Past Exhibitions
Commune
Ross Bleckner16.01 - 1.03.2025Gallery | 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.... Read moreThe Enigma of Time Remembered
Victor Ehikhamenor24.10.2024 - 11.01.2025Gallery | Brussels History stands as a totem of storytelling, traversing time, space, and memory, a theme deeply embedded in Ehikhamenor’s familial traditions. Often referencing history and literature, his recounting of the past intricately navigates complex religious implications and the confluence of an ever-evolving multicultural environment. A fervent advocate for the repatriation of... Read moreCastles in the Air
Jaclyn Conley5.09 - 19.10.2024Gallery | 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 moreMetaphysical Poetry
Samuel de Saboia5.06 - 20.07.2024Gallery | 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... Read moreDas Orgien Mysterien Theater
Hermann Nitsch24.04 - 1.06.2024Gallery | 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 moreGroup Exhibition
Memory21.03 - 15.04.2024Gallery | 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 moreLast Goodbye
Kasper Sonne18.01 - 16.03.2024Gallery | 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... Read moreCurated by June Sarpong | Brussels
Filling in the Pieces in Black25.10.2023 - 13.01.2024Gallery | 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 moreBlack Light
Peter Halley7.09 - 21.10.2023Gallery | 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... Read moren+1
Paul Mogensen31.05 - 1.09.2023Gallery | 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 moreMother Tongue
Esiri Erheriene-Essi19.04 - 27.05.2023Gallery | 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 moreEarly Works
Peter Halley22.03 - 15.04.2023Gallery | 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 moreUpliftment: A God In the Life of Others
Emmanuel Taku16.02 - 18.03.2023Gallery | 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... Read moreTimelines
Tony Matelli19.01 - 11.02.2023Gallery | 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 moreFrom Time to a Time
Johnson Eziefula8.09 - 22.10.2022Gallery | 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 moreGroup Exhibition
Body & Soul20.06 - 27.08.2022Gallery | 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 moreStructuring Light, Curated by Raymond Foye
Marina Adams, Paul Mogensen, & Joanna Pousette-Dart26.04 - 11.06.2022Gallery | 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 moreRumors of Blackness
Kwesi Botchway17.02 - 16.04.2022Gallery | 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 moreNitsch
Hermann Nitsch20.01 - 12.02.2022Gallery | 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 moreFive Decades (1931 - 1981)
Joan Miró28.10 - 23.12.2021Gallery | 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 moreParalipsis
Ross Bleckner9.09 - 9.10.2021Gallery | 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- Resistance(s)3.06 - 2.07.2021Gallery | 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
Dark Bodies - Bright Crest
FERRARI SHEPPARD29.04 - 29.05.2021Gallery | 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 moreHyper-Conscious
STEFAN BRÜGGEMANN & ON KAWARA25.03 - 25.04.2021Gallery | 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 moreAn Idea of Surrealism
From Man Ray to Mariën21.01 - 20.03.2021Gallery | 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... Read moreJohn Armleder, Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Allan McCollum, Peter Saul, ...
1986 29.10.2020 - 5.01.2021Gallery | 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 moreBestiary
Francesco Clemente 3.09 - 17.10.2020Gallery | 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 moreJackie& Brian& Eartha& Joan.
Jaclyn Conley4 - 27.06.2020Gallery | 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 moreThe World of Le Corbusier: Collages and Drawings
Le Corbusier15.01 - 11.04.2020Gallery | 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 moreThe Shade Between
Ron Gorchov14.11 - 21.12.2019Gallery | 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 moreThe Ocean Between
Radcliffe Bailey5.09 - 31.10.2019Gallery | 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 moreAll The President’s Children
Jaclyn Conley25 - 28.04.2019Gallery | 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... Read moreDonnez votre main
Hank Willis Thomas23.04 - 29.06.2019Gallery | 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 moreNew Sculptures: Lupines
Arne Quinze21.02 - 13.04.2019Gallery | 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 moreEn Œuf
Gavin Turk14.01 - 14.02.2019Gallery | 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 moreThe Spell On You
Manuel Mathieu7.11 - 22.12.2018Gallery | 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 moreNew Paintings
Peter Halley6.09 - 31.10.2018Gallery | 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 moreTime of Disquiet
