About
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Alex De Bruycker is a Belgian contemporary artist whose work explores the relationship between light, color, and transparency. His practice began in 2017, when he started painting translucent layers of acrylic over his own photographs. The soft veil produced by the brush revealed a delicate interplay between opacity and light — a discovery that became the foundation of his artistic evolution.
Seeking a support that could hold this luminosity more openly, De Bruycker moved away from photography and began working with mesh polyester, a translucent material that allows light to enter and energize the pictorial space. On this porous surface, he builds thin chromatic fields that appear to drift, hover, or dissolve, creating compositions that oscillate between stillness and motion.
De Bruycker’s paintings belong to a lineage of geometric abstraction, color field painting, and minimalism, drawing inspiration from Rothko’s emotional gradients, Claudio Silvestrin’s serene architectural language, and Imi Knoebel’s structural clarity. Yet his approach remains distinct: each work is an exploration of how color can behave like space, and how light can create movement within a static surface.
Across series such as Enigma, Transendencia, Intervention of Color Space, Centro Moduli, and Drifting Thoughts, the artist investigates the boundaries between presence and disappearance. Using meticulously applied acrylic on mesh polyester, he constructs visual atmospheres in which forms seem to breathe — sometimes emerging, sometimes fading, always interacting with ambient light. Transparency becomes not merely an effect, but a structural principle.
His recent solo exhibition, Transparency in Motion, presented at Amélie du Chalard in Manhattan, highlighted this evolving vocabulary: subtle planes of color, floating geometries, and spatial rhythms activated by the gallery’s natural light.
Today, De Bruycker continues to develop a body of work centered on perception, chromatic depth, and the quiet dynamism of transparency — creating paintings that function as slow visual events, inviting pause, reflection, and openness.
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Born in 1968, Ghent (B), Lives and works in Maarkedal, Belgium.
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Education
1986-1990 Master in textiles
Exhibitions
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Group
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2025 The Hamptons - Collaboration with @ Amelie du Chalard & The 1818 Collective , Hamptons (USA) 23/05/25
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2024 'Nono goes Delft' @ NONO Gallery, Delft(NL) 06/10/24 till 03/11/24
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2024 'Celebrate summer' @ NONO Gallery, The Hague(NL) 07/07/24 till 28/07/24
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2024 'Monochrome' @ NONO Gallery, The Hague(NL) 03/03/24 till 24/03/24
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2023 'Vincent Van Gogh in de Vlaamse Ardennen' @ Verduyn Gallery, Moregem(B) 09/07/23 till 13/08/23
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2023 'Présence Palpable' @ Amelie, Maison d'art', Paris(F) 25/05/23 till 09/06/23
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2023 'White' @ NONO Gallery, The Hague(NL), 03/02/23 till 26/02/23
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2023 DW15 Group show @ Dewael15 Gallery, Antwerp(B) 07/01/23 till 22/01/23
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2022 'Under construction', duo show with Floris Hovers @ NONO Gallery, The Hague(NL) 02/10/22 till 30/10/22
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2022 Opening @ NONO Gallery, The Hague(NL) 04/09/22 till 25/09/22
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2022 'Magellan' a project initiated by Barbé&Urbain and Atelier Ecru Gallery @ Magellan, Knokke(B) 02/07/22 till 28/08/22
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2022 'Exposure' @ Borluut Kasteel, Gent(B) 04/05-10/11/12/06/2022
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2022 'Moving Traces 06' @ AtelierEcruGallery, Gent(B) 22/04/22 till 12/06/2022
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2021 PASS 2021, Second edition of a scenic art route around the villages of Mullem-Huise-Wannegem-Lede (B),
curated by Kris Martin & Jan Hoet Junior. 15/08/2021 till 03/10/2021
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2020 Art Matters 2 @ Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne(D) 29/11/20 till 13/12/2020
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2020 Art Matter @ Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne(D) 12/04/2020 till 26/04/2020
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2020 Geen titel/No title @ Ruimte P60, Assen(NL) 01/03/2020 till 23/03/2020
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2019 Relikwie, duo show with Peggy Wauters @ Galerie Van Caelenberg, Aalst(B) 10/01/2019 till 16/03/2019
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2018 Intimacy @ S&H De Buck, Gent(B) 07/12/2018 till 30/12/2018
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2017 Summer expo 'Black to the future' @ C-Mine, Genk (B) 16/06/2017 till 03/09/2017
2016 Sentimos - Portretten en landschappen @ Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent (B) 02/09/16 till 09/10/2016
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2016 Exposition @ Nape Arsenale in Venice 19/03 till 02/04
2015 Stories of Identity @ Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent (B) 12/06/2015 till 30/08/2015
2015 Beyond architecture’ with Wim Carrein paintings @ De Directeurswoning, Roeselare (B), 06/06 till 28/06
2015 Momentum’ with Virginie Besengez Ceramist @ Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent (B), 15/05 till 21/06
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Solo
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2025 Transparency in motion, @ Amelie du Chalard gallery, NYC (USA), 30/10/25 till 15/11/25
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2021 In between the void, @ AM Designs, Antwerp(B) 26/08/21 till 02/10/21
2021 Innerspace, @ StudiCorkinho in collaboration with AM Designs, Antwerp(B) 12/05/21 till 30/06/21
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2020 studio AM Designs, Antwerp(B) 27/05/2020 till 12/09/2020
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2018 Metamorphose, solo show paintings @ Backtodesign, Knokke (B) 31/03/2018 till 20/07/2018
2017 Märchenwald @ CC Elckerlyc, Antwerp (B) 06/02/17
2014 Architectuur anders belicht’ – ‘Architecture enlightened’ @ Galerie S&H De Buck, Gent (B), 01/10/2014 till 05/11/2014
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Fairs
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2024 KunstRAI ArtAmsterdam, Gallery NONO, 27/03/2024 till 01/04/2024
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2023 Art The Hague, Gallery NONO, 04/10/2022 till 08/10/2022
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2023 KunstRAI ArtAmsterdam, Gallery NONO, 03/05/2023 till 07/05/2023
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2022 Art The Hague, Gallery NONO, 05/10/2022 till 09/10/2022
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2022 KunstRAI ArtAmsterdam, Gallery NONO, 13/04/2022 till 18/04/2022
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2019 BAD, Gent(B) 10/10/2019 till 13/10/2019
Editorial
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THE ART COUCH
'Transparante blik of nieuwe ruimtelijkheid'
Release date : 11/08/2019
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THE ART COUCH
'Intimiteit voor even ontsluierd'
Release date : 23/12/2018
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OFTHELANDANDUS
Interview about the series 'The geese are gone'
Release date : May 2017
NEWDAWNPAPER
Portfolio review 'The geese are gone'
Release date : March 2017
SABATO MAGAZINE
Onthuld : de Belg achter design- en kunstcollectie die in Parijs onder de hamer gaat.
ISSUE 11.02.2017
STUDIO MAGAZINE
BEYOND ARCHITECTURE
ISSUE 09
Release date : January 2016
ISSN 2240-4767
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