English:Lafleur & Bogaert(Q1592886)

The Lafleur & Bogaert duo brings together two distinct worlds. Michel Lafleur, a Haitian portrait painter locally known for his elaborate decorations in Port-au-Prince barbershops, originally trained to paint the façades of tap taps, Port-au-Prince’s famously ornate small buses. Tom Bogaert is a Belgian artist, formerly a human rights lawyer with extensive experience in Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.

Working together since 2013, the two artists would likely never have met without The Ghetto Biennale, a creative institution launched in 2009 that pairs international artists with artists from the Grand Rue neighborhood, gathered in a group known as Atis Rezistans (resistance artists

Lafleur & Bogaert gained international recognition for their acclaimed projects with Atis Rezistans / Ghetto Biennale at Documenta 15 in the St. Kunigundis church, receiving enthusiastic praise from both international and local media. In 2023, their work contributed to Atis Rezistans / Ghetto Biennale being awarded Exhibition of the Year by the International Association of Art Critics in Germany.

At the invitation of Sammy Baloji, Lafleur & Bogaert participated in the 2024 edition of the Biennale of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their subsequent retrospective exhibition at the Verbeke Foundation in Belgium featured selected collaborative works spanning from 2013 to the present.

Lafleur & Bogaert received a project subsidy from the Flemish government in Belgium for both 2025 and 2026. In addition, they have been named 2025 Artistic Research Initiative (ARI) Fellows, supported by the Mellon Foundation at Duke University in the United States.

In 2025, alongside their debut U.S. solo exhibition at Frosch & Co Gallery in New York City—where it received a glowing review in The Brooklyn Rail — highlights include their participation in the International Triennale of Textile in Łódź, Poland; Toxic Lands, Living Narratives at Galerie Imane Farès in Paris; and solo presentations of their J’aime RD Congo project in Kolwezi and Mbuji-Mayi, both in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Opening in January 2026, Lafleur & Bogaert will participate in the 6th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India. They are also honored to have been invited to present a solo exhibition at the White Cube of the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) in Lusanga, DR Congo, in May 2026.