Benoit Platéus

Benoit Platéus’s broad practice spans painting, collage, sculpture, and photography, though he focuses on abstraction and conceptual questions throughout those media. In a past series, shown at a 2020 group show at BARBÉ in Ghent, Platéus presented urethane resin sculptures of jugs that had contained photographic development fluid, a reference to these ageing production methods for imagemaking. In a 2024 show, “Coriums,” at Brussels gallery Meessen, the artist presented a series of works that interrogate the “skin” of painting. Platéus graduated from ERG School of Graphic Research Brussels in 1998 and has exhibited extensively since then. His work has been shown at institutions including Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Art Sonje Center in Seoul, and is in the collections of France’s Fond National d’Art Contemporain and Belgium’s Musée d’Ixelles. He has exhibited with leading galleries including Karma and Almine Rech.