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The Belgian Embassy in Luxembourg invites Karl Meersman with an overview of his work at the headquarters of CAPITAL AT WORK in Luxembourg.

The exhibition can be visited during office hours from 19th April to 28th June 2024.
Rue Léon Laval 12, 3372 Leudelange, Luxembourg.

• Dangerous Drawings
• Elephants and trees
• Félicien ROPS
• Spongeman - The artist
• The Residents
• (FR) Dessins Dangereux
• (FR) Éléphants et arbres
• (FR) Félicien ROPS
• (FR) Spongeman l'artiste
• (FR) Les Residents

Exhibition of work on paper that promotes freedom of expression in the visual arts.
Karl Meersman enters into dialogue with Félicien Rops.
From June 2 to October 9, 2023.
At Museum De Reede in Antwerp.

• Read more in PDF

• www.museum-dereede.com

Karl made the first works in 2016.
On 9 October 2021, the exhibition KANTELTIJD (TILTING TIME) at
CC-SCHARPOORD.

“Vulnerability” Karl sais when people ask what the exhibition is about. “Vulnerability of the climate, of man and also of the artist.” Master storyteller Wouter Deprez was the perfect companion during all those years and wrote a witty audio guide.

• introduction Tilting Time (pdf)
• more info (Folder pdf)

• www.kanteltijd.be
• View the teaser

The audio-exhibition KANTELTIJD (TILTING TIME) is also to be revisited in an artful catalogue, published by Hannibal-Books.
In that way, you can take the exhibition home with you.
144 pages. 21 x 26 cm

This drawing won the First Prize Press Cartoon Belgium 2020. It shows the Belgian climate activist Anuna De Wever, surrounded by politicians burying their head in the sand.

Bert Kruismans, Jan De Smet and Karl Meersman go out on tour for the last time.
The narrator, the musician and the artist have been enthusiastically received in recent years!
And so the formula remains the same: our capricious world in words, music and images.

• Click here for an overview of all performances

In september 2019 Karl takes up the moral sponsorship of KOTK, "Art to cherish".
A group exhibition of 50 contemporary artists in the Cortewalle Castle in Beveren – Belgium. (14-15 and 21-22 September 2019)

• All info on www.kotk.be

d'Ouwe Kerke, Retranchement (The Netherlands)
Exhibition from August 5th until 19th 2018

• Info

An installation of 80 portraits in clay, made by Karl and clients of the psychiatric ward St-Hieronymus in Sint-Niklaas.
Visiting hours: when restaurant Wilford T is open
(Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays between 12 am and 3 pm and between 7 and 11 pm)
Address: Wilfordkaai 10, 9100 Temse

Handing over one of my drawings to the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei