About

Born in Antwerp, Belgium, AVG spent his childhood in Antwerp, London, and other parts of England. He later moved to West Africa and currently lives in Paris.

Important Exhibitions

2024 - Animali, Luigi Zuccheri e Compagni, Galleria Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne, Switzerland.
2023 - Yours Truly, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany. Solo Exhibition.
2023 - Une Histoire d’Images - Donation Antoine de Galbert, Musée de Grenoble, France.
2022 - Exhibition and publication, Musée de la Mode, Anvers, Belgique.
2019 - Insomnia Drawings - Louise Bourgeois, Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland.

2016 - Louise Bourgeois: Turning Inwards, Mumbling Beauty by Alex Van Gelder, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Somerest, England.
2014 - Meat Portraits, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, London, England. Solo Exhibition.
2012 - Line of Inquiry, Cheim & Read Gallery, New-York. Solo Exhibition.
2011 - TRA - The Edge of Becoming, Armed Forces, Biennale of Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy.
2011 - Alex Van Gelder - Louise Bourgeois Armed Forces, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Zurich, Swizerland Armed forces.
2009 - OUTLET, Paris Photo, Galerie du jour Agnès B, Paris, France.
2008 - Headshots, Galerie Praz Delavallade (Samy Abraham) Paris, France.
2007 - Videos, Antipodes07, le Quartz, Brest, France.
2005 - Leben und Tod in Benin, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland Life and Afterlife in Benin, publication, ed. Phaidon Press, London, England.

Important Publications

VAN GELDER, A., 2015: Mumbling Beauty Louise Bourgeois. New York: Thames & Hudson.

VAN GELDER, A. AND BOURGEOIS L., 2011: Armed forces. Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa.

VAN GELDER, A. (ed.), 2005: Life and Afterlife in Benin. London: Phaidon Press.