Ilke Cop

🛠️The past months, I’ve been free-sculpting forms that explore the grin as both gesture and structure. I’m thinking about the figure as an action, pushing the expansiveness of the body.🛠️ This process of sculpting, making moulds, experimenting with combinations of rubber, resin and cast elements — & assembling fragmented forms with steel and wood has been incredible and sometimes daunting. This weekend, a first preliminary result will be on view at @collectiefzijspoor during @antwerpart and can’t wait to show you! Thanks to @tatjanapietersgallery for going on this journey with me Special thanks to @brechtheytens , @hardt_bruno & Carla for their teachings and technical support

🛶Next step, Same river 🛶 This triptych belongs to a series of 6 paintings. At its core, the work critiques the cycle of erosion of human and women’s rights as well as the dangers of passive acceptance. The title of the project “Other Step, Same River” subverts the well-known adage that “you never step in the same river twice,” instead implying that while individuals evolve, the systemic forces they face remain unchanged. The invocation of Ophelia—a figure defined by surrender—stands in stark contrast to the other triptych’s energy of defiance, offering an alternative vision of resistance, which I will show at a later date. Work shown at @artbrussels with @tatjanapietersgallery - Next Step Same River III, oil on linen, 100 x 100 cm, 2025, Private Collection #ilkecop #belgianart @hans.gevaert

OPEN TODAY / ART BRUSSELS, BOOTH 5B-42 /@ria.bosman.gent , @ilkecop , @elizabeth____ibarra , @annekeeussen , @cottontweed , @indrikisgelzis , @brian__harte , @helmutstallaerts , @hans.vandekerckhove , @maedessauvage / Visit us in @artbrussels until 26 April! This year at Art Brussels, we present a group exhibition featuring gallery artists - Ilke Cop, Mae Dessauvage, Anneke Eussen, Indrikis Gelzis, Brian Harte, Elizabeth Ibarra, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Helmut Stallaerts and Hans Vandekerckhove. The solo booth is dedicated to a presentation of works by Ria Bosman. We look forward to welcoming you! See you soon at Art Brussels. Works visible on the photos by @ilkecop , @ria.bosman.gent , @indrikisgelzis , @brian__harte IMAGE Installation view of Booth nr 5B-42, TATJANA PIETERS, 2026 Photo by @wedocumentart #maedessauvage #artbrussels #tatjanapietersgallery #ilkecop #annekeeussen

💛Happy Boothing @artbrussels 💛 Find us @tatjanapietersgallery until Sunday 26.04 alongside @ria.bosman.gent @helmutstallaerts @maedessauvage @brian__harte @hans.vandekerckhove @elizabeth____ibarra @cottontweed @indrikisgelzis

ILKE COP - Atelier in beeld Le 2 et 3 mai de 11h à 18h 151 rue de Grand Bigard - 1601 Sint-Pieters-Leeuw @ilkecop

☀️This week in @quotidiendelart thanks to collector @axel_geerts : A throwback to my solo presentation The Fool in the House @artbrussels Antwerp… … and a prelude to this years’ Art Brussels fair where I will be showing a variety of works with @tatjanapietersgallery alongside @ria.bosman.gent @helmutstallaerts @maedessauvage @brian__harte @hans.vandekerckhove @elizabeth____ibarra @cottontweed @indrikisgelzis

ART BRUSSELS, BOOTH 5B-42 / @ilkecop in @artbrussels / Visit us in Brussels between 23 to 26 April! This year at Art Brussels, we will present a group exhibition featuring gallery artists, including Ilke Cop and paintings from the series Other Step, Same River. The solo booth will be dedicated to a presentation of works by Ria Bosman. We look forward to welcoming you! See you soon at Art Brussels. IMAGES: Ilke Cop, Other Step, Same River III, 2025 Oil on linen, 100 x 100 cm, unique #ilkecop #artbrussels #tatjanapieters

