Announcing March Exhibitions

Raoul De Keyser: Remark

Austin Lee: Human Nature

M WOODS is pleased to announce the first museum solo exhibition of American artist Austin Lee (b. 1983) in our M WOODS Hutong museum, and the first museum exhibition in Asia of late Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser (1930-2012) in our M WOODS 798 location, opening in March 2020.

M WOODS Hutong

The exhibition Austin Lee: Human Naturewill be Lee’s largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date and includes three new major commissioned works: a public sculpture commission and two large-scale installations. Reflecting Lee’s creative process of producing artworks initially in virtual reality and later materialising them as paintings, installations and sculptures, the exhibition moves between the spheres of virtual reality and the signs and symbols that Lee observes in the natural world, to create a new experiential unity between the two.

M WOODS 798

The major solo exhibition Remark is conceived as an alternative survey following his recent retrospective exhibition, which was co-organized by Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent in 2018/19. Guest curated by Martin Germann, Remark contains paintings and works on paper from all periods of the artists’ oeuvre. This survey exhibition departs from moments of a historically crucial and enigmatic ensemble of painterly objects posthumously entitled “The Last Wall” (2012), produced during the last month of De Keysers’ life. In addition to artworks not previously displayed, the exhibition includes a dedicated gallery to the speculative dialogue between De Keyser’s works and antique Chinese artefacts from the M WOOD’s collection.


The exhibition Raoul De Keyser: Remark is supported by Zeno X Gallery/Antwerp, David Zwirner, and the Family De Keyser.