Brahim Boulminate
Artist / Painter
Born in February 1974 in Casablanca, Morocco, Brahim Boulminate lives and works in Brussels, the capital where he was trained since 1995 until 2013 in graphic arts, decorative arts and painting.
Active in the artistic social and founding member of the artistic association “More Creation”.
He considers himself a relentless researcher painter. Inspired by Antonio Tàpies, Constantin Brancusi, Picasso, Anselm Kiefer, Manolo Valdés, Banksy and many others. He moves on a narrow slope between abstraction, realism and materialism, and you can feel this unique fusion in his proposals and his plastic reading. A challenge to express a dialogue with the invisible, the mystical, the fusion or the emission of a hidden or unknown face.
These varied paintings, rich in shapes and colors, often portray a play of shadow and light; of appearances of faces, of silhouettes, of definite / indefinite forms, concrete / diffuse, obvious / incomprehensible.
These are surprising mystical walks, of a visible / invisible world, striking by the rapidity (clarity) and heaviness (opacity).
The figures are alive, static and moving, recounting memories/new experiences.
Travels with perplexity: abstraction / reality / supposition … A journey that reflects OBJECTION and HARMONY! OBJECTION, because it breaks the limits of the spirit and HARMONY, because the breaking done with fingering and balance is opening of consciousness towards an increased knowledge of the incomprehensible behind these pictorial presentations.
Brahim is not bound by forms or academic norms. He makes the object sing according to the needs of his pictorial symphony and he never hesitates to vary and introduce all forms of personal research and experiences.
Brahim Boulminate
Artist / Painter
Born in February 1974 in Casablanca, Morocco, Brahim Boulminate lives and works in Brussels, the capital where he was trained since 1995 until 2013 in graphic arts, decorative arts and painting.
Active in the artistic social and founding member of the artistic association “More Creation”.
He considers himself a relentless researcher painter. Inspired by Antonio Tàpies, Constantin Brancusi, Picasso, Anselm Kiefer, Manolo Valdés, Banksy and many others. He moves on a narrow slope between abstraction, realism and materialism, and you can feel this unique fusion in his proposals and his plastic reading. A challenge to express a dialogue with the invisible, the mystical, the fusion or the emission of a hidden or unknown face.
These varied paintings, rich in shapes and colors, often portray a play of shadow and light; of appearances of faces, of silhouettes, of definite / indefinite forms, concrete / diffuse, obvious / incomprehensible.
These are surprising mystical walks, of a visible / invisible world, striking by the rapidity (clarity) and heaviness (opacity).
The figures are alive, static and moving, recounting memories/new experiences.
Travels with perplexity: abstraction / reality / supposition … A journey that reflects OBJECTION and HARMONY! OBJECTION, because it breaks the limits of the spirit and HARMONY, because the breaking done with fingering and balance is opening of consciousness towards an increased knowledge of the incomprehensible behind these pictorial presentations.
Brahim is not bound by forms or academic norms. He makes the object sing according to the needs of his pictorial symphony and he never hesitates to vary and introduce all forms of personal research and experiences.
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Sijben Rosa: BewaardDec 8, 2023 – May 12, 2024In creating a new body of work, Sijben Rosa engages with people whose sense of mortality is in greater focus due to aging or illness. Through conversation, they, together with Sijben, identify meaningful objects from their personal surroundings. However idiosyncratic, these pieces mark, encapsulate, or speak the story of their lives. (more…)
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From a Country, Which / Из страны, котораяRussia 2013–2022Where home is left, now they recruit for war. Where childhood had remained, people report each other. They say the country is surrounded by enemies, and the common response to any doubt is “I am out of politics.” Every time we ask how this could happen. Among the most dear, the most alien and horrifying arose. Monotonously and subtly pervading everywhere. (more…)
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Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman: Ancestral Clouds Ancestral ClaimsOct 5, 2023 – Mar 17, 2024Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims is Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva’s first solo exhibition in Austria. It is centered around the presentation of a new work, coproduced by Kunsthalle Wien. The eponymous film is the latest part of a series called Elemental Cinema; each film in this series is dedicated to one of the four elements. In it, the artists have developed an approach that takes matter, material, and the elemental as its starting point – aspects which continue to be neglected and suppressed by the globally dominant order of thinking and being. (more…)
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Elemental ConstellationsNov 5, 2023 – Feb 5, 2024As we all know, elements are the fundamental units of the world, serving as the basis of all things and life. However, they have also come to symbolize an intangible “nature”, or a certain kind of mythological and magical “science”. Elements may be seen as a “medium” from such perspective, constantly shaping the culture and the technology (more…)
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Akinbode Akinbiyi: Sometimes to be lost is to be foundNov 11, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024Akinbode Akinbiyi is a renowned photographer. He has not only been honored with the Goethe Medal and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany but was also recently awarded the 2024 Hannah Höch Prize in recognition of his outstanding lifetime achievement in the field. (more…)
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Kapwani Kiwanga / The Length of the HorizonSep 16, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024Research-based, thematically highly topical, and future-oriented – these terms can be used to describe the impressive work of Kapwani Kiwanga (b. 1978). From September 16, 2023 to January 7, 2024, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg will present the first comprehensive mid-career retrospective of the Canadian and French artist (more…)
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A Zona / Diogo SimõesPublicationA Zona is Diogo Simões’s first book. Twelve years in the making, it marks the arrival of a major force in Portuguese photography. All the photos were done in Margem Sul, Tagus river south bank, opposite Lisbon. (more…)
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Lili Reynaud-Dewar: Hello, my name is Lili and we are manyOct 19, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024Lili Reynaud-Dewar films, writes, speaks, dances, teaches, investigates, works with her friends, her family, her students. At the Palais de Tokyo, she questions the function of the artist, this hard-to-shape activity with blurred contours, both privileged and precarious, that acts between the exposure of private life and the subjectification of public life. (more…)
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Tarnanthi 2023PublicationTarnanthi 2023 is an up-to-the-minute survey of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, featuring ambitious and innovative works of art by artists from around the nation. The Tarnanthi 2023 catalogue showcases the ambitious, innovative and up-to-the-minute works of art exhibited at the acclaimed Tarnanthi Festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. (more…)
