29.10.2016 - 29.01.2017
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19.10.2016 - 15.01.2017
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04.10.2016 - 26.03.2017
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30.09.2016 - 08.01.2017
27.04.2012 - 28.07.2012
13.11.1992 - 23.12.1992
13.03.1992 - 25.04.1992
1958
born in Morstel, Belgium
lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium
education
1982-1986
Vrije Universiteit, Brussels
1980-1982
Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Antwerp
1979-1980
École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre, Brussels
1976-1979
Sint-Lukasinstituut, Brussels
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)
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.)
Oh, what a spectacle! Glasses portraits by Luc Tuymans – in pictures by Imogen Carter
Think of the world’s most famous portraits and you might struggle to recall many sitters in spectacles. Yet the Belgian painter Luc Tuymans was looking through his catalogue of portraits one day and was amazed to discover that three-quarters of his subjects were wearing glasses. It was not a deliberate choice but, he says: “I have always enjoyed painting glasses…
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Fürst der Finisternis by Jens Hinrichsen
Luc Tuymans setzt den Pinsel gern dort an, wo es wehtut. Mit Sujects wie Kolonialverbrechen und Holocaust hat sich der belgische Maler den Ruf eines politischen Künstlers erwoben. Warum zeigt er seine Retrospektive nun ausgechnet im Golfstaat Katar? Ein Gespräch über Kunst, Politik und die Macht der Scheichs…
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A Belgian artist's Journey through Time by Maneesh Bakshi
“In the swimming pool and nobody came,” he blurted, before the question about the venue of his first exhibition could even be completed. “I rented the empty pool for a day and sent an invitation to 5,000 people but nobody came except for a few friends and my mom. My mom went down the pool and cried,” narrated world acclaimed Belgian painter Luc Tuymans, whose works are currently on display at an exhibition at the Museum of Islamic Art…
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Politics take center stage at Luc Tuymans’ first regional solo show in Qatar by Chantelle D'Mello
Artwork drawing inspiration from the Holocaust, religion, Disneyland and American politics are the focus of Luc Tuymans’ first solo show in the Middle East, which opened to the public in Qatar today…
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The Gap: Selected Abstract Art from Belgium by Will Gresson
Featuring around 40 works from fifteen artists, The Gap: Selected Abstract Art from Belgium is an exploration of the notion of abstraction across a broad spectrum of interpretations. Currently showing from now until the beginning of December at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art in London, the exhibition is curated by Belgium artist Luc Tuymans and seeks to follow the thread of abstraction through different generations and mediums, drawing attention to the influences which more contemporary artists carry from their predecessors while also exploring the diversity of artist practice and approach surrounding abstraction…
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Nazis, cake and the Wizard of Oz: a drawing show with a difference by Adrian Searle (26.05.2015)
We are invited to make up stories to connect the disparate, uneasy – and sometimes funny – drawings of Andrzej Wróblewski, René Daniël and Luc Tuymans…
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Himmler? Mój Boże, przecież to mógłby być każdy // an interview with Anda Rottenberg (17.01.2015)
Nigdy nie wierzyłem w artystów, którzy są primadonnami – mówi Luc Tuymans Andzie Rottenberg. Rozmowa odbyła się przed otwarciem wystawy “De. Fi. Cien. Cy” (Niedobór) w galerii Art Stations Foundation w poznańskim Starym Browarze…
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DE. FI. CIEN. CY. Wystawa w Galerii Art Stations (03.01.2015)
Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk ma zaszczyt zaprezentować wystawę DE. FI. CIEN. CY [Ułomność], na której pokazany zostanie szeroki wybór prac na papierze Andrzeja Wróblewskiego, René Daniëlsa i Luca Tuymansa.
