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MARUANI MERCIER Gallery

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MARUANI MERCIER Gallery

Representing 20 artists, MARUANI MERCIER is a contemporary art gallery. Representing over 20 artists, MARUANI MERCIER is a contemporary art gallery.

Since opening its doors in 1995 it has focused on established American artist from the ‘80’s. The gallery has maintained long-term representation of influential artists like Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, McDermott & McGough, Philip Taaffe and Sue Williams. The gallery’s presence in Belgium, the heart of Europe, through multiple locations in Brussels and Knokke has

allowed it to have simultaneous full-scale exhibitions. Along with its support in the production of their works, the gallery aims to promote the artists it represents by publishing catalogues or monographic documents, by participating in fairs, and above all, by helping with the organization of important museum retrospectives. At the turn of the new century, the gallery has developed its program with emerging artists such as Lyle Ashton Harris, David Lachapelle, Paul Morrison, George Shaw and Wendy White. The gallery is also known for working directly with the Estates or Associations to set-up museum quality shows like for Hans Hartung and Man Ray in 2012. After 28 years of gallery activities in Köln, Berlin and Zurich; Jablonka Galerie decided to transfer its activities to Maruani & Mercier Gallery.

19/06/2026

Arne Quinze & Joana Vasconcelos
L’ABSURDE ET LE RÊVE THE ABSURD AND THE DREAMLIKE

An exhibition of sculptures, La Citadelle - Centre d’art & musée, 20.06-31.10.2026, Curators: Selcan Atilgan, Camille Frasca with the collaboration of Clare Lilley

At La Citadelle, Belgian Arne Quinze and Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, both born in 1971, invite visitors to enter a world where absurdity and dreams intertwine, playing with reality and considering our relationship to the world.
These two major international artists join creative forces for the first time, to create a parcours of 33 monumental works, some of which are made collaboratively, placed throughout the gardens, courtyards, and rooms of La Citadelle.

In the spirit of Jean Cocteau, whose artistic and poetic presence profoundly shaped Villefranche-sur-Mer and its surroundings, the two artists bring together absurdity and the dreamlike ways of disturbing the familiar and opening the world to transformation. Their dialogue plays homage to the director of Testament of Orpheus, filmed in Villefranche: a legendary work in which myth, memory, mirrors and the subconscious become passages towards another reality. Within the historic monument, this unprecedented artistic duo leads visitors through a world of improbable forms, unruly growth and heightened imagination.
Their works invite us to reconsider our relationship with the environments we inhabit: the gradual confinement of nature, the boundaries imposed by the domestic sphere, and the painful separation of human imagination from the living systems that sustain and nourish it.

Camille Frasca

16/06/2026

Reflections on Breathing by Danish artist Jeppe Hein opened at the Vanhaerents Art Collection Project Space in collaboration with MARUANI MERCIER on Saturday 25 April 2026 and is on view until 31 December 2026.
 The exhibition brings together Hein’s participatory breathing project Breathe With Me, a selection of Modified Social Benches, and a group of rotating mirror sculptures.
At the heart of the exhibition lies Breathe With Me, a large-scale participatory artwork that invites visitors to paint their own breath. Each exhale is translated into a simple blue line on the canvas walls — one line per breath. Over time, these individual gestures accumulate into a collective drawing: a shared portrait of presence, mindfulness, and connection.

Featured:
Jeppe Hein
Modified Social Bench U, 2008
powder-coated aluminium
115 x 180 x 45 cm
45 1/4 x 70 7/8 x 17 3/4 in
Edition 5/5 + 2 AP

12/06/2026

Congratulations to Hermann Nitsch for being included in the exhibition by Count Christian Duerckheim, a retired German industrialist and longtime art collector, showing part of his collection at the Serralves Foundation in Porto.

Installation view of Hermann Nitsch’s “Grazer Raum” (1987), an installation partly made with animal blood, includes splattered garments fastened on to a wooden beam and is shown outside of Austria for the first time.

To November 1, serralves.pt

11/06/2026

Georg Karl Pfahler “S-Metro”, 1967-1970 Is part of the group exhibition “Notes on Abstraction”. Bringing together some of the key exponents of international movements associated with abstract idiom, the exhibition features works executed between 1967 and the present day by artists including: Carl Andre, John Armleder, Lynda Benglis, Pam Glick, Peter Halley, Joseph Kosuth, Paul Mogensen, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Georg Karl Pfahler, Niele Toroni, Stanley Whitney, Sue Williams.

In his essay titled “Notes on Abstraction” from 1987, Peter Halley considered the notion of the ‘abstract’ as a mode of transitioning from the specific to the universal, from individual experience to its relation with the socio-political context of our society today. Challenging the vision of abstraction as a purely formal and autonomous pursuit, he writes, “the history of abstract art is the history of a real progression in the social. It is the history of the organization of the compartmentalized spaces and the formal systems that make up the abstract world.” The exhibition traces the heterogeneous terrain of contemporary abstraction: from Minimalism’s material and spatial logic to conceptual language, serial procedure and contemporary disruptions of form. Notes on Abstraction presents it as a set of recurring questions – about surface, structure, repetition, embodiment, and social relations – that continue to be reformulated across generations.

Georg Karl Pfahler
“S-Metro”, 1967-1970
acrylic on canvas
200 x 190 cm - 78 3/4 x 74 3/4 in

06/06/2026

MARUANI MERCIER is pleased to present Notes on Abstraction, a group exhibition opening in our Brussels gallery on 4th June. Bringing together some of the key exponents of international movements associated with abstract idiom, the exhibition features works executed between 1967 and the present day by artists including: Carl Andre, John Armleder, Lynda Benglis, Pam Glick, Peter Halley, Joseph Kosuth, Paul Mogensen, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Georg Karl Pfahler, Niele Toroni, Stanley Whitney, Sue Williams.

