Exhibitions

Enrique Martinez Celaya: Tu mar y tus hierbas

24 Apr - 18 Oct 2024 Brussels The work before us demonstrates the romance of the sea, the land, the wildflowers of a meadow and of the waves evoking a vast territory of experience and memory, the artist combining these psychologically charged references that he has employed over the years. Literature as always with Martinez Celaya plays... Read more

Petite Shoe Show

Curated by Kyvèli Zoi 5 Apr - 15 Jun 2024 Paris Although a very common object in our lives, it holds a very significant role in how it determines our presentation, but also our posture, balance and connection to the ground below us. Much inspiration can be drawn to the theme, from Van Gogh’s boots, and Philip Guston’s gigantic shoe ,... Read more

Agathe de Bailliencourt: Making things go

12 Jan - 23 Mar 2024 Paris Making things go brings together paintings, drawings and film, which use chance and repetition as a methodology. De Bailliencourt underlines the importance of Marcel Duchamp’s 3 stoppages étalon (3 Standard Stoppages, 1913–14) as a vital reference point for this series, tracing the unpredictable into something solid and yet, ultimately, arbitrary.... Read more

Wole Lagunju: Study of the Greek god, Pan

9 Nov 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 Brussels The works of the Nigerian-born US based artist Wole Lagunju (b.1966) are instantly recognisable for their distinctive style often featuring a backdrop of overflowing floral decor incorporating and fusing elements of Yoruba culture combined with a Western Euro-American fashion aesthetic, the figures reflecting a sense of power and attitude stemming... Read more

William Osorio: Contrapunto

17 Oct - 1 Dec 2023 Paris Osorio uses this as a way of reflecting on his own experience of exile, having left Cuba for the United States at the age of eighteen before he had completed his art school training. This move profoundly shifted his approach to reality: instilled with a new awareness and fascination, he... Read more

Tomiwa Arobieke: Blind Love

27 Jul - 2 Sep 2023 VSpace The work, entitled Blind Love demonstrates a strong grasp of history, of people, the painted image contains a myriad of clues and references not only of his local surroundings but also looking across the ocean to the new world, countries such as America, the viewer is transported to the era... Read more

Rita Mawuena Benissan: The Key is in the Name!

Mmuae no wo din no mu! 27 Jun - 15 Jul 2023 Brussels In this instance, we are presented with a carved wooden gold leaf finial, a sculptural form that would traditionally be found adorning the apex of a traditional Ghanaian Royal umbrella, a symbol of authority whilst showcasing the profound beauty and power of black culture. The clenched fist and key can... Read more

Marcel Rusu: Unpredictable Horizon

5 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 VSpace I am delighted to introduce the latest VSPACE exhibition focusing on a singular exceptional painting by the emerging Romanian Cluj-Napoca based visual artist Marcel Rusu (b.1989). Unpredictable Horizon is a hybrid image, the use of visual metaphors and varying process ranging from airbrush, acrylic or traditional oil aims to create... Read more

Elizabeth Sekyiamah: Obaa Alovera

6 Sep - 5 Nov 2022 VSpace Adrian Sutton is delighted to present Obaa Alovera (2022), a new painting by Elizabeth Sekyiamah (b.2002), an emerging abstract-figurative Ghanaian artist. Sekyiamah's working practice focuses on the role of women, from the perspective of a young woman living within a West African Society and of the domestic life in which... Read more

Nasan Tur: Diamond 1.20ct

26 Apr - 28 May 2022 VSpace Tur was born in 1974 into a Turkish family who had moved to Germany in the 1960's under the Gasterbeiterprogramm (guest worker program). His work as an artist covers and reflects social structures, political doctrines, power, fragility, capitalism, Marxism, dissent, repression, political and social conflict, and the financial structures at... Read more

Foster Sakyiamah: Red Easter Sunday

17 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 VSpace Taking cues from Malick Sidibé, the Malian artist, noted for his black-and-white photographs against patterned backgrounds, depicting the burgeoning pop culture of the 1960's in Bamako, Foster Sakyiamah captures, in a similar manner, on canvas, the effervescent spirit of his contemporaries in the capital of Ghana, the city where he... Read more

Joe Reihsen: Wipscape, Santa Cruz Mountains

18 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 VSpace Joe Reihsen was born in 1979 in Minnesota, United States, he lives and works in Los Angeles. After 20 years of working in abstraction Reihsen felt compelled to reflect directly on nature, over the last 10 years, wildfires have become more and more of a constant menace in the artist's... Read more

Jonas Burgert: Glanz laicht

23 Sep - 12 Oct 2021 VSpace The figure, in her entirety, is entangled. From her metal crown, to her chain-like belt, strips of fabric are draped across her shoulder, wrapped around her hands, the captured birds, and accumulate in a tangled labyrinth at her feet. This enigmatic figure carry’s paint on her skin as though it... Read more

Marius Bercea: Loom of Days

14 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 VSpace Bercea's Loom of Days portrays three sitters, poised around a table, disturbed by a presence. These extravagant beings, with their choice of bold, lurid, patterned items of clothing, and constructed backdrop present a synthesis of colour. Fabrics dominate this painting, which explain the multifaceted meaning behind the title of the... Read more

François Morellet: Lamentable Ø4m50 bleu

8 Jul - 3 Sep 2021 VSpace The luminosity of neon combined with the use of colour enabled Morellet to create artworks that had a fundamental enigmatic quality, allowing spontaneity and importantly an element of playfulness, often reflected in his chosen titles. Lamentable Ø4m50 bleu is no exception, neon tubes appear suspended in the air, their form... Read more