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Evelyne AXELL (1935 – 1972)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Born on 16 August 1935 in Namur, Belgium, Evelyne Axell (n\u00e9e Devaux) grew up in a traditional middle-class Catholic family. Her father, Andr\u00e9 Devaux, was a well-known silverware and jewellery craftsman in the region, and her mother, Mariette Godu, came from a very modest family of watermen. At the age of two, she was declared “the most beautiful baby in the province of Namur”, and her beauty remained a defining characteristic of her adult life. Although the family home and shop in Namur were destroyed by a bomb from the US Air Force in August 1944, just missing the bridge it was aimed at, young Evelyne was little affected by the Second World War, as the family spent most of the war at their summer residence in W\u00e9pion. She later moved to a girls’ boarding school in Brussels, where the nuns taught her drawing and painting and encouraged her talent. After leaving school, she studied at the Namur School of Art in 1953. In 1954, she transferred to a drama school in Brussels and quickly began a career as an actress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1956, she was engaged to a wealthy hairdresser from Namur and was about to marry him when, on a train returning from Brussels, she met a young television director, Jean Antoine, who specialised in art documentaries for the fledgling Belgian television. They were married in Brussels in December 1956. She decided to change her name to Evelyne Axell for the sake of her acting career, which her husband encouraged. He cast her as an interviewer in “Jeunes Artistes de Namur” (1957), in which she introduced young Belgian avant-garde painters. After the birth of their son Philippe in June 1957, Evelyne Axell worked as a television presenter, mainly depending on her husband’s willingness to find work. Although she became quite famous locally, she found the job trivial. In 1959 she moved to Paris to pursue a more serious acting career. There she appeared in a number of theatre and television plays. She eventually returned to Belgium to star in several films, including three directed by her husband (Jardins fran\u00e7ais, La Nouvelle Eurydice and Comacina) and one directed by Andr\u00e9 Cavens and produced by Pierre Levie, “Il y a un train toutes les heures”. In 1963, she wrote and starred in the provocative film “Le Crocodile en peluche”, a love story between a white woman and a black man, also directed by her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1964, Evelyne Axell gave up her promising acting career to take up painting, in order to become less dependent on her husband. She took the surrealist painter Ren\u00e9 Magritte, a family friend, as her artistic mentor. Axell visited Magritte twice a month for a year, during which time he helped her improve her oil painting technique. Surprisingly, she became the only student of the great Surrealist master. At the same time, her husband began a series of documentaries on Pop Art and Nouveau R\u00e9alisme. Evelyne Axell travelled with him to London for the filming and met Allen Jones, Peter Phillips, Pauline Boty, Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield and Joe Tilson. Inspired by these studio visits, Evelyne Axell developed her own style of Pop Art, becoming one of the first Belgian artists to experiment with this avant-garde idiom. Although some Belgian collectors were interested in her work, private galleries were reluctant to show her paintings. It was around this time that she began to use the androgynous name ‘Axell’ professionally, in the hope that she would be taken seriously as an artist despite her gender, youth and beauty, not to mention the explicitly sexual nature of her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1966, her paintings Erotomobiles won an honourable mention in the Young Belgian Painters Prize. In early 1967 she had her first solo exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Shortly afterwards, she stopped using oil on canvas and began to paint on plastic, first on Clartex and then