These are all things that are influential for my visual language, which I do on the side but are important for me. I will show part of my artistic repertoire I suppose—what's in my head and has formed me—I think it will be interesting for the show. DdYes, you have film, video, drawings. How do different media all feed in to each other? The artist’s tendency to work more regularly in series comes from his longing to go deeper. At the same time, a cinematic continuum is suggested from which random stills are made. However, it remains unclear to viewers whether there really is a narrative structure in which one work follows on from the other. He was described in The New York Times earlier this year as perhaps "the greatest living figurative painter." His painting technique is noted for drawing on 18th-century art and shows the influence of artists Édouard Manet, Diego Velázquez and Edgar Degas. Recently, Borremans has used photographs and sculptures as the basis for his paintings.

Belgian painter Michaël Borremans is pictured in Brussels on February 20, 2014. The inset shows signage for the Balenciaga shoe boutique in New York City. Borremans has become a talking point on social media amid a scandal over a recent Balenciaga ad campaign. BENOIT DOPPAGNE/AFP via Getty Images;/Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images These painters and their technique, they’re most suitable for me and my temperament, because the way you paint has to do with attitude and temperament. That’s why painting continues to remain an interesting medium, because every artist can find his own language in this medium. It’s like a musical instrument. Everybody has to find their own style of playing. And it took me a while to get there. It’s still an evolution, which is interesting of course, because I don’t know how my work will look in ten years or so. It’s an adventure. In 2011, Borremans' work was the subject of a solo exhibition, titled Eating the Beard, which was first on view at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart in Germany and traveled to Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, and Kunsthalle Helsinki in Finland. In 2010, he had a solo exhibition at the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, and in 2009, he had a solo show at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, Germany [5] For two decades, artist Michaël Borremans has been confounding—and captivating—audiences with his enigmatic paintings. Trained as a draughtsman and engraver at Luca School of Arts in Ghent, followed by several years of photography, it View Bio, Works & Exhibitions

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The gallery’s presentation at Frieze London 2021 includes a focus on new work by Michaël Borremans, Carol Bove, and Oscar Murillo. Behind this lies the loss of a forgotten, long set aside innocence of the painted image, the refusal of the possibility of direct observation of reality and its reproduction through painting. Today, painting can no longer merely document reality. It always entails a submersion into the long tradition of the imaginative world of painting as such. This year at the opening of his solo exhibition, Fire from the Sun, the inaugural show at David Zwirner’s new gallery in Hong Kong, Borremans was likewise satisfied. This time, because people were less likely to voice the meaning they read into his paintings. The significance was in this reticence. The perceived meaning of the works is difficult to voice or uncomfortable to admit.

Michaël Borremans’ paintings present static scenes that in actual fact are an illusory reflection of the artist’s imagination. His way of grasping reality has much to do with the pictorial world of Dutch painting from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Even though he often links his pictorial subjects with latently present violence, they stand out with the extraordinary beauty of their execution,” notes the exhibition curator and Galerie Rudolfinum director Petr Nedoma.a b "Balenciaga under fire again as 'disturbing' Michael Borremans book spotted in ad". HITC. 24 November 2022 . Retrieved 30 November 2022. Michaël Borremans: Fixture, was presented at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga in 2015–2016. A major museum survey, Michaël Borremans: As sweet as it gets, which included one hundred works from the past two decades, was on view at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 2014. The exhibition traveled later in the year to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, followed by the Dallas Museum of Art in 2015. Michaël Borremans: The Advantage, the artist's first museum solo show in Japan, was also on view in 2014 at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. [8] His retrospective As sweetas it gets travelled in 2014-2015 from Bozar in Brussels to the Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art and the Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibition Eating the Beard opened at the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo before being shown at Kunstverein Stuttgart, Kunsthalle Budapest and Kunsthalle Helsinki. Michaël Borremans has also had solo exhibitions at CAC Malaga, the Hara Museum in Tokyo, MCA Denver, Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover, De Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Parasol Unit in London, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven and many more.

Following European art’s tradition of exploring universal human values, Michaël Borremans and Mark Manders work reflects on our contemporary era of globalization. The paintings of Borremans, who mines Baroque traditions to portray the dark recesses of the human soul, and the sculptures of Manders, with their striking pieces of bodies—created in accordance with the artist’s concept of “self-portrait as a building”—both delve deeply into complex psychological states and relationships.Weight (2006), the second film I made of the girl turning, was based on an idea for a sculpture that would continually turn around and it would be alive. I had a whole mechanical sculpture made, but it was just ridiculous. Then I thought I have to do the same with a living girl. [The work shows what appears to be live footage of a legless girl; the top half of her body rotating slowly on a table.] That’s how that came about. Most of the film works have to do with sculpture ideas, but they are experiments to me. In 2007, he had a solo show at gallery De Appel in Amsterdam, focusing on his cinematic works. [6] In 2005, he had a one-person exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent. The paintings then traveled to Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, and The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, while the drawings traveled to the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio. Other solo exhibitions include La maison rouge, Paris (2006); Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany; and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (both 2004). In 2004, he participated in Manifesta 5, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art. [7]

The specific illusive quality of Borremans’ paintings betrays the artist’s interest in film and photography. Scenes depicted in unnaturally slow motion, precise details and the vibrant character of the paintings attest to an endeavour to bring us closer to the transcendental dimension of spiritual questions, albeit with a lightly ironic tone. Un-huh. Who believes that cover-your-bum story? In the beginning, the Jeffrey Epstein ‘Pedophile Island’ story was poo-pooed. There are no connections whatsoever between Balenciaga and Borremans…,” Robin Meason, Balenciaga’s global PR director, told DailyMail.com. The month-long residency is a collaboration between Ocula and the Austrian art association Salzburger Kunstverein.

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Borremans studied at the Sint-Lucas Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst (College of Arts and Sciences St. Lucas) in Ghent, receiving his M.F.A. in 1996. Originally trained as a photographer, he turned his attention to drawing and painting in the mid-nineties. He uses old photographs of people and landscapes as inspiration for his work. [ citation needed] You will be able to see the connection. There will be very few paintings, just a couple. There will be sculptural works—a sculptural installation. There is a bronze spaceship I designed [laughs]. Crazy things. Michaël Borremans, Space Vessel I (2017). Bronze and paint. 9.2 x 9.04 x 11.3 cm. Installation view: 21 stBiennale of Sydney, Artspace, Sydney (16 March–11 June 2018). Courtesy the artist and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp. Photo: Document Photography. These are all things that are influential for my visual language, which I do on the side but are important for me. I will show part of my artistic repertoire I suppose—what’s in my head and has formed me—I think it will be interesting for the show.