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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
n+1
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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Iconic & New Paintings
McDermott & McGough 5.09 - 14.10.2014 Gallery | 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 more -
Gas Stations
David LaChapelle 11.12.2013 - 15.03.2014 Gallery | 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 more -
New Paintings
Wendy White 16.04 - 31.05.2013 Gallery | 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 more -
Rose c'est Paris
Bettina Rheims 20.02 - 8.04.2013 Gallery | 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 HALLEY 24.10 - 3.12.2012 Gallery | Brussels Read more
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Hans Hartung 3.03 - 3.04.2012 Gallery | Brussels Read more
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Ross Bleckner 29.12.2011 - 29.01.2012 Gallery | 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
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8 Americans
Joe Bradley - Wade Guyton - Jacob Kassay 10.09 - 29.10.2011 Gallery | Brussels Read more -
NEW PAINTINGS
STUART CUMBERLAND 12.05 - 7.06.2011 Gallery | Brussels Read more -
Jonathan Lasker 21.09 - 30.10.2010 Gallery | Brussels Read more
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Eden
David LaChapelle 20.04 - 20.05.2010 Gallery | Brussels Read more -
Peter Halley 4.06 - 5.07.2009 Gallery | Brussels Read more
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Mark Innerst 27 03 2009 Gallery | Brussels Read more
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Sante d'Orazio 18.09 - 18.10.2008 Gallery | Brussels Read more
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Donald Baechler - Paul Morrison 20.03 - 10.05.2008 Gallery | Brussels Read more
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Jonathan Lasker 27.09 - 28.10.2006 Gallery | Brussels Read more
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Heroes
Keith Mayerson 18.05 - 30.06.2006 Gallery | Brussels Read more -
17 - 31.03.2006 Gallery | Brussels Read more
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Specific & Anonymous
Ross Bleckner 9.05 - 9.06.2004 Gallery | Brussels Read more -
PETER HALLEY 19.02 - 19.03.2004 Gallery | Brussels Read more
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Jonathan Lasker 1.01 - 21.02.2004 Gallery | Brussels Read more
