Exhibitions
2025 (forthcoming) New Belgian Painting (Nieuwe Belgische Schilderkunst), SMAK, Gent (BE), 4 April - June
(forthcoming) Hyper vigilance, solo, Galerie Patinoire Royale Bach, Brussels, 8 May - 21 June
2024 Hosting, CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels, 10 October - 9 February 2025
Les fleurs du mal, Ballroom Project, Antwerpen (BE), May
Vertical & horizontal, Plagiarama, Brussels, duo with Nine Perris, 10 March - April
2023 Art Contest, Botanique, Brussels, 16 December - 4 February 2024
(25+50) + (25 – 50), Galerie Détour, Namur (BE), invited by André Lambotte (25 artist duos), 10 Octobre-14 November
Prix Collignon, Centre d'art contemporain la Châtaigneraie, Flémalle (BE), 14 April-15 May
Onomatopée, Huberty & Breyne, Brussels (BE), 25 November 2022 - 7 January 2023
2022 Prix Jeunes Artistes (Prix du Parlement), Abattoirs de Bomel, Namur (BE), 28 October - 25 November
Flattened Intensities - Intensified Flatness, BAC Art Lab, Leuven (BE), 12-22 October
Touch, Stefanie Verduyn Gallery, Moregem (BE), 2 October - 6 November
Self-play, La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valérie Bach, solo, Brussels, 31 March - 28 May
Tomorrow never dies, curator: Tanguy Van Quickenborne, with Demain, Platform 6a by Deweer, Otegem (BE), 27 February - 16 March
2021 XIII Florence Biennale, with Contaminazione, curator: Cécile Angelini, Firenze (IT), 23-31 October
M/Ondes, Centre d’art contemporain du Luxembourg belge CACLB, Montauban/Buzenol, 11 September - 24 October
Textilités, Anciens Abattoirs de Mons, curator: Denise Biernaux, Galerie Les Drapiers, Bergen (BE), 8 May – 1 August
Limited Edition Art Fair, with La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valérie Bach, La Villa Empain/Fondation Boghossian, Brussels 23-25 April
50/50, a drawing show, Brussels, March
2020 YOUNG BELGIUM - Ineffable - Opus 1, La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels, 12 December - 27 February 2021
Inside-Out, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, curator: Maëlle Delaplanche, October 2 – January 24, 2021
Contaminazione, Museum of Contemporary Art (Officine Grandi Riparazioni), curator: Cécile Angelini, Turin (IT), June 24 – August 31, 2020
Prix Médiatine 2020, Wolubilis Centre culturel Médiatine, February 7 – March 9
2019 Aurora ETERNA, Officina della Scrittura Museum, Turin (IT), curator: Cécile Angelini, May 31 – January 31, 2020
VSAC2019, BAC Atelier, Leuven (BE), curator: Christina Seyfried, August 21-25
So to Speak, solo exhibition/doctoral thesis presentation, Hôtel Henri Van de Velde, Brussels, May 8-10
White art walk, Genval (BE), April, May
2018 Ekphrasis, l'art de Roger Pierre Turine, Penthouse Art Residency, NH Hotel Bloom, curator: Cécile Angelini, Brussels, December
De fils ou de fibres, Centre d'art contemporain CAC, Meymac (FR), July 8 – October 10
Envers, La Part du Feu, solo, curator: Maëlle Delaplanche, Brussels, 7-30 September
Mémoires et Archives, Museum L, Louvain-la-Neuve (BE), 18 September
2017 36 nuances de vert, La Projectroom, Abbaye de La Cambre, Brussels, June
Friche:le hangar de la Senne, Le hangar de la Senne, Brussels, April 14 – 23
Hannah De Corte - Céline Prestavoine, Stephanie Jaax gallery, Brussels, November 27, 2016 – January 27, 2017
2016 Opid hus, abandoned house, Skagaströnd (Iceland), June
Abondance, Le Kabinet, Brussels, May 7 – 27
AIRE. Espaces intermédiaires, Vanderborght building, Brussels, March
2015 D.ART, Artenova, Mechelen, kunstroute, July 1 – 5
Hanging time in the summer out, Super Deals gallery, Brussels, June 20 – 25
Friche, LaVallée, Brussels, April 25 – May 10
The Cloud of Unknowing: on research, love and mysticism, curator: Pieter Vermeulen, Hotel Van de Velde, Brussels, January 15 – 30
2014 Quatre saisons et demie, solo exhibition, Museum of Costume and Lace, Brussels, May 27 – August 24
Autrement dit, Trade Mart / ADAM Museum, Brussels, June 25 – 27
2013 Home country is a strawberry, Gallery space Taideinstituutti / Institute of Fine Arts, Lahti, Finland, December 2 – 17
Prizes and selections
2023 *Emile Sacré Prize, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, given by the Classe des Arts, for my work on canvas as a medium [“pour votre pratique artistique qui interroge, en tant que peintre, la nature même de la toile, au titre de support, l’élevant au statut de médium, de moyen d’expression.”]
