Michaël Borremans: Fire from the Sun (Spotlight)

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Borremans's work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at many prominent institutions. Most recently, 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 two decades, was on view at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 2014. The exhibition travelled later in the year to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, followed by the Dallas Museum of Art in 2015. The previous year, Michaël Borremans: The Advantage, the artist's first museum solo show in Japan, was on view at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

Work by the artist is held in public collections internationally, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. 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. Emily Hand is FREED: Hostage horror is finally over for Irish girl, nine, who spent 50 days in captivity while her devoted father campaigned desperately for her freedom - as terror group releases 20 prisoners in exchange for 39 PalestiniansCreated over the last two years during the global pandemic, the eight portraits and seven scenographic compositions in The Acrobat are imbued with pending questions and underlying tensions that operate on multiple registers. Borremans seemingly revisits subject matter from his own body of work, introducing new and varied meanings in every iteration of his mysterious compositions. As the writer Katya Tylevich observes, “Yes, these are paintings made across two years of a global pandemic, and an allegory of isolation leaps out in a puff of confetti. Then again, Borremans’s works have always cautioned against standing too close.” 2 Michaël Borremans: The Advantage, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [catalogue] (solo exhibition) The gallery’s presentation at Frieze London 2021 includes a focus on new work by Michaël Borremans, Carol Bove, and Oscar Murillo. 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. In 1981, Frank and Eliane Demaegd founded Zeno X Gallery in an early 20th century townhouse in the Antwerp South district. In the early years the program of the gallery was mainly focused on architecture and installations with artists such as John View Gallery Profile

In 2011, Michaël Borremans: Eating the Beard, a comprehensive solo show was presented at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, and traveled to the Mu´´csarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest and the Kunsthalle Helsinki. In 2010, he had a solo exhibition at the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, as well as commissioned work on view at the Royal Palace in Brussels. Other venues which have hosted solo exhibitions include the kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2009); de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam (2007); Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent (2005; traveled to Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London; and the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin); Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (2005); Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Germany (2004); and Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (both 2004).Published to accompany the inaugural exhibition at David Zwirner’s space in Hong Kong, Michaël Borremans: Fire from the Sun features new scholarship by British art critic, curator, and cultural historian Michael Bracewell. It marks the first in a series by David Zwirner Books of small-format publications devoted to single bodies of work. Who Is Michaël Borremans? Artist's Work Resurfaces Amid Balenciaga Scandal". Newsweek. 28 November 2022 . Retrieved 2 December 2022. I’m a surgeon who’s survived breast cancer - here’s what women need to know about having a mastectomy and how ops to rebuild breasts can leave them looking and feeling natural,' writes DR LIZ O'RIORDAN

Yes, that’s part of the communication you do as an artist. It’s not finished. It only exists in the eye of the beholder. MBI did once, but now I want to dress up like a policewoman. I'm looking for a nice uniform to wear to see if it will influence what I'm painting [ laughs]. DdDid being dressed as a bunny influence how you painted? There is a dialogue in your paintings with artists such as Goya, Velázquez and Manet, for example. What is it about these artists that appeals to you? Demna, 41, has been married to husband Loik Gomez since 2017. The pair stopped drinking alcohol together after developing a 'nocturnal lifestyle', and live quietly in Switzerland. David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Michaël Borremans, inaugurating the gallery's space in Hong Kong. This will be the artist's first solo show in Hong Kong and his sixth overall with David Zwirner.

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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. The 21st Biennale of Sydney (16 March-11 June 2018) is titled 'SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement' and examines the state of 'superposition' by exploring how it might operate in the world today. View More

In 2011, Michaël Borremans: Eating the Beard, a comprehensive solo show, was presented at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, and traveled to the Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, and the Kunsthalle Helsinki. In 2010, the artist had a solo exhibition at the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, as well as commissioned work on view at the Royal Palace in Brussels. Other venues that have hosted solo exhibitions include the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (2009); de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam (2007); Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent (2005; traveled to Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London; and Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin); Cleveland Museum of Art (2005); Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Germany (2004); and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2004). Michaël Borremans, Small Museum for Brave Art (four variations) (2007). Wood, cardboard and paint, dimensions variable. Exhibition view: 21 st Biennale of Sydney, Artspace, Sydney (16 March–11 June 2018). Courtesy the artist and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp. Photo: Document Photography. DdYou are exhibiting at Artspace as part of the Biennale of Sydney (BoS) from March to June. What is your approach? iii Michael Bracewell, Michaël Borremans: Fire from the Sun, exh.cat., David Zwirner, Hong Kong, 2018, p. 42Recognised for his moody paintings that are charged with psychological suspense, whilst portraying dark and uncanny narratives with an irresistible appeal, Belgian artist Michaël Borremans’ portraits depict his protagonists in characteristic sepia hues, steeped in ambiguous, alluring symbolism. There is an analogy with rituals, but it’s never really clear, it’s not specified. That’s important for me in my work, to not define anything, to allow for different analogies so everybody can relate to it in a different way.