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Brussels Gallery Weekend Brussels, more innovative and established than ever.
From 3 to 6 September, the thirteenth edition of the Brussels Gallery Weekend is being held in the Belgian capital, offering several days of cultural programming for art lovers, professionals and Opening night the curious from all walks of life. More than ever, contemporary art is on the agenda, with a wide panorama of artists represented this year: the exhibition Generation Brussels is an opportunity to Thursday 3th September 2020 showcase young emerging figures. Guided tours and online workshops also punctuate the weekend. from 11 am to 9pm Young and old alike are welcome! Public opening
An event adapted to all circumstances Friday 4th, Saturday 5th, Sunday 6th September Press Release 4 from 11am to 7pm This new edition represents a challenge, following a period of confinement and closure of the various cultural venues. The artistic season is therefore even more important this year, and Brussels Gallery Weekend is committed to transforming these few days into an event adapted to the current Brussels Gallery Weekend 10 circumstances and capable of bringing a dynamic to galleries and artists.
In numbers 10 In a particular health context, the measures taken by the government are maintained, while allowing the public to alternate between online events and those programmed in the galleries. The new website 37 Galleries 11 thus offers a large number of activities and videos, fully anchored in the digital world. It is therefore possible this year to follow the artistic season from home, or to travel and participate in the events The Program 12 offered on site. Conferences are unfortunately not part of the programme this year, and the meeting point in the Vanderborght space has been modified: several meeting points will be scattered throughout Galleries’ Program 14 the city, offering the public an itinerary through the different districts of Brussels. OFF Program 54 Generation Brussels 58 A breath of fresh air
Abstract German painter Franz Ackermann’s jubilant painting and mural installations will be taking Info & Access 60 over the Galerie Templon in Brussels for the first time, transforming the space into an explosion of colours. Picasso, who played a determining role in the making and spread of cubism, will be exhibited at Vedovi Gallery. Walead Beshty will have his third exhibition alongside rodolphe janssen. Greta Tours & Guides 61 Meert will be putting together a painting exhibition, celebrating the medium’s major role in the Schools & Youth 61 gallery’s history and recent program. Among other names: Latifa Echakhch, Oscar Tuazon, Claudio Stay in Brussels 62 Parmiggiani, Claudia Comte, Stéphane Dafflon and others.
Art for all
Our Partners 63 The Brussels Gallery Weekend has a strong social vocation, offering various partnerships and collaborations so that art remains accessible to all and responds to the need for cultural democratization. In 2020, two youth houses, L’Avenir and Port’Ouverte are an integral part of this The Team 73 project. Several young people will be able to participate in the event and be accompanied throughout this weekend of cultural activities. The support given to associations remains an equally central issue. This year, the non-profit organisation Le Pont des Arts will be offered artistic material collected by the BGW. Similarly, BGW Visuals 74 the IRSA, the Royal Institute for the Deaf and Blind will be at the heart of the Generation Brussels project, as the BGW is working on an exhibition of the works of the children of the IRSA created over the last ten years. This 2020 edition continues its partnership with Kunst Aan Zet, a project of the company Kunst in www.brusselsgalleryweekend.com Brussels Gallery Weekend Press Release 4 Brussels Gallery Weekend Press Release 5
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huis, which makes it easier to buy a work of art by a Flemish or Brussels artist. Purchasers have Van 3 tot 6 september vindt in de Belgische hoofdstad de dertiende editie van het Brussels the possibility to make an artistic loan, interest-free and repayable within a maximum of two years. Opening night Gallery Weekend plaats, met een culturele programmering voor kunstliefhebbers, professionals Vernissage Brussels Gallery Weekend en nieuwsgierigen uit alle lagen van de bevolking. Meer dan ooit staat de hedendaagse kunst op Thursday 3th September 2020 de agenda, met een breed panorama aan kunstenaars die dit jaar vertegenwoordigd zijn: de Donderdag 3 september 2020 Mobility from 5pm to 9pm tentoonstelling Generation Brussels is een gelegenheid om jonge opkomende figuren te tonen. De Van 11u tot 21u rondleidingen en de online workshops zijn ook in het weekend een goede aanvulling op het weekend. Public opening Publieke opening Jong en oud zijn welkom!
About Brussels Gallery Weekend Friday 4th, Saturday 5th, Sunday 6th September Vrijdag 4, Zaterdag 5, zondag 6 september 2020 from 11am to 7pm Een evenement aangepast aan alle omstandigheden Van 11u tot 19u The Brussels Gallery Weekend celebrates each new contemporary art season in the capital, highlighting art galleries, professionals as well as places dedicated to culture and its dissemination. Deze nieuwe editie vormt een uitdaging, na een periode van opsluiting en sluiting van de verschillende Organised by a group of renowned galleries, the event has become a highlight of the Brussels cultural culturele locaties. Het artistieke seizoen is daarom dit jaar nog belangrijker en Brussels Gallery scene, headed by director Sybille Du Roy. Weekend zet zich in om deze paar dagen om te vormen tot een evenement dat aangepast is aan de huidige omstandigheden en dat in staat is om een dynamiek te brengen in de galerieën en de kunstenaars.
In een bepaalde gezondheidscontext worden de maatregelen van de overheid gehandhaafd, terwijl het publiek kan afwisselen tussen online evenementen en de evenementen die in de galerijen worden geprogrammeerd. De nieuwe website biedt dus een groot aantal activiteiten en video’s, volledig verankerd in de digitale wereld. Het is dus mogelijk om dit jaar het artistieke seizoen te volgen vanuit huis, of om te reizen en deel te nemen aan de evenementen die ter plaatse worden aangeboden. Conferenties maken dit jaar helaas geen deel uit van het programma en het ontmoetingspunt in de Vanderborght ruimte is aangepast: verschillende ontmoetingspunten zullen over de hele stad verspreid zijn en het publiek een route door de verschillende wijken van Brussel aanbieden.
Een beetje frisse lucht
Het project Generation Brussels, geboren in 2018 uit de wens om jonge, opkomende kunstenaars die nog niet in galerijen zijn gepresenteerd, te laten zien, wordt gehandhaafd: het verhuist naar verschillende lokalen in de hoofdstad, van Munt Punt naar de vitrines van Lebeau, via de Galeries Louise en het voormalige BOZAR-loket, allemaal georganiseerd door de Belgische curator Evelyn Simons. Haar internationale ervaring bevordert een meervoudige verankering tussen de winkels en de stedelijke ruimte. Na in 2017 de tentoonstelling «Driftwood, or how we suraced through currents» te hebben geleid in de wijk Exarcheia in Athene, stelt Evelyn Simons een innovatieve en reflexieve reis door de hedendaagse kunst voor door middel van een toe-eigening van de etalages van de stad. Het publiek kan zo het werk van elf kunstenaars uit België en Frankrijk ontdekken.
Kunst voor iedereen
Het Brussels Gallery Weekend heeft een sterke sociale roeping en biedt verschillende partnerschappen en samenwerkingsverbanden aan zodat kunst voor iedereen toegankelijk blijft en beantwoordt aan de behoefte aan culturele democratisering. In 2020 maken twee jongerenhuizen, L’Avenir en Port’Ouverte, integraal deel uit van dit project. Verschillende jongeren zullen aan het evenement www.brusselsgalleryweekend.com www.brusselsgalleryweekend.com Brussels Gallery Weekend Press Release 6 Brussels Gallery Weekend Press Release 7
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De steun aan verenigingen blijft een even centraal punt. Dit jaar krijgt de vzw Le Pont des Arts Donderdag 3 september 2020 Bruxelles, une scène contemporaine plus innovante et établie artistiek materiaal aangeboden dat door de BGW is verzameld. Ook het IRSA, het Koninklijk Instituut Van 17u tot 21u voor Doven en Blinden, zal in het hart van het project Generatie Brussel staan, aangezien het BGW que jamais ! werkt aan een tentoonstelling van de werken van de kinderen van het IRSA die in de afgelopen tien Publieke opening jaar zijn gemaakt. Deze 2020-editie zet de samenwerking voort met Kunst Aan Zet, een project van het bedrijf Kunst Vrijdag 4, Zaterdag 5, zondag 6 september 2020 Du 3 au 6 septembre, la treizième édition du Brussels Gallery Weekend se tient dans la capitale belge, Vernissage Brussels Gallery Weekend in huis, dat het gemakkelijker maakt om een kunstwerk van een Vlaamse of Brusselse kunstenaar te Van 11u tot 19u offrant plusieurs jours de programmation culturelle autour des passionnés d’art, des professionnels et kopen. Kopers hebben de mogelijkheid om een artistieke lening, renteloos en binnen maximaal twee des curieux venus de tous horizons. Plus que jamais, l’art contemporain est au rendez-vous, avec un Jeudi 3 september 2020 jaar terug te betalen. large panorama d’artistes représentés cette année : l’exposition Generation Brussels est l’occasion de mettre en avant des jeunes figures émergentes. Des visites guidées et des workshops en ligne De 11h à 21h viennent aussi ponctuer le weekend. Petits et grands sont les bienvenus ! ! Ouverture publique Mobiliteit Un évènement adapté à toutes les circonstances Du vendredi 4 au dimanche 6 septembre 2020
. Cette nouvelle édition représente un défi, succédant à une période de confinement et de fermeture De 11h à 19h Over het Brussels Gallery Weekend des différents lieux culturels. La rentrée artistique est donc encore plus importante cette année, Le Brussels Gallery Weekend s’engageant à transformer ces quelques jours en un évènement adapté aux circonstances actuelles et capable d’apporter une dynamique aux galeries et aux artistes. Het Brussels Gallery Weekend viert elk nieuw hedendaags kunstseizoen in de hoofdstad, met de nadruk op kunstgaleries, professionals en plaatsen die gewijd zijn aan cultuur en de verspreiding Dans un contexte sanitaire particulier, les mesures prises par le gouvernement sont maintenues, tout ervan. Het evenement wordt georganiseerd door een groep gerenommeerde galerieën en is uitgegroeid en permettant au public d’alterner les évènements online et ceux programmés dans les galeries. Le tot een hoogtepunt van de Brusselse culturele scène, onder leiding van regisseur Sybille Du Roy. nouveau site internet propose ainsi un grand nombre d’activités et de vidéos, s’ancrant pleinement dans le numérique. Il est donc possible cette année de suivre la rentrée artistique depuis chez soi, ou bien de faire le déplacement et de pouvoir participer aux évènements proposés sur place. Les conférences ne font malheureusement pas partie de la programmation cette année, et le point de rassemblement dans l’espace Vanderborght a été modifié : plusieurs meeting points seront dispersés dans la ville, offrant aux public un itinéraire à travers les différents quartiers de Bruxelles
Un souffle de renouveau
Le projet Generation Brussels, né en 2018 d’une volonté d’exposer de jeunes artistes émergeants encore non présentés en galeries reste maintenu : il déménage dans différents locaux de la capitale, de Munt Punt aux vitrines Lebeau, en passant par les Galeries Louise et l’ancienne billetterie BOZAR, tout cela organisé par la curatrice belge Evelyn Simons. Son expérience internationale favorise un ancrage multiple entre les commerces et l’espace urbain. Après avoir mené en 2017 l’exposition «Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents”, dans le quartier Exarcheia à Athènes, Evelyn Simons propose un parcours novateur et réflexif sur l’art contemporain à travers une appropriation des vitrines de la ville. Le public peut ainsi découvrir le travail de onze artistes venus de Belgique et de France.
