DUO ACCESS
Filippo Moroni, Tycjan Knut
Curator: Louis Buysse
Location: Buysse Gallery, Zeedijk-Het Zoute 700, 8300 Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Date: 10 January 2026 – 22 February 2026
Buysse Gallery is pleased to present DUO ACCESS, a duo exhibition featuring Italian artist Filippo Moroni and Polish-born, London-based artist Tycjan Knut. On view from 27 December 10 January through 22 February 2026, the exhibition proposes a spatial and material dialogue grounded in restraint, surface, and perceptual depth.
Curated by Louis Buysse, DUO ACCESS reflects the gallery’s sustained interest in slowness, visual economy, and medium specificity. It builds upon the gallery’s recent exhibitions, including Abstract Transformations and Tidal Flux, while refining its curatorial rhythm toward even more reduced, durational visual languages.
The two artists presented here engage abstraction through materially distinct, yet conceptually resonant approaches. Moroni and Knut do not illustrate a theme; rather, their pairing generates a threshold, a visual space shaped by proximity, friction, and silence.
Filippo Moroni
Born in Castiglione del Lago (1996) and currently based in Milan, Filippo Moroni’s practice occupies the interstice between sculpture and painting. His use of expanded polyurethane foam, layered with velvet or textile coverings, introduces a bodily register to his minimal forms. These objects, compact, dense, and tactile, neither declare nor obscure, but instead sustain tension. The velvet, with its historical weight of opulence, is deployed as both surface and skin. Moroni’s sculptural works resist narrative; they instead construct presence through texture, compression, and a certain stillness.
In this exhibition, Moroni presents new wall-based and free-standing pieces that remain deliberately ambivalent in structure. Each object gestures toward figuration without representation, intimacy without exposure. Their minimalism is not stylistic but spatial, grounded in the object’s relationship to light, distance, and touch.
Tycjan Knut
Tycjan Knut (b. 1985, Warsaw) lives and works in London and Warsaw. His paintings operate within a language of quiet geometry, soft chromatic modulation, and rhythmic reduction. Known for a practice that spans bolder compositions to radical minimalism, Knut presents here a focused selection of works built through gradual layering and erasure. Acrylic on linen or canvas becomes the site of slow accumulation, a process where form recedes into perception.
Knut’s paintings are not inert fields, but atmospheres. Their apparent simplicity conceals calibrated relationships between tone, edge, and spatial rhythm. Viewers are drawn into moments of near imperceptibility, where differences between surface and depth become tactile rather than visual. These are works that insist on a slowed gaze and an attentiveness to difference.
A Dialogue of Access
The title DUO ACCESS is intentionally spare. It refers both to the exhibition’s structure, a shared space between two artists, and to the way each practice makes itself available: gradually, partially, without prescription. Access is not full entry. It is a negotiation. In Moroni’s case, this negotiation is between material and containment. In Knut’s, it is between form and atmosphere. Both offer thresholds, not declarations.
This approach aligns with Buysse Gallery’s curatorial ethos, which privileges observation over explanation, materiality over metaphor, and the viewer’s presence over institutional framing. Rather than constructing a unified theme, DUO ACCESS emphasises alignment through difference. It values contrast as a method of composition, a structuring of space not around what is said, but how it is shown.
Scenography and Spatial Rhythm
The exhibition unfolds across Buysse Gallery’s coastal architecture in Knokke, where light and spatial rhythm shape the encounter. Works are installed with negative space in mind, not as absence, but as compositional tool. Labels are kept minimal; interpretation is deferred in favour of encounter. The scenography allows silence to function as connective tissue, giving each work its own temporal duration.
The exhibition design echoes Buysse Gallery’s ongoing interest in hybrid modes, between the domestic and the institutional, between collector experience and public reception. DUO ACCESS is positioned as a room for looking, not for being told.
Belgian and European Context
Within the Belgian context, DUO ACCESS resonates with the country’s long engagement with concrete abstraction, reductive material practices, and formal experimentation, from the geometric vocabularies of Jo Delahaut to the post-minimalism of Marthe Wéry. It also situates itself within broader European legacies of material thought, from Italian arte povera’s affective surfaces to Central European spatial abstraction.
Yet DUO ACCESS avoids historicism. It is contemporary in its refusal to declare meaning. Its significance lies in what it allows: a quiet tension between body and surface, between seeing and staying.
