Jean Glibert

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Jean Glibert (1938–2024, Belgium) was a pioneering Belgian painter whose work over more than five decades explored the integration of color, architecture, and public space. Deeply invested in the everyday environments of urban life - schools, staircases, metro stations, streets, and public buildings - Glibert used color as a functional and autonomous element, shaping circulation, movement, and perception within built spaces. He often collaborated with architects and engineers while simultaneously maintaining a rigorous studio practice, producing paintings, drawings, sculptures, and studies that informed his large-scale interventions. Among the works integrated within public architecture, we mention the ones in Bockstael Station and Pont du Midi (both in Brussels), and Frans Masereel Centre in Kasterlee. An important retrospective exhibition took place in Bozar Brussels in the end of 2017.