Upcoming Exhibitions
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Commune
Ross Bleckner 16.01 - 1.03.2025 Gallery | Brussels Public Opening January 16, 2025, 4 – 7 pm Avenue Louise 430, Brussels 1050 In the presence of the artist In Commune, delicate outlines of figures, plants, sinuous lines and colour fields seem flooded with light, as if briefly arising in our visual field from the iridescent dark ground. The... Read more -
Drawing in Space
George Rickey 13.03 - 12.04.2025 Gallery | Brussels Public Opening March 13, 2025, 4 – 7 pm Avenue Louise 430, Brussels 1050 More information coming soon. Read more
Past Exhibitions
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Castles in the Air
Jaclyn Conley 5.09 - 19.10.2024 Gallery | Brussels In her new body of work, Jaclyn Conley stages visions of life in landscape, which are at once vast and intimate. Known for her masterful portrayals of the figure, the artist here bends the depth and scale in the composition, giving the setting comparable deliberation and prominence. In each painting,... Read more -
Light As Space
Marina Adams, Joanne Greenbaum, & Anne Truitt 3.08 - 8.09.2024 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan MARUANI MERCIER is honored to present Light As Space featuring the work of three American artists: Marina Adams, Joanne Greenbaum, and Anne Truitt. This is the second group show organized for the gallery by New York-based curator Raymond Foye, who explains, “Contemporary art is inextricably linked to context and precedence.... Read more -
Ceramics & Works on Paper
Picasso 3.08 - 8.09.2024 Gallery | Knokke Zeedijk MARUANI MERCIER is pleased to present ceramics and works on paper that underscore Pablo Picasso's remarkable multidisciplinary prowess and innovation. He first experimented with ceramics in the mid-1940s after encountering the works of the Madoura ceramic workshop, owned by Suzanne and Georges Ramié. Entranced by the medium's malleability and the... Read more -
Metaphysical Poetry
Samuel de Saboia 5.06 - 20.07.2024 Gallery | Brussels We are pleased to present the debut exhibition of newly represented artist Samuel de Saboia, titled Metaphysical Poetry, inviting audiences on a journey through the realms of philosophy and the intricacies of the human psyche. Each painting holds profound depth and resonance, drawing from both personal experiences and universal themes,... Read more -
Das Orgien Mysterien Theater
Hermann Nitsch 24.04 - 1.06.2024 Gallery | Brussels Hermann Nitsch’s oeuvre unfolds like a dramatic tapestry, woven with visceral intensity and subversive leitmotifs. Das Orgien Mysterien Theater epitomizes the revolutionary methodologies of the late Viennese artist with paintings from his later period that serve as a testament to a relentless and climactic journey persisting until the end of... Read more -
The Forbidden Paradise
Arne Quinze 30.03 - 22.05.2024 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan, Gallery | Knokke Zeedijk In the lush microcosm of Arne Quinze’s garden lies the heart of his inspiration. Among the ten thousand blooms, plants, and hedges carefully cultivated, he discovers a world teeming with life and possibility. This verdant sanctuary, nestled beside his home and atelier, offers an unbroken communion—a sacred space where every... Read more -
Group Exhibition
Memory 21.03 - 15.04.2024 Gallery | Brussels A cornerstone of our identities, memory is an inexhaustible departure point for artists. Art can encapsulate the essence of fleeting moments and transform the ephemeral nature of memory into a tangible and enduring form that enables us to contemplate the past, present, and future. The works in this exhibition by... Read more -
Last Goodbye
Kasper Sonne 18.01 - 16.03.2024 Gallery | Brussels We are pleased to present Last Goodbye, the debut solo exhibition of our newly represented artist Kasper Sonne. From his Brooklyn studio of ten years to his childhood home that he lived in again upon returning to Denmark, the paintings in in the exhibition depict physical places that carry a... Read more -
Still Life
Gavin Turk 23.12.2023 - 21.01.2024 Gallery | Knokke Zeedijk We are pleased to present Still Life, an exhibition of a new series of paintings by Gavin Turk, on view at the Knokke Zeedijk gallery. In Still Life, Turk carefully paints images of product packaging arranged in a way that recalls the work of the artist Giorgio Morandi. Each work... Read more -
Curated by June Sarpong | Saatchi Gallery
