EXHIBITORS NEWS
09/09/2026
Galerie Christophe Gaillard - Old DNA by Folkert De Jong
Opening: Thursday 10 September, 2 - 9 pm
Exhibition running till 31 October 2026 at Quai du Commerce 5, 1000 Brussels
Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to present in Brussels Old DNA, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Dutch artist Folkert de Jong.
With Old DNA, Folkert de Jong explores the enduring traces of our history. History never appears here as a fixed narrative, but as a living heritage that transforms upon contact with new ideas, images, and identities. The title first evokes an ancient, genetic memory: a set of vestiges, recollections, and cultural codes passed down from generation to generation. In de Jong’s work, these invisible layers take on tangible form. Sculptures and installations occupy the space as embodiments of a collective memory - at once familiar and foreign, monumental and fragile.
Bringing together several sculptural ensembles, Old DNA invites visitors to reflect on the narratives they inherit, the roles they take on, and the futures they build from this memory. Between decay and rebirth, memory and imagination, Folkert de Jong composes a universe in which ancient beliefs resurface in forms that are at times unsettling, at times absurd, but always deeply human.
The Planter, 2026 et Double Nailed Trouble, 2026
Exhibition running till 31 October 2026 at Quai du Commerce 5, 1000 Brussels
Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to present in Brussels Old DNA, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Dutch artist Folkert de Jong.
With Old DNA, Folkert de Jong explores the enduring traces of our history. History never appears here as a fixed narrative, but as a living heritage that transforms upon contact with new ideas, images, and identities. The title first evokes an ancient, genetic memory: a set of vestiges, recollections, and cultural codes passed down from generation to generation. In de Jong’s work, these invisible layers take on tangible form. Sculptures and installations occupy the space as embodiments of a collective memory - at once familiar and foreign, monumental and fragile.
Bringing together several sculptural ensembles, Old DNA invites visitors to reflect on the narratives they inherit, the roles they take on, and the futures they build from this memory. Between decay and rebirth, memory and imagination, Folkert de Jong composes a universe in which ancient beliefs resurface in forms that are at times unsettling, at times absurd, but always deeply human.
The Planter, 2026 et Double Nailed Trouble, 2026
09/09/2026
Bernier/Eliades - SYMMETRIES, a solo exhibition by Tony Cragg
Opening: Thursday, 10 September 2026, 17:00 - 21:00
Exhibition duration until 19 December 2026
Bernier/Eliades is pleased to announce the representation of Tony Cragg in Belgium and in Greece. On this occasion, the gallery in Brussels presents SYMMETRIES, a solo exhibition by Tony Cragg featuring a new series of works.
Renowned for his visionary approach to sculpture, Tony Cragg emerged in the late 1970s with assemblages made from found materials before developing a distinctive sculptural language combining natural and synthetic elements, cumulative and sedimented forms, and a sustained investigation of intersections of body, materiality, object, and space. Working across bronze, wood, steel, and composite media, his virtuosic handling of materials in fresh ways explores the expressive potential of materiality and how form evolves through processes of tension, balance, and continuous reconfiguration.
In this exhibition, Cragg approaches symmetry not as a static principle of reflection or order but as a generative condition within sculptural thinking, moving beyond the confines of the organic and utilitarian spheres. Symmetry appears here as something unstable, unpredictable, and active, produced through shifting relations between mass and void, repetition and deviation, structure and deformation. Rather than fixed equilibrium, the works suggest systems in constant negotiation, where balance is achieved through movement and transformation, conveying fluidity of layered shapes and intersecting axes.
The self-described radical materialist approaches form with a minimalist and almost mathematical structural logic, manipulating matter into molten-like dynamic sculptures, balancing abstraction and figuration, strength and fluidity, stillness and movement, precision and distortion. The result of the combination of rationality and dream-like thought is gravity-defying silhouettes that transcend the merely visual, inviting an exploration of the previously unimagined.
Tony Cragg (b. 1949, UK) lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany.
Tony Cragg
SYMMETRIES
The Gallery is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00 - 18:00
Exhibition duration until 19 December 2026
Bernier/Eliades is pleased to announce the representation of Tony Cragg in Belgium and in Greece. On this occasion, the gallery in Brussels presents SYMMETRIES, a solo exhibition by Tony Cragg featuring a new series of works.
Renowned for his visionary approach to sculpture, Tony Cragg emerged in the late 1970s with assemblages made from found materials before developing a distinctive sculptural language combining natural and synthetic elements, cumulative and sedimented forms, and a sustained investigation of intersections of body, materiality, object, and space. Working across bronze, wood, steel, and composite media, his virtuosic handling of materials in fresh ways explores the expressive potential of materiality and how form evolves through processes of tension, balance, and continuous reconfiguration.
In this exhibition, Cragg approaches symmetry not as a static principle of reflection or order but as a generative condition within sculptural thinking, moving beyond the confines of the organic and utilitarian spheres. Symmetry appears here as something unstable, unpredictable, and active, produced through shifting relations between mass and void, repetition and deviation, structure and deformation. Rather than fixed equilibrium, the works suggest systems in constant negotiation, where balance is achieved through movement and transformation, conveying fluidity of layered shapes and intersecting axes.
The self-described radical materialist approaches form with a minimalist and almost mathematical structural logic, manipulating matter into molten-like dynamic sculptures, balancing abstraction and figuration, strength and fluidity, stillness and movement, precision and distortion. The result of the combination of rationality and dream-like thought is gravity-defying silhouettes that transcend the merely visual, inviting an exploration of the previously unimagined.
Tony Cragg (b. 1949, UK) lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany.
Tony Cragg
SYMMETRIES
The Gallery is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00 - 18:00
09/09/2026
Patrick Derom Gallery presents Ai Weiwei. The Art of Defiance
Exhibition on view from September 19 to November 14, 2026
Patrick Derom Gallery presents the first major retrospective of Ai Weiwei in Belgium, spread across two venues in Brussels’ Sablon district.
