Jan Fabre | Mucciaccia Gallery

21 Feb – 12 Apr 2026

From February 21 to April 12, 2026, Mucciaccia Gallery presents Brain thinking models and drawings by Jan Fabre at its Cortina d’Ampezzo location.

The exhibition explores, through 25 works (11 drawings and 14 sculptures), the heart of the creative process of Belgian artist Jan Fabre (Antwerp, 1958), placing drawing at the center as a primary instrument of thought, experimentation, and knowledge.

Fabre‘s sculptures and drawings constitute a true visual laboratory, where art and science, imagination and method intertwine. The brain, organ of thought and symbol of consciousness, becomes a metaphor for artistic creation: a complex and unstable space, traversed by contradictory impulses, sudden intuitions, and recurring obsessions. In his works, Fabre investigates the boundary between rational control and instinctive impulse, between discipline and metamorphosis, between body and mind.

His poetics are founded on the constant tension between order and chaos, precision and excess, in a vision of art that becomes a cognitive practice, close to scientific research. The exhibited works restore the image of a mind in continuous activity, which constructs models to understand reality and, at the same time, to question it. The mark becomes a physical trace of thought, a repeated, obsessive gesture that sediments over time and generates visions.

The exhibition thus proposes an immersion in Jan Fabre‘s mental workshop, where the work is not only the final result, but process, interrogation, and risk: an act of knowledge that passes through the body, matter, and imagination.

Mucciaccia Gallery
Largo della Fontanella di Borghese, 89, 00186 Rome

Mucciaccia Gallery
Cortina d’Ampezzo
Roma