🌟Coup de Théâtre. A Play of Clay🌟 is open now in @abbykortrijk Museum The exhibition will run till 13.09.2026 Grateful to be included alongside
@athosburez , Gustave de Jonghe, @ugisalbins @nickcaveofficial , @william.cobbing , @eric.croes , @loucruard , @maenflorin , @bartgielen999 , @daangielis , @beatriceguilleman , @helena_hafemann , @jessicaharrisonstudio , @katoherbots , @beatehoeing , @eleonorejoulin , @mirthekluck , @joke__raes , @augustasserapinas , @studiowiekisomers , @roelandtweelinckx , @sharon_0v0_ , @jonasvansteenkiste , @goedelvermandere & @anne_wenzel — and in conversation with the past. Many thanks to @sarahkeymeulen & @klararowaert Installation views @wedocumentart

🌟Honoured to be part of Coup de Théâtre. A Play of Clay at Abby Museum 🌟 This exhibition brings together historical ceramics from the Abby collection with contemporary practices, unfolding the theatrical potential of clay across time. To show my work in dialogue with such a wide range of voices—each approaching material, transformation, and gesture differently—feels both grounding and expansive. Grateful to be included alongside
@athosburez , Gustave de Jonghe, @ugisalbins @nickcaveofficial , @william.cobbing , @eric.croes , @loucruard , @maenflorin , @bartgielen999 , @daangielis , @beatriceguilleman , @helena_hafemann , @jessicaharrisonstudio , @katoherbots , @beatehoeing , @eleonorejoulin , @mirthekluck , @joke__raes , @augustasserapinas , @studiowiekisomers , @roelandtweelinckx , @sharon_0v0_ , @jonasvansteenkiste , @goedelvermandere & @anne_wenzel — and in conversation with the past. 03.04 - 13.09.2026 @abbykortrijk Many thanks to @sarahkeymeulen & @klararowaert

🎧Join us on a two hour trip through my favourite records from my vinyl collection. @eric_verberdt provided company and drinks. 🎧 “Ilke Cop is a visual artist, art historian, and by her own account: a true hippie. She describes her work as windows — images with which she wants to catch a viewer in an interpretation. Her selection meanders from the urgency of Brel, past the fragile beauty of Nina Simone, to the bombast of Verdi. In between: female voices rewriting the rules. Emma Hessels, Aldous Harding, Joanna Newsom. We talk about the human condition. About feminism and equality. About what music does to your work when you are alone in the studio. And somewhere halfway through, I pour a Martinez — the 19th-century predecessor of the Martini. Layered and complex, just like Ilke’s work: old material in a totally contemporary form.” - @eric_verberdt °Jacques Brel - J’arrive - 1968 °Nina Simone - Ne me quitte pas - 1973 °@EmmaHessels - Constant Distance - 2025 °Verdi - Rigoletto - recorded in 1965 by the Rome Opera House Orchestra °Boudewijn De Groot - Picknick - 1968 °@AldousHarding - Party - 2017 °@KateBushmusic - The Dreaming - 1982 °@kaetempest - The Book of Traps and Lessons - 2019 °Joanna Newsom - Have one on Me - 2010 °@Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie - 1998 °@JoniMitchell - Nightride Home - 1991 > link in bio @urgent.fm

👁️WASWASWAS👁️ presents work that echoes other images. This can be through the reappropriation of an image or specifically inspired by a distinct style or theme. The exhibition features work by @brinkmannthorsten @IlkeCop , @thomas.decuypere , @yvanderweduwe , @denicolai_provoost , @bartgielen999 , @victorledure , @nadia_naveau , @paulrog.artist , @herr_seele , @mathias.spriet & @tinusvermeersch . Organised by Tuur de Lodder Text by @johanlaethem . Installation views Tom De Visscher On view : Grace III & IV , porcelain, polymer clay, oil on oak panel, 2025 🕰️ 27.02 - 21.03 @kunstacademie_tielt 💸free admission 🗣️THU 12.03, 19h30 @laphasique @schoolofartsgent

🤩Happy to be giving a lecture about my practice at @sask_turnhout . 🤩 I will talk about my personal experience with looking at art and creating with a special focus on the artists who went before. 🫀THU 12.02 8 pm 📍Turnova - Academieplein 17, 2300 Turnhout 🧠In Dutch 💵Tickets at 6 euro, send an email to [email protected] 📸 Jef van Eynde