Bringing together iconic works from the 1990s alongside recent creations, the exhibition offers an overview of the artist’s multifaceted practice. Landmark works such as Study of Perspective, Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo, Illumination, and Backpack Snake explore recurring themes of cultural memory, power, and freedom of expression.
A companion exhibition at the Emile Verhaeren Museum (Sint-Amands) traces the unique connection between the Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren and Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei’s father, whose translations introduced Verhaeren’s poetry to China. Together, both exhibitions reveal the personal and intercultural narratives that continue to shape Ai Weiwei’s work.
Patrick Derom Gallery presents the first major retrospective of Ai Weiwei in Belgium, spread across two venues in Brussels’ Sablon district.
Bringing together iconic works from the 1990s alongside recent creations, the exhibition offers an overview of the artist’s multifaceted practice. Landmark works such as Study of Perspective, Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo, Illumination, and Backpack Snake explore recurring themes of cultural memory, power, and freedom of expression.
A companion exhibition at the Emile Verhaeren Museum (Sint-Amands) traces the unique connection between the Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren and Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei’s father, whose translations introduced Verhaeren’s poetry to China. Together, both exhibitions reveal the personal and intercultural narratives that continue to shape Ai Weiwei’s work.
Ai Weiwei, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 2000. Courtesy Ai Weiwei Studio
08/09/2026
Maruani Mercier presents KASPER SONNE - PEOPLE ARE STRANGE
September 10 – October 31, 2026
Public Opening: September 10, 2026 from 5 – 9 pm in the presence of the artist
Avenue Louise 430, Brussels 1050
The paradox of iconic contemporary outfits in natural settings, together with the spectral light and the luminous palette in this new body of work projects a powerful sense of the instability of the human condition and questions the possibility of connection with another. As the artist notes, “For me, it's always this conflict – it's about displacement. I create these characters that have no obvious reason to be in these environments.”
In Purple Rain, the composed stance of the protagonist against electric hues of blue and magenta, with her elegant suit and gloves, conjures the sense of a carefully constructed image – a projection of contemporary identity, rather than a portrayal of a specific person. Working in layers, Sonne carves each character from an array of visual sources, from art historical references to fashion advertisements found on social media. Foregrounding quotations from signature pieces of contemporary fashion, the artist uses clothing as a cultural signifier, binding the figures to questions of status, aspiration and belonging...
Kasper Sonne, Skull Earring, 2026, oil on linen | 200 x 150 cm | 79 x 59 in
Kasper Sonne, Purple Rain, 2026? oil on linen | 195 x 250 cm | 77 x 98 in
Public Opening: September 10, 2026 from 5 – 9 pm in the presence of the artist
Avenue Louise 430, Brussels 1050
MARUANI MERCIER is delighted to present Kasper Sonne: People Are Strange, the second solo exhibition of the artist with the gallery, opening on 10 September 2026 in Brussels. Elegant and upright, the figures in this new body of work appear at once in harmony with and in disassociation from the lucid planes of water and sky in the landscape. Looking away in quiet contemplation, the elongated human presence in each work projects an almost mythic quality, as if traversing the space in solitude that feels timeless rather than incidental.
The paradox of iconic contemporary outfits in natural settings, together with the spectral light and the luminous palette in this new body of work projects a powerful sense of the instability of the human condition and questions the possibility of connection with another. As the artist notes, “For me, it's always this conflict – it's about displacement. I create these characters that have no obvious reason to be in these environments.”
In Purple Rain, the composed stance of the protagonist against electric hues of blue and magenta, with her elegant suit and gloves, conjures the sense of a carefully constructed image – a projection of contemporary identity, rather than a portrayal of a specific person. Working in layers, Sonne carves each character from an array of visual sources, from art historical references to fashion advertisements found on social media. Foregrounding quotations from signature pieces of contemporary fashion, the artist uses clothing as a cultural signifier, binding the figures to questions of status, aspiration and belonging...
Kasper Sonne, Skull Earring, 2026, oil on linen | 200 x 150 cm | 79 x 59 in
Kasper Sonne, Purple Rain, 2026? oil on linen | 195 x 250 cm | 77 x 98 in
Kasper Sonne, Vampire, 2026? oil on linen | 220 x 170 cm | 87 x 67 in
02/09/2026
rodolphe janssen - opening: Alvin Ong and Lisa Vlaemminck
Alvin Ong. Another Life
(OPENING) SEPTEMBER 10, 5-9 PM
(EXHIBITION) SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 24, 2026
(LOCATION) 35 RUE DE LIVOURNE, 1050 BRUSSELS
(OPENING) SEPTEMBER 10, 5-9 PM
(EXHIBITION) SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 24, 2026
(LOCATION) 35 RUE DE LIVOURNE, 1050 BRUSSELS
Another Life presents a new body of work by Alvin Ong that bears witness to the transition, and recovery from the artist’s self-confessed burnout in 2025. What has emerged are beguiling layers of multiplicity and texture. Bodies thin into ethereal translucency. They blend and bleed. Individual faces can be made out, encased in their own melancholy, sometimes contorted into split, or fractured souls... Learn more
Lisa Vlaemminck. Dressage Ruined by Puffers
(OPENING) SEPTEMBER 10, 5-9 PM
(EXHIBITION) SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 24, 2026
(LOCATION) 32 RUE DE LIVOURNE, 1050 BRUSSELS
Lisa Vlaemminck. Dressage Ruined by Puffers
(OPENING) SEPTEMBER 10, 5-9 PM
(EXHIBITION) SEPTEMBER 10 - OCTOBER 24, 2026
(LOCATION) 32 RUE DE LIVOURNE, 1050 BRUSSELS
With Dressage Ruined by Puffers, Belgian artist Lisa Vlaemminck presents a new series of shaped paintings at rodolphe janssen. Cut from wood into recognisable silhouettes—a tooth, a hairstyle, a slice of cheese, a chicken leg—the works establish a relation between the physical form of the support and the image painted onto it. The two do not necessarily correspond. A recognisable contour can carry an unrelated image, while the image can alter how the contour is perceived... Learn more
02/09/2026
Galerie Berthet-Aittouares - ZAO WOU-KI, HENRI MICHAUX, Chine, Occident
17 septembre - 31 octobre 2026
Vernissage le jeudi 17 septembre
Cette année, pour fêter les 40 ans de la galerie, mère et fille organisent une exposition réunissant les 2 artistes, Henri Michaux le peintre-poète né en Wallonie en 1899 et Zao Wou-Ki, peintre et graveur chinois et phare du courant d’abstraction lyrique. Arrivé en France en 1948 et aussitôt à l’œuvre, Zao Wou-Ki réalise ses premières lithographies. Immédiatement conquis, Michaux compose un ensemble de textes sur huit lithographies de Zao Wou-Ki. C’est le début d’une belle amitié qui liera les deux hommes jusqu’à la mort de Michaux en 1984.
