Luc Tuymans

Belgian artist Luc Tuymans is widely seen as having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s. His sparsely-colored, figurative works speak in a quiet, restrained, and at times unsettling voice, and are typically painted from pre-existing imagery which includes photographs and video stills. His canvases, in turn, become thirddegree abstractions from reality and often appear slightly out-of-focus, as if covered by a thin veil or painted from a failing memory. There is almost always a darker undercurrent to what at first appear to be innocuous subjects: Tuymans has, in this way, explored diverse and sensitive topics, including the Holocaust, the effects of images from 9/11, the ambiguous utopia of the Disney Corporation, the colonial history of his native Belgium, and the phenomenon of the corporation.

Born in 1958 in Morstel, near Antwerp, Belgium, Tuymans studied fine art in Brussels and Antwerp before completing a degree in Art History at the Vrije Universiteit in 1986. Joining the gallery in 1994, he was one of the first artists to be represented by David Zwirner, New York, where he had his first American solo exhibition that same year. In 2010, his critically acclaimed solo exhibition, Corporate, marked his ninth show at the gallery.

Tuymans was the subject of a major retrospective, co-organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It traveled from 2010 to 2011 to the Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Previous major solo exhibitions include those organized by the Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden, in 2009, and the Tate Modern, London, in 2004.Other recent solo exhibitions include the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain (2011); Haus der Kunst, Munich; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (both 2008); Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (2007); Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal; and the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (both 2006).

Tuymans was the curator of A Vision of Central Europe at the Brugge Centraal, Bruges, Belgium, in 2010. A catalogue raisonné of the artist’s paintings is currently being prepared by David Zwirner in collaboration with Studio Luc Tuymans. Compiled and edited by art historian Eva Meyer-Hermann, the catalogue raisonné will illustrate and document approximately 500 paintings by the artist from 1975 to the present day. The artist represented Belgium at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and his works are featured in major museum collections, including The Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Tate Gallery, London. He lives and works in Antwerp.

solo exhibitions

2016

Intrigue: James Ensor Curated by Luc Tuymans, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Premonitions, Lille Métropole, musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, Villeneuve d’Ascq (FR)

Glasses, Museum aan de Stroom (MAS), Antwerp (BE) & National Portrait Gallery, London (UK)

2015

Birds of a Feather, Gallery 1, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburg (Scottland)

Intolerance, QM Gallery Al Riwaq, Qatar Museums, Doha (Qatar)

2013

Nice. Luc Tuymans, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas (US)

The Spill, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (Japan)

The Summer is Over, David Zwirner, New York (US)

2012

Allo!, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia

Luc Tuymans: Graphic Works, 1989-2012, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany (travelled to Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands)

Paul Thek and Luc Tuymans: Why?!, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin (Germany)

2011

Retratos y vegetación, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain (cat.)

The Twenty Seventh of January Two Thousand and Eleven, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

2010

Corporate, David Zwirner, New York

Luc Tuymans: Selected Editions, BeLa Editions Gallery, Brussels

Luc Tuymans in Dallas Collections, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas [organized on the occasion of the traveling exhibition Luc Tuymans]

2009-2011

Luc Tuymans, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio [itinerary: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels] (cat. published in 2009; French edition of catalogue published in 2011)

2009

Luc Tuymans: Against the Day, Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels [itinerary: Baibakov art projects, Moscow; Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden] (each venue published its own cat.)

2008

Forever, The Management of Magic, David Zwirner, New York

Luc Tuymans: The Occupied Heart, Galleri Star/Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway

2007

Ende, Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany [catalogue published in 2009]

I Don’t Get It, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp [catalogue]

Les Revenants, Zeno X Gallery and Zeno X Storage, Antwerp

Luc Tuymans: Retrospective, Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest [itinerary: Haus der Kunst, Munich; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw] [catalogue]

2006

Luc Tuymans: Dusk/Penumbra, Museu Serralves, Porto (cat.)

