About
Janne Gistelinck is a textile artist born (1996) and raised in Ghent (Belgium). She studied at LUCA School of Arts. In 2019 she received her Master degree in fine arts with a specialisation in textile design. Her main medium is the jacquard weaving technique.
Gistelincks' artworks cover an extensive narrative of corporeality and it’s connections with the environment. The contrast between the ideal of the endless manipulability of the human body and the human struggle with the acceptance of the vulnerable body is an important starting point to create her oeuvre. The body is for Gistelinck a source of anatomic fascination. From this experience she asks questions surrounding the relationship humans have with their body and how this becomes visible in scientific images and popular commercial images.
Through the medium of collage she manipulates these found images of the body, alongside images of landscapes, animals and technology. Searching for the place where the images can merge and become one identity and one movement. The photographic and digital nature of these collages are transformed into tactile woven tapestries, that balance between both figurative and very abstract.
Contact
CV
Exhibitions
2026
Interlaced grounds, group exhibition, Ghent, Belgium.
Playgrounds, group exhibition, Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium.
Post Creatura, Duo exhibition with Sien Godderis, NotYourMuse Artist-run space, Belgium.
Playgrounds DEUCE Plus-one projects, group exhibition during Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, Belgium.
BADDAF, Vanlandeghem Gallery, Belgium.
SHE’S GONE, group exhibition, Verbeke Foundation, Belgium.
2025
Curiousity Never Killed a Cat, CAS Zottegem,Belgium.
Subtiel Textiel Voorbij De Keerzijde, group exhibition, De Weverij, Belgium.
Fragments, group exhibition, Galerie Drie, Belgium.
Not Your Muse, group exhibition, Belgium.
Mycelium Connections Vol.2, group exhibition, Belgium.
2024
Mycelium Connections, group exhibition, Belgium.
Curator: Eleni Papadopoulou
Accomondating Realities, group exhibition, Belgium,
Terra Incognita, solo exhibition, ShowShow DIY Gallery, Belgium.
2023
Meetings under the Sun, group exhibition, Belgium.
House of Bones, group exhibition, PARLOR, Belgium.
2022
Solo exhibition, Park Side Gallery, Belgium.
Vitrines D’amour, Belgium.
2021
BUY LOCAL #2, group exhibition, Kunsthal Ghent, Belgium.
100% Textile, Group exhibition, Industrial museum (MIAT), Belgium.
Art Ghent (A total performance), group exhibition, Belgium.
Curator: Ben Benaouisse.
Een kaart zonder zee, solo exhibition, Belgium.
Curator: Zuzanna Rachowska.
Salon Des Jeunes, group exhibition, Museum for Fine Arts, Belgium.
2019
Hotel Insomnia, group exhibition, The Netherlands.
Tell, Don’t Show, group exhibition, Belgium.
ENJOY, group exhibition, Belgium.
Exhibition Performance, European Media Art Festival, Germany.
SLOW (36h), performance, concertgebouw, Bruges, Belgium.
Correspondans, group exhibition, Belgium.
Voor de kat zijn viool, group exhibition, Belgium.
2018
Hotel Insomnia, group exhibition, The Netherlands.
Overlappend, group exhibition, Belgium.
Underverk, group exhibition, Galleri Hamnmagasinet, Sweden.
Residences
2021
Industriemuseum, Ghent, Belgium.
2019
Haus Der Jugend, Osnabrück, Germany.
Education
2019
Master in de beeldende kunsten, specialisatie textielontwerp, LUCA School of Arts, Gent, Belgium.
Erasmus: HDK, Academy for Design and Crafts, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Janne Gistelinck is a textile artist born (1996) and raised in Ghent (Belgium). She studied at LUCA School of Arts. In 2019 she received her Master degree in fine arts with a specialisation in textile design. Her main medium is the jacquard weaving technique.
Gistelincks' artworks cover an extensive narrative of corporeality and it’s connections with the environment. The contrast between the ideal of the endless manipulability of the human body and the human struggle with the acceptance of the vulnerable body is an important starting point to create her oeuvre. The body is for Gistelinck a source of anatomic fascination. From this experience she asks questions surrounding the relationship humans have with their body and how this becomes visible in scientific images and popular commercial images.
Through the medium of collage she manipulates these found images of the body, alongside images of landscapes, animals and technology. Searching for the place where the images can merge and become one identity and one movement. The photographic and digital nature of these collages are transformed into tactile woven tapestries, that balance between both figurative and very abstract.
Contact
CV
Exhibitions
2026
Interlaced grounds, group exhibition, Ghent, Belgium.
Playgrounds, group exhibition, Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium.
Post Creatura, Duo exhibition with Sien Godderis, NotYourMuse Artist-run space, Belgium.
Playgrounds DEUCE Plus-one projects, group exhibition during Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, Belgium.
BADDAF, Vanlandeghem Gallery, Belgium.
SHE’S GONE, group exhibition, Verbeke Foundation, Belgium.
2025
Curiousity Never Killed a Cat, CAS Zottegem,Belgium.
Subtiel Textiel Voorbij De Keerzijde, group exhibition, De Weverij, Belgium.
Fragments, group exhibition, Galerie Drie, Belgium.
Not Your Muse, group exhibition, Belgium.
Mycelium Connections Vol.2, group exhibition, Belgium.
2024
Mycelium Connections, group exhibition, Belgium.
Curator: Eleni Papadopoulou
Accomondating Realities, group exhibition, Belgium,
Terra Incognita, solo exhibition, ShowShow DIY Gallery, Belgium.
2023
Meetings under the Sun, group exhibition, Belgium.
House of Bones, group exhibition, PARLOR, Belgium.
2022
Solo exhibition, Park Side Gallery, Belgium.
Vitrines D’amour, Belgium.
2021
BUY LOCAL #2, group exhibition, Kunsthal Ghent, Belgium.
100% Textile, Group exhibition, Industrial museum (MIAT), Belgium.
Art Ghent (A total performance), group exhibition, Belgium.
Curator: Ben Benaouisse.
Een kaart zonder zee, solo exhibition, Belgium.
Curator: Zuzanna Rachowska.
Salon Des Jeunes, group exhibition, Museum for Fine Arts, Belgium.
2019
Hotel Insomnia, group exhibition, The Netherlands.
Tell, Don’t Show, group exhibition, Belgium.
ENJOY, group exhibition, Belgium.
Exhibition Performance, European Media Art Festival, Germany.
SLOW (36h), performance, concertgebouw, Bruges, Belgium.
Correspondans, group exhibition, Belgium.
Voor de kat zijn viool, group exhibition, Belgium.
2018
Hotel Insomnia, group exhibition, The Netherlands.
Overlappend, group exhibition, Belgium.
Underverk, group exhibition, Galleri Hamnmagasinet, Sweden.
Residences
2021
Industriemuseum, Ghent, Belgium.
2019
Haus Der Jugend, Osnabrück, Germany.
Education
2019
Master in de beeldende kunsten, specialisatie textielontwerp, LUCA School of Arts, Gent, Belgium.
Erasmus: HDK, Academy for Design and Crafts, Gothenburg, Sweden.