Filling in the Pieces in Black 31.10 - 26.11.2023 Saatchi Gallery | London, UK The gallery is pleased to present Filling in the Pieces in Black, a group exhibition curated by leading television broadcaster, author, and diversity advocate June Sarpong OBE, featuring works by international artists Cornelius Annor, Larry Amponsah, Reginald Armstrong, Ofunne Azinge, Radcliffe Bailey, Kwame Akoto Bamfo, Kwesi Botchway, Samuel de Saboia,... Read more -
Curated by June Sarpong | Brussels
Filling in the Pieces in Black 25.10.2023 - 13.01.2024 Gallery | Brussels The gallery is pleased to present Filling in the Pieces in Black, a group exhibition curated by leading television broadcaster, author, and diversity advocate June Sarpong OBE, featuring works by international artists Cornelius Annor, Larry Amponsah, Reginald Armstrong, Ofunne Azinge, Radcliffe Bailey, Kwame Akoto Bamfo, Kwesi Botchway, Samuel de Saboia,... Read more -
Frieze Sculpture 2023
Sleepwalker by Tony Matelli 20.09 - 29.10.2023 The gallery is pleased to present Tony Matelli's iconic hypperrealist sculpture Sleepwalker (2014) at Frieze Sculpture 2023 at The Regent's Park in London, curated by Fatoş Üstek. Tony Matelli (b. 1971, Chicago) is a New York-based sculptor known for his painstakingly detailed, resemblant sculptures. Concerned with how we define ourselves as human... Read more -
Black Light
Peter Halley 7.09 - 21.10.2023 Gallery | Brussels In the early 1980s, Peter Halley established a distinct visual language consisting of cells, conduits, and prisons that he has continued to explore throughout his career. The seemingly limitless possibilities of these elements are present in Black Light, where interlocking canvases combine to create off-balance, precarious structures. With the predominant... Read more -
When You Close Your Eyes, What Do You See?
Jeppe Hein 5.08 - 10.09.2023 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan, Gallery | Knokke Zeedijk We are pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Danish artist Jeppe Hein, presenting iconic works that riff on themes of introspection, togetherness, and play. Signature mirrored works and mind-bending installations are coupled with murals depicting blue waves, painted with the guidance of the artist's breath, uniting temporality, imagination,... Read more -
Calder & Miró 22.07 - 31.08.2023 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan, Gallery | Knokke Zeedijk Alexander Calder and Joan Miró met in the creative milieu of 1920s Paris, amidst the artistic giants of Braque, Dalí, and Picasso. Despite the rise of fascism forcing them back to their home countries, Calder and Miró maintained contact, influencing and exhibiting together until Calder's death in 1976. Their shared... Read more
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Paul Mogensen 31.05 - 1.09.2023 Gallery | Brussels Mogensen’s progressional arrangements of geometric forms manifest in endless permutations. In a work from 2022, squares of diminishing size, rendered in Cadmium white, push against the borders of the Cadmium red–coated canvas as if guided by centrifugal force. In a composition of carmine pink on sat green, squares are magnified... Read more -
Curated by Azu Nwagbogu
Tales for a Stranger 27.05 - 1.07.2023 The Warehouse | Zaventem | Belgium Featuring works by Ayọ̀ Akínwándé, Anas Albraehe, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Ojo Ayotunde, Ofunne Azinge, Jaclyn Conley, Cristina de Middel, Omar Victor Diop, Victor Ehikhamenor, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, Johnson Eziefula, Jeanne Gaigher, Kate Gottgens, Miles Greenberg, Ryan Hewett, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Dozie Kanu, Nate Lewis, Neo Matloga, Odili Donald Odita, Emeka Ogboh, Yinka Shonibare,... Read more -
Mother Tongue
Esiri Erheriene-Essi 19.04 - 27.05.2023 Gallery | Brussels We are pleased to present the second solo exhibition of Esiri Erheriene-Essi at our gallery in Brussels. The paintings in Mother Tongue are a continuation of her ongoing exploration and celebration of the everyday stories and ordinary moments, the untold, often forgotten, and even neglected narratives of people of the... Read more -
Lost in a Memory
Joshua Oheneba-Takyi 8 - 26.04.2023 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Joshua Oheneba-Takyi makes his debut at the gallery with a solo exhibition featuring a new series of paintings he calls Lost in a Memory exploring the making and perception of memory through visual documentation of the ephemerality of instances via our interaction with chairs. The paintings expose the attachment of... Read more -
Early Works