In his essay titled “Notes on Abstraction” from 1987, Peter Halley considered the notion of the ‘abstract’ as a mode of transitioning from the specific to the universal, from individual experience to its relation with the socio-political context of our society today. Challenging the vision of abstraction as a purely formal and autonomous pursuit, he writes, “the history of abstract art is the history of a real progression in the social. It is the history of the organization of the compartmentalized spaces and the formal systems that make up the abstract world.” The exhibition traces the heterogeneous terrain of contemporary abstraction: from Minimalism’s material and spatial logic to conceptual language, serial procedure and contemporary disruptions of form. Notes on Abstraction presents it as a set of recurring questions – about surface, structure, repetition, embodiment, and social relations – that continue to be reformulated across generations.

04/06/2026

Opening today of Notes on Abstraction, a group exhibition in our Brussels
gallery. Bringing together some of the key exponents of international movements associated with abstract idiom, the exhibition features works executed between 1967 and the present day by artists
including: Carl André, John Armleder, Lynda Benglis, Pam Glick, Peter Halley, Joseph Kosuth, Tony Matelli, Paul
Mogensen, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Georg Karl Pfahler, Niele Toroni, Stanley Whitney, Sue Williams.

Featured:

Louise Nevelson
End of Day XXI, 1972
painted wood
81.5 x 42.3 x 11 cm
32 1/8 x 16 5/8 x 4 3/8 in
framed: 27 x 47.5 x 5 cm

DESCRIPTION / COMMENTARY
Louise Nevelson’s End of Day series
is a powerful body of work from the 1970s that distills many of her signature ideas—assemblage, monochrome surfaces, and emotional atmosphere—into a more meditative, even somber register.
‌
‌These works are large-scale wall reliefs made from assembled wooden fragments—found objects like chair legs, moldings, crates, and architectural scraps. Nevelson arranged them into box-like compartments
and unified them with a single color, typically black in this series.

Why “End of Day”?
‌
The title suggests twilight, closure, or reflection. Unlike some of her earlier, more theatrical environments, End of Dayfeels quieter and more introspective. It evokes:

‌The fading of light
‌The passage of time
‌A sense of stillness or finality

02/06/2026

is pleased to present Notes on Abstraction, a group exhibition opening in our Brussels
gallery on 4th June 2026. Bringing together some of the key exponents of international movements associated
with abstract idiom, the exhibition features works executed between 1967 and the present day by artists
including: Carl André, John Armleder, Lynda Benglis, Pam Glick, Peter Halley, Joseph Kosuth, Tony Matelli, Paul
Mogensen, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Georg Karl Pfahler, Niele Toroni, Stanley Whitney, Sue Williams.

In his essay titled “Notes on Abstraction” from 1987, Peter Halley considered the notion of the ‘abstract’ as a
mode of transitioning from the specific to the universal, from individual experience to its relation with the socio-
political context of our society today. Challenging the vision of abstraction as a purely formal and autonomous
pursuit, he writes, “the history of abstract art is the history of a real progression in the social. It is the history of
the organization of the compartmentalized spaces and the formal systems that make up the abstract world.” The
exhibition traces the heterogeneous terrain of contemporary abstraction: from Minimalism’s material and spatial
logic to conceptual language, serial procedure and contemporary disruptions of form. Notes on Abstraction
presents it as a set of recurring questions – about surface, structure, repetition, embodiment, and social relations
– that continue to be reformulated across generations.

Featured:

Niele Toroni
Empreintes de pinceau n°50 répétées à intervalles réguliers de 30 cm, 2008
acrylic on canvas
200 x 300 cm - 78 3/4 x 118 1/8 in

PROVENANCE
Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli
Yvon Lambert, Paris
Private collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 2014)
MARUANI MERCIER
Private Collection, Belgium
(acquired from the above in 2021)

01/06/2026

Happy Birthday to Emmanuel Taku and congratulations for being included in the exhibition entitled “X Marks the Spot: Contemporary Screenprinting at Brand X Editions,” May 24 – Nov. 8th, 2026 at the Dallas Museum of Art.

We are pleased to share that two editions of Emmanuel Taku prints included in this exhibition are being gifted to the DMA.

Entanglement, 2023. Emmanuel Taku. Screenprint.
Got You, 2023. Emmanuel Taku. Screenprint.

15/05/2026

Very excited with this new arrival at the gallery of a beautiful and historic painting by Peter Halley.

“Black Cell with Red Conduit”, 1985
acrylic and Rol-a-tex on canvas
63.5 x 38.1 x 8.9 cm
25 x 15 x 3 1/2 in

PROVENANCE
Artist studio
‌Jay Gorney Modern Art, 2/28/96
‌Private Collection, US

12/05/2026

Happy 77th birthday to Ross Bleckner.

A day doesn’t pass without our admiration for his painting, his vision, and the quiet intensity he brings to the passage of time, memory, and light.

And speaking of time, it seems to have very little hold on Ross himself, who somehow remains as youthful and luminous as ever.

Pictured here: Ross Bleckner, “A Day Doesn’t Pass”, 2024 — a title that feels especially right today.

With warmest wishes, Ross. ✨

Ross Bleckner
“A Day Doesn’t Pass”, 2024
oil on linen
182.9 x 243.8 cm - 72 x 96 in
framed: 187 x 247.5 x 7.5 cm

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