Greta Meert Gallery in Brussels

Editorial Profile

Founded in 1988 as Galerie Meert Rihoux and renamed in 2006 after its founding director, Galerie Greta Meert is one of the longer-standing reference points within contemporary art in Brussels. The gallery occupies a five-storey Art Nouveau building on rue du Canal designed by Louis Bral and renovated by the Belgian architects Hilde Daem and Paul Robbrecht; since 2012, three of its floors function as exhibition spaces, allowing several concurrent shows. Greta Meert has run the gallery in recent years together with her son Frédéric Mariën. From the outset, the program has been anchored in Minimal and Conceptual art and in the role of photography within conceptual strategies — an orientation established by inaugural exhibitions of Thomas Struth (his first international solo show), Robert Mangold, Richard Tuttle, Louise Lawler, John Baldessari, and Hanne Darboven, and consolidated by early presentations of Donald Judd, Isa Genzken, and the Vancouver School artists Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, and Ken Lum.

This historical foundation continues to shape the current program, which now extends across several generations and includes Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Niele Toroni, Fred Sandback, Jean-Luc Moulène, and Didier Vermeiren alongside a younger international cohort — Katinka Bock, Iñaki Bonillas, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Magali Reus, Anne Neukamp, and Eric Baudelaire — and Belgian artists such as Edith Dekyndt, Koen Van den Broek, Catharina van Eetvelde, and Pieter Vermeersch. The gallery participates in Art Basel and other major international fairs, and its sustained engagement with reduction, language, and image has positioned it as a structural reference within the wider landscape of galleries in Brussels — a node where commercial activity and the institutional reading of post-minimal and conceptual practices remain closely aligned.