writing

I have been active as a published writer and art critic since 1983. Find a full overview of my publications below.

Black Scat Books has published my collection of poems and short stories Mince (2015). It is now out of print, but you can find the PDF here.

Also see my Leonardo – contributor page


Doove, E. (2026) Review of Three Exhibitions: Deep Fields at Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, The House on Utopia Parkway at Gagosian and Rêveries de pierres: poésie et minéraux de Roger Caillois in Paris. In Leonardo Reviews, March https://leonardo.info/review/2026/03/review-of-three-exhibitions

(2025) Cosmic Titans : Art, Science and the Quantum Universe. In Leonardo Reviews, April https://leonardo.info/review/2025/04/cosmic-titans-art-science-and-the-quantum-universe and Leonardo, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 418–419, 2025

(2025) Het Carnaval van het Zijn – Handboek ‘Patafysica. In Leonardo Reviews, March. https://leonardo.info/review/2025/03/het-carnaval-van-het-zijn-handboek-patafysica and Leonardo, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 419–421, 2025

(2024) Paris pataphysique – L’art des solutions imaginaires. In Leonardo Reviews, November. https://leonardo.info/review/2024/11/paris-pataphysique-lart-des-solutions-imaginaires

(2024) De Research Group – Een kunstenaarscollectief 1967-1972, Het Stadsmus, Hasselt, B (Dutch with an English and French summary)

(2023) Dominique De Beire, Accroc et caractère. In Point Contemporainhttps://pointcontemporain.com/dominique-de-beir-accroc-et-caractere/ 

(2023) Watou 2023 /kom.po’zi.cio:/, catalogue arts festival Watou, B

(2021)  Il curatore animale. L’infrasottile in Duchamp e l’animalità. In Ecologie complesse – Pensare l’arte oltre l’umano. Edited by Gabriela Galati. Milan: Meltemi Press

(2021) Le Chat Noir Exposed: The Absurdist Spirit Behind a 19th Century French Cabaret by Caroline Crépiat. In Leonardo Reviews November 2021. Available at: https://leonardo.info/review/2021/11/le-chat-noir-exposed-the-absurdist-spirit-behind-a-19th-century-french-cabaret

(2021) Edgar Wind and Modern Art – In Defence of Marginal Anarchy by Ben Thomas. In Leonardo Reviews September 2021. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2021/09/edgar-wind-and-modern-art-in-defence-of-marginal-anarchy

(2021) Fiction-Science — Buvard et Pécuchet. In Leonardo Reviews June 2021. Available at: https://leonardo.info/review/2021/06/fiction-science-buvard-et-pecuchet and Leonardo Between Art and Science-podcast, episode 7, https://betweenartandscience.podbean.com/e/episode-07-science-fiction-on-stage-fiction-science-in-the-gallery/

(2021) A History of Art History by Christopher S. Wood. In Leonardo Reviews May 2021. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2021/05/a-history-of-art-history and Leonardo Between Art and Science-podcast, episode 4, https://betweenartandscience.podbean.com/e/episode-04-title-tk/

(2021) Curating after the Global: Roadmaps for the Present. In Leonardo Reviews [online] March 2021. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2021/03/curating-after-the-global-roadmaps-for-the-present

(2021) Une fille comme toi. In Leonardo Reviews [online] March 2021. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2021/03/une-fille-comme-toi 

(2021) Nature vive. un film de Hantu (weber + delsaux), 2020. In Turbulences Vidéo, #110, Janvier 2021, pp. 118-123. Available at: https://videoformes.com/2021/01/07/turbulences-video-110/

(2020) Jason Karaïndros. JK73-63 et la clé de Galilée. In Alliage – CosmiComix, n°81, automne 2020, pp.38-41

(2020) Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life. In Leonardo Reviews [online] December 2020. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2020/12/marcel-duchamp-and-the-art-of-life and in Leonardo, volume 54, issue 2 https://www.leonardo.info/journal-issue/leonardo/54/2

(2020) Prelude. In Prelude: Melancholy of the Future, Deurle: Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, pp. 27-38

(2020) Curating as Ethics by Jean-Paul Martinon. In Leonardo Reviews [online] October 2020. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2020/10/curating-as-ethics

(2020) Habiter en oiseau by Vinciane Despret. In Leonardo, volume 53, issue 5, October 2020. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/journal-issue/leonardo/53/5 and in Leonardo Reviews, [online] May. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2020/05/habiter-en-oiseau