on Plexiglas, using auto-enamel. This new method became her signature technique, which she showed for the first time at an exhibition at the Contour Gallery in Brussels in the autumn of 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1969 she won the Young Belgian Painter’s Prize, no mean feat for a female artist at the time. In April 1969, on the opening night of her exhibition at the Galerie Richard Foncke in Ghent, she organised a ‘happening’, in which a woman wearing nothing but an astronaut’s helmet led the crowd through the room and dressed the naked woman. The French critic Pierre Restany was present and commented: “The Belgian painter Evelyne Axell has joined the company of women’s art with Niki de Saint Phalle from France, Yayoi Kusama from Japan, Marisol from Venezuela – and the list goes on. These women live their sexual revolution as real women, with all the immediate, unsurprising consequences: the initiative changes camps”.  The subsequent exhibition at the Templon Gallery in Paris was an ironic homage to him. Entitled ‘Axell, Pierre et les Opalines’, it featured a portrait of Pierre Restany surrounded by a series of sensual opalescent nudes – women without names, but each with a nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1972 Axell visited her uncle’s family in Guatemala, Jean Devaux, the creator – with his wife Marcelle Bonge – of the Guatemalan National Ballet. There she fell in love with the landscape and vowed to return. She had planned an exhibition in Mexico for 1973 and decided to move to Central America for a few years, where she had found a beautiful house in Guatemala with the help of the Devaux family. But just a few weeks after her return to Belgium, her life and career were unexpectedly cut short in a tragic car accident outside Ghent, Belgium. Evelyne Axell died in the early hours of 10 September 1972 at the age of 37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Publicly accessible museums and collections with works by Evelyne Axell :<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tate Modern, London
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Pinault Collection, Paris, Venice
Andy Warhol Foundation, New York
Mumok, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Museu Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Berardo, Lisbon
Fondazione Bracco, Milan
Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva
FAMM (Femmes Artistes du Mus\u00e9e de Mougins), Mougins
Mus\u00e9es Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Ixelles, Brussels
SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Le Delta, Namur
MuZEE, Ostend
Design Museum Brussels, Brussels
Belfius Art Collection, Brussels<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EXPOSITIONS – EXHIBITIONS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

2025
Groupe – Group
\u00ab The Woman Question 1550 \u2013 2025 \u00bb, 22.11.2025 \u2013 03.05.2026, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
\u00ab La Marrade \u00bb, 18.10.2025 \u2013 08.04.2026, LAAC, Dunkerque, France.
\u00ab Pop Models \u00bb, 22.06 \u2013 28.09.2025, Museum MORE, Gorssel, The Netherlands.
\u00ab Acquisitions r\u00e9centes \u00bb, 21.05.2025 \u2013 01.06.2026, Mus\u00e9es Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium.
\u00ab The Impermanent \u2013 Four takes on the collection \u00bb, 21.02 \u2013 05.10.2025, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
\u00ab Pom Pom Pidou. Un r\u00e9cit renversant de l\u2019art moderne \u00bb, 26.04 \u2013 06.06.2025, Tripostal, Lille, France.
\u00ab Conversation Pieces \u00bb, 05.05 \u2013 05.06.2025, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Power shift – Evelyne Axell & Allison Zuckerman \u00bb, 06.11 \u2013 21.12.2024, K\u00f6nig Galerie, Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u00ab Le surr\u00e9alisme : bouleverser le r\u00e9el \u00bb, 19.10.2024 \u2013 16.02.2025, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Mons, Belgium
\u00ab What\u2019s the story? \u00bb, 23.11.2024 \u2013 09.02.2025, KMSKA, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
