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. --- Opening 2 April, 5-9 pm 🥂 Anne-Marie Schneider "A glance over 4 decades" --- Exhibition 2 April till 30 May 2026 --- 📍Michel Rein 51a Washington street 1050 Brussels --- @galerie_michelrein @neca @visitbrussels #annemarieschneider ---

Come and visit us at Ceramic Brussels (21-25 January) at Tour & Taxis! Michel Rein gallery is invited by Mercatorfonds to present works by Sophie Whettnall, Anne-Marie Schneider, Phillip Aguirre y Otegui, Sébastien Bonin, Michele Ciacciofera together with unique furniture by Noir Metal. With a wide selection of art books by Mercatorfonds. Come and visit us on booth C3 (publisher section). @noir_metal @mercatorfondsfondsmercator @sophiewhettnall @micheleciacciofera @philipaguirreyoteguil @sebastienbonin_studio #annemarieschneider @galerie_michelrein

We are happy to announce our participation at Ceramic Brussels (21-25 January) at Tour & Taxis.
Michel Rein gallery is invited by Mercatorfonds to present works by Sophie Whettnall, Anne-Marie Schneider, Phillip Aguirre y Otegui, Sébastien Bonin, Michele Ciacciofera together with unique furniture by Noir Metal. With a wide selection of art books by Mercatorfonds. Come and visit us on booth C3 (publisher section). @noir_metal @mercatorfondsfondsmercator @sophiewhettnall @micheleciacciofera @philipaguirreyoteguil @sebastienbonin_studio #annemarieschneider @galerie_michelrein

... We are happy to announce our participation at Ceramic Brussels from tomorrow (21-25 January) at Tour & Taxis. Michel Rein gallery is invited by Mercator Fonds to present works by Sophie Whettnall, Anne-Marie Schneider, Phillip Aguirre y Otegui, Sébastien Bonin, Michele Ciacciofera together with unique furniture by Noir Metal. Come and visit us on booth C3 (publisher section). Image: Michele Ciacciofera - Mr Chlorophylle dance 27x18x11 cm - enameled ceramic --- @noir_metal @mercatorfondsfondsmercator @sophiewhettnall @micheleciacciofera @philipaguirreyoteguil @sebastienbonin_studio #annemarieschneider @galerie_michelrein

Michele Ciacciofera "Pathosformel" 15.01-21.02 📍Michel Rein, Brussels --- « In 2020, during the lockdown imposed to counter the viral pandemic, I revisited Aby Warburg’s renowned theory of pathos formulas, reinterpreting the works of several Renaissance artists. Central to my research is the idea of social memory and the engram, both connected to visual and cultural experiences. Through specific images and symbols, these experiences link classical antiquity to the present. I draw details from European, particularly Italian, Renaissance artworks, relocating them into sparse, metaphysical spaces. Devoid of the iconographic recognizability of faces and emptied of bodies except for limbs, which extend empathy through gesture and movement, the figures I choose and reinterpret seem to dance in an indeterminate space. This transcendence of disciplinary boundaries traditionally framed by art history is heightened by the fall of mysterious spatial debris. Their restlessness celebrates the afterlife of classicism, born of the union between the Apollonian ethos and Dionysian pathos, thereby redefining historical images and their meanings within a contemporary dialectic. “Different epochs overlap like layers of various geological phases, ready to suddenly unearth an image long absent,” Warburg observed. I share this axiom with many 20th-century artists across various movements, and I use it as a springboard to chart a course toward an «unknown direction.» My compositional choice to “reveal an image” aims to create a disorienting perception. By intertwining with mnemonic traces, I seek to engage in a dialogue with the viewer, appealing to their unconscious and memory. This ongoing cycle now includes 80 small-format paintings (50 x 40 cm and 40 x 30 cm) and a large triptych (three canvases, each 200 x 170 cm). » Michele Ciacciofera --- Image : Pathosformel - Homage to Lorenzo Costa, 2023 Pencil, gouache, tempera on cardboard, wooden frame, anti-UV and anti-reflective glass 15.75 x 11.81 in (40 x 30 cm) --- @micheleciacciofera @galerie_michelrein @michel_rein

Michel Rein invites Mercatorfonds | Fonds Mercator (art books) and Noir Métal (scenography) with works by Sophie Whettnall, Michele Ciacciofera, Enrique Ramirez, Marcel Mariën, René Magritte, E.L.T. Mesens, Francis Picabia, Philip Aguirre y Otegui, Thomas Lerooy, Keith Haring, Yves Zurstrassen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marcel Broodthaers, Fabrice Samyn, Art & Language, Marianne Van Vyve ... 📍Michel Rein, Brussels - rue Washington 51a B-1050 Brussels 🗓️ opening Thursday 6 November, 5-9 pm Exhibition 6 November - 24 December 2025 @sophiewhettnall @micheleciacciofera @studiothomaslerooy @enriqueramirezf @studio_fabricesamyn @galerie_michelrein @delphine_snapshots @philipaguirreyotegui1 @fondation_yves_zurstrassen

Opening 6th Nov Michel Rein invites Mercatorfonds | Fonds Mercator (art books) and Noir Métal (scenography) with works by Sophie Whettnall, Michele Ciacciofera, Enrique Ramírez, Marcel Mariën, René Magritte, E.L.T. Mesens, Ben, Philip Aguirre y Otegui, Thomas Lerooy, Keith Haring, Yves Zurstrassen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marcel Broodthaers, Fabrice Samyn, Art & Language, Marianne Van Vyve ...

