About Lander

Lander Cardon (1994, Belgium) is a Belgian artist whose practice is rooted in sculpture and expands through painting, performance and tattooing. Living and working between Belgium and Italy, he follows a nomadic rhythm, moving between marble quarries, temporary studios and landscapes that continually shape his artistic language.

Working primarily in marble and wood, Lander creates sculptures that function as monoliths - objects that evoke geological formations, archaeological artefacts and monuments from an emerging material culture. Rather than existing as isolated works, his sculptures form the foundation of an interconnected body of work that unfolds across multiple media.

His monumental paintings construct the landscapes these monuments inhabit. Performances activate them through movement and ritual, while tattoos translate the same visual language onto the body. Following its anatomy, each tattoo becomes a living inscription, echoing the role that bodily markings have played throughout cultures as carriers of identity, memory and belonging.

Across all media, Lander explores the relationship between monument and landscape, permanence and transformation, body and architecture. Together, sculpture, painting, performance and tattooing become chapters of a single evolving practice - an expanding world in which every work contributes to a larger material mythology.

Lander received his Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Ghent. He is co-founder of Zonderland and founder of the artist-run space and tattoo studio Niemandsland.