Art Antwerp – Booth B19

Antwerp Expo, Antwerp

11/12/2025

14/12/2025

Antwerp Expo, Jan van Rijswijcklaan 191, 2020 Antwerp

Gallery FIFTY ONE is pleased to present the last series of Katrien de Blauwer, ‘Blue Bruises’ at Art Antwerp (11-14 december).

For a preview of our booth, please send an email to: info@gallery51.com

‘There are artists who speak in whispers rather than proclamations, who build their language not on spectacle but on suggestion. Katrien De Blauwer is one of them. Her works are like fragments of a private diary where words have been replaced by images: a shoulder, a silhouette, a fleeting glance. By cutting, reframing, and erasing, De Blauwer unveils truths that lie beyond the photograph — a reality distilled into emotion. In her work, echoes of cinema resurface: the silent tension of Antonioni, the suspended atmospheres of film noir, the sensual unease of the 1950s. What matters is not the action, but the waiting; not dialogue, but the glance that is withheld. Women, often fragmented, appear as elusive presences — at once spectral and desired. De Blauwer does not take photographs; she collects, hunts, and cuts. Out of this silence she forges a visual language of rare intensity — images of absence, memory, and solitude. They do not impose themselves, yet they remain with us, lingering long after the encounter. With this solo presentation at Art Antwerp, the gallery invites visitors into De Blauwer’s world—a realm of intimacy and suggestion where the unseen speaks louder than the revealed—through the artist’s latest series.’

Text Roger Szmulewicz