Hilde Overbergh is Represented by The Whitehouse Gallery Brussels
Painting has always been the starting point of Hilde Overbergh’s artistic practice. The kind of painting that challenges and shifts the rules and notions of genres and media. Her artistic method zooms in on the exploration of the transformative possibilities of materials, colours, and shapes. Her work comprises aspects of painting, sculpture, assemblage, and installation. Although Overbergh approaches her work conceptually, what stands out is a great sense of intuition and tactility. Through leaving space for what’s unintentional or unforeseen during the creative process, her art never becomes sterile. The artist uses material to question herself. She reclaims insignificant, everyday objects – materials without obvious art-historical associations, or seemingly futile remnants of the past – and unravels and reshapes them into evocative carriers of meaning. She extracts beauty and poetry from humble materials such as foam, plastic waste, pieces of textile, glass shards … Her diverse oeuvre is also capable of holding on to elements of when and where the work was made. Environment and context often have a tangible influence on her artistic output through her search for a connection with social and urban dynamics. By repeating and reworking fragments and works from previous presentations, the artist allows for not only the shape, but also the meaning of her work to stray and change. The meaning of her works accumulates over time, and changes according to their position in space or relation to context. Hilde Overbergh creates dynamic connections and associations between works of art and different presentations, which makes viewers sensitive to perception and experience. Her work exists fully in the present moment, and reflects the commotion and fragility of the world around us.
Koen Leemans
Hilde lives and works in Leuven, Belgium. She holds a Masters in Painting from Otis art Institute Los Angeles, and a Masters in Fine Arts from PXL Hasselt. She teaches painting at the SLAC in Leuven. Together with 3 other artists, she started SECONDroom Leuven in 2018, a platform that organises exhibitions for and by artists.
Cheer The Sum and Celebrate the Parts 2024
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2025 Art Brussels represented by The Whitehouse Gallery Brussels (BE)
Selected for Monumental Artworks at Art Brussels, (BE) curator-Carine Fol
2024 PUssshhh, intervention at Stuk Leuven (BE) curator-Karen Verschooren
2024 Cheer the Sum and Celebrate the Parts, Whitehouse Gallery Bru (BE)
2024 blad - steen - schaar, Emergent Veurne (BE) curator - Frank Maes,
2023 Hilde Vandaele Gallery, Poperinge (BE)
2023 Ballroom Blitz - Ballroom Gallery, Brussels (BE)
2022 Navigating Turbulence / On a Horse with No Name,
De Garage, Mechelen (BE) curator- Koen Leemans
2022 Art Brussels, represented by Zwarthuis Gallery (BE)
2021 Spilled Milk, open studio, Kessel-lo (BE) curator Frits De Koninck
2020 SOLID THEATRE, coGalleries, Berlin (D) curator - Ma Yongfeng
2020 We’ll Shine and Rise Again, SECONDroom Antwerp (BE)
2019 Don’t let anyone ever dull your sparkle! Zwarthuis Gallery, Brussels (BE)
2017 Reframed, Whitehouse Gallery, Lovenjoel (BE)
2016 (TUSSEN)plaats, WOOT, Antwerp (BE)
2015 Vorspulen - zwischenspulen - klarspülen, collaboration with Gert Verhoeven, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
2014 100% Synthetic, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels (BE)
2011 Repositioning basics, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