Peter Halley 22.03 - 15.04.2023 Gallery | Brussels From the 1980s, Peter Halley’s formal vocabulary was firmly defined: cells, prisons, and conduits which form flat and closed-yet-discursive pictorial spaces. The theoretical foundation is established clearly by the artist himself: “Where once geometry provided a sign of stability, order, and proportion, today it offers an array of shifting signifiers... Read more -
Upliftment: A God In the Life of Others
Emmanuel Taku 16.02 - 18.03.2023 Gallery | Brussels The gallery presents new paintings by Emmanuel Taku in a solo exhibition, Upliftment: A God in the Life of Others. The large-scale series conveys an optimistic message focusing on the goodness and altruistic aspect of people, with the artist giving light to those whom we can rely on to lift... Read more -
Timelines
Tony Matelli 19.01 - 11.02.2023 Gallery | Brussels Timelines presents the results of Tony Matelli’s ongoing search for the magic in trompe-l’oeil realism. It features garden-store and cemetery sculptures bedecked with lifelike fruits, vegetables, and other foodstuffs as well as exacting recreations of grimy, graffitied mirrors. Full of technical feats and imaginative leaps, the works showcase an evolving,... Read more -
Lyrical Gestures
Schneider & Takis 23.12.2022 - 22.01.2023 Gallery | Knokke Zeedijk Musicality unites two prominent 20th-century artists: Gérard Schneider, a pivotal figure in Lyrical Abstraction, and Takis, a pioneer of kinetic art. Exhibited together for the first time, their works brim with movement—whether through gestural brushstrokes or magnetic forces—offering a pervasive rhythm. Schneider’s canvases capture a mood in perpetuity. In the... Read more -
From Time to a Time
Johnson Eziefula 8.09 - 22.10.2022 Gallery | Brussels Johnson Eziefula’s debut solo exhibition explores the purgative power of loss. This exhibition presents a new series of recent paintings dedicated to the artist's late brother who passed away in March 2022. This presentation emerges from a new series of naturalistic paintings entitled ‘How Did We Get Here?’ In which... Read more -
Waiting Crowds
Jaclyn Conley 6 - 25.08.2022 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Jaclyn Conley’s latest body of work explores how crowds can articulate a sense of anxiety, energy, and unpredictability, eloquently communicated through her distinct, gestural painting style. “In recent paintings, I am compiling figures into the bodies of crowds, masses of shared belief and faith swelling to the edges of the... Read more -
Le Corbusier
Nomades By Le Corbusier 5.08 - 26.09.2022 Gallery | Knokke Zeedijk With a versatile career in architecture, art, and design spanning over five decades, Le Corbusier is regarded as a key figure in the creative facets of 20th-century modernism. Nomades by Le Corbusier reveals his contributions as an artist, presenting sixteen works on paper, one oil work on wood, and the... Read more -
Pay to Play
Evie O'Connor 1 - 24.07.2022 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Solely working from images found online, O’Connor reinforces the inaccessibility of privileged spaces and the alienation most people feel from their mere existence. While a select few get to experience the riches of these spaces in real life, the majority will only ever engage virtually through the content of others.... Read more -
Group Exhibition
Body & Soul 20.06 - 27.08.2022 Gallery | Brussels Through the works of Nobuyoshi Araki, Francesco Clemente, David LaChapelle, McDermott and McGough, Lyle Ashton Harris, Hank Willis Thomas, Sue Williams, and the artist group Toiletpaper by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, Body & Soul explores how the human body is portrayed, taking in morphology and spirituality. The painting the... Read more -
Structuring Light, Curated by Raymond Foye
Marina Adams, Paul Mogensen, & Joanna Pousette-Dart 26.04 - 11.06.2022 Gallery | Brussels MARUANI MERCIER is pleased to present three contemporary masters of abstraction: Marina Adams, Paul Mogensen, and Joanna Pousette-Dart. Each of these artists represent a slightly different generation of New York painters, all working with light, color, and form, creating works that challenge and inspire our conception of what painting can... Read more -
Memories We Share
Cornelius Annor 2.04 - 4.05.2022 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Strictly speaking memory is individual as it involves individual consciousness, but sociologists insist that all memory is social. In her essay The Site of Memory, the African American writer Toni Morrison defines memories as the recollection of an image and of the feelings accompanying that picture to reconstruct the world... Read more -