« Je n’ai malheureusement pas connu Michaux mais ma relation avec sa compagne, Micheline Phankim a été magnifique. Elle était très douce, attentive et compétente. Les grandes écritures de Michaux m’ont depuis toujours accompagnée. La rencontre avec Zao a été une des plus marquantes. Je me souviens de sa grande gentillesse. [...] En 2006, il participa à l’exposition Chine - Occident, ou l’aventure du signe avec Tobey, Degottex, Shan Sa et bien sûr Michaux. Il est émouvant de revoir les œuvres de ces deux artistes exposées côte à côte sur les murs de l’ancienne galerie Pierre, qui accueillit successivement Henri Michaux en 1938, puis Zao Wou-Ki en 1951 avant de devenir la Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès. » Michèle Aittouarès
Catalogue avec textes de François Michaud et Catherine Zittoun.
Exposition réalisée en collaboration avec la Fondation Zao Wou-Ki et les Archives Henri Michaux
Vernissage le jeudi 17 septembre
Cette année, pour fêter les 40 ans de la galerie, mère et fille organisent une exposition réunissant les 2 artistes, Henri Michaux le peintre-poète né en Wallonie en 1899 et Zao Wou-Ki, peintre et graveur chinois et phare du courant d’abstraction lyrique. Arrivé en France en 1948 et aussitôt à l’œuvre, Zao Wou-Ki réalise ses premières lithographies. Immédiatement conquis, Michaux compose un ensemble de textes sur huit lithographies de Zao Wou-Ki. C’est le début d’une belle amitié qui liera les deux hommes jusqu’à la mort de Michaux en 1984.
« Je n’ai malheureusement pas connu Michaux mais ma relation avec sa compagne, Micheline Phankim a été magnifique. Elle était très douce, attentive et compétente. Les grandes écritures de Michaux m’ont depuis toujours accompagnée. La rencontre avec Zao a été une des plus marquantes. Je me souviens de sa grande gentillesse. [...] En 2006, il participa à l’exposition Chine - Occident, ou l’aventure du signe avec Tobey, Degottex, Shan Sa et bien sûr Michaux. Il est émouvant de revoir les œuvres de ces deux artistes exposées côte à côte sur les murs de l’ancienne galerie Pierre, qui accueillit successivement Henri Michaux en 1938, puis Zao Wou-Ki en 1951 avant de devenir la Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès. » Michèle Aittouarès
Catalogue avec textes de François Michaud et Catherine Zittoun.
Exposition réalisée en collaboration avec la Fondation Zao Wou-Ki et les Archives Henri Michaux
Zao Wou-Ki - Sans titre, 2002 - encre sur papier - 42,5 x 46,5 cm.
© Naomi Wenger, Courtesy Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès et la Fondation Zao Wou-Ki
Henri Michaux - Sans titre, circa 1961 - encre de Chine et huile sur toile - 27 x 37,5 cm. © Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès.
Henri Michaux et Zao Wou-Ki lors du vernissage de l'exposition de Zao Wou-Ki à la galerie de France en 1980. © Sin-May Zao.
02/09/2026
Colnaghi London - Out of the Sand: Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
Opening on 7 September and continuing until 17 November 2026, Out of the Sand: Ancient Egypt Rediscovered brings together antiquities, paintings, works on paper, early photographs and rare books to examine the long history through which ancient Egypt has been studied, collected and represented.
Egypt was never lost to the Egyptians, but its monuments and material culture were repeatedly presented to audiences elsewhere as discoveries. Roman artists absorbed Egyptian forms into the visual and religious life of the Empire, while European scholars, artists and travellers later approached the country through the intellectual and political concerns of their own periods. The Egypt that entered books, paintings, photographs and museums was therefore shaped as much by the circumstances of its reception as by the ancient civilisation from which it derived.
The exhibition begins with objects made for use within Egyptian society, many of which were intended for funerary contexts in which the preservation of the body, name and identity of the deceased was understood to secure continued existence after death. Their subsequent removal from tombs and temples placed them within very different systems of meaning, first as objects of excavation and private collecting, and eventually as subjects of scholarly classification and museum display.
Napoleon’s campaign of 1798 represents an important moment in this history. Although the military expedition ended in failure, the scholars, engineers and artists who accompanied it undertook a survey of Egypt on an unprecedented scale, later published in the monumental Description de l’Égypte. During the nineteenth century, archaeological publications, Orientalist painting and photography carried the monuments of the Nile to an increasingly wide European audience. The architectural views of David Roberts and the early photographs of Maxime Du Camp belong to this expanding visual record, although neither medium offered a neutral account of what it claimed to document.
