JUNE 3, 2010

Luc Tuymans' U.S. retrospective opened at the Dallas Museum of Art. It's the third venue after the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The show will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels later on.
www.dm-art.org

MAY 1, 2010

Today the World Expo 2010 opened in Shangai, China. Artist/architect John Körmeling designed the Dutch pavillion. Happy Street, as his pavillion is called, is the artist's interpretation on the ideal city.
http://en.expo2010.cn

APRIL 2, 2010

A solo exhibition with work by Kees Goudzwaard entitled ‘Provisional Space’ opened at the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem (NL). On show in this exhibition is a selection of ten paintings from the period 2005-2010, in which Goudzwaard further explores colour and composition through his meticulously constructed trompe l’oeil paintings.
www.mmkarnhem.nl

MARCH 18, 2010

The solo exhibition ‘Against the Wall’ featuring new paintings by Marlene Dumas opened at David Zwirner (NY). Dumas’s paintings often display a kind of ambiguity of meaning, employing visual “traps” to show how the mind is quick to assume what is being presented in a given image. Her latest works explore the (in)famous walls of the unstable region of the Middle East. Evolved primarily from media imagery and newspaper clippings documenting Israel and Palestine, Dumas’s representations acknowledge universal themes of instability, isolation, and the lack of communication, while moreover addressing the medium of painting as such.
www.davidzwirner.com

MARCH 4-7, 2010

The Armory Show, New York

MARCH, 2010

Mark Manders work is currently on view in two New York museums: in the exhibition ‘Skin Fruit. Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons’ at the New Museum and in the Guggenheim Museum exhibition ‘Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum’.
www.newmuseum.org
www.guggenheim.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A solo exhibition with works by Jenny Scobel opened at the Wake Forest University Gallery, Winston-Salem (US). A selection of her works, executed in graphite and oil painting on wooden panels, are on view.

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

At James Cohan Gallery (NY), a solo show with new work by Yun-Fei Ji opened entitled ‘Mistaking Each Others for Ghosts’. The exhibition includes new works on paper in which Ji continues to make reference to the historical in order to connect with the contemporary. He revisits the treasure chest of folk legends, classical text and Marquis de Sade who provided inspiration for his most recent group of works.
www.jamescohan.com

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

On view at Pierogi (NY) is a solo exhibition with work by Kim Jones featuring a series of drawings and paintings on paper that incorporate early drawings made at the age of fourteen as well as early performance documentation and sculptural works made of wigs and acrylic paint. These pieces resemble flattened scalps or skins and integrate Jones' familiar war drawings.
www.pierogi2000.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Including over 70 key paintings from 1978 to the present, Luc Tuymans' U.S. retrospective opened at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and will travel to Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels.
www.sfmoma.org

JANUARY 29, 2010

Michaël Borremans solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver (US) shows a selection of ten paintings and the film ‘Weight’.
On Thursday March 25 Michaël Borremans will give a public lecture followed by a reception
www.mcadenver.org

JANUARY 29, 2010

Parallellepipeda is a project in which scientists of the University of Leuven and visual artists were brought together in research labs for several years. In this project Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven was chosen as the central artist. The result of their cooperations is presented in an exhibition at M Museum in Leuven. A beautiful overview of Van Kerckhoven’s plexi works, drawings and films are presented next to recent installations developed in the context of the project.

DECEMBER 21, 2009

After being on view at Wiels, Brussels (BE) and Baibakova projects, Moscow (RU), Luc Tuymans' show 'Against the Day' is now on view in the newly opened Moderna museet, Malmö (SE). www.modernamuseet.se/en/malmo

DECEMBER 3-6, 2009

Art Basel / Miami Beach

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s solo show ‘Nothing More Natural’ opened at FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (FR) concluding this traveling exhibition focusing on her drawings after previous venues at Kunstmuseum Lucerne (CH), Wiels, Brussel (BE) and Kunsthalle Nürnberg (DE). www.fracdespaysdelaloire.com

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Mark Manders’ second solo gallery show opened at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery New York. A series of major new works are exhibited in both the ground floor and second floor galleries. www.tanyabonakdargallery.com

OCTOBER 16-19, 2009

Frieze Art Fair, London

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE) opened the exhibition ‘Absence is the Highest Form of Presence’, the last and unfinished project of curator Michael Tarantino, who died in 2003. Departing from the basic concept Tarantino wrote down in 2002-2003, the artists Luc Tuymans, Juliao Sarmento, Robert Gober and the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens closely cooperated to realise the project. Old and new works are on view combining film, painting and sculptural installations. www.museumdd.be

