Veronik Willems 'Behaviorisms’

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Rufus Gallery, Land van Waaslaan 58, 9040 Gent

05.09.2026 — 11.10.2026

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In her first solo exhibition at Rufus Gallery, Veronik Willems examines the unpredictable nature of human behaviour.

The title alludes to behaviourism, but just as much to our own behaviours and aberrations.

Willems’ works are, in fact, portraits without quite intending to be. An eye, a grin, a body that seems

almost to burst from the canvas: with just a few brushstrokes, abstraction shifts towards a character, an emotion,

a possible story. What these figures are thinking or feeling remains deliberately obscure.

Behaviourisms thus plays an ambiguous game between form and the human, stimulus and response, recognition and confusion.

For human behaviour rarely follows the manual.

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