Kristof Van Gestel

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Kristof Van Gestel (*1976) is a visual artist and a teacher/researcher at School of Arts of University College Ghent. Since 1999 he produces sculptures, pictures and projects that focus on questioning and finding a place for art and creativity in the daily world. This site provides you with an overview of his work since 1999. For Van Gestel making art is a method to explore the wide range of different relations into which we as individuals enter in the world. This applies both for the artist as for the viewer. From this point of view, in his doctoral research project [2007-2013] he describes his art practice as a model for experience and reflection that can help to shape and to give meaning to life itself [2013, Mooi is nuttig. De kunstpraktijk als ervarings- en reflectiemodel, Gent: Aramer]. In line with his phd, he worked on a postdoctoral research project at School of Arts of University College Ghent from 2014 till 2020 in which he focused on experiential learning. For this reason the platform ‘Knowing by Doing’ was founded. This platform provides opportunities for participatory and experiential art projects and workshops that Van Gestel sets up for a public starting from his own artistic practice.

MASCOT GALLERY by Kristof Van Gestel

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