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

This first major exhibition of Luc Tuymans in Russia will be held at the Red October Chocolate Factory Moscow, where the artist will also be a special guest of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. ’Against the Day’ is the most recent of a trilogy of exhibitions which critique utopic ideals in society. The first looked at the power structures of the Jesuit religious order; the second, ‘Forever: The Magic of Management’, addressed the impact of the fantasy world of Walt Disney; and the current show explores aspects of virtual reality and its impact on our perception of reality.
The 20 new works were launched at Wiels centre for contemporary art in Brussels in February this year. Following its run in Moscow, the exhibition will continue to the Rooseum- Moderna Museet, Malmo in Sweden. www.baibakovartprojects.com

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

On view at Jarla Partilager’s Berlin exhibition space is a wonderfully balanced group exhibition with works by Charles Long, Mark Manders, Thomas Schütte, Ian Kiaer and paintings by Luc Tuymans. www.jarlapartilager.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The first U.S. retrospective of Luc Tuymans - and the most comprehensive presentation of his work to date - debuted at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus. 'Luc Tuymans' spans every phase of the artist's career and features more than 70 key paintings from 1978 to the present. The retrospective reunites the paintings in groupings originally set out by the artist, thus restoring the intended dialogue among the works. The exhibition is curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Helen Molesworth, Maisie K. and James R. Houghton. www.wexarts.org

After the Wexner Center presentation, 'Luc Tuymans' will attend SFMOMA, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

New works by Cristof Yvoré are currently on view at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. This beautiful solo show is the artist’s first exhibition in the United States. www.kohngallery.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Raoul De Keyser’s fourth solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, opened this fall. On view are 50 works, made up of two complementary bodies of work: drawings (various works on paper) and paintings. Created from 1979 to 1982, the drawings — made on different types of paper and in diverse media — continue the lineage of the work currently on view in Ghent. www.davidzwirner.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Today the solo show ‘Le Brouhaha’ with new works by Patrick Van Caeckenbergh opened at In Situ/Fabienne Leclerc, Paris. www.insituparis.fr

AUGUST 20, 2009

The first large German retrospective of Raoul De Keyser, entitled ‘Replay. Paintings 1964 – 2007’, opened on the 20th of August at Kunstmuseum Bonn. This major solo exhibition, including more than 70 paintings, provides a comprehensive examination of the forty years of this artist’s work. www.kunstmuseum.bonn.de

AUGUST 15, 2009

The 4th edition of Contour 2009, the biennial for Moving Image in Mechelen (BE), opened this week. Featuring Michaël Borremans' newest film ‘Taking Turns’, this edition wants to explore how historical narratives are constructed, and highlights the complex and often persisting entangle­ments between past, present and future. www.contourmechelen.be

JULY 4, 2009

After being on view at Museu Serralves, Porto (PT) and the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IE), the solo exhibition ‘Watercolours’ with recent watercolours by Raoul De Keyser, is now partially on view at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp. A comprehensive catalogue accompanies this group of works. www.galeriebarbaraweiss.de

JUNE 10-14, 2009

ART 40, Basel

JUNE 6, 2009

In Venice, François Pinault opened a second exhibition space at the Punta della Dogana. The exhibition 'Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection' with a selection of 200 works by 60 artists, entirely occupies the spaces of both Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi. Luc Tuymans, Marlene Dumas and Michaël Borremans are wonderfully represented on both locations.

In Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, Axel Vervoordt concluded his trilogy of exhibitions started with Artempo in 2007 and Academia in 2008, with In-Finitum. In this carefully composed exhibition, works of art range from archaeological non-finished items over incomplete Old Master paintings to contemporary installations including three wonderful non-finished paintings by Marlene Dumas, Michaël Borremans and Raoul De Keyser. All capturing the infinite through their incompleteness.

