Denis Meyers is a multidisciplinary artist who graduated in 2004 in Graphic Design and Typography from La Cambre. He expresses himself through a wide range of media, including stencil, painting, photography, silkscreen printing, video, and performance.
For many, his name is associated with his iconic “faces” — visages born from bold areas of color and thick black lines. Since 2000, he has created more than 600 of these refined yet striking portraits, inspired by strangers encountered in the streets or by images found in magazines. He then pastes these portraits in hidden corners of cities around the world, starting with Brussels.
(Remember souvenir, Brussels)
Alongside his urban practice, Denis Meyers also collaborates with renowned brands,
charitable organizations, and public institutions, notably at the Cimetière du Nord in
Tournai. His inspirations draw from hip hop culture, skateboarding, comics, and cinema, as well as from the craft of printmaking, typography, and screen printing.
(Hopland street exhibition by Forwart Gallery, Antwerp)
Today, Denis Meyers continues to experiment and increasingly devotes himself to studio painting. His treatment of the line is closer to sketching than to graphic design. He works in acrylic, applying broad brushstrokes that allow for drips and emphasize the physicality of paint. The fine black lettering, sprayed with aerosol, takes on a soft, misty texture. Words and letters often extend beyond the paper’s edge, continuing from one canvas to another, even onto the studio wall itself. Finally, he combines upper and lowercase letters in an intentionally iconoclastic gesture for a typographer.
His classical training in typography provides a visual vocabulary that he reinvents and
reclaims as a core element of his artistic expression. Here, writing is no longer merely
a vehicle for meaning. It becomes a visual motif, animating the background and
unfolding like a decorative rhythm.