GROUP SHOW WITH EVELYNE AXELL
LOVE IS LOUDER

BOZAR, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
12 OCTOBER 2024 – 5 JANUARY 2025

80 artists look at love from the late ‘60s to today, one of them being Evelyne Axell.

LOVE IS LOUDER explores the many facets of love, its tensions, and its various forms. Navigating between the personal and the political, the exhibition will zoom in on three dimensions of love: romantic love, kinship and friendship, and love in a broader social context.

© Image KÖNIG GALERIE

FEATURED ARTIST

EVELYNE AXELL

Evelyne Axell (born 1935 in Namur, Belgium; died 1972 in Belgium) began her career as a TV presenter, becoming a charismatic and acclaimed theatre and film actress in Paris and Brussels, as well as a scriptwriter. In 1964, due to the misogyny inherent within the film industry, she decided to quit her promising acting career to pursue painting. It was during the filming of one of her husband’s documentaries, “Dieu est-il Pop?”, that she met in London with Allen Jones, Peter Phillips, Pauline Boty, Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, and Joe Tilson. She then decided to embrace Pop Art.

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