groupshow, Botanic Garden, Meise
info: website Cultuurvuur
groupshow, Gallery Sofie Van den Bussche, Brussels
info: sofievandenbussche.be
groupshow on digital screens, New York
Delen Private Bank Hasselt in collab with Uitstalling Art Gallery
info: Delen.Art
Groupshow, Wechelderzande
SOLO, CC De Markthallen, Herk-de-Stad
°Koersel, 1969
The visual artist An Vanderlinden was born in a coal miner’s family of “het zwarte Beringen” (Black Beringen) – a former mine region in the Belgian province Limburg. She adores the colour black. And coal as well. It couldn’t be different. She developed her own paint from the coal taken from the conveyor belts in Beringen’s old mining venues: a transparent glossy brown one and the blackest black paint existing. Applicating the paint layer by layer and combining it with rough pieces of coal, she is creating not only an effect of depth, but bringing light shades and a diversity of structure and brightness in her paintings as well. Her paintings are transforming themselves by changing the angle of view.
Her art definitely shows a link with the past. But her art also can be considered as the imperishable developed from transience. The coal left on the conveyors of the mine venue, gets a new future. Darkness is brought up to the light. A bright future, as bright as the light reflected by the coal.
16 mag – 05/2026: An Vanderlinden
Below all in dutch:
Kunstflaneur – 09/02/2025 : Zwart dat spreekt, de poëtische donkerte van An Vanderlinden
kM Magazine #131 – 09/2024 : Kunstenaarsonderzoek van An Vanderlinden
TV Limburg – 25/08/2024 : An Vanderlinden exposeert met Man Moved Mountains in Le Charbonnage in Genk: “We moeten met z’n allen bergen durven verzetten”
Bodem en Kunst – 06/2024 : Het zwartste zwart uit Beringen
VRT Radio 2 – 13/02/2019 : Mijnwerkersdochter maakt kunst met steenkool
VRT Radio 2 – 13/02/2019 : interview op Limburg Vandaag
Internetgazet – 11/02/2019 : An Vanderlinden tovert met “Charbon de Beringen”
Radio Demerstad – 07/02/2019 : Interview door Willem Doreleijers
Het Laatste Nieuws – 05/02/2019 : An Vanderlinden schildert met steenkool
Internetgazet – 25/07/2018 : An Vanderlinden schildert met steenkool
TV Limburg – 25/07/2018 :
TVL, the regional TV station came to visit AnV during her Artist Residency in the former coalmine of Beringen. Video in dutch : kunstenares maakt schilderijen in oude mijngebouwen Beringen