MAY 30, 2009

Celebrating Raoul De Keyser’s donation of 187 works on paper (1964-1979) to the Museum of Fine Art in Ghent, these works, wich reflect his evolution from figuartive drawing to the more abstract compositions , are now on show at the Museum. www.mskgent.be

MAY 24, 2009

A wonderful exhibition entitled ‘Private Universes’ and curated by Maria de Corral, opened at the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas (US). Featuring a.o. Luc Tuymans, Marlene Dumas, Johannes Kahrs and Michaël Borremans this exhibition skirts traditional art historical trappings and explores new ways of connecting works and artists. www.dallasmuseumofart.org

APRIL 23, 2009

Today Luc Tuymans' first solo show in Brussels 'Against the Day' opened at Wiels Center for Contemporary Art. 20 new paintings are on show for the first time.
The works can be seen as the third and last part of a triptych that began with the series Les Revenants about the power of the Jesuit Order and continued with Forever. The Management of Magic, about the Disney phenomenon. In this new series, Tuymans continues his work focusing on television-reality shows, which manipulated images and illusions he examines through his painting practice. www.wiels.org

APRIL 10, 2009

Recent work of Michaël Borremans is now on show at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover (DE)
In this beautiful solo exhibition, Borremans film works from the last three years are shown, together with a selection paintings and drawings. www.kestner.org

MARCH 26, 2009

Today Marlene Dumas traveling exhibition 'Measuring Your Own Grave' opened at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas (US). This major solo exhibition includes more than 70 paintings and 35 drawings, providing a comprehensive examination of her work. www.menil.org

MARCH 20, 2009

The solo exhibition The Absence of Mark Manders opened at Kunsthaus Zürich (CH). This wonderful, touching exhibition, which was first hosted by Kunstverein Hannover, Bergen Kunsthall, and S.M.A.K. Ghent, is Mark Manders’ most important presentation so far, and includes new central installations and sculptures supplemented with work from the period 1990 to 2007. At the same time there is a beautifully installed exhibition of Giacometti in combination with Egyptian masterpieces, including busts of Akhenaton and Nefertiti. www.kunsthaus.ch

MARCH 14, 2009

After presenting a comprehensive show of Raoul De Keyser’s paintings in 2005, the Museu Serralves in Porto (PT) now exhibits a set of 59 watercolors from recent years. These reduced, highly sensitive works have never been exhibited before. www.serralves.pt

MARCH 11, 2009

First showed at the Kunstmuseum Lucerne and Wiels, Center for Contemporary Art Brussels, the exhibition Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven - Nothing More Natural is now on view at the Kunsthalle in Nürnberg (DE). This exhibition, which includes a chronological and thematic selection of more than 100 drawings, a number of experimental works and the restored films dating from the beginning of her career, proposes to revaluate this corpus of works in relation to her career and art. www.kunsthalle.nuernberg.de

MARCH 5-8, 2009

The Armory Show 2009, New York

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Michaël Borremans recent work is exhibited at David Zwirner in New York. For this solo presentation, wich is named after his new film Taking Turns, the artist has created five new paintings and is presenting three films: ‘The Feeding’, ‘The Sorm’ and ‘Taking Turns’. www.davidzwirner.com

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Into the Light, the eleventh edition of Error One, is an international project in which video, audio and light installations are displayed on façades, windows and screens around the Leopold De Waelplaats in Antwerp. During the late afternoons and nights, Into the Light serves as a counterbalance to the dearth of light on the shortest and darkest days of the year.
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven's video Pre-5 is projected on several windows of the façade of Zeno X Gallery. A magical effect. www.errorone.be

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Today Marlene Dumas' traveling exhibition 'Measuring Your Own Grave' opened at the Museum of Modern Art New York. The exhibition, the largest of Marlene Dumas’ ever to be shown in the United States, includes more than seventy paintings and thirty-five drawings, providing a comprehensive examination of her work. www.moma.org

DECEMBER 12, 2008

The solo exhibition The Absence of Mark Manders opened at S.M.A.K., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent. This wonderful, touching exhibition, which was first hosted by Kunstverein Hannover and Bergen Kunsthall, is Mark Manders’ most important presentation so far, and includes new central installations and sculptures supplemented with work from the period 1990 to 2007. Several other installations on display have never been exhibited before. www.smak.be

DECEMBER 4-7, 2008

Art Basel Miami Beach 2008, Miami

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

On November 16th, Michaël Borremans received the Overbeck-Preis für Bildende Kunst der Gemeinnützigen 2008 in Lübeck, Germany. This price is accompanied by a solo exhibition at the Overbeck-Gesellschaft with recent paintings. www.overbeck-gesellschaft.de

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Michaël Borremans latest work is exhibited at Gallery Kyanagi in Tokyo, Japan. The show contains a variety of film, oil paintings, and a small mixed media piece. Eartlight Room, the show’s title, suggests an ethereal narrative – a quality that is evident in his work, which often focuses on the human figure engaging in mysterious activity. www.gallerykoyanagi.com