Out of the Sand places ancient objects beside the works through which later generations attempted to record and understand them, considering the history of Egyptology alongside the history of representation. In doing so, the exhibition examines how the surviving material evidence of ancient Egypt acquired new meanings as it passed through excavation, scholarship, collecting and display.
The exhibition forms part of the wider programme of Colnaghi’s Oriental Art Department.
Sculptor’s Trial Piece Fragment, Egyptian Late Dynastic Period, neo-Memphite, 30th Dynasty, c. 380–343 BC, limestone, 8.1 × 13.4 cm.
View the exhibition catalogue
Egypt was never lost to the Egyptians, but its monuments and material culture were repeatedly presented to audiences elsewhere as discoveries. Roman artists absorbed Egyptian forms into the visual and religious life of the Empire, while European scholars, artists and travellers later approached the country through the intellectual and political concerns of their own periods. The Egypt that entered books, paintings, photographs and museums was therefore shaped as much by the circumstances of its reception as by the ancient civilisation from which it derived.
The exhibition begins with objects made for use within Egyptian society, many of which were intended for funerary contexts in which the preservation of the body, name and identity of the deceased was understood to secure continued existence after death. Their subsequent removal from tombs and temples placed them within very different systems of meaning, first as objects of excavation and private collecting, and eventually as subjects of scholarly classification and museum display.
Napoleon’s campaign of 1798 represents an important moment in this history. Although the military expedition ended in failure, the scholars, engineers and artists who accompanied it undertook a survey of Egypt on an unprecedented scale, later published in the monumental Description de l’Égypte. During the nineteenth century, archaeological publications, Orientalist painting and photography carried the monuments of the Nile to an increasingly wide European audience. The architectural views of David Roberts and the early photographs of Maxime Du Camp belong to this expanding visual record, although neither medium offered a neutral account of what it claimed to document.
Out of the Sand places ancient objects beside the works through which later generations attempted to record and understand them, considering the history of Egyptology alongside the history of representation. In doing so, the exhibition examines how the surviving material evidence of ancient Egypt acquired new meanings as it passed through excavation, scholarship, collecting and display.
The exhibition forms part of the wider programme of Colnaghi’s Oriental Art Department.
Sculptor’s Trial Piece Fragment, Egyptian Late Dynastic Period, neo-Memphite, 30th Dynasty, c. 380–343 BC, limestone, 8.1 × 13.4 cm.
View the exhibition catalogue
COLNAGHI LONDON
26 BURY STREET, LONDON SW1Y 6AL
UNITED KINGDOM
26 BURY STREET, LONDON SW1Y 6AL
UNITED KINGDOM
02/09/2026
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde - Dirk Van Saene, Artist Portfolios, Edouard Devriendt
The gallery Sofie Van de Velde is pleased to invite you to the public opening of their upcoming exhibitions.
Dirk Van Saene
Artist Portfolios
Edouard Devriendt
Saturday, 5 September, 13–18 h.
Dirk Van Saene
All Nightingales Understand One Another
05.09.2026 - 11.10.2026
Artist Portfolios
Curated by Henri Steenbeke - Van de Velde
05.09.2026 - 11.10.2026
Edouard Devriendt
Then Let's Keep Dancing
05.09.2026 - 11.10.2026
Alongside the new paintings, Devriendt has created a special edition in the form of a piece of jewellery. Produced in an edition of 20, it offers another way of encountering his work beyond the paintings.
The Wunderwall, Reimagined
Noah Balon
Peintre malgré moi
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde
Léon Stynenstraat 21 / 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Dirk Van Saene
Artist Portfolios
Edouard Devriendt
Saturday, 5 September, 13–18 h.
Dirk Van Saene
All Nightingales Understand One Another
05.09.2026 - 11.10.2026
Discover a first selection of works from Dirk Van Saene’s new solo exhibition 'All Nightingales Understand One Another'. Van Saene once again turns to the human figure. Angular and fragile, yet remarkably tender, his figures give physical form to emotions that are often difficult to put into words. The new series grew partly out of Van Saene’s concern with a growing lack of empathy in the world around him. Rather than addressing this directly, he explores vulnerability, tenderness and human connection through the emotional language that has long characterised his practice.The title 'All Nightingales Understand One Another' captures this idea poetically: the possibility of understanding one another without the need for explanation.
Artist Portfolios
Curated by Henri Steenbeke - Van de Velde
05.09.2026 - 11.10.2026
The collaboration between artists and writers in the creation of portfolios and illustrated books dates back to the fifteenth century. The oldest known illustrated book is the Egyptian Book of the Two Ways, dating from around 2050 BC, while the first illustrated printed books appeared around 1450. From the end of the nineteenth century onwards, portfolios experienced a remarkable flourishing. Whether created in collaboration with writers or conceived independently, they have continued to offer artists an inspiring challenge, while providing writers with an opportunity to reach a broader and more diverse audience. They may also be regarded as a means of making art more accessible and democratic. At the same time, many illustrated books and portfolios stand out for their exceptional craftsmanship and refinement.
Edouard Devriendt
Then Let's Keep Dancing
05.09.2026 - 11.10.2026
Following his exhibition at The Wunderwall, Edouard Devriendt presents his first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition brings together a new series of paintings in which he continues his exploration of memory, perception and the emotional charge of familiar images. Devriendt’s paintings often begin with fleeting encounters. A house, a bowl of fruit or a tree is photographed instinctively on his phone and later becomes the starting point for a painting. As he paints, the original image gradually gives way to memory and atmosphere. What remains is recognisable, but at the same time slightly removed from reality. Through restrained colour and surfaces that deliberately remain unresolved, Devriendt transforms ordinary subjects into images that feel both familiar and distant. Rather than telling a fixed story, the paintings leave space for personal associations and memories to emerge.
