Pourtraying Uilenspiegel

Exhibition

Over several centuries, Tijl Uilenspiegel took on manifold guises, both in text and image. Few other characters emulate him, defying time like a shapeshifter like that! Anno 2024-25 second-year Illustration students at LUCA School of Arts created their own version of Tijl. The young artists each had their own approach. Sometimes the images and text fragments stay close to the old stories, sometimes Tijl takes on a fresh persona and is the trigger for inventing new characters and worlds.

This spring, the Uilenspiegel Museum will show a selection of their works in the Spiegelzaal. Expect a collection of images as colourful as Uilenspiegel himself: sketches and posters, bright cheerfulness and sombre melancholy, pencil and paint, etchings and linocuts ...

Participating artists

Works by Alice De Meulenaere, Aysha Saidy, Celestine De Cock, Floor Mechant, Hadewich Van Samang, Indy Verstraete, Isabella Ulfelder, Jarne Bex, Jolien Galoppin, Joséphine Desomviele, Laura Allali, Laura Penninga, Lore De Munter, Luna Tanaka, Lynn Weyns, Maui Vanhandsaeme, Mirthe Muylle, Nel Rammant, Nick Moens, Otto Niemegeers, Petra Van Houtte, Phara De Wilde, Sophia Agafonov, Stan Sanders, Stephanie Fockedey and Tijn Vermassen.

Organisation

Under the supervision of Brecht Vandenbroucke, Carla Swerts, Jan Peeters, Michaël Bussaer en Victor Verhelst. Thanks to Han Decorte and Jan Hutsebaut.

With Uilenspiegel Museum, Damme

Credits

Design: Victor Verhelst

Image: Laura Penninga