Past Exhibitions
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Light As Space
Marina Adams, Joanne Greenbaum, & Anne Truitt 3.08 - 8.09.2024 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan MARUANI MERCIER is honored to present Light As Space featuring the work of three American artists: Marina Adams, Joanne Greenbaum, and Anne Truitt. This is the second group show organized for the gallery by New York-based curator Raymond Foye , who explains, “Contemporary art is inextricably linked to context and... Read more -
The Forbidden Paradise
Arne Quinze 30.03 - 22.05.2024 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan, Gallery | Knokke Zeedijk In the lush microcosm of Arne Quinze’s garden lies the heart of his inspiration. Among the ten thousand blooms, plants, and hedges carefully cultivated, he discovers a world teeming with life and possibility. This verdant sanctuary, nestled beside his home and atelier, offers an unbroken communion—a sacred space where every... Read more -
Calder & Miró 22.07 - 31.08.2023 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan, Gallery | Knokke Zeedijk Alexander Calder and Joan Miró met in the creative milieu of 1920s Paris, amidst the artistic giants of Braque, Dalí, and Picasso. Despite the rise of fascism forcing them back to their home countries, Calder and Miró maintained contact, influencing and exhibiting together until Calder's death in 1976. Their shared... Read more
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The Future Isn't What It Used to Be
Esiri Erheriene-Essi 7.08 - 3.09.2021 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Following her breakthrough exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam after being nominated for the Prix de Rome in 2019 (the oldest and most prestigious award in the Netherlands for artists under the age of 40), Esiri Erheriene-Essi, the London-born but Amsterdam-based artist, made her name as one of the... Read more -
Wildflowers
Arne Quinze 3.06 - 11.07.2021 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Arne Quinze finds his inspiration all year round through the thousands of wildflowers he has planted in his garden. The seasons dictate the evolution the flowers gradually go through, a process that energises Quinze like no other. In the same way as blossoming flowers, he allows his work to thrive... Read more -
Resistance 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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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 -
New Works
Peter Halley 1.08 - 3.09.2020 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan We are proud to present Peter Halley's 9th solo exhibition with the gallery. Halley is part of the generation of Neo-Conceptualist artists that first exhibited in New York’s East Village, including Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Mayier Vaisman and Ashley Bickerton. These artists became identified on a wider scale with the... Read more -
Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Max Ernst, Francesco Clemente, Ron Gorchov, Peter Halley
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Hovering
Paul Kremer 4 - 31.07.2020 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan MARUANI MERCIER is proud to present Hovering , Paul Kremer's first solo exhibition with the gallery. As the exhibition title implies, Kremer 's new Float and Drop series are about hovering, and the act of being uncertainly still in between two states. It's about what might happen. Being trapped in... 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 -
Drum & Bass
Mathieu Mercier 6.04 - 5.05.2019 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan The series Drum & Bass echoes an earlier set of works by Mathieu Mercier titled Still Untitled. These pieces, made from boards found in the street and covered with adhesive, present a more or less open interpretation of a mondrianesque grid. The goal is, through the use of scraps, to... Read more -
Maurizio Cattelan + Pierpaolo Ferrari
Toiletpaper 4.08 - 2.09.2018 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari are the duo behind TOILETPAPER, known for its cheeky hyperreal imagery, breaking down the prevailing codes and photographic motifs of fashion. Photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari first met artist Maurizio Cattelan when capturing him on camera more than ten years ago. The magic worked... Read more -
Like A Thief In The Night
Justin Brice 4.08 - 2.09.2018 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan We are proud to announce Justin Brice’s new exhibition, Like A Thief In The Night . This summer, temperatures have risen to a shocking 37 degrees. Global warming is one of the urgent environmental disasters that Justin Brice addresses with his art, so this exhibition could not be more aptly... Read more -
My Secret Garden
Arne Quinze 31.03 - 14.05.2018 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Arne QUINZE was born in 1971 in Belgium. In the eighties he began working as a graffiti artist but he never finished an official art education. He lives and works in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium and Los Angeles, US. Quinze creates large and small sculptures, drawings, paintings, and large-scale installations. Smaller works,... Read more -
...and the people
Carrie Mae Weems - Hank Willis Thomas 5.08 - 4.09.2017 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan MARUANI MERCIER is proud to present a group show of American artists Titus Kaphar, Carrie Mae Weems & Hank Willis Thomas. The exhibition will include new and iconic works of the artists, from painting and photography to sculpture, and engage the conversation on the past and current racially charged political... Read more -
Ron Gorchov 1.04 - 1.05.2017 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more
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GAVIN TURK 6.08 - 7.09.2016 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan 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 painted bronze, the waxwork, the recycled... 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... Read more
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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
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A Dialogue Through Objects, Images & Ideas
SHERRIE LEVINE, MAN RAY 1 - 31.08.2015 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more -
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
Nathlie Provosty 4.04 - 4.05.2015 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more -
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 -
Black, Bird, Brain
Ross Bleckner 2 - 31.08.2014 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan The works 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 abstraction of stripes or dots or more... Read more -
Detroit Series
McDermott & McGough 2 - 31.08.2014 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan McDermott & McGough consists of visual artists David McDermott and Peter McGough who are contemporary artists known for their work in painting, photography, sculpture and film. McDermott & McGough are best known for using alternative historical processes in their photography, including the techniques of cyanotype, gum bichromate, salt, tri color... Read more -
Man Ray - Sherrie Levine 15.07 - 1.09.2014 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more
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Héroïnes & Just Like A Woman
Bettina Rheims 25.03 - 22.05.2014 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan 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 -
Man Ray 3.08 - 16.09.2012 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more
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Earth Laughs in Flowers
David LaChapelle 5.08 - 12.09.2011 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan 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 Kustlaan Read more
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Church 2010
Andres Serrano 3.04 - 13.05.2010 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more -
Donald Baechler 1 - 31.08.2009 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more
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STUART CUMBERLAND 2.05 - 30.06.2009 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more
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Plaster Surrogates & Perfect Vehicles
Allan McCollum 30.12.2006 - 30.01.2007 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more -
Sue Williams 1 - 31.08.2006 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan 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... Read more
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The Essence of George Condo: 1983-1996
George Condo 17.12.2005 - 5.02.2006 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan 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 -
Peter Halley 6.08 - 6.09.2005 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more
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David LaChapelle 26.03 - 26.08.2005 Gallery | Knokke Kustlaan Read more
