My work is restless, provocative and self-critical’, he has affirmed. In 2008 he exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent. In 2014 and 2016 he showed his work in the Roberto Polo Gallery (Brussels). In 2016 he participated in Painting After Postmodernism. Belgium-USA, curated by Barbara Rose, at the Vanderborght in Brussels, the Episcopal Palace in Malaga and the Reggia di Caserta. His projects include the publication of the book Love Letters, paintings made by the artist over the years, love letters to Natacha, his muse, in gouache on paper. Each piece, as usual with Mannaers, refers to other creators, among them Picasso and Miró, the modern masters he most admires. The exhibition consisted of some 60 canvases and some 100 drawings.