MAKE ART NOT WAR
Solo Exhibition by REMAUT.
June 28 – August 7, 2025 | Vernissage: June 28 at 16:00h
Finnisage: August 7 at 19:00h
Critically acclaimed Belgian artist Roger Remaut brings a powerful body of work shaped by a career spanning five decades.
His bold, abstract paintings are layered with found objects, graffiti, scrawled text, and thick textures—raw surfaces that feel weathered, emotional, and politically charged. Remaut builds his canvases like urban walls: cracked, damaged, and alive with hidden meaning. His process is instinctive and physical, with works evolving slowly through layers of matter and paint. There are no fixed narratives—just fragments, moods, and moments that ask the viewer to look again.
Born in 1942 in the harbor town of Ostend during the Nazi occupation of Belgium, Remaut has channeled a life shaped by wartime shadows into a vibrant, internationally acclaimed career in abstract art. His early experiences of hiding from the SS and growing up amid the rubble of war ravaged Ostend profoundly inform his artistic vision today.
Inspired by John Lennon’s timeless plea to “make love not war,” Remaut issues his own urgent appeal: Choose creation over destruction. Make art, not war. In this striking new solo exhibition, Remaut’s mixed media works serve as a symbol of resistance, renewal, and the enduring spirit of artistic defiance in the face of global unrest.
“I don’t paint to please an audience - I am the audience, relishing in my own performance”. - REMAUT.
His work has been exhibited across Europe earning critical acclaim and a loyal following. A career highlight was exhibiting at Group 2 Gallery in Brussels alongside modern masters including James Ensor and Léon Spilliaert. His paintings are in numerous private and public collections including those of the Belgian and Flemish governments and Ostend’s Museum of Fine Art.
