 978 90 6569 119 4

2011 Fragile, nr 5, Sint-Lucas, front page, Brussel April 2011

DIETER VAN CANEGHEM CONTACT

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In 2012, Dieter presented a photograph of the fortress of La Chartreuse in Liège, at Recyclart in Brussels. This majestic image, that is over four meters long, confronts the viewer with specific details thanks to its scale: nature is slowly reclaiming the fortress. These ‘micro stories’ were the starting point for Dieter’s next project. In 2014 he presented two images that capture this process at ‘Ithaka’ in Leuven. He consciously chose to present in a compact format, allowing more emphasis on the main composition, instead of drawing attenti-on to details and textures. The relationship between these two images highlights aspects that were already in play in the initial image. For the exhibition ‘200/3’ he explored this initial image even further. Through a sequence of 200 images, he confronts the viewer with a transformation that cannot be captured in one snapshot. In contrast to the images presented earlier, Van Caneghem’s video-installation deals with the ef-fect of gazing at something, without becoming aware of the transformational process.(Exposition text, ‘200/3’, Felix Art Museum)

1 1/3, 100cm x 400cm,inkjet print, 2012 2 2/3, two times 50cm x 200cm,inkjet print mounted on dibond, 2014 3 200/3, 200 photo’s, video, 2016

FORT DE LA CHARTREUSE

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With his series ‘CHANCE ENCOUNTERS’, Van Caneghem registers unique architectural constructions within the urban landscape. He shows us his fascination for architectural elements (floors, ceilings, walls, roofs, doors, windows, etc). We see surprising images of (fragments of) buildings, taken at a remarkable moment in its existence. They make us reflect on the lifecourse of these constructions and show us how architectural elements can enter a different dialog with each other than was originally envisioned.Much like the Comte de Lautréamont (1846-1870), Dieter Van Caneghem wishes to explore the beauty of interplay between random objects (like de Lautréamont did with a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissection table). It’s these poetic moments that he wishes to capture and share with us in his series ‘CHAN-CE ENCOUNTERS’.(Exposition text, ‘Disarray’, Gallery ‘TZIEN, Mechelen)

01 2017-50.798658,2.834378-12:25, 80cm x 100cm, inkjet print, 2017 02 2018-51.060745,3.713493-15:30, 80cm x 100cm, lambda print, 2018 03 2015-51.242592,4.397402-16:36, 80cm x 100cm, lambda print, 2015 04 2013-51.232380,4.408956-14:55, 80cm x 100cm, inkjet print, 2013 05 2015-50.842606,4.38113-12:44, 80cm x 100cm, lambda print, 2015

ACCIDENTAL ENCOUNTERS

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The installation that Van Caneghem made for the exhibition in the M-Museum in Leuven is a dialogue with the architecture of the building the museum is housed in, designed by Stéphane Beel (1955 - … ). A striking aspect about Beel’s work, are the large window-panes that are present in the different places in the buil-ding. Van Beel adopted the mindset of a photographer and framed the landscape of Leuven from within the museum using windows. Beel describes these vistas as points of light that we encounter during a tour of the museum and guide the visitor. So doing, the museum not only shows its permanent collection and tempo-rary exhibitions, but also a view of the city.Van Caneghem decided to work with analog material for the exhibition. Two windows in room 31 of the museum were central to the work. The museum-council covered one of the windows that normally show a typically Belgian view: a large facade in brick next to houses with small gardens.Van Caneghem introduces this image again in the museum by constructing an installation that features, among other things, an image of the rear facade. With this work he creates a separate space in the exhibiti-on-space that refers to the original idea of Beel.(Exposition text, ‘Check’, M museum, Leuven)

001 Location, photo of wall, technical drawings installation, 2014 002 Photo of installation, 2014 003 Photo of installation, 2014

CITY VIEW

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With ‘ARCHI-PHOTO’, Dieter Van Caneghem analyses the Belgian landscape in search of the archetypes of Belgian architectural elements such as guard walls and the solitary townhouse. In this series, Dieter docu-ments the surreal aspects (what the Dutch would describe as ‘typically Flemish’) in documentary fashion, to first present it as an autonomous piece of work. Afterwards, he sublimates these images using collage tech-niques. When capturing the Belgian landscape, Van Caneghem pays close attention to uniformity (lighting, point of view, etc). This results in a series of autonomous, large-format, photos. Presented together, the series empha-size the uniqueness of every surface, causing the remaining forms to start interacting with each other.(Exposition text, ‘België, Belgique, Belgien, Photography Circuit)

Dieter Van Caneghem (°1990) obtained a Master’s of Photography from Sint-Lukas Brussels in 2013. His focus has since been on the Belgian architectural landscape. In his photographic work, he has collaborated several times with architects and urban developers to research urbanization.(Exposition text, ‘OPEN M’, Cas-co, Leuven)

0001 Huis, Maison, Haus, 20cm x 25cm, inkjet print, framed, 2013 0002 B-9690, 40cm x 50cm, inkjet print, framed, 2017 0003 B-7861, 40xm x 50cm, inkjet print framed, 2017 0004 B-3071, 40cm x 50cm, inkjet print, framed, 2017 0005 URBS-85509700857085709700, five times 60cmx 75cm, inkjet print, framed, 2017 0006 URBS-85609830, two times 120cm x 150cm, inkjet print, 2018

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