The career of Michel Majerus was as brief as it was prolific. Majerus was 35 when he died in a plane crash in November 2002. By then, he’d already shown his work at the Kunsthalle Basel and the Venice Biennale. Despite only living in the U.S. for a year—in 2000, during an artist residency in Los Angeles—Majerus borrowed heavily from American consumer culture, touching on themes of celebrity, technology, and youth. This exhibition, marking the 20th anniversary of his death, examines the early development of Majerus. “We show 80 paintings, out of maybe 200 that he produced since let’s say 89 to 1995, 1996,” the curator Krist Gruijthuijsen explains. “His interest was everything that you normally consider to be low art, or things that you occupy yourself with, through television, computer games, advertisement … things you have around you, but he actually cut things out of that and then blew them up and made you aware of those kind of characters that we surround ourselves with.” —Elena Clavarino