(2020) Architectures of the Unforeseen: Essays in the Occurrent Arts by Brian Massumi. In Leonardo, volume 53, issue 5, October 2020. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/journal-issue/leonardo/53/5 and in Leonardo Reviews, [online] March. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2020/03/architectures-of-the-unforeseen-essays-in-the-occurrent-arts

(2020) La cathédrale de Monet by Yadegar Asisi. In Leonardo Reviews, [online] July 2020. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2020/08/la-cathedrale-de-monet

(2020) ‘Entre chien et loup – quand l’abstraction et la figuration se croisent’ in / dans Pratiques picturales : Stratégies abstraites de la peinture contemporaine, [en ligne], Numéro 06, avril 2020. Disponible sur http://pratiques-picturales.net/article56.html

(2020) Fictioning: The myth-functions of contemporary art and philosophy. In Leonardo, Volume 53, issue 1 February. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/journal-issue/leonardo/53/1

(2020) The Animal Curator. In Scenari – Revista semestrale di filosofia contemporenea #11. Available at: https://mimesisjournals.com/magazine_item_detail_front.php?item_id=215

(2019) Attunement and the inframince. In Dust and Shadow Reader #2 – Attunement, FOaMAvailable at: https://libarynth.org/dust_and_shadow/inframince

(2019) Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson. In Leonardo, Volume 52, issue 5 October. Available at: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/leon_r_01818

(2019) Becoming Past: History in Contemporary Art. In Leonardo Reviews, [online] September. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2019/09/review-of-becoming-past-history-in-contemporary-art

(2019) Animal Musicalities – Birds, Beasts, and Evolutionary Listening. In Leonardo Reviews, [online] June. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2019/06/review-of-animal-musicalities-birds-beasts-and-evolutionary-listening

(2019) Ecology without Culture – Aesthetics for a Toxic World. In Leonardo, Volume 52, issue 3, June. Available at: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LEON_r_01762

(2019) Fictioning: The myth-functions of contemporary art and philosophy. In Leonardo Reviews, [online] April. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2019/04/review-of-fictioning-the-myth-functions-of-contemporary-art-and-philosophy

(2019) Brouhaha. In: Leonardo, Volume 52, Issue 2, April 2019. Available at: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LEON_r_01725

(2019) Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. In: Leonardo, Volume 52, Issue 1, February 2019. Available at: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LEON_r_01708

(2019) Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson. In Leonardo Reviews, [online] February. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2019/02/review-of-powers-of-time-versions-of-bergson

(2019) The Blue One or the Red One. Towards a Creative Vision for the Future. In: M.Punt and H. Drayson, Transtechnology Research Reader 2018, Plymouth : Transtechnology Research, pp.128-145

(2018) Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain Vapor Ray. In: Leonardo, Volume 51, Issue 5, October 2018. Available at https://www.leonardo.info/journal-issue/leonardo/51/5

(2018) Ecology without Culture – Aesthetics for a Toxic World. In Leonardo Reviews, [online] October. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2018/10/review-of-ecology-without-culture-aesthetics-for-a-toxic-world

(2018) Brouhaha. In: Leonardo Reviews, [online] May. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2018/05/review-of-brouhaha-worlds-of-the-contemporary

(2018) Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. In: Leonardo Reviews, [online] March. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2018/03/review-of-arts-of-living-on-a-damaged-planet-ghosts-and-monsters-of-the-anthropocene

(2018) Mobile Absolutes or Absolute Mobiles – Balancing Fact and Fiction at
the end of the 19th Century and the Beginning of the 21st. In: M.Punt and H. Drayson, Transtechnology Research Reader 2015-17, Plymouth : Transtechnology Research, pp.52-67

(2017) Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain Vapor Ray. In: Leonardo Reviews, [online] November. Available at:
https://www.leonardo.info/review/2017/11/review-textures-of-the-anthropocene-grain-vapor-ray

(2017) Le Scat Noir Encyclopaedia – two contributions. California: Black Scat Books

(2017) Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative and Anthropocene Feminism. Leonardo Reviews, [online] October. Available at: https://www.leonardo.info/review/2017/10/review-of-affective-ecologies-empathy-emotion-and-environmental-narrative-and

(2017) Slow/Networked Media Art and the Museum: Who Takes Care of Whom? In: Smite, R. and Smits, R. eds. (2017). Renewable Futures Conference Proceedings 2015. Riga: Acoustic Space #16.

