2024

Book launch @ CASSTL Gallery Antwerp

2024 April 24

I am more than happy to share the first Book-launch event during Antwerp Art Weekend at CASSTL Gallery, together with Sine Van Menxel and Jesse Siegel.

CASSTL is an artist initiative founded and run by Carla Arocha, Stéphane Schraenen and Luc Tuymans and is located in Antwerp's harbor neighborhood.

Vernissage Thu 16 May from 18:00
Braziliëstraat 27, 2000 Antwerpen.

Open daily from 12:00 - 18:00

Book release COME CLEAN

2024 April 04

"A Journey of Liberation and Desire". The Belgian artist and photographer presents visual erotic poetry in his first ever monograph. Obsessive, fetishistic and unapologetically queer, Yves de Brabander’s work references religious imagery and classical masters, as well as arthouse cinema and Film Noir.

In four chapters the viewer witnesses how the male body serves as Yves de Brabander’s canvas. The deliberate act of getting dirty on his handcolored charcoal backdrop becomes a catalyst for acceptance, sexual identity, lust and desire in our ever-changing society.

Preface with introduction by Slava Mogutin

Designed & published by Paper Affairs Publishers
Printed in Austria by Gerin Druck GmbH

Publication date: April 2024

152 pages, 158 images / 23,5 x 33 cm / Softcover - Swiss binding
First edition: 400 copies / ISBN: 978-3-9504709-7-0 / English

ORDER HERE

Exposición colectiva CARNE SAGRADA

2024 February 03

Groupshow curated by Slava Mogutin at Manos Amigues, Mexico City
Opening February 2nd at 6pm

with Gio Black Peter, Matt Lambert, Bruce LaBruce, Slava Mogutin, Stuart Sandford and many more
Screening of "Plains of Native Rites" (for Cedric Jacquemyn, 2013)

2023

KAVLA #3 Slaughterhouse

2023 December 22

KAVLA is an independent publication of The Queer Archive. Editors Konstantinos Menelaou, Florian Hetz and Olivia Typaldos invited artists, writers, poets and thinkers to submit work on the theme of slaughterhouse seen through a queer lens looking for darkness, light, brutality, gentleness, rawness, and emotion... With contributions of Slava Mogutin, Fausto, George Kanis, Johnny Abbate, Stuart Sandford, Yves de Brabander, and many more...

My Gay Eye - Mein schwules Auge #20 Uncensored

2023 November 29

My Gay Eye - Mein schwules Auge has been published annually since 2003 by Rinaldo hopf and his team. This 20th jubileum edition is focussing on this new censorship and restrictions we encounter on social media platforms in recent years.
You can find my works —from Bring the Boys back Home series— on pages 372 and further, amongst other artists as Johnny Abbate, Kostis Fokas, Brian Kenny, Slava Mogutin, Aaron Moth, Stuart Sandford, Peter Schmid, Stanley Stellar, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tom of Finland, Jürgen Wittdorf and many more...

ETHOS-PATHOS installation at instinct.berlin

2023 September 16

My installation at the Désir groupshow at instinct.berlin.

Works included:
"Hunting for Memories", Selfportrait with Cédric. Antwerp 2008/2021. Laserprint, pigment and varnish on Elwood artpanel.
"Ethos - Pathos", a Self-reflection. Antwerp 2022. Inkjet, laserprint, pigment and varnish on Hahnemuhle Bamboo Fine Art paper.
"Self-Castration", a mutilated selfportrait. Antwerp 2023. Torn inkjet, laserprint, pigment and varnish on Hahnemuhle Bamboo Fine Art paper.

What is Desire? Part 2

2023 September 10

Sundayafternoon panel talk with the artists about their work and inspiration around the theme of desire.
underneath: me, Gio Black Peter, Sacha Cambier de Montravel, Nicky Miller, Slava Mogutin & Annique Delphine.

What is Desire? Talk with Durk Dehner

2023 September 08

Interesting talk with Durk Dehner and Richard Villani of the Tom of Finland Foundation and the participating artists about Desire and Kinks

Vernissage Désir groupshow at instinct.berlin

2023 September 07

Big opening of the groupshow at instinct.berlin i have curated with Eric LeRouge.

instinct #14: DÉSIR - groupshow
curated by Yves de Brabander and Eric LeRouge

2023 September 01

Collective exhibition running from 7 to 16 September 2023 at instinct.berlin

Featuring works by Slava Mogutin, Florian Hetz, Gio Black Peter, Jack Davey, Sacha Cambier de Montravel, Annique Delphine, Nicky Miller, Lukasz Leja, Stuart Sandford, Wayne Lucas and many many others.

Vernissage Thursday 07 September at 18:00
Talk with Durk Dehner and Richard Villani (Tom of Finland Foundation) - Fri 08 September
Filmscreening of Matt Lambert, Mathieu et Léolo, Hanna Schaich and Bruce LaBruce - Sat 09 September

CRAP ZINE #2
at Tom of Finland Arts&Culture Festival London

2023 July 23

Unfortunately I am in Italy during the event, but Anthony Campbell of Crap Zine made sure my work was presented at the event at the Standard.

