Gerda Van Damme

Gerda Van Damme, a Belgian painter, was a finalist twice in the ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE and in many other international and national art contests.

She is president of the art collective "Grosses Lacunes" and works together with Guido Janssens under the name "The Muybridge Collective". She is represented in Spain by MECA, Almeria. In Belgium her work has been shown in various galeries.

Her work has been in shows in Venice (Arsenale) Italy, Brooklyn NY USA, Berlin Germany, Almeria Spain, Granada Spain, Dordrecht Netherlands, and many cities in Belgium. She sold works to clients in Belgium, France, USA and Germany.

Besides the paintings presented on Saatchi Art, she also creates installations and video art. You can discover those works on her website.

The work of Gerda Van Damme is a deep exploration of the human condition, reflecting the existential restlessness that permeates our lives. Her work delves into themes about the ephemeral nature of life, disillusionment with reality in the face of childhood aspirations and the inescapable presence of death. Through her paintings, video art and installations, she confronts the banality of existence and the negation of mortality, all while questioning the possibility of finding true happines...

Academy of fine arts of Louvain, options photography and applied arts

Academy of fine arts of Charleroi, options painting, video art, drawing

Louvain University (KULeuven): master in literature and video art training

Screenwriting training

2025 Concours d'Arts Plastiques & Visuels, Centre Culturel du Wauxhall, Nivelles, collective exhibition (ongoing)

2025 3ª edición del Taller de pintura de paisaje del natural PN Cabo de Gata-Níjar directed by Andrés García Ibáñez - collective exhibition in Rodalquilar, Spain (ongoing)

2025 Prix de la peinture, Woluwe Saint-Pierre, WHall (planned, June)

2025 Relais Saint-Martin duo show with Guido Janssens, Fêtes de la Saint-Martin, Tourinnes-la-Grosse, Belgium (planned, November)

2025 Collective exhibition at MECA Mediterráneo Centro Artístico, Almeria, Spain (planned, December)

2025 Parcours d'artistes Barbençon

2025 La Cellule, Charleroi, Belgium

2025 XVI Festival de Arte Contemporáneo de la Facultad de Bellas Artes (FACBA 25) de Granada

2025 Belg'idees, collective exhibition, Charleroi, Belgium

2024 Arsenale, Arte Laguna Prize group show, Venice, Italy

2024 "MiniARTures", collective exhibition, an organization of FiKVa (Figuratieve Kunst Vandaag), WG Gallery, Dordrecht, Netherlands

2024 "The Garden of Love - 45 hedendaagse kunstenaars oog in oog met James Ensor", collective exhibition, Galerie P, Ostend, Belgium

2024 "Silence", collective exhibition, an organization of Kunzthuiz in the H...