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Marlene Dumas, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara and Noritoshi Hirakawa all participate in the exhibition Diana and Acteon. The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. This large exhibition is a unique combination of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and videos, from Greek Antiquity over Rembrandt and Poussin to nowadays, that focus on specific issues that are raised in visual works of art as they deal with the forbidden glance at sex, usual in a female form. www.museum-kunst-palast.de

OCTOBER 16-19, 2008

Frieze Art Fair 2008, London

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Eyes on his Body is Johannes Kahrs’ first solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine and his gallery debut in the United States. New work is showed, in which Kahrs’ continues his interest in rendering images culled from news publications, documentary photography and film stills, as well as from his own personal archive. www.luhringaugustine.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

First showed at the Kunstmuseum Lucerne, the exhibition Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven - Nothing More Natural is now on view in Wiels, Center for Contemporary Art in Brussels.
This exhibition, which includes a chronological and thematic selection of more than 300 drawings, a number of experimental works and the restored films dating from the beginning of her career, proposes to revaluate this corpus of works in relation to her career and art, and places it in the perspective of the surrealist heritage, underground and the comic book. www.wiels.org

AUGUST 16, 2008

Over the last thirty years the Belgian artist Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven has pursued an ambitious project of using the media of drawing, film and music to examine the connection between sexuality, technology and forms of representation. The exhibition in the Museum of Art Lucerne, conceived in close collaboration with the Wiels Center for Contemporary Art in Brussels and the artist herself. Some 120 drawings from 1974 until the present are complemented by a representative selection of films and videos. The exhibition runs until November 23 at the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne. (designed by architect Jean Nouvel). www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch

JULY 19, 2008

This year Manifesta 7, the European Biennal of Contemporary Art, is hosted by the Trentino - South Tyrol region in Italy. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven is one of the artists selected by curator Anselm Franke to present her work in the Palazzo delle Poste in Trento (IT). A selection of drawings, collages and film are on view. The show is on til November 2. www.manifesta7.it

JUNE 27, 2008

A small but beautifull solo exhibition of Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser opened at FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (FR). The show is accompanied by a small post-exhibition catalogue.

JUNE 22, 2008

Today Marlene Dumas' travelling exhibition 'Measuring Your Own Grave' opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The large retrospective exhibition includes over 100 paintings and drawings and will travel later on to MOMA, New York and The Mennil Collection, Houston.
www.moca.org

JUNE 4-8, 2008

Art 39, Basel

MAY 30, 2008

Luc Tuymans' show 'Come and See' at the Zacheta National Gallery of Arts in Warsaw (PL) is the third and last venue of the travelling exhibition that also was on view in Muscarnok, Budapest (HU) and Haus der Kunst in Munich (DE). Tuymans made a large wall painting especially for this exhibition that will be on view during the show. www.zacheta.art.pl

MAY 17, 2008

'Day Night Day' is Maria Serebriakova's second solo exhibition at Regina Gallery in Moscow. The Exhibition consists mostly out of oil paintings on wood and some works on paper.
more info www.regina.ru

MAY 3, 2008

"Life on Mars," the 2008 Carnegie International, focuses on the increasingly relevant question of what it means to be human in the world today. Foregoing any universal answers to this question, the artists in the exhibition investigate particular aspects of the human condition, moving along paths that are both introspective and worldly while poetically traversing the dramatic spectrum from tragedy to comedy.

One of these artists is the Dutch artist Mark Manders, who presents “Room with Clothes, Belt and Contact Lenses” (1992-2008) in one of the rooms of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. This new installation exists of 4 works, which are brought together to one room filling sculpture.
The show opened today and will stay on until the beginning of January 2009. For more information and images: http://blog.cmoa.org/CI08/home.php.

APRIL 18, 2008

The Belgian rock band dEUS asked Michaël Borremans to design the artwork for their new record. Borremans chose for “Two Circles” of the series “The Good Ingredients”, which he made in 2006. Trevor Baker wrote in The Guardian: “The only really eye-catching album sleeve I've seen so far this year has been by dEUS - who got artist Michaël Borremans to give them a characteristically sinister painting for their excellent new album Vantage Point. The care they put into the music is reflected in the care they put into the packaging (…)”
The official dEUS website: www.deus.be.When you are there, also take a look at the video clip ‘Slow’, where Luc Tuymans plays a small part in the opening scene.

