Biography

°1938 Brugge, Belgium
Lives and works in Tielt, BE.

Few are the painters who, like De Sauter, succeed in pushing painting as far beyond itself while remaining faithful to the painter’s traditional gestures: applying a coloured medium to a ground. Because his objects’ implicit subject – the perfect distance – is relational and contingent, they act as architectural sculptures and choreographies of space, endlessly renegotiating their relation to us, themselves, and their environment.

His work is collected by institutions such as M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens (Sint-Martens-Latem), Vlaamse Gemeenschap (Belgium), De Bond (Bruges), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), and Groeningenmuseum Bruges.

Willy De Sauter is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Mehdi Chouakri (Berlin), Loom Gallery (Milan), and Galerie Ramakers (Den Haag).

www.willydesauter.be

°1938 Brugge, Belgium
Lives and works in Tielt, BE.

Few are the painters who, like De Sauter, succeed in pushing painting as far beyond itself while remaining faithful to the painter’s traditional gestures: applying a coloured medium to a ground. Because his objects’ implicit subject – the perfect distance – is relational and contingent, they act as architectural sculptures and choreographies of space, endlessly renegotiating their relation to us, themselves, and their environment.

His work is collected by institutions such as M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens (Sint-Martens-Latem), Vlaamse Gemeenschap (Belgium), De Bond (Bruges), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), and Groeningenmuseum Bruges.

Willy De Sauter is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Mehdi Chouakri (Berlin), Loom Gallery (Milan), and Galerie Ramakers (Den Haag).

www.willydesauter.be

	Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024	M HKA, Antwerp, BE
2023	Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE Hilde Vandaele Gallery, Watou, BE
2021	'De Perfecte Afstand', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE 'Works', Loom Gallery, Milaan, IT
2020	'Meeting between color fields', Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE
2019	'Bauhaus and Beyond‘, Galerie Catalijn Ramakers, Den Haag, NL Galerie Christoph Albbühl, Solothurn, CH
2018	Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke, BE 'Untitled Paintings', Hilde Vandaele Gallery, Watou, BE
2017	Collectiepresentatie en recent werk, Groeningemuseum, Brugge, BE 'Untitled', Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke, BE 'Een keuze uit het oeuvre', Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag, NL
2015	Lempertz, Brussels, BE
2014	'Untitled-Color', Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Knokke, BE
2013	Museum Dhondt – Dhaenens, Deurle, BE Bank Delen, Ghent, BE
2012	Huize St. Bonaventura, Ghent, BE Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL
2010	Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL
2009	Galerie CD, Tielt, BE
2008	Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, BE Be-Part, Waregem, BE
2007	Roodstop, Oudenaarde, BE
2006	Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, BE 'Spaces', Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL
2005	'Willy De Sauter – Christian Kieckens', White-out Studio, Knokke, BE Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL De Bond, Brugge, BE
2004	Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, BE Orpheus Instituut, Ghent, BE
2003	CCNOA, Brussels, BE Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL
2002	Galerie C.D, Tielt, BE
2001	MuHKA, Antwerp, BE Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL White – Out Studio, Knokke, BE
1999	Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL Galerie De Gryse, Tielt, BE
1997	Margeret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans London, UK
1996	Business Faculty, Brussels, BE Battersea Art Center, Londen, UK
1995	Plateau, Brussels, BE Galerie Patrick De Brock, Knokke, BE
1993	De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL Galerie Patrick De Brock, Antwerp, BE
1992	Plateau, Brussels, BE
1991	Galerie Patrick De Brock, Antwerp, BE
1989	Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, BE Haus Gospert, Eupen, BE
1986	De Lege Ruimte, Brugge, BE
1985	Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, BE
1982	Gallery Richard Foncke, Ghent, BE
1981	Gallery Richard Foncke, Ghent, BE
1980	Galerie Declercq, Knokke, BE
1979	Stichting Veranneman, Kruishoutem, BE I.C.C. Antwerp, BE
1976	Gallery Richard Foncke, Ghent, BE
1975	Galerie Aksent, Waregem, BE
	Selected Group Exhibitions
2024	BRAFA Art Fair, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Brussels, BE
2022	Art Rotterdam, Galerie Ramakers, Rotterdam, NL
2021	'Works', Loom Gallery, Milan, IT
2020	'L'heure bleue', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE 'Implicit Movement', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Nieuw Zuid, Antwerp, BE 'Implicit Movement', Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2019	‘Looking at the world Trough Rose Colored Glasses‘, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE BRAFA Art Fair Brussels, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE BRAFA Art Fair Brussels, Koning Boudewijnstichting, Pas Foundation, Hasselt, BE ‘The Gulf Between‘, Cultuurhuis De Warande, Turnhout, BE Art Rotterdam, Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag, NL Art Rotterdam, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE ‘De la tranquillité / van het verpozen‘, Emergent, Veurne, BE ‘De la tranquillité / van het verpozen‘, Centre Culturel, BE ‘The Bare Necessity- Charlotte Posenenske – Guy Mees – Willy De Sauter‘, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE ‘Bauhaus and Beyond‘, Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag, NL Art Basel, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE
2018	‘Backstage‘, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE Art Rotterdam, Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag, NL Diva Antwerpen, Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai, CHN ‘Backstage‘, Galerie Thomas Rehbein, Cologne, DE Art Basel, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Basel, CH ‘Kleur, lijn en vorm', Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke, BE ‘If you need guidance...', Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg, DE ‘Soft ?‘, Galerie Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE Pan Amsterdam, Galerie Ramakers, Amsterdam, NL ‘Verschil maken', Stedelijke Kunstacademie, Tielt, BE ‘Selection VII’, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke, BE

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Exhibitions

24.06—27.08.2023
Zuid

Willy De Sauter

16.10—21.11.2021
Nieuw Zuid

Willy De Sauter
'De perfecte afstand'

11.01—01.03.2020
Nieuw Zuid

Groupshow
Implicit Movement

16.03—05.05.2019
Nieuw Zuid

Group Show
The Bare Necessity

19.01—03.03.2019
Nieuw Zuid

Group show
Looking at the world through rose colored glasses

18.03—01.05.2016
Groen Kwartier

Group show
From nature to abstract

Fairs

25.04—28.04.2019
Tour & Taxis

'Figuration vs abstraction'
Art Brussels 2019

26.01—03.02.2019
Tour & Taxis

Group show
BRAFA 2019

17.11—19.11.2017
Art Dusseldorf

Group show
Art Dusseldorf 2017

21.09—24.09.2017
Vienna Contemporary

Group show
Vienna Contemporary 2017

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Willy De Sauter at Galerie Mehdi Chouakri

– 13.06—25.07.2020 Bad group name: Meeting.*Meeting between color fields* Solo exhibition of the Belgian artist Willy De Sauter in Galerie Mehdi Chouakri. On view from 13.06.2020 - 25.07.2020 Opening: 13.06.2020 Continue reading

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Willy De Sauter (°1938)

Willy De Sauter’s artistic practice is a continuation of a rich tradition according to which art is the vehicle for an abstract representation of reality. His artistic vocabulary could be characterized as a thorough abstraction of forms and structures that can be found back in both nature and in culture, more specifically in architecture.

The close observation of buildings, monuments and even photographs are often starting points for de Sauter’s plastic transposition of an existing form into an abstract representation. His works and their presentation refer to architectural history and to the artistic urge to represent the very essence of reality. In de Sauter’s austere oeuvre, places are reduced to non-places. Associations with philosophy, visual art, and architecture are fused into one general and open focus on culture.

While his early works were mainly composed of consistent repetitions of line patterns, he has, from the 1990s onward, focused on the realization of monochrome chalk paintings and objects.

Although his work appears very minimalist in style, Willy De Sauter invests much time and labor in its meticulous production process.

Willy De Sauter

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