Alongside the new paintings, Devriendt has created a special edition in the form of a piece of jewellery. Produced in an edition of 20, it offers another way of encountering his work beyond the paintings.
The Wunderwall, Reimagined
The Wunderwall is moving. From September onwards, our platform for emerging artists will leave the gallery and take up a new, permanent position in the display window of our office, directly across the street. Visible day and night, the new location gives each artist their own space for approximately six weeks. A QR code connects the physical presentation with The Wunderwall Online, where visitors can discover more about the artist, their practice and the works on view.
Peintre malgré moi
The new Wunderwall opens with Noa Balon. In his work, Balon embraces the struggle of painting: the attempts, detours, hesitation and coincidences that occur along the way. Rather than searching for a perfect outcome, he allows the process itself to become part of the work.
Léon Stynenstraat 21 / 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
01/09/2026
Spazio Nobile - Homo Faber, Villa Spazio Nobile & Bela Silva New Book
Spazio Nobile presents Didi Ng Wing Yin
Homo Faber, An Island of Light
Art directed by Es Devlin & Curated by the Michelangelo Foundation
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
1 – 30 September 2026
In partnership with @fondazionecologni and @fondazionecini
Didi Ng Wing Yin, Pleats Vase No.19, 36,5x25x56,5cm, pine wood, Indian ink, shellac (detail)
Spazio Nobile presents Didi Ng Wing Yin at Homo Faber in Venice. The Helsinki-based wood artist originally from Hong Kong has a practice bridging sculpture, furniture, and craft. Working by hand, he creates sculptural furniture and artworks distinguished by his innovative carving techniques. His creative process reveals the innate beauty of wood, balancing the material’s essence with the intuitive nature of craftsmanship and conceptual exploration. His work has gained wide international recognition, being a finalist for the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025 (Spain), winner of the Rising Star of the Year Award at the Scandinavian Design Awards 2024 (Sweden), and recipient of Dezeen’s Emerging Designer of the Year Award 2024 (UK).
Homo Faber 2026
Inspired by artisans and the islands of Venice, Es Devlin @esdevlin, the Artistic Director of Homo Faber 2026, creates 15 immersive installations at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, uniting craft artists from across the globe. With An Island of Light, her vision gives voice to the makers and shines a light on objects and making – from shadow sculptures and kinetic structures to a moonlit reflecting pool – inviting viewers to shift their perspective, understand the origins of objects and to value the language of the hand.
Fondazione Dries Van Noten
THE ONLY TRUE PROTEST IS BEAUTY
Palazzo Pisani Moretta
San Polo 2766, Venice, Italy
25 April – 4 October 2026
Spazio Nobile is pleased to present Taiwanese artist Pao Hui Kao with her Original Paper Pleats Lounge Chair, made of tracing paper and rice glue and Belgian artist Isaac Monté's extraordinary Crystallized Blue in Green sculptural vase, as part of the Presentation of the Fondazione Dries Van Noten.
Isaac Monté, Crystallized Blue in Green, salt, minerals and oxides
Fondazione Dries Van Noten, Palazzo Pisani Moretta, Venice, Italy
At Spazio Nobile Gallery
Season XL- Mae Engelgeer & Matsubayashi Hosai XVI
Echoes of Wa, Duo Show
Rendez-Vous Brussels Art Week & 160 Years Japan-Belgium
Rue Franz Merjay, 142 - 1050 Brussels
At Spazio Nobile Studiolo
Chisato Yasui, Monad, Solo Show
Rendez-Vous Brussels Art Week & 160 Years Japan-Belgium
Rue Franz Merjay, 169 - 1050 Brussels
Villa Spazio Nobile
Afternoon Open Days 19-20.9.2026, 14-19:00
& Finissage Week End, Conversation & Book signing, 3-4.10.2026
Elisabethlaan 4 3080 Tervuren
Bela Silva New Monograph
Book Signing & Window Display
Galignani Bookstore
224 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
14.10.2026, 18:30-20:30, in the presence of the artist
Homo Faber, An Island of Light
Art directed by Es Devlin & Curated by the Michelangelo Foundation
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
1 – 30 September 2026
In partnership with @fondazionecologni and @fondazionecini
Didi Ng Wing Yin, Pleats Vase No.19, 36,5x25x56,5cm, pine wood, Indian ink, shellac (detail)
Homo Faber 2026
Inspired by artisans and the islands of Venice, Es Devlin @esdevlin, the Artistic Director of Homo Faber 2026, creates 15 immersive installations at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, uniting craft artists from across the globe. With An Island of Light, her vision gives voice to the makers and shines a light on objects and making – from shadow sculptures and kinetic structures to a moonlit reflecting pool – inviting viewers to shift their perspective, understand the origins of objects and to value the language of the hand.
Fondazione Dries Van Noten
THE ONLY TRUE PROTEST IS BEAUTY
Palazzo Pisani Moretta
San Polo 2766, Venice, Italy
25 April – 4 October 2026
Spazio Nobile is pleased to present Taiwanese artist Pao Hui Kao with her Original Paper Pleats Lounge Chair, made of tracing paper and rice glue and Belgian artist Isaac Monté's extraordinary Crystallized Blue in Green sculptural vase, as part of the Presentation of the Fondazione Dries Van Noten.
Isaac Monté, Crystallized Blue in Green, salt, minerals and oxides
Curated by Dries Van Noten with Geert Bruloot, Fondazione Dries Van Noten presents THE ONLY TRUE PROTEST IS BEAUTY, the Presentation stands as an exploration of beauty as a force of provocation, reflection and transformation. It explores craftsmanship as a language of expression and a conduit for emotion.
