Thomas Lerooy

(Born) 1981 in Roeselare, Belgium
(Based) Brussels, Belgium
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The oeuvre of Thomas Lerooy is characterized by an inherent duality: it attracts and repels at the same time, it is recognizable yet alienating, it is humorous and serious, intimate as well as grotesque. Whether Lerooy draws, sculpts or paints, he is always searching for the limits of his medium or his subject. His enigmatic works challenge the logic of the viewer and leave the interpretation to their imagination. He uses recognizable motifs that he maniplates and thus undermines. In the last 15 years, Lerooy has made a name for himself with his sculptures and drawings. His paintings are a recent development that came out of a necessity. Lerooy stumbled upon the limits of his maniacal drawing technique and the constraints gravity imposes when working in bronze. He investigates and breaks through the codes of painting, which manifests itself in a tension between abstraction and figuration, sharpness and haze, structure and smoothness. They are light-hearted and charged at the same time, and thus put themselves and the reality from which they arise into perspective.

His work has been the subject of several institutional solo exhibitions in recent years, including Behind the Curtain at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium (2019); Vanity Fair at Gaasbeek Castle, Gaasbeek, Belgium (2018); Playground in Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2017); and Beauty in the shadow of the stars at the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (2015).

Lerooy’s work is included in public institutions such as TANK Museum, Shanghai, China; the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Center Pompidou, Paris, France; Province of West Flanders, Belgium; Belfius Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium, City of Brussels, Belgium, City of Puurs and City of Knokke, Belgium.

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  • Thomas Lerooy, Ear for you
  • Thomas Lerooy, For your eyes only
  • Thomas Lerooy, For your eyes only
  • Thomas Lerooy, For your eyes only
  • Thomas Lerooy, The Armory Show, Solo Project Thomas Lerooy
  • Thomas Lerooy, Peppermint
  • Thomas Lerooy, The Armory Show, Solo Project Thomas Lerooy
  • Thomas Lerooy, Eye am
  • Thomas Lerooy, Fade to Grey,
  • Thomas Lerooy, Fade Away,
  • Thomas Lerooy, Under the skin
  • Thomas Lerooy, If you feel more than butterflies in your stomach
  • Thomas Lerooy, Suspicion
  • Thomas Lerooy, If you feel more than butterflies in your stomach
  • Thomas Lerooy, Holy shift
  • Thomas Lerooy, Exity
  • Thomas Lerooy, If you feel more than butterflies in your stomach
  • Thomas Lerooy, Selfish shellfish
  • Thomas Lerooy, Can't touch this
  • Thomas Lerooy, Kunst In Puurs
  • Thomas Lerooy, Kunst In Puurs
  • Thomas Lerooy, Tower
  • Thomas Lerooy, Tower (detail)
  • Thomas Lerooy, Sunrise
  • Thomas Lerooy, Disclosure
  • Thomas Lerooy, Window Shopper
  • Thomas Lerooy, Berry Nice
  • Thomas Lerooy, Blood, sweat and pears
  • Thomas Lerooy, Convexe/Concave: Contemporary art from Belgium
  • Thomas Lerooy, Behind The Curtain
  • Thomas Lerooy, Moonlight
  • Thomas Lerooy, Behind The Curtain
  • Thomas Lerooy, dreamer boy
  • Thomas Lerooy, Melt
  • Thomas Lerooy, Behind The Curtain
  • Thomas Lerooy, Conversation
  • Thomas Lerooy, Make it Home
  • Thomas Lerooy, Behind The Curtain
  • Thomas Lerooy, Broken
  • Thomas Lerooy, Fernand & Pierre
  • Thomas Lerooy, Vanity Fair
  • Thomas Lerooy, Vanity Fair
  • Thomas Lerooy, Vanity Fair
  • Thomas Lerooy, Vanity Fair
  • Thomas Lerooy, René
  • Thomas Lerooy, Playground
  • Thomas Lerooy, To get her
  • Thomas Lerooy, Rock bottom
  • Thomas Lerooy, Play with me
  • Thomas Lerooy, Candle in the wind
  • Thomas Lerooy, Playground
  • Thomas Lerooy, Goal
  • Thomas Lerooy, Playground
  • Thomas Lerooy, Playground
  • Thomas Lerooy, Playing with fire
  • Thomas Lerooy, Playground
  • Thomas Lerooy, Remain
  • Thomas Lerooy, Playground
  • Thomas Lerooy, Leo & Paul
  • Thomas Lerooy, Tears
  • Thomas Lerooy, This bird has flown
  • Thomas Lerooy, Fall For Gravity
  • Thomas Lerooy, Mir ist das Leben lieber. Sammlung Reydan Weiss
  • Thomas Lerooy, Beauty in the shadow of the stars
  • Thomas Lerooy, Beauty in the shadow of the stars
  • Thomas Lerooy, Beauty in the shadow of the stars
  • Thomas Lerooy, Beauty in the Shadow of the Stars
  • Thomas Lerooy, Beauty in the shadow of the stars
  • Thomas Lerooy, Embrace
  • Thomas Lerooy, Beauty in the shadow of the stars
  • Thomas Lerooy, Think Twice
  • Thomas Lerooy, Dreamer
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  • Thomas Lerooy, You Were On My Mind
  • Thomas Lerooy, Seduction of Destruction
  • Thomas Lerooy, Speaking in Tongues
  • Thomas Lerooy, Destroy Everything You Touch
  • Thomas Lerooy, I Don't Need Me
  • Thomas Lerooy, State of Mind
  • Thomas Lerooy, Delicious
  • Thomas Lerooy, Inside
  • Thomas Lerooy, Need in Me
  • Thomas Lerooy, X & Y
  • Thomas Lerooy, X & Y
  • Thomas Lerooy, All Is Full Of Love
  • Thomas Lerooy, The Kiss
  • Thomas Lerooy, Split
  • Thomas Lerooy, My First Love
  • Thomas Lerooy, Something in between
  • Thomas Lerooy, Something in between
  • Thomas Lerooy, Hole in the Sky
  • Thomas Lerooy, Me, Myself and I
  • Thomas Lerooy, Braindance
  • Thomas Lerooy, Braindance
  • Thomas Lerooy, Braindance
  • Thomas Lerooy, Not Enough Brain to Survive
  • Thomas Lerooy, Crash
  • Thomas Lerooy, Infini

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