APRIL 4, 2008

Today the ‘Draaiend Huis’ (Turning House) of the Ducht artist/architect John Körmeling opened at the Hasseltrotonde in Tilbrug, the Netherlands. The house has already been designed in 1998 as a sculpture for a public space, but has only been realised this year. The house turns on solar energy at a speed of one full circle every 20 hours. Körmeling explains: “Drivers will see the house every time in a different place and will think about it. They will see the house they just left now in a different context.”

MARCH 27-30, 2008

The Armory Show, New York

MARCH 15, 2008

After De Appel in Amsterdam, the solo show ‘Veldwerk’ of Michaël Borremans opened today at Centro de Artes Visuais in Coimbra (PT). To compagnie both exhibitions, a comprehensive catalogue is published, a collaboration between CAV Coimbra, de Appel and Hatje Cantz. The show will be on until June 8. For more information: www.cav.net4b.pt/index.html

MARCH 1, 2008

The exhibition ‘wenn der frühling kommt / when springtime is coming’ at Haus der Kunst in Munich (DE) brings together paintings from the last 30 years, as well as a wall drawing, which Luc Tuymans created especially for this exhibition. The connection between the place of an exhibition and his own work, the tension-filled area between history and the present, is important to Tuymans when presenting his works: in the Haus der Kunst’s monumental exhibition spaces with its green-white overhead lighting, which Tuymans refers to as ‘deceased light’, mirrors the way in which Tuymans deals with emptiness and space in his paintings.
The exhibition is on show until the 12th of May and will open in Warsaw at the end of the same month. For more information: www.hausderkunst.com.

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Dirk Braeckman’s first solo show in New York opened it’s doors today at Robert Miller Gallery. His typical black and white photographs focus on abstract spaces, domestic interiors and other loci of the built environment. For more information on the show and gallery: www.robertmillergallery.com.

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Today Luc Tuymans’ seventh solo exhibition at David Zwirner in New York opend for public. This time the artist will focus his exacting gaze on the globally influential, yet distinctly American phenomenon of Disney. The painting and exhibition’s shared title, Forever, seemingly refers to the endurance of an ideology and a timeless, fairytale paradigm. Rife with paradox, it simultaneously proposes the practical opposites - anachronism, mortality, and dissolution. In these works, plans fail, memories fade, and perception is clouded by illusionism.
A fully illustrated catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition. www.davidzwirner.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

After travelling to Cape Town, the solo show “Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations” opened today at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg. It will be on view until the end of March.
www.standardbankgallery.co.za

JANUARY 25, 2008

Today is the inauguration of Dirk Braeckman’s photo H.S.-N.Y.-94-99 at the Concertgebouw in Bruges (BE). The photo is impregnated into the concrete at the top of the Atrium of the building.The architect Paul Robbrecht, the City of Bruges, the Bruges Museums and the Concertgebouw are all very excited about the acquisition of this permanent image, stated the website: www.concertgebouw.be

JANUARY 17, 2008

The Bergen Kunsthall (NO) is the second venue to host the solo show “The Absence of Mark Manders”. The show will be on view until the third of March. For more information: www.kunsthall.no

December 20, 2007

We want to congratulate Luc and Marlene on the prices and titles they received the last days. 

We are very proud to announce Luc Tuymans received the honorary royal title of ‘Commandeur in de Leopoldsorde’. While Marlene Dumas is honoured with the ‘Kunstpreises 2007 der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf”. 

December 14, 2007

Mucsarnok, Budapest is the first art hall in Central and Eastern Europe to host an exhibition by Luc Tuymans, who is considered, by art historians and collectors alike, to be one of the most important living painters. More than 70 works are on display, next to a large mural painting. A catalogue is published on the occasion. The show will later travel to Haus der Kunst in Munich and Zacheta in Warsaw. For more information on the show that ends February 10th, 2008: www.mucsarnok.hu.

December 5-9, 2007

Art Basel Miami Beach

November 12, 2008

New York artist Jenny Scobel presents a group of recent drawings at Kendall Gallery in Grand Rapids, MI (US). In this exhibition, the artist continues her somewhat obsessive exploration of the various ways in which alternate meaning can be constructed. The show is on until December 7th at the Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University.

