Upcoming Exhibitions
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Paul Mogensen 31.05 - 22.07.2023 Gallery | Brussels PUBLIC OPENING: May 31, 2023 from 15h – 19h In presence of the artist 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... Read more -
WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES - WHAT DO YOU SEE
Jeppe Hein 3 - 27.08.2023 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan, Gallery | Knokke Zeedijk The first solo show of Danish artist Jeppe Hein at MARUANI MERCIER follows the theme of the waves in colour, appearance and rhythm and is inspired by the nearby ocean of the gallery’s venue in Knokke. The walls of the gallery will be covered with blue waves painted by the... Read more -
Two Friends
Miró & Calder 22.07 - 31.08.2023 Gallery | Knokke Zeedijk PUBLIC OPENING August 5th from 11h – 18h Knokke - Zeedijk The gallery is pleased to announce a special tandem exhibition devoted to two modernist giants – Alexander Calder and Joan Miró. Taking place from July 22 to August 31, 2023 at their seaside gallery space at Zeedijk 759 in... Read more
Past Exhibitions
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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
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Upliftment: A God In the Life of Others
Emmanuel Taku 16.02 - 18.03.2023 Gallery | Brussels The gallery is pleased to present new paintings by Emmanuel Taku in a solo exhibition, Upliftment: A God in the Life of Others, opening on February 16th, 2023. The large-scale series conveys an optimistic message focusing on the goodness and altruistic aspect of people, with the artist giving light to... 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 important 20th century artists: Gérard Schneider, a key figure of Lyrical Abstraction, and kinetic art pioneer Takis. E xhibited together for the first time, their works are rife with movement––whether conveyed through gestural brushstrokes or magnetic force––presenting a pervasiveness of rhythm. Schneider’s canvases capture a mood in... Read more
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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 renowned wool tapestry Bonjour Calder from 1958. Read more
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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 -
Kumerican Flowers
Dankyi Mensah 1 - 24.07.2022 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Kumerica ––a term often associated with the music scene––revolves around the encounter between the local culture of Kumasi, a Ghanian city in the Ashanti region, and American urban culture. Mensah addresses this cultural shift by depicting local youth dressed in American-influenced street style posing before traditional Ghanian patterned fabrics, as... 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
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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 I WANT TO CELEBRATE BLACK BEAUTY There are artists and then there are artists with a mission. The second category applies to Kwesi Botchway from Accra, Ghana. Not only with his paintings but also with his entire art practice, he wants to raise the state of being of his... Read more
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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: HERMANN NITSCH. Created in the context of post-fascist Austria, Hermann Nitsch’s provocative paintings, which developed through his famous ceremonial performances Orgien Mysterien Theatre, sit... 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
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The Future Isn't What It Used to Be
Esiri Erheriene-Essi 7.08 - 3.09.2021 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan ESIRI ERHERIENE-ESSI: FILLING THE GAPS OF HISTORY WITH COLOUR 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... 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
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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. This unprecedented exhibition celebrates the extraordinary collaboration and friendship between Man Ray and his gallerist Marcel Zerbib, which began when they met in 1951. With the collaboration of Marcel Zerbib’s estate, this exhibition pays tribute... 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
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Bestiary 2020
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 generatiyon 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
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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
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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
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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 and 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
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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
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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
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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. His sober environmental works pleasantly clash with the second part of the show, an exhibition of antique furniture redesigned by Toiletpaper (Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari). This summer, temperatures have risen to a shocking 37... 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
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Time of Disquiet
Ross Bleckner 22.05 - 21.07.2018 Gallery | Paris | France Issu d’une génération d’artistes américains qui apparaît sur la scène internationale au début des années 1980, Ross Bleckner (né à New York en 1949) assiste à l’explosion de l’épidémie du sida qui touche de plein fouet la communauté gay et le monde de l’art. Dès lors il développe un travail... 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 QUINZE has been creating for the last 20 years and is famous for his massive outdoor sculptures that transform entire neighbourhoods and cities. A preview will be presented at BRAFA Art Fair 2018 , while his first solo show, My Secret Garden, with us will start on March 31 in... Read more
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Works
