Current: Nous tournoyons dans la nuit, et nous voilà consumés par le feu, Trésor de la Cathédrale, Liège, 28.11.2025 – 29.03.2026
Upcoming: Au pays des oiseaux, group show, Galerie LRS52, Liège, 8.03.2025 – 12.04.2026
Past: La friche la galaxie, Centrale for contemporary art, Brussels, 09.10.2025 – 22.02.2026
Past: ESTRATTO FREDDO, On the Contemporary, Catania, IT, 2025
Michel Couturier, Poésie d'une dérive urbanistique, Flux News #98, Nancy Casielles, 2025 (pdf)
Se Frayer un chemin dans le temps et l'espace, L'Art Même #98, Clémentine Davin, 2025 (pdf)
Michel Couturier, poète du banal et du paysage urbain, Le Soir, Jean-Marie Wynants, 2025 (pdf)
Michel Couturier et la beauté cachée des choses, La Libre, Guy Duplat, 2025 (pdf)
Michel Couturier, le vidéaste qui faisait surgir le vivant des décombres, Les Inrocks, Jean-Marie Durand, 2025 (pdf)
Michel Couturier à La Centrale à Bruxelles : requiem pour un centre d’art, MOUVEMENT, Rémi Guézodje, 2025 (pdf)
Michel Couturier. Hommage, exporevue, Patrick Amine, 2025 (pdf)
Text : Tania Nasielski, Pieter Vermeulen, Marion Zilio
Design : Esther Le Roy Studio
French | Dutch | English
La lettre volée, Brussels
ISBN 978-2-87317-669-3
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Photography and drawings
Text : Conversation Michela Sacchetto | Michel Couturier
Design : Dojodesign and Studio Luc Derycke
French | English
96 pages + 16 booklet pages
Bruxelles, ARP2 Editions/Gent, MER Paper Kunsthalle
ISBN 9782930115450
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Drawings
160 pages
Croxhapox, Gent, Crox-boek nr 13
ISBN 9789076593135
Photography
Text : Raymond Balau
French
64 pages
Crisnée, Yellow Now, Côté photos, Angle vif.
ISBN 978-2-87340-236-5
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Michel Couturier (1957 – 2024) used photography, video and drawing in relation to sculpture, architecture and public space. He represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale in 1986. Since 2001, his work has questioned constructed and sometimes wounded or alienating space, but also the persistence of the landscape. He often did this in connection with Greco-Roman mythology and its survival in the contemporary landscape. In this respect, we can mention, among others, Un Euro at the Bureau des Compétences et des Désirs in Marseille, Battre la Ville at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tourcoing (2005), Corps de ville in Brussels (2008), Ennemis publics in Liège (2010), Coding/Decoding the Borders in Brussels (2016), Ciudad Natural in Buenos Aires (2019), Est-ce là le centre ? at La Comète Liège (2021), Atlas Chimérique in Paris (2023), etc.
His latest work has focused on port areas and their structures and systems for controlling the flow of people and goods, mainly in Italy. These investigations have mainly taken the form of videos and drawings. He has collaborated with various curators such as Laurent Jacob, Nancy Casielles, Rosa Anna Musumeci, Tania Nasielski and Anna Guillot.
His videos include the Bonfire series in Brussels, Berlin, Sofia, Venice, Valencia, Kortrijk and Geneva between 2006 and 2014 and his participation in No Border, no Distance, no Limit at the Euregio Film Forum in Maastricht in 2023.