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Meessen De Clercq

Meessen is a contemporary art gallery that represents the work of a group of Belgian and international artists. Based in Brussels.

31/08/2025

Léa Belooussovitch
Art-o-rama Marseille
Last day to visit, August 31st
Today is the last day to visit , where we are presenting a duo show by Jorge Méndez Blake and Léa Belooussovitch.

In 'Any tidal wave could drown us', .belooussovitch turns her lens to the human cost of the climate crisis. Based on testimonies gathered by Amnesty International, her new series draws attention to communities on the front lines who face displacement, loss, and systemic injustice. Through her signature soft-focus textile drawings, Belooussovitch transforms press images into intimate, contemplative works that honor resilience and invite reflection.

We invite you to explore all the artworks we're presenting via our Artsy profile, link in our stories.
 Photos by: .pallot
Seen here:
Léa Belooussovitch
From the series 'Any tidal wave could drown us', 2025
Darwin with coloured pencil on wool felt
56,5 x 46,5 cm (framed)

08/02/2025

𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯
Léa Belooussovitch
On view until March 1st, 2025
The gallery is open from Thursday to Saturday, 11 AM to 6 PM
Léa Belooussovitch creates her felt drawings using colored pencils on wool felt, drawing inspiration from media and online images of floods, tsunamis, and torrential rains. The artist enlarges and meticulously hand-draws specific details from these images, transferring scenes that inherently evoke human suffering onto a material valued for its protective, insulating, and fire-resistant qualities.

These works move away from direct representation, instead imbuing the catastrophes with an abstract quality that invites open interpretation. The horror is subdued; no identifiable victims remain. Instead, viewers are met with a diffusion of energy into color, transforming tragedy into a contemplative visual experience.

𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 is on view from January 17 - March 1, 2025 at our Brussels gallery.
𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 :
Abu Dhabi, 13 décembre 2009 (2025)
Drawing with coloured pencil on wool felt
120 x 100 cm

06/02/2025

𝘍𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘮𝘦 - Villa Medici (2025 - 2026)
Thu Van Tran

We are happy to share that Thu Van Tran has been selected as one of the 16 Fellows of the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici (2025-2026) !
Seen here :
𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘺 (2024)
Pigments and lime on linen canvas
180 x 135 cm

01/02/2025

CURRENT EXHIBITION
𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯
Léa Belooussovitch
On view until March 1st, 2025
The gallery is open from Thursday to Saturday, 11 AM to 6 PM
𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 is the title of Léa Belooussovitch’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. It is a showcase that feels both dense and airy, offering a profound immersion into the artist’s reflections.
The term «immersion» is carefully chosen: whether taken literally or figuratively, the visitor is submerged in the work. Entire walls are covered with large-scale black-and-white prints depicting the artist’s tears, as seen through a microscope.
As Belooussovitch explains: “It’s about penetrating as deeply and as closely as possible into the visual representation of an intimate emotion and allowing oneself to be engulfed by it.”
To be overwhelmed by emotion to the point of tears

𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 is on view from January 17 - March 1, 2025 at our Brussels gallery.
𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 :
Catherine, 2025 (2017)
Les Oubliées
C-print on Hahnemühle paper
Edition of 1 + 1 AP
60 x 45 cm

20/01/2025

BRAFA 2025
Brussels Expo Heysel
Meessen, booth 22
January 26 - February 2
As we are currently installing a new artwork by Jorge Méndez Blake, we look forward to welcoming you soon at our booth during the upcoming 70th edition of BRAFA.

BRAFA is one of the most prestigious art fairs in Europe; an exceptional 8-day event in which rare works, ranging from antiquity to the twenty-first century, are exhibited in a refined setting at Brussels Expo.

Find us in the in Hall 4 at booth 22 with a selection of works by: Ignasi Aballí, Léa Belooussovitch, Lieven De Boeck, Sophie Calle, Robert Devriendt, Adam Henry, Nicolás Lamas, Benoît Maire, Jorge Méndez Blake, mountaincutters, Christopher Orr, Claudio Parmiggiani, Benoit Platéus, Evariste Richer, Solène Rigou, José María Sicilia, Namsal Siedlecki, Thu Van Tran and Maarten Vanden Eynde.

Seen here :
Jorge Méndez Blake
𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮 (𝘋𝘺𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘴. 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴), 2025
Aluminum, enamel, serigraph, lacquer
Variable dimensions

14/01/2025

OPENING THIS THURSDAY
𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯
Léa Belooussovitch
January 16, 6 - 9 PM
Meessen is delighted to welcome Léa Belooussovitch for her first solo show at the gallery.
A French artist who has lived in Belgium for many years, Léa presents works - drawings, sculptures and photos - specially conceived and designed for this exhibition, entitled 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.

𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 is on view from January 17 - March 1, 2025 at our Brussels gallery.
𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 :
'Les Oubliées, L'épargnée' (2017)
C-print on Hahnemuhle paper
Edition 1+ 1 AP
60 x 45 cm

12/01/2025

REPRESENTED ARTIST
Xie Lei
Nomination for the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2025
We are happy to share that has been nominated as one of the four finalists for the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize 2025, awarded by the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF). This nomination is a well-deserved recognition of his artistic achievements and dedication to his craft.