L’art pour tous
Le Brussels Gallery Weekend présente une forte vocation sociale, en offrant différents partenariats et collaborations afin que l’art demeure accessible à tous et réponde au besoin de démocratisation culturelle. En 2020, deux maisons de jeunes, L’Avenir et Port’Ouverte font partie intégrante de ce projet. Plusieurs jeunes pourront participer à l’évènement et être accompagnés tout au long de ce weekend d’activités culturelles.
Le soutien apporté aux associations demeure un enjeu tout aussi central. Cette année, l’ASBL Le Pont des Arts se verra offrir du matériel artistique collecté par le BGW. De même, l’IRSA, l’Institut Royal www.brusselsgalleryweekend.com www.brusselsgalleryweekend.com Brussels Gallery Weekend Press Release 8 Brussels Gallery Weekend 40 Galleries 9
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pour Sourds et Aveugles sera au cœur du projet Generation Brussels, puisque le BGW travaille à une exposition des œuvres des enfants de l’IRSA réalisées sur les dix dernières années.
Cette édition 2020 poursuit son partenariat avec Kunst Aan Zet, projet de la société Kunst in huis, permettant de faciliter l’achat de l’œuvre d’art d’une artiste flamand ou bruxellois. Les acquéreurs ont la possibilité de faire un prêt artistique, sans intérêt et remboursable dans un délai maximum de deux ans. Vernissage Brussels Gallery Weekend
Mobilité Jeudi 3 september 2020 De 17h à 21h
Ouverture publique A propos du Brussels Gallery Weekend Du vendredi 4 au dimanche 6 septembre 2020 De 11h à 19h Le Brussels Gallery Weekend célèbre chaque rentrée artistique contemporaine dans la capitale, mettant à l’honneur les galeries d’art, les professionnels ainsi que les lieux dédiés à la culture et à sa diffusion. Organisé par un ensemble de galeries reconnues, l’évènement est devenu un temps fort de la scène culturelle bruxelloise, avec à sa tête la directrice Sybille Du Roy. 38 galleries
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Arcade MLF | MARIE-LAURE FLEISH Meessen de ClercqC Anna Barham (1974, United Kingdom) Sergio Breviaro Nicolás Lamas ARCADE Luca Pancrazzi Xie Lei Archiraar Giuseppe Stampone Benoît Maire Anna Barham «Zenzic» |03.09 - 06.09 Simon Deppierraz) Théo Massoulier Galerie La Forest Divonne Jorge Méndez Blake La Patinoire Royale - Galerie Elsa & Johanna Chaim van Luit Valérie Bach Wouter Venema Berthe DUBAIL Fracas/ w Francine HOLLEY Anton Reijnders Mendes Wood DM Antonia LAMBELE Fernando Marques Penteado Gisèle VAN LANGE Galerie Felix Frachon Marthe WERY All the artists of the gallery Montoro 12 Isobel Chruch Ballon Rouge Collective Pierre Marie Giraud Bruna Canepa Yoshiro Kimura Jan Mot Ian Wilson Baronian Xippas Gladstone Gallery Lionel Estève Richard Aldrich Galerie Nathalie Obadia Seyni Awa Camara Carole Benzaken Tessa Perutz Xavier Hufkens David Altmejd OV Project Bernier/Eliades Gallery Lynda Benglis Sam Samore Martin Belou Thomas Houseago Almine Rech didier Claes rodolphe janssen Vaughn Spann «Sculpture» Tom Poelmans Michel Rein The Show The Gallery C.L.E.A.R.I.N.G LA MAISON DE REN- Anne-Marie Schneider Daniel Dewar & gégory Gicquel DEZ-VOUS Anna Barham will present a group of new works drawing on Gustav Flaubert’s novel The Temptation Arcade was established by Christian Mooney Margaret Lee Sorry We’re Closed of St Anthony, in particular the description of St Anthony’s hallucinations in the desert at the end of in 2008 in London and opened a second space in Damien and The Love Guru Eric Croes the book. Continuing her focus on the dense and rhythmic language she produces collaboratively with Brussels in 2019. The gallery offers a programme of Christiane Blattmann Irène Laub Gallery other readers and computer processes, the works will incorporate other texts, materials and images exhibitions and a constantly evolving platform of Gauthier Hubert Spazio Nobile using the description of St Anthony’s psychedelic dissolution of self as a kind of anti-structure. performances, live events, talks and publications. dépendance Lionel Jadot Alongside the exhibition, our new platform for publications Pete and Repeat will host Barham’s new Through this range of formats, the gallery aims to book Poisonous Oysters alongside a series of her other publications and edititioned works on paper. Henrik Olesen Harlan Levey Prokects Serge Leblon find new modes of presentation and to represent Marcin Dudek Anna Barham’s work explores translation, authorship and subjectivity as distributed forms of agency. some of the complexities of the contemporary Her practice is centred on a use of language as raw material - moving it between different bodies, art scene today; exploring new developments in Dvir Gallery Stems forms and technologies to create complex feedback loops between a subject and a system. Taking international contemporary art, across a range of Miroslaw Balka LMNO Misaki Kawai resulting material as a kind of interface, she uses video, text, print, installation and live events, to practices, media and concerns. Adrien Lucca Marianne Brenhaut Susumu Kamijo set up elliptical relationships between human and non-human others, words, sounds and images, Latifa Echakhch Koichi Sato that consider the audience as further agents in the production and transformation of ‘sense’. Recent Gustav Metzger MARUANI MERCIER Minami Kobayashi projects include Liquid Crystal Display, Site Gallery, Sheffield and MIMA, Middlesborough; Yet Franseco Clemente Hiroya Kurata as Yet, Fig Futures, De Montfort University, Leicester; A sentence can be ours and ours, Playground Galery DYS Festival, Museum M, Leuven, BE; This is a voice, Wellcome Collection, London and MAAS, Koenraad Tinel Galerie Greta Meert TEMPLON Sydney; Secret Surface, K-W, Berlin; and Nouveau Festival: Air de jeu, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Katinka Bock Abdelkader Benchamma Liam Everett 10 Rue du Marché aux Porcs Christian Mooney 1000 Bruxelles [email protected] 44 (0) 79 70 64 52 86 www.thisisarcade.art Brussels Gallery Weekend 40 Galleries 12 Brussels Gallery Weekend 40 Galleries 13
Archiraar La Patinoire Royale - Simon Deppierraz «HIT ! White and Black cube» | 03.09 - 17.10 Galerie Valérie Bach Five Belgian post-war artists (1945-1975):Berthe DUBAIL, Francine HOL- LEY, Antonia LAMBELE, Gisèle VAN LANGE, Marthe WERY | 04.09 - 07.11
White cube - Projet (photo-montage) SIMON DEPPIERRAZ Clavem 2020 Black cube- SIMON DEPPIERRAZ Swage 2020 Estampe sur papier 50 x 50 cm Dubail Berthe, Valse des rythmes, 1970, Huile et sable sur toile, 116x81cm Van Lange Gisèle, Zone, 1963, HT, 130x97cm, copyright La Patinoire Royale Pierre bleue de Belgique, acier, chêne Dimensions variables Unique copyright La Patinoire Royale Brussels Brussels
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After a two-month residency at the Boghossian Brussels Foundation in spring 2019, Simon Deppierraz Archiraar Gallery was founded in 2012 by After “Sculpting Belgium” in 2017, La Patinoire Royale - Galerie Valérie Bach is happy to present After much renovation, La Patinoire Royale presents his first personal exhibition at the gallery. During this residency, the artist collected a reserve Alexis Rastel, architect. The Gallery represents “Painting Belgium Abstraction en temps de paix”, the first big collective exhibition in the last thirty years – galerie Valérie Bach reopened its gates of forms linked to Art Nouveau and the richness of facade treatments in Brussels architecture. Two international artists from the upcoming generation dedicated to post-war abstract Belgian painting. in September 2012. First, under the glass elements stood out omnipresent, the work of stone and that of metal. The artist offers an exhibition in and shows paintings, drawings, sculptures, With this exhibition, the commissioners aim to reveal the incredible artistic abundance which mainly roof on the Faider Street side. Then in the two stages. On the one hand, the white cube is put under tension by an in situ proposition; on the other, pictures, videos and installations. The Gallery’s characterises the years 1945-1975 in Belgium, through painting, as the Prix de la Jeune Peinture annually different spaces of the former royal skating an engraving work records the memory of the gestures of the blacksmiths. The two moments are formally White Cube was opened in a brutalist building. discovers new talents, all destined to great careers. This generation’s painters are, for the most part, all rink, including: the great nave, the street very different, but they both refer to craft work, construction, shape, assembly, balance, strength - the Ideology of a neutral space, this volume of 3x3x9 born before the Great War; they are all eager for novelty, travel, they experiment and form a group of level, and the first floor on the Veydt memory of the gesture.The hammer is the tool that serves as a link between sculpture and engraving. meters questions our contemporary habits of unique creators. street side in April 2015. This cultural and The printing is done on a stamping pile which has been inked, the paper is affixed there then pressed, thus showing art. The Black Cube is its complementary commercial room aims to present group recording the shape of these magnificent anvils marked by labor.The in situ installation, on the other hand, space. Its enclosed space suggests an intimate The exhibition’s intent is therefore to honour all these creators, giving them a chance to find, in the and solo shows of artists from various seeks to flatten a keystone that would have no other function than to support itself between the walls perception of the work. With parallel solo shows, heart of the Belgian capital, a noticed existence, by confronting their talents in the midst of a large nationalities and generations in a program of the white cube. Wedges are inserted with a hammer to provide the necessary lateral pressure. These artists represented by the gallery have shown in palette counting thirty selected artists and more than two-hundred canvases.The exhibition’s general that’s simultaneous and yet diverse. two interventions are to be seen as tributes to the City of Brussels. Between the exploration of materials both spaces. The Gallery intersects the spaces’ commissionership is managed by art history Doctor Serge Doyens de Heusch, unquestioned specialist Alternating solo exhibitions of emerging and and the search for social and political balance, its history can be read in front of and behind its facades. programs and invites curators and artists to of Belgian painting, professor, ancient gallerist and animator of a contemporary Belgian art foundation, established artists, while rediscovering the participate in group shows. In addition, the Gallery strengthened with the advice of Nicole d’Huart, honorary curator of the Musée d’Ixelles. modern era through retrospectives of a more publishes and promotes artists’ works. With The exhibition’s scenography is insured by ART & BUILD, Architects historical perspective, the gallery makes each show, Archiraar houses resonating artistic the most of the monumental and modular projects. space of this historical monument ideally located in the heart of the European capital.
