HOET BEKAERT gallery focuses on promoting, supporting and showing young contemporary artists, covering divers media such as painting, video, installation, photography and performance. The gallery was founded in an old abbey, the summer of 2003, opening with an ambitious group-show of, among others, Jason Rhoades, Sisley Xhafa, Kris Martin, Franky DC, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Joost Conijn and Kendell Geers.

In september 2005, the gallery moved to the grounds of an old factory building in the city of Ghent. This new site combines the clean, white museum-like cube with a huge backspace with a more trashy character. Like this the gallery wants to offers a wider range of possibilities to exhibiting artists, fuctioning as a laboratory for young contemporary art.