Unique paintings and affordable prints
Rubain offers a unique collection of high-quality paintings and affordable prints, directly from the artist.
"I firmly and wholeheartedly believe that I was put on this earth to be treated like an outcast, a sick man. So that beauty could appear to me in its purest form while becoming my only true friend. If not, my life would not make sense. God would have made a joke in bad taste. So there's that.." - R.
Your personal mentally unstable hero
Looking for a specific artwork? Rubain also works on commission and creates colorful portraits on request.
"Getting an emotional reaction out of people that experience my work is one of the few ways I have ever been able to communicate with them on a level of true authenticity. Why humans keep bashing my square soul with a triangular shape I'll never know. I guess I'm too caught up in this act of being extremely solitary that it annoys even myself." - R.
"When I was homeless I started painting on cardboard."
Discover the world of Rubain, which, if I may say so myself, is tragically interesting.
- Ella-June Henrard and Maaike Cafmeyer are proud owners (Te Gek! Pi Kwadraatprijs 2022)
- Exhibition FEAR Beernem 2023 (Platform for Contemporary Arts)
- Live painting projects (Place du tertre; ODUS Festival)
- Freelance artist at M_Form Pittem (international projects)
- Clinical cardboard projects in AZ-Sint Lucas
- Bruges Exhibition Burg 2025
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Now who is this guy anyway?
From traumatic childhood, to homeless periods and insanity suicide with a few diagnoses and social exclusion as a result all the way up to being inexhaustible in the pursuit of dramatic artistic succes.
"The line between solitude and loneliness seems to blur and I am exactly Schrödinger's cat. I exist. And then again I don't. The farce includes me to like that quite well. It beats being the most hated man I know." - R.
The desire to share beauty is the only consistency in the life of Rubain, 32, born from a two sided family of prostitution and narcotics.
"I may have been born marginal but I think I was going in that direction anyway, for arts sake, for glory. Only where one does not dare to look one always finds the truth. Joke's on them, I'm still as jolly and rude as a newborn pony."
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