Ethics, Sustainability and Creativity in the Practice of Three Artists

Griet Dobbels is a visual artist. Her artistic career started in 1996 after graduating from The Royal College of Art in London. 

Key concepts in her work are: the dialectic between grandeur and nothingness, ephemerality and timelessness, nature and culture, beauty and horror, safety and danger, chaos and control, universality and individuality. In terms of form, this content translates into various media: drawings, video installations, sculptures and happenings. Both in terms of content and form, she seeks boundaries and strives for an objectifying position. With an open attitude, she enters into very diverse collaborations. She does not shy away from shaking up expectations and uses the codes that are specific to her individual art practice for experimentation. Dobbels has exhibited at home and abroad and realized a number of notable residencies, including the most recent in Jerusalem and Ramallah (2021-2023) and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (2017-'18). Her work can be seen in a museum context, in arts centers, in public spaces or on the basis of various private initiatives.