Rumors of Blackness
Kwesi Botchway 17.02 - 16.04.2022 Gallery | Brussels There are artists and then there are artists with a mission. The latter applies to Kwesi Botchway, a painter from Accra, Ghana. Through his artistic practice he wants to raise the state of being of his people to a higher level. A few years ago, Kwesi Botchway founded the WorldFaze... Read more -
Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch 20.01 - 12.02.2022 Gallery | Brussels MARUANI MERCIER Gallery is pleased to present for the first time, a solo exhibition featuring the works of one of the key figures of Viennese Actionism. Created in the context of post-fascist Austria, Hermann Nitsch’s provocative paintings, which developed through his famous ceremonial performances Orgien Mysterien Theatre, sit outside the... Read more -
Five Decades (1931 - 1981)
Joan Miró 28.10 - 23.12.2021 Gallery | Brussels One of the twentieth century’s most celebrated artists, Joan Miró’s magical universe is explored in this intimate exhibition spanning 50 years of creative production in a journey that begins with a painting from 1931 and ends with a work on paper from 1981, enabling us to chart how his work... Read more -
Paralipsis
Ross Bleckner 9.09 - 9.10.2021 Gallery | Brussels 'They are flowers, but they are not flowers (even if they are still flowers). This is how we could define, simplifying it, the scholarly and mysterious title given by Ross Bleckner to his latest series: Paralipsis. This rhetorical title in fact designates a proposed subject (here flowers) whilst denying it,... Read more -
The Future Isn't What It Used to Be
Esiri Erheriene-Essi 7.08 - 3.09.2021 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Following her breakthrough exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam after being nominated for the Prix de Rome in 2019 (the oldest and most prestigious award in the Netherlands for artists under the age of 40), Esiri Erheriene-Essi, the London-born but Amsterdam-based artist, made her name as one of the... Read more -
Wildflowers
Arne Quinze 3.06 - 11.07.2021 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Arne Quinze finds his inspiration all year round through the thousands of wildflowers he has planted in his garden. The seasons dictate the evolution the flowers gradually go through, a process that energises Quinze like no other. In the same way as blossoming flowers, he allows his work to thrive... Read more -
Resistance(s) 3.06 - 2.07.2021 Gallery | Brussels After its success in Knokke, the exhibition Resistance will be presented in our Brussels’ gallery in a new form. While the exhibition in Knokke focused on the black color and its meaning in art, the new exhibition Resistance(s) will revolve around the theme of art as a mean of resistance.... Read more
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Resistance 1 - 30.05.2021 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan A refined selection of paintings and sculptures celebrating the power of an inspiring and highly symbolic colour: BLACK. Read more
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Dark Bodies - Bright Crest
FERRARI SHEPPARD 29.04 - 29.05.2021 Gallery | Brussels In this solo exhibition, artist Ferarri Sheppard seeks out and embodies linkages and divergences of the diaspora with both abstraction and figuration, and stories that are narrative and lyric. Read more -
The Chosen Few
EMMANUEL TAKU 3 - 29.04.2021 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan The Chosen Few is the first exhibition by Emmanuel Taku at MARUANI MERCIER. In his new body of work, the Ghanaian artist presents ethereal large-scale portraits which give form to a new vision of Black identity. Read more -
Hyper-Conscious
STEFAN BRÜGGEMANN & ON KAWARA 25.03 - 25.04.2021 Gallery | Brussels Hyper-Conscious brings Stefan Brüggemann’s Hyper-Palimpsest and On Kawara’s Today series together for the first time at MARUANI MERCIER Gallery in Brussels. Read more -
An Idea of Surrealism
From Man Ray to Mariën 21.01 - 20.03.2021 Gallery | Brussels MARUANI MERCIER is honoured to present FROM MAN RAY TO MARIËN: An Idea of Surrealism. Man Ray was a significant influence for burgeoning Surrealists, including Marcel Mariën. Exhibited for the first time at MARUANI MERCIER, Mariën was the youngest of the Belgian Surrealists and played an important role as the... Read more -
John Armleder, Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Allan McCollum, Peter Saul, ...
