The WALL
For 40,000 years, we have been painting on walls. Undoubtedly it is the most original form of painting.
From animal drawings in Sulawesi and gods and goddesses in Egypt to the Creation of Adam in Rome and illegal graffiti in the New York subway—time and again, art turns to the wall.
The Micki Chomicki Gallery grants 21m2 of this inspiring mural freedom to local artists. By stripping away institutional constraints, the gallery's traditional hierarchy is turned on its head. On the patio wall, the artist becomes gallerist and collector, curator and director.
Except for the whims of weather and time, there are no rules, no format, no system. The artist opens the wall with their own perspectives. New relationships emerge between interior and exterior, between tangible and conceptual, between connection and disconnection, between in and out. The wall stands in defiance of the art institution and takes us back to the roots of creation.
It is not a boundary, not a limit, not a marker—it is an invitation, an embrace, a liberation.
CURRENT WALL
BARTHOLOMEUS DC - “LIVE TRAVEL”
June 13th - September 13th
BARTHOLOMEUS DC allows chance to play a major role, including in his installations. In his studio, his works stand side by side with curiosities, all kinds of finds from flea markets or received from the artist's friends. He arranges and rearranges these objects, in search of the right composition, of the greatest expressive power.
Serendipity, or fortunate coincidence, is the gift with which Bartholomeus DC plays, in which his focus is unconsciously conscious. The results are, just as in his entire oeuvre, both surprising and authentic.
© Carmen van Geffen
PREVIOUS WALLS
TED GREEN - “FABRICATION”
April 11th - June 7th 2026
“I could tell you all about the influences that were filtered into this installation – of the westernization of Chinese symbolism, 70’s spandex fashion fails, glam rock, Rorschach tests – but it would be a fabrication.
I could describe in detail the random selection process that was used to determine the placement of each swatch of colored fabric on one half of this composition – but it would be a fabrication.
I could explain how a fabrication is never really a completely made up story, about how there’s always a grain of truth in every lie we’ve ever told – would that also be a fabrication?”
HILDE BORGERMANS - “DJ DIDIER”
November 29th 2025 - March 1st 2026
Didier was a DJ. He was destined to become the best DJ of the village due to his name. He was not.
There is the inevitable rhythm of words and the aspect of doubling. Referring to obvious aspects in the arts, DJ DIDIER is not just the boy from the village I grew up in. He represents something transrational that is bigger than the anecdote.
MICHAEL LAIRD - “MNEMOTICOS”
June 20th - November 10th 2025
Combining Mnemosyne —the Greek goddess of memory (whose name Aby Warburg appropriated for his anti-textual Mnemosyne Atlas)— and “Moticos,” Ray Johnson’s name for his cryptic, proto-Pop collages, “Mnemoticos” is a mural-sized, acrylic-on-tarpaulin triptych that stitches together imagery of prophetic musicians, early 1960's women’s hairstyles, theatre student rehearsals, Netflix screenshots, underground comix and military fashion in an alchemical attempt at locating affinities and glyphs inside visual culture.
FRANCINE MOYÉ - “MALEVICH WAS HERE”
March 22th - May 31th 2025
