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MARUANI MERCIER - Echoes of her, group show

June 12 - August 30, 2025 at Avenue Louise 430, Brussels 
Public Opening: June 12, 2025 from 5 - 9 pm

With this group exhibition, Echoes of Her, Maruani Mercier aim to explore the multifaceted nature of womanhood and examine its complexity through a diverse selection of works and artists. Seventeen artists, each shaped by distinct cultural, geographical, and personal perspectives, reflect on the layered intricacies of womanhood across different lived realities and social landscapes. Ranging painting, photography, sculpture, and mirrored works that at times quite literally implicate the viewer, the exhibition brings forth meditations on identity, visibility, and the shifting roles women inhabit. How are women perceived in society? And more importantly, how do they see themselves, beyond inherited expectations, projected archetypes, or prescribed narratives? It questions long-held assumptions about the female condition, invites us to look again, and differently, at the images we’ve inherited, and considers how portrayals by both female and male artists can contribute to a more complex, layered understanding of what it means to be a woman. A nuanced dialogue emerges not only between the artists and their subjects, subtly engaging with the legacy of the (male) gaze and the power dynamics embedded in representation, while embracing the richness of self-determined representation.
 

David LaChapelle, MOSCOW (Nature’s Naked Loveliness), 2003
C-Print on Dibond, 246 x 183 cm, 97 x 72 in
A.P. N° 1/3


Kwesi Botchway, Feeling Purple, 2024
oil on canvas, 124 x 95 cm, 48 x 38 in
 

Picture: David LaChapelle, MOSCOW (Nature’s Naked Loveliness), 2003, C-Print on Dibond, 246 x 183 cm, 97 x 72 in, A.P. N° 1/3

CONTACT

Brussels

Avenue Louise 430

BE-1050 Brussels

t. +32 (0)2 512 50 10

desk@maruanimercier.com | www.maruanimercier.com

Knokke-Zoute

Kustlaan 90

BE-8300 Knokke-Zoute

m. +32 (0)473 97 72 36

serge@maruanimercier.com

Knokke-Zoute

Zeedijk-Het Zoute 759

BE-8300 Knokke-Zoute

Zaventem

THE WAREHOUSE by MARUANI MERCIER

Lambroekstraat 5

BE-1930 Zaventem

t. +32 (0)2 512 50 10

desk@maruanimercier.com

ABOUT

MARUANI MERCIER werd opgericht in 1995 en vertegenwoordigt 23 hedendaagse kunstenaars naast haar historische tentoonstellingen van museale kwaliteit, puttend uit de erfenis van verschillende nalatenschappen van gerenommeerde kunstenaars. Aanvankelijk richtte de galerie zich op gevierde Amerikaanse kunstenaars uit de jaren 1980, waaronder Ross Bleckner, Francesco Clemente, Ron Gorchov, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker en Sue Williams. In de loop der jaren omarmde de galerie een nieuwe generatie kunstenaars zoals Radcliffe Bailey, Jaclyn Conley en Tony Matelli. De uitbreiding naar Knokke en de opening van een tentoonstellingsruimte en residentieprogramma in Zaventem introduceerden kunstenaars uit West-Afrika zoals Kwesi Botchway en Johnson Eziefula. In 2022 werd een tweede ruimte geopend in Knokke om moderne meesters als Alexander Calder, Le Corbusier en Joan Miró tentoon te stellen.

Founded : 1995

Specialisations

Moderne en hedendaagse kunst

Fairs

Art Paris, TEFAF Maastricht, BRAFA - Brussels, The Armory Show - New York, Frieze Masters - London, Art Brussels, Art Basel, Frieze Sculpture