Ellen De Meutter

With her paintings, Ellen De Meutter has succeeded in positioning herself as one of Belgium’s most prominent painters in just a few years. Even though Ellen De Meutter has developed a very recognisable personal painting style since 2005, her work does not rely on predictable imagery. On the contrary, regular new painterly developments form surprising chapters in the developing oeuvre of this artist. It was therefore a conscious choice to present only her most recent production in this first solo museum exhibition.

The world which Ellen De Meutter creates in her paintings is both strange and familiar. In her rather graphic painterly style, she creates compositions that seem to suggest a story or an event. The many possible storylines which are potentially developed in connection with the images and motifs, however, can not easily be put into words and evade all possible explanations. Ellen De Meutter always maintains a very generous openness and spatiality in her works, which gives the spectator great interpretative freedom.