Maryam Najd (1965) has roots in Tehran, but since 1992 Antwerp has been both her home and her workplace. Her work ranges from purely abstract — using subtle colour gradients — to thematically figurative. What at first appear to be divergent concerns turn out to be two sides of the same coin.

In 2022, Mahsa Amini dies in her cell after being arrested for improperly wearing her hijab. Her death sparks months of protests in Iran, inspiring Maryam Najd to create the Nation Wide Protest (2023). The series depicts women’s hairstyles on a wig stand; the faces are absent, leaving only the hair to speak to the woman’s identity.

Maryam Najd, Nation Wide Protest – Hannaneh, 2023

30 x 40 cm, giclée print
Edition of 15 + 5 AP
Signed and numbered by the artist

€ 750 (incl. VAT)

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For GLEAN 5, Kendell Geers provided the cover edition. His contribution draws on nearly forty years of research into Duchamp's three-month visit to Munich in 1912, which the French artist described as the moment of his 'total liberation'. According to Geers' findings, Duchamp's stay in Germany was nothing less than a catalyst that changed the course of art history.

Kendell Geers, Le Vrai Faucon, 2024

Inkjet on acetate and 300gr. Lessebo paper
45 x 33 cm
Edition of 20 + 2 Aps
Signed and numbered by the artist

€ 1 500 (incl. VAT)

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For more than 30 years, Bénédicte Lobelle has been quietly working on a body of work centred on painting and ceramics. At GLEAN’s request, she created a series of five unique vases ornamented with flower motifs and mysterious half-animal, half-human figurines. The imaginary forms depicted on the vases reflect themes that appear in Lobelle’s drawings and paintings: an enchanted world of colourful creatures.

Bénédicte Lobelle, enivré, we, bloom, equinox, many me, 2024

Painted ceramics
24 cm
Series of 5 unique works
Signed and numbered by the artist

€ 1 750 per edition (incl. VAT)

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Ced’art Tamasala (1986, Likasi) is an artist and co-founder of CATPC (Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise). Tamasala’s drawings and sculptures have been exhibited internationally. At a conference co-organised by the Ruskin School of Art at the Mori Art Museum in 2018, Tamasala called for the repatriation of Congolese artworks held in museum collections around the world to the plantations of the DRC.

Ced’art Tamasala and CATPC, Untitled, 2023

Giclée print
70 x 100 cm
Edition of 15 + 2 APs
Signed and numbered by the artist

€ 750 per edition (incl. VAT)

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The images of Hana Miletić's edition are source material she uses as inspiration for her textile works: ‘To humour my weaving teacher, I brought some of my old photographs to class and said I would weave what is depicted on them: repairs and transformations, small and big, using materials like tape, plastic and cardboard, applied to buildings, infrastructure and vehicles. That is what I have been doing ever since, and what I want to do for the rest of my life.’

Hana Miletić, Materials, Brussels, 2023

Digital print on glossy paper
10 x 15 cm
Edition of 1/1 (series of 17 different images) + 17 APs
Signed and numbered by the artist

€ 500 per edition or € 7 500 for a set of 17
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‘This photograph was taken in the studio: rays of light fall straight onto 1 framed photograph hanging on the wall, waiting to leave for an exhibition. In this ephemeral moment, I photograph the photograph. I was delighted with the resulting image, which put the surface of the paper, the bouquet and the studio window on a single plane. Later, a test of this image is rephotographed in the evening light in the studio, the image of the back cover.’

Marie José Burki, Untitled, 2023

Colour print on Baryta paper produced by KZG Brussels
35,83 cm x 55 cm
Edition of 15 + 2 APs
Signed and numbered by the artist

€ 1 500 per edition (incl. VAT)

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Nel Aerts likes to explore the friction between materials, colours, the lovely and the disruptive. At the invitation of GLEAN, she explored the medium of lithography for the first time.

Nel Aerts, Pink D + adidas, 2023

Five print runs + manually added layer of Polar silver powder on Zerkall litho VI paper 300 gr. (printed at Hans Van Dijck¨Multiples)
58 cm x 75 cm
Edition of 50 + 5 APs
Signed and numbered by the artist

€ 1 200 per edition (incl. VAT)

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Last copies!

Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Like blooming in dry earth, 2022

Screen print (printed at Studio Vanpoucke)
Edition of 50 (last copies) + 5 APs
Signed and numbered by the artist

€ 1 200 per edition (incl. VAT)

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