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2006 · 35mm film transferred to video (color, silent; 9:44 min.), LCD monitor, oak wood frame
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Museum of Modern Art
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Michaël Borremans
1963
WA-00008923
Painting
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
6
Works in Collection
69
Assets Indexed
16
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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3 cross-verified · 3 single-source
- Primary mediumWikidata + Duplicate Merge+1· 92%✓
- Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge+1· 92%✓
- BiographyWikipedia + Duplicate Merge+1· 88%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
- LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%
- DeceasedUnknown· 20%
Source Registry (3)
- ZwirnerTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- David-ZwirnerTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Michaël Borremans works in oil painting and film, building compositions from self-made photographs and commissioned sculptures that he uses as preparatory source material. His technique is grounded in the tradition of Velázquez, Manet, and Degas, producing surfaces with an 18th-century tonal restraint that sits in quiet tension with unsettling, ambiguous subject matter. Figures appear suspended in mid-gesture, isolated against muted grounds, generating a psychological unease that the painterly refinement only intensifies. Based in Ghent, Belgium, he is one of the more compelling figures working within a rigorous figurative tradition today.
Source: Zwirner · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago
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Artworks (6)
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6 published of 13 catalogued · 12 with image
- MoMA6 publishedof 12 catalogued11 img
- + 1 more source · 1 catalogued, not yet published
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Sint-Lucasinstituut (Gent)
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