Jan Kempenaers’ third solo exhibition with Breese Little Gallery, London, features the debut presentation of a new, unseen body of work. An essay by writer and curator Brian Dillon and two specially commissioned limited editions will accompany the exhibition.
The new photographic series is the subject of Composite (2016), Jan Kempeaners’ fifth collaboration with Roma Publications launched at the New York Art Book Fair, September 2016. Kempenaers’ previous artist books with Roma Publications include I’m not tailgating, I’m drafting (2013), Dun Briste, Downpatrick Head (2012), Picturesque (2012) and Spomenik (2010).
Jan Kempenaers (b.1968) lives in Antwerp and works in Ghent. He studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (BE) and the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (NL). He has been affiliated with the School of Arts Ghent since 2006. Since the beginning of the 90s Kempenaers has been photographing urban and natural landscapes and in 2012 he completed a PhD in the visual arts.
Exhibition details
Preview: Thursday 30 March, 6 – 9 pm
31 March – 20 May 2017
Unit 1, 249 – 251 Cambridge Heath Road London,
E2 6JY
Wednesday – Saturday, 12 noon – 6 pm