(2017) The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp. Leonardo Reviews, [online] March. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/mar2017/filipovic_doove.php 
and https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/LEON_r_01506

(2016) Il faut cultiver notre jardin …On the need for gardening. In: Doove, E., Fritz, D., Maes, A., Medosh, A., Steels, L. Alchimia Nova. Ghent: MER. Paper Kunsthalle

(2016) Letter. In: Wade, C. ed. As We Alter It, So It Alters Us. Birmingham: Rope Press

(2016). The Curatorial Conundrum. Leonardo Reviews, [online] July. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/july2016/oneill-doove.php

(2016). The Process That Is The World: Cage/Deleuze/Events/Performances. Leonardo Reviews, [online] June. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/jun2016/panzner-doove.php

(2016). Diffractive Technospaces: A Feminist Approach to the Mediations of Space and Representation. Leonardo Reviews, [online] April. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/apr2016/timeto-doove.php

(2015). Art Rooms Gerhard Richter. This is tomorrow, [online] 27 November. Available at: http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/artist-rooms-gerhard-richter

(2015). Carl Slater: Crowd. Control. This is tomorrow, [online] 10 September. Available at: http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/carl-slater-crowd.control

(2015). Keith Harrison: Heavy Rock| Plymouth Sound. This is tomorrow, [online] 5 August. Available at: http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/keith-harrison-heavy-rock-plymouth-sound

(2015). Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 23 November-14 December 1974 by Werner Herzog. Leonardo Reviews, [online] August. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/aug2015/herzog-doove.php

(2015). Other Planes of There: Selected Writings by Renée Green. Leonardo Reviews, [online] July. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/july2015/green-doove.php

(2015).How Reading is Written – A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein. Leonardo Reviews, [online] May. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/may2015/lorange-doove.php

(2015). Rays Media Collective: Casebook. Leonardo Reviews, [online] February. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/feb2015/maranda-doove.php

(2015). The Curatorial Avant-Garde: Surrealism and Exhibition Practice in France, 1925–1941. Leonardo Reviews, [online]. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/jan2015/jolle-doove.php

(2015). Mince. California: Black Scat Books

(2014). Poet as Machine, on Calvino’s Cybernetics and Ghosts. In: M. Punt and M. Blassnigg, ed., Media Archaeology and Cognition – Transtechnology Research Reader 2014/15, 1st ed. Plymouth: Transtechnology Research, pp.150-156.

(2014). TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara‘. Leonardo Reviews, [online] December. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/dec2014/hentea-doove.php

(2014). Your Everyday Art World. Leonardo Reviews, [online] October. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/oct2014/relyea-doove.php

(2013). Peter Beyls – The artist as found system, a case study in Bit by Bit. Frankfurt: DAM Gallery

(2013). Dancing Around the Bride. Leonardo Reviews, [online]. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/may2013/dancing-doove.php

(2013). Captain Cap (vol.1). Leonardo Reviews, [online] March. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/mar2013/allais-doove.php

(2013). A Natural History of Laughter. Leonardo Reviews, [online] February. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/feb2013/mitsch-doove.php

(2013). The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot:  Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking’. Leonardo Reviews, [online] January. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/jan2013/samuel-doove.php

(2012). Exploring the Curatorial as Creative Act Part II: The Artist as Found System. In M. Punt and M. Blassnigg, ed., Transtechnology Research Reader 2012-13, 1st ed. Plymouth: Transtechnology Research

(2011). Exploring the Curatorial as Creative Act: Part I – Hidden Similarities. In M. Punt and M. Blassnigg, ed., Transtechnology Research Reader 2011, 1st ed. Plymouth: Transtechnology Research

(2011). Koen Vanmechelen – The chicken and its audience. [plastik] [on line], Plastik #02 – In vivo, L’artiste en l’œuvre ?, 3 June 2011.  ISSN 2101-0323. Available on http://art-science.univ-paris1.fr/plastik/document.php?id=475

(2011). Inside Jokes – Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind. Leonardo Reviews, [online] August. Available at: http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/aug2011/doove_hurley.php

(2011). We Can Change The Weather – 100 Cases of Changeability. Leonardo Reviews, [online] January. Available at: http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/jan2011/wynants_doove.php