Portraits: 1975-2003, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (cat. Luc Tuymans: Doué pour la Peinture, Conversations avec Jean-Paul Jungo)

Restoration, Wako Works of Art, Tokyio

2005

Les cinq anneaux, carlier | gebauer, Berlin

Les Gilles de Binche, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Luc Tuymans: Druckgrafik, Kunstmuseum Bern

Luc Tuymans: The Go-Between, Compton Verney House, Warwickshire, England

Proper, David Zwirner, New York (cat.)

2004

Luc Tuymans, Display Room 2, Saatchi Gallery, London

Luc Tuymans, Tate Modern, London [itinerary: K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf] (cat.)

Tracing, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City

2003

The Arena, Kunstverein Hannover [itinerary: Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland] (cat.)

Curtains: Reconstitution, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France (cat.)

Display, Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsinki [itinerary: Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain] (cat.)

Fortune, David Zwirner, New York

The Rumor: Monoprints, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York

2002

Niks, Zeno X Storage, Antwerp

Wandmalerei, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf

2001

Mwana Kitoko: Beautiful White Man, Belgian Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale: Plateau of Human kind, Venice (cat.)

Raoul De Keyser, Luc Tuymans, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent (cat.); two-person exhibition

The Rumour, White Cube, LondonSignal, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (cat.)

2000

Insolence, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

Luc Tuymans: Sincerely, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (cat.)

Mwana Kitoko: Beautiful White Man, David Zwirner, New York (cat.)

The Promise, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Undetermined, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (cat.)

1999

The Passion, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (cat.)

The Passion, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

The Purge: Luc Tuymans, Schilderijen/Bilder/Paintings 1991-1998, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands [itinerary: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg] [exhibition publication]

Splendid Isolation, White Cube, London

1998

Delayed, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden

Der Architekt, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin

Privacy: Luc Tuymans, Miroslaw Balka, Museu Serralves, Porto (cat.), two-person exhibition

Security, David Zwirner, New York

1997

Illegitimate, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Ons Geluk/Our Fortune: One Year’s Presentation of Luc Tuymans and Dany Devos, Breydelstraat 5, Antwerp; two-person exhibition

Premonition: Works on Paper, Kunstmuseum Bern [itinerary: Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California; Le Centre d’Arts Plastiques Contemporains, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France] (cat.)

1996

The Heritage, David Zwirner, New York

Necklace, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

1995

The Agony, Galerie Foksal, Warsaw [exhibition publication published in 1997]

Blow Up: Luc Tuymans – Schilderijen/Paintings 1985-1995, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands (cat.)

Francis Picabia and Luc Tuymans: Paintings, David Zwirner, New York; two-person exhibition

Heimat, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France (cat.)

Heimat, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Le verdict, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva

Luc Tuymans: Paintings 1978-1993, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia

1994

At Random, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Indelible Evidence, Galerie Erika und Otto Friedrich, Bern (cat.)

Superstition, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto [itinerary: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London] (cat.)

Superstition, David Zwirner, New York

Superstition: At Random, Portikus, Frankfurt [exhibition publication]

1993

Intolerance, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Luc Tuymans, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam

Luc Tuymans, Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany

Luc Tuymans, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (cat.)

1992

Der diagnostische Blick, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Luc Tuymans, Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern (cat.)

Repulsion, Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne

1991

Disenchantment/Ontchoocheling, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Luc Tuymans, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Thiers, France

1990

Luc Tuymans, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend, Belgium (cat.)

