
Zeno X Gallery and Mark Manders celebrate their 28-year collaboration with the artist’s seventh solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Manders’ practice, which includes installations, sculptures, works on paper and drawings.








Although time and place-related references appear to be irrelevant in Mark Manders’ work, there is one year that is often being referred to: 1986. This is the year in which Manders outlined the concept of his work, Self-Portrait as a Building. His work resembles a fictional building, divided into separate rooms and levels, of which the size and shape can never exactly be determined. Potential shifts and extensions constantly threaten the cohesion of the ever-expanding self-portrait.

In 1981, Frank and Eliane Demaegd founded Zeno X Gallery in an early 20th century townhouse in the Antwerp South district. In the early years the program of the gallery was mainly focused on architecture and installations with artists such as John Körmeling, Rem Koolhaas, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Patrick Van Caeckenbergh. Nowadays the gallery represents around thirty artists which operate in many different mediums such as painting, sculpture, film, photography and performance.

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