°1979, Currently living and working in Halle (Antwerp), Belgium.

Over the past 20 years, as both a drawer/painter and illustrator, Sebastiaan has been exploring his visual and narrative boundaries within the field of editorial and picture book illustration. Always looking for a personal and fictional universe within an applied context, often hand in hand with literature & poetry.

Loneliness, folktales, wanderlust and bewildering nature are recurring contents in his artistic practice. The illustrations in his picture books visually claimed a dominant role and translated the stories or articles through subtle humor and criticism.

In recent years, via experimentation & technical variation, he opened up his work as an illustrator towards an autonomous, artistic practice as a drawer, painter and ceramist.

Currently he is working towards a solo show for Rufus Gallery (Gent, Belgium) and a selection of his drawings will be published by Posture editions in the month of November 2024.

UPCOMING:

December 13 th 2024: Live Drawing @ festival voor de Gelijkheid, Vooruit Gent.

May 24th 2025: Solo show @ Rufus Gallery, Gent.

EXPO/PERFORMANCE

2025 (announced)

May 24 th: Solo show @ Rufus gallery, Gent

2024

December 4th 2024 (19h 30): Artist Talk with Barbara De Coninck on publication ‘Walking Drawings’ @ De Groene Waterman, Antwerpen.

November 16 th: Book release + expo ‘Walking Drawings’ (Posture)

@ warande Turnhout.

October 23 th: Group show ‘All of us are Rufus’ @ Rufus gallery, Gent (With Eliza Pepermans, Victor Verhelst, Sam Timmerman, Lukas Verstraete, Louise Daneels, Jan Vandeplancke & many others)

June 8th: Group show ‘Bang, Blast, Burst’ @ Rufus gallery, Gent. (With Arthur de Visscher, Indré Svirplyté & others)

Bang, Blast, Burst @ Rufus gallery. Ceramics: ©Louise Daneels

2022

’Illusoir’, group show @blanc Fixe, Drongen. With artists Sam Vanallemeersch, Lukas Verstraete, Sabien Clement, Korneel Detailleur, … (Spring 2022).

2021

Showroom, Sint Lucas Antwerpen: ‘This is where the magic happens’, Sketchbook Group show. With William Ludwig Lutgens, Emma Verhulst, Sadrie Alves, Lucien De Roeck,…

Solo show ‘A cosmonaut, hiding under the sink’, Geert De Weyer Gallery, Antwerpen.

Group Show @Borgerhub ‘Into eternity, the art of giving’, with Cindy Wright, Boy Erik Stappaerts, Rachel Agnew,…

2020

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: part of the exposition ‘Van Thonet tot Dutch Design’ - 125 jaar wonen in het Stedelijk’ (illustrations ‘Monsterlijke Microben’)

Animation (film) and sketchbooks exhibited at ‘Diep in het bos’ for Villa Verbeelding, Hasselt.

Feniksstraat, Kinderbrouwerij Poperinge, Group show, with Carll Cneut and Kamagurka.

2019

Zin in Zomer: Live drawings, with author Erwin Mortier, Hasselt.

Performance (live drawings with concert) @ Fondation d’enterprise Martell, Cognac, France.

‘FAKE, die ganze wahrheit’ exposition (several illustrations) for Stapferhaus Museum Lenzburg, (awarded European museum of the year 2020), Zwitserland.

2017

Solo show ‘de archipel van Sebastiaan’ at CC ‘de ververij’, curated by Murmuur Ronse

2016

Museum M: ‘de geluksvogels’, Guided tour in the museum.

Fort Napoleon, Oostende. Exposition ‘de geluksvogels’.

Kunsthal Rotterdam: part of the exposition on ‘Jules Verne’

2015

Museum M: Temporary mural ‘Danse Macabre’ and exposition illustrations ‘Magnus’ for the Vesalius exposition.

2014

’Stormopkomst’, CC De warande Turnhout, with Sara Fanelli, Ingrid Godon,…

2013

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, Group show and poster image, ‘Cinderella’.

The New York Times building, group show at Flanders House: ‘Flanders inspires, Flanders intrigues’.

2012

Walt Disney concert hall: projections and animations for the concert ‘Frankenstein!’ by composer HK GRUBER, Los Angeles, USA.

’CoffeeKlatch’ Group show @ Tatjana Pieters Gallery, with Piet Raemdonck, Bue The Warrior,…, curated by Magali Elali (the constant now).

2011

Performance for artist Thomas Grodal @ Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (assistance)

2010

Wallpiece 10 ‘Natuur(studie)boek’ @ Sint Lucas Passage: Group show on Sketchbooks. With Hannelore Van Dijck, Rinus Vande velde, Arpaïs Du Bois, Jan Stremes… Curated by Nikolaas Demoen (Posture editions).