November 8, 2007

The exhibition “Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations”, at iziko museums of cape town (ZA), covers a broad selection of her work. Marlene Dumas chose ‘Intimate Relations’ as a sub-title for the exhibition as it conveys the curatorial vision and selection of works that focus thinking around issues of what constitute intimate relations between people, places and paintings.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue edited by Emma Bedford. The exhibition closes on 13 January 2008. It will be shown at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg from 6 February to 29 March 2008.
http://www.iziko.org.za

October 10-14, 2007

Frieze Artfair, London

October 12, 2007

The Kunstverein Hannover presents today the most wide-ranging exhibition of works by the Dutch artist Mark Manders to be shown in Germany until now. In conjunction with a sculptural setting developed especially for these spaces, the presentation of works made between 1990 and 2007 enables a comprehensive view of one of the most striking and original positions in contemporary sculpture. The exhibition will travel to 3 other venues across Europe and Hatje Cantz will publish a catalog on the occasion of the exhibition. More information on: www.kunstverein-hannover.de.

September 28, 2007

The Belgian newspaper 'De Standaard' had a new art director for just one day. Luc Tuymans redesigned the newspaper totally yesterday together with his assistant Ives Maes. They choose to have a line of images on top of each page instead of placing the images next to the articles. On the front page of today's newspaper the artist explains: "I want to make the reader think about the relation between word and image, and about the distance between the image and it's interpretation." To see the digital newspaper: http://www.standaard.be/

September 14, 2008

From tomorrow until January 6, 2008, the Württembergischer Kunstverein and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart will be presenting within a space covering 4,000 sq. metres the first comprehensive exhibition of the works of Canadian artist Stan Douglas. The exhibition will encompass fourteen video and film installations, as well as numerous photographs. Taking place at two locations, the exhibition is conceived as one project and is to be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue. For more information: http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de and http://www.staatsgalerie.de.

September 8, 2007

In Athens (GR) two large group shows opened with work of Mark Manders included.
At the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art the international art collector Dakis Joannou shows a part of his collection. “Fractured Figure” is curated by Jeffrey Deitch and shows the work of over 30 artists. The show is up until March 23rd 2008. www.deste.gr
For its first edition, the Athens Biennial launches under the confrontational title "Destroy Athens" and the exhibition's organisers aim to challenge both positive and negative stereotypes of the Greek capital-idealised as the birthplace of democracy and culture by tourists and maligned as a smog-clogged urban waste by its residents. Around 60 international artists, including Mark Manders have been invited to display work, with a number of pieces commissioned specifically for the event. www.athensbiennial.org.

September 7, 2007

Starting today de Appel, a non-profit space in Amsterdam (NL), will explore an unknown aspect of Michaël Borremans' oeuvre, namely the films on which he has been working on the quiet. The presentation in de Appel - from 8 September through 4 November 2007 - is Borremans first solo exhibition in The Netherlands, but also counts as the international premiere of his cinematic work. In January 2008, the exhibition will travel further to the venue of co-organiser Centro de Artes Visuais in Coimbra, Portugal (21 January - 20 April 2008). To accompany the exhibition, a comprehensive catalogue will be published, a collaboration between CAV Coimbra, de Appel and Hatje Cantz.
www.deappel.nl

June 1, 2007

For his first retrospective in Paris, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh invites us into his ‘garden’. Having crossed the wrought-iron fence that delimits the garden, visitors follow a trail of 23 object-sculptures, models and collages, all part of the unique oeuvre which Patrick Van Caeckenbergh has developed over a period of more than 25 years.
The showed opened today at La Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert and will be on view until September 16. More information can be found on: www.lamaisonrouge.org

March 16, 2007

Today is the first day of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s long awaited Berlinale. Two Berlin galleries have simultaneously opened an exhibition, presenting her work to the German audience. At DAAD Gallery Anne-Mie is presenting “Uber das ICH (Willkür und Transzendenz) [and a lot of fun]”, the end result of a year of living and working in Berlin (DE). The show opening at Barbara Thumm’s Gallery is called “Oh, the Sick Lady/ Ah, the Sick Lady (Explodes from within)” and focuses on paintings, drawings and computer films. The exhibition will be on view until April 21. Films by Anne-Mie will be shown at the Filmhaus das Arsenal from March 26 through March 31. Check out the webpages of: www.clubmoral.com - www.bthumm.de - www.daad-berlin.de

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven was also selected as guest curator of the Time festival in Ghent (BE). This festival takes place every two years, each time with different curators. This ensures an ever-changing viewpoint on contemporary urban an artistic life. Every festival is different, for a large part is determined by the curator’s personality. This year the focus will be on symbolism, on the ambiguity of certain images and ideas that are not what they appear to be at first sight. The festival includes exhibitions, films, music performances, lectures and so on. It will be opened at the Vooruit April 19, and will appear and disappear at different sites all over the city until April 28. For more information: www.timefestival.be

