ourpursuitofart 
New book update! We hope you’ve had some great and cozy holidays, with lots of good food and parties! As this is the most cozy time of the year it’s also a good time to share with you some books i’ve been reading. So the first book is The Goldfinch written by one of […]Read Post ›
I love love love Emilio Villalba, his artworks are so admiring to watch! I mean I would love to see his work in real life, if one day he exhibit his work here in Belgium I would be so happy. Anyway, his work are so mesmerizing and intruding. The best part is when the portrait […]Read Post ›
I once found a box full of old pictures from the 90s and the 2000. The ambiance, the composition, the little mistakes in those pictures were very special. The thing with those pictures was that each of them shared charisma, a dream or at least a hope. A longing that emanates for rest, the joy […]Read Post ›
Quick post to tell you about the ‘Kotroute’ that I visited in Brussels last thursday. So what is the Kotroute? The kotroute are students that open their ‘kot’ or room, apartment, whatever to other young artists to show off their artwork. The event takes place here in Brussels and in Ghent. What I really appreciated […]Read Post ›
I love a lot of artworks, no matter what, but I might be a big fan of certain Japanese animations. My one all favorite is ‘Ghost In The Shell’ (I might have an obsession with it haha) and after that comes Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Tezuka Osamu, Katsuhiro, Miyazaki Mayao, etc. All I want to write now […]Read Post ›
Meltem and me visited the exhibition Guggenheim – full abstraction in the ING art centre last friday so I wanted to share that with you. The exhibition kinda shows you the evolution of art during the 1940 til 1960 through works of art owned by Solomon R. Guggenheim and Peggy Guggenheim. I’ve always loved Peggy […]Read Post ›
A long time ago I found this incredible artist Nicole Gustafsson, she makes contemporary fantastic Art and it’s the best thing that you can see right now. She has this cute, lovely imagination and the colours she use are the new age colours. Well if I need to make a comparison, it looks like Jean […]Read Post ›
It’s been a few weeks since we’ve last posted something here! We got so caught up with school starting and all that, that we barely had time for all the fun stuff. As you might know Bozar Electronic Arts Festival was happening the 22th-24th september, almost a month ago (we know, we know,…). Even if […]Read Post ›
I’d like to share with you the books i’ve been reading. Because, you know, you can never read to much. I’d like to make this a every two monthly thing, or monthly maybe if i get enough reading done. You’ll be reading this blog post somewhere in september, but i’m actually writing this in August, […]Read Post ›
Dear readers, today I am pleased to introduce you a talent that I have known for a few years, a good friend that has listened to my annoying stories, an ambitious friend that encouraged me and a best friend that gave me the love. Therefor, I wish he will go on with his life on […]Read Post ›
So in the month of July there was this art exhibition opening that was popping up everywhere on social media; Berlin is for Lovers a photo exhibition at the Impossible Project Laboratory, about the Berlin nightlife. The opening was happening on August 4th and I happend to be in Berlin so I thought it would be […]Read Post ›
Emanual Williams (@mrezzzz) was one of my first Instagram followers, I saw his art grow year after year and I thought -why not interview him?- so I did. His unique art style is one of the most interesting part in his art, I remember that he started with ink and when the days past he […]Read Post ›
Hi there, Céline writing here, this blog post will be a little bit different from usual. Meltem and I went to Berlin together. I already wrote some stuff about Berlin so as you might know I am not the biggest fan of the city. Although sometimes I find myself longing for the nights out, the […]Read Post ›
Hello dear readers, First of all we want to thank you for the 300 likes on our page and the positive feedback on our blog. Now Our Pursuit of Art isn’t the same without Kimberly, she did a lot for the blog. So obviously there will be some changes going on here at Our Pursuit […]Read Post ›
As you may or may not have noticed, it has been a bit quite on our blog lately. The exams ended in June and it was time for some vacation. Here’s little update, I (Kimberly) decided to end my contribution to Our Pursuit of art. There are some changes in my life and […]Read Post ›
ENGLISH Hi, can you tell a little bit about yourself? We are Bram, Thomas and Dieter. We’re all in our early thirties and come from Ghent and Leuven. tBEDRIJF now exists for four years and was founded by Thomas and myself (Bram). We got to know each other at the University of Leuven. Thomas has his […]Read Post ›
NEDERLANDS Aron Wouters is een enorm sympathieke, jonge kunstenaar. Hij is slechts negentien en heeft nu al zo een bewogen weg afgelegd in de kunstwereld. Hij zit momenteel in zijn tweede jaar aan het KASK te Gent. “Voor de rest zing ik in een koor, maar ik weet niet of het zo relevant is. (lacht)” © […]Read Post ›
Last weekend was one of the most hectic weekends I’ve ever experienced. On Saturday I went to Independent Brussels, an art fair that originated in New York. If you want to know more about this you should read Céline her previous blogpost. On Sunday I went to Art Brussels. It was the first time ever […]Read Post ›
First year of Independent in Brussels and I was so excited about it. Brussels is clearly blooming in terms of contemporary art and I couldn’t be happier about it. Alongside Independent there are multiple other art fairs going on the same week. Of course there is Art Brussels, which Kimberly will write a blogpost about, that has been there for years but […]Read Post ›
On Wednesday evening we visited the exhibition ‘Triumvirate‘ in Brussels. It’s an exhibition curated by MarineTanguy,NicolasHugo and Eva Kirilof (also known as The Bubblist). We planned to go with the three of us, but Meltem had to take some well deserved rest after working a lot on another project in which she creates the concept art. Another talented gal came along,Jorien Geelen editorial assistant […]Read Post ›
NEDERLANDS Kan je jezelf eens voorstellen? Iets over jezelf vertellen? Ik ben Jasper van Loon, 24 jaar. Afgestudeerd als master in de audiovisuele kunsten aan Sint-Lukas, Brussel. Als kunstenaar werk ik dan ook voornamelijk binnen het medium film/video met steeds meer uitstapjes richting fotografie. Via mijn tumblr kun je op de hoogte blijven van mijn artistieke praktijk. […]Read Post ›
NEDERLANDS De wereld van de kunst is enorm uitgebreid, maar heb je er ooit al bij stilgestaan dat theaterkostuumontwerper ook kan behoren tot deze wereld? Amber de Saeger is een jonge kunstenares met het diploma van kostuumontwerper op zak. Sinds vorig jaar heeft ze haar studies aan de Academie van Antwerpen afgerond en momenteel is ze bezig […]Read Post ›
Hi Laure, could you talk a little bit about yourself? Yes, I’m Laure Foret, I’m 31 years old and I’m an artist based in Antwerp but I was born in France. I’m currently working around a big theme that I call “the skin”. I make drawings and embroideries that you can see here at Ithaka […]Read Post ›
Selfportrait, 1901 Marthe Donas, a name that I’ve never heard before a few months ago. A Belgian artist who lived during the first world war. An artist whose work knows a lot of different shapes and influences, but still maintained her own style. On Tuesday the 22nd of March, I, not knowing about what was going on […]Read Post ›