\u00ab Attitude \u00bb, 06.07 \u2013 25.11.2024, Peiremuzee, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
\u00ab Si le coeur vous en dit. Artistes femmes au XXe si\u00e8cle en Belgique \u00bb, 21.09.2024 \u2013 16.02.2025, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
\u00ab Pop Forever \u2013 Tom Wesselmann &\u2026 \u00bb, 16.10.2024 \u2013 24.02.2025, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
\u00ab Love is Louder \u00bb, 12.10.2024 \u2013 05.01.2025, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
\u00ab Figuration narrative – Un autre langage pop \u00bb, 13.09 \u2013 15.12.2024, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art de Pully, Pully, Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023
Groupe – Group
\u00ab Forever Sixties \u00bb, 10.06 – 10.09.2023, Couvent des Jacobin, Rennes, France
\u00ab Plastic World \u00bb, 22.06 – 01.10.2023, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
\u201cBelgian Pop Art\u201d, 05.08 \u2013 01.10.2023, Maurice Verbaet Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
\u00ab Through A Glass Brightly \u00bb, 22.11 \u2013 22.12.2023, K\u00f6nig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
\u201cBorderline, between a line and a border\u201d, 13.04 – 05.05.2023, Kunstraum, Brussels, Belgium
\u00ab En Regard \u00bb, 01.04 \u2013 13.08.2023, Le Delta, Namur, Belgium
\u00ab Aplatitudes \u00bb, 03.02 – 18.03.2023, Galerie Vallois, Paris, France
\u00ab Les p\u00e9rip\u00e9ties d\u2019un centre d\u2019art contemporain de province (1979-2023) \u00bb, 28.01 – 19.02.2023, La Ch\u00e2taigneraie – Centre Wallon d\u2019Art Contemporain, Fl\u00e9malle, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab From Studies to Paintings \u00bb, 25.03 – 24.04.2022, K\u00f6nig Galerie, Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u201cThe Amazons of Pop\u201d, 22.04 – 28.08.2022, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
\u201cBelgitudes\u201d, 02.04 – 09.10.2022, LAAC, Dunkerque, France
\u201cFemale Pop : Then and Now\u201d, 10.03 – 10.04.2022, One Hour Ahead, Aspen, Colorado, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Evelyne Axell : Body Double \u00bb, 01.08.2020 – 31.05.2021, Muzeum Susch, Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u201cWitches!\u201d, 27.10.2021 – 16.01.2022, Espace Vanderborght ,ULB, Brussels, Belgium
\u201cImage to Image\u201d, 16.11 – 16.12.2021, Ku\u0107a legata, Belgrade, Serbia
\u201cThe Amazons of Pop\u201d, 02.10.2021 – 06.03.2022, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
\u201cDu COO \u00e0 l\u2019Art\u201d, 01.06.2021 – 09.05.2022, MuZEE, Ostend, Belgium
\u201cNo more boring art\u201d, 24.09. – 26.10.2021, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
\u201cOuverture\u201d, 22.03.2021 – 30.01.2022, Bourse de commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, France
\u201cEsp\u00e8ces d\u2019espace\u201d, 11.09.2021 – 28.08.2022, Le Delta, Namur, Belgium
\u201cCrush!\u201d, 21.10.2021 – 06.02.2022, Design Museum Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
\u201cShe-Bam Pow POP Wizz ! Les Amazones du POP\u201d,03.10.2020 – 29.08.2021, MAMAC, Nice, France
\u00abEnjoy,The mumok Collection in Change\u00bb, 19.06.2021 – 18.04.2022, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Evelyne Axell : Body Double \u00bb, 01.08.2020 – 31.05.2021, Muzeum Susch, Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u00ab Domestic Disruption \u00bb, 14.11.2020 \u2013 02.03.2025, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA
\u00ab She-Bam Pow POP Wizz ! Les Amazones du POP \u00bb, 03.10.2020 – 29.08.2021, MAMAC, Nice, France
\u00ab .be Modern \u00bb, 02.10.2020 – 21.02.2021, Mus\u00e9es Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
\u00ab Curated by Artcurial \u00bb,03 – 26.07.2020, Maurice Verbaet Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
\u00ab International Pop \u00bb, 15.06 – 15.10.2020, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
\u201cPortraits Forever\u201d, 25.02 – 27.02.2020, Tajan, The Gallery, Paris, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u201cEvelyne Axell, M\u00e9thodes Pop\u201d, 21.09.2019 – 26.01.2020, Le Delta, Namur, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u201c69, ann\u00e9e \u00e9rotique\u201d, 21.11 – 07.12.2019, Galerie T&L, Paris, France