*Finalist Art Contest (Brussels)
2022 *Finalist Prix Jeunes Artistes, Parlement (Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles)
*Finalist Prix Collignon, La Châtaigneraie
2020 *Finalist Prix Médiatine Prize
2018 *Prize from the Fund Van Buuren-Jaumotte-Demoulin for the final stages of my PhD research
2014 *Prize Textile Box art contest, Museum Fashion and Lace, Brussels
2011 *Masui Prize for my Master’s thesis on Jackson Pollock’s cut-out technique "La technique du décollage dans l’oeuvre de Jackson Pollock"
Fellowships
2024 – 2027: Postdoctoral Research Fellow FRS-FNRS (Belgian Fund for Scientific Research) in Art and sciences
2021 – 2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Fondation Wiener - Asnpach
Funding for research at Oxford University (Ruskin) (UK) in Art and sciences
2014 – 2018: Research Fellow FRS-FNRS (Belgian Fund for Scientific Research) in Art and sciences
Funding for a doctoral thesis in Art and Sciences:
"Uses of Unprimed Canvas - Looking at the Absorptive Qualities of the Painting Support and its Material Nature"
@ Université Libre de Bruxelles and ENSAV La Cambre. Supervisors: Prof. Thierry Lenain and Denis De Rudder
*Research stay as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (US), September 2017 - June 2018
Supervisor: Prof. Kent Minturn
Publications (peer-reviewed)
*Hannah De Corte, "Looking at Bruegel's Blind Leading the Blind. Canvas in the landscape, selective preparation of the figures, canvas in the landscape, and the place of man in the cosmos, ASP Editions, Brussels, GPRC (peer-review) label, 2024
*Hannah De Corte, “Woven under Glass. Francis Bacon's Linen and the Queerness of His Materials", TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture, vol. 19, no. 2: 191-222.
*Hannah De Corte, “Selective Preparation of Canvas as an ‘Artistic Device’ in David Hockney's Early Paintings (1964-1972). Impact of This Hybrid Priming Technique on Perception by the Viewer, with a Particular Focus on Portrait of an Artist: Pool with Two Figures and Mt. Fuji and Flowers," Art & Perception, vol. 8, no. 3-4 (October 2020, Special Issue: The Skin of Things: On the perception and depiction of materials): 311–336. doi: 10.1163/22134913-bja10015
*Hannah De Corte, "Canvas without Stretcher: Impact of the Removal of the Stretcher during Painting after 1945—From Jackson Pollock to Tauba Auerbach." The International Journal of the Image 12 (1): 13-25. doi:10.18848/2154-8560/CGP/v12i01/13-25.
