Adriaan Marin, The Artifact, 2025 (61.5 x 81.5 cm framed);
Adriaan Marin (b. 1997, Ghent) is a Belgian painter and printmaker whose work navigates the tension between memory, transformation, and the surreal textures of the everyday.
Trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Marin began with etching—building intricate, psychologically charged worlds that fuse allegory and autobiography—before extending his language into thickly impastoed paintings where faces, foliage, and ruins seem to emerge from sedimented layers of paint.
His works evoke a state of becoming, where form and matter continuously fold into one another.
Marin’s work has been exhibited at institutions including the Plantin Moretus Museum, Museum De Reede, and the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR, Brussels), and he has received the Frans Dille and Urzua Prizes (both 2019).
Adriaan Marin, Ummagumma, 2018 (40.5 cm x 29cm) exhibited at the Plantin Moretus Museum;
Recent exhibitions include James Ensor: Inspired by Brussels (KBR, 2024) and The Wunderwall (PLUS-ONE Gallery & Sofie Van de Velde, 2023).
He is currently preparing for his first solo exhibition at Newchild in 2026. Marin lives and works in Sint-Gillis-Waas, Belgium.
Adriaan Marin
born 1997 in Ghent, Belgium. Lives and works in Sint- Gillis- Waas, Belgium
Education
Master’s degree in Printmaking: Etching, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 2019
Bachelor’s degree in Printmaking, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, 2018
High School Diploma in Mechanical Techniques, 2015
Adriaan Marin, Het geschenk (avond), 2023 (30 x 40 cm);
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2026 (Forthcoming), Newchild, Antwerp
The Wunderwall,
2023 PLUS-ONE Gallery & Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp
2021 Een Goddelijke Interventie (with Kim Wey), Factor 44, Antwerp
2019 Adriaan Marin: Etsen en tekeningen, Antwerp
Adriaan Marin, Galerie Solo, Antwerp
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Spectre, Newchild, Antwerp
The Armory Show, Newchild, New York
2024 James Ensor, Inspired by Brussels, KBR – Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels
Aesthetic Echoes, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp
2023 FACE TIME, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp
2022 Group Exhibition Printmaking Graduates, De.Kamer Remak.ed, Antwerp
Oude Wijn / Nieuwe Zakken, De Warande, Turnhout
Adriaan Marin
2013 Till Infinity, 2025
Oil on panel
61.5 x 81.5 cm (framed)
2021 De Kunstwedstrijd, CC Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-Berg
Papieren Stad, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
2021 ONBOARDS Biennale Expo, M HKA INBOX, Antwerp
2020 MONO. Come Up and See My Prints!, Jakob Smits Museum, Mol
Billboard Project Antwerp / Quarantine Edition, Antwerp
2019 74ste Jaarlijkse Tentoonstelling Koninklijke Kunstkring Lucasgezellen,
SteM Sint-Niklaas
We’re Breathing Down Your Neck, Museum De Reede, Antwerp
To Be, Antwerp
Thank You, Come Again: Graduates 2019, Antwerp
De Curieuze Collectie, Ghent
Grotesken, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
Frans Dille Prize, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
Ithaka, Leuven
Prijs voor Grafiek Fonds Hilde Demedts, Mudel, Deinze
2018
Masterstudenten Vrije Grafiek KASKA 2018, Jacques Gorus Galerij, Antwerp
Ronse Drawing Prize, Ronse
73ste Jaarlijkse Tentoonstelling Koninklijke Kunstkring Lucasgezellen, SteM Sint-Niklaas
Awards | Residencies
De Kunstwedstrijd – 1st Prize, 2021
De Curieuze Collectie – 1st Audience Prize, 2019
Urzua Prize – Winner, 2019
Frans Dille Prize – 1st Prize, 2019
Prize of Fund Hilde Demedts – Laureate, 2019
Ronse Drawing Prize – Honorable Mention, 2018
Portrait of Adriaan Marin;
Collections
Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp
Museum De Reede, Antwerp
KBR – Royal Library of Belgium, Brussel