GAY PROPAGANDA, curated by Slava Mogutin
at Freiluft Kino Kreuzberg

2023 July 06

Screening at Freiluft Kino Kreuzberg, (Berlin, DE) curated by Slava Mogutin, introduced by Bruce LaBruce and Matt Lambert.

Featuring short films by Kris Canavan, Christeene, Harry Clayton-Wright, Yves De Brabander, David Hoyle, Dominic Johnson, Brian Kenny, Bruce LaBruce, Mathieu & Leolo, Matt Lambert, Murphy Maxwell, Daniel McKernan, Slava Mogutin, No Bra, Patriarchy, Peaches, PJ Raval, A.L. Steiner, Vaginal Davis, Lex Vaughn and David Wilson.

The title refers to the infamous Gay Propaganda-law adopted in Russia in 2013, which unleashed a wave of homophobic attacks and legislations in many parts of the former Soviet Union and across Eastern Europe.

CRAP ZINE #2 - GREY MARL

2023 June 09

A selection of new works from my COME CLEAN series has been published in the 2nd edition of CRAP Zine by PARC LONDON, edited by Paul and Anthony Rawson-Campbell.

CRAP Zine No2 launched at Paris Ass Book Fair (PABF) at Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR) 09 - 11 June 2023.

Finalist 2023 Nobuyoshi Araki Awards

2023 May 25

Works from "Shadows of Doubt" and "Bring the Boys back Home, pt II" have been selected for the 2023 Nobuyoshi Araki MA-g Awards for photography. The works have been automatically added to the permanent collection of Museum of Avant-Garde, Switzerland.

"SOME LIKE IT ROUGH" found a new home in Berlin

2023 May 19

Very happy to share that my work Some like it Rough (Antwerp, 2005) has found a new home at instinct.berlin.
The news was officially announced this morning by instinct chairman Eric LeRouge.

PNPPL ZINE #8

2023 May 18

A selection of new works from my SHADOWS OF DOUBT series has been published
over 8 pages in the latest PNPPL Zine by Ben Szabo.

PORNCEPTUAL

2023 May 16

A selection of works commissioned by SENSOA that were on display during the latest An AIDS Walkthrough groupshow at instinct.berlin have been published today on Pornceptual.

TOM OF FINLAND ART&CULTURE FESTIVAL - BERLIN

2023 May 15

My installation currently on display at the Tom of Finland Art&Culture Festival 2023 - Berlin edition.

"My goal with the Art&Culture Festival is to pave the way for the next generation of queer and erotic artists while expanding to more cities and communities around the world," says Festival lead and ToFF Creative Director Richard Villani in Kaltblut Magazine. "This year Berlin will host the festival at The Knast for its first German iteration. Housed in a historic women’s prison, this is the first time prideART Berlin will participate in the Festival. An additional programm will occur in Berlin around the Festival."

Other artists in this show are Johnny Abbate, Gerardo Vizmanos, Mike D'Hondt, Carlos Enfedaque, Rinaldo Hopf, Spyros Rennt, Fausto, Rick Castro, Andreas Fux, ...

TOM OF FINLAND ART&CULTURE FESTIVAL - BERLIN ANNOUNCED

2023 April 22

TOFF announced the very first Berlin edition of the festival ánd my participation in Tom of Finland's Art and Culture Festival. 12-14 May 2023 at The Knast. Söhtstraße 7, 12203 Berlin.

installation at instinct #12 An AIDS Walkthrough

2023 April 11

Group show curated by Eric Lerouge and Samuel Perea Diaz. Instinct - Kurfürstenstraße 31/32, Berlin.

Some images of my installation: Selection of commissioned works for SENSOA 2004/2009.
(Sensoa is the Flemish expertise centre for Sexual Health and HIV Prevention)

VERNISSAGE instinct #12 An AIDS Walkthrough

2023 April 06

Group show curated by Eric Lerouge and Samuel Perea Diaz. Instinct - Kurfürstenstraße 31/32, Berlin.

Opening April 6th at 18h — running until April 16th.

Artists: Judy Dunaway, Yves de Brabander, Dodi Espinosa, Kurt Von Bley, Enad Marouf, Carlos Enfedaque, Constantin Hartenstein, Regis Samba-Kounzi, Manuel Solano and others.

Including a selection of works for SENSOA 2004-2009.

instinct #12 An AIDS Walkthrough

2023 March 25

Group show curated by Eric Lerouge and Samuel Perea Diaz. Instinct - Kurfürstenstraße 31/32, Berlin.

Opening April 6th at 18h — running until April 16th.

Artists: Judy Dunaway, Yves de Brabander, Dodi Espinosa, Kurt Von Bley, Enad Marouf, Carlos Enfedaque, Constantin Hartenstein, Regis Samba-Kounzi, Manuel Solano and others.

