Pieter Vermeersch

Exhibition view
Galerie Perrotin
Paris, 2017
Courtesy Galerie Perrotin
© Claire Dorn
Exhibition view
Galerie Perrotin
Paris, 2017
Courtesy Galerie Perrotin
© Claire Dorn
Exhibition view
Galerie Perrotin
Paris, 2017
Courtesy Galerie Perrotin
© Claire Dorn
Exhibition view ProjecteSD
Barcelona, 2017
Courtesy ProjecteSD
Permanent site-specific
installation at Solo House
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
Matarraña, 2017
Commissioned by
Solo Houses
Permanent site-specific
installation at Solo House
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
Matarraña, 2017
Commissioned by
Solo Houses
Untitled, 2013
Oil on Lambda print
12 × 9 cm (93,5 × 70 cm framed)
Courtesy ProjecteSD
Untitled, 2016
Oil on marble
20,5 × 16,3 × 2 cm
Private collection
Untitled, 2016
Oil on marble
57,5 × 38,5 × 2 cm
Courtesy Carl Freedman
Gallery
Exhibition view Blueproject Foundation
Barcelona, 2016
© Pieter Huybrechts
Exhibition view Blueproject Foundation
Barcelona, 2016
© Pieter Huybrechts
Permanent site-specific
installation at Schuman
station
Brussels, 2016
Commissioned by
Brussels-Capital Region
© Pieter Huybrechts
Permanent site-specific
installation at Schuman
station
Brussels, 2016
Commissioned by
Brussels-Capital Region
© Pieter Huybrechts
Exhibition view
Galerie Perrotin
Paris, 2013
Courtesy Galerie Perrotin
© Guillaume Ziccarelli
Exhibition view
Galerie Perrotin
Paris, 2013
Courtesy Galerie Perrotin
© Guillaume Ziccarelli
Permanent site-specific installation at Silos a sel, Site de la Voirie
Genève, 2013
Commissioned by Ville de Genève, Fonds d’art
contemporain
© Serge Fruehauf
Exhibition view Be-Part
Waregem, 2011
© Pieter Huybrechts
Exhibition view Be-Part
Waregem, 2011
© Pieter Huybrechts
Exhibition view Be-Part
Waregem, 2011
© Pieter Huybrechts
Exhibition view Be-Part
Waregem, 2011
© Pieter Huybrechts
Exhibition view ‘WITH YOUR EYES ONLY, Kunstverein Medienturm
Graz, 2009
© Rainer Iglar
Exhibition view ‘Beyond These Walls’, South London Gallery
London, 2009
© Pieter Huybrechts
Exhibition view CCNOA
Brussels, 2008
© Pieter Huybrechts
Exhibition view
‘Ergens/Somewhere’,
MuHKA
Antwerpen, 2006
Collection M HKA, Antwerpen
© Pieter Huybrechts
Exhibition view
‘Ergens/Somewhere’,
MuHKA
Antwerpen, 2006
Collection M HKA, Antwerpen
© Pieter Huybrechts
Exhibition view
‘Ergens/Somewhere’,
MuHKA
Antwerpen, 2006
Collection M HKA, Antwerpen
© Pieter Huybrechts
Exhibition view
‘Ergens/Somewhere’,
MuHKA
Antwerpen, 2006
Collection M HKA, Antwerpen
© Pieter Huybrechts
Installation view Speelhoven
Aarschot, 2003
Exhibition view Off The Hook
Ghent, 2000
8 paintings I, 1999
Oil on canvas
42 × 35 cm each
Private collection
© Frederik Bogaert

Pieter Vermeersch’s artistic research into painting expands beyond the confinement of the canvas. His work often consists of large spatial interventions subverting space, either conceived for exhibition spaces or adjusted to architectural contexts. Next to these immersive, painterly installations or gradient wall paintings his oeuvre includes ephemeral zero degree paintings on canvas wether or not brought back to a concrete reality by the irreversible act of scraping or by the superposition of a natural stone. These are complemented with series of photographic prints or marble pieces reactivated with a few blots of paint, a stroke of the brush or gradual color planes.
 
With representation and abstraction set as parameters, his oeuvre triggers infinitesimal perceptual experiences, which allow us to move in a sense of colour that calls into being the gap between appearance and disappearance, in which the divisions between two and three dimensional, immaterial and tangible, time and space are blurred.
 
Born in 1973 in Kortrijk, Belgium, Pieter Vermeersch lives and works between Brussels, Belgium and Turin, Italy. Since his exhibition at the S.M.A.K in Ghent 15 years ago, Pieter Vermeersch has been featured in more than 30 solo exhibitions as STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven (2006); White Box, New York (2009); Londonewcastle Project Space, London (2011) and recently Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona (2016). His work has been shown, amongst others, in group exhibitions at S.M.A.K, Ghent (2017), Fondation Etrillard, Paris (2016); Kenopoku Festival, Japan (2016); MSK, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (2015); Parasol Unit, London (2015); L’Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans- Sartoux (2015); Redcat, Los Angeles (2014); MAC’s, Grand-Hornu (2014); Logan Center Gallery, Chicago (2013); Urdaibai Arte (2012); Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2011); S.M.A.K, Ghent (2010); Mu.ZEE, Ostend (2010); Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz (2009); South London Gallery, London (2009) Bozar, Brussels (2007); M HKA, Antwerp (2006).
 
Over the past two years, he has realized monumental frescoes for the Schuman station in Brussels and the Galeries Lafayette in Biarritz, as well as a major site-specifc work at Solo House Office KGDVS in Matarraña, Spain and Silos a sel, site de la Voirie, Genève, Switzerland.
 
The works of Pieter Vermeersch are part of the collections of Dexia Art Collection, Brussels; European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main; Flemish Community Art Collection, Brussels; Flemish Parliament, Brussels; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; ING Art Collection, Brussels; M HKA, Antwerp; National Bank of Belgium, Brussels; S.M.A.K., Ghent.