Filip Collin

For the 2025 edition of Antwerp Art Weekend I teamed up with Brent and Dimitris from Temp. This collab resulted in a beautiful exhibition where friendships and memories were made. Bringing together a wonderful mix of national and international artists from very different backgrounds, we were able to create an energy that ran through the entire building. Two floors were filled with paintings, sculptures, installations and video’s alongside a bookshop and a space for performances. A dinner brought the artists and the Antwerp art scene closer together. Future plans were made. Looking forward to showing you all this year’s collaboration with the lovely people from Zeit. Welcome at the gallery this weekend to share some art and conversation. Antwerp Art Weekend 2026 is a Zeitmoment. @temp.antwerp @brentdecraene_ 📷 @dimitrisiokis 📷 @zeitart.space @lucf Artists featured in Open Fields: @antoineduchenet @alexandrapuscas_ @cootjeveelenturf @evalhoest @fiacielen @inekools @jef_de_coster @jeroen.bocken @fisjes @kyriaki.goni.studio @maximefauconnier @tak.karab @spiroshadjidjanos @tomas_predka @williamludwiglutgens @ruben__de_smet @clara_lissens @emelinedescreaux_siuxsun Bookshop: @boooooksantwerp

This work is called Small Pet Dog. It is one of a few works that were inspired by Carlos, my little dog brother. Since 2009 he has been a little jump of joy in our family’s life. Sadly, last week Carlos had to go on his next little adventure. We’ll miss this little hero. Almost 17 years of sweet memories will be ours forever. 2009-2026 Small Pet Dog, wire, wood and acryl, 2015

Installation views of SECONDroom: Filip Collin invites 123 Piano - Tomáš Predka, Maxime Fauconnier & Nadia Naveau Text by Luc Franken: 123 Piano takes its title from a children’s game known across cultures under different names but played according to the same simple rule: move forward when allowed, freeze when commanded. Even in stillness, the body remains charged with intention. Muscles tense, balance shifts, desire presses against restraint. The game stages a subtle tension between action and suspension, between wanting to move and being forced to stand still.This latent energy, this state of arrested motion, forms the connective tissue between the works presented here. Filip Collin invites three artists whose practices engage with movement across time, matter, and space, each freezing a moment that seems on the verge of continuing. Like the game that lends the exhibition its name, 123 Piano proposes movement not as linear progress but as a continuous negotiation between advance and restraint. Individual trajectories unfold within a shared direction. Falling, stopping, starting again, all are part of the motion. The exhibition holds these moments in suspension, asking what remains alive when everything appears still, and what might happen once no one is watching. (Extended text on website - link in bio) Thank you @secondroom_antwerp for this great opportunity Thank you @tomas_predka @maximefauconnier & @nadia_naveau for joining my invitation Thank you @lucf for putting together this beautiful text Thank you @maximefauconnier for the pictures @christophe_flore @tamara.beheydt @stefansiffer @lucadalvignale @marymapie @peornomin @tanjavrancken @sergiolampoe

Installation views of “6815 MINUTES”, an exhibition together with work of Nienke Baeckelandt and Maxime Fauconnier. Three pieces forming a delicate dialogue within the space of Spasss. “Cygne” (2025) is a neon glass sculpture that represents a carrier or bringer of light: a signal on still water, a gesture. Alongside work of @nienkebaeckelandt “Hybrid Skin Surface” and @maximefauconnier “On a cliff above the house (David Wojnarowicz #7)” Thanks to @eleonorebonello and @renaud.b for their help @spasss Pictures by @maximefauconnier

For their exhibition 6815 MINUTES at Spasss, Nienke Baeckelandt, Filip Collin and Maxime Fauconnier each made an edition of twelve small sculptures that are available to buy. You can get them individually or as a set, with a discount if you go for all three. 30% of the proceeds will be donated to families in Gaza through @fundsforgaza Contact any of us for information. You can discover the edition this Saturday 4-10pm during the closing event of the exhibition, where Maxime will also present a special version of his performance “The Waves (colors)” with Suzanne Cleerdin and Jacob Storer at 8PM. Filip Collin Fountain: Blue (2025) Stainless steel, 8 × 10 cm, edition of 12 + 2AP Maxime Fauconnier I’m afraid it’s beautiful (2025) Engraved steel, 7 × 10 cm, edition of 12 + 2AP Nienke Baeckelandt Hybrid Skin Surface (2025) Pigment, resin, 6 × 11 cm, edition of 12 + 2AP @spasss_bxl @maximefauconnier @nienkebaeckelandt @mandy.pixel @jacob__storer

