
David Zwirner is pleased to present French Painting, an exhibition of new paintings by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans. _French Painting i_s the artist’s ninth solo presentation with David Zwirner and his first at the Paris gallery, marking his first solo show in France in twenty years, following The Good Ingredients at La Maison Rouge–Fondation Antoine de Galbert in 2006. Recent institutional presentations include a retrospective of twenty years of painting, titled A Confrontation at the Zoo, __at the Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands (2024–25) and The Promise at Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai (2024).







Michaël Borremans was born in 1963 in Geraardsbergen, Belgium. In 1996, he received his M.F.A. from Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, Campus St. Lucas, in Ghent. David Zwirner has represented the artist’s works since 2001. Previous solo exhibitions at the gallery include Black Mould, London, 2015, The Devil’s Dress, New York, 2011, Taking Turns, New York, 2009, Horse Hunting, New York, 2006, and Trickland, New York, 2003.




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