Gavin Turk 22.03 - 12.05.2018 Gallery | Paris | France MARUANI MERCIER & HADIDA a le plaisir d’annoncer Works, une exposition monographique de Gavin Turk, à l’occasion de l’ouverture de leur nouvelle galerie à Paris, 12 Rue Malher. Depuis ses premières expositions au début des années 1990, Gavin Turk questionne à la fois sa propre pratique comme la notion d'auteur... 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
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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
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...and the people
Carrie Mae Weems - Hank Willis Thomas 5.08 - 4.09.2017 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Curated by and in the presence of Hank Willis Thomas 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... 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 In the Presence of the Artist 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), &... Read more
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GAVIN TURK 6.08 - 7.09.2016 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan In the Presence of the Artist Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery is proud to present a selection of Gavin Turk's body of work at its Knokke gallery. Gavin Turk (b.1967) is a British born, international artist. He has pioneered many forms of contemporary British sculpture now taken for granted, including the... Read more
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To Whom It May Concern
Hank Willis Thomas 14.04 - 22.05.2016 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery is proud to present a comprehensive selection of Hank Willis Thomas's body of work for the first time in Belgium. Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist living and working in New York City. His work focuses on themes related to perspective identity, commodity, media, and... Read more -
PETER HALLEY 26.03 - 28.04.2016 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery is proud to present Peter Halley's 6th solo show. For thirty-five years, Peter Halley’s paintings have been engaged in a play of relationships between what he calls “conduits”, “prisons,” and “cells” – icons that re ect the increasing geometrization of social space in the world in... Read more
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Folder
ANA CARDOSO 26.03 - 28.04.2016 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Ana Cardoso was born in 1978 in Lisbon. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work is centered on the history of abstraction concerning material process in painting, and its complex relation to the culture of images. Painting is an ongoing performance – her work negotiates between historical referents, conceptual... Read more -
Born between 1940 and 1950
12 NEW YORKERS 19.11.2015 - 11.02.2016 Gallery | Brussels Apart from their talent, their life in New York and the fact that they were born between 1945 and 1955 they all inherited the history of American painting in their own way. And they all, with their own personality, absorption of techniques, colors, cultures and history, participate in movements in... Read more -
L'envoi
PHILIP TAAFFE 11.09 - 14.11.2015 Gallery | Brussels 'Essentially, everything in my work is about a process of description. My attitude towards repetition has to do with the cumulative effect of continuous applications of line and color. If we focus on that, and see them as crystallized into patterns or marks, what do they add up to? They... Read more
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A Dialogue Through Objects, Images & Ideas
SHERRIE LEVINE, MAN RAY 1 - 31.08.2015 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more -
African Masks
SHERRIE LEVINE 10.06 - 20.07.2015 Gallery | Brussels Sherrie Levine received widespread acclaim in 1979 for her series “After Walker Evans,” in which she re-photographed 24 of Walker Evans’s photographs out of an exhibition catalogue, depicting the impoverished rural population in Alabama at the end of the 1920s. Levine’s series is recognized as a key work of postmodernism,... Read more -
Art Fair Paintings
Eric Fischl 23.04 - 6.06.2015 Gallery | Brussels Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor. His artwork is represented in many distinguished museums (including the Met and the Moma) throughout the world and has been featured in over one thousand publications. His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential... Read more
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British Landscapes
Paul Morrison - Nina Murdoch - George Shaw 5.04 - 8.05.2015 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery is pleased to announce the ' British Landscapes' exhibition, which will start on April 4 in our gallery in Knokke with the artists George Shaw, Paul Morrison and Nina Murdoch, three English artists who have gained wide international recognition. George Shaw was born in Coventry, England... Read more -
Introduction
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Society Portraits
Andy Warhol 16.01 - 25.03.2015 Gallery | Brussels In 1970 Andy Warhol was already telling reporters that he was “just a travelling society painter” and calling his commissioning clients jokingly “victims’. At that time, most of the New York art world was infatuated with Conceptual Art and leftwing causes reacting to Andy’s commissioned portrait work with outrage and... Read more
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Painted Photographs
Nobuyoshi Araki 18.12.2014 - 20.01.2015 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese, b.1940) is a prolific Contemporary Japanese photographer known for his diaristic capturing of everyday life. He began to work exclusively as a photographer in 1972, and has since produced hundreds of photographic prints and books. Araki’s work documents the quotidian elements of life: clouds, flowers, vibrant karaoke... Read more -
Lyle Ashton Harris 20.10 - 7.12.2014 Gallery | Brussels For more than two decades Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photographic media, collage, installation and performance. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examin- ing the impact of ethnicity, gender and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Known for... Read more