[HUGO RUYANT] We opened « Air Conditioner Fantasies », the second solo exhibition of Hugo Ruyant at the gallery, last week. Thanks you all for coming to the big opening. We’re excited to share photos of “Air Conditioner Fantasies” with you. “Beyond the reference to Asian folklore, It is no surprise that Hugo Ruyant chooses to paint such a universal symbol as the ghost. Moonlight reflections on water, raindrops on a window : these are Images of familiar places. A generic figure, identifiable by its exaggerated clothing, interferes with the objects it manipulates. This recurring character has featured in Ruyant’s painting series for several years, allowing him to explore both social stereotypes and fictional archetypes. His Korean journey endures as an experimental tale where a true story merges with hallucination and its lingering memory.” Claire Contamine, May 2025 —— 📍Michel Rein, Brussels, Belgium 📆 05.06 - 19.07.2025 —— Exhibition documentation 📷 @b.baltus @hugo.ruyant @vanbellinghenpatrick @claire.cntmn_at.large #hugoruyant

[HUGO RUYANT] Michel Rein is pleased to announce « Air Conditioner Fantasies », the second solo exhibition of Hugo Ruyant at the gallery. A Ghost, an Air Conditioner. Two protagonists, an infinite potential for storytelling. Three large paintings unfold like the sequences of a storyboard, extended in the background by a series of smaller formats. Freeze frames of set elements accompany the cinematic scenes in the large canvases-noodle meals in a basement, tea being poured into a cup, or an elevator door sliding open. Between drawing and animated film, the exhibition Air Conditioner Fantasies unveils a new chapter in Hugo Ruyant’s painting practice, marked by his characteristic taste for the grotesque and archetypal figures—now on a grand scale. (...) Claire Contamine, May 2025 —— 📍Michel Rein, Brussels 📆 June 5 - July 19, 2025 —— #hugoruyant @hugo.ruyant

[OPENING] . 17 April, 5-9 pm . Michel Rein is pleased to present Works at the White House, 51A Washington Street, the artist's tenth solo exhibition at the gallery. The title “Works at the White House, 51A Washington Street”, rich in multi-layered references—from geography to contemporary art—engages in a dialogue between the very idea of the White House, a symbol of power and representation in Washington, and the aesthetic of the “White Cube” as theorized by Brian O'Doherty, or rather, White House versus White Cube. But above all, the title resonates in a particularly meaningful way thanks to the location hosting the exhibition, the Michel Rein gallery: a white-walled Brussels townhouse located on Washington Street. The idea of a house also evokes a private space, that of collections, where I hope the works in the exhibition will find their true home. The exhibition title, of course, opportunistically takes advantage of the gallery's address, playing on this coincidence to create a wordplay that amplifies the dialogue between the exhibition space and the symbolism of both the White Cube and the White House. Stefan Nikolaev (February 2025) --- Image: Stefan Nikolaev Chrie, 2025 hammered copper, painting on wood and neon 35 x 20 x 15 cm Edition of 8 + 4 AP N° Inv. NIKO25159 --- @stefan.nikolaev @galerie_michelrein @artbrussels @neca.brussels

[EXHIBITION] . "Painting is also an act of displacement, a way of capturing the ephemeral, of finding in the layering of pigments a possible geography." Enrique Ramirez 2025 --- Enrique Ramirez "The gesture where the sea is made" till April 12 Michel Rein, Brussels --- Image : "En un mar de preguntas I",2024 100x100 cm Handwritten text in ink, oil and acrylic on canvas --- @enriqueramirezf @galerie_michelrein

.[ NEXT EXHIBITION at Michel Rein, Brussels] . ENRIQUE RAMIREZ "The gesture where the sea is made" 13 March - 13 April Opening 13 April, 5-9 pm --- Michel Rein is pleased to present The gesture where the sea is made, the artist’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery. « ‘‘ What will we do...’’ (Que ferons-nous) ? The question appears in neon, illuminating a space of uncertainty and echo. Inspired by Mahmoud Darwish’s poem, this phrase resonates like a beacon throughout the exhibition, marking a threshold where displacement, borders, and identity intertwine in a play of gestures. The gesture, in its repetition, in its fragility and strength, shapes this universe. It is the invisible thread that connects generations, territories, and cultures, like a map woven between doing and being. Each artwork in the exhibition is born from a manual act that is also an act of belonging: molding, engraving, sculpting, weaving, painting. The ceramics evoke a language in transit, a fragmented script attempting to articulate the inarticulable—the experience of migration, of inhabiting a space that is neither here nor there. These are gestures that shape not only objects but also memories, as if each imperfect form were a fragment of a place left behind, a blurred recollection. In the cement impressions of sails made by the artist’s father, the gesture becomes an imprint. The sail, a symbol of navigation and departure, is fixed in cement like an indelible mark of origin. Here, making is also a form of resistance: to preserve, to honor, to remember. The paintings, with their material and chromatic intensity, function as landscapes in transformation. They do not merely represent a place but embody the sensation of transit, of wandering. Like the sea, they are never static: color accumulates and fades, texture becomes a trace, and the painterly gesture turns into territory. Painting is also an act of displacement, a way of capturing the ephemeral, of finding in the layering of pigments a possible geography...." (extract of the text by Enrique RAMIREZ) @enriqueramirezf @galerie_michelrein