1986 29.10.2020 - 5.01.2021 Gallery | Brussels In the history of the United States, the year 1986 is remarkable for its major developments in science, technology and mass culture, marking a period of breakthrough and upheaval. IBM unveiled the very first laptop computer, the protocol for what would later become e-mail was designed, Halley's Comet became the... Read more -
Bestiary
Francesco Clemente 3.09 - 17.10.2020 Gallery | Brussels We proudly present Francesco Clemente's second solo exhibition with our gallery. Bestiary 2020 is a group of fourteen paintings which Francesco Clemente created this year during lockdown, in days full of uncertainty, confusion and anxiety, days recorded in prominent lettering on each painting. Traditionally a 'bestiary' is a compendium of... Read more -
New Works
Peter Halley 1.08 - 3.09.2020 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan We are proud to present Peter Halley's 9th solo exhibition with the gallery. Halley is part of the generation of Neo-Conceptualist artists that first exhibited in New York’s East Village, including Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Mayier Vaisman and Ashley Bickerton. These artists became identified on a wider scale with the... Read more -
Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Max Ernst, Francesco Clemente, Ron Gorchov, Peter Halley
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Hovering
Paul Kremer 4 - 31.07.2020 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan MARUANI MERCIER is proud to present Hovering, Paul Kremer's first solo exhibition with the gallery. As the exhibition title implies, Kremer's new Float and Drop series are about hovering, and the act of being uncertainly still in between two states. It's about what might happen. Being trapped in a moment,... Read more -
Jackie& Brian& Eartha& Joan.
Jaclyn Conley 4 - 27.06.2020 Gallery | Brussels We seem to need leaders in order to know ourselves. Leaders to look to, made through pictures. Searching through the White House photo archives in the series All The President’s Children, moving through the Presidential museums and monuments, speaking to the tourists of these places I became more interested in... Read more -
Chavire Chodyè a
Manuel Mathieu 21.05 - 3.07.2020 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan “Quand, dans le ciel d’airain, la tempête s’amasse, L’aigle attardé, surpris dans le lointain espace Bat de l’aile et s’enlève en un suprême essor. L’air siffle, il part ; son aile est un vibrant ressort. Ivre et cherchant le jour, il fend un noir nuage, Océan de vapeurs qui fuit... Read more -
Georg Baselitz, Rashid Johnson, William Daniels
Group show 18.01 - 7.03.2020 The Warehouse | Zaventem | Belgium Georg Baselitz became known for his figurative, expressive paintings and sculptures in the 80s. His expressionistic mark-making is characterised by bold colors, forceful brushstrokes, and the incorporation of folkloric or archetypal subject matter. “I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the... Read more -
The World of Le Corbusier: Collages and Drawings
Le Corbusier 15.01 - 11.04.2020 Gallery | Brussels MARUANI MERCIER is pleased to present an exhibition of colourful and expressive works on paper by Le Corbusier. Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, the Swiss-born artist and architect better known as Le Corbusier made his name after moving to Paris in 1917. Together with the French painter Amédée Ozenfant he created and... Read more -
The Shade Between
Ron Gorchov 14.11 - 21.12.2019 Gallery | Brussels Ron Gorchov's third solo exhibition at our gallery, titled The Shade Between, exhibits twenty works. Bridging sculpture and abstract painting, Gorchov has developed a singular artistic vocabulary over his decades of practice. His oil on linen paintings pair one or two biomorphic colored shapes against differently colored backgrounds, in addition... Read more -
Ombre à l’Ombre
Lyle Ashton Harris 9.10 - 16.12.2019 The Warehouse | Zaventem | Belgium Lyle Ashton Harris’s second solo exhibition titled “Ombre à l’Ombre” presented by MARUANI MERCIER at The Warehouse introduces the artist’s latest body of work for the first time in Europe and highlights acquisitions by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Harris’s... Read more -
The Ocean Between
Radcliffe Bailey 5.09 - 31.10.2019 Gallery | Brussels We are delighted to announce the first exhibition of Radcliffe Bailey at our gallery. Bailey was trained as a sculptor but he does not identify with one specific label as he refers to himself plainly as: an artist, taking on the tasks of the painter, the sculptor, and the political... Read more -
All The President’s Children
Jaclyn Conley 25 - 28.04.2019 Gallery | Brussels In the series of paintings All The President’s Children, Jaclyn Conely references the archived photographs of First Ladies and Presidents sourced from Presidential Library collections in order to reimagine the American First Family as a symbol of the “American ideal”. In this series, rather than creating a likeness, she uses... Read more -
