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Solo exhibition by Damien Deroubaix
The big beautifull billboard
14.03.2026 - 02.05.2026
Opening on Saturday, 14 March 2026 at 5pm
After training in France at the École des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Etienne and in Germany at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Damien Deroubaix established himself as a painter, printmaker, draftsman, and sculptor. Since then, his pictorial language has continually mixed motifs and influences without boundaries in an artistic practice characterized by a diversity of forms and techniques: oil painting, watercolor, engraving, tapestry, woodcuts, as well as sculpture and installation. Old and modern masters, Metal and grindcore aesthetics, non-European arts, and BDSM—the plastic effervescence of Deroubaix knows no limits. A fetishist of style, he leaves his mark on the surface as one tattoos skin. In his blunt opposition to the whiteness of the canvas, Deroubaix kneads the gray and black matter of a skull or rib cage. And even if his work is born from darkness, his anatomical theater remains voracious, ready to swallow everything from the great chaos of the world—its chimeras and its exterminating angels.
Recently, his exhibition En un jour si obscur was shown at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, where his panels, prints, engravings, and paintings dialogued with the masters of European printmaking from the library’s collections (2025), and La vida es sueño at the Musée Goya de Castres (2024). Damien Deroubaix’s work is held in major collections including the Centre Pompidou (FR), the Museum of Modern Art New York (USA), the Saarlandmuseum (DE), the Museu Colecção Berardo (PT), and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (CH). The artist has also exhibited internationally, notably at the Fondation Maeght (France), Bloomberg Space (United Kingdom), the Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton (France), the Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg), the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany), and the MUDAM (Luxembourg), among others. In 2009, he was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp.
Photos: © Louis Weber