ORCiD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0174-4859
Conferences
2024 * Moderator round-table for “Digital Materiality: Exploring Tensions Between Physicality and Virtuality in Art at the Digital Age”
Conference “Matière Matérialité/Matter Materiality”, CIHA (36th Congress of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art), Lyon (FR), 23-28 June
* Pieter Bruegel's Blind Figures, Visuality and the Human Position
TU Delft, Delft (NL), “Vision and Depiction”, 8-10 February
2023 *Painting as ab/d/sorption, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (US), 23 May
* Epidermic: canvas, color and space, Standard Issue (design firm), New York (US), 6 March
* Measuring Velázquez’s gesture. A case study of two sister paintings made in Rome
“Modernism Remodelled”, Cambridge University, Cambridge (UK), 25-26 February
2022 * His and her materials. The fabric of impressionist painting. Looking at 'Julie Pissarro Sewing beside a Window
Symposium “The Materiality of Modernisms”, Centre for European Modernism Studies, Lisbon (PT), 15-17 December
* Hyper Sensitive: Canvas, Colour and Space
Symposium Flattened Intensities - Intensified Flatness (organised by Stefanie De Winter), BAC Art Lab (KU Leuven), Leuven (BE), 14 October
* Self-Play, Ruskin, Oxford University, Oxford (UK), DPhil Seminar, 16 May
* Pieter Bruegel's Blind Figures, Visuality and the Human Position
Symposium “Has anything changed?”, Princeton University, New Jersey (US), Session #2 “Means and Meaning of Materiality in the Zoom Age”, 24 March
2021 * Bricks, Acne and Printer Dots: Canvas Ground Emerging in Images poster presentation
XXVI Congress Of The International Association Of Empirical Aesthetics, City and Goldsmiths, University of London, London (UK), 1-3 September
2019 * The Unprimed Canvas (“Het niet geprepareerde doek”)
Guest lecture for Prof. Barbara Baert’s Inleiding tot de beeldanalyse, KU Leuven, 12 November
* Wovenness of Painter’s Canvas
Visual Arts and Science Conference VASC2019, STUK Museum, Leuven (BE), Session: “Material Matters,” 21-25 August
* Uses of Unprimed Canvas. Doctoral thesis presentation
Hotel Henri Van de Velde, Brussels (BE), 9 May
2018 * Against the Grain. Emergence of the Fabric of the Canvas at the Surface of Modern Painting
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL), Symposium “The Skin of Things,” 26-28 November
* Résidu d'un événement? Les effets d'absorption et la toile non préparée dans la peinture
Musée L, Louvain-la-Neuve (BE), Symposium "Mémoires et Archives," 18 September
* Painting as Absorption.
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (US), "Works in progress" series, 3 May
*Raw Canvas and Selective Priming.
Show & Tell, New York (US), vol. VIII "Color at the Surface," 11 May
2017 * The visibility of Textile as a Painting Support. Cloth at the Forefront of the Painted Picture in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.
Loughborough University (UK), Association of Art Historians, Annual Conference, “Session 35: Textile, Art & Design: Reciprocity and Development,” 8 April
* Le “minimalisme mystique” de Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Prolongement et détournement des stratégies de l’art minimal et conceptuel.
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Colloquium “Autour de l’art conceptuel,” 6 May
2016 * Workshop: L’art dans l’espace public et les pratiques collectives, for the drawing department, with Muesli collective.
La Cambre ENSAV, Bruxelles, November-December
* Textile and the body. Artist’s talks.
NES, Skagaströnd (Iceland), 6 April, 7 May, 7 June
2015 * Au-delà du châssis et de la préparation. Possibilités de la toile non tendue.
Maison des Arts, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Colloque “Journée des doctorants,” 5 June
* Savoir-faire-penser. La pratique artistique comme terrain de recherche.
Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris, pour la revue Marges. Colloquium “L’artiste comme théoricien,” 14 February
Academic path
2014 – 2019 Doctoral thesis in Art and Sciences, supported by the FRS-FNRS: “Uses of Unprimed Canvas,” defense in May 2019
2009 – 2014 ENSAV La Cambre. Bachelor and Master’s degree: Visual arts
2006 – 2011 ULB University of Brussels. Bachelor and Master’s degree: History of art
