self-love, Nel Aerts, 2025, plastic bucket with lid, engraved and hand painted plexiglass insert, light fitting, 14 x 14 x 20m
NON FICTION
Melancholic Cryptonymy and the Aesthetic Threshold of Detectability
FICTION
The Global Adhesive and Sealant Conference
REVIEWS & EXHIBITION TEXTS
Diplomatic Immunity (The Eurorats)
EDITING
You Have Within You Something Stronger And More Numinous
CURATING
VIDEO & SOUND
Or Degrees (the grafter)
ABOUT
Nel Aerts (b. 1987, BE) lives and works in Brussels, BE. Exhibitions include; Révolte!?, Emile Verhaerenmuseum, 2026, Puurs-Sint-Amands, BE; Erntedankfest, LLS Paleis, 2025, Antwerp, BE and Painting After Painting, S.M.A.K., 2025, Ghent, BE. Aerts graduated with an MA from Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, BE where she has taught painting since 2019.
Nel Aerts, Francesca Comune, Fran Van Coppenolle, Delphine Deguislage, Lili Dujourie, Melissa Gordon, Nokukhanya Langa, Margarita Maximova, Sophie Nys, Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei, Naama Tsabar and Céline Vahsen curated by Triptych with Giulia Blasig and Nicole O'Rourke, and Frederick Gordts at Le Bailli, 2026, Brussels, BE
Freefaller, Nel Aerts, 2021, textile, paper, acrylic, oil sticks, spray paint, glitter, 77 x 78cm