ight is an equivocal sense. Our brain is quick to correct our perception and update our references. And if Geerinck’s work plunges us back into some of our sensations, it is undoubtedly because it fragilises the partition that inhibits our taboos and represses our life and death impulses. So much so that it becomes visible. And the canvas becomes a waterline from which subjects appear in fragments as if rising to the surface of the perceptible world. Made of more or less structured layers of various materials, this support, which acts here as a screen between two worlds, engulfs transgenic beings, digests them, then abandons them to a magma of stagnant matter. (Elisabeth Petitbon)
Born the 8th of October 1961 in Brussels, Belgium.
Geerinck graduated from the Belgium National School for Visual Arts in 1986.
He later taught at the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Brussels.
In 1996, he moved to Paris, and worked as a painter and photographer.
Manuel Geerinck work has been featured at the Aperture Foundation “Edge of Vision” exhibition and across the US and Europe as a part of William Hunt “Unseen Eye” collection.
In 2012 he won the first prize in the World Photography Awards in the conceptual category.
His drawings are part of the New York based Drawing Center Viewing Program.
Manuel Geerinck artwork has been selected by Carter Foster, curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and by Laura Phipps, Senior Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
After living for 15 years in New York city From 2003 to 2013 and in Barcelona for the following 3 years, he now works between Brussels and New York.
Exhibitions
2022 Galerie EBC, Paris, France
2020 Galerie Gilles et boissier, Paris, France
2017 Peinture fraîche, Brussels, Belgium
2016 Ralph Pucci Los Angeles, USA
2015 EBC Consultants, Paris, France.
2015 Artitude Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Ralph Pucci Miami, USA
2013 Ralph Pucci, Miami, USA.
2013 Mondo Galeria, Madrid, Spain.
2012 La Contemporanea Gallery, Torino, Italy.
2012 Ralph Pucci, Los Angeles, USA
2011 Galerie Werner & Wabbes, Paris, France.
2011 Gallery 9, Ralph Pucci, New York, USA.
2011 Galerie Antonio Nardone, Brussels, Belgium.
2010 Gallerie Peter Vann, St Moritz, Switzerland.
2009 Galerie Peter Vann, St Moritz, Switzerland.
2009 Gallery 9, Ralph Pucci, New York, USA.
2009 Maxhaus Stadthaus, Dusseldorf, Germany.
2008 Centre d’art contemporain, Epinal, France.
2008 Anderwereld Gallery, Groningen, Holland.
2008 Galleries Polar+NKA, Brussels, Belgium.
2006 Galerie Pascal Polar, Brussels, Belgium.
2005 Le Botanique, Centre culturel de la Communauté Française,Brussels, Belgium.
2005 5+5 Gallery, New York, USA.
2003 Seed Factory, Brussels, Belgium.
2003 Galerie Pascal Polar, Brussels, Belgium.
2002 Galerie Pascal Polar, Brussels, Belgium.
2002 Art Paris, one man show France.
2002 Art Brussels, one man show, Brussels, Belgium.
2001 Pavillon Gabriel, Paris France.
2000 Galerie Artitude, Brussels, Belgium.
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Public collections
Whitney Museum of American Art Library, New York, USA.
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, USA.
Collection of the BNF, Bibliothêque Nationale de France, Paris, France.
Fondation Philipp Morris, Zurich, Switzerland
Collection des communautés Européennes, Brussels, Belgium.
TV5 Europe, Paris, France.
Citibank, Belgium.
Collection du ministère de la culture, Belgium.
Private collections
William Hunt The Unseen Eye collection, New York, USA.
Steve Wynn collection, Las Vegas, USA.
Mary and John Brock Collection, Atlanta, USA.
Christopher Hyland Collection, New York, USA.
James Dinian & Elizabeth Miller collection, New York, USA.
Alexandre Percy collection, Paris, France.
Myriam et Amaury De Solage collection, Brussels, Belgium.