Rue Veydt, 15 Valéri Bach Rue de la Tulipe 35A, Alexis Rastel Veydtstraat [email protected] 1050 Ixelles [email protected] www. archiraar.com 1060 Bruxelles +32 (0)2 533 03 90 www.prvbgallery.com Brussels Gallery Weekend 40 Galleries 14 Brussels Gallery Weekend 40 Galleries 15
Ballon Rouge Collective Baronian Xippas Bruna Canepa | 03.09 - 29.10 Lionel Estève “Une histoire simple” | 03.09 - 24.10 Tessa Perutz “Châteu de Sable” | 03.09 - 24.10 Seyni Awa Camara “Maternités” | 03.09 - 24.10
Bruna Canepa, the head and the signs, 2020, black ink, colored Bruna Canepa, modern romance, 2020, black ink, colored pencil, graphite, letraset Tessa Perutz Path at Eucalyptus Trail #1 (Redwood Regional Forest, Oakland, CA) Lionel Estève Une histoire simple#6 pencil, graphite, letraset and collage on paper, 44x31 cm and collage on paper, 88x44cm Oil on canvas 100 x 80 cm 2020 Mixed media 90 x 60 cm 2020
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Ballon Rouge is excited to present Bruna Canepa’s exhibition “Modern Romance”, her first ever solo show outside of her Ballon Rouge Collective is a nomadic gallery. Since Albert Baronian and Renos Xippas are pleased to announce the sixth solo exhibition ofLionel Estève at the Art dealers Albert Baronian and Renos Xippas are home country, Brazil. opening in September 2017 B.R.Collective has gallery, entitled «A simple story». Born in Lyon in 1967, Lionel Estève has lived and worked in Brussels for more teaming together to found Baronian Xippas, a new Bruna’s work represents her studies and interpretation of three different structures: the “Ruin House”; the “Gas Station traveled to and put up exhibitions in Istanbul, London, than 20 years. Lionel Estève the informal and the fragile for the effectiveness of a work that directs the eye more gallery in Brussels. Located in the former space of House”; and the “Souvenir House.” Sections, facades, isometric perspectives combined with collages bring to life different Los Angeles, Brussels, Sao Paulo, Paris, and New than that is seen. It awakens the perception of an infinite reality by revealing an almost tactile palpable space Albert Baronian, the gallery is a unique collaboration modes of representation of already-known forms, volumes and spaces that are now being re-shaped, re-scaled, and re- York. Each of the cities we visit is stewarded by a between two major figures in the contemporary interpreted. While based in real-life references, experiences and expressions, Bruna’s intention is not to simply reproduce collective member. They are our ambassador to their Tessa Perutz’s artworks function as psychological landscapes, touring the fields and valleys of the earth art gallery world. Combining the strength of their their commonality, but to explore their potential in different contexts. She is not looking to translate the world as it is, city and the curator of the show there. Each artist as well as the inner mind.Sand, lavender, and hibiscus are commonly used materials, incorporated for 80-years of experience and expertise in the art world, neither is she playing with the absurd. Her work is not necessarily a proposal for the extraordinary nor an interpretation of we represent travels with us, ultimately working with their healing and transformative properties. Landscapes depicted include eucalyptus forests and ginkgo Baronian and Xippas join their forces, knowledge and the surreal, but ultimately, it aims to connect to our everyday mundane reality – with a different set of curious eyes. Bruna’s all of our collective members internationally. While trees, psychedelic coastlines, the far reaches of the cosmos, and other locations that transcend the human passion to create a new gallery that goes beyond the constant exercise in trying to understand how we see and represent the built environment, graphically in parts, dictates the we remain a nomadic gallery, we now also have a experience of otherworldly dreamlike exploration.The works are a testimony to spontaneous exploration: ordinary. This convergence will create a powerhouse aesthetics of her work: isolating elements in a white canvas; drawing objects she’s already acquainted with to better capture permanent space in Brussels, Ballon Rouge Club. pinpointed with anecdotes, hasty jottings and existential ponderings.Perutz’ oeuvre is shaped by processes on the Belgian, European and South American art their essence are some of the strategies that help her creative process. An extension of the Collective, B.R.Club is likewise of conceptualization and intuition, organically intertwining & informing one another. All the more relevant are scenes. Baronian Xippas will present ambitious not your typical gallery. Other spaces, non-profits, these body works during this time of Covid-19 and heightened coverage of racial inequalities and injustices in projects with the leading artists of each gallery -such curators, and initiatives will be invited to show at the America and beyond.The artist intends that these works specifically pinpoint the fragility of human life. as Darren Almond, André Butzer, Robert Devriendt, Club, and sometimes we will curate our own exhibitions Wang Du, Lionel Esteve, Gilbert and George, Robert there. With those invited to the Club the goal is to have Irwin, Vik Muniz, Takis, Janaina Tschäpe, Gilberto a symbiotic relationship, creating an exchange that Zorio, while building on their respective strengths: will give artists further international exposure; their a strong presence on the Belgian market for Albert artists will show at our Club and our artists will show Baronian and a solid structure for Renos Xippas. at their space, where-ever that may be. Place du Jardin aux Fleurs, 2 Ncole O’Rourke Rue Isidore Verheyden, 2 Zoé Schreiber Bloemenhofplein [email protected] Isidore Verheydenstraat [email protected] 1000 Bruxelles + 90 537 250 69 07 www.ballonrougecollective.com 1050 Bruxelles +32 (0) 2 512 92 95 www.baronianxippas.com Brussels Gallery Weekend 40 Galleries 16 Brussels Gallery Weekend 40 Galleries 17
Bernier/Eliades Gallery didier Claes Martin Belou «Canicula»| 03.09 - 19.12 Sculpture | 03.09 - 03.10
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Frederic Dehaen
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The Bernier/Eliades Gallery is pleased to present “Canicula” the solo exhibition of French artist Martin Belou on Founded in Athens in 1977, the BERNIER/ La statuaire baoulé se répartit en deux grands types, d’usage et de fonction, auxquels cette sculpture masculine Didier Claes is a Belgian gallerist, specialised the 5th of September coinciding with the Brussels Gallery Weekend from 18:00 to 21:00. ELIADES Gallery has always been at the forefront peut être apparentée : la représentation d’un génie asie usu, ou bien, plus fréquemment, la représentation in African art. For the last ten years, his gallery The etymology of the Latin word ‘Canicula’ served as a starting point for Martin Belou’s installation. In Hellenistic of contemporary art in Greece. Jean Bernier d’un « époux de l’au-delà », blolo bian. La croyance baoulé considère en effet, qu’avant la naissance, chaque has offered exceptional pieces through diverse astrology, canicula or ‘small dog’ was associated with Sirius, the brightest star at the firmament and part of the and Marina Eliades have introduced a number individu a déjà été marié et abandonne donc son conjoint en venant sur terre. Ce conjoint négligé, mécontent, exhibition themes. constellation Canis Major. The star can be observed from the Northern Hemisphere from mid-July to mid- of artistic movements such as Arte Povera, peut se rappeler au souvenir de celui qui l’a oublié en lui causant différents problèmes, psychologiques ou Noticed by his atypical professional journey as September, when it disappears again. Its presence coincides with the warmest and driest period of the year, Minimalism, Land Art and Conceptual Art to the sexuels, à l’adolescence ou à l’âge adulte. La personne en difficulté va alors consulter un devin-guérisseur qui, well as his exceptional discovered pieces since the having a significant impact on nature, agriculture, society and the human body. Just like the Ancient Greeks, Greek public, also focusing on young American ayant identifié la cause du mal, conseille au patient de faire réaliser une statuette par un sculpteur selon des beginning of his career, Didier Claes counts today the artist looks to the stars to understand the earthly disasters. This act renders him humble and therefore and European artists. In addition to their gallery indications très précises. Une fois consacrée par le ritualiste, la figurine est rapportée par le consultant chez lui among the best ancient African art specialists. His capable of depicting the unthinkable. in Athens, they opened a new space in Brussels in où il la traite comme s’il s’agissait d’un véritable conjoint. Il la garde précieusement et lui voue un culte avec gallery takes part in important Belgian gatherings Against this background, Canicula appears as a timely observation. Martin Belou does not rely on big gestures April 2016. The gallery is located in the Chatelain des offrandes régulières dans l’espoir d’améliorer sa santé physique ou mentale. Sans utilisation précise, mais (BRAFA, Bruneaf) as well as being involved on an or moralizing messages. Instead, he creates an installation from which the human figure has disappeared. district. There they organized solo shows by présentes lors des rituels, ces statues serviraient alors, avant tout, à impressionner l’assistance et à focaliser son international scale (Parcours des Mondes, TEFAF What remains is a landscape plagued by heat and drought, inhabited by plants and animals and marked by artists such as Mario Airò & Christiane Löhr, attention par leur caractère exceptionnel. Maastricht, FRIEZE) regarding his specialty. the traces they have left behind. Giovanni Anselmo, Valérie Mannaerts, Elliott Canicula is Martin Belou’s debut at Bernier/Eliades Gallery in Brussels. The exhibition has been conceived, Hundley, Kostas Sahpazis,Nikos Navridis, the first produced and will be presented amidst a pandemic that put an end to the absolutism of the human species. European solo show of Giancarlo Scaglia and the While precariousness gapes like an open wound that can no longer be ignored, the establishment keeps first Belgian show of Annette Messager. speculating about how to return to the pre-Covid world. At the same time, another slow but persistent kind of pandemic keeps unfolding in the background – the climate crisis.
