Linda Coppens

Linda Coppens is a Belgian abstract painter whose work is grounded in gesture, rhythm, and a physical engagement with paint and surface. Her earlier works often developed through sustained movement and accumulation, allowing energy to build through repetition and density.
In recent years, her practice has evolved toward a more restrained approach, placing greater emphasis on timing, interruption, and the deliberate act of stopping. These newer works preserve rawness and immediacy by holding gesture and color in suspension rather than resolving them.
Across her practice, Coppens’ paintings share a commitment to expressive presence and the visible trace of decision, exploring how energy and tension can be sustained on the surface without reliance on narrative or representation.

1998-2004 Drawing - Art Academy-Liedekerke, Belgium
2004-2009 Painting - Art Academy-Liedekerke, Belgium
2004-2023 Advanced workshops related to abstract art

Selected exhibitions
2025
DISLOCATIONS : GAP Artists Books / FRAG Exchange Project (California USA)
2024
Colors' emotions (Bassano del Grappa, Italy)
Gender GAP II (San Ramon Art Center, California USA)
Crossing Borders (Westbeth Gallery, NYC USA)
2023
Distance & Nearness ( Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Love explodes in red (Margian gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Frags & Flarden (Galerij Artisjok, Lier, Belgium)

2020-2022
Global Art Project (GAP) KNEE JERK II - (California, USA)
Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery (California, USA)
Gender GAP: The women of Global Art Project / Gallerie Renee Marie (Benicia California, USA)
Fragmentos (Global Art Project) - Casa de cultura de San Lorenzo (Madrid, Spain)
Crossing Borders USA (Global Art Project) – Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery (California, USA)

2017- 2019
Crossing Borders/10dence gallery (Global Art Project) - Ghent (Belgium)
GAP no/MIND Portraits (Global Art Project) East Village Art View Gallery – (New York-USA)
Gallery Sobo Bade - Dakar (Senegal)
Linéair, Dilbeek (Belgium)

2010-2016
A visual Conversation, Asse (Belgium)
RV Contemporary Art, Kortrijk (Belgium)
Espace Art Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)
Gallery Artstudio, Knokke (Belgium)
Fuchs & Associés (Luxemburg)
CASC Europe (Lu...