Luc Tuymans, Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent

Schilderijen, 1978-1989, Plateau, Brussels

Suspended, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Tekeningen/Works on Paper, Schouwburg Galerij, Rotterdam

1989

A Place in the Sun, Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp

Zimmer Frei, Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp

1988

Josefine c’est pas ma femme, Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp

1985

Belgian Art Review, Palais des Thermes/Thermae Palace, Ostend, Belgium

group exhibitions (selected)

2016

Display. Painting and Mass Media, Tate Modern, London (UK)

Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland (US)

Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, The Met Breuer, New York

The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)

 

2015

Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, exhibition presented at:

Nasher Museum or Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
The Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark Collage, Portland, Oregon

DE.FI.CIEN.CY – Andrzej Wróblewski, René Daniëls, Luc Tuymans, Drawing Room, London (revised version of the show produced by the Art Stations Foundation by Grazyna Kulczyk)

2014

DE.FI.CIEN.CY – Andrzej Wróblewski, René Daniëls, Luc Tuymans, Art Stations Foundation by Grazyna Kulczyk (in cooperation with Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin), Poznan, Poland

Progress and Hygiene, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

Execution of Maximilian, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, England

Unstable Places: New in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2013

TWICE. Marlene Dumas – Luc Tuymans, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality, Victoria Miro, London Conline cat.)

Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

The Garden of Diversion, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China

On Paper, Centro de Arte Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain

2011

Collection XXVII: East from 4˚24’, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp

Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago

The House Without the Door, David Zwirner, New York

Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels [itinerary: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain] (cat.)

Poland – Germany: A 1000 Years of Art and History, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (cat. forthcoming)

Tra – Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (cat.)

Undeniably me, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (cat.)

2010

Act V: Power Alone, Witte de With, Rotterdam

Act VII: Of Facts and Fables, Witte de With, Rotterdam

Babel, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Célébration, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago (cat.)

Fokus Lodz Biennale 2010, Muzeum Miasta Lodz, Lodz, Poland

Just Love Me: Regard Sur Une Collection Privée, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg

UltraMegaLore, Modemuseum Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium [exhibition publication]

(when will they finally see) The Power of Drawing, Galerie Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp

2009

Absence is the Highest Form of Presence, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium [museum publication M Dd/Museum Doordacht]

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)

Fading, Museum van Elsene, BrusselsFor the Use of Those Who See, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California

Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (cat.)

Private Universes, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

Undeniably me. 1309 Faces, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (cat.)

2008

Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)

Der eigene Weg: Perspektiven belgischer Kunst/Doing It My Way: Perspectives in Belgian Art, Museum Küppersmuhle für Moderne Kunst, Duisberg, Germany (cat.)

Die Hände der Kunst, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany [itinerary: Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent]

Eric Fischl, James Turrell, Luc Tuymans, and their printer Peter Kneubühler, Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zürich

Faces and Figures (Revisited), Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York (cat.)

The Gallery, David Zwirner, New YorkHere Is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Honorons Honoré, De Garage, Mechelen, BelgiumInvolved, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

Lost Paradise: Der Blick des Engels, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich

NoLeftovers, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

Passageworks: Contemporary Art from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

PopEye: The Art of Music, the Music of Art, Oude Gevangenis, Hasselt, Belgium

Regarde de tous tes yeux, regarde: L’art contemporain de Georges Perec, Musée des Beaux-Arts Nantes, Nantes, France [itinerary: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, Dole, France] (cat.)

Verkommene Söhne: Mißratene Töchter: 1978-1982, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

2007

A travers le miroir (le secret): Oeuvres de FRAC Auvergne, Ecuries-Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie d’Aurillac, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Cadeaux d’amis: Een homage aan Jan Hoet, Universiteit Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium

Critical Mass: 20 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Die Sammlung, Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

De Cirkel, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium

Doppelgänger: The Double of Reality, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain (cat.)

Eyes Wide Open: New to the Stedelijk Museum & The Monique Zajfen Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art (cat.)

I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton in Contemporary Art, Cheim & Read, New York (cat.)

MARTa schweigt – Garde le Silence, le Silence te Gardera, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany (cat.)

Old School, Hauser & Wirth, LondonThe Painting of Modern Life, The Hayward Gallery, London [itinerary: Castello di Rivoli, Turin] (cat.)

Painting Now! Back to Figuration, Kunsthal Rotterdam (cat.)

Scenes and Sequences: Peter Blum Edition, New York, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (cat.)

