Max Pinckers b. 1988
° Brussels, BE
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Max Pinckers’ work contains diverse aspects, usually in the form of documentary series in which stories are told through various image sequences using different photographic approaches. These images are poetic references to certain aspects within a defined documentary context, such as a toppled glass of milk that refers to visual tropes from Bollywood films to suggest eroticism or a folded dollar bill that conspiracy theorists believed had predicted the September eleven attacks. He also collaborates with other artists to make sculptural interventions on location to create new images. When the context of these images is removed, these works emerge as free abstractions that form new meanings in each other’s presence.
His works have been presented in institutions such as CENTRALE for Contemporary Art (Brussels), Museum of Contemporary Art (Kraków), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), Fotomuseum (Antwerp), and M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp).
Max Pinckers' work has been collected by Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland), Fotomuseum (FOMU) (Antwerp), Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography (Amsterdam), School of Arts (KASK) Kunstcollectie (Ghent) and Musée de la Photographie (Charleroi).
Max Pinckers is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and Tristan Lund (London).
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Max Pinckers
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Max Pinckers
ARRANEMENTS 22 Jan - 6 Mar 2022 South (former location)Max Pinckers’ work contains diverse aspects, usually in the form of documentary series in which stories are told through various image sequences using different photographic approaches. This exhibition highlights a...Read more -
L'heure bleue Part I
Groupshow 9 Jun - 31 Jul 2020 New SouthL’Heure Bleue Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and PLUS - ONE Gallery present ‘L’Heure Bleue’. L’heure bleue is the moment when the sun has set, but the night has not...Read more -
Looking at the world through rose colored glasses
Group exhibition 19 Jan - 3 Mar 2019 New SouthGermaine Kruip Sara Sizer Guy Mees Bendt Eyckermans Pieter Jennes Max Pinckers Charline Tyberghein Willy De Sauter Jacques-Louis Nyst Gommaar Gilliams Perry Roberts Catharina Dhaen Rik De Boe Ives Maes...Read more -
Lust, Laughter, Liquor
Group exhibition 22 Mar - 6 May 2018 New SouthIn May 2017, PLUS-ONE Gallery and Gallery Sofie Van de Velde decided to reinforce their projects in a shared and second gallery space in the Nieuw Zuid area in Antwerp....Read more -
It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is ...
Group exhibition 27 Jan - 17 Mar 2018 New SouthIt is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there - William Carlos Williams Nowadays some of the tools of propaganda have...Read more -
Wordswordswords
Group exhibition 14 Oct - 28 Dec 2017 New SouthRein Dufait, Max Pinckers, Rik De Boe, John Stezaker, Navid Nuur, Philippe Vandenberg, Joris Van Moortel, Guillaume Bijl, Bernd Lohaus & Saâdane Afif. “Magritte didn’t mean Les Mots et les...Read more -
Max Pinckers
Two kinds of memory and memory itself 22 Jan - 6 Mar 2016 Groen Kwartier (former location)Max Pinckers invites Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota for a duo exhibition at Gallery Sofie Van de Velde in Antwerp where Pinckers will be presenting work from the new series Two...Read more -
Dialoog
Group Show 4 - 28 Jun 2015 Groen Kwartier (former location)Vijf kunstenaars vragen om in dialoog te gaan, geeft verschillende manieren van kijken. Sommige samenwerkingen ontstaan bij gratie van toeval of bewondering, en de ene dialoog is al concreter dan...Read more -
Max Pinckers & Gauthier Oushoorn
The only thing you can't get is red ink 27 Apr - 27 Jun 2014 Groen Kwartier (former location)
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Entertainment Lite (from the series of Margins of excess), 2018
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Girls Changing Room at the Pyongyang Orphans' Primary School, Pyongyang, North Korea, 2017 (From the series Red Ink), 2018
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Jay J. Armes (from the series Margins of Excess), 2018
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Make it real (from the series Margins of excess) , 2018
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Margins of Excess, 2018
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People Exiting the Metro at Yonggwang Station, Pyongyang, North Korea, 2017 (from the series of Red ink), 2018
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Performance #1 (From the series Margins of Excess), 2018
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Preaching to the Choir (from the series Margins of Excess), 2018
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State of Affairs, Margins of Excess, 2018
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The Arrest (From the series Margins of excess), 2018
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White Noise (from the series Margins of Excess), 2018
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2025 |
Forthcoming, Solo exhibtion, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE |
2024 |
Solo exhibition, State of Emergency, Palazzo Madama, Exposed Festival, Torino, IT |
2022 |
'Double Reward', Asama International Photo Festival, Miyota, JP |
2021 |
'Arrangements', Gallery Sofie Van De Velde, Antwerp, BE |
2020 |
'Margins of Excess', Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, DE |
2019 |
'Margins of Excess', Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
2016 |
'Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty', Re Gallery, MOCAK, Krakow Photomonth Festival, Krakow, PL |
2015 |
Focus Photography Festival, Motherland, Mumbai, IN |
2014 |
Paraty Em Foco, Paraty, BR |
2013 |
'The Fourth Wall', Flageywood, EUROPALIA, Flagey, Brussels, BE |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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2024 |
Site-specific installation, A Sore Calamity, Max Pinckers & Victoria Gonzalez-Figueras, Hôtel van Eetvelde, Brussels, BE |
2023 |
'Fotografìa: Collezione Roma', Mattatoio, Rome, IT |
2022 |
'Margins of Excess', RAW Photo Festival, Worpswede, DE |
2021 |
'How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play', Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH |
2020 |
'The Lives and Loves of Images', Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim, DE |
2019 |
'Joint Memory: Photographic Fragments', FOTODOK, Utrecht, NL |
2018 |
'Tea Ceremony and Flower Arrangement', IBASHO Gallery, Antwerp, BE |
2017 |
'Wordswordswords', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE |
2016 |
'Identity as a ™', Stadstriënnale Hasselt, BE |
2015 |
'Picture This: Contemporary Photography and India', Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA |
2014 |
Aperture PhotoBook Award, IMA Gallery, Tokyo, JP |
2013 |
'Indomania', europalia.india, Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE |
2012 |
'Mamihlapinatapai', De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL |
Bibliography
2016 |
Lotus, Max Pinckers, published by Lyre Press in May 2016 and introduced at PhotoBook Bristol |
2014 |
Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty, Max Pinckers, self published photobook, Belgium, ISBN 978 9 0819 71515 |
2013 |
Rheum, published by De Bedoeling & foundfootage.be, Belgium, ISBN 9789080227408 |
2012 |
The Fourth Wall, Max Pinckers, self published photobook, Belgium, ISBN 978908197150, special editions available |
2012 |
Mamihlapinatapai, Max Pinckers & Michiel Burger, self published photobook, The Netherlands |