Emile VAN HELLEPUTTE

Profile

Born in 1992 in Ghent, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels. Graduated with an MA in Contemporary Arts Practice from University of the Arts Bern, Switzerland in 2019. Emile Van Helleputte is a visual and sound artist. He obtained a MA in Contemporary Arts Practice in Bern, Switzerland during which the focus of his practice shifted from music to conceptual art. His recent activities range from exhibitions to performances and concerts.

Recent exhibitions and activities
2025 “Driedee: Hatching from Scratch,” Kunsthal Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium
2023 “Dancing on the Edge of the Etna,” n0dine, Brussels
2023 “Exploit Me,” Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten, Switzerland
2022 “An Arrangement with the Deliveryman,” White Garage, Catania, Italy
2022 “ABC and Other Fictions,” KASKO, Basel, Switzerland 

Awards
2025, Emerging talent grant, Flemish Government, Belgium
2024, Artist residency, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
2023, Artist residency, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris

About works

As a visual artist and composer with a research-based approach, I explore sound and listening in a visual arts context. Through conceptual strategies, I explore the social and institutional conditions that shape how sound is produced, mediated, and perceived. Coming from a background in improvised music, my practice has grown increasingly quiet over the years. Echoing Pierre Schaeffer, I describe my works as acousmatic objects: objects whose sound we do not hear. With the use of performance, installation and printmaking, I explore the gap between the visual and the sonic - particularly the imagined sound that bridges the two.