Antoine Roegiers (born in 1980 in Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium) lives and works in France. He graduated with honors from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2007, where he was awarded the Roger Bataille Prize. During his studies at the Beaux-Arts, Roegiers began to engage deeply with the Flemish masters, drawing inspiration from Bruegel, Bosch, and Rubens, as well as 19th-century Belgian painters and engravers such as Ensor, Rops, and Spilliaert.
His practice encompasses a wide range of media and techniques, including oil painting on wood and canvas, video animation, pen drawing, and acrylic. Through these diverse approaches, he establishes a dialogue with the great masters of past centuries, filtered through the prism of a contemporary perspective.
Since 2018, Roegiers has been developing a major “visual narrative” project entitled À L’OMBRE DES NUAGES (In the Shadow of the Clouds): a series of paintings that unfolds as a single story over several years. Alongside these canvases, he creates animated films that extend the pictorial universe into moving images, presented as unique video-objects combining traditional painting and digital animation. In this cycle, humour, solemnity, and poetry coexist, offering reflections on today’s world and, at the same time, inviting us to smile at our own human condition.
Roegiers is represented by Galerie Templon (Paris, Brussels, New York), Wilde Gallery (Geneva, Basel, Zurich), Keteleer Gallery (Antwerp), and Robilant+Voena Gallery (London, New York, Milan). His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the San Telmo Museum (San Sebastián), Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias (Oviedo), Kunsthalle Tübingen, Bozar (Brussels), Museo Nacional de Escultura (Valladolid), Musée Félicien Rops (Namur), Mu.ZEE (Ostend), Albertina Museum (Vienna), Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico), Harvard Museum (Massachusetts), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Lille), and La Maison Rouge (Paris).