2009 Down the rabbit hole, cc Hasselt (BE)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2025 What’s Out There, Sint Niklaas (BE) , curator - Catharina Dhaen,
2024 DOKA, Onder het motto ‘ Aandacht is het begin van toewijding’
Museum M Leuven (BE) curator - Geert Goiris
2024 Inspired By Love, Belfius art collection, Brussels (BE) curator - Bénédicte Bouton
2023 Par Hazard, cc Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-berg (BE) curator- Mieke Van der Heijden
2022 Quartet, Poortersloge Brugge (BE) curator- Alice Vanderschoot
2022 Network, meet & greet with curators, gallerists in NY, organised by VONK
2021 Abstracte kunst bestaat niet, Emergent, Veurne (BE) curator-Frank Maes
2020 KETTE UND SCHUSS, cc Binder, Puurs Sint-Amands (BE)
2020 ZINTUIN Hilde Overbergh - Alice Vanderschoot, Salon Blanc, Ostend (BE) curator - Els Wuyts
2019 MDD Veiling, Flanders Expo, Ghent (BE)
2018 Prize Ernest Albert for painting 2018, cc De Garage, Mechelen (BE)
2018 ARTURE #9, Herzele (BE) curator - Sven Vanderstichelen
2018 Folding & Folding , collaboration with Saeedeh Mohtadi, Rooberoo Gallery, Tehran (IR) curator - Atefeh Khas
2016 Do Boomerangs Always Come Back? curator - Annemie Van Laethem and Eric Croux, Castle of Oud Rekem, Oud-Rekem (BE)
2015 Accommodating The Mess, curator - Susan Cantrick, Espace des arts abstraits, Paris (FR)
2014 Opening, Whitehouse Gallery, Lovenjoel (BE)
2013 IK ZIE, IK ZIE, curator - An Leemans, CIAP, Hasselt (BE)
2013 Crossing The Lines Again, The Workplace, Antwerp (BE)
2012 Manifesta parallel, Mad faculty selection, Genk (BE)
2010 For Your Pleasure, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
2010 The Story of O, curator Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
2009 Rodenbach Awards exhibition, selected by Jan Hoet, De Markten, Brussels (BE)
2008 Glocal Affairs, Maastricht, curator - Ad Himmelreich (NL)
2008 Betrekkelijk Rustig, curator - Annemie Van Laethem and Eric Croux, Castle of Oud-Rekem, Oud-Rekem (BE)
NOMINATIONS
2022 Selected via an Open Call by Vonk i.s.m. House of Flanders, for
speeddate sessions with curators, gallerists, museum directors in
New York.
2018 Prize Ernest Albert 2018, Mechelen, Belgium
2009 Laureate Rodenbach Funds Award (jury Jan Hoet, Jan De Smedt, …) (BE)
2008 Wanatoe prize, Limburg (jury Ad Himmelreich, …) selected (BE)
2003 Provincial prize Vlaams Brabant (jury Flor Bex, …) selected (BE)
1997 Laureate Dirk Bouts prize (jury Luc Lambrecht/ Daan Rau) Leuven (BE)
1990 Grand Concours International de peinture, Luxembourg, selected (LUX)
COLLECTIONS
Belfius Art Collection
The Flemish community / in the permanent collection of Museum M Leuven (BE)
Province Vlaams Brabant
Private collections
RESIDENTIES
2022 Obracadobra, Oaxaca, Mexico
2020 coGalleries, artist residency Berlin (D)
2018 arteventura, artist residency, Aracena (ES)
2014 - 2015 Cas-co, artist residency, Leuven (BE)
WRITINGS/TEXT
Hart Magazine:
-08.12.2022: pg …Ezra Babski
-21.04.2016 pg 9/ RUIMTE ALS CANVAS: Anne-Marie Poels/ Hilde Overbergh bij WOOT Antwerpen
-26.01.2017 pg 12/ NIET MISPLAATST: Christine Veugen/ Charif Benhelima - Hilde Overbergh in Whitehouse Gallery
-19.09.2016 pg 6/ DO BOOMERANGS ALWAYS COME BACK?
d’Academie 2022: Altijd Nieuwsgierig blijven (always Stay Curious) : interview by Hans Martens
PUBLICATIONS
Book ‘Spilled Milk’, Hilde Overbergh ISBN: 9789463934350
Publication ‘Navigating Turbulence on a Horse with No Name
ISBN 97896466438
BIOGRAPHY
MFA/ PXL, Belgium 2007 - 2009
MFA/ Otis Art Institute Los Angeles, USA 1988 - 1990
BFA/ San Francisco, USA 1983 - 1987