Veronika Eberhart
Alles pelt zich

In her exhibition Alles pelt zich, Veronika Eberhart presents new work unfolding the layered relationship between materials such as solid wood, veneer, and the machines and tools of woodworking themselves. Removed from their original function, the pieces displayed shift from being utilitarian devices to possessing autonomous existence, hovering between object and sacred presence. Fine incisions and nuanced gestures prompt questions of aesthetics, interiority, and personal experience.

With subtle surface interventions and manual processes, Eberhart considers how labor, design, and memory inscribe themselves into matter. Her works resist fixed interpretations and evoke an extimacy of space, where intimacy and distance blur.

About Veronika Eberhart

Veronika Eberhart is an artist, musician, and researcher working at the intersection of sculpture, text, sound, and moving image. Her practice evolves through speculative gestures, navigating the space between archive and fiction. Grounded in feminist and class-based theories, her work draws on a background in sociology (University of Vienna and Copenhagen) and fine arts (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna).

Her recent book Garten sprengen (Spector Books, 2024) accompanied the solo exhibition at IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art. Other solo shows include Kunsthalle Feldbach (2023), Kunsthalle Graz (2022), Bazament Art Space, Tirana (2018), and Neue Galerie Graz (2017). She has participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as HKW Berlin, MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles), Kunsthalle Vienna, Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, and A-Gallery, Tokyo, among others. Eberhart was awarded the Schindler Scholarship at the MAK Center in Los Angeles (2019) and completed the WIELS residency in Brussels (2020).

Practical information

• Opening: 18.10.2025, 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
• Open daily from 12 pm to 6 pm until 21.12.2025
• Free entrance
• Louis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Discover more

• Download the exhibition text
• Zustand, interview of Veronika Eberhart by Kris Pint
• On the Bookshelf, a selection of books by Veronika Eberhart
• When dogs dream of what they don’t have, review of the exhibition by Samira Alirezabeigi
  

Pictures of the exhibition: © Isabelle Arthuis & Thomas Hitchcock

Parallel program

November 10, 2025, 8 p.m.:

Screening of films by Friedl Kubelka/vom Gröller, followed by a conversation with Friedl Kubelka/vom Gröller and Veronika Eberhart at Art Cinema OFFoff, Kunsthal Gent.

November 11, 2025, 8 p.m.:

Screening of Impatience (1928) by Charles Dekeukeleire and 9 is one and 10 is none (2017) by Veronika Eberhart at Art Cinema OFFoff, Kunsthal Gent.