Hadrien Marteaux

Disappearing

June 13 – June 28, 2026

Vernissage + performance - Saturday June 13 (16h-19h)

Gallery Nostrum heralds the start of summer with a solo exhibition and performance by Belgian born, Brussels based artist, Hadrien Marteaux. 

Formed as a painter at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, Hadrien Marteaux now develops a drawing practice centred on the image and its transformation.

His work draws from a heterogeneous flow of images — personal photographs, screenshots, found images — emerging from a world already mediated and partially filtered. Far from being neutral, these images are selected both by the artist and by the systems that produce and distribute them.

This double filter — human and algorithmic — constitutes the starting point of his work.

From this material, he engages in a process of reworking and alteration: the images are redrawn, layered, scratched, and laminated. The gesture is not corrective, but insistent. It is not about reproducing the image, but about wearing it down until it partially gives way, allowing something else to emerge.

Figures become uncertain, spaces distort, oscillating between architecture and mirage. What is revealed is never stable: it is an image disappearing as much as appearing.

The work unfolds through series, close to an editorial logic, in which each image acts as a fragment.

Together, they compose a field of variations where the very conditions of perception are repeatedly

reenacted.

Within this practice, there is no search for objectivity. The images are already transformed before

they are even worked upon. Drawing extends this transformation by making it visible.

What is at stake here is less the representation of the world than the experience of its mediation.

An image is caught in a slow operation:

scraped, reduced, laminated.

Its force diminishes as its surface grows fragile,

gradually becoming diaphanous.

What remains is no longer quite an image,

but a threshold where a trace persists.

A series of visual openings:

diaphanies.

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Please contact the gallery with any questions or for more information; gallerynostrum@gmail.com

For more photos please visit our instagram account.

WITHDRAWN

Comments on drawing – a group exhibition.

Remarques sur le dessin – une exposition collective.

June 13 – June 28, 2026

Vernissage - Saturday June 13 (16h-19h)

Coinciding with the solo exhibition and performance by Belgian born, Brussels based artist, Hadrien Marteaux, Gallery Nostrum will present the group exhibition WITHDRRAWN.

Presented upstairs, this intimate selection will feature work by 12 artists from 6 countries offering their unique comments on drawing.

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Parallèlement à l'exposition solo et à la performance d'Hadrien Marteaux, artiste d'origine belge basé à Bruxelles, la Galerie Nostrum présentera l'exposition collective WITHDRRAWN.

Présentée à l'étage, cette sélection intimiste mettra à l'honneur les œuvres de 12 artistes issus de 6 pays, qui proposent chacun leur propre vision du dessin.

Paricipating artists:

Simon Delneuville (BE)

Philippe Deman (BE)

Chris Dennis (UK)

Bart Dewolf (BE)

Antonio Franchetti (IT)

Shuto Komagata (駒形柊人) (JP)

Anneke Lauwaert (BE)

Hadrien Marteaux (BE)

Kol Taylor (UK)

Rallou Theodoridou (GR)

Lodewijk Van Bodeghem (BE)

Daniela Von Warberer (DE)

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Please contact the gallery with any questions or for more information; gallerynostrum@gmail.com

For more photos please visit our instagram account.