Pao Hui Kao, Original Paper Pleats Lounge Chair, made of tracing paper and rice glue
It moves beyond conventional disciplinary borders, gathering fashion, jewellery, art, collectible design, photography, glass, ceramics, and material experimentation within a shared investigation of beauty’s ability to question norms and disrupt dogma. 200 works enter into conversation with the architecture, history, and decorative language of the Palazzo Pisani Moretta. Founded by Dries Van Noten and Patrick Vangheluwe and housed within the historic Palazzo Pisani Moretta overlooking the Canal Grande, Fondazione Dries Van Noten celebrates craftsmanship as a vital language of cultural identity.
Fondazione Dries Van Noten, Palazzo Pisani Moretta, Venice, Italy
At Spazio Nobile Gallery
Season XL- Mae Engelgeer & Matsubayashi Hosai XVI
Echoes of Wa, Duo Show
Rendez-Vous Brussels Art Week & 160 Years Japan-Belgium
Rue Franz Merjay, 142 - 1050 Brussels
At Spazio Nobile Studiolo
Chisato Yasui, Monad, Solo Show
Rendez-Vous Brussels Art Week & 160 Years Japan-Belgium
Rue Franz Merjay, 169 - 1050 Brussels
Villa Spazio Nobile
Afternoon Open Days 19-20.9.2026, 14-19:00
& Finissage Week End, Conversation & Book signing, 3-4.10.2026
Elisabethlaan 4 3080 Tervuren
Bela Silva New Monograph
Book Signing & Window Display
Galignani Bookstore
224 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
14.10.2026, 18:30-20:30, in the presence of the artist
01/09/2026
BECK & EGGELING INTERNATIONAL FINE ART - New group exhibition: Silence
Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art is happy to announce its new exhibition: Silence - 5 September – 21 November 2026
Invitation to the Opening on the occasion of DC OPEN, Friday, 4 September, 6 pm
Invitation to the Opening on the occasion of DC OPEN, Friday, 4 September, 6 pm
“I want to paint nothingness, which is everything, silence, light, measure, order, harmony. The infinite.” With these words, Antonio Calderara described what he sought in his painting. They also encapsulate an idea that runs through the exhibition Silence: a concentration on the essential and the notion that reduction can give rise to a particular intensity.
In Calderara’s work, light itself almost becomes the subject of painting. Raimund Girke and Robert Ryman explore the possibilities of the colour white, while Piero Manzoni, in his Achromes, dispenses with colour as a means of artistic expression. In the works of Heinz Mack, Hermann Goepfert, Walter Leblanc, Hal Busse, Dadamaino and Turi Simeti, light, structure and surface become essential means of expression. Other works in the exhibition find their silence in repetition, emptiness, material or restrained gesture.
In the exhibition, these works of the 20th and 21st centuries encounter ancient Chinese bronzes and ceramics. They come from another time and another culture and follow their own ideas of form, material and meaning. Yet connections emerge: in the clarity of form, in the attention given to surfaces and materials, and not least in what is allowed to remain unspoken and empty, and in what arises in between.
In cooperation with Vanderven Oriental Art, ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
With works by: Pablo Atchugarry · Hermann Bartels · Hal Busse · Antonio Calderara · Chun Kwang Young · Dadamaino · Herman de Vries · Raimund Girke · Hermann Goepfert · Gotthard Graubner · Gerhard Hoehme · Tschang-Yeul Kim · Stefan Kürten · Walter Leblanc · Heinz Mack · Piero Manzoni · Fausto Melotti · Milan Mölzer · Morio Nishimura · Robert Ryman · Ursula Schulz-Dornburg · Turi Simeti · Paul Van Hoeydonck and ancient Chinese bronzes and ceramics
Opening: 4 September, 6 pm
On view: 5 September – 21 November 2026
BECK & EGGELING International Fine Art
Bilker Str. 5 / 40213 Düsseldorf
Germany
In Calderara’s work, light itself almost becomes the subject of painting. Raimund Girke and Robert Ryman explore the possibilities of the colour white, while Piero Manzoni, in his Achromes, dispenses with colour as a means of artistic expression. In the works of Heinz Mack, Hermann Goepfert, Walter Leblanc, Hal Busse, Dadamaino and Turi Simeti, light, structure and surface become essential means of expression. Other works in the exhibition find their silence in repetition, emptiness, material or restrained gesture.
In the exhibition, these works of the 20th and 21st centuries encounter ancient Chinese bronzes and ceramics. They come from another time and another culture and follow their own ideas of form, material and meaning. Yet connections emerge: in the clarity of form, in the attention given to surfaces and materials, and not least in what is allowed to remain unspoken and empty, and in what arises in between.
In cooperation with Vanderven Oriental Art, ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
With works by: Pablo Atchugarry · Hermann Bartels · Hal Busse · Antonio Calderara · Chun Kwang Young · Dadamaino · Herman de Vries · Raimund Girke · Hermann Goepfert · Gotthard Graubner · Gerhard Hoehme · Tschang-Yeul Kim · Stefan Kürten · Walter Leblanc · Heinz Mack · Piero Manzoni · Fausto Melotti · Milan Mölzer · Morio Nishimura · Robert Ryman · Ursula Schulz-Dornburg · Turi Simeti · Paul Van Hoeydonck and ancient Chinese bronzes and ceramics
Opening: 4 September, 6 pm
On view: 5 September – 21 November 2026
BECK & EGGELING International Fine Art
Bilker Str. 5 / 40213 Düsseldorf
Germany
28/08/2026
NOSBAUM REDING - Solo exhibition by Gilles Pegel
Nosbaum Reding | Projects is pleased to invite you to the opening of a solo exhibition: I’m Too Young To Die, by Gilles Pegel.