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! At worldpride Sydney

2023 February 23

Boys! Boys! Boys! exhibition curated by Ghislain Pascal, during World Pride in Sydney Australia.

An exhibition of works by 62 queer and gay photographers at Working Dog Gallery in Sydney, opening Thursday 23 February thru 11 March.

Works by Johnny Abbate, Yves De Brabander, Alejo Dillor, Michael Epps, Stéphane Gizard, Greg Gorman, Florian Hetz, Dmitry Komissarenko, Richard Kranzin, Leo Maki, Tyler Udall, Ruben van Schalm, Luis Venegas, Gerardo Vizmanos, Shen Wei, ...

Remote collaboration with Yasha Zhylin

2023 January 03

Yasha Zhylin is a model, dancer and young creative from Kyiv, Ukraine.

They mailed me some photographs they took in Kyiv and I printed and worked on them in Antwerp.

2022

THE GUTUG ARE TAKING OVER THE ASYLUM

2022 DECEMBER 02

Group show curated by Dr David Cooper. Gallery Hole - Asylum Studio's, Bentwaters Park, Suffolk, GB.

Opening December 9th — Exhibition dates 10th December to 21st December 2022.

Featuring: David Cooper, Yves De Brabander, Doesn't Exist Magazine, E.L. Kludge, Shalva Nikvashvili, John Robinson, Harry Hugo Little, Wayne Lucas and many others.

Including Scan 41 and Scan 03, from Scanning Thoughts - Antwerp 2022. Giclee on Hahnemuhle Baryta Satine.

GAY PROPAGANDA, curated by Slava Mogutin

2022 OCTOBER 07

Film program curated by Slava Mogutin. Introduced by Matt Lambert.

Featuring: Christeene, Yves De Brabander, Brian Kenny, Bruce LaBruce, Matt Lambert, Slava Mogutin, Peaches, Mathieu & Lélo, Vaginal Davis, Lex Vaughn, and many others.

Including my shorts Biscaya (2015) and Based on a true Story (2013)

Organisation Tom of Finland Foundation

BOYS!BOYS!BOYS! VOL 04

2022 AUGUST 01

A selection from Bring the Boys back Home published in Vol 4 of Boys!Boys!Boys!

Editor Ghislain Pascal. Publication by The Little Black Gallery, London.

ETHOS-PATHOS on Pornceptual

2022 JUNE 07

PORNCEPTUAL features my selfportrait series Ethos-Pathos.
(Scanned / Inkjet, pigment and laserprint on paper. 33 x 48 cm)

Bring the Boys back Home exhibition

2022 JANUARY 30

Exhibition by The Little Black Gallery, London. 30 January - 25 February 2022

ARTIST OF THE MONTH at Boys!Boys!Boys!

2022 JANUARY 29

Questions & Answers session with Ghislain Pascal for Boys! Boys! Boys!
the online art platform by The Little Black Gallery, London.

2021

Some works from Łukasz series came back home!

2021 NOVEMBER 26

C-Type prints from Łukasz (KRAKOW, 2008) which were on display at East Village Boys and
Munch Gallery NYC, are back in Antwerp. Made them available now on my shop page.

Limited edition handmade booklet for CEDRIC JACQUEMYN

2021 OCTOBER 16

Finished a handmade & handprinted booklet in 50 copies for launch of
Cedric Jacquemyn SS22 collection "YOU, ME AND a DISASTER".

Come Clean collaboration with The SkinnyType

2021 JULY 05

Martin aka The Skinnytype did some digital collages with images from my Come Clean series - asking me to do the same again on them afterwards.
I decided to reverse his digital interventions back to analogue works.

interview and portfolio in FACTS Zine

2021 JUNE 29

10 page publication of some of my more recent works in FACTS Zine.
Along an intimate questions and answers session with Chris.

SHADOWS OF DOUBT on PNPPL

2021 JUNE 15

Big selection of 11 works published on PNPPL.

Portrait of Cedric and interview in NVRMIND Paper #13

2021 MARCH 25

For his "Come as you are" issue Dmitry Komissarenko asked me to portray my muse, my soulmate.

I chose a portrait of my partner, Antwerp fashiondesigner,
Cedric Jacquemyn, accompanied with a text about our relation and creative collaborations.

The ghost of Avant-Garde

2021 MARCH 16

Some works for CEDRIC JACQUEMYN, including Here is no Border only Dust, published in
The Gost of Avant-Garde by Adriana Lacko.

A heavy compendium published by A8 Zagreb, Croatia.

First works from COME CLEAN project on Pornceptual

2021 MARCH 06

First works of my new "Come Clean" project was published on Pornceptual.

Works with Nathan and Aaron. Antwerp 2021.

2020

Now available on boysboysboys.org

2020 DECEMBER 18

"We are delighted to welcome Belgian photographer Yves De Brabander to Boys! Boys! Boys!
View his available artworks at www.boysboysboys.org
including this 'Untitled scene from Villa T (Antwerp, 2007)'