Exhibition "Tales and Legends"
Town Hall of the 6th arrondissement of Paris
Exhibitions
From January 16 to February 7, 2026, Marc Louwers will present a unique binding at the Paris 6th arrondissement town hall as part of the "Tales and Legends" exhibition organized by ARA France (Amis de la Reliure d’Art).
Binding presented: « Contes magiques » based on the Chinese text by P'OU SOUNG-LIN. Author: Louis Lalloy. Published by L'édition d'art Paris. 1925
Full leather binding in goatskin.
Exhibition "New Pioneers, Know-How and Entrepreneurship"
The Lead Tower in Brussels
From September 30 to October 2, 2025, Marc Louwers presented a set of bindings as part of the exhibition "New Pioneers, Know-how and Entrepreneurship" organized by the city of Brussels at the Tour à Plomb, rue de l’abattoir 24 in 1000 Brussels.
Exhibition "Around Music"
Kamer Negen in Rixensart
Marc Louwers presented his bindings "The hundred masterpieces of the history of sound" from July 27 to August 18, 2024 as part of the exhibition "Around Music" at Kamer 9 in Rixensart (organized and curated by Baudouin Oosterlynck).
Exhibition "Bound Poetry"
"Les Arsenaux" Media Library, Valais-Sion, Switzerland
From January 18 to March 15, 2025, Marc Louwers presented a unique binding at the Les Arsenaux Valais-Sion media library in Switzerland as part of the "Bound Poetry" exhibition organized by ARA Suisse (Friends of Artful Bookbinding), which showcased 50 unique bindings of poetry books.
Binding presented:
Book: "Le dit de la renarde" engravings by Chris Delville illustrated with text by François Emmanuel
Published by Esperluète in Neuville-sur-Mehaigne, 2023
Copt-style sewn binding with paper covers and an original engraving by Chris Delville
Dimensions: 190mm x 110mm x 18mm
Exhibition "Eternal Egypt"
Beloeil Castle Library, July and August 2024
From June 30 to September 1, 2024, Marc Louwers participated in the exhibition of contemporary bookbindings on the theme of "Eternal Egypt" in the library of Beloeil Castle in Belgium.
Binding presented: "Grammaire égyptienne" by J.F. Champollion the Younger. Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, publisher, 1836.
Unique facsimile printed by the bookbinder on Ingres paper.
Exhibition "Books in Hand, Small Bound Formats"
Town Hall of the 6th arrondissement of Paris
From August 30 to September 20, 2023, Marc Louwers presented a binding on a text he himself wrote on the history of the game of chess.
Exhibition "Design-a-book: Research and Creation in Belgium"
Wittockiana Library in Brussels
From February 12 to April 30, 2023, the binding "Ekos and its Lectern," created for the book Ekos by Marc Louwers, was selected for this exhibition on new trends in bookbinding in Belgium.
This first major exhibition established Marc Louwers in the world of bookbinding in Belgium, alongside other established bookbinders.
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