The Artist Who Wanted to Be a Detective
The exhibition unfolds as a veritable treasure hunt. Portraits of key figures come into play, and hidden among the many objects, documents, etchings, drawings and paintings are clues waiting to be discovered. Mysterious traces lead you through ruins, castles and battlefields, until you finally come face to face with Broucke’s timeless anti-war painting My Guernica – a poignant contemporary reinterpretation of Picasso’s renowned masterpiece.
Broucke invites you to join the hunt, to make connections and, above all, to look closely. What can images tell us? What is real and what is fake? Is there a code concealed within the paintings? What secrets are waiting to be revealed? Does the truth lie in the folds of history?
Moving between grim seriousness and playful humour, you begin to adopt the artist’s idiosyncratic view of the world. Gradually, unexpected connections emerge between My Guernica and the Just Judges. Through this historical sensation, you find yourself in the burning present. Perhaps the solution lies somewhere between anger and hope? And who knows, could it even bring us closer to resolving the mystery of the stolen panel?
Ik denk dat het centraal gegeven in mijn werk historisch onderzoek en reconstructie is. En verder zoeken naar absolute romantische schoonheid. En dan natuurlijk de onmogelijke combinatie van beide.
In de pers
- Kunstenaar die detective wil zijn, houdt kunstzinnige speurtocht naar gestolen paneel van 'Lam Gods' (VRT NWS, 8/4/2026)
- “De kunstenaar die detective wilde zijn”: nieuwe expo volgt speurtocht van Koen Broucke naar gestolen Lam Gods-paneel (Het Laatste Nieuws, 1/4/2026)
- De meesterproef van Koen Broucke (ZOUT magazine, 1/4/2026)
- Koen Broucke op zoek naar 'De Rechtvaardige Rechters' in nieuwe expo Sint-Pietersabdij (Cultuurnieuws, 31/3/2026)
