About
I love happy accidents… please share yours with me!
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Hello, world! 🌍 My name is Victor Gybels (b. 1996, Uccle, Belgium). I began my practice in sound art, creating installations and performances, and have since expanded into visual work, including experimental photography and video. Music is a central part of my practice; I run In Unison, a label dedicated to experimental/electronic music, and have released music on various labels.
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Do you want to ask me something? Do you want to send me music, poetry, or other things you’ve made? Do you want to work together, online or in ‘real’ life? e-mail me.
Artistic CV
group exhibitions
2026 What did you pass on to me, Galeries Le Bailly, Brussels (BE). Curated by Frederick Gordts, Giulia Blasig, Charlotte Norwood & Nicole O’Rourke.
2026 Metamorphoses, Galerie P., Oostende (BE). Curated by Artus Mundi.
2025 Fake Lamps, Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels (BE).
2024 Warp Crash, Pilar, Brussels (BE). Curated by Chaos Village.
2023 Dragon, Reset, Brussels (BE). Including two week residency, Hosted by Garage29 & Pierre-Louis Kerbart.
2023 We warm the species, De Vooruit, Ghent (BE). Hosted by KASK School of Arts.
performances/events
2026 Artistic residency at Centre de la Paresse (with Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei), Anlezy (FR).
2024 Reset, Brussels (BE). Hosted by Slagwerk.
2023 Émission, Decoratelier, Brussels (BE). Hosted by LYL Radio.
2023 Dokrijk, Antwerp (BE). Hosted by Overlast.
2022 Memories are louder than images first try-out, Objects and Sounds, Ghent (BE).
2021 Hashhash Algorave, Lavallée, Brussels (BE).
2020 Hash#hash Livecoding Workshop, Recyclart, Brussels (BE). Hosted by Lawrence McGuire & Victor Gybels.
2020 Eulerroom Equinox, streamed.
2020 Livecoding performance, HSBXL, Brussels (BE).
Wat hebben Ovidius en Kafka met een Oostendse galerie gemeen? (2026) [NL].
Art critic Yves Joris on my work. I like this perspective because it describes me as a photographer.
“…Victor Gybels fotografeert de zee op A4-formaat en laat haar bijna verdwijnen in licht en atmosfeer. Zijn Sint-Idisbald - een plek aan de Belgische kust die hem naar eigen zeggen diep heeft geraakt - is hier niet als document aanwezig maar als stemming, als visueel akkoord. Dat past in deze ruimte, op deze locatie, waar de Noordzee buiten het raam hetzelfde doet: aanwezig zijn zonder zich te verklaren…”
Modem community lists 2025
Modem is a radioshow about internet music run by Matej Mihevc since 2017. It has since evolved into a blog, music label, community, and more. Matej is awesome and incredibly passionate, so go check it out!
Every year, he asks music labels and friends to list their favorite releases of that year.
Mine were:
Lauren Duffus - Can's Gone Warm (AMF)
thumpeezy_713 & Tek lintowe (self-released)
Ydegirl, RIP Swirl - Emo Regulation EP (In Real Life)
Gajek - Cutting Together Apart (STROOM.tv)
Tracey - Tracey EP (AD93)
Mifu - I love MUSIC (BFF Music)
Lukid - Underloop (Death Is Not The End)
Movulango - Fever Dream (self-released)
Tony Bontana / Gina Gory - Split EP (Isengard)
bambinodj - Silent Dispatch (OST)
dj galen aka galen tipton - the Death of Music (Orange Milk Records)
LYL Radioshow 06/07/2022
Radiomix I put together for LYL Radio containing only unreleased material and live recordings made between 2020 and 2022. The computer on which all of these musical projects were stored has since crashed, and all of the recordings were lost, turning this radiomix into an unexpected archive.
There was also a certain naïveté to my music-making process back then that I have since lost. I tend to overthink things nowadays, and because of that I make far less music than I used to. I often look back at this period when trying to recapture some of that energy.
Fiorucci made me Hardcore by Mark Leckey (1999)
I have to include this mythic video by Mark Leckey, as it has had an enormous impact on me. Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore completely changed the way I looked at found footage and expanded my understanding of what art could be. It opened up a new way of thinking about images, editing, and the emotional potential of existing material. Leckey remains a lasting influence on my practice.
The Internet Archive
A real goldmine everyone should know about.