Luc Tuymans, presence at Z33 Hasselt and in Munich’s Pinakothek collection
Published on 08/19/2026 at 13:05 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Luc Tuymans stands at a charged intersection of museum collection presence and politically inflected painting. His work features in the group exhibition Before Our Eyes at Z33 in Hasselt and in Between and Beyond at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne, as institutional sources confirm.
Museum shows with Luc Tuymans
The exhibition Before Our Eyes at Z33 in Hasselt runs from March 29 to August 23, 2026 and includes works and new commissions by eleven artists, among them Luc Tuymans, as the official press release states. The show examines how looking at violence and political events is never neutral and asks what artists show or withhold when images circulate around Gaza and other conflict zones.
A report by Belgian broadcaster TVL highlights Tuymans’s contribution to Voor onze ogen at Z33, describing a monumental painting of a maggot that appears to emerge from the wall, linking the motif to questions of decay, politics and what remains unseen in media narratives. This work extends Tuymans’s long-standing interest in mediated imagery and the ethics of representation, now explicitly tied to contemporary geopolitical violence.
Collection presence in Munich
At the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the exhibition Between and Beyond runs from July 3 to August 29, 2026 and features Luc Tuymans among a roster that includes Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Rosemarie Trockel and Richard Serra, according to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen press release. The curators Verena Hein and Bernhart Schwenk focus on expanded pictorial space and threshold states in works from the Modern Art Collection, situating Tuymans within a lineage of artists who unsettle how viewers inhabit images.
In this context, Tuymans’s painting appears alongside works that cut, nail or deconstruct the canvas, underlining how his subdued figuration and historical references converse with postminimal and conceptual strategies. The inclusion of Tuymans in a survey built from the museum’s own holdings signals a consolidated position within the European public-collection tier.
More news and background on Luc Tuymans
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The artist’s practice and themes
Luc Tuymans is known for small to mid-scale, muted paintings that translate already mediated images into a fragile, painterly register. Over three decades, he has constructed series around subjects such as colonial history, domestic interiors and postwar European memory, often working from photographs and film stills to stress how perception is conditioned.
Recent projects, including the traveling exhibition The Fruit Basket at David Zwirner New York and Los Angeles, show Tuymans applying this method to smartphone imagery, fermenting fruit and illuminated manuscript restorations, pushing the tension between digital mediation and analog paint. The monumental grid painting The Fruit Basket and works like The Maggot and Migrants foreground decay, migration and visual overload through restrained, carefully edited compositions.
Current institutional position
Against this backdrop, Luc Tuymans’s work is on view in Before Our Eyes at Z33 in Hasselt until August 23, 2026 and in Between and Beyond at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne until August 29, 2026, signaling active engagement with European museum discourse on violence and pictorial space.
Luc Tuymans in public collections
- Artist: Luc Tuymans
- Medium / Genre: Painting (conceptual figuration)
- Born: 1958, Mortsel, Belgium
- Place(s) of practice: Studio in Antwerp
- Active since: 1980s, with wider recognition from the 1990s
- Key work groups: The Heritage, The Chapel, The Fruit Basket, Die Zeit
- Current/last exhibition: Before Our Eyes, Z33, Hasselt, March 29–August 23, 2026; Between and Beyond, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, July 3–August 29, 2026
- Major collections: Tate (London), MoMA (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich), M HKA (Antwerp)
- Awards: Multiple honors including the Belgian Culture Prize for Visual Arts (year as documented in national records)
- Next date: Museum presentations at Z33 in Hasselt and Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich remain on view through late August 2026.
Frequently asked questions about Luc Tuymans
Where can Luc Tuymans’s work be seen in August 2026?
In August 2026, Tuymans is part of the exhibition Before Our Eyes at Z33 in Hasselt, running until August 23, 2026, and Between and Beyond at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, which runs until August 29, 2026.
What is the focus of Luc Tuymans’s contribution at Z33?
TVL reports that Tuymans contributes a monumental painting of a maggot for the Z33 show, designed to appear as if it emerges from the wall, linking the image to themes of violence, politics and what remains outside the frame.
How is Luc Tuymans positioned in the Pinakothek der Moderne’s exhibition?
In Between and Beyond, Tuymans’s painting appears alongside works by Dan Flavin, Donald Judd and Rosemarie Trockel in a survey of expanded pictorial space and threshold states, drawn from the museum’s Modern Art Collection.
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