February 15, 2007

At Bozar in Brussels (BE) the exhibition “Het Verboden Rijk (The Forbidden Empire)” opened today. The curators of the show, Luc Tuymans and Yu Hui, have attempted to create a dialog between art of the southern Netherlands and China. Old meets New. East meets West. Artists such as Van Eyck, Rubens, Ensor, Spilliaert and Magritte are confronted with works on paper and silk, dating back to the Ming- and Qingdynasty. The two very different traditions are carefully and respectfully approached, so they do not lose their own significant uniqueness. The exhibition will be on view until May 6 and will then travel to the Palace Museum in Beijing, where it will be shown from June 17 until September 2.
More information can be found on www.bozar.be.

December 6-10,2006

Art Basel Miami Beach

October 17, 2006

David Zwirner’s new space opened a month ago and today Raoul De Keyser’s latest works are put on display in this brand new venue. It is the artist’s third solo exhibition at this New York gallery. A fully illustrated catalog with these 30 new works will be published.
www.davidzwirner.com

October 14, 2006

Almost 500 people joined us today to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Zeno X Gallery. We started in the afternoon with a preview at Zeno X Gallery with new works on display by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Michaël Borremans, Yun-Fei Ji and Johannes Kahrs. At Zeno X Storage Luc Tuymans, Raoul De Keyser, John Körmeling, Marlene Dumas, Jenny Scobel and Cristof Yvoré showed their latest work. In total 64 works of 37 different artists are represented. Both exhibitions give a good overview of the 25 passed years and what we want to bring in the future. After the preview the celebrations continued at De Roma, where a dozen volunteers and the catering team of Koen Wellens served great food and drinks the entire night. DJ David Neirings played swinging tunes until the morning. Thank you all!

July 14, 2006

The Serralves Foundation in Porto (PT) includes a great park, a new contemporary art museum and the formal villa of the family Serralves. While in the museum a group show was going on that includes Johannes Kahrs, Luc Tuymans was busy preparing his solo show in the villa. For a week Tuymans and his assistant Ives Maes, together with curator Hans Rudolf Reust, worked there to make an extraordinary presentation. Next to the 18 paintings on show, a lot of archive and documentation material is put on show to give the viewer a look behind the scenes. Also the new catalogue introduces us in the world of Luc Tuymans before he starts painting. A must see, until the beginning of November! www.serralves.pt
The Serralves Foundation made a great catalogue of which 100 copies are signed and dated by the artist. This edition is sold for very democrate prices and is a great gift for all Tuymans fans.

June 13-18, 2006 - Art Basel

These days we were in Switzerland for the 37h edition of Art Basel. People were rushing in at the preview day to see new work(s) by Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Johannes Kahrs, Mark Manders, Luc Tuymans and Cristof Yvoré, but also the light-boxes of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, paintings by Maria Serebriakova and photographs of Dirk Braeckman were drawings the attention of the collectors.
Herewith we want to thank the team of Art Basel for a great event, which gave us and the collectors the opportunity to see nice expositions in town and surroundings, have nice dinners and a lot of parties. It was a successful fair for all of us!

June 8, 2006

Today a peculiar exhibition of Luc Tuymans’ oeuvre opened at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain in Geneva (CH), together with six other smaller presentations of different artists. The show brings about 40 portraits togethere, all painted in the period 1975-2003. "Portraits" provides us with a totally different angle on Tuymans’ work and is a real eye-catcher.
The show will stay on until the beginning of September 2006. For more information you can visit the website: www.mamco.ch

May 26, 2006

At the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway you enter Vladivostok. Three Belgian artists arrived there a week ago to install some works for the exhibition 'Extremities' in the new Museum of Modern Art, Artetage/FENTU. Dirk Braeckman selected 30 of his pictures and installed them as small icons. Luc Tuymans painted an enormous pigeon on the wall, named ‘Dracula’. And Anne-Mie Van Kerkchoven showed her amazing video ‘Deeper’, next to her most recent works printed on textile. Also an interactive work of her is on display, so visitors can work with her creative images. The exhibitions stays on show until the beginning of July.

Closer to home the Belgian artist Patrick Van Caeckenbergh became an honorary citizen of the city were he lives and works. The mayor of Horebeke, politician Herman De Croo and professor Clem Neutjens opened the celebrations with a speech and the local band played some songs. Congratulations!

