Hannah De Corte
°1988, Elsene, Belgium.
Lives and works in Oxford, UK and Brussels, Belgium.
Hannah De Corte (born in 1988 in Elsene, Belgium, resides and works in Oxford, England, and Brussels, Belgium) incorporates various elements into her painterly practice. Think of threads, folds, stitching, woven patterns, dots, and pictorial planes. Due to the time-consuming process of manipulating material in an interplay of hiding and revealing, constructing and deconstructing, a durational element comes to the fore. Decorte — who completed her Ph.D. research in 2019 on the subject of the raw and unprimed canvas as an aesthetic and iconological intermediary — intertwines the surface of her works with the composition, aesthetics, and structure of the painting.
Selected exhibitions:
2022, Self-Play, La Patinoire Royale/Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2022, Tomorrow never dies, Platform 6a by Deweer, Zwevegem, Belgium
2022, (upcoming) Prix du Parlement, Abattoirs de Bomel, Namen, Belgium
2022, (upcoming) Flat Intensities, BAC Art Lab, Leuven, Belgium
2022, (upcoming) Onomatopoeia, Huberty & Breyne, Brussels, Belgium
2021, XIII Florence Biennale (with "Contaminazione"), Florence, Italy
2021, M.Ondes, Centre d'art contemporain du Luxembourg belge CACLB, Montauban, Belgium
2021, Textilités, Anciens Abattoirs de Mons, Bergen, Belgium
2021, Limited Edition Art Fair, Villa Empain/Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
2020, YOUNG BELGIUM, La Patinoire Royale/Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium
2020, Inside-Out, The Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium MRBAB, Brussels, Belgium
2020, Contaminazione, Turin Museum of Contemporary Art (Officine Grandi Riparazioni) + San Giovanni Bosco Hospital of Turin, Torino, Italy
2020, Prix Médiatine, La Médiatine, Brussels, Belgium
2019, Aurora ETERNA, Officina della Scrittura Museum - Museo del Segno e della Scrittura, Torino, Italy
2019, So to speak, Hôtel Henri Van de Velde, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2019, VSAC2019, BAC Atelier, Leuven, Belgium
2018, Envers, La Part du Feu, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2018, Ekphrasis. L’art de Roger Pierre Turine, Penthouse Art Residency / NH Hotel Bloom, Brussels, Belgium
2018, Mémoires et archives, Museum L, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2018, De fils ou de fibres, Centre d’Art Contemporain Abbaye de Saint André CAC, Meymac, France
2017, Hannah De Corte & Céline Prestavoine, Stéphanie Jaax Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (duo)
2016, Opid hus, Skagaströnd, Iceland (solo)
2015, Red Cross Art Contest, Ronse, Belgium
2015, D.ART, Artenova kunstroute, Mechelen, Belgium
2015, Hanging Time in the Summer Out, Super Deals gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015, The Cloud of Unknowing: on Research, Love and Mysticism, Hôtel Henri Van de Velde, Brussels, Belgium
2013, Play Date, private space, Brussels, Belgium (solo)