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C.L.E.A.R.I.N.G Damien & The Love Guru Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel | 03.09 - 19.10 Christiane Blattmann - ,Amou Four’ | 03.09 - 17.10
Oak cabinet with butternut squash, buttercup squash and noses, 2019, oak wood, Christiane Blattmann EVR AFTR #3 2019, dyed jute, stainless steel, Christiane Blattmann ? Un-Break My WallS 2019? exhibition view 163,5 x 200 x 65 cm © Blaise Adilon bronze, glass, silicone, pigment, 194 x 45 x 65 cm Kunsthalle Münster
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F C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based Taking quotidian surroundings such as architecture, urban design or fashion as departure, Christiane Damien & The Love Guru is a Brussels based in New York and Brussels. The gallery was founded Blattmann’s sculptural practice aims to dissolve clear disciplines of creation and challenges the autonomy curatorial field of experimentation in contemporary in Brooklyn in 2011, with the focus of showing of those fields. Her works are less hybrids of art and vernacular, but more thinking-figures designated as art with an anthropological twist. It is currently emerging art. It now represents 17 living artists, art-objects, claiming rights and questioning hierarchies in our environments. Blattmann (inter-)weaves, functioning as an art gallery staging compelling providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, ties, nets, connects. She creates convoluted joints of things, relations and characters. Her objects elude and non-conventional exhibitions by emerging Korakrit Arunanondchai, Calvin Marcus and themselves of normative definitions - dissolving appears as aesthetic strategy. artists. Our mission is to activate immersions in Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. and critical approaches to the cross-disciplinary The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Christiane Blattmann graduated from Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg in 2013. She has recently fields of visual art, performance and sound via Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L exhibited at Neuer Essener Kunstverein, The Community (Paris), Kunsthaus Hamburg, Damien & The Love independent projects and collaborations. At E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, Guru (Brussels), Oracle (Berlin), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, and run a radio station at MoMA PS1, Damien & The Love Guru we channel the emphasis exhibitions and books, as well as working closely New York. She is part of the artist lead publisher Montez Press. In spring 2019 her institutional solo show of an art project as a way to create an inclusive with public and private institutions. UnBreak my Walls opened at Kunsthalle Münster. and tangible environment. Publication ‘Unbreak My Walls’ in collaboration with Kunsthalle Münster - Mousse Publishing
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dépendance Dvir Gallery Henrik Olesen | 03.09 - 10.10 ‘Lacrimae Rerum’ Homage to Gustav Metzger : Miroslaw Balka, Latifa Echakhch and Gustav Metzger | 03.09 - 17.10
Gustav Metzger, ‘Historic Photographs No. 1: Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 19-28 days, 1943’, 1995-2020, black and white photograph, rubble, 150 x 211 cm Exhibition view, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
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The artistic practice of Henrik Olesen (1967, Esbjerg, Denmark) explores, with a conceptually rigorous dépendance was founded in late 2003. The gallery Dvir Gallery is pleased to present ‘Homage to Gustav Metzger’, on view at Rue the Fiennes 85, 1070 Brussels Dvir Gallery was established in 1982 in Tel Aviv approach, the structures of power relations and systems of knowledge, revealing some of their inherent logics, sees itself as more than a commercial space and from September 3rd to October 25th. This is the gallery’s inaugural exhibition of Gustav Metzger’s work since with the goal promoting and exhibiting emerging those which contribute to social and political regularisation. shares its artists’ critical views. Since the very the announcing its exclusive collaboration with the Gustav Metzger Foundation. The exhibition aims to show and established Israeli artists. In 1994 the gallery Olesen employs cheap, everyday materials to make collages, posters, texts, sculptures, installations and beginning, dépendance introduced young artists to a selection of his historical body of work alongside never seen before pieces by Latifa Echakhch and Miroslaw started to collaborate with renowned international architectural interventions which critically examine contemporary culture and socially disseminated Brussels when they were relatively unknown and Balka, created especially for this exhibition. Gustav Metzger, born in Nuremberg in 1920s, revolutionized the figures such as Lawrence Weiner, Adel Abdessemed normalisations, thereby questioning quotidian conventions in family structures, the construction of are now still affiliated with the gallery. Thomas contemporary art world forever be developing the Auto- Destructive art movement, and the role of art in the and Douglas Gordon. In 2016 the gallery opened identities and their historiography, the media, legal discourses, art history, and other sources. Bayrle, Michael Krebber, Richard Aldrich and Ed political discourse. Always fearing of history repeating itself, Metzger blurred the line between an artist and its’ Brussels branch, with the continuous desire to His work and projects have been the subject of exhibitions in institutions such as Kunstmuseum Basel, Atkins all showed in Belgium for the first time an activist, between art and activism itself, between performance and plastic arts, between broken and whole, showcase Israeli and International artists. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and New York’s MoMA, among others, and he has participated in the 32nd with dépendance. The gallery tries to strike a between ruined and finished. São Paulo Biennial (2016), Manifesta 10 (2014) and the Istanbul Biennial (2011). balance between emerging and more established artists. In order to open up more possibilities for « There is no choice but to follow the path of ethics into aesthetics. » - Gustav Metzger artistic creation, the gallery decided to expand; as of September 2014 dépendance is operating Metzger’s influence on the contemporary conceptual art cannot be overstated. His practice has informed the out both rue du marche aux porcs 4 and 8. The generations of artists that emerged after him. This exhibition speaks to the novelty, ingenuity and the present- renewed gallery space marks a new phase in the day allure of Metzger’s works which continue to hold all the importance and relevance for artists and viewers development of dépendance. alike today. The opening of the show will be coinciding with the Brussels Gallery Weekend, the gallery will become a place for discussion and exchange.
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Galerie DYS MLF I Marie-Laure Fleisch Koenraad Tinel «Archangel» | 03.09 - 18.10 Sergio Breviario, Luca Pancrazzi, Giuseppe Stampone «Italian Imaginary» | 04.09 - 15.10
Sergio Breviario Nimbo o aureola quadrata e il disegno Luca Pancrazzi Disegno Di Passaggio, 2012 Graphite on paper Giuseppe Stampone Mare in Collina in Umbria, 2020 di Watteau, 2018 Graphite on polyester paper 32 x 32 cm 35 x 50 cm Copyright The Artist Graphite on wooden board 35 x 29,5 cm Copyright Copyright The Artist The Artist Koenraad Tinel Lost 2015 Indian ink and bister on paper 110x75cm
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MLF l Marie-Laure Fleisch is pleased to announce MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch opened in Rome in 2009 La Galerie DYS est heureuse de proposer « Archangel », une exposition personnelle des sculptures et œuvres sur Founded in 2002, Galerie DYS is a contemporary with an international vision of artistic production in papier de l’artiste belge Koenraad Tinel, du 3 septembre au 18 octobre 2020. La figuration onirique et puissante art gallery. From its very inception, we have which intellectual content is developed alongside de Koenraad Tinel (Gand, 1934) se décline depuis plusieurs décennies en sculptures de bronze ou de plâtre, promoted contemporary figurative art, with a aesthetics. Priority was initially given to works on fer et jute, et en encres de Chine sur papier pouvant atteindre de très grands formats. Son œuvre expressive strong affinity for works on paper. Although paper, with the focus expanding in 2016 to include et d’une grande intensité émotionnelle est profondément marquée par son expérience personnelle de la discovering and supporting international emerging a larger range of media. The gallery is now based seconde guerre mondiale et la fuite de sa famille à travers une Europe dévastée. Souvenirs vécus et recueillis talents is our main goal, we are also in close uniquely in Brussels, showing contemporary art by se côtoient et constituent un témoignage précieux et un manifeste contre la guerre et l’oubli. Son travail tend collaborations with more established artists like both from up-and-coming as well as mid-career aussi à l’universalité et est aussi très inspiré des contes et mythes des cultures Inuits, Européennes, Aborigènes Pat Andrea or Koenraad Tinel. A former researcher international artists, many of whom have not yet ou Sibériennes. Après des études de sculpture à l’ENSAV La Cambre, Koenraad Tinel fut titulaire de 1972 à 1999 in biology, Justine Jacquemin took over the been exhibited in Belgium. du département de sculpture à la Hogeschool de Bruxelles Sint-Lukas (aujourd’hui LUCA School of Arts). En direction of the gallery in 2018, with a care to 2000, la Communauté Flamande a organisé l’exposition en plein air BRGL avec ses œuvres monumentales dans maintaining its artistic identity built through years: le domaine du château de Groenenberg (Gaasbeek). Son premier roman graphique majeur fut «Scheisseimer», the showcase of non-academic figuration, haunted dans lequel il témoigne du passé nazi de ses parents. “Scheisseimer” a donné lieu à plusieurs expositions dont and oneiric. une au Musée du Dr Guislain, Gand et à une tournée de théâtre dans les deux langues nationales. Il collabore régulièrement avec des artistes du monde de la musique, du cinéma, du théâtre ou de la dance pour des créations à la croisée des arts vivants et des arts plastiques. Dans sa dernière grande exposition rétrospective UDSJUEN il a présenté en 2019 des oeuvres clés et des oeuvres récentes dans trois lieux de sa ville natale de Gand. Cette exposition a attiré plus de 53.000 visiteurs
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La Forest Divonne FRACAS «Silver Springs» Elsa & Johanna | 03.09 - 10.10 DESCARTES’ ERROR III - Anton Reijnders | 04.09 - 04.10
Elsa & Johanna, Their Type of Thing I, 2018, Impression jet d’encre semi-mate, 60x90cm, Edition de 5Ex + 2EA, Anton Reijnders-Nomen Nescio Anton Reijnders 2018 2019-Eternal Reoccurence II ©FRACAS gallery
