Mark and Marleen Deweer – Deprez founded Deweer Art Gallery in 1979 in Otegem, a village in the Flemish countryside. Bart and Gerald Deweer, their sons, now fully concentrate on the artistic and commercial management and stimulate the gallery's constant renewal and development. The team is completed by Jo Coucke and Dries Verstraete, both art historians.


In six to eight exhibitions each year, the gallery presents a selection of both upcoming and established artists from the international scene of contemporary visual arts. The main focus has always been and still is to present unique contemporary positions, without any restriction in genre and with quality and true meaning as the only guidelines.


Deweer Art Gallery has two exhibition halls at its disposal, one of about 200 sq. m. and another one of 300 sq.m. in surface, both lit by mild daylight and/or artificial light.


Exhibitions with a.o. Siegfried Anzinger, Stephan Balkenhol, Günter Brus, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Tony Cragg, Enzo Cucchi, Jan Fabre, Günther Förg, David Hockney, Ilya Kabakov, Panamarenko, Thomas Ruff and Mark Wallinger, often in an early phase of their (international) artistic career, have been climaxes in the exhibition program. Numerous group shows have been statements that proved the gallery’s audacity and originality.


In the past three years, Deweer Art Gallery introduced Matthieu Laurette (F), Benjamin Moravec (F), Enrique Marty (ES), Sergey Bratkov (RUS) and young Belgian artists Stefaan Dheedene, Koen Vanmechelen and Andy Wauman, each with a solo-show. Another young Belgian, Michaël Aerts, is to be introduced at the beginning of 2008.
To all artists mentioned Deweer Art Gallery was, and for most of them still is, a primary gallery.


Deweer Art Gallery is a member of the Belgian Professional Union of Dealers in Modern and Contemporary Art (BUP). Jo Coucke is member of the National Board of Directors of the BUP.





(above left : a view on Otegem from the gallery / above right: the main office, a work by Jan De Cock,"Denkmal 6AB, Deweer Art Gallery, Tiegemstraat 6AB, 2004" / under: views of main exhibition halls)