With her installations, sculptures and graphic work, Katie Lagast conjures up a world of her own that challenges the viewer to take nothing for granted. While intuitively making visual notes of a desolate urban environment, Lagast preserves fragments of time and space that few other people would notice.

She finds her inspiration on the ground: cigarette butts, cracks, weeds, the pavement, a cobbled street and the sunlight that sweeps over it in the late afternoon. However simple her sources of inspiration may seem, Lagast transforms them into aesthetic, contemplative objects thanks to a thorough formal analysis and her admirable eye for detail.

By taking photographs of a particular moment or making silicone moulds of a particular place, Lagast rescues her personal observations from oblivion. But she only shares her impressions with her audience after a long and thorough search for the right materials and reproduction techniques. She leaves nothing to chance.

Lagast is not only romantic, she also likes to challenge the viewer’s perception. She cherishes underappreciated aspects of life and brings them to the fore in such a way that they can no longer be ignored.

Underlying this complex and varied oeuvre is a strong connecting paradox: there is nothing trivial about life, but people tend to allow themselves to be distracted by paying too much attention to banalities. Lagast constantly challenges us to question what is really worth our time—and to do so again and again...

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The work of Katie Lagast was presented in various galleries and art-spaces in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Portugal. She received subsidies from the Flemish Government, and, for her Individual Project in Arco the grant “Vitoria, Graça, Luz e Salvador Reis.” Aside of this the artist was invited for some artist-in-residences throughout Europe.

Exhibitions Individual and Duo

2025 “Tracinhos da vida” Residency of the Belgian Embassador in Lisbon
2024 “Natureza Morta Urbana Urban Stillife” ALI – Convento da Terra in Torrão
2024 “Arquivando Tempo” O Espaço – Rizoma Cultural in Barreiro
2024 “a-riscar” Casa de Avenida in Setubal with Ana Caetano
2021 “Apodidraskinda” (Hide and Seek) Casa de Avenida in Setubal 
2020 “Em Transito” Galeria Montanha in Lisboa with Henrique Neves 
2019 “Moderno Escondido” Passevite in Lisbon with Henrique Neves 
2019 “Reflected times, time reflections” Galeria Otoco in Lisbon with Carina Martins  
2018 “A Rota de Sede Uma viagem no espaço” Centro Cultural in Maçedo de Cavaleiros with Fátima Frade Reis
2018 “Cruzamentos” EspaçoAZ in Lisbon with Fátima Frade Reis
2017 “The finger that points to the moon is not the moon” Hofke Van Chantraine in Oud-Turnhout 
2016 “Mirrored Spaces” (Woot) in Antwerp an installation made in cooperation with Marta Castelo 
2016 “Kunstenaar in de Kijker” Kunst in Huis in Leuven 
2016 “Constelações” Além in Lisbon 
2013 “Spots #3” (Woot) in Antwerp 
2011 “Katie Lagast” Galerie Tsjeljoeskin in Brasschaat 
2010 “Jessie Schietecatte & Katie Lagast” Marion Decannière Gallery in Antwerp 

Group Exhibitions

2025 “O Anel do Saturno” Galeria Tereza Seabre in Lisbon
2025 “The Pencil Show” CC Zwanenberg in Heist-op-den-Berg
2024 “Lisbon Art Weekend” Fábrica das Aguas in Lisbon
2024 “Beautiful Stillness” MIA-Art in Antwerp
2023-2024 “Ar.co, um projeto na cerâmica” Museu Nacional dos Azulejos in Lisbon
2023 “Lisbon Art Weekend” Fábrica das Aguas in Lisbon
2022 “XXII Bienal International de Arte de Cerveira” in Vila Nova de Cerveira
2021 “AR – Acervo Rotativo” Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade in São Paulo 
2021 “Compost” in Steenhuize/Herzele 
2020-2021 “O gato invisible de tão preto que era” Galeria Santa Maria Maior in Lisbon 
2020 “Sem Limites” SOS Arte – Forum Maia in Maia/Porto 
2020 “Sem Limites” SOS Arte – Online (curators: António Cerveira Pinto, Margarida Sardinha, Regina Frank)
2020 “#OutofOffice” Campo&Campo In Berchem 
2019 “The Corner Piece #3” Belo Campo, Galeria Fransesco Fino in Lisbon 
2018 “Azul?” Ar.Co in Xabregas-Lisbon 
2018 “One Less Too Many” Pass7 in Lisbon 
2017 “Bolseiros e Finalistas do Arco 2016-2017” Hub Criativo in Lisbon 
2017 “XIX Bienal International de Arte de Cerveira” in Vila Nova de Cerveira 
2016 “European Triennial of Ceramics and Glass” Les Vieux Abattoires in Mons 
2015 “Bolseiros e Finalistas do Ar.Co” invited artist Museu da Cidade Pavilhão Preto in Lisbon 
2015 “Lekker Belangrijk” in Eindhoven, Den Bosch, Breda
2014 “Borg 2014” in Antwerp 
2013 “Katernen” ruimteCAESUUR in Middelburg 
2013 “Don’t Be Evil” Electron in Breda 
2013 “Sousvoire” in Hoegaarden 
2013 “Katernen” Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven 
2013 “International Ceramic exhibition” Transfo in Kortijk 
2012 “Structure” Dutch Design week in Eindhoven 
2012 “Memories” KA! in Eeklo 
2012 “Katernen” Gallery Graphies in Brussels 
2012 “Onderstroom” Wak in Koksijde 
2011 “Into The Light” Zuiderpershuis in Antwerp 
2011 “Druckgrafiken aus dem archive des Frans Masereel Centrums” Verein fûr Original-Radierung in München 
2010 “Coup de Ville” in St-Niklaas 
2010 “Error One #16 Monument” Museum Middelheim in Antwerp 

Artistic Residencies

2025 Raam103 in Gent
2023 Viarco in São João de Madeira
2023 Convento da Terra in Torrão
2022 Symposium Arte Terra in Technische Denkmal Ziegelei in Hundisburg
2022 Artist in residence in Arteventura in Aracena
2015 Artist in residence in Ar.Co in Lisbon 
2012 Artist in residence in EKWC in Den Bosch 
2010 Artist in residence in FLACC in Genk 
2010 Artist in residence in Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee 
2009 Artist in Residence “Redlight Design” Atelier Ted Noten in Amsterdam
2007-2008 Artist in residence in EKWC in Den Bosch

Education

Graphic arts in St-Maria in Antwerp 
Ceramics in St-Lucas in Gent 
Individual project in Ar.Co in Lisbon 
Teacher in the ceramic department of Ar.Co in Lisbon
Teacher in the ceramic department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Arendonk