\u201cWomen! Underexposed\u201d, 15.07.2019 – 01.02.2021, Belfius Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
\u201cKeith Haring et son entourage belge\u201d, 05.09 – 31.10.2019, Galerie Jacques de la B\u00e9raudi\u00e8re, Brussels, Belgium
\u00abCr\u00e9atrices – L\u2019\u00e9mancipation par l\u2019Art\u00bb, 28.06 – 27.09.2019, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France
\u201cTout est Pop\u201d, 16.05.\u2013 29.06.2019, Belgian Gallery, Namur, Belgium
\u00ab Private Choices 2 \u00bb, 01.05 \u2013 30.06.2019, Maurice Verbaet Center, Antwerp, Belgium
\u201cRestless youth\u201d, 08.03.2019 – 29.02.2020, House of European History, Brussels, Belgium
\u201cA Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women\u201d, 29.12.2018 \u2013 30.06.2019, Muzeum Susch, Susch, Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u201cEvelyne Axell \u2013 Venus, Leda & Mona Lisa \u00bb, 28.04 \u2013 27.05.2018, K\u00f6nig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
\u00ab Evelyne Axell \u2013 CHEESE ! \u00bb, 28.06 \u2013 28.07.2018, K\u00f6nig London, London, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u201cForever Pop\u201d, 14 \u2013 27.09.2018, Espace Tajan, Paris, France
\u00ab Beyond Pop \u00bb, Since 09.2016, Tate Modern, London, UK
\u00ab The 60s & 70s in Belgium \u00bb, 19 \u2013 22.04.2018, Galerie Antoine Laurentin, Brussels, Belgium
\u00ab Coups de c\u0153ur \u00bb, 22.11.2017 – 27.01.2018, Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017
Groupe – Group
\u201cExposition d\u2019automne\u201d, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
“De la collection\/Verlust der Mitte (Perte du centre)”, 20.05 \u2013 27.08.2017, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
\u201cThe Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest\u201d, 25.03 \u2013 18.06.2017, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
\u00ab Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power \u00bb, 29.04-16.06.2017, KIOSK Art Center, Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016
Groupe – Group
\u201cArtview\u201d, 21.04 \u2013 19.06.2016, ADAM (Art & Design Atomium Museum), Brussels, Belgium
\u201cBeyond Pop\u201d, Since 09.2016, Tate Modern, London, UK
\u201cManifesta 11 \u00bb, 11.06 \u2013 18.09.2016, L\u00f6wenbr\u00e4ukunst, Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland
\u00ab Sous le soleil exactement \u00bb, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France
\u00ab International Pop \u00bb, 24.02 \u2013 15.05.2016, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pensylvania, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015
Groupe – Group
\u00ab The World goes Pop \u00bb, 10.09.2015 \u2013 17.01.2016, Tate Modern, London, UK
\u00ab International Pop \u00bb, 11.10.2015 \u2013 17.01.2016, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
\u201cConnexions One, Art Belge de 1945 \u00e0 1975\u201d, 19.09 \u2013 20.12.2015, mvArtcenter, Antwerp, Belgium
\u00ab Pop Art in Belgium ! \u00bb, 15.10.2015 – 14.02.2016, ING Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
\u201cPop Impact, Women Pop Artists\u201d, 16.10.2015 \u2013 14.02.2016, Maison de la Culture de la province de Namur, Namur, Belgium
\u00ab La R\u00e9sistance des Images \u00bb, 24.04 \u2013 31.07.2015, La Patinoire Royale, Brussels, Belgium
\u00ab International Pop \u00bb, 11.04 \u2013 29.08.2015, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
\u00ab Noir Chantilly, F\u00e9minisme(s) \u00bb, 14.02 \u2013 05.04.2015, Centre Wallon d\u2019Art Contemporain, Fl\u00e9malle, Belgium
\u00ab Le fruit d\u00e9fendu \u00bb, 07.03 \u2013 29.03.2015, Galerie du Beffroi, Namur, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014
Groupe – Group
\u201c Femminilit\u00e0 Radicale \u201c, 21.02 – 07.09.2014, Museo Gucci, Florence, Italy
\u00ab RE: Painted \u00bb, 24.01 \u2013 26.04.2014, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
