About

JEROEN CAVENTS


Jeroen Cavents (1992, Belgium) is a visual artist and art mediator working and living in Berlin. He graduated as a fine art educator and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at LUCA School of Arts Brussels as well as Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and holds a master’s degree in Curatorial Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts (HGB) Leipzig.

 

Since 2007, Jeroen Cavents has explored photography across architecture, documentary, fashion, and street photography. As a visual artist with a background in curatorial studies, he expands the boundaries of traditional photography by incorporating alternative techniques, sculpture, and installation, tailoring his approach to each project.


Exhibitions


 

Jeroen Cavents works across photography, installation, and sculpture, developing projects that unfold at the intersection of technique, material, concept, and location. His practice is rooted in an attentive engagement with overlooked spaces, inherited images, and modest materials, treating them as sites where meaning is not fixed but negotiated.


Each project begins from a careful balance: photographic processes are chosen for their material behavior, installations respond directly to architectural or spatial conditions, and sculptural elements emerge from the logic of the site itself. Cavents often employs analog and historical techniques, not out of nostalgia, but to foreground slowness, fragility, and transformation as active components of the work.


Time and ephemerality recur as central concerns. Images fade, surfaces shift, and materials age or disappear, mirroring the instability of memory and the layered temporalities embedded in places. Whether working with lenticular prints that change with the viewer’s movement, light-sensitive pigments derived from plants, or found archival material, Cavents positions perception as contingent and remembrance as something in flux.


Through these subtle material strategies, his work invites viewers to encounter the ordinary as a threshold—between past and present, permanence and decay, visibility and disappearance.

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Contact 

 
 
 
 

@jcavents

jeroen.cavents3@gmail.com

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