Wim Legrand (b. 1978 - Antwerp, Belgium) Wim Legrand’s work offers a playful take on the paradoxical strangeness of everyday reality, while commenting on our postmodern condition as victims to the barrage of information and news feeds. Mundane and forgettable objects usher the familiar into peculiar allegorical narratives, where past blurs with present and fact with fiction – setting scenes in a liminal zone, in the unfettered “now” of a dream, meanings just out of reach and continually open to interpretation. He combines painting with drawing, cartoons and pop culture with aesthetic references to North European history painting and Surrealist traditions – the post-modern world overlaid onto the art historical atmosphere in which he was raised. To date, Legrand has held solo shows in Belgium and South Africa and has participated in numerous group exhibitions across the globe. His most recent accolades include a group exhibition in Shanghai and his first solo in The Netherlands.
Select Solo Exhibitions
2026 Off-Script, kumalo | turpin, Johannesburg, RSA
2024 While you were sleeping, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2023 While you were sleeping, Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Hoot Hoot, Kamer 108, Gent, BEL
2022 Blue Moon, 99Loop gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2020 The Parafix, 99Loop gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2019 Twilight of the Vanities, 99Loop gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2019 Hunting Pink, 99Loop gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2012 Imaginary friend, DAM gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2011 Don’t wake Daddy, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, DE
2009 Constallations Tracé, Stichtung WEP, Groningen, NL
2007 Joris Olyslager Prize, FMC, Flanders, BEL
Select Group Exhibitions
2026 Between, Verduyn Art Gallery, Belgium
2024 33.55°S, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2022 Being & Time, Powerlong art gallery, Shanghai, CN
2021 Curators choice, 99Loop gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2019 NO END x 99 JUTA, No-End, Johannesburg, RSA
2017 Winter group show, 99Loop gallery, Cape Town, RSA
Select Fairs
Art Athina, Athens, GRE: 2023
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, RSA: 2026 / 2025 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017
FNB Art Joburg Fair, Johannesburg, RSA: 2026 / 2025
Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, RSA: 2018
Bennett Contemporary Art Fair, Cape Town, RSA: 2016
Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL: 2026 / 2025
RMB Latitudes Art Fair, Johannesburg, RSA: 2026