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Luc Tuymans: W każdym obrazie mieści się trauma // an interview with Wojciech Engelking (29.11.2014)
Od 27-go listopada w poznańskiej galerii Art Stations w Starym Browarze Luc Tuymans, belgijski malarz i kurator, prezentuje swoje malowane na papierze prace w ramach wystawy DE. FI. CIEN. CY, której kurator, Ulrich Loock, zdecydował się zestawić jego prace z dziełami René Daniëlsa i Andrzeja Wróblewskiego. Tuymans wykonał także ogromny rysunek ścienny, który zniknie z galerii zaraz po zakończeniu wystawy. Nam opowiada, dlaczego jego prace powstają zawsze w ciągu jednego dnia i co łączy go z Andrzejem Wróblewskim…
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Trzej artyści próbują malować to, co niemożliwe by Monika Kuc (30.11.2014)
Nowa wystawa w poznańskiej galerii Art Stations w Starym Browarze w Poznaniu wpisuje twórczość Andrzeja Wróblewskiego w kontekst międzynarodowy…
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DE. FI. CIEN. CY – Andrzej Wróblewski, René Daniëls oraz Luc Tuymans w galerii Art Stations w Poznaniu (29.10.2014)
Już wkrótce w Art Stations Foundation będzie można zobaczyć wystawę DE. FI. CIEN. CY [Ułomność], na której pokazany zostanie szeroki wybór prac na papierze Andrzeja Wróblewskiego, René Daniëlsa i Luca Tuymansa. Ekspozycja będzie się skupiać się na dziełach Wróblewskiego z lat 1955 – 1957 oraz Daniëlsa i Tuymansa powstających od początku lat 80-tych XX wieku. Prace wypożyczono z kolekcji prywatnych i państwowych z Polski, Belgii, Holandii, Francji, Niemiec i Szwajcarii. Ponadto Luc Tuymans specjalnie na wystawę wykona w galerii rysunek ścienny w dużym formacie…
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Zug um Zug in die Gegenwart by Andreas Platthaus
Wohin?“ Die Frage steht groß auf den blinden Fenstern im Obergeschoss des überdachten Innenhofs im Dresdner Albertinum. Der belgische Künstler Luc Tuymans hat sie dort hingeschrieben, und die Antwort steckt direkt dahinter: in neun Sälen, die Tuymans und Ulrich Bischoff, dem gerade ausgeschiedenen Direktor der hier residierenden Galerie Neue Meister, zur Verfügung stehen, um ihre Version der Genese moderner Kunst…
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Paul Thek im Duisburger Lehmbruckmuseum, Kunst ist Liturgie by Magdalena Körner
Als Luc Tuymans im April in der Galerie Isabella Czarnowska in Berlin seine eigenen Werke in ebenso überraschende wie schlüssige Zwiesprachen mit Arbeiten des us-amerikanischen Künstlers Paul Thek verwickelte, schien es, als hätten die beiden Künstler im Galerieraum ein paar Biere zusammen getrunken und sich mit fortschreitender Zeit zu immer kühneren Dialogen verstiegen. Das singuläre Werk Paul Theks wirkt heute so aktuell wie nie…
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Fleisch von meinem Fleische by Tim Ackermann
Es ist wohl das Katholische, das die beiden verbindet. Den Amerikaner Paul Thek, der Ende der Sechziger mit seinen fast sakral wirkenden Objekten und Installationen seine Zeitgenossen irritierte, die sich doch eben erst an die kühlen Kanten der Minimal Art gewöhnt hatten. Und den Belgier Luc Tuymans, der stets versucht hat, sich von der starken Bildermacht der katholischen Kirche in seiner Umgebung loszusagen, und dann doch Bilder gemalt hat, die man als zeitgenössische…
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Zeige deine Wunde by Christiane Meixner
Darüber hätte ich auch gerne geschrieben: Über AnArchitektur – Produktion und Gebrauch gebauter Architektur bei Art transponder in der Brunnenstraße und Christian Jankowski “And your bird can sing” bei Klosterfelde in der Linienstraße oder Bigert & Bergström “If You Don’t Like the Weather, Change It” in der neuen Dependance von Barbara Thumm in der Markgrafenstraße, nicht zu reden von Maria Eichhorn bei Barbara Weiss in der Zimmerstraße. Unbedingt sehenswerte, interessante…
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Luc Tuymans curates: A Vision of Central Europe
It has been suggested that, for a city with such a rich heritage, Bruges has few dedicated art institutions. But what the city lacks in permanent galleries – primarily those concerned with contemporary art – it has more than made up for with its recent series of highly successful…
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In the Dark Regions of the World by Hans Rudolf Reust
“Mwana Kitoko, The beautiful White Man.” Thus did the people of the Congo address their sovereign, Baudouin, king of the Belgians. Luc Tuymans painted him descending the narrow stairs of his airplane in the mid-fifties, wearing an immaculate white Navy uniform, looking just a little too stiff for the elegance of his slim figure, one hand firmly grasping his sword, his eyes hidden behind sunglasses to protect them from the sun and the intrusive gaze of others…
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Albores, Montserrat, Luc Tuymans: Retratos y Vegetación, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga 2011.
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Vermeiren, Gerrit, Luc Tuymans: I don’t get it, Ludion, Antwerp 2007.
The Forbidden Empire: Visions of the World by Chinese and Flemish Masters, Texts by Till-Holger Borchert, Yu Hui, Li Shi, Luc Tuymans, and Laurence Van Kerkhoven, Bozar Books/Fonds Mercator, Brussels 2007.
Fernandes, João and Hans Rudolf Reust, Luc Tuymans: Dusk / Penumbra, Museu Serralves, Porto 2006.
Luc Tuymans: Proper, Text by Gerrit Vermeiren, David Zwirner, New York 2005.
Dexter, Emma and Julian Heynen, Luc Tuymans, Tate Publishing, London 2004.
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Hannula, Mika, Enrique Juncosa, Gerrit Vermeiren, Luc Tuymans: Display, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain 2003.
Berg, Stephan, Luc Tuymans: The Arena, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2003.
Abts, Tomma (ed.): Vitamin P. New Perspectives in Painting, with texts by Ulrich Look et. al., Phaidon Press, London 2002
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