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MARUANI MERCIER: inaugural show of South African artist Kate Gottgens

Knokke Kustlaan 90, Darkening Dusk by Kate Gottgens, April 12 – May 25, 2025
 

MARUANI MERCIER is proud to present Darkening Dusk, the inaugural solo exhibition of South African artist Kate Gottgens. Recognized for her haunting, dreamlike compositions, Gottgens crafts works that exist in a state of liminality—never fixed, always in flux, and at times elusive. Just as the fading light of dusk blurs the boundaries of day and night, her paintings evoke a sense of transition, where familiarity dissolves into something more fluid, open-ended, and mysterious.

Gottgens builds her work from a variety of sourced imagery— anonymous snapshots found at flea markets, family vacation photos, or fragments retrieved from the vast digital archive of the internet. Stripped of their original contexts, these images become the raw material for a process of reconstruction and transformation. This gives rise to landscapes that feel both intimate and unplaceable, imbued with an unsettling, cinematic tension. A feminist undercurrent runs through the works in Darkening Dusk, with Gottgens increasingly centering enigmatic female figures. 

Her paintings do not offer clear narratives but instead invite viewers to respond instinctively, as if recalling a dream just beyond their reach. Suspended between the past and present, beauty and disquiet, her work lingers in the spaces where certainty fades and something more enigmatic takes hold. Darkening Dusk invites viewers to enter a world where reality and memory, nature and self, are never fully defined.

Caption: Kate Gottgens, Summoned by the tides, 2025 oil on canvas, 150 x 110 cm

Gallery Brussels 
Drawing in Space
George Rickey
till 12 April 2025
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MARUANI MERCIER - Kate Gottgens

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MARUANI MERCIER werd opgericht in 1995 en vertegenwoordigt 23 hedendaagse kunstenaars naast haar historische tentoonstellingen van museumkwaliteit, voortbouwend op de erfenis van verschillende gerenommeerde nalatenschappen. Aanvankelijk richtte de galerie zich op gevierde Amerikaanse kunstenaars uit de jaren 1980, waaronder Ross Bleckner, Francesco Clemente, Ron Gorchov, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker en Sue Williams. In de loop der jaren omarmde de galerie een nieuwe generatie kunstenaars zoals Radcliffe Bailey, Jaclyn Conley en Tony Matelli. De uitbreiding naar Knokke en de opening van een tentoonstellingsruimte en residentieprogramma in Zaventem introduceerden kunstenaars uit West-Afrika zoals Kwesi Botchway en Johnson Eziefula. In 2022 werd een vierde ruimte geopend in Knokke om moderne meesters als Alexander Calder, Le Corbusier en Joan Miró tentoon te stellen.

Founded : 1995

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