Draw for Room @secondroom_antwerp What a lovely evening full of creative souls! Thank you @christophe_flore & @tamara.beheydt for the invitation. #antwerpart #secondroom #secondroom_antwerpen

Cover Up is now on view @vitrine_expo in Lissewege. Go visit this weekend, 22-23/08, for the Lissewege Light Festival. The installation is permanently visible in the gallery’s window. Cover Up I-II-III, neon, plexiglass, wooden frame, 2022 On view at Onder de Toren 9 (Odt9 - @vitrine_expo ) from 28/07-14/09 #coverup #lissewege #lissewegelichtfeesten

SP23, 2025 75 × 54 cm UV print on brushed aluminium, 3 mm plexiglass, metal screws Inspired by the building that hosted @temp.antwerp ’s latest exhibition, this collaborative piece by @brentdecraene @flpcollin and @dimitrisiokis brings together elements of our individual practices into a single work, focusing on the layered structures and traces embedded in the architecture of a space in constant transformation.

Summer clean in the apartement makes me rediscover some older works - happy to see this one again. Seems like a good representation of the rhythm of this summer. Rhythm: Purple and Green, acryl and collage on paper, 2019 #collage #antwerpart #rhythmofsummer

For the invite by Backspace for their exhibition ‘Spacial (Re)Awareness’ in their newest space in the Kapelstraat in Hoboken, my mom and I took the occasion to make a little tour through her hometown. Perfect chance to get some insight into her childhood. My mom grew up in the Kapelstraat and it felt nice knowing I am now part of that street’s history too. After her guided tour, I showed her around the show where Ralph took this beautiful picture of us. “Flowers For Jupiter I & II”, 2020, collage, acryl in oak frame. Thank you @ralphleeten for the nice memory. @backspace_antwerp #collage #antwerpart #mom

Introducing the Third and last artist who’ll be participating in the exhibition ‘Spatial (Re)Awareness!’ Filip Collin (b. 1987) is a visual artist based in Antwerp, Belgium. Working across drawing, collage, neon, and plexiglass sculptures, he creates playful, immersive works centered on shape and color. Rather than explaining his process or subjects, Collin offers hints through evocative titles—"Petali", "Voleur", "Ornamental Cabbage", "Lily"—inviting open interpretation. Collin’s compositions, abstract yet precise, often emerge from close observation or memory. Like zooming in on a still life until only a contour remains, his art transforms fragments into vivid forms. A background in printmaking led him away from black ink and toward a bold, layered color palette, combining materials like glass, paper, paint, and neon. His drawing style—fluid but intentional—reflects a balance between spontaneity and control. Each decision, from texture to tint, feels intuitive yet deliberate. The result: a vibrant, open-ended visual language where viewers can find their own meanings in pure shape and color. [fragments from text written by Maxime Fauconnier] The exhibition opens this friday 6/06 at 5pm! All images © [Filip Collin] #artistrunspace #visualart #exhibtion #spatial(re)awareness #antwerp

Filip Collin, Blauw-blauw, collage, 2019, in bespoke wooden frame with non-reflective glass . 3200 EUR . Marketing gimmick or not, today is Blue Monday, often referred to as the most depressing day of the year — typically the third Monday in January. We saw it as the perfect opportunity to feature Filip Collin’s Blauw-blauw in the front room of the gallery’s current display. Filip is blessed with a mild form of synaesthesia: when he sees or comes up with a form, he “feels” the matching colour. It can explain why colour plays such an important role in his oeuvre, often in surprising shades and combinations. While Filip is widely recognized for his neon artworks, he has also created remarkable collages like this one. In 2020, author and art critic Vincent Van Meenen explored Blauw-blauw in an article published in the art magazine HART . #zeit #zeitart #zeitartspace #filipcollin #blauwblauw #blauw #blue #bluemonday #collage #fineart #contemporaryart #paperart #minimalart #minimalism #postminimalism #forsale