(2010). En voyage/in-between – Ways of nomadic thinking in the work of Boldireva/Olga/ Boldyreff in Olga Boldyreff. Nantes: Musée de Nantes

(2010). Laughter-Notes on a Passion. Leonardo Reviews, [online] December. Available at: http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/dec2010/doove_parvulescu.php

(2010). Liverpool Biennial. Leonardo Reviews, [online] October. Available at: http://leonardo.info/reviews/oct2010/doove_liverpool.php

(2010). Parallellepipeda Boek. 1st ed. Leuven: Acco

(2010). A chicken is a chicken is a chicken …or is it? in Koen Vanmechelen – The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project Domestication. The Hague: Galerie West

(2009). Stability is overrated – on Hans Demeulenaere and Esther Venrooy in Blueprint#2

(2008). Omgevingstekenen. Ghent: Caermersklooster

(2008). Resolutie 1325. Antwerpen/Knokke: Galerie Geukens & Devil

(2007). Land (for Philip Aguirre y Otegui). Antwerp: Mercator Gallery

(2007). Etiolation I – Navid Nuur, with Huib Haye van der Werf and Mihnea Mircan Veenman Publishers

(2004). Raoul De Keyser op reis. Kunst Nu-SMAK, December

(2004). Narcisse est un type sérieux/Narcissus is a serious guy in The Place to be, Crac Alsace Catalogue 2003>2004. Altkirch: CRAC Alsace

(2004) Catharsis. With Gabríela Fridriksdóttir. Reykjavik: Gallery i8

(2003). Pink Perfection. Dendermonde: CCBelgica, Dendermonde

(2003). SWITCH. Deurle: MDD – Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

(2003). Hedendaagse kunst in IJsland. Kunst Nu-SMAK, December

(2002). Documenta IX. Kunst Nu-SMAK, Sep – Oct

(2002). Little Weaver – Louise Bourgeois in Drawings in (In Search of) The Perfect Lover. Ostfildern: HatjeCantz, pp 15-23

(2002). Raoul de Keyser – Surplace. Deurle: MDD – Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

(2002). Le meilleur des (deux) mondes. DITS – ‘L’Hybride’, nr 1, September

(2002). Being far, far away…just around the corner – portfolio met Dirk Braeckman. BEople, nr 3, June – Aug

(2002). FEB.3.2002. Deurle: MDD – Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

(2002). The Beauty of it All – interview met Wim Delvoye. BEople, nr 2, Feb – Apr

(2002). Een raadsel …a riddle, un jeu de piste in Een Raadsel voor Zoersel. Zoersel: Kunst in Zoersel

(2001). Biënnale van Venetië. Kunst Nu-SMAK, July – Aug

(2001). Franky DC – Photographic Passwords. Kunst Nu-SMAK, May – June

(2001). Jean-Michel Othoniel. Deurle: MDD – Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

(2001). Aubette – het verlangen naar een andere plaats. Deurle: MDD – Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

(2001). Gauthier Hubert, master forgerer, liar. A-Prior, nr 1

(2000). 3ness. Deurle: MDD-Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

(2000). Uri Tzaig. Purple nr 5

(1999). ‘And’ is better than ‘or’ – Interview with Franky DC in Trattenendosi, Ghent (Venice)

(1999). Boom! Crash! S.M.A.K! Just another museum. NU, 2/99

(1999). Communication is lacking in the Ambient City project. NU, 1/99

(1998). Mode in het museum – van couture tot sculptuur. Andere Sinema/AS, nr 147

(1998). Manifesta 2. Art/Text (Australia), nr 63

(1998). I don’t know if I can do anything – Imogen Stidworthy. Archis, nr 12

(1997). Jo Huybrechts – Lezen wat er niet staat – over het maken van beelden/Jo Huybrechts – Lire ce qui n’est pas marquee – Sur la formation d’images in Uit het ongewisse (entre chien et loup). Antwerp: KMSK/ICC

(1997). The Art of Shopping – Para-Site. Archis, nr 6

(1996). P.s. Pierre Bismuth. Metropolis M, October

(1995). Mary Heilmann. Metropolis M, nr 3 June

(1995). Robert Therrien. Metropolis M, nr 2 April

(1995). An Akashic Week-end. In collaboration with Philippe Franck, Hänzel & Gretzl, Ira Cohen, Eric Sleichim. Brussels: Plateau

