Witold Vandenbroeck
12.09.25 - 26.10.25
SOLO SHOW
Map and Territory
In the paintings of Witold Vandenbroeck, forms emerge that feel both familiar and elusive: tubes, vessels, smooth contours that hint at networks, routes, and flows. They evoke the visible and invisible infrastructures through which people and matter move. Water through pipes, blood through veins, trains through tunnels.
Vandenbroeck doesn’t depict maps as representations of the world, but rather explores how abstraction can overwhelm reality itself. His works are not ‘cartographic’, but compact visual systems — snapshots that speak of the power of representation, of seeking control but instead being controlled, of the freedom that lies beyond the map.
Vandenbroeck paints with distemper: pigment mixed with skin glue; a medium that demands speed and focus. His colours are dense, opaque, and tactile. Each painting becomes an exercise in timing, in restraint, in commitment. Together they chart a transient reality which is always able to elude the maps made of it.
In the paintings of Witold Vandenbroeck, forms emerge that feel both familiar and elusive: tubes, vessels, smooth contours that hint at networks, routes, and flows. They evoke the visible and invisible infrastructures through which people and matter move. Water through pipes, blood through veins, trains through tunnels.
Vandenbroeck doesn’t depict maps as representations of the world, but rather explores how abstraction can overwhelm reality itself. His works are not ‘cartographic’, but compact visual systems — snapshots that speak of the power of representation, of seeking control but instead being controlled, of the freedom that lies beyond the map.
Vandenbroeck paints with distemper: pigment mixed with skin glue; a medium that demands speed and focus. His colours are dense, opaque, and tactile. Each painting becomes an exercise in timing, in restraint, in commitment. Together they chart a transient reality which is always able to elude the maps made of it.