Donnez votre main
Hank Willis Thomas 23.04 - 29.06.2019 Gallery | Brussels MARUANI MERCIER Gallery is pleased to present Hank Willis Thomas’ second solo exhibition at the Brussels gallery. Well-known for his interest in the framing and context of history and perspective, this new body of work marks a progression in Thomas' critique of the construction of identity, power, and popular culture... Read more -
Drum & Bass
Mathieu Mercier 6.04 - 5.05.2019 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan The series Drum & Bass echoes an earlier set of works by Mathieu Mercier titled Still Untitled. These pieces, made from boards found in the street and covered with adhesive, present a more or less open interpretation of a mondrianesque grid. The goal is, through the use of scraps, to... Read more -
New Sculptures: Lupines
Arne Quinze 21.02 - 13.04.2019 Gallery | Brussels New Sculptures: Lupines is a new series of medium-sized sculptures that embodies Arne Quinze’s research on the diversity of nature. With the works Lobelia, Lupine, Persicaria, The Chatelain and African Iris the artist focuses on different questions in the evolution of anthropology through botany. The unbridled evolutionary force of plants... Read more -
En Œuf
Gavin Turk 14.01 - 14.02.2019 Gallery | Brussels We are at an exciting but terrifying moment in history. The pivotal point on the roller coaster where the carriage slows right down - ready to speed up to a terrifying and exhilarating pitch. Only this time we don’t know if there is an end. Or a stop. Or just... Read more -
The King, His Lover and Their Bastard
Man Ray - Sherrie Levine - Mathieu Mercier 23.11 - 15.12.2018 Gallery | Paris | France MARUANI MERCIER & HADIDA Gallery is pleased to present The King, His Lover and Their Bastard, an exhibition bringing together the works of Man Ray, Sherrie Levine and Mathieu Mercier. This exhibition curated by Mathieu Mercier works like a series of rebounds, analogies, in which by association of ideas, telescoping,... Read more -
The Spell On You
Manuel Mathieu 7.11 - 22.12.2018 Gallery | Brussels We are delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of Haitian artist Manuel Mathieu at our gallery. Mathieu is known as an interdisciplinary artist, but is always drawn back to his paintbrushes. This young artist creates cerebral, stylized paintings that are at once highly personal and provocative, yet at the... Read more -
New Works
Ron Gorchov 16.10 - 17.11.2018 Gallery | Paris | France MARUANI MERCIER & HADIDA is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of the American painter Ron Gorchov. On this occasion, the artist will show his latest works. Since the end of the 60s, Ron Gorchov has been reflecting on pictorial space and its support, which led him to work on... Read more -
My Secret Garden
Arne Quinze 13.09 - 13.10.2018 Gallery | Paris | France The development of this series of My Secret Garden paintings was preceded by a great quest. Arne Quinze started this project around 6 years ago by planting a flower meadow of more than 4000 plants and flowers around his house, achieving a complete metamorphosis in order to gain a better... Read more -
New Paintings
Peter Halley 6.09 - 31.10.2018 Gallery | Brussels MARUANI MERCIER is proud to announce their seventh exhibition with Peter Halley, presenting a series of new works by the artist. Moving to New York City had big influence on Halley’s painting style. Its three-dimensional urban grid led to geometric paintings that engage in a play of relationships between so-called... Read more -
Maurizio Cattelan + Pierpaolo Ferrari
Toiletpaper 4.08 - 2.09.2018 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari are the duo behind TOILETPAPER, known for its cheeky hyperreal imagery, breaking down the prevailing codes and photographic motifs of fashion. Photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari first met artist Maurizio Cattelan when capturing him on camera more than ten years ago. The magic worked... Read more -
Like A Thief In The Night
Justin Brice 4.08 - 2.09.2018 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan We are proud to announce Justin Brice’s new exhibition, Like A Thief In The Night. This summer, temperatures have risen to a shocking 37 degrees. Global warming is one of the urgent environmental disasters that Justin Brice addresses with his art, so this exhibition could not be more aptly timed.... Read more -
Time of Disquiet
Ross Bleckner 24.05 - 30.06.2018 Gallery | Brussels Born to the generation of American artists who appeared on the international scene in the early 1980s, Ross Bleckner (born in New York in 1949) witnessed the explosion of the AIDS epidemic which hit the gay community and the art world hardest. From then on he created paintings that cross... Read more -
Phong Bui - Bill Jensen - Margrit Lewczuk - Nathlie Provosty