\u201c4 X 4 \u201c, 12.06 \u2013 26.07.2014, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
\u00ab Pop to Popism \u00bb, 01.11.2014 \u2013 01.03.2015, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013
Groupe – Group
\u201cAxelle Red, Fashion Victim\u201d, 26.01 \u2013 02.06.2013, Fashion Museum, Hasselt, Belgium
\u201cGLAM! The performance of Style\u201d, 08.02 – 12.05.2013, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
\u201cGLAM! The performance of Style\u201d, 14.06 – 22.09.2013, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
\u201cGLAM! The performance of Style\u201d, 19.10.2013 – 02.02.2014, LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
\u201cWarhol, Axell, un double regard sur les Sixties\u201d, 20.09 \u2013 29.09.2013, Cornette de Saint Cyr \u2013 Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
\u201cPop Art Design\u201d, 22.10.2013 \u2013 09.02.2014, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u201cThe great journey into Space\u201d, 30.04 – 25.08.2012, Broadway 1602 Gallery, New York, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u201cPop Art in Europa\u201d, 08.09.2012 \u2013 06.01.2013, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
\u201cFaces\u201d, 22.07 \u2013 29.08.2012, Palais Royal de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab La Terre est ronde \u00bb, 09.04 – 13.06.2011, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
\u00ab Axelleration \u00bb (retrospective exhibition), 03.07 – 03.10.2011, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u00ab Modern Classics \u00bb, 23.11 \u2013 24.12.2011, Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
\u201cPOWER UP \u2013 Female Pop Art\u201d, 23.07 \u2013 09.10.2011, St\u00e4dtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
\u00ab Threat \u00bb, 07.05 \u2013 31.07.2011, Broadway 1602 Gallery, New York, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Evelyne Axell, Images contestataires \u00bb, 22.10.2010 – 16.01.2011, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u201cSeductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958 \u2013 1968\u201d, 15.10.2010 – 09.01.2011, Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York, USA
\u201cSeductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958 \u2013 1968\u201d, 22.01 – 15.03.2010, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pensylvania, USA
\u00ab H1N1 Surviving \u00bb, 29.04 \u2013 29.05.2010, Contemporary by Golconda, Tel Aviv, Isra\u00ebl
\u201cPOWER UP \u2013 Female Pop Art\u201d, 05.11.2010 \u2013 08.03.2011, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
\u00ab Inaugural Group Show \u00bb, 21.02 \u2013 01.05.2010, Broadway 1602 Gallery, New York, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Evelyne Axell, le Pop Art en Wallonie \u00bb, 12.09 \u2013 12.10.2009, La Ch\u00e2taigneraie – Centre Wallon d\u2019Art Contemporain, Fl\u00e9malle, Belgium
\u201cAxell\u2019s Paradise, Last works (1971-72) before she vanished\u201d, 01.10 \u2013 21.11.2009, Broadway 1602 Gallery, New York, USA
\u201cEt moi, et moi et moi… par Evelyne Axell\u201d, 14.05 \u2013 01.08.2009, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u00ab elles@centrepompidou \u00bb, 27.05.2009 \u2013 24.05.2010, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
\u00ab Ingres et la modernit\u00e9 \u00bb, 03.07 \u2013 04.10.2009, Mus\u00e9e Ingres, Montauban, France
\u00ab Artists from the 60s \u00bb, 09.01 \u2013 04.02.2009, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Axell (1965 \u2013 1972) Entre Pop Art et Figuration Narrative \u00bb, 27.03 \u2013 17.05.2008, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u00ab New Acquisitions \u00bb, 08.10 \u2013 29.11.2008, Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007
Groupe – Group
\u00ab Pop Art! 1956-1968 \u00bb, 26.10.2007 \u2013 27.01.2008, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u201cEvelyne Axell, Die belgische Amazone der Pop Art\u201d, 26.01 \u2013 25.02.2006, Fernsehturm and Belgian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
\u00ab Evelyne Axell, Du viol d\u2019Ingres au retour de Tarzan \u00bb, 19.05 \u2013 10.09.2006, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art Roger-Quillot, Clermont-Ferrand, France