Opening: 17 September, 6 pm, in presence of the artist
On view: 17 September – 17 Ocotober 2026
Gallery Nosbaum Reding
2 + 4, rue Wiltheim / L-2733 Luxembourg
I’m Too Young To Die brings together mostly new productions alongside selected earlier works, tracing recurring concerns within Gilles Pegel’s practice. Digital technologies, artificial intelligence, financial markets, logistics, online culture, branding and automation appear throughout the exhibition as parts of an increasingly interconnected reality. Moving between sculpture, installation, painting, textiles, neon and mixed media, the works shift in material and form according to what each one demands.
Popular culture is present throughout. References to gaming, fashion, advertising and digital culture offer familiar points of entry into broader questions around value, identity, consumption and the systems shaping everyday life.
The title I’m Too Young To Die borrows the iconic difficulty setting from DOOM, but its meaning extends beyond gaming. It speaks to something much more universal: our awareness of mortality and, in the context of an artistic practice, the urge to make sense of the time we are living in. The works become bookmarks of that process, fixing a thought or observation before the world, and our understanding of it, moves on.
Humour is often the first point of contact, but beneath it lies an attempt to understand an increasingly complex present and the place we occupy within it.
Popular culture is present throughout. References to gaming, fashion, advertising and digital culture offer familiar points of entry into broader questions around value, identity, consumption and the systems shaping everyday life.
The title I’m Too Young To Die borrows the iconic difficulty setting from DOOM, but its meaning extends beyond gaming. It speaks to something much more universal: our awareness of mortality and, in the context of an artistic practice, the urge to make sense of the time we are living in. The works become bookmarks of that process, fixing a thought or observation before the world, and our understanding of it, moves on.
Humour is often the first point of contact, but beneath it lies an attempt to understand an increasingly complex present and the place we occupy within it.
Opening: 17 September, 6 pm, in presence of the artist
On view: 17 September – 17 Ocotober 2026
Gallery Nosbaum Reding
2 + 4, rue Wiltheim / L-2733 Luxembourg
31/07/2026
ALMINE RECH - Leonora Carrington's upcoming solo exhibition
Almine Rech is pleased to announce Leonora Carrington’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, opening in Paris in September 2026.
Organised in collaboration with the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada, the exhibition will bring together the wide range of mediums the artist explored throughout her career, including drawings, paintings, sculptures, tapestry, and writings.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to discover the breadth and diversity of Carrington’s artistic practice, spanning works on paper, painting, sculpture, textile and literature.
LEONORA CARRINGTON
September 8 – October 10, 2026
64 rue de Turenne, Paris
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, September 8, 6 to 8 pm
Organised in collaboration with the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada, the exhibition will bring together the wide range of mediums the artist explored throughout her career, including drawings, paintings, sculptures, tapestry, and writings.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to discover the breadth and diversity of Carrington’s artistic practice, spanning works on paper, painting, sculpture, textile and literature.
LEONORA CARRINGTON
September 8 – October 10, 2026
64 rue de Turenne, Paris
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, September 8, 6 to 8 pm
29/07/2026
DE BROCK NEW OPENING - Shape of Color
De Brock is pleased to present Shape of Color, a group show including work by Bernard Frize, Imi Knoebel, Robert Mangold and Landon Metz.
On view
1 - 30 August 2026
Reception
8 August, 5 - 8 PM
De Brock Gallery.
Zeedijk 758
Knokke, Belgium
On view
1 - 30 August 2026
Reception
8 August, 5 - 8 PM
De Brock Gallery.
Zeedijk 758
Knokke, Belgium
28/07/2026
Edouard Simoens Gallery - New Opening
Edouard Simoens Gallery is pleased to announce its new exhibition: Raoul De Keyser - Years in the Open Air.
Edouard Simoens Gallery
Zeedijk 811
8300 Knokke-Zoute
Edouard Simoens Gallery
Zeedijk 811
8300 Knokke-Zoute
22/07/2026
BOON GALLERY - Summer exhibition
The Boon Gallery is happy to present Masters of Art, a summer exhibition taking place at its gallery in Knokke from 24 July to 23 August 2026.
Bringing together 30 exceptional works by some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, the exhibition features masterpieces by Jean Dubuffet, James Ensor, Barry Flanagan, Henri Matisse, René Magritte, Pierre Soulages, and many more.
Boon Gallery, Kustlaan 197, B-8300 Knokke, Belgium
Bringing together 30 exceptional works by some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, the exhibition features masterpieces by Jean Dubuffet, James Ensor, Barry Flanagan, Henri Matisse, René Magritte, Pierre Soulages, and many more.
Boon Gallery, Kustlaan 197, B-8300 Knokke, Belgium
25/06/2026
AXEL VERVOORDT - SUMMER PROGRAMME
As summer unfolds, Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to invite you to discover its programme before annual summer closure.
Axel Vervoordt Gallery will be open until Saturday, 18 July. The galleries at Kanaal will reopen on Friday, 7 August. Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong will reopen on Tuesday, August 4.
Several exhibitions are currently on view, bringing together solo and group presentations that explore material memory, transformation, gesture, and presence.
Sopheap Pich
Works
Until August 29, 2026
Kanaal
The first solo exhibition in Belgium by Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich presents a new body of work rooted in material, process, and the relationship between form and experience.
Human Traces: Presence, Absence, and Material Memory
Until August 29, 2026
Kanaal
The exhibition reflects on the traces of human presence through space, form, and material, and features artworks by Ida Barbarigo, William Turnbull, El Anatsui, Sadaharu Horio, and Bosco Sodi.
Threads of Being: Textiles, Time and Transformation
Until September 19, 2026
Kanaal
Bringing together eight artists, this exhibition considers textile-related logics, threading, layering, stitching, and interlacing, as frameworks through which time, memory, and presence are articulated.
