°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), Foto Museum (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).
www.maxpinckers.be
Selected Exhibitions
'How to Win at Photography – Image-Making as Play', Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH 'Not Standing Still: New Approaches in Documentary Photography', PHOTO 2021, Monash Gallery, of Art, Melbourne, AU 'Maybe Tomorrow - Joris Ghekiere', Emergent, Veurne, BE
'Margins of Excess', Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, DE 'Margins of Excess', WU Space, Shenyang, CHN 'The Lives and Loves of Images', Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim, DE 'L'heure bleue', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'Margins of Excess', Belfast Exposed, Belfast, UK
'Tea Ceremony and Flower Arrangement', IBASHO Gallery, Antwerp, BE 'It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE 'Photo Friction', Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen, BE
'Wordswordswords', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE 'Trophy Camera v.09', IDFA, Amsterdam, NL 'Ecce Homo', Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, BE 'Mixing / Memory and Desire', BredaPhoto, Breda, NL Museum van de Fotografie van Brussel, Recyclart, Brussels, BE 'Controversy: Max Pinckers & Sam Weerdmeester', Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp M HKA: Inbox, Antwerp, BE 'Photo London', Magnum Photos, London, UK 'Flowers', Plus-One Gallery, Antwerp, BE 'Trophy Camera v0.9: Dries Depoorter & Max Pinckers', Braakland Project Space, FOMU, Antwerp, BE
'Identity as a ™', Stadstriënnale Hasselt, BE 'Omber', Odradek & Octaëder, D’Apostrof Gallery, Deinze, BE 'K R A S J 3', Ninove, BE 'New Blood', Magnum Photos Print Room, London, UK 'Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty', Re Gallery, MOCAK, Krakow Photomonth Festival, Krakow, PL 'Floating Worlds: Max Pinckers & Daisuke Yokota', Foto-Forum, Bozen/Bolzano, IT 'Max Pinckers & Daisuke Yokota, Two Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself', Gallery Sofie van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
'Picture This: Contemporary Photography and India', Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA 'The Struggle for Freedom in: ____', Lagosphoto Festival 2015, Lagos, NG 'European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today vol.17', Pilsen European Capital of Culture, Pilsen, CZ 'Happy Birthday Europalia!', Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE 'Ailleurs en Folie Tokyo - Two Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself', Maison Folie, Mons, BE Land van Garage, Ghent, BE 'Small is Beautiful', Gallery Francis Carette, Brussels, BE 'Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave me Thristy', Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE 'Young Belgian Art Prize Exhibition', Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE 'Dialogue - Max Pinckers, Stanislas Lahaut, Gauthier Oushoorn, Johan de Wilde, Ilse D'Hollander', G262, Antwerp, BE 'De Kunstenaar zal aanwezig zijn', Voorkamer, Lier, BE 'Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave me Thirsty', LOOK/15 Photo Festival, Liverpool, UK 'Paris Photo LA', Dillon Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 'Focus Photography Festival / Motherland', Mumbai, IN Max Pinckers', RIOT, Ghent, BE Art Rotterdam, Sofie Van de Velde / G262, Rotterdam, NL 'Max Pinckers', Goa Photo, Goa, IN 'Max Pinckers', Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography, Dhaka, BD
Aperture PhotoBook Award, IMA Gallery, Tokyo, JP 'Vincent Delbrouck & Max Pinckers', Stieglitz19, Antwerp, BE 'Coloured Skins', Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke, BE 'Verf na Van Eyck', CROXHAPOX, Ghent, BE ArtContest, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE 'Max Pinckers', Paraty Em Foco, Paraty, BR 'Time is what happens when nothing else does', Paviljoen, KASK, Ghent, BE 'Coming People 2014', S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE 'The Belgian Six', presented by The Word, Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE 'A Whitsun Wedding | Episode 2', curated by Hans Theys, galerie EL, Welle, BE 'The Conclusion of A Movement in A Neutral Direction', Botanique, Brussels, BE 'The Only Thing You Can't Get Is Red Ink', G262, Antwerp, BE 'De Fotokopie by Galerie de Schans', Felix &Foam, Amsterdam, NL 'Icones', BIP | Pixels of Paradise, BAL - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège, BE '00:00:01 : A Split Second', Fortlaan 17 Gallery, Ghent, BE
'Indomania', europalia.india, Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, BE City of Levallois Photography Award, L’Escale gallery, Levallois, FR 'The Fourth Wall', Flageywood, europalia.india, Flagey, Brussels, BE 'Young Belgian Photography', Fotomuseum, Antwerp, BE 'Rheum, foundfootage.be', Cecilia Jaime Gallery, Ghent, BE 'foundfootage.be', Private Investigations, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, BE
'Mamihlapinatapai', De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL 'Imagine', Flanders Center, Osaka, JP GRADUATION, School of Arts, Ghent, BE 'Fracture', Gabriel Rolt, Berlin, DE 'Between the Lines', CROXHAPOX, Ghent, BE '.tiff', Young Belgian Talent Introduced by Fotomuseum (FoMu) Antwerp, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL 'Max Pinckers', Kermisstraat 60, Roeselare, BE 'Max Pinckers', 44 Gallery, Bruge, BE 'A Whitsun Wedding', curated by Hans Theys, Welle, BE
Lotus, Max Pinckers, published by Lyre Press in May 2016 and introduced at PhotoBook Bristol
Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty, Max Pinckers, self published photobook, Belgium, ISBN 978 9 0819 71515
Rheum, published by De Bedoeling & foundfootage.be, Belgium, ISBN 9789080227408
The Fourth Wall, Max Pinckers, self published photobook, Belgium, ISBN 978908197150, special editions available
Mamihlapinatapai, Max Pinckers & Michiel Burger, self published photobook, The Netherlands
Max Pinckers Preaching to the Choir (from the series Margins of Excess), 2018 Pigment prints on archival matte paper 280 gsm 76,1 x 93 cm
Max Pinckers Margins of Excess (from the series Margins of Excess), 2018 Pigment prints on archival matte paper 280 gsm 152 x 125 cm
Max Pinckers Performance #1 (From the series Margins of Excess), 2018 Print, plexi-box frame 93 x 76,1 cm
Max Pinckers The Arrest (From the series Margins of excess), 2018 pigment prints on archival matte paper 280 gsm 50 x 41 cm
Max Pinckers J.J. Ames (from the series Margins of Excess), 2018 Print, plexi-box frame 93 x 76 cm
Max Pinckers Entertainment Lite (from the series of Margins of excess), 2018 Pigment prints on archival matte paper 280 gsm 41 x 50 cm
Max Pinckers Make it real (from the series Margins of excess), 2018 Pigment prints on archival matte paper 280 gsm 44 x 36 cm
Max pinckers State of Affairs, (from the Series Margins of Excess), 2018 Pigment prints on archival FibaPrint® White Matte 280gsm photo paper 152 x 125 cm
Max Pinckers People Exiting the Metro at Yonggwang Station, Pyongyang, North Korea, 2017 (from the series of Red ink), 2018 Pigment print on archival matte paper 260 gsm 60 x 90 cm edition 1/5