DE BOER | ANTWERP

This exhibition showcases a selection of recent paintings by John Smith, known for his bold use of color and abstract forms. The works on display reflect the artist's ongoing exploration of light and space.

The exhibition brings together a group of new sculptures, including the artist’s signature bloom forms, hourglass works, and a series of large glass tiled busts that explore the emotional and psychological terrain of grief, endurance, and renewal. Bright’s practice centers narratives of ancestry, feminism, mass migration, and the African diaspora.

The exhibition brings together new paintings that probe the moment when subjectivity loosens its dependence on external frameworks of recognition, expectation, or gaze.

de boer | Antwerp is proud to present SEVEN PLUS ONE, a group featuring the work of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts’ Masters in Painting at de boer, Antwerp. Bringing together a broad range of artistic approaches, from explorations of narrative, materiality, conceptuality, abstraction, and expanded practice, each artist follows an individual engagement with contemporary painting. This exhibition reflects the wide array of voices and sensibilities that can emerge from a shared context. Each participating artist finds themselves at a pivotal moment in their artistic histories, navigating the transition from academic study while continuing to shape their practices.

This exhibition situates Gobel’s latest paintings within a broader conversation on domestic aesthetics, coded visibility, and the generative intimacy of queer communal experience.