Karl MECHNIG

  • Karl Mechnig possesses an outstanding skill as a painter and as a draughtsman, as well as showing a rich imagination and the gift of building up a captivating and intriguing structure from multiple reflections in which connections are suggested, waves of sensibility become signs, meanings appear that the viewer must grasp with attention before they disappear again. Thus each work is a playful and also deep riddle that demands a personal interpretation and that offers each individual viewer a haunting answer, a patterned coherence, a moment of emotion and of entering a garden of lust. This is facilitated by the rhythm of creatures and things, by a tension that grows as one looks through the visual power of the creator and inventor, Karl Mechnig.

    Text by Hugo Brutin

  • Karl Mechnig lives and works in Aalst (Belgium).

    2023
    Lipstick on a cup of coffee (PAK)
    FEAR (Beernem) Museum Guislain ism PAK

    2022
    Ik zal eens goed komen lachen met je expositie (Diskus Aalst – curator Jan De Nijs)
    Eden Kunstenfestival (Roeselare)
    Of mice and men (Verduyn Gallery Moregem)
    No more secrets (PAK)
    10 jaar Pak

    2021
    Fuck you (kunstenhuis Harelbeke – curator Klaus Verscheure)
    Entre deux nuages (PAK)
    A butterfly’s scream (Beernem – curator PAK en Museum Guislain)

    2020
    Crucifixion (PAK)
    De blik (galerie Morbee Knokke – curator Daan Rau)
    Barking dogs and drawing rooms (PAK)

    2019
    Wonderland, humans & landscapes (PAK)

    2018
    Faces (PAK ism Guislain museum), Beernem
    Behind closed doors (PAK Gistel)
    Between earth and heaven II (PAK)
    Kastelenkunstroute Zottegem (CAS Zottegem)

    2016
    Drawing Rooms (PAK)
    Karl Mechnig & Paul de Reus I presume (Utrecht) DAK

    2015
    Spiegel im Spiegel (Beernem PAK in samenwerking met Guislain museum)

    2014
    De dweil als alibi (CC De Spil/Roeselare)
    Erscheinung (PAK/Gistel)

    2013
    Het Witte Huis (Roeselare)
    “Het paradijs – le paradis – the paradise” (deel 2) – Galerie S & H De Buck
    The Big Draw – Galerie S & H De Buck
    Exchange (Brass/Brussel)

    2012
    “Bewogen beeld” : Galerie S & H De Buck
    “Het Paradijs – le paradis – the paradise (deel 1) / Galerie S & H de Buck
    Salon Blanc (Oostende)

    2011
    “La part des anges” : Villa de Olmen (Wieze) – curatoren Reniere & Depla

    2010
    “Miniaturen” : Museum 1302 (Kortrijk)
    “Tell me a story” : Le coin c gallery (Knokke)

    2009
    “Stories” : Galerie S & H De Buck
    “Zonder Grenzen” : CC Hasselt
    “The Border / Gigacase Gent, Galerie S & H De Buck

    2008
    Modern Art Foundation Bejing (Bejing – China)
    Galerie Denise Van De Velde (Aalst)
    Belgische ambassade Bejing – China
    “Miniaturen” CC Hasselt
    Lineart Gent : Galerie S & H De Buck

    2007
    Boekentoren Gent
    Kasteel Coloma (ism Denise Van De Velde)
    Lineart Gent : Galerie S & H De Buck

    2006
    NV Zebrastraat (Gent)
    “Gewonnen land / verdronken land“, Galerie S & H De Buck
    Aula Rijksuniversiteit Gent 

    Publications

    “Contemporary art in Belgium 2007”, Bart De Baere & Henri Bounameaux
    “Gras dat verder groeit“ met gedichten van Jozef Deleu
    (H)art nr 5
    “Merci Marie Petronelle” door Pascale Geulleaume
    The Border 2009
    Tussen hamer en aambeeld
    (H)art Oktober 2012
    Het paradijs – Le paradis – The paradise
    80 Atelierbeelden door Didier Verriest
    Erscheinung (H)art, november 2014
    Between earth and heaven (a tribute to Willy Van Den Bussche) Stichting kunstboek. PAK
    Spiegel im spiegel. (over de grenzen van de psychiatrie) PAK
    Faces. (PAK)
    TEKENINGEN Karl Mechnig : uitgeverij Matador nav Behind Closed Doors (PAK)

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