Axel Vervoordt Gallery was founded by Boris Vervoordt in the center of Antwerp in January 2011 as part of the Axel Vervoordt Company. From a focus on established ZERO and Gutai artists, we’ve evolved into a gallery that also actively promotes rediscoveries in ZERO, Gutai and Dansaekhwa. Over a period of four decades, our relationships with artists from these movements have continued to evolve and intensify. Our intention is to cement the importance of these movements within the broad and diverse landscape of art history, and to work closely with artists’ estates. As a strong supporter of these art movements from its inception, the gallery’s vision has gradually evolved into contemporary art with a special interest in artists whose work is similarly fascinated with the concept of the void, the physical act of creation, and the experience of space and time. We’ve started publishing monographs on our modern and contemporary artists, collaborating on landmark exhibitions, and promoting their work at major art fairs and in institutions around the globe. Axel Vervoordt Gallery was founded six years ago to highlight and promote our artists in the long term and to draw attention to other artists who share their core values. Despite being an intrinsic part of our company’s work in all that we do, we wanted to create a separate place where only the artist’s voice would be heard. The first gallery’s home to was the exact same space where Axel Vervoordt exhibited a series of paintings by Jef Verheyen in 1974 , a space built in the 15th century and centrally located in the Vlaeykensgang in Antwerp. This encounter sparked subsequent contact with other ZERO artists as Günther Uecker, and in turn, led us to explore Gutai. Six years after its founding, the next phase of our gallery’s journey begins. In the spring of 2017, the gallery has moved to its new location, the Kanaal site, in Wijnegem, just outside Antwerp.