Past Exhibitions
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Pay to Play
Evie O'Connor 1 - 24.07.2022 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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 - Belgium 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 -
Memories We Share
Cornelius Annor 2.04 - 4.05.2022 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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
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The Future Isn't What It Used to Be
Esiri Erheriene-Essi 7.08 - 3.09.2021 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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 - Belgium 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 1 - 30.05.2021 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium A refined selection of paintings and sculptures celebrating the power of an inspiring and highly symbolic colour: BLACK. Read more
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The Chosen Few
EMMANUEL TAKU 3 - 29.04.2021 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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 -
New Works
Peter Halley 1.08 - 3.09.2020 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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
Group show 1.08 - 3.09.2020 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Read more
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Hovering
Paul Kremer 4 - 31.07.2020 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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 -
Chavire Chodyè a
Manuel Mathieu 21.05 - 3.07.2020 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium “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 -
Drum and Bass
Mathieu Mercier 6.04 - 5.05.2019 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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
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Maurizio Cattelan + Pierpaolo Ferrari
Toiletpaper 4.08 - 2.09.2018 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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 - Belgium 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 -
My Secret Garden
Arne Quinze 31.03 - 14.05.2018 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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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...and the people
Carrie Mae Weems - Hank Willis Thomas 5.08 - 4.09.2017 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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 -
Ron Gorchov 1.04 - 1.05.2017 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Read more
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GAVIN TURK 6.08 - 7.09.2016 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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 - Belgium 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 - Belgium 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 - Belgium 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
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A Dialogue Through Objects, Images & Ideas
SHERRIE LEVINE, MAN RAY 1 - 31.08.2015 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Read more -
British Landscapes
Paul Morrison - Nina Murdoch - George Shaw 5.04 - 8.05.2015 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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
Nathlie Provosty 4.04 - 4.05.2015 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Read more
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Painted Photographs
Nobuyoshi Araki 18.12.2014 - 20.01.2015 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium 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 -
Black, Bird, Brain
Ross Bleckner 2 - 31.08.2014 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium The works that will be on display in August bear witness to Bleckner’s interest in blurred images and disillusion – in mixing up things in such a way that their identity cannot be foreseen or deciphered. His immersive, large and small-scale paintings elicit a powerful hypnotic, dizzying effect. Whether pure... Read more -
Detroit Series
McDermott & McGough 2 - 31.08.2014 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium The Maruani-Mercier Gallery has the pleasure of announcing the opening of a new exhibition by American Artists McDermott & McGough. “I’ve seen the future, and I’m not going.” – David McDermott McDermott & McGough consists of visual artists David McDermott and Peter McGough who are contemporary artists known for their... Read more
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Man Ray - Sherrie Levine 15.07 - 1.09.2014 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Read more
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Héroïnes & Just Like A Woman
Bettina Rheims 25.03 - 22.05.2014 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Heroïnes Cette série marque l’aboutissement d’un désir profond de l’artiste, celui d’établir un rapport à la sculpture dans sa création photographique. Le caillou utilisé ici comme unique élément de décor s’envisage tel un socle que l’artiste offre à ses modèles, comme si elle voulait offrir un piédestal à leur charisme.... Read more -
Reflections
Lori Hersberger 1.08 - 15.09.2013 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Pour Lori Hersberger, le miroir est un matériau pleinement moderne. Il fait référence à l’urbain, aux technologies, au contrôle et à la surveillance. Le verre ainsi éclaté évoque un refus, une révolte mais aussi un danger, une tension. Il se réfère à une symbolique essentiellement contemporaine. En effet, si dès... Read more
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Man Ray 3.08 - 16.09.2012 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Read more
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Earth Laughs in Flowers
David LaChapelle 5.08 - 12.09.2011 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium David LaChapelle (Born in 1963, in Connecticut) is known for his over-the-top, unconventional portraits of famous people such Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Moss and Lady Gaga. Since the 1990s he has been staging images celebrate himself rather than the stars in a colorful juxtaposition of patterns and objects. His... Read more -
PETER HALLEY 6.08 - 13.09.2010 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Read more
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Church 2010
Andres Serrano 3.04 - 13.05.2010 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Read more -
Donald Baechler 1 - 31.08.2009 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Read more
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STUART CUMBERLAND 2.05 - 30.06.2009 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Read more
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Plaster Surrogates & Perfect Vehicles
Allan McCollum 30.12.2006 - 30.01.2007 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Read more -
Sue Williams 1 - 31.08.2006 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium Through concealed messages in abstract painting, Sue Williams' vibrantly colored and highly specific work serves as a foil to the male-dominated Abstract Expressionist movement. She came to prominence in the early 1980s, with works that echoed and argued with the dominant postmodern feminist aesthetic of the time. In the years... Read more
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The Essence of George Condo: 1983-1996
George Condo 17.12.2005 - 5.02.2006 Gallery - Knokke - Belgium George Condo has occupied a central position in the landscape of American painting for nearly forty years. His unique and imaginative visual language pays tribute to a vast array of art-historical traditions and genres, drawing together elements of Old Master portraiture with allusions to contemporary American culture. Populated by a... Read more
