
Three years after his last exhibition at Galerie Greta Meert, Jean-Luc Moulène presents a new set of works that extend and deepen the research he began at that time. This exhibition acts as a focus, a zoom into the very substance of his previous work, a magnification of observations, tensions and rotations.
Comprising nine new works, the collection displays a diversity of materials (glass, concrete, steel...) that resonate within the gallery space. The forms seem animated by the same movement: they turn, pivot, respond to each other and, as the artist points out, ‘through rotation, they seek to escape language’.
This circulation is not merely a formal gesture: it conveys a dynamic of emancipation in which thought becomes volume and matter becomes the vehicle of a silent, dense and concrete language. The works engage in dialogue with each other through their movements and the voids that separate them, exploring how forms confront, evade or balance each other in space.
The exhibition thus presents itself as a field of forces, a space of relationships rather than a simple arrangement of works. Each revolves around an invisible centre, acting as a mirror or counterweight, contributing to a rigorous but elusive whole, a mechanism in continuous motion where form, gravity and thought merge.
Courtesy Galerie Greta Meert
Jean-Luc Moulène (b. 1955, Paris, France) sets out to remove the boundaries between heterogeneous worlds: art and media, art objects and mass-produced objects, utility value and artistic value. Throughout his work, Jean-Luc Moulène has been exploring the nature of artistic labor and what it means to ‘author a work of art’. His practice is characterised by the wide variety of materials he uses along with his keen sense of observation and analysis of the world that surrounds him. From his point of view, art is not peaceful, an artwork always contains a ‘yes’ and a ‘no’ and it is the task of the viewer to find and define their own position.

Over the past 30 years, Galerie Greta Meert established itself as one of Brussels’ leading contemporary art galleries. Founded in 1988 as Galerie Meert Rihoux, it was subsequently renamed after its founding director Greta Meert in 2006. Located in the center of Brussels, the gallery occupies a five-story Art Nouveau building designed by Louis Bral and renovated for the gallery by renowned Belgian architects Hilde Daem and Paul Robbrecht. Since 2012 three floors of the building are dedicated to exhibitions, making it possible to maintain an expanded exhibition schedule.

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