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For Brussels Gallery Weekend 2019, Galerie La Forest Divonne presents an immersiveshow by photoduo Elsa Marie Helene de La Forest Divonne opened the Anton Reijnders wants to offer opportunities for concentration and attention and as such providing an FRACAS is very pleased to collaborate for a & Johanna.Elsa & Johanna will set up an immersive exhibition, where carpeting, coloured walls, furniture gallery in Paris in 1988. In 2016, her son Jean de alternative to the visual language that is increasingly is subservient to propaganda and quick effects. He second time with Atelier Jespers, run by Jean- and objects suggestthe set of their own photos, imerging the visitors into their own universe and enhancing Malherbe expands the gallery in Brussels, behind hopes his works evokes awareness of the automatism in which meaning is attributed and the conditioned François Declercq. their questionning of illusion and representation. In most of their images, Elsa & Johanna shoot themselves Victor Horta’s iconic Hotel Winssinger, under a way of perceiving. He does not want to impose a way of interpreting his work: his sculptures are a free FRACAS is an object-oriented gallery, mixing into imagined caracters and situation, questionning, truth, and symbols as well as gender and social stunning 8m high glass roof. meditative opportunity for reflection and concentration. Throughout his career, Anton has built a very art, crafts and design. Wishing to highlight représentations.Johanna Benaïnous (1991) and Elsa Parra (1990) form a duo of visual artists, photographers The gallery program spans from French classics personal alphabet of shapes and symbols. His ever renewed way of playing and assembling these the link between art and function, the gallery and directors. They met in New York, at the School of Visual Arts, and were awarded togetherthe distinctions from the 1960’s and 1970’s, such as Lucien Herve representations creates a process that explores the structure and patterns of mental constructions. The present emerging international artists. After by Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Artsof Paris, in 2016. Invited to Salon de Montrougein 2016, finalists in photography or Vincent Bioules in painting, to making itself echoes this idea where repetitive forms made from moulds can be associated with hand- having established for several years in the centre of HSBC prize for photography2016, and nominated the same year for the scholarship Revelations Emerige, mid-career and emerging artists in all practices, sculpted clay directly embodying a human presence. The juxtaposition of thing that diverge sometimes of Brussels, the gallery has become nomadic since they have been guestartists at Festival Circulation(s)and Photo Saint-Germainin 2017. Winners of 2nd Prix like the Elsa & Johanna duo, American painter triggers disarray or attraction. The soft with the hard, the rough and the smooth, the empty and the full December 2019. Picto2017, their work is part of the collections of Palais Galliera, Musée de la mode de la ville de Paris. The 88 Jeff Kowatch, international sculptor Jean-Bernard question our perception and help to give it meaning. His works are sometimes referred to as sculptural Atelier Jespers is based in Oscar Jespers’ portraits of the series «A Couple of Them» were acquired by the FMAC (City of Paris Contemporary Art Fund) in Metais, or flemish artist Tinka Pittoors kōans. A poetic sensibility where the space left between objects is as important as the objects themselves modernist house and workshop, built in 1928 2018. Elsa & Johanna have been awarded The City and Public Awardof the International Photography Festival can connect his work to oriental aesthetics. Anton refers to a Japanese painter called Sesshu as an by the great architect Victor Bourgeois. The deHyèresen 2019.After their solo at Paris Photo2019,and Paris Photo New York2020,they will be showing at important source of his inspiration. In these ‘Haboku Landscape’, most of the paper is left blank and a few desired ambiguity between a workshop and Rencontres d’Arles2020, as part of the Prix Découverte Louis Roederer. black ink strokes reveal a vast space and show an intense focus on the essence of landscape. a house stimulates creativity and gives the events More than 30 years of creation will be represented through the exhibition with pieces dating from 1989 to the that take place there a moment of intimacy in a present day. A special project will be presented in the upper part of the exhibition space: ‘Anton’s Offshoots’*, semi-public setting. a presentation of emerging contemporary ceramists curated by Anton Reijnders especially for the occasion.
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Galerie Félix Frachon Pierre Marie Giraud Rendez-vous avec A» by David Tobon | 04.09 - 24.10 Yoshiro Kimura | 03.09 - 03.10
CHAISE SANS TITRE, Graphite (85%) and resine (15%). 90cm X LIVRE EN CUIR AVEC DES IMPRESSIONS EN OR, 2017, 25cm x 15cm x 4,5cm Yoshiro Kimura Hekiyu Renmonko, 2020, Porcelain, cobalt enamel 36 x 53 x 53 cm 50cm X 50cm, 2018-2019 14.17 x 20.87 x 20.87 in Signé Unique , INV Nbr. 7063
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“Rendez-vous avec A.” is a retrospective, reuniting most of my works realised during my Master. The name of With an ambitious and challenging multidisciplinary Yoshiro Kimura is a Japanese artist born in 1946 in the Ehime Prefecture. Specialized in contemporary decorative arts, Pierre the exhibition is echoing one of my drawings made in the serie “Instructions pour trouver un Alicangaro”. This approach, Galerie Felix Frachon promotes the In his youth Yoshiro Kimura had an intense interest in Zen and was set to become a monk before directing Marie Giraud showcases international artists with serie introduces a story where the spectator goes looking for an enigmatic and non-existant creature. The story young contemporary art scenes from the so- his interests toward one essential component of the tea ceremony with which he was most familiar: pottery. a focus on ceramics, glass, and Japanese crafts. of the exhibition privileges the spectator’s movement, in a physical way – by moving into the space – as well called « emerging » countries through a unique Since 2005 the gallery runs a fine-tuned program as in the spectator’s mental images through the daily objects, where the signified have been misappropriated curation of seasons dedicated to South East Asia , After graduating, Kimura left Japan for a long travel around the world that left him with an indelible supporting emerging and established artists and with the practice of drawing. The mental image is thus double and composed of traps. These double images Africa, Latin & Central America and Middle-East. impression of blue shorelines, azure skies, and all the shades in between that nature can display. Making use collaborates with designers to produce unique can be reversible, ambiguous or crypto-images. Housed, since 2016, in a 30m2 old dry cleaning of the traditional hekiyu (Japanese blue glaze) and the remnon (a decorative rippling technique) Kimura has objects and limited editions. First, the spectator indulges in a certain mental image, in a given signification in the definition of the using of shop at 5 Rue saint Georges, Brussels, renovated produced a large body of work exclusively in variations of blue over many years. Giraud’s selection exemplifies the implementation an object. Than, he is surprised by the appearance of new perceptions. into contemporary art space mixing « white cube of refined materials, techniques, and know-how in The notion of the trap is also present in the choice of the materials. The using of the graphite is dominant in my » codes with warm curvy traditional belgian On vases and large plates, hues and shades of blues and transparencies recreate ethereal and aquatic exclusive artworks. works. I misappropriate its first sense. The graphite, which is mostly made to draw, is used to create different house features. In September 2017, the gallery experiences from peaceful shorelines to mysterious abysses. Throughout the year, Pierre-Marie Giraud hosts objects and mediums. What we draw with becomes what we draw on. doubled its size with a second floor and opened its Yoshiro Kimura has been awarded numerous prestigious Japanese and international prizes including the Prize a program of solo and thematic exhibitions in his This exhibition is a journey devoid of finality. We discover objects where the sense is infinite. We fall into traps project space « le 26by » 26 Rue Saint Georges of Excellence of Tanabe Museum, the prize of the 1st World Ceramic Biennale in Korea, the Kaneshige Toyo Brussels space, participates in international fairs, where we do not know the way out. We have a Rendez-vous with A, but we will never know who it is. - extending its programmation to art residencies, Prize. produces monographic publications and frequently screenings, talks, performances, an open library, collaborates with museums and institutions for his concerts, publications, editions and special Yoshiro Kumura’s work can be found in international public collections such as the Tokyo National Museum of expertise in ceramics. projects, developing dialogues between cultures Modern Art, Japan; Faenza Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Italy; Sevres National Museum of Ceramic, and practices. Paris; The British Museum, UK; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; amongst others.
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Gladstone Gallery Xavier Hufkens Richard Aldrich | 03.09 - 03.10 David Altmejd «Rabiits» | 03.09 - 17.10 Lynda Benglis | 03.09 - 10.10 Thomas Houseago | 03.09 - 10.10
Untitled (from Symbolist), 2019-2020 Oil and wax on linen 82 x 53 inches Untitled, 2019 Oil and wax on linen 82 x 53 inches (208.3 x 134.6 cm) David Altmejd Rabbits Lynda Benglis La Fourche, 2013 glazed ceramic 35,6 x Thomas Houseago Untitled, 2020 acrylic on paper 76,2 x (208.3 x 134.6 cm) RA089 © Richard Aldrich RA090 © Richard Aldrich Photo-credit: Paul Salveson, Los Angeles 30,5 x 25,4 cm Photo credit: Phoebe d’Heurle 57,2 cm Photo credit: HV-studio
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Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by Richard Aldrich. The artist, known for his elusive, Gladstone Gallery is a leading contemporary art B Founded in 1987, Xavier Hufkens maintains a expansive, and multidisciplinary practice, shows a series of paintings and sculptures. For this presentation, gallery with locations in New York and Brussels. diverse programme with solo exhibitions by Aldrich includes a grouping of new and older works alongside one another, a common practice for the artist, Representing more than fifty artists, as well as major multiple generations of leading artists and estates. to provide important conceptual counterpoints to the collected artworks on view. This holistic and non-linear foundations and estates, Gladstone Gallery has played Alongside the St-Georges and Rivoli galleries, assemblage of objects charts Aldrich’s artistic progression over time, and demonstrates his inventive approach a significant role in launching the careers of several Xavier Hufkens will open a third exhibition space to the mediums he employs as well as the careful attention he pays to each installation of his work. Using of the most notable artists working today. Gladstone at 44 Rue Van Eyck on 18 June. With this new images, symbols, language, painting, and music to evoke a variety of reference points and experiences, Aldrich Gallery artists work in a variety of media, including location, they look forward to expanding the proposes a series of complex and intertwined relationships through the ineffable visual language he has photography, video, installation, painting, and possibilities for exhibition-making and offering developed over the last two decades. Primarily working between the mediums of painting, sculpture, sculpture. The diversity of the artists’ practices ranges new opportunities to their artists. The new gallery, installation, and drawing, Aldrich’s practice defies categorization by a particular method of execution. The from film by Shirin Neshat and Matthew Barney, to designed by the Belgian architect Bernard Dubois, seemingly impulsive, abstracted forms that appear throughout his works often contradict the complexity of the sculptures of Anicka Yi and Ugo Rondinone, to is located just 100 meters from the St-Georges their origins, and reference motifs from his own practice in both direct and indirect ways. His installations of the photographs and the monumental installations location. new and existing works transform disparate elements from separate units of matter into a single, larger entity of Thomas Hirschhorn. Recent exhibitions include that constitutes an investigation into the objecthood of the materials he selects. Often referencing a myriad Anicka Yi, Kasper Bosmans, Cameron Jamie, Michael of concepts and visual language from art history and popular culture, Aldrich’s inventive paintings, drawings, Williams, Philippe Parreno, Richard Aldrich, Carroll and sculptures are tied together by his incisive approach to visualizing immaterial concepts such as time and Dunham, Jim Hodges, Victor Man, Elizabeth Peyton, memory. Teetering between abstract and representational, conceptual and material, and macro and micro, Allora & Calzadilla, Keith Haring, R. H. Quaytman, Aldrich presents an interconnected network of systems with each exhibition, and the works in this presentation Sarah Lucas, Rosemarie Trockel, Damián Ortega, continue this tradition while inviting new techniques, subjects, and scales to permeate his practice. Cyprien Gaillard, Ugo Rondinone, Huang Yong Ping.