Slow, Z33, Hasselt, BelgiumSpeeltijd/Play Time, Koninklijk Atheneum Berchem, Antwerp

A Story of the Image: Old & New Masters from Antwerp, part of the JUBILEE: 20 years at MuHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp [itinerary: Shanghai ArtMuseum; National Museum of Singapore] (cat.)

Wako Works of Art: 15 Years, Part II, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

What is Painting? Contemporary Art From the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, NewYork

Works on Paper, Zeno X Gallery and Zeno X Storage, Antwerp

2006

25 Years at Zeno X Gallery, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (cat.)

Africa Remix, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Back to the Figure/Zurück zur Figur, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich

Dark, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Diagnose (Kunst): Die Medizin im Spiegel der zeitgenössische Kunst/Contemporary Art Reflecting Medicine, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany [itinerary: Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany] (cat.)

Essential Painting, National Museum of Art (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan), Osaka (cat.)

Extremities: Flemish art in Vladivostok, Museum Artetage, Vladivostok, Russia

Imagination Becomes Reality V: Crossroads, Sammlung Goetz, Munich

Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy (cat.)

Leeftijdgenoten, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium [catalogue]

Nichts, Nothing, Nada, Rien, Schirn Kunsthalle FrankfurtOs anos 80: Uma topologia/The 80s: A Topology, Museu Serralves, Porto (cat.)

Out of Time: A Contemporary View, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Politische Wahrheiten, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany

Spurensuche: Vergessen und Erinnern in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Street: Behind the Cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam

Tokyo Blossoms: Deutsche Bank Collection Meets Zaha Hadid, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Une simple question de temps: Conversation entre les collections du FRAC Auvergne et du Musée Crozatier, Musée Crozatier, Le Puy-en-Velay, France

Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers: Reflexionen zeitgenössischer Kunst zur Aktualität des Erinnerns, Kunsthaus Dresden

Vous êtes ici, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France (cat.)

We Humans are Free: From the Collection of S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Twenty-first Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Where Are We Going? Selections from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (cat.)

2005

Collectiepresentatie XIII – LUZ, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp

Drawing from the Modern: 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)

Early Work, David Zwirner, New York Monopolis – Antwerpen, Witte de With, Rotterdam (cat.)

(my private) Heroes, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany (cat.)

Pijn/La douleur/Pain, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent (cat.)

Shadow Play: Shadow and Light in Contemporary Art, an homage to Hans Christian Andersen, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark [itinerary: Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria]

Slow Art: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Flandern und den Niederlanden/Dutch and Flemish Contemporary Art, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf] (cat.)

Soul: Bezielde Kunst/Inspired Art, Grootseminarie, Bruges, Belgium (cat.)

The Triumph of Painting: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London (cat.)

Visionair België/La Belgique visionnaire. C’est arrivé près de chez nous, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

War Is Over, 1945-2005: The Freedom of Art from Picasso to Warhol and Cattelan, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bergamo, Italy (cat.)

2004

26th São Paulo Biennial: Território Livre/Free Territory, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo (cat.)

94-04, Zehn Jahre Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst in Dresden e.V. 94-04, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

After Images: Kunst als Soziales Gedächtnis, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany (cat.)

Carpe Artem, Art Project in the City, Sint-Truiden, Belgium

Contre-Images, Musée Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France (cat.)

Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (cat.) [exhibition curated from the Friedrich Christian Flick collection, on permanent, extended loan to the museum from 2004-2011]

Karel Appel: Onderweg-Reis van Rudi Fuchs langs de kunst der Lage Landen/Karel Appel on the Road: A Journey through Arts in the Low Countries by Rudi Fuchs, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels

New Blood: New Artists, New Acquisitions, Saatchi Gallery, London

Parkett: 20 Years of Artists’ Collaborations, Kunsthaus Zürich (cat.)

Reinstallation of the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Treasure Island: 10 Years Collection Kunstmuseum, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (cat.)

