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Benjamin King, Simon Kroug, Adam Himebauch, Laure Carré & Christoph Drexler
Layers of the land

Layers of the Land
A Contemporary Exploration of Landscape and Perception

Landscapes are never just what we see before us. They reveal who we are, how we relate to our surroundings, and how memories, emotions, and time shape our sense of place. Layers of the Land brings together five contemporary artists – Adam Lucas Himebauch, Benjamin King, Christoph Drexler, Laure Carré, and Simon Kroug – whose practices explore the ways in which landscapes are continually reshaped through memory, structure, and sensory experience.

The title refers not only to the visible layers of the earth – soil, stone, sediment – but also to the unseen layers of meaning that we project onto the land. Every place holds traces of history, change, and human presence. A landscape can bear witness to the past, serve as a site of transformation, or act as a quiet mirror of our inner world.

Through painting, abstraction, collage, and texture, each artist in this exhibition reveals a different layer of meaning. Their work shows that a landscape is not a fixed image, but a living record of perception – where material and imagination, the visible and the felt, are in constant dialogue. Layers of the Land invites you to move through these depths, to see and feel anew, and to reconsider your own place within the landscape.

Location
Brussels
Date
Now open:  —
Open Sunday:
07-12-2025

Simon Kroug distills landscapes to their essence, centering on horizon, form, and silence in meditative, minimalist compositions. Using fragile materials and subtle lines, he creates poetic memory-images that balance between presence and absence.

Christoph Drexler paints landscapes that blur the line between reality and memory, using soft transitions of light and tone to evoke dreamlike, emotionally resonant spaces. Through minimalist structures and precise compositions, he creates vast, poetic scenes where clarity and mystery coexist, inspired by 20th-century masters like de Chirico and the Blue Rider.

Benjamin King reimagines the landscape tradition by blending art historical influences with a contemporary awareness of ecological fragility, creating vibrant yet unsettling scenes full of beauty and grief. His work portrays nature as both conscious and endangered, holding space for hope and renewal amid the tension between loss and resilience.

Adam Lucas Himebauch fuses urban structure with organic form, creating layered, rhythmic compositions where architecture and landscape merge into dynamic fields of color and motion. Drawing on diverse art historical influences, he exposes the tension between inner reflection and public imagery, transforming everyday visual culture into vibrant, thought-provoking abstractions.

Laure Carré infuses landscapes with emotional and gestural intensity, blending intuition and memory into vivid, fluid compositions. Her instinctive brushwork transforms familiar scenes into dreamlike spaces, where the psychological and the surreal coexist in luminous, expressive harmony.

Artists in this exhibition