\u201cThe Sixties seen by Evelyne Axell\u201d, 04.10 \u2013 18.11.2006, Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u201cEvelyne Axell\u201d, 24.03 \u2013 04.07.2005, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u201cPop Art & Co.\u201d, 19.01 \u2013 06.02.2005, Daimaru Museum, (Umeda, Osaka), Japan
\u201cPop Art & Co.\u201d, 19.02 \u2013 27.03.2005, The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma), Japan
\u201cPop Art & Co.\u201d, 03.04 \u2013 22.05.2005, The Museum of Art (Kochi), Japan
\u201cPop Art & Co.\u201d, 29.05 \u2013 10.07.2005, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
\u201cPop Art & Co.\u201d, 26.07 \u2013 28.08.2005, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Japan
\u201cPop Art & Co.\u201d, 10.09 \u2013 30.10.2005, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
\u201cPop Art & Co.\u201d, 06.11 \u2013 26.12.2005, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2004
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Axell. Le Pop Art jusqu\u2019au Paradis \u00bb, 11.09 – 24.10.2004, Maison de la Culture de la province de Namur, Mus\u00e9e Provincial F\u00e9licien-Rops, Namur, Galerie D\u00e9tour, Jambes, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u201cThe 1960\u2019s, Painting and Collages\u201d, 13.01 \u2013 01.04.2004, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2003
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u201cEvelyne Axell 1935-1972, Erotomobiles\u201d, 04.06 – 19.07.2003, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2002
Groupe – Group
\u00ab Portrait en Namurois \u00bb, 28.06 \u2013 10.11.2002, Mus\u00e9e provincial des Arts anciens du Namurois, Namur, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2001
Groupe – Group
\u00ab La vie en Pop \u00bb, Galerie Seine 51, Paris, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Evelyne Axell, 1935-1972. L\u2019amazone du Pop Art\u00bb, 01.03 – 20.05.2000, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France
\u00ab Evelyne Axell, M\u00e9moire de Bacchante \u00bb, 08.06 – 30.06.2000, Iselp, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1999
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Evelyne Axell en de jaren zestig \u00bb, 07.08 \u2013 26.09.1999, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostende, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u00ab De Picasso \u00e0 Magritte. 40 toiles pour 40 ans de jumelage entre Biarritz et Ixelles \u00bb, 13.12.1999 \u2013 09.01.2000, Mus\u00e9e Bellevue, Biarritz, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1997
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Evelyne Axell et les ann\u00e9es 60. Un frisson de la vie (Het ruisen van het leven) \u00bb, 10.10 \u2013 14.12.1997, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts d\u2019Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1992
Groupe – Group
\u201cARTificial WOMEN\u201d, Galerie Cotthem, Zottegem, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1991
Groupe – Group
\u00ab Autoportraits en Belgique depuis 1945 \u00bb, 23.11 \u2013 31.12.1991, Maison de la Culture de la province de Namur, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1987
Groupe – Group
\u00ab Femmes artistes en Namurois \u00bb, 31.10 \u2013 15.11.1997, Halle al\u2019Chair, Namur, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1980
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Axell. Derniers dessins \u00bb, 16.04 \u2013 29.05.1980, Galerie Jacqueline Ledoux, Namur, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u00ab Vies de femmes 1830-1980 \u00bb, 16.10 \u2013 30.11.1980, Europalia Belgique, Banque Bruxelles Lambert, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1979
Groupe – Group
\u00ab De jaren \u201960\u2014Kunst in Belgi\u00eb \u00bb, 22.06 \u2013 26.08.1979, Centre d\u2019expositions Sint-Pietersabdij, Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1978
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Evelyne Axell \u00bb, 12.05 \u2013 18.06.1978, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1975
