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Michel Buylen

Explore the vibrant world of contemporary paintings by artist Michel Buylen, showcasing emotion and the sense of detail in every piece.

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About the Artist

Meet Michel Buylen

Michel Buylen is a contemporary painter whose work reflects a profound connection to emotions and refined artistic techniques, enticing viewers into a world of imagination.

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Paintings

Michel Buylen is a multi-faceted and headstrong painter, who never ceases to astonish with both his amazing virtuosity and his new take on centuries-old subjects; such as the nude (or the naked?), the child, the landscape, the sea as an obligate abstraction and the portrait as compromise and confrontation.

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Art Exhibitions

Work by Michel Buylen is held in various public collections. He has been selected for the collections of The Flemish Community (long-term loan to MuZee Ostend);
Elzenveld, Antwerp;
ING Insurance;
Groupe Courtois; Province of East-Flanders;
Galerie De Zwarte Panter;
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent;
Ghent University (Rectory);
Liedts-Meesen Foundation;
KVAB, Paleis der Academiën, Brussels;
KU Leuven, Law-faculty;
MUDEL (Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek).

Michel Buylen in print

Making My past

The book Michel Buylen Making My Past, with texts by Wim Lammertijn, Maximiliaan Martens and Paul Huvenne, designed by Thomas Soete and published by Uitgeverij Hannibal, is published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in mudel in Deinze from 26 June to 21 September 2021. Discover more publications here.

Living art

Paintings in every day life

Art doesn’t have to be elitist. In 2015, Michel Buylen designed this shopping bag for the retail chain SPAR.

“Lorsque je regarde une oeuvre de Michel Buylen, je retrouve les grands flamands du dixseptième siècle…”