Self-taught street artist Jaune lives in Brussels and used to work as a garbageman. In his detailed stencil works, he pays homage to his own biography, and to the freedom and poetry that can be found in the “unglamorous” aspects of city life. Jaune first gained public attention in 2011 with his miniature garbagemen playing and celebrating along the sidewalks of Brussels in their yellow and orange workwear. As he knows from his own experience, garbagemen are mostly invisible to passers-by, and so he plays with the contradiction between visibility and invisibility in small-scale scenes that unfold below eye-level and that are too lovingly artful and funny to be ignored.

In the exhibition, his “mini dudes” can be found right next to the entrance. His work URBAN NATION Mini Dudes was created in 2018 outside the Project Space across from the museum.

On loan courtesy of the Gewobag collection.