Groupe – Group
\u00ab La Femme dans l\u2019art \u00bb, Mus\u00e9es royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1973
Groupe – Group
\u00ab La V\u00e9nus de Milo ou les dangers de la c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9 \u00bb, 19.01 – 26.02.1973, Mus\u00e9e des Arts D\u00e9coratifs – Palais du Louvre, Paris, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1972
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
Cultureel Centrum, 12.1972 \u2013 03.1973, Arnhem, The Netherlands
\u00ab Axell \u00bb, 20.04 \u2013 10.05.1972, Galerie Contour, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u00ab La V\u00e9nus de Milo ou les dangers de la c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9 \u00bb, 12.10 \u2013 11.11.1972, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
\u00ab De Permeke \u00e0 nos jours \u00bb, 18.01 – 25.02.1972, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1971
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Axell \u00bb, 29.01 – 21.02.1971, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
\u201cEvelyne Axell\u201d, Galerie Flat 5, 16.10 – 05.11.1971, Bruges, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
\u00ab Tweede Tri\u00ebnnale \u00bb, 15.07 – 15.09.1971, Bruges, Belgium
Mention au Prix International, (competition), Knokke, Belgium
M\u00e9daille \u201cPrix Europe\u201d, (competition), 20.06 – 31.07.1971, Ostende, Belgium
Winter Art Show, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Klang, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Richard Foncke, Ghent, Belgium
\u201cD\u2019apr\u00e9s\u2014Omaggi e dissacrazioni nell\u2019arte contemporanea \u00bb, 23.04 \u2013 01.06.1971, Rassegna Internazionale delle Arti e della Cultura, Lugano, Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1970
Groupe – Group
\u00ab Images et signes de notre temps \u00bb, Mus\u00e9es Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
\u00ab Pop Art\u2014Nouveau R\u00e9alisme\u2014N\u00e9o Dada et tendances apparent\u00e9es \u00bb, 06 \u2013 09.1970, Casino Knokke, Belgium
\u00ab Le plastique et l\u2019art contemporain \u00bb, 02.06 \u2013 10.06.1970, Grand Palais, porte de Versailles, Paris, France
\u00ab Belgische Kunst 1960-1970 \u00bb, 04.09 \u2013 04.10.1970, Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
\u00ab Multiples \u00bb, Galerie Rive gauche, Brussels, Belgium
\u00ab Grand Prix – Jeune peinture belge \u00bb, (competition 1969), 06.03 \u2013 28.03.1970, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1969
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u201cAxell\u201d, Galerie Estro Armonico, 02 \u2013 03.1969, Brussels, Belgium
\u00ab Axell \u00bb, 26.04 \u2013 09.05.1969, Galerie Richard Foncke, Ghent, Belgium
\u00ab Axell, Pierre et les Opalines \u00bb, 25.11 \u2013 13.12.1969, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1968
Groupe – Group
\u00ab Alternative Attuali 3\u00bb, Castello Spagnolo, 07 \u2013 09.1968, L\u2019Aquila, Italia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1967-68
Groupe – Group
Galerie Accent, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1967
Individuelles \u2013 Solo
\u00ab Axell \u00bb, 20.01 \u2013 31.01.1967, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
\u00ab Evelyne Axell \u00bb, 13.10 \u2013 08.11.1967, Galerie Contour, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groupe – Group
Schwarz galleria d\u2019Arte, Milan, Italy
Biennale des Jeunes, Paris, France
XV Premio Lissone Internazionale di Pittura, (Prix), 29.10 \u2013 26.11.1967, Milan, Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1966
Groupe – Group
Mention \u00ab Jeune peinture belge \u00bb, (competition), 05.02 \u2013 15.02.1966, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
\u00ab Bo\u00eetes \u00e0 secrets, \u00e0 surprises \u00bb, 01.12 \u2013 24.12.1966, Galerie Maya, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1965
Groupe – Group
\u00ab Arts d\u2019Extr\u00e8me-Occident \u00bb, Galerie l\u2019Angle Aigu, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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