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THE GAP – Abstract Art from Belgium. A Selection. Curator: Luc Tuymans

Actors (13)

Guy Mees
Guy Mees (1935-2003) emerges as a painter in Antwerp in the late fifties, when post-war avant-garde art from the US was just beginning to fin
Bernd Lohaus
Bernd Lohaus was born in Düsseldorf in 1940; in his twenties, he enrolled at the highly regarded local art academy when Joseph Beuys was a pr
Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans was born in 1958 in Mortsel, Belgium. He lives and works in Antwerp. After completing his art training in Brussels, he studied ar
Philippe Van Snick
Philippe Van Snick (1946 - 2019) makes work that is characterised by an extremely simple visual language, akin to minimalism, and the repeate
Raoul De Keyser
Raoul De Keyser was a painter in the true sense of the word. His oeuvre is the result of a consistent and idiosyncratic study of the medium o
Gert Robijns
Gert Robijns makes sculptures, videos and installations. He is interested in the functional yet mondaine aesthetics of the everyday – an insp
Timothy Segers
Children of the Turko-Tatar populations of Central Asia are told a myth about where the stars come from: they are told that birds punctured t
Pieter Vermeersch
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Boy & Erik Stappaerts
Boy & Erik Stappaerts studied at the St. Lucas Institute in Brussels and continued his education at the State Academy in Amsterdam. His w
Walter Leblanc
Walter Leblanc initially makes lyric abstract work, then radically changes course around 1960. With the torsion form as most important eleme
Jef Verheyen
Jef Verheyen consistently marched to the beat of his own drum within the history of Flemish, Belgian and international abstract art from 1954
Gaston Bertrand
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Carla Arocha & Stéphane S...
Carla Arocha (b. 1961) is from Caracas, Venezuela, but has been living and working in Antwerp for years. Since 2005 she forms an artistic duo

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