Jan Vanriet

Spijkers in de wolken (Nails in The Clouds) is a novel about death, friendship and resentment. Disarmingly and painfully honest, the author manages to capture his generation, a generation of people in their seventies, drifting away from life, searching for meaning, longing to hold on to the glorious past, just for a little...

Breendonks Blauw 35 paintings inspired by the camp, a prison of the SS and Gestapo. The writer W.G. Sebald’s own words about the chilly darkness of Breendonk in the great novel Austerlitz: 'what I saw now before me was a low built concrete mass, rounded at its outer edges and giving...

Elegy The series 'Elegy' visualizes the ‘Siege of Leningrad’ (1941-44) and the terror of ideologies vs the individual. Vanriet depicts a society dominated by ideology, hardship and suffering. In some works, the message is quite straightforward; others are more enigmatic. Although the series focuses on events that have taken place in...

Sleepwalkers Sleepwalkers is a series of  40 paintings inspired by the film La Notte (1961), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, and by an etching, Melancholia, made in 1966 by Vanriet’s friend, the Czech artist Pravoslav Sovák (1926–2022).  www.dezwartepanter.com

Bloot verder  A new novel published by Borgerhoff & Lamberigts 352 pages, paperback EAN 9789463939966

Finnis Terrae Art project on different locations in Antwerp, organized by Galerie Geukens & De Vil. Among the participating artists: Francis Alÿs, David Claerbout, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Thierry De Cordier, Walter Swennen, Luc Tuymans, etc. https://www.finis-terrae-antwerpen.com/finis-terrae

Jan Vanriet, Misleading Sun, drawings and paintings at Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki, Greece. A catalogue with an essay by Martin Germann accompanies the exhibition.