Vitamin Creative Space

Biography

In the work and life of Catharina van Eetvelde (b. 1967, Ghent, Belgium), drawing is a continual process and a way to maintain a constant engagement with her surroundings. She mixes different techniques including works on paper and paintings, collages, assemblages, animated vectorial films, songs and embroideries in a complex and balanced choreography of materials, lines and words. Drawing is for her a trace left, cultivating a fine perception of the inner and outer world, and a careful attitude towards time and space.

A few years ago, Catharina van Eetvelde moved from Paris to the Rhine Delta. This move entailed a new kind of daily practice and a reconsideration of the ways in which the world in and around her informed each other.

Her recent exhibitions and projects include please stay, my pale blue friend, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels (2025), hill, autumn’s mountain, Eenwerk, Amsterdam (2023), A Room, OVR, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussel (2021), For a room, Kunstenfestival Watou, Belgium (2021), Woo, a song of dedication, Catharina van Eetvelde and Claron McFadden, Kunstenfestival Watou (2021), ILK, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Kunstmuseum Basel, and Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels (2016-2017), Earth Matters, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden (2015) and Whether(Weather) with Stéphane Sautour, Studio Li Edelkoort, Paris, and Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels (2014).