The Voice of Art, Palais des Nations, Geneva

Witslag, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium

Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück, Germany

2003

The Ambiguity of the Image, Art Athinai, Athens

Beaufort 2003: Triënnale für Zeitgenössische Kunst am Meer, Provinciaal Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend, Belgium

EU3, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

The Exquisite Object, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York

Gelijk het leven is: 50 jaar Belgische en Internationale kunst uit de Collectie, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent

An International Legacy: Selections from Carnegie Museum of Art, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma [itinerary: Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio](cat.)

M_ARS: Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (cat.)

Mental Mappings, Kunstverein Hannover

Outlook: International Art Exhibition, Technopolis, Benaki Museum, and Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens (cat.)

Pittura/Painting: from Rauschenburg to Murakami, 1964-2003, at the 50th Venice Biennale: Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Museo Correr, Venice (cat.)

unHEIMlich, Stadtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany (cat.)

Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (cat.)

Zehn Jahre, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (cat.)

2002

Dear Painter, Paint Me, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris [itinerary: Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt] (cat.)

documenta 11, Platform 5, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (cat.)

Ik of een ander: Zelfportretten van Belgische kunstenaars, Dexia Galerie, Passage 44, Brussels (cat.)

Límits de la percepció/Limits of Perception, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (cat.)

Painting on the Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, and Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (cat.)

Pressing, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp Raum für Malerei/The Painting Room, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

Startkapital, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Transform the World 2002, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

The Unthought Known, White Cube, London

Zeitmaschine/Time Machine, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern

2001

The Beauty of Intimacy: Lens and Paper, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands [itinerary: Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria] (cat.)

Belgisch Atelier: Dertien kunstenaars over hun identiteit/Atelier belge: treize artistes à propos de leur identité, Dexia Galerie, Passage 44, Brussels [booklet of illustrated works]

The Contemporary Face: Von Pablo Picasso bis Alex Katz, Deichtorhallen Hamburg

The Dark, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Het versluierd beeld, Provinciaal Centrum voor Beeldende Kunsten, Begijnhof, Hasselt, Belgium (cat.)

I ♥ NY, David Zwirner, New York

La natura della natura morta/The Nature of Still Life, Galeria Comunale d’Arte Moderna,Bologna, Italy

Parkett: Collaborations and Editions Since 1984, The Museum of Modern Art, New York [itinerary: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London] (cat.)

Szenenwechsel XIX/Change of Scene XIX, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

Telling Tales: Narrative Impulses in Recent Art, Tate Liverpool

2000

12th Sydney Biennale, Sydney (cat.)

51. Premio Michetti: Europa, differenti prospective nella pittura/Different Perspectives in Paintings, Museo Michetti, Chieti, Italy (cat.)

82,65% verf. Een keuze uit de aanwinsten 1991-2000, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Heerlen, The Netherlands

Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London (cat.)

Das Gedächtnis der Malerei/The Memory of the Painting, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (cat.)

Eiszeit: Kunst der Gegenwart aus Berner Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Bern (cat.)

Europeans: Summer 2000, Zwirner & Wirth, New York

ExitCongoMuseum: a century of art with/without papers, Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium (cat.)

Imperfektum, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo [itinerary: Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway; Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway; Fylkesgalleri, Namsos, 8Norway; Bomuldsfabriken, Arendal, Norway; Haugesund Billedgalleri, Haugesund, Norway; Bodo Kunstforening, Bodo, Norway; Aalesunds Kunstforening, Aalesund, Norway]

Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

The Oldest Possible Memory, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (cat.)

Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York [catalogue Modern Contemporary: Art atMoMA Since 1980]

Portrait d’un ami, Jean-Paul Jungo, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (cat.)

Reflexive Figurations, Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten-d’Eendt, Amsterdam (cat.)

Szenenwechsel XVII/Change of Scene XVII, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

The Vincent, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands

1999

Am Horizont, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany (cat.)

Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (cat.)