Axel Vervoordt Gallery
Kanaal
Stokerijstraat 19
2110 Wijnegem
Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong
21F, Coda Designer Centre
62, Wong Chuk Hang Road
Entrance via Yip Fat Street
(next to Ovolo Hotel)
Hong Kong
Axel Vervoordt Gallery will be open until Saturday, 18 July. The galleries at Kanaal will reopen on Friday, 7 August. Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong will reopen on Tuesday, August 4.
Several exhibitions are currently on view, bringing together solo and group presentations that explore material memory, transformation, gesture, and presence.
Sopheap Pich
Works
Until August 29, 2026
Kanaal
The first solo exhibition in Belgium by Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich presents a new body of work rooted in material, process, and the relationship between form and experience.
Human Traces: Presence, Absence, and Material Memory
Until August 29, 2026
Kanaal
The exhibition reflects on the traces of human presence through space, form, and material, and features artworks by Ida Barbarigo, William Turnbull, El Anatsui, Sadaharu Horio, and Bosco Sodi.
Threads of Being: Textiles, Time and Transformation
Until September 19, 2026
Kanaal
Bringing together eight artists, this exhibition considers textile-related logics, threading, layering, stitching, and interlacing, as frameworks through which time, memory, and presence are articulated.
Axel Vervoordt Gallery
Kanaal
Stokerijstraat 19
2110 Wijnegem
Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong
21F, Coda Designer Centre
62, Wong Chuk Hang Road
Entrance via Yip Fat Street
(next to Ovolo Hotel)
Hong Kong
25/06/2026
BRUN FINE ART - SUMMER EXHIBITION
Brun Fine Art is happy to present its Summer exhibition: L’oro e l'infinito
The exhibition brings together works created across distant centuries yet united by a shared aspiration: the search for what lies beyond the visible.
The gold-ground paintings, produced between the second half of the 14th century and the 15th century by masters such as Luca di Tommè, Francesco di Michele, Álvaro Pirez d’Évora, and Tommaso de Vigilia, represent one of the highest achievements of Italian painting between the Late Gothic and the Early Renaissance periods. In these works, gold is not merely a decorative element; it creates a space suspended between matter and transcendence, projecting the image beyond the earthly realm.
Centuries later, artists such as Piero Dorazio, Corrado Cagli, Lucio Fontana, Roberto Crippa, Mario Schifano, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mirko Basaldella, Georges Mathieu, Gio Ponti, Gio Pomodoro, and Giorgio de Chirico engage, through diverse visual languages, with universal themes such as space, light, mystery, and presence. This dialogue is further enriched by the work of ABI, a contemporary brand that employs stone as a material of memory, translating its historical stratification into essential forms.
The comparison is grounded neither in stylistic affinities nor in a contrast between the ancient and the contemporary. Rather, it reveals a continuity of thought: the desire to transcend the limits of representation and materiality in order to give form to the indefinable.
Between the preciousness of gold, the strength of stone, and the essentiality of modern visual language, the exhibition unfolds as a journey spanning more than six centuries of art history, demonstrating how the pursuit of the absolute continues to renew itself across time.
Artists Featured in the Exhibition:
ABI
Alex Katz
Álvaro Pirez d’Évora
Corrado Cagli
Fausto Melotti
Francesco di Michele
Georges Mathieu
Gianfranco Meggiato
Gio Pomodoro
Gio Ponti
Giorgio de Chirico
Luca di Tommè
Lucio Fontana
Mario Schifano
Mariotto di Cristofano
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michele di Matteo
Mirko Basaldella
Piero Dorazio
Roberto Crippa
Rosario Pulvirenti
Tommaso de Vigilia
Tommaso del Mazza
Brun Fine Art
Via Gesù 17, Milan
Tuesday – Saturday
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The exhibition will be on view through August
The exhibition brings together works created across distant centuries yet united by a shared aspiration: the search for what lies beyond the visible.
The gold-ground paintings, produced between the second half of the 14th century and the 15th century by masters such as Luca di Tommè, Francesco di Michele, Álvaro Pirez d’Évora, and Tommaso de Vigilia, represent one of the highest achievements of Italian painting between the Late Gothic and the Early Renaissance periods. In these works, gold is not merely a decorative element; it creates a space suspended between matter and transcendence, projecting the image beyond the earthly realm.
Centuries later, artists such as Piero Dorazio, Corrado Cagli, Lucio Fontana, Roberto Crippa, Mario Schifano, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mirko Basaldella, Georges Mathieu, Gio Ponti, Gio Pomodoro, and Giorgio de Chirico engage, through diverse visual languages, with universal themes such as space, light, mystery, and presence. This dialogue is further enriched by the work of ABI, a contemporary brand that employs stone as a material of memory, translating its historical stratification into essential forms.
The comparison is grounded neither in stylistic affinities nor in a contrast between the ancient and the contemporary. Rather, it reveals a continuity of thought: the desire to transcend the limits of representation and materiality in order to give form to the indefinable.
Between the preciousness of gold, the strength of stone, and the essentiality of modern visual language, the exhibition unfolds as a journey spanning more than six centuries of art history, demonstrating how the pursuit of the absolute continues to renew itself across time.
Artists Featured in the Exhibition:
ABI
Alex Katz
Álvaro Pirez d’Évora
Corrado Cagli
Fausto Melotti
Francesco di Michele
Georges Mathieu
Gianfranco Meggiato
Gio Pomodoro
Gio Ponti
Giorgio de Chirico
Luca di Tommè
Lucio Fontana
Mario Schifano
Mariotto di Cristofano
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Michele di Matteo
Mirko Basaldella
Piero Dorazio
Roberto Crippa
Rosario Pulvirenti
Tommaso de Vigilia
Tommaso del Mazza
Brun Fine Art
Via Gesù 17, Milan
Tuesday – Saturday
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The exhibition will be on view through August