Bui Jensen Lewczuk Provosty 18.04 - 16.05.2018 Gallery | Brussels The idea of this exhibit arose from their long-nurtured friendships and genuine shared love of art and culture. Together they explore the themes of pairs, parallels, and patterns in this exhibit, with the pure pleasure of camaraderie, including the diversity that allows them to remain friends with their growth in... Read more -
My Secret Garden
Arne Quinze 31.03 - 14.05.2018 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Arne QUINZE was born in 1971 in Belgium. In the eighties he began working as a graffiti artist but he never finished an official art education. He lives and works in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium and Los Angeles, US. Quinze creates large and small sculptures, drawings, paintings, and large-scale installations. Smaller works,... Read more -
Modern I Postmodern
Peter Halley - Robert Mangold 28.02 - 7.04.2018 Gallery | Brussels Robert Mangold and Peter Halley have developed an artistic vocabulary derived from the idea of geometry and asymmetry in shape and form. They explore both the physical and psychological structures of social and architectural spaces. By displaying a dialogue between the two artists we try to create a cohesive interaction... Read more -
Recent Paintings
Jonathan Lasker 17.01 - 24.02.2018 Gallery | Brussels MARUANI MERCIER has the pleasure to announce Jonathan Lasker's new exhibition, Recent Paintings. Lasker is an American abstract painter best known for his works incorporating biomorphic shapes, geometric patterns, and gestural graffiti marks within a shared pictorial space. Working within the traditions of artists such as Philip Guston and Robert... Read more -
Liz Markus X Gert Voorjans
Liz Markus 24.11.2017 - 6.01.2018 Gallery | Brussels Liz Markus cannot predict how her work will ultimately look. Using acrylic on unprimed canvas, she lets the colours bleed, drip and collide. As the painted surface dries, the image starts to spread. Markus' extraordinary skill with acrylic paint results in a painting released from the constraints of precision—yet self-contained,... Read more -
New World
David LaChapelle 10.10 - 11.11.2017 Gallery | Brussels MARUANI MERCIER is proud to announce David LaChapelle's new series, New World, with a world exclusive exhibition at our Brussels' gallery on October 10th, 2017. Regarded as one of the most influential photographers of the last thirty years, this profound exhibition reveals the arresting results of LaChapelle’s critical departure from... Read more -
The Lost of England
George Shaw 7.09 - 3.10.2017 Gallery | Brussels MARUANI MERCIER is proud to announce the opening of The Lost of England, the first solo exhibition of acclaimed British painter George Shaw in Belgium. Having just finished his two year residency at the National Gallery in London, with as pinnacle his praised exhibition With My Back to Nature; Turner... Read more -
...and the people
Carrie Mae Weems - Hank Willis Thomas 5.08 - 4.09.2017 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan MARUANI MERCIER is proud to present a group show of American artists Titus Kaphar, Carrie Mae Weems & Hank Willis Thomas. The exhibition will include new and iconic works of the artists, from painting and photography to sculpture, and engage the conversation on the past and current racially charged political... Read more -
Hot Springs
Jannis Varelas 20.04 - 3.06.2017 Gallery | Brussels We are pleased to announce the first solo show of Jannis Varelas in Belgium. The greek artist, based between Athens, Vienna and Los Angeles, will be present to celebrate as Brussels discovers his body of work, from painting, drawings and prints to sculpture. 'Jannis Varelas' compositions are characterized by a... Read more -
Ron Gorchov 1.04 - 1.05.2017 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more
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Man Alive
Group Exhibition Curated by Wendy White 12.01 - 15.03.2017 Gallery | Brussels Abstract painters Keltie Ferris, Joanne Greenbaum, and Ruth Root aren’t looking to embellish the foyer or match the sofa, but rather to consistently redefine the boundaries of taste and propriety. Brenna Youngblood tackles identity by way of the everyday object, pushing tactile surfaces against familiar collaged images. And not every... Read more -
Alighiero Boetti 17.11.2016 - 7.01.2017 Gallery | Brussels Alighiero Boetti was born in Turin in 1940 and lived and worked in Rome, where he died in 1994. From 1968, he added an ‘e’ (Italian for ‘and’) between his first name and surname creating a double character which he used throughout his career. Boetti’s affiliation with the Arte Povera... Read more
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Francesco Clemente 8.09 - 12.11.2016 Gallery | Brussels Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery is proud to present Francesco Clemente's body of work for the first time in Belgium, as we open of our new gallery. The exhibition will showcase three series: Fertility (painted in India), Portraits (painted in New York City), & Making Love in a Fleeting World (painted... Read more