Alongside Xie Lei, the shortlist includes Bianca Bondi, Eva Nielsen and Lionel Sabatté.

In keeping with tradition, this nomination will be followed by an exhibition featuring the works of the four finalists. This exhibition will be hosted at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris from 26 September 2025 to 22 February 2026.

This recognition underscores the significant contribution Xie Lei continues to make to the contemporary art scene, and we are proud to celebrate this important milestone in his career.
Image by for 2023

11/01/2025

REPRESENTED ARTISTS
mountaincutters

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘪𝘳
Les Tanneries - Centre d'art contemporain d'interêt national

On view until next week, January 19th
The work 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘴, 𝘭𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘹 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘴 has been reimagined in a new context with the result of a site-specific work that reflects a network of blown-glass trajectories. Sequenced and interconnected, these elements invite viewers to sense the intangible as well as perceive the silent and subtle presence of an original breath, at once individual and shared, poetic and political.

Suspended by copper wires with conductive properties, this radical, floating installation expresses tension and explores the permeability between interior and exterior spaces. Transforming over the days and seasons, shaped by the play of light and meteorological phenomena (fog, mist, trickling water…), La Verrière, a changing and poetic space, becomes a shelter for new narratives. Simultaneously, the installation inhabiting it delves into the realm of color, revealing new amber tones and the shifting atmospheres that echo the seasonal rhythms, from autumn to winter, which the exhibition will showcase.

Allowing free rein to the interplay of colors, forms, and materials, the graphic lines of this work sculpt the space and highlight the architecture of the site. This architecture is rooted in an original gesture from 1947, designed for industrial purposes, but has since been constantly reimagined since 2016.

07/01/2025

UPCOMING EXHIBITION
𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯
Léa Belooussovitch
Opening Thursday, January 16, 6 - 9 PM
Meessen is delighted to welcome Léa Belooussovitch for her first solo show at the gallery.
A French artist who has lived in Belgium for many years, Léa presents works - drawings, sculptures and photos - specially conceived and designed for this exhibition, entitled 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.

By blurring or altering images of current events saturated with violence, the artist gives imagination a central role in pushing back the excesses that plague our times.
Whether through a slow process of concealment and erosion, or subtle displacements, she optimistically opens up new possibilities for interpreting the world.

𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 is on view from January 17 - March 1, 2025 at our Brussels gallery.
𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 :
'Manille, Philippines, 20 juillet 2012', (2025)
Coloured pencil drawing on wool felt
60 x 50 cm

28/12/2024

REPRESENTED ARTIST
Xie Lei
'Sur tes lèvres'
Le lieu Unique, Nantes (FR)
in collaboration with Fonds régional d’art contemporain (Frac) des Pays de la Loire
On view until January 12, 2025
and the present an exhibition on the theme of the kiss.

A powerful conveyor of emotions and of union across centuries and from culture to culture, the meaning of the kiss varies according to the era and context. Through the prism of the kiss, Sur tes lèvres presents a multifaceted vision of the body, desire, ritual, courtship, and care.

Starting from the collection of the Fonds régional d’art contemporain (Frac) des Pays de la Loire, expanded by loans and new creations that are being presented for the first time, this exhibition takes the public on a journey through a range of videos, photographs, sculptures, and installations.

By turns provocative or touching, ambivalent or more optimistic, the works presented at Le Lieu Unique and at the Frac Nantes site bring to life a private and social journey from the 1970s to the present day.
Two artworks of his solo exhibition 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘶 (2024, Meessen Brussels) are featured:

𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 2024
Oil on canvas
35 x 27 cm

𝘛𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩, 2023
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm

23/12/2024

REPRESENTED ARTIST
Rinko Kawauchi

𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥
Arnolfini Gallery at Bristol Photo Festival
On view until February 2025
"𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 celebrates over 20 years of work by internationally acclaimed Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi. She is best known for finding beauty in the everyday, her work characterised by a poetic or dreamlike quality that imbues mundane scenes and objects with a sense of wonder and transcendence.

Drawing upon work made over two decades, the exhibition reflects upon the fragile beauty of the world we collectively inhabit. From Hokkaido’s snowy landscapes to home life during the Covid pandemic, Kawauchi captures the connections and continuity of life on this planet we call home.

The title is taken from an essay written by Masatake Shinohara for Aperture in 2021."

21/12/2024

LAST DAY
𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮𝘴
Benoit Platéus
Open until 6 PM tonight
Seen here:
𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴, 2024
Oil and collage on canvas
176 x 220 cm

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Abdijstraat 2a Rue De L'Abbaye
Brussels
1000

Openingstijden

Donderdag	11:00 - 18:00
Vrijdag	11:00 - 18:00
Zaterdag	11:00 - 18:00

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+32 2 644 34 54

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http://www.meessen.be/

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