New! Ex Tenebris Lux

Don’t miss this opportunity! It was a long time in the waiting, but here it is: the successor of “Revelations” (now out of stock), with all the major works Bart Ramakers created 2018-2025, the very latest included.

How can something arise from nothing? What came first, the chicken or the egg? God or man? What is truth? And last but not least: does it matter?

In Ex Tenebris Lux, photographic storyteller Bart Ramakers and his team shine their light on the Creation, the creatures, and their gods. They delved deeper into questions about the origin of life, the human condition, and the age-old debate of free will versus fate. Who knows, they might find new paths for a society that seems to be shipwrecked on the cliffs of its own paradigms.

Pre-order now at a special price, so it will be sent to you automatically when it’s published in February 2026. “Ex Tenebris Lux” is a very luxurious coffee table book again, containing almost exclusively previously unpublished photographs, with a hardcover bound in linen and a dust cover, the same size and volume as “Revelations”, indispensable in your art book collection. 31 x 41 cm, 192 pages, full color.

The Muse Checkmate
The Garden of Eden
The Seventh Seal

The limited edition (100 copies, signed, dedicated and numbered) contains an art print 30 x 40 cm of “The Muse Checkmate”, “The Seventh Seal” or “The Garden of Eden”, depending on your choice.

Regular edition: 69 euro in pre-order, 75 euro from January 1st 2026 on. ORDER HERE
Limited edition: 175 euro in pre-order, 195 euro from January 1st 2026 on. ORDER HERE

All early subscribers until December 31st 2025, regular and limited editions all alike, will be listed in the book.

* Should this publication not take place due to unforeseen circumstances, all payments received will be reimbursed.

Revelations: the book

The book “Revelations” is a collection of Bart Ramakers’ best work ever, with more than 130 images, the majority previously unpublished in bookform. It’s a lot bigger than the previous books (31 x 41 cm), contains more pages and images (192 p.) and gives you a rare insight in the genesis and the background of the works. It is a very luxurious coffee table book, with a hardcover bound in linen and a dust cover. Texts by Jonas Slaats, Serge Simonart (Humo/Klara), Geert Stadeus (Snoecks), Koen De Vlieger-De Wilde (Kasteel d’Ursel), Leo De Bock (VRT) & Fredau. Price is 65 euro. You want to order your copy? Still in doubt? Here’s what L’Oeil de la Photographie wrote about it!

The Bride Unveiled

Bart Ramakers is best known for his mythological scenes, in which he provides a contemporary interpretation of classical legends and stories. In “A Divine Comedy”, for example, he created his own version of the New Testament, and in “The Anatomy of Beauty” he explored his fascination with classical standards of beauty and purity. In his latest project and book, “The Bride Unveiled”, he goes a step further: he deconstructs many of these classical ideals in a surrealistic story about a cardinal and a journalist who each in the end will find their true love, after a lot of surrealistic plot turns and art references to Duchamp, Mariën, Bacon and their likes. Once bared, the veiled bride turns out to be a woman of flesh and blood, purified and marked by real life, true to life.

“The Bride Unveiled” is a long awaited delightful gem, bound in red linen, stamped in gold and finished with a gold cut. It’s printed in 250 copies only, 50 of which are numbered and signed. Some 60 pictures (never published before) tell the story of a devoted cardinal and his twin brother – the former reporter Linlin – , each of them searching for their eternal female. The images, shot in Italy, France and Belgium, are full of humour, estheticism, narrative details, art references… and Bart’s colours were never as daring as in this project. Geert Stadeus carved the accompanying texts in stone.

The format of the book, printed on Magno Silk 150 g paper in full color, is 22 x 30 cm, allowing for a splendid reproduction of the images.

Order this treasure-book now for 29 instead of 49 euro and it will be sent to you.

“Your individualistic approach to art is refreshing, with a healthy dose of disregard for convention, with humour and what I appreciate most of all: the ability to question the viewer.” (Ch. Janssen Schmidt)

Life is a combination of magic and pasta – Federico Fellini

Other publications

  • Faddy Magazine 32
  • Normal Magazine 13
  • Flora and the Water Warriors, Bart-Ramakers – William Sweetlove, 132 p., 2019.
  • Art Couch Magazine February 2019.
  • SNOECKS 2019 (article by Geert Stadeus)
  • 9 pages interview by Niels Janssens in “Thema Deluxe”, October 2017.
  • 2018 art calendar with 14 pictures from the “Anatomy of Beauty” series, printed by Antilope De Bie, a gem 42 x 60 cm big. A regular edition is available for you, 55 euros only, and a limited and numbered collector’s edition for 95 euro.
  • it-magazine 59, 60, 61, 69
  • 2017 art calendar with 8 pictures from the “Divine Comedy” series, by Masterprinters Lamine, a gem 42 x 60 cm big. (sold out)
  • 2016 calendar with 8 pictures from the “Adamant Amazones” series, by Masterprinters Lamine, a gem 42 x 60 cm big (out of print).
  • Bart Ramakers, Trouble in Paradise, 120 pages, introductions by Johan Van Cauwenberge (art reporter radio Klara), Baudoin Lebon (Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris) and Prof. Dr. Maximiliaan Martens (UGent). Hardcover. (sold out)
  • 20 pages reportage in “Normal Magazine n°5”: http://www.normal-magazine.com (out of print)
  • 2015 calendar ‘Strangers in the Night” and 2014 calendar “Bart Ramakers”: out of print, becoming collector’s items! 
  • Bart Ramakers, In illo tempore, De Cavalerie, 2013. 21 x 29,7 cm, 96 p.
  • Jan Flamend & Bart Ramakers, Weg van Woorden, De Cavalerie, 2009. 22 x 28,5 cm, 164p. (out of print)
  • Bart Ramakers, Caught in a tale, De Cavalerie, 2011. 20,5 x 25,5 cm, 80 p. (out of print)