May 19, 2006

Galerie der Stadt Backnang invited Jenny Scobel to have her first solo show in Germany. Seventeen works are on display in six rooms, giving a nice overview of her work from the nineties until present. The show opened its doors today and will run until the end of July. To visit the exhibition and the lovely city, first check: www.backnang.de
When you are in the neighbourhood you can always stop in Stuttgart to see a selection of drawings of Michaël Borremans at the Württembergischer Kunstverein: www.wkv-stuttgart.de

May 12, 2006

Today the solo exhibition "Restoration" of Luc Tuymans opened at Wako Works of Art in Tokyo (JP). The show includes new paintings and drawings, all based on the same theme. The religious order of the Jesuits (or Society of Jesus) inspired Tuymans to make for instance a protrait of Saint Ignatius, an interior scene of the Saint Ignatius church in Jihlava (Czech Republic) and a portrait of Santa Barbara. The show stays on until the end of June.
More information on: www.wako-art.jp

In the Fundaçao de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea in Porto the work of Johannes Kahrs is on show, next to the work of Havekost, Plessen and Sasnal. "Imagens em Pintura" brings together the work of four painters, two of them grew up in countries is the Eastern Block and two in Western Germany. They all started exhibiting around 2000 and refer to different types of photographic models. Almost 20 works of each artist are included in the exhibition and are displayed in the catalogue. Until the beginning of June you can see the work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto. www.serralves.pt

May 3, 2006

Dirk Braeckman made a production for the NTG in Gent (BE) together with the Belgium author and theatre producer Peter Verhelst. The production “Chemisch Insect – Aankomst van de treinen” brings images together that create a story on its own. Without words. The production can be seen from May 2nd until May 13th. More information on: www.ntgent.be and www.kingkong.be
(photo's: © Predrag Momcilovic)

Do not forget to visit the Berlin Bienniale. The work of both Mark Manders and Michaël Borremans received already a lot of attention and will be up until the beginning of June. For more information: www.berlinbiennale.de/

April 20, 2006

Today Luc Tuymans received an honorary degree from the Antwerp University. On April 20th Mr. Ernest Van Buynder presented the artist in a speech and documented his words with images and sound. Luc Tuymans received the honorary degree from the university of his hometown for general merit. We want to congratulate him with this honorary doctorate.

April 8, 2006

John Körmeling constructed the smallest covered bridge in the world at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL) . His work “Echt iets voor u” opened today and connects the Van Abbemuseum with a small street in the back. The pink house is a real eye catcher and also at night it gives the backside of the museum a sparkling shine.

April 2006

Welcome to our newspage. From now on we will keep you updated on a regular base about what is going on in the gallery and abroad.

At this time we are very busy working to help venues around the world to make interesting exhibitions.
The work by Johannes Kahrs for instance will be included in a group show of international painters in Colecçao Fundaçao de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto (PT). Together with the work of Havekost, Sasnal and von Plessen almost 20 works will be on show of him.
Also Luc Tuymans will have an exhibition in Colecçao Fundaçao de Serralves, opening mid July. This solo show will bring works together from all over the globe. New works on the other hand will be exhibited in Japan at Wako Works of Art in Tokyo during May and June.
At the same time Kees Goudzwaard will have his solo show in Culturgest, Lisbon (PT). Roma publications will produce a new book on this emerging artist.
Within a few weeks the American female artist Jenny Scobel will have her first solo show in Germany. For this exhibition in Galerie der Stadt Backnang a small publication on her work was released some weeks ago.
In June also Michaël Borremans’ solo show in Maison Rouge (Paris) opens and the work of Dirk Braeckman will be included in the group exhibition ‘ClickDoubleClick’ in BOZAR (Brussels), which already showed at Haus der Kunst in Munich (DE).

And what about the other artists?
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven is living and working in Berlin at the moment. Within the framework of the D.A.A.D. (German Academic Exchange Service) program she will be staying in Germany for one year. Within this year she will have an exhibition and work closely with other artists from different nationalities. The website: www.clubmoral.com/amvk/inberlin/
We received good news concerning Kim Jones, of whom we had a great exhibition last month in our Zeno X Storage. His work will be included in the Seville Biennial (ES) at the end of this year, curated by Okwui Enwezor. Also this year Robert Storr and some other authors will publish a large monograph on the life and work of Kim Jones.
Also Miriam Cahn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Yun-Fei Ji, Maria Serebriakova, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh and Cristof Yvoré are working really hard to prepare other exhibitions around the globe and to make sure we will have a great booth again this year during Art Basel. See you there!