De Kabinetten Van De Vleeshal, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands

De Opening, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent

Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London [itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles] (cat.)

Homepiss: Luc Tuymans, Eric A. Frandsen, Michel Francois, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark

Negotiating Small Truths, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas (cat.)

Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York

Transmitter: Asta Gröting, Mark Manders, Luc Tuymans, Martin Walde, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (cat.)

1998

Artist’s Proof/Künstlerisch Erprobt, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany [itinerary: Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany] (cat.)

Aspects de l’art actuel en Belgique, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France (cat. published in 1999)

Bildgewordene Wirklichkeiten, Internationale Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Ostbelgien, Germany

EV + A XXII, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland

The Fascinating Faces of Flanders through Art and Society: 58/98, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon [itinerary: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp] (cat.)

Five Years, David Zwirner, New YorkPainting: Now and Forever Part I, Pat Hearn Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Photographs and Filmstills: Stan Douglas, Carl De Keyzer, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Shopping the Stars, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Verzachtende Omstandigheden/Extenuating Circumstances, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Vier Temperamenten, Galerie Gabriël Van de Weghe, Wortegem, Belgium

Voor het Verdwijnt, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Watou, Watou, Belgium (cat.)

1997

4th Lyon Biennale: L’autre/Other, La Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France (cat.)

10 Jaar aankopen, een selectie uit de collectie moderne Nederlandse schilderkunst van de Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Heerlen, The Netherlands

10 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern (cat.)

47th Venice Biennale: Future, Present, Past, Venice (cat.)

Arte del ‘900: La Pittura fiamminga e olandese, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (cat.)

A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

De Zachte Kracht, CC de Bogaard, Sint-Truiden, Belgium

Eté 97, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva

Francis Picabia, fleurs de chair, fleurs d’âme, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich (cat.)

Gravures et multiples, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva

John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Maakt Kunst Staat, Provinciaal Museum Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium

Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent zu Gast im Kunstverein Schwerte, Kunstverein Schwerte, Schwerte, Germany

Nature Morte, Cultureel Centrum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Reality Revisited: In Between Walls, Gallery Davos, Davos, Switzerland (cat.)

Reality Revisited: The Memory as Longing, Sala Montcada de la Fundación la Caixa, Barcelona (cat.)

Trapped Reality, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona (cat.)

1996

4×1 im Albertinum, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (cat.)

’94-’95, Kunstwerken verworven door de Vlaamse Gemeenschap in 1994 en 1995, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp (cat.)

Accrochage, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Avant-première d’un musée: Le Musée d’art contemporain de Gand, Institut Néerlandais, Paris (cat.)

Contact Prints, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw

Face à l’Histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat. published in 1997)

Hebben wij het geweten?/Were we Conscious, or its Conscience?, Provinciaal Museum voor Kunsten, Hasselt, Belgium (cat.)

Måleri: Det utvidgade fältet/Painting: The Extended Field, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden [itinerary: Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm] (cat.)

Pittura, Castello di Rivara, Turin (cat.)

Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

Some Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Ver na Vermeer: Hedendaagse schilders in Nederland en Vlaanderen/Contemporary Painters in the Netherlands and Flanders, Museum de Beyerd, Breda, The Netherlands

1995

Ars 95: Private/Public, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (cat.)

Der Janustemple, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

Des limites du tableau, les possibles de la peinture, Musée Departmental d’Art Contemporain, Château de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France

Een actuele privé-verzameling, Sint-Lukasgalerij, Brussels

Hopeless, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

Menschenbilder, Galerie Gebauer und Günther, Berlin

Positionen: Beobachtungen zum Stand der Malerei in den 90er Jahren, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany (cat.)

Pour un couteau, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Thiers, France

Ripple Across the Water, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Szenewechsel VII/Change of Scene VII, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

1994

Eight Rooms for Painting, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway

Enigma: David Hodges, Francesca Llopis, Luc Tuymans, Sala Montcada de la Fundación la Caixa, Barcelona (cat.)

The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (cat.)

