> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Bart Gielen: Timeless Weight - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/bart-gielen-timeless-weight/ - Published: 2026-02-16T15:26:38.000Z - Updated: 2026-02-17T12:48:27.000Z - Description: Artist in Focus: Bart Gielen works between drawing and ceramics, where restraint, tension and material weight shape images that resist clear narrative and remain deliberately elusive. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Artist in Focus ## Between image and object. ### **Bart Gielen – Drawing & Ceramics** [**Bart Gielen**,](https://bartgielen.be/?ref=catapult-platform.art) born in 1983 in Belgium, lives and works in Kanegem. His practice moves between drawing and ceramics, often collapsing the distinction between image and object. What appears at first as a historical residue or a fragment from another time gradually reveals itself as a contemporary position grounded in hesitation, weight and ambiguity. Gielen’s works do not aim for immediacy. They ask for duration. > “I want my work to be timeless and elusive” Bart Gielen Central to his practice is the tension between familiarity and unease. Gielen works with existing imagery, drawn from art history, media sources and personal archives, yet never treats these references as quotations. Through distortion, framing and material intervention, he shifts their emotional register. Ceramic frames, supports and vessels are not neutral carriers but active components that thicken the image, adding physical resistance and presence. Light and shadow are handled with restraint, producing depth without spectacle. Gielen’s work operates in a zone of quiet friction. His images hover between protection and threat, intimacy and distance, stillness and latent movement. Rather than offering narrative clarity, they remain open, holding contradictory states at once. This refusal of resolution positions his practice within a contemporary context that values ambiguity as a condition, not a problem, and material sensitivity as a form of though --- [**Bart Gielen on Instagram** ](https://www.instagram.com/bartgielen999/?ref=catapult-platform.art) --- ## Bart Gielen - Artworks and Exhibition Views: ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/bart-gielen-ceramic-object-with-drawing-primal-materials-1.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/bart-gielen-ceramic-sculpture-drawing-hybrid-wall-piece-1.webp) **Bart Gielen** (left) Starboy’ (2025) - Charcoal/Pastel/Ceramics - 40 x 28 x 4 cm - Image Courtesy of the Artist - (right) ‘Residence’ (2025) - Charcoal/Pastel/Ceramics - 32 x 23 x 9 cm - Image Courtesy of the Artist ![Unframed Gallery and Bart Gielen exhibition about his ceramic works ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/bart-gielen-ceramic-drawing-wall-object-figurative-relief.webp) **Bart Gielen**: Exhibition View ****Unframed Gallery** \- Image Courtesy of the Artist and gallery ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/bart-gielen-artist-portrait-studio-contemporary-drawing-ceramics.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/bart-gielen-portrait-contemporary-artist-belgium.webp) ****Bart Gielen:** (left). ‘I am carnal #1’ (2025) Charcoal/Pastel/Ceramics - 27 x 25 x 7 cm - Image Courtesy of the Artist (right) ‘Worship’ (2024) Charcoal/Pastel/Ceramics - 31 x 21 x 10 cm - Image Courtesy of the Artist ![Bart Gielen, wonderful figurative work on ceramic , artist in focus, black and white called Prologue](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/bart-gielen-landscape-drawing-mythic-imagery-charcoal.webp) ****Bart Gielen:** ‘Prologue’ (2025) Charcoal/Pastel/Ceramics - 22 x 30 x 4 cm - Image Courtesy of the Artist ![Bart Gielen: ‘The Devil in his Youth’ black and white on stone ware , horn and bull under a blanket ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/bart-gielen-studio-process-ceramic-drawing-in-progress-1.webp) ****Bart Gielen:** ‘The Devil in his Youth’ (2025) Charcoal/Pastel/Ceramics - 23 x 14 x 4 cm - Image Courtesy of the Artist ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/bart-gielen-mythological-imagery-drawing-ceramic-relief.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/bart-gielen-drawing-detail-light-shadow-figurative-scene-1.webp) ****Bart Gielen:** ‘Hollow Jesus on a strawl’ (2024-2025) Charcoal/Pastel/Ceramics - 63 x 38 x 4 cm (right) ‘Ten Interventions that could be Divine #5’ (2024-2025) Charcoal/Ceramics - 25 x 18 x 5 cm ![bart glielen, artist in focus, stoneware, ceramic and a kind of old master drawing on the surface ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/bart-gielen-exhibition-view-unframed-gallery-wall-objects.webp) ****Bart Gielen:**‘Landscape II’ (2023-2024) Charcoal/Pastel/Wooden Panel - 90 x 120 cm ![bart gielen , artist - in front of his large drawing ‘The Deal’ Charcoal on paper](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/bart-gielen-exhibition-installation-ceramic-drawing-reliefs-1.webp) ****Bart Gielen:**Bart Gielen: Exhibition Installation, artist in front of work ‘The Deal’ Charcoal on paper - 3 x 2 m - Image Courtesy of Wouter Willaert --- ## More Artists - featured [![Ruo-Hsin Wu paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/ruo-hsin-wu--artist.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/ruo-hsin-wu-floating-in-the-dark/) ****Ruo-Hsin Wu** paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids. Taiwan-based, technically luminous, emotionally weightless. [![Kristof Santy and the Quiet Power of Everyday Painting](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/kristof-santy-artist.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/kristof-santy-promising-painting-now-vienna/) ****Kristof Santy** and the Quiet Power of Everyday Painting --- ## **Exhibition** [![Paulina Olowska, Caroline Walker and Adéla Janská at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc. A spatial exhibition on painting, labour and visibility.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/02/telegraph-gallery-.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/paulina-olowska-caroline-walker-adela-janska-za-pultem-behind-the-counter-at-telegraph-gallery-olomouc/) Paulina Olowska, Caroline Walker and Adéla Janská at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc. A spatial exhibition on painting, labour and visibility.