Sybren Vanoverberghe (b. 1996, BE) is an artist who lives and works in Belgium. Vanoverberghe has had recent solo exhibitions at Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp (BE), Deweer Gallery, Otegem (BE), UZ Brussels (BE), Die Plek (US), CC De Factorij, Zaventem (BE), Cadogan Gallery, Milan (IT) and Stieglitz19, Antwerp (BE). He had two-person exhibitions at De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL), Contretype, Brussels (BE), Barbé Gallery, Ghent (BE), Ontsteking, Ghent (BE). His works have been shown at various fairs such as the Paris Photo Fair (FR); Miart (IT), Art Brussels (BE), Art Cologne (DE) and the Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam (NL). Vanoverberghe’s works are published in artist books such as 2099 (2018), Conference of the Birds (2019), 1099 (2020), Sandcastles and Rubbish (2021), Desert Spirals (2023), MUSA (2024) by Art Paper Editions (BE). He participated to residencies in South-Africa with SAFFCA, in the Netherlands with Kunstfort Vijfhuizen and in Italy with Ardesia Projects. His works are included in the public collection of the Flemish Government – FoMu, Antwerp, BE. Vanoverberghe received his MFA from The School of Arts – KASK in Ghent, (BE).
His first monograph will be published by Art Paper Editions in 2026 and launched at Paris Photo in November, accompanied by a solo exhibition at Be-Part, opening March 2027.
Sybren Vanoverberghe works with photography, installations, structures, and found objects, exploring landscapes and the traces they carry to show how place and time are always in flux. His work examines how histories are embedded in terrain, revealing the ways in which cultural memory, material presence, and natural processes intersect. Over recent years, experiments with printing and framing techniques and a wide range of materials have become an integral part of his practice, extending photography into physical form and frequently blurring the boundaries between image, object, and installation.
Vanoverberghe has developed his work across Europe, West Asia, and Egypt, where he studies how landscapes function as witnesses to cultural continuity, displacement, and transformation. Whether engaging with sites in Europe shaped by overlapping historical, political, and material processes, landscapes across West Asia marked by long-standing cultural and geopolitical entanglements, or locations in Egypt bearing extended continuities of human presence, his practice reflects on how human activity and natural forces continuously shape one another over time. His images often appear both familiar and temporally ambiguous, evoking histories that may never have fully existed while simultaneously pointing toward possible futures. This tension lends his work an anachronistic quality, situated between past and future at once. In his books and installations, Vanoverberghe approaches sites in a cyclical and non-linear manner, situating them beyond fixed or singular geographic readings and placing them within broader narratives of time, memory, and material transformation. Ultimately, his work invites viewers to reflect on the dual nature of images: whether they function as documents of what once was, or as speculative spaces for what might still emerge.
Photographer
Belgium, 09 / 2026