Willy De Sauter Belgium, b. 1938

Biography
Willy De Sauter

° Brugge, Belgium
Lives and works in Tielt, BE.

 

Few are the painters who, like De Sauter, succeed in pushing painting as far beyond itself while remaining faithful to the painter’s traditional gestures: applying a coloured medium to a ground. Because his objects’ implicit subject – the perfect distance – is relational and contingent, they act as architectural sculptures and choreographies of space, endlessly renegotiating their relation to us, themselves, and their environment. His work is collected by institutions such as M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens (Sint-Martens-Latem), Vlaamse Gemeenschap (Belgium), De Bond (Bruges), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), and Groeningenmuseum Bruges. Willy De Sauter is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Mehdi Chouakri (Berlin), Loom Gallery (Milan), and Galerie Ramakers (Den Haag).

Credit cover image M HKA - Clinckx

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Exhibitions
Works
Art Fairs
Bibliography
Willy De Sauter

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024

M HKA, Antwerp, BE
2023

Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
Hilde Vandaele Gallery, Watou, BE
2021

'De Perfecte Afstand', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
'Works', Loom Gallery, Milaan, IT
2020

'Meeting between color fields', Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE
2019

'Bauhaus and Beyond‘, Galerie Catalijn Ramakers, Den Haag, NL
Galerie Christoph Albbühl, Solothurn, CH
2018

Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke, BE
'Untitled Paintings', Hilde Vandaele Gallery, Watou, BE
2017

Collectiepresentatie en recent werk, Groeningemuseum, Brugge, BE
'Untitled', Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke, BE
'Een keuze uit het oeuvre', Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag, NL
2015

Lempertz, Brussels, BE
2014

'Untitled-Color', Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Knokke, BE
2013

Museum Dhondt – Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
Bank Delen, Ghent, BE
2012

Huize St. Bonaventura, Ghent, BE
Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL
2010

Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL
2009

Galerie CD, Tielt, BE
2008

Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, BE
Be-Part, Waregem, BE
2007

Roodstop, Oudenaarde, BE
2006

Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, BE
'Spaces', Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL
2005

'Willy De Sauter – Christian Kieckens', White-out Studio, Knokke, BE
Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL
De Bond, Brugge, BE
2004

Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, BE
Orpheus Instituut, Ghent, BE
2003

CCNOA, Brussels, BE
Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL
2002

Galerie C.D, Tielt, BE
2001

MuHKA, Antwerp, BE
Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL
White – Out Studio, Knokke, BE
1999

Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL
Galerie De Gryse, Tielt, BE
1997

Margeret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans London, UK
1996

Business Faculty, Brussels, BE
Battersea Art Center, Londen, UK
1995

Plateau, Brussels, BE
Galerie Patrick De Brock, Knokke, BE
1993

De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
Galerie Patrick De Brock, Antwerp, BE
1992

Plateau, Brussels, BE
1991

Galerie Patrick De Brock, Antwerp, BE
1989

Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, BE
Haus Gospert, Eupen, BE
1986

De Lege Ruimte, Brugge, BE
1985

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, BE
1982

Gallery Richard Foncke, Ghent, BE
1981

Gallery Richard Foncke, Ghent, BE
1980

Galerie Declercq, Knokke, BE
1979

Stichting Veranneman, Kruishoutem, BE
I.C.C. Antwerp, BE
1976

Gallery Richard Foncke, Ghent, BE
1975

Galerie Aksent, Waregem, BE
 Selected Group Exhibitions

 
2025

BRAFA Art Fair, Brussels, BE
2024

BRAFA Art Fair, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Brussels, BE
'These Circumstances', Fondation CAB, Antwerp, BE
'It's all right, don't think twice', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
'Dear future me', Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln, DE
2022

Art Rotterdam, Galerie Ramakers, Rotterdam, NL
2021

'Works', Loom Gallery, Milan, IT
2020

'L'heure bleue', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'Implicit Movement', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Nieuw Zuid, Antwerp, BE
'Implicit Movement', Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2019

‘Looking at the world Trough Rose Colored Glasses‘, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
BRAFA Art Fair Brussels, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
BRAFA Art Fair Brussels, Koning Boudewijnstichting, Pas Foundation, Hasselt, BE
‘The Gulf Between‘, Cultuurhuis De Warande, Turnhout, BE
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag, NL
Art Rotterdam, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
‘De la tranquillité / van het verpozen‘, Emergent, Veurne, BE
‘De la tranquillité / van het verpozen‘, Centre Culturel, BE
‘The Bare Necessity- Charlotte Posenenske – Guy Mees – Willy De Sauter‘, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
‘Bauhaus and Beyond‘, Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag, NL
Art Basel, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE
2018

‘Backstage‘, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag, NL
Diva Antwerpen, Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai, CHN
‘Backstage‘, Galerie Thomas Rehbein, Cologne, DE
Art Basel, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Basel, CH
‘Kleur, lijn en vorm', Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke, BE
‘If you need guidance...', Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg, DE
‘Soft ?‘, Galerie Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
Pan Amsterdam, Galerie Ramakers, Amsterdam, NL
‘Verschil maken', Stedelijke Kunstacademie, Tielt, BE
‘Selection VII’, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke, BE