Artists

Michaël Borremans

Press release

David Zwirner is pleased to announce The Monkey, an exhibition of new paintings by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans, taking place at the gallery’s London location. In this new body of work, Borremans continues to explore surface and artifice in his careful consideration of mise-en-scène, combining technical mastery with subject matter that defies straightforward interpretation. The Monkey follows the April 2024 opening of Borremans’s solo exhibition The Promise at Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, as well as his 2022 solo exhibition The Acrobat at David Zwirner, New York. This presentation of intimately scaled paintings in London expands on the themes and modes seen in The Acrobat—a show much lauded by critics including John Vincler of The New York Times, who stated that Borremans “may be the greatest living figurative painter.”