PHILIPPINE D'OTREPPE

EDJI Gallery is pleased to present Coco Samba, a new solo exhibition by Belgian artist Philippine d'Otreppe, opening on Wednesday June 17th in Brussels.

PREVIEW : 17.06.2026 - 6 to 10 PM - 15 Rue du Page, Brussels

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The exhibition brings together a new body of paintings and ceramics developed following a six-week residency at Casa Voa in Rio de Janeiro in 2025. During her time in Brazil, d'Otreppe filled notebooks with drawings, photographs, notes and anecdotes gathered across the city and its surroundings. Beaches, markets, tropical vegetation and scenes from daily life became the starting point for a series of paintings rooted in her experience of a city where urban density meets a constant presence of nature.

Rather than documenting specific places, the works bring together fragments collected over six weeks in Rio de Janeiro, reflecting the artist's personal experiences and encounters with the city and the rhythms of everyday life that shaped her stay.

Alongside the paintings, a group of ceramic works extends the exhibition into three dimensions, expanding the visual world of the paintings into the gallery space.

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About the artist :

Philippine d’Otreppe is a Belgian artist based in Brussels working across drawing, figurative painting, and ceramics. She explores the mundane and the absurd with humour and sensitivity, drawing from daily life and the places she travels through. Her process often begins with discreet sketches made on the go - quiet acts of observation that later evolve into intuitive compositions, fluidly shifting between mediums.

Her paintings and ceramics dialogue with one another, blurring the boundaries between image and object, function and form. At the core of her approach is a spontaneous sensibility, where humour becomes a subtle form of resistance - a way to challenge established hierarchies and draw attention to what often goes unnoticed.

A quiet nostalgia runs through her work - not as a longing for the past, but as a reflection on how overlooked fragments of everyday life carry memory. With a delicate balance between observation and transformation, Philippine d’Otreppe offers a poetic lens on what surrounds us, celebrating the richness of the ordinary and uncovering depth in the smallest details.