Aglaé Bassens
Biography
Aglaé Bassens, Rough Night, 2025, Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches (45 x 55 cm)
Aglaé Bassens (b. 1986, Belgium) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Bassens has a BA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University (2007) and an MFA in Fine Art Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2011). Her work has been exhibited internationally, with solo presentations at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY; 12.26, Dallas, TX; Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; CRUSH Curatorial, New York, NY; and Cabin Gallery, London; as well as group exhibitions at Gowen Contemporary, Geneva; STEMS Gallery, Paris; The Valley, Taos, NM; and Workplace Gallery, London. Her work is featured in New American Paintings No. 134 Northeast Issue and in 100 Painters of Tomorrow published by Thames and Hudson. Bassens’s works can be found in the permanent collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and Colección SOLO, Madrid, Spain.
Works
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Aglaé BassensBoiling Over, 2025Oil on canvas51 1/8 x 39 3/8 inches
130 x 100 cm -
Aglaé BassensPour It Out, 2025Oil on canvas51 1/8 x 39 3/8 inches
130 x 100 cm -
Aglaé BassensRough Night, 2025Oil paint on canvas18 x 22 inches
45 x 55 cm -
Aglaé BassensCandlesticks, 2024Oil paint on canvas39 3/8 x 51 1/8 in
100 x 130 cm -
Aglaé BassensHappy Hour, 2024Oil on canvas24 x 20 inches
60 x 50 cm -
Aglaé BassensNight Clock, 2024Oil paint on canvas14 x 18 in
35.6 x 45.7 cm -
Aglaé BassensNot Much to Offer, 2024Oil on canvas39 3/8 x 51 1/8 inches
100 x 130 cm -
Aglaé BassensCatty catty, 2023Oil paint on canvas27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in
70 x 100 cm
Exhibitions
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Aglaé Bassens
DOWNTIME May 25 - July 7, 2023HESSE FLATOW is pleased to announce the opening of DOWNTIME , an exhibition of paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist Aglaé Bassens, marking her third solo presentation with the gallery. Aglaé...Read more -
Aglaé Bassens: Emptiful
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami May 5 - November 26, 2023 INSTITUTIONALWith a practice rooted in observation and critical analysis, Aglaé Bassens creates alluring and poignant depictions of everyday life. “Aglaé Bassens: Emptiful” is the debut solo museum presentation for the...Read more -
Aglaé Bassens
The Feeling is Mutual January 13 - February 12, 2022Sonder: n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic...Read more -
Shifted Horizon
Amanda Baldwin, Aglaé Bassens, Natalie Birinyi, Sung Hwa Kim, James Morse, Alan Prazniak, Sarah Schlesinger, Lumin Wakoa July 15 - August 13, 2021HESSE FLATOW is pleased to present a group exhibition of contemporary landscape painting, featuring work by 8 artists: Amanda Baldwin, Aglaé Bassens, Natalie Birinyi, Sung Hwa Kim, James Morse, Alan...Read more -
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Sincerely, October 22 - November 21, 2020'Soon, objects take form and fall into place; in a little while, the vigorous, firm totality appears, and one tastes real pleasure in contemplating this bright, serious painting, which yields...Read more -
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You Can See Better From Here March 16 - April 14, 2018 CURATOR'S OFFICEIn England, the windows open outward. In France, they open inward. In Brooklyn, windows materialize on cladded walls, adorned with awnings and AC units. We peer into lit windows on...Read more
Press
Art Fairs
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NADA New York 2025
Aglaé Bassens, Xi Li, and Andina Marie Osorio May 7 - 11, 2025HESSE FLATOW is pleased to participate in the 2025 NADA New York Art Fair, with a presentation of works by Aglaé Bassens, Xi Li, and...Read more -
Dallas Art Fair 2025
Aglaé Bassens, Sarah Blaustein, Katie Butler, sonia louise davis, Kirsten Deirup, Lizzie Gill, Elizabeth Hazan, Carolina Jiménez, Alyssa Klauer, Sophie Larrimore, Xiao Wang, and Hana Ward April 10 - 13, 2025HESSE FLATOW is pleased to participate in the 2025 Dallas Art Fair , with a presentation of works by Aglaé Bassens, Sarah Blaustein, Katie Butler,...Read more -
Dallas Art Fair 2022
Amanda Baldwin, Aglaé Bassens, Kirsten Deirup, Quentin James McCaffrey, Lumin Wakoa April 21 - 24, 2022HESSE FLATOW is pleased to participate in 2022 Dallas Art Fair, with a presentation of works by Amanda Baldwin, Aglaé Bassens, Kirsten Deirup, Quentin James...Read more -
FAIR Presented by NADA 2020
Aglaé Bassens May 20 - June 21, 2020Featuring works by Aglaé Bassens, the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is pleased to present FAIR, built in partnership with Artlogic. FAIR , a new...Read more
Events
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IN CONVERSATION: Aglaé Bassens with John Jones
October 27, 2020This conversation explores thoughts about contemporary painting in relation to the work of Aglaé Bassens. It is transcribed and developed from an online conversation held...Read more -
IN CONVERSATION: Aglaé Bassens with Eric Oglander
Moderated and Text by Nicole Kaack April 7, 2018Cast in the cool tones of an overcast afternoon, Aglaé Bassen's paintings create stillness in close crops of quotidian scenes. Inscribing the gallery with uncertain...Read more
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