10th Biennial of Painting

The exhibition at the Roger Raveel Museum begins with the act of looking itself: painting appears as a dynamic interplay of language, texture, scale, and spatiality. The pictorial gesture becomes one element within a broader conceptual field. Nine artist rooms function as spaces for thought, where presence and absence, surface and architecture, object and image continuously shift. Some artists start from drawing or writing, others from spatial interventions or hybrid forms that stretch the boundaries of painting. In doing so, the medium is revealed as an open, evolving visual language in which past and present mutually reinforce one another.

The 10th Biennial of Painting marks both a milestone and a new beginning for the Roger Raveel Museum. After a closure of one and a half years, the museum reopens in a refreshed building with significantly improved conditions for presentation and conservation. More than ever, the museum aims to be a place where visitors encounter each other and art, and feel encouraged to look more slowly and attentively.

• Artists: Richard Artschwager, Alighiero Boetti, Orla Barry, Aglaia Konrad, Katja Mater, Guy Mees, Mariella Simoni, Sietske Van Aerde, Anne‑Mie Van Kerckhoven, Suzanne Bomhals, Roger Raveel, Fons Roggeman, Léon Spilliaert, Louis Thevenet and Rik Wouters.
• Curator: Melanie Deboutte