The Biennial of Painting was founded in 2008 as a collaboration between Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (MDD) and the Roger Raveel Museum (RRM), based on an idea by Roland Jooris, the museum’s first curator. Since 2014, the Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek (mudel) has also joined the initiative.

Its ambition is to contextualise and reframe the recent history of art, approaching painting from the past hundred years through a range of specific perspectives. The collections of these institutions and their histories, together with a shared fascination for the materiality of paint, gesture and representation, bring these museums in the Leie region together in presenting this biennial celebration of painting to an ever-growing audience.

The Biennial invites visitors to engage with an exploration of the paths painting has taken throughout its long history. Works of modern art from the museums’ own collections intersect with contemporary art along this organic trajectory, entering into dialogue with one another.

Roger Raveel Museum, Zulte

The enduring appeal of the landscape along the river Leie has long inspired artists and runs like a common thread through the region’s history. The area’s touristic potential remains something of a hidden gem: a place to unwind in peace, go for walks or bike rides, or take a boat trip along the water.

This anniversary edition once again brings together three distinctive exhibitions, where works from the museum collections are set in dialogue with those of contemporary artists from Belgium and abroad, connecting the region’s rich artistic tradition with new, contemporary perspectives.

Museum of Deinze and the Leie region, Deinze
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

Carla Accardi
Igshaan Adams
Olga de Amaral 
Carlotta Bailly-Borg
Lynda Benglis
Julien Creuzet
Rachel Eulena Williams
Kazunori Hamana
Lubaina Himid
Kapwani Kiwanga
Patricia Leite
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
Fernando Marques Penteado 
Eric N. Mack
Katja Mater
Guy Mees
Hana Mileti´c
Roger Raveel
Rosemarie Trockel
Erika Verzutti
Pei Hsuan Wang

Museum of Deinze and the Lys Region

Kasper Bosmans
Elen Braga
Jozef Cantré
Enk De Kramer
Vida Dena
Gustave De Smet
Mae Dessauvage
Pelagie Gbaguidi
Sebastian Kulbaka
William Ludwig Lutgens
Nayra Martin Reyes
Katja Mater
Roger Raveel
ROA
Abigail Tulis
Frits Van den Berghe
Tinus Vermeersch

Roger Raveel Museum

Richard Artschwager
Orla Barry
Alighiero Boetti
Suzanne Bomhals
Aglaia Konrad
Katja Mater
Guy Mees
Roger Raveel
Fons Roggeman
Mariella Simoni
Léon Spilliaert
Louis Thevenet
Sietske Van Aerde
Anne-Mie
 Van Kerckhoven
Rik Wouters