(1995). Read my desire – Reality bites, terug naar de allegorie (Joël-Peter Witkin). Andere Sinema/AS, nr 130

(1994). Terri Bird – Subjective Perspective in Adelaide Installations. Adelaide: Aidelaide Biennial of Australian Art

(1994). Een subjectieve tekst/Un texte subjectif/A subjective text in Als het ware niet meer dan ontmoetingen/Comme rien d’autre que des rencontres/Nothing but encounters as it were. Antwerp: MuHKA

(1994). Menslief – Ik en de Ander. Andere Sinema/AS, nr 123

(1994). Think Pink – Mode & Ecologie. Andere Sinema/AS, nr 122

(1994). De stad is vrouwelijk (La Ville). Andere Sinema/AS, nr 121

(1994). Het aansnijden (Serrano e.a.). Andere Sinema/AS, nr 120

(1994). Life is a machine – Rebecca Horn. Andere Sinema/AS, nr 119

(1994). Bruce McLean. Artefactum, nr 53

(1994). Julian Opie. Artefactum, nr 52 1994

(1993). The Age of Innocence – Decor – Decorum – Déconfiture. Andere Sinema/AS, nr 118

(1993). Videolepsia. Andere Sinema/AS, nr 118

(1993). Het Sublieme Gemis of het gestoffeerde geheugen. Andere Sinema/AS, nr 117

(1993). Kris Fierens – Het minimale uitvergroot: ‘less’ is nog altijd ‘more. Artefactum, nr 50

(1993). Raf Thys, Artefactum nr 48

(1993). John Currin. Metropolis M, nr 5 October

(1992). Gery de Smet. Artefactum, nr 46

(1992). Luc Tuymans – de kracht en het onvermogen. Artefactum, nr 44

(1992). 1001: Tien jaar Lokaal 01 in Breda. Artefactum, nr 43

(1992). Mit Worten ein Bild bereiten. Artefactum, nr 42

(1992). Navarra en Borofsky. De Witte Raaf, July

(1991). De eerste Belgische retrospectieve van Marcel Duchamp. De Witte Raaf, summer

(1991). Cel Crabeels. Artefactum, nr 40

(1991). Willem Cole, Perry Roberts… Artefactum nr 38

(1991). Hotel Fantasia. Artefactum, nr 37

(1990). Marc Schepers – De relativiteit van het bestaan. Artefactum, nr 35

(1990). Het zomert weer in Antwerpen. De Witte Raaf, July

(1989). Cel Crabeels. De Witte Raaf, September

(1989). Paul Joostens en het dadaïsme. De Witte Raaf, January

(1988). Signaturen: een verkenningstocht. De Witte Raaf, June

(1987). Vernieuwing en traditie – een vertekenend beeld. Metropolis M, May

Several reviews for Belgian national newspapers Het Nieuwsblad en De Standaard between 1993-99.

  • radio:

Several contributions for Belgian-Flemish national radio BRTN and BRT.

(2005). Series on ‘Forgotten artists’ for ‘Neon’: E.L.T. Mesens, a.o., BRT

(2001). Script preparation for ‘Alinea’ on Luc Tuymans, BRT

(2000). Script preparation for ‘Alinea’ on Thierry De Duve, 2000, BRT

(1999). Several contributions for ‘De Kunstberg’; contributions for ‘Het Pak van Sjaalman’ on Everlyn Nicodemus, Edward Lucie-Smith, Biennial of Venice, BRT

(1998). Several contributions for ‘De Kunstberg’;

Contributions for ‘Het Pak van Sjaalman’ on Francis Picabia, Austria im Rosennetz, Fashion Summer – Rotterdam (interview Thimo Te Duits), Henri Moore, BRT

(1997). Four part series ‘The Laughter of Dada‘ for ‘Driespraak’, BRTN-Radio 3 on Dada and its influence on contemporary arts;

One-hour contributions for ‘De Wereldtentoonstelling’, BRTN-Radio 3 on Delvaux, Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Hubert Damisch, Meret Oppenheim, Sensation;

Several contributions for ‘De Kunstberg’, BRTN-Radio 3;

Contribution for ‘De Wandelgangen’, BRTN-Radio 1 on Delvaux

(1996). Four part series ‘Woman & Art‘ for ‘Driespraak’, BRTN-Radio 3