This is the Show and the Show is Many Things, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (cat.)

Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, The Hayward Gallery, London (cat.)

Works on Paper, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Zeitgenossen/Contemporaries, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern

1993

75 Jahre Kunsthalle Bern/Bild des Monats im Kunstmuseum, Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern

Accrochage, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Andere Länder – Andere Sitten: Zeichnungen aus dem Kunstmuseum Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern [itinerary: Národní Galerie v Praze – Palais Kinský, Prague] (cat.)

Art in Belgium: Cyclic Indentity, Hong Kong Arts Centre (cat.)

Backstage: Topologie zeitgenössischer Kunst, Kunstverein Hamburg (cat.)

Confrontaties/Confrontations, 111 Hedendaagse Kunstenaars uit België en Luxemburg, Antwerp (cat.)

De uitputting voorbij/Look at the Window, Het Kruithuis – Stedelijk Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (cat.)

Der Zerbrochene Spiegel/The Broken Mirror, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (cat.)

Het Sublieme Gemis/The Sublime Void, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (cat.)

In Extenso/1989-1992, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (cat.)

Menschenwelt (Interieur), Portikus, Frankfurt [itinerary: Castello di Rivara, Turin; Norwich Gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design, Norwich, England; Württembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany] (cat.)

Peintures abstraites, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

1992

Accrochage, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerpdocumenta IX, Kassel (cat.)

Last Exhibition/Laatste tentoonstelling: De Keyser, Richter, Polke, Penck, Knoebel, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne

Modernism in Painting: 10 jaar schilderkunst in Vlaanderen/10 Years of Painting in Flanders, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend, Belgium (cat.)

Selectie Belgische Kunstenaars voor documenta IX, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (cat.)

1991

Accrochage, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

Kunst in Vlaanderen Nu: Een keuze uit tien jaar aankopen van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp

Vis-à-Vis, Gallery Sacre, Liege, Belgium

Works on Paper, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp

1990

Kunstwerken verworven door de Vlaamse Gemeenschap in 1988-1989, Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, Leiestreek, Belgium [catalogue]

Paesmans, Schepers, Tuymans, Vermuyten, Le Crédac, Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Ivry, Ivry, France (cat.)

1989

Wahrheit und Dichtung: Vier Aus Antwerpen, Gallery Maerz, Cologne

1988

Doodgewoon, Beelden van de dood in de actuele kunst, met een terugblik op Ensor en Rops, Cultureel Centrum de Warande, Turnhout, Belgium (cat.)

exhibitions curated by the artist & special projects

2015

The Gap: Selected Abstract Art from Belgium, Parasol unite foundation, London (UK) (cat.)

2011

Feuilleton, Belgian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale: ILLUMinazioni – ILLUMinations, Venice (IT)

2010

Dead Skull, Museum Aan de Stroom, Antwerp [commissioned mosaic work permanently installedin the museum square] [artist edition work of book and screenprint]

Luc Tuymans: A vision of Central Europe, Groeninge Museum, Brugge Centraal, Bruges, Belgium (cat.)

2009

The State of Things: Brussels/Beijing, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels [itinerary: National Art Museum of China, Beijing] (cat. published in English and Mandarin)

2008

Reconsidered. Luc Tuymans: Selected Works from the Städel Collection, Städel Museum, Frankfurt (cat.)

2007

The Forbidden Empire: Visions of the World by Chinese and Flemish Artists, Palais des BeauxArts, Brussels [itinerary: The Palace Museum, Forbidden City, Bejing] (cat.)

2006

Sirene/Alarm. Event organized by Luc Tuymans. Museums and cultural institutions across Belgium set their alarms to go off at 3p.m. Staff, artists, student, and other supporters evacuated the buildings for fifteen minutes as a plea for tolerance and a statement against political extremism, racism, and violence.

2002

Kamers: een keuze van Luc Tuymans, Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp [exhibition publication]

1999

Trouble Spot: Painting, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp (cat.)