Billboards, Flags & Happy Accidents

Valentin Goethals is Gent-based designer and musician. Educated as a graphic designer, Valentin’s activities range from collaborating with artists and designers on various graphic design projects to curation and playing the guitar in the band The Black Heart Rebellion. He is a member of the artist collective Smoke & Dust founded in 2008. In 2013 the collective took over an abandoned welding factory in Dok-Noord Gent and turned it into a trans-disciplinary art platform called 019. In 2018 they started another venue in a former monastery located in the center of Gent, now called Kunsthal Gent, where Valentin is curator among other roles.