Ross Bleckner24.05 - 30.06.2018Gallery | 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 morePhong Bui - Bill Jensen - Margrit Lewczuk - Nathlie Provosty
Bui Jensen Lewczuk Provosty18.04 - 16.05.2018Gallery | 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 moreModern I Postmodern
Peter Halley - Robert Mangold28.02 - 7.04.2018Gallery | 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 moreRecent Paintings
Jonathan Lasker17.01 - 24.02.2018Gallery | 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... Read moreLiz Markus X Gert Voorjans
Liz Markus24.11.2017 - 6.01.2018Gallery | 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... Read moreNew World
David LaChapelle10.10 - 11.11.2017Gallery | 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... Read moreThe Lost of England
George Shaw7.09 - 3.10.2017Gallery | 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... Read moreHot Springs
Jannis Varelas20.04 - 3.06.2017Gallery | 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 moreMan Alive
Group Exhibition Curated by Wendy White12.01 - 15.03.2017Gallery | 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... Read more- Alighiero Boetti17.11.2016 - 7.01.2017Gallery | 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... Read more
- Francesco Clemente 8.09 - 12.11.2016Gallery | 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
Born between 1940 and 1950
12 NEW YORKERS19.11.2015 - 11.02.2016Gallery | 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 moreL'envoi
PHILIP TAAFFE11.09 - 14.11.2015Gallery | 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 moreAfrican Masks
SHERRIE LEVINE10.06 - 20.07.2015Gallery | 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 moreArt Fair Paintings
Eric Fischl23.04 - 6.06.2015Gallery | 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 moreSociety Portraits
Andy Warhol16.01 - 25.03.2015Gallery | 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- Lyle Ashton Harris20.10 - 7.12.2014Gallery | 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
Iconic & New Paintings
McDermott & McGough5.09 - 14.10.2014Gallery | Brussels I’ve seen the future, and I’m not going.” – David McDermott As visual artists, David McDermott and Peter McGough are contemporary artists known for their works in painting, photography, sculpture and film. They currently split their time between Dublin and NewYork City. In the timeless approach that remains the basis... Read moreGas Stations
David LaChapelle11.12.2013 - 15.03.2014Gallery | Brussels 'Gas stations, seen from some future place and time, will be uncovered as architectural relics of a lost world, like the Aztec temples or Easter Island. Future cultures, with other concerns, will wonder about their significance. How did they get there? Why were they built? How did they contribute to... Read moreNew Paintings
Wendy White16.04 - 31.05.2013Gallery | Brussels Wendy White est connue pour la réalisation d’œuvres qui étendent les paramètres de la peinture, grâce à l'utilisation de toiles multiples, d’aditions sculpturales et d’installation in situ. Inspirée par la cacophonie visuelle de son quartier de Chinatown à New York City, Wendy White rassemble pour cette exposition, des œuvres de... Read moreRose c'est Paris
Bettina Rheims20.02 - 8.04.2013Gallery | Brussels Une jeune femme que l’on connaît par son initiale, B., cherche Rose, sa sœur jumelle, qu’elle prétend disparue : tel est le point de départ d’une sorte de quête initiatique, de l’Autre et de Soi, prétexte à de multiples évocations et tableaux. Muse plus que sujet de la narration, le... Read more- PETER HALLEY24.10 - 3.12.2012Gallery | BrusselsRead more
- Hans Hartung3.03 - 3.04.2012Gallery | BrusselsRead more
- Ross Bleckner29.12.2011 - 29.01.2012Gallery | Brussels Pour sa troisième exposition personnelle à la galerie Maruani & Noirhomme, Ross Bleckner présente une nouvelle série de peinture intitulée « Time Paintings ». Né à New York en 1949 et ayant grandit à Hewlett, une banlieue de Long Island, il obtient un Baccalauréat Ès Arts à l’Université de New... Read more
8 Americans
Joe Bradley - Wade Guyton - Jacob Kassay10.09 - 29.10.2011Gallery | BrusselsRead moreNEW PAINTINGS
STUART CUMBERLAND12.05 - 7.06.2011Gallery | BrusselsRead more- Jonathan Lasker21.09 - 30.10.2010Gallery | BrusselsRead more
Eden
David LaChapelle20.04 - 20.05.2010Gallery | BrusselsRead more- Peter Halley4.06 - 5.07.2009Gallery | BrusselsRead more
- Mark Innerst27 03 2009Gallery | BrusselsRead more
- Sante d'Orazio18.09 - 18.10.2008Gallery | BrusselsRead more
- Donald Baechler - Paul Morrison20.03 - 10.05.2008Gallery | BrusselsRead more
- Jonathan Lasker27.09 - 28.10.2006Gallery | BrusselsRead more
Heroes
Keith Mayerson18.05 - 30.06.2006Gallery | BrusselsRead more- 17 - 31.03.2006Gallery | BrusselsRead more
Specific & Anonymous
Ross Bleckner9.05 - 9.06.2004Gallery | BrusselsRead more- PETER HALLEY19.02 - 19.03.2004Gallery | BrusselsRead more
- Jonathan Lasker1.01 - 21.02.2004Gallery | BrusselsRead more
