L. Vanderkelenstraat 28
B–3000 Leuven
Belgium
Hours: Thursday 11am–10pm,
Friday–Tuesday 11am–6pm
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info@mleuven.be
M - Museum Leuven aims to integrate the past, present and future in a comprehensive approach to visual art and culture. The museum is firmly committed to the work of both emerging and established Belgian and international contemporary artists. M wants to play an active part in artists’ careers, and so takes the lead in the production and facilitation of new work. M is pleased to announce its exhibition programme for 2019.
Pieter Vermeersch
March 15, 2019–August 11, 2019
Painting is central to the artistic practice of Pieter Vermeersch (1973, Belgium), whose canvases mostly relate to other media, such as photography and architecture. Space, time and colour are key elements in his exhibitions. Pieter Vermeersch’s solo show at M will feature architectural manipulations and wall paintings, and the artist will also work with historical pieces from the museum’s collection. In this way, he will bring together virtually all the aspects he has developed in the past 20 years, including new work, in five rooms at M. The result lies at the intersection between exhibition and installation.
Curator: Eva Wittocx
Aleksandra Chaushova
May 24, 2019–November 17, 2019
Reality and fiction are never far apart in the pencil drawings of Alexandra Chaushova (1985, Bulgaria). She sets out in her work to uncover the mechanisms we use to give shape to our own history. How do memories arise? How do they relate to collective memories, which are actually a combination of many individual, subjective stories? In her graphic work, Chaushova acts at times like a virus gradually taking control of archive documents. The artist will show both existing work and a series of new drawings at M.
Curator: Valerie Verhack
Nel Aerts
October 25, 2019–February 23, 2020
Nel Aerts (1987, Belgium) has created an organic oeuvre through drawings, collages, textile works, photographs, paintings, performances (many of them filmed) and artists’ books. The motifs she incorporates in her drawings, collages and paintings stimulate the imagination through their simplicity, as do the often witty titles accompanying them. The lines and frequently brash colours make this work simultaneously poetic, spontaneous, grotesque and absurd: characteristics not a million miles away from the work of artists like Jean Brusselmans, René Magritte, Philip Guston, Tal R and Walter Swennen, all of whom she greatly admires.
Curator: Valerie Verhack
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