English:Egon Van Herreweghe (Q147225)

Egon Van Herreweghe is a visual artist born in 1985 in Gent (Belgium), where he currently lives and 

works. He studied photography at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Gent between 2004 and 

2008 and undertook his research in art and design over the following year at the St Lucas School of Arts in 

Antwerp. He is laureate of HISK – The Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent, where he recived his 

postgraduate education between 2014 and 2015. He has exhibited his work since 2010 in museum 

institutions, galleries and artist-run venues both in Belgium and abroad (The Netherlands, UK, Estonia, and

USA). His solo shows include: "Heidi’s Delight" (The Stable, Waregem, 2017), "Now Plums Burst With 

Ripeness" (Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, 2015), "Paintings and Sculpture" (FOAM, Amsterdam, 2014) and 

"Always a thief and never caught" (Netwerk, Aalst, 2014). He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions

out of which the most recent are: "Presidential Suite" (Brussels, 2017), "Current Residents & Associates" 

(Brussels, 2017), "The Ideal Husband" (Ghent, 2016), "Every Letter is a Love Letter" (Tallinn, 2016), 

"Friendly Faces" (New York, 2015), "A Set of Lines, A Stack of Paper" (Plymouth, 2015) and "The 

Catwalk" (Brussels, 2015). His publications include: "Presidential Suite" (2017), "The Ideal Husband" 

(2016), "Totally Fucked Up" (2016), "Inner Beauty" (2015), "Best Available Copy" (2014), "Elective 

Affinities" (2014; 2012), "In the name of beauty" (2013), and "A Modernist Garden" (2012).