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rodolphe janssen LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS Tom Poelmans « The End Of Times» | 03.09 - 17.10 Margaret Lee «I.C.W.U.M» | 03.09 - 10.10
Margaret Lee I.C.W.U.M. #3, 2019 Newspaper, oil paint, oil pastel, nails on canvas Tom Poelmans _ A Dead Man’s Dream, 2020, Oil on canvas , 200 x 300 cm 78 3/4 x 118 1/8 in (TPoe036) Photo credit: HV photography 48 1/2» x 36 (123x91cm) Courtesy of MISAKO & ROSEN / LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS
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H LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS is a Brussels- For his exhibition, The End of Time, Tom Poelmans will present a new series of paintings and works on paper. rodolphe janssen is a contemporary art gallery based space shared by four international galleries: Poelmans, who had made a name for himself with his abstract compositions, improbable textured comets with two locations in Brussels, open since 1991. LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina; Lulu, Mexico in the face of which the spectator never managed to retrace the stages of the creative process, now turns his Since it has opened, the gallery has held more City; MISAKO&ROSEN, Tokyo; and Park View/ back on this plastic virtuosity and the sirens of ease, so as to focus solely on the production of a work in which than 120 exhibitions and taken part in forty or so Paul Soto, Los Angeles. Akin to the Alain Robbe- drawing, a discipline for which he considers himself lacking in talent, plays a central role. international fairs (Art Basel, Fiac, Art Brussels, Grillet novel from which it borrows its name, LA Poelmans associates these plastic wanderings with a childish nostalgia, to give birth to these works combining etc.). In the first few years of its existence, the MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS features a shifting the most subtle finds from the art of the past with the less creative recipes of our contemporary cultures. gallery was recognised for its programme of cast of characters drawn from the programs and Anyone who visits Poelmans’ studio will be struck by the peaceful coexistence of reproductions of masterpieces photographers such as diCorcia, Stephen Shore, networks of the participating spaces. Less a pop of Western art, with hundreds of Disney or Marvel plastic figurines, an unlikely mixture of scholarly and popular Sam Samore, and Balthasar Burkhard. Since up than a committed initiative that seeks to create testimonies of the survival of the mythical struggle of good and evil. 2000, it has also been championing a generation of dialogue, exchange and connection, LA MAISON Tom Poelmans was born in 1984, in Belgium. He lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Poelmans operates in artists using various media, such as Wim Delvoye DE RENDEZ-VOUS intends to be a synthetic a kind of no man’s land. His paintings function like pictorial pin pricks in the tradition of painting, but at the (B), Jean-Luc Moerman (B), Banks Violette crossroads, a semi-open source program, a modest same time they attempt to escape any conceptual or representational framework. Style, for example, does (USA), and Farhad Moshiri (Iran). node among the vibrant artscape of Brussels. not seem to interest the artist. Repetitive, abstract, almost “painfully decorative” compositions appear next to The gallery opened its doors in January 2019 with hyperfigurative scenes where legends seem to undermine any form of gravitas. its inaugural group-show “La peinture abstraite” which was a collaboration between the 4 galleries.
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Irène Laub Gallery Harlan Levey Projects Marcin Dudek - Slash and Burn | 00.09 - 00.00 Gauthier Hubert « Tempête dans un verre d’eau» | 00.09 - 00.00
Gauthier Hubert, «Quand il grésillera sur la mer morte- vue vers la jordanie», 2020, Huile sur toile, 115 X 368 cm Marcin Dudek, Akumulator, installation view, steel, wood, medical tape, mirror, neon light, paper, leather, silicon, cell phone, 290x220x220cm, 2013-2018
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La première exposition personnelle du peintre belge Gauthier Hubert à la galerie Irène Laub, intitulée Since 2016, Irène Laub Gallery exhibits established Harlan Levey Projects is pleased to present Slash & Burn, a two-part exhibition by Harlan Levey Projects works closely with «tempête dans un verre d’eau», présente une sélection de portraits et de paysages récents. Ces huiles sur and emerging artists in Brussels and in a selection Marcin Dudek (°1979, Krakow). Slash & Burn I opens September 3rd, during Brussels Gallery Weekend, at HLP a small group of emerging and mid-career toile et aquarelles ne sont pas liées par un thème singulier, mais par un réseau subtil de références: chaque of international art fairs. Our represented artists in Ixelles. The opening of Slash & Burn II on November 5th will coincide with the opening of 1080, the gallery’s artists, tending for narrative driven mixed- œuvre créée par Gauthier Hubert influence les suivantes et génère de nouvelles toiles à travers des allusions are actively committed to questioning social, brand new 250 m2 exhibition space in Molenbeek. media works that explore various social, thématiques, des connexions formelles ou des résonances chromatiques. Les œuvres ont été sélectionnées political and architectural spaces. They present a Traveling and welcoming large groups will both be more complicated this year. Therefore, against common scientific and technological phenomena. instinctivement parmi ces familles, car elles ont été créées dans l’atelier, et chacune porte sa propre histoire. very diverse body of work –including installation, practice, we are running his two venue exhibition from September through June, dedicating the better part of In addition to its exhibition program, fair En plus de la présentation initiale lors de l’ouverture, un nouveau tableau sera ajouté chaque semaine, ajoutant video, sculpture, painting and drawing –and a year to Marcin’s work to ensure that people have the opportunity to safely see it. – Harlan Levey participations and institutional projects, au dialogue et offrant de nouvelles confrontations. display pure and powerful aesthetics. The gallery HLP opens its new exhibition space in Molenbeek with the second part of the exhibition, Slash & Burn II. The the gallery has run “The Penthouse Art is intended as an adaptable experimentation former shoe factory and mosque will accommodate an experiential site-specific installation titled The Passage Residency” since 2015, recently led a L’exposition «tempête dans un verre d’eau» est étroitement liée au projet de Gauthier Hubert au musée space, allowing the artists to stretch the and an eponymous painting. The exhibition centers on a group of over two hundred second hand jackets 4-year public art project for the City and Botanique (Bruxelles, BE), qui explorera la structure généalogique de son œuvre au fil des ans. A partir de boundaries of their chosen discipline, either by similar to those worn by Marcin and his fellow football supports. In that subculture, turning the jackets inside Region of Brussels and hosts a series of septembre, deux expositions distinctes se succéderont: «réunions familiales (un goût de liberté)» analyse testing and distorting the physical frame of the out, from black to orange was a ritual gesture that foreshadowed violence. These jackets reappear in various educational events annually with the vingt ans de peinture en mettant l’accent sur le processus de création distinctif de l’artiste et «… fils de… work itself, or by exploring its significance in the forms as icons central to his body of work Steps and Marches. The passage viewers make is one from his organization “Fundamental Research” led (Les retrouvailles)» développera une nouvelle présentation de portraits et explorez un arbre généalogique social sphere. In 2018, the gallery moved to a new childhood, through historical events and artistic research as they follow the passage the artist has undertaken. by cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Beatrice de différent. location and developed an ambitious exhibition The passage is also, very literally, the transition from the outside of the jacket to its inner seams – the moment Gelder. programme, dedicated to further a productive where one joins many and everything changes.The installation is reminiscent of How to Rumble, the artist’s dialogue between international artists, curators first in Belgium (Uhoda Collection, 2007) and his underground work Cathedral of Human Labor (Verbeke and institution. Foundation, 2014) as viewers pass through the artwork. As they do, they are confronted by fragments of sculptures, videos and paintings from recent exhibitions alongside new interventions.
