Jef Geys - Catalogue Raisonnable - MER.Books 2025

Art critics commonly describe the work of Belgian artist Jef Geys (1934-2018) as “unruly and impossible to categorize in conventional art-historical categories.” Despite Geys’ subversive and critical attitude towards the art world, this ambitious publication shows that his work is not only deeply engaged and socially critical but also funny and sensory.

Since the early 1960s, Geys had compiled an archive of everything he considered part of his artistic practice in to form of his ‘List of Works’, serving as his oeuvre's index. With a total of 844 entries, Catalogue Raisonnable is the first total survey of Jef Geys’ work. 

This first overview monograph of Jef Geys's work, initiated on the occasion of the exhibition You don't see what you think you see, at WIELS, Brussels.

Authors Dirk Snauwaert & Charlotte Friling

416p - EN/NL - 29,8x21,2cm - softcover - new