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LMNO MARUANI MERCIER «La lumière est invisible» - Adrien Lucca | 03.09 - 00.00 Francesco Clemente «Bestiary 2020» | 03.09 - 24.10
Yellow- red, 2020 Francesco Clemente - The Ford in the River I-2019 - oil on linen 67 x 47
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Lucca is a visual magician. He combines light, color, science and technology in a very singular way. He will show Since Sept.2016 Natacha Mottart, Christophe The gallery is proud to present Francesco Clemente’s new solo exhibition, including his series of oil paintings ‘A Celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, his most recent work where the perception of the color of different objects (studies, paintings, sculptures) is Veys and Olivier Legrain, have developed a Ford in the River’, from 2019. The five canvases, painted in vibrant hues, ranging from intense orange and yellow MARUANI MERCIER is a contemporary art gallery influenced by an invisible mechanism hidden in the light itself. programme focused on national and international tones, reminiscent of the colors at dawn, to the most subtle and delicate mauves and pinks of the sky at dusk, focussing on established American artists from La lumière est invisible is the second solo exhibition of Adrien Lucca at LMNO, this exhibition is the first public artists from career circles whose works are hues that can only be experienced fully in person, and escape an appropriate description in words, confirm the the ‘80s. Representing around twenty artists, they outcome of a research project funded by the FRArt/FNRS (Fonds pour la Recherche en Art/Fonds National pour witnesses to the concerns of a world in the making. artist’s status as one of the premiere colorists alive. Almost veiled by thin lines of dripping colors, contrasting maintained a long-term representation of influential la Recherche Scientifique) Our programme seeks to promote a dialogue lines mark the silhouettes of two figures, which - through the reduction of their form and undermined by artists such as Ross Bleckner, Francesco Clemente, between different areas of knowledge such as the presence and seduction of the color palette - deny any clear categorization: They are neither clearly Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, and Sue Williams Along science, history, literature and politics. It’s also identifiable as man nor woman, nor do they give clues about a belonging to any specific ethnic group or age with its support in the production of their works, we a gallery in which young artists find themselves group - they could even represent the same person at different ages, as a form of revisiting and interrogating a aim to promote the artists by publishing catalogues experimenting with their aesthetic development former or future self. The strong lines are in contrast with the softness of the modulated hues, and balance the or monographic documents, by participating in in relation with the environmental questions and composition’s dichotomy between the seduction of pure abstract color fields and the juxtaposed story told by fairs, and above all, by helping with the organization societal issues. the two figures. Francesco Clementes’ work has been described as a modern revaluation of the arcane, in its of important museum retrospectives. MARUANI traditional sense: “Stripped of its political exaltation, (…), the arcane for populations without our vocabulary of MERCIER is known for setting up museum quality psychology and sociology played a crucial role in enabling people to adapt to pain and crisis by helping them shows, including for Hans Hartung and Man Ray to channel both an individual and a collective mental focus onto converting turmoil and conflict into growth in 2012, Andy Warhol in 2015, Alighiero Boetti in and evolution (…). It was foremost the language by which people emerged from loss and ruin with a renewed 2016, and again Man Ray in 2018. The gallery’s sense of what was called, and for many today is still called, the sacred in life. For the sacred is really no more presence in Belgium, the heart of Europe, through than an enhanced sensitivity to the ways that nature enables survival at all odds”. its multiple locations in Brussels, Knokke, as well as The Warehouse in Zaventem, has allowed it to have simultaneous full-scale exhibitions. Rue de la Concorde 31 Natacha Mottart Avenue Louise 430 Eendrachtstraat [email protected] Louisalaan [email protected] 1050 Bruxelles +32 (0) 4 98 57 35 47 www.lmno.be 1050 Bruxelles + 32 (0) 2 512 50 10 www.maruanimercer.com Brussels Gallery Weekend 40 Galleries 36 Brussels Gallery Weekend 40 Galleries 37
Galerie Greta Meert Meessen De Clercq Liam Everett: “Steel your face right off your head” | 03.09 - 17.10 «MUCH WITHOUT MANY» Nicolás Lamas, Xie Lei, Benoît Maire, Théo Mas- soulier, Jorge Méndez Blake, Chaim van Luit, Wouter Venema | 03.09 - 24.10 Katinka Bock: “Fermata” | 03.09 - 17.10
Xie Lei, Legend, 2020, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm Exhibition view, Steel your face right off your head, Galerie Greta Meert, 2020 Exhibition view, Katinka Bock, Galerie Greta Meert, 2020
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Galerie Greta Meert is pleased to present Steel your face right off your head, Liam Everett’s first exhibition with Over the past 30 years, Galerie Greta Meert In 2008, Olivier Meessen and Jan De Clercq created the gallery. Informed by theatre, dance and choreography, Liam Everett’s heavily layered paintings are the established itself as one of Brussels’ leading a new platform for contemporary art in Brussels. result of an embodied, performative and material approach. In his studio, Everett sets up physical obstacles contemporary art galleries. Founded in 1988 Spread over three floors of a house built in 1911, such as wooden pols, metal grids or trestles between himself and the surface of the substrate as a way to as Galerie Meert Rihoux, it was subsequently the gallery presents solo and curated group shows, raise his body awareness in the process of mark making. These same objects often make their way onto the renamed after its founding director Greta Meert creating catalogues in close collaboration with substrate itself, also serving as tools to stain or leave imprints. For Liam Everett, the studio becomes akin to a in 2006. Located in the center of Brussels, the the artists involved. In 2018 Meessen De Clercq stage where he moves around and creates temporary props and situations that all take part in the making of gallery occupies a five-story Art Nouveau celebrates its tenth year of existence, an excellent the work. In turns, his abstract and energetic pain¬tings seem to oscillate between their ontic and indexical building designed by Louis Bral and renovated for occasion to launch an atypical curated project. To nature as the by-products of a set of performative reactions, and the purportedly autonomous inclination of the gallery by renowned Belgian architects Hilde celebrate the years dedicated to accompanying abstraction. Daem and Paul Robbrecht. Since 2012 three floors the public in its discovery of contemporary art, For her second exhibition at Galerie Greta Meert, German artist Katinka Bock (b.1976 in Frankfurt am Main, of the building are dedicated to exhibitions, making Meessen De Clercq invites ten artists, who are not lives and works in Paris) conceived an installation informed by Italo Calvino’s 1983 novel MR Palomar. She it possible to maintain an expanded exhibition represented by the gallery, to develop a personal deve¬loped a body of work around some of the key themes of this book — chiefly, how does one distil the schedule. project. Based on the game Chinese whispers, the process through which we perceive and quantify the world around us in order to create and assign meaning? projects are successively shown, each project We are invited to approach this installation as a series of concise observa¬tions, philosophical and photographic determining the next one. As such, a story spread notations that the artist has shaped into material encounters and arranged as physical occurrences. Katinka in time is created by a chain of consecutive acts, Bock’s sculptures present themselves as speculations on the very questions that sparked their making in the written by different artists, taking into account a first place. They offer no definite solutions but rely on a subtle equilibrium between materiality and placement. known and limited space, the ‘Wunderkammer’. Their sculptural presence is imbued with a sense of mutability.
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Mendes Wood DM Montoro 12 Fernando Marques Penteado «Meet me at the Finger Buffet»| 03.09 - 29.09 Isobel Church “Landings” | 03.09 - 00.00 «Binnenhuis» | 28.07 - 26.09
Scribe, 2020 Black clay, stainless steel 80x50x40cm Summit, 2020 (detail) 5 antique chairs with mountain relief Fernando Marques Penteado Lagostim/Langoustine, 2020 hand embroidery on Mamma Andersson, Maaike Schoorel, Louis Thevenet Binneshuis Photo credit: seats in jesmonite, set in a circle silk and wool, machine and hand embroidery on wools and jeans, wood shelf 56.5 Kristien Daem x 43.5 x 3 cm 22 1/4 x 17 1/8 x 1 1/8 in (MW.FMP.536) Photo credit: Kristien Daem The Show The Gallery Montoro12 Gallery was founded in 2012 by Contemporary Art The Show The Gallery Historian Ursula Hawlitschka, Ph.D. Located in Rome’s historic center, the gallery was named after its first address, Via di Mon- The practice of Fernando Marques Penteado (born in 1955, in São Paulo, Brazil. Lives and works in Brussels, Mendes Wood DM was founded in 2010 by partners toro 12. The gallery represents and exhibits both emerging and Belgium) is supported by a very well defined method that involves long processes and specific techniques that Felipe Dmab, Matthew Wood and Pedro Mendes mid-career international contemporary artists who are known for are tenaciously operated. Under the alias of gender, which naturally brings to the fore false assumptions based with the intent to exhibit international and Brazilian their innovative conceptual approach as well as the strong visual on rooted prejudice, the artist has a work trajectory specially marked by embroidery, which ends up linking artists in a context conducive to critical dialogue impact of their works. In 2017, Montoro12 opened a second gal- clothing accessories, books and found objects. And for an aesthetic choice, it combines autobiographical and and cross-pollination. Central to the gallery’s lery in Brussels and a year later the Rome gallery was closed in historical matter in the link of inventive literary creations. Starting with in-depth research on the contribution program is a concern for regional difference and order to open an artist residency on the outskirts of Rome. The of the textile universe to visual culture and the diffusion of knowledge, the artist elaborates narratives individuation while fostering cosmopolitanism and first artist-in-residence in 2019 was the young South African permeated by his own personal vocabulary, whose profoundness is articulated by playful undertones that collaboration. Inspired by a belief that artistic artist Chris Soal. Montoro12 Gallery produces between six and constantly negotiate the meaning of things. In representations sewn by Fernando Marques Penteado, we are practices broaden the scope of human agency eight exhibitions a year, participates in numerous international faced with common human relations and historical and semantic displacements. It is within these that topics and have the power to both touch and change the art fairs, publishes scholarly catalogues and collaborates with such as sexuality, homoeroticism, gender and violence are considered from a perspective that articulates, in a world, Mendes Wood DM cultivates a program galleries, collectors, curators and museums. Montoro12 Gallery is very particular way, social critiques from domestic environments. premised on conceptualism, political resistance thrilled to contribute to “art history in the making:” The gallery’s Mendes Wood DM has been invited to collaborate with Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens for the 7th edition of the and intellectual rigor. artist Larissa Sansour represented Denmark in the Venice Bien- Biennial of Painting, by presenting an exhibition in its townhouse gallery in the Sablon. The Biennial’s theme In 2017, Mendes Wood DM inaugurated its first nale in 2019; Steve Sabella’s work just entered the collection of is Binnenskamers, or Inner Spaces, which has been loosely interpreted to include interior spaces and studios, North American exhibition space in New York with the Institute du Monde Arabe in Paris; Emmanule De Ruvo was but also a psychological state of introspection and the intimate realm of the imagination. On the suggestion of a series of two-person shows juxtaposing historical named “Genius of Otazu” at the Otazu Foundation in Spain; Faig the artist Maaike Schoorel (b. 1973 in Santpoort, The Netherlands. Lives and works in Amsterdam), the gallery and contemporary material; including artists such as Ahmed’s work is now part of the collection of twenty internatio- is taking part by presenting its own exhibition Binnenshuis, which translates to Inside the House, or Interiors. Lucas Arruda and On Kawara, Sonia Gomes and A.R. nal museums and foundations. The Montoro12 artist residency The Mendes Wood DM space is a former townhouse-turned-gallery, and many of the original architectural Penck. . attempts to bring artists, collectors and curators together to share features are on display to remind visitors of this, so this presentation felt like a natural extension of the Biennial. artistic processes, innovative ideas and intellectual exchange. 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Jan Mot Galerie Nathalie Obadia Ian Wilson ‘Perfect’ | 03.09 - 10.10 Carole Benzaken « Pas à pas» | 03.09 - 10.10
Carole BENZAKEN Au réveil, il était midi (7), 2020Encre de chine, acrylique et huile sur toile80 × 70 cm(31 1/2 × 27 9/16 inches
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Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present Pas à pas, French artist Carole Benzaken’s ninth exhibition, Since 1993 in Paris and 2008 in Brussels, Galerie Jan Mot will open the new season with a solo exhibition of Ian Wilson’s artist’s books called Sections. The Jan Mot represents Francis Alÿs, Sven Augustijnen, after Là-bas… Toi, in 2019, which took place at both Parisian galleries. Nathalie Obadia has been exhibiting international presentation will include eight sets of ten unique, never before presented books and the last produced Pierre Bismuth, stanley brouwn, Manon de Boer, emerging and established artists such as Rina within the artist’s lifetime. These Sections dating from 2014 all carry one sole word on each page: Perfect. The Rineke Dijkstra, Mario Garcia Torres, Dominique Winner of the Marcel Duchamp prize in 2004, Carole Benzaken has developed, over the last thirty or so Banerjee, Lorna Simpson and Jessica Stockholder. exhibition was conceived together with Ian Wilson and will be his first presentation at the gallery since the Gonzalez-Foerster, Joachim Koester, David years, a pictorial practice that expands beyond its own limits, in different directions, encompassing drawing, In the past years, Brook Andrew, Valérie Belin, artist passed away in April of this year. The use of the word ‘perfect’ is correlated with Ian Wilson’s definition of Lamelas, Sharon Lockhart, Tino Seghal, Philippe architecture, works on glass or video. The image, as it is perceived, assimilated and represented, is at the heart Fabrice Hyber, Laure Prouvost, Andres Serrano, conceptual art which according to him was about the degree of abstraction of ideas. In his work he was Thomas, Tris Vonna-Michell, Ian Wilson. of her approach, which is, above all else, that of a painter fascinated by the resourcefulness of her medium and Mickalene Thomas, Jérôme Zonder, Benoît Maire, interested in going beyond visual abstraction and he perceived the preoccupation with abstraction as a way by its incredible flexibility. Gaetano Pesce and Edi Hilaalso joined the gallery. of trying to express the truth as directly as possible. Circle on the floor and Circle on the wall (both 1968) Involved in the rediscovery of emblematical made him realize that oral communication can replace the production of objects. Similar to these two seminal The exhibition Pas à pas presents a group of recent works from her series Au réveil, il était midi, Magnolias and artists such as Martin Barré, Josep Grau-Garriga, works conceived as unlimited editions, Sections evoke the abstract notion of infinity through their continued a new one, Skin Screen, each articulated around a common syntax, which grows richer by the year. Between Shirley Jaffe, Seydou Keïta, Wang Keping, Eugène numbering and the quasiendless repetition of the same word(s). figuration and abstraction, freedom and control, exploration of matter and imagination, painting deploys itself Leroy, Sarkis and Agnès Varda, the gallery After abandoning the production of tangible objects in the late 1960s, Wilson shifted his attention to ideas that with deliberate porousness. accompanies the artists into numerous institutional akin to ‘perfect’ cannot be pictorially rendered, and instead of a form or shape, represent a concept. ‘Perfect’ exhibitions in France and abroad. might be the most pertinent of them for it being the essence of all ideas.
Conceptual art is not about ideas. It is about the degree of abstraction of ideas. (Ian Wilson, Conceptual Art, Artforum, Feb. 1984)
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OV Project Almine Rech Vaughn Spann «Smoke Signals» | 03.09 - 10.10 Summer In Love | Part II by Sam Samore & OV Project | 03.09 -10.10
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Almine Rech Brussels is pleased to announce Smoke Signals, Vaughn Spann’s second solo exhibition with the Summer In Love is a cry for Love, a call for compassion and gentleness. Assessing this moment in time, it Office Baroque is a contemporary art gallery in Almine Rech opened its doors on April 1st, 1997 gallery. On this occasion, the artist will present a selection of abstract paintings never before exhibited. The becomes clear that a lack of altruism has led to the unraveling of politics, economics and humanity. Since Brussels that represents established, mid-career in the 13th arrondissement in Paris. The gallery exhibition will be on view from September 3 to October 10, 2020. this past June, poems, drawings and objects, films and pictures, works on paper and more have been filling as well as emerging artists with strong institutional was founded on a minimal and conceptual axis, the walls of OV Project, building bridges and restoring a common sense of love and empathy. Starting as support. The gallery was incorporated in 2007 in representing artists such as James Turrell, John It would be an understatement to claim that Vaughn Spann’s work focuses on the politics of living in this one gesture, it has grown to a movement. As more have joined, ever more poets, dancers, artists, filmmakers, Antwerp and has relocated to downtown Brussels McCracken and Joseph Kosuth. In addition to current day and age. Their relatability and sincerity bridges the gap between artist and viewer so uniquely, so actors, have joined in too and cried their love in their own way. in 2013 where it occupies the ground floor of a its stable of internationally recognized, mid- purposefully, that to encounter the work is to have a collective experience. His bodies of work are known to Summer In Love — Part II will bring together original artworks and editions for a new hanging, offering a stage 1909 cast-iron Art Nouveau building. The gallery career and emerging artists, it has always been mine the histories of art, activism, contemporary life, and social practice. Spann’s paintings—which vary from to the many artists, critics, curators, writers who have contributed to the creation of this wave of kindness. is owned by Marie Denkens and Wim Peeters who the gallery’s mission to continually seek out and abstract to figurative—reflect upon the way in which these contemporary topics relate to one another, how Summer in Love is an initiative co-curated by Sam Samore and OV Project (Olivier Vrankenne and Alice Lefebvre) also founded the non for profit Extra City in 2004. include new artists in its program. The gallery has they are inextricably linked. The use of both abstract and figurative imagery is not only a nod to the history of supporting compassion in the art world and involving so far, close to 50 artists, poets, actors, comedians, Office Baroque represents 24 artists from Europe, held long standing relationships with artists like art but a purposeful reference to the haziness of memory. These works function as a self-exploration of time philosophers, polemists and many more from all over the planet. The main aspect of Summer in Love is to America and Asia, focusing on primary market John McCracken and James Turrell and has since and space, childhood influences, and impactful imagery. Despite their ability to relate to the viewer almost create an international and multidisciplinary chain of messages and love. Through the online platform, positions. The gallery has participated in Art Basel started working with and representing artists such instantly, these works are fundamentally personal. The link between the relatable and Spann’s own memory art practitioners have been invited to join and share their own vision of love. Miami Beach, Frieze London and New York, Fiac as Günther Förg, Alex Israel, Jeff Koons, Richard creates a profound statement concerning human experience and an emphasis on the commonalities we share Paris, Independent New York and Brussels, Art Prince, Julian Schnabel, Taryn Simon and DeWain Brussels, Liste Basel, Miart Milan, Artissima Turin. Valentine, among others. In 2006 the gallery moved to a larger two-floor space in the Marais district and in 2008 inaugurated a second 1,000 square meter exhibition space in Brussels.
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Michel Rein Sorry We’re Closed Anne-Marie Schneider «RAINBOW» | 03.09 - 31.10 Eric Croes «7» | 03.09 - 17.10
Sans titre - Untitled (personage, automaton, cars) , 2019, acrylique, pigments sur papier, 128 x 114 cm, oeuvre unique thumbnail avarice 7 eric croes thumbnail totems 7 eric croes
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Depuis plus de trois décennies, Anne-Marie Schneider nous révèle un récit dense, sans cesse renouvelé, tracé Established in 1992, Michel Rein represents artists Eric Croes presents his vision of the 7 cardinal sins: 7 unique sculptures, 7 fantastical totems, 7 unsettling Sorry We’re Closed is a contemporary art gallery au scalpel affirmant à nos yeux stupéfaits, tel un journal intime ouvert sans détours ni retenues, la diversité de from different generations, French and international, presences. A tribe, stripped of all moral criticism, of all condemnation. No censure, no judgement. On the created by Sebastien Janssen in 2008.The focus ses impressions, la vivacité de ses ressentis, la douleur de ses idées dérangées dans la suite de ses dessins. Ceux- established and emerging on a long term basis. The contrary, his liberated vision encourages the imagination. Before us, Eric Croes transforms the sins into of the gallery is upon mid-career and emerging ci lui ont permis de n’écrire qu’avec des mots afin de mieux faire percevoir par images successives sa mise en gallery organises exhibitions in two independent colorful presences, animal and human, primitive and modern, droll and provocative, tender and ironical. artists from Belgium and abroad. Since 2015, the œuvres d’instantanés essentiellement visuels, qui tous échappent aux normes préétablies de représentation spaces. Michel Rein started a second space in As he describes them, the sins make up a new personal mythology: “In my conception, gluttony takes the galerie is located in a new 130 meter square space, ou figuration. Le dessin, c’est le monde (...); c’est le monde auquel je suis confrontée; c’est aussi celui des autres Brussels in 2013. form of a bit of crockery; pride the form of more or less gigantic kings looking each other up and down; 67 rue de la Régence in the center of Brussels. The Et en effet, chacun de ses dessins paraît sourdre de la profondeur de sa sensibilité, avec la puissance de greed’s head is a piggybank bud vase and its body a closed fist; envy is a four-eyed cat eying a parrot gallery maintains a diverse exhibition program with jaillissement d’une source inépuisable, pour montrer, exprimer, déborder de perceptions et de sens inattendus who is himself coveting a ring shaped like a peanut; wrath is a sulking couple with Janus’s head, resting solo exhibitions of the gallery artists as well as et pourtant, à chaque fois, traçant avec une identique constance le signifié de chacune des figures qu’Anne- on the foot of Mars, god of war; lust is a half-male, half-female totem, lasciviously offered up to go to group exhibitions and special projects as editing Marie Schneider affirme sur le papier. Sans cesse, elle y révèle la cohésion du tracé de chacune de ses œuvres, bed; and sloth is a large green head sleeping on a napping tortoise.” In seven totems, Eric Croes revives artists jewels. autant que la cohérence de leur diversité, l’efficacité immédiate de sa confrontation au monde, aux autres. the myths and symbols associated with our “small greatest flaws.” Behind each detail hides a legend, a superstition which Croes exalts and gives new life to: the eighteenth-century language of flowers, the medieval bestiary, the specters of gargoyles, tarot cards... Croes is an investigator who turns up lost vestiges and blends influences, forgotten stories, and dormant tales to sculpt unique forms: sins at human scale. He transforms them into energetic and affectionate guardian monsters who writhe overhead, like the Japanese Yōkai or the avatars of Hieronymus Bosch. These seven malevolent genies, tempters, and imps are overseen by an eighth presence: the Witness. An invention of Croes’s, the Witness is a guardian of the sins. He reminds us of our shared condition: that we all of us have a secret taste for some of our nasty flaws. Eric Croes helps us to accept them. Even better: to make them our allies.
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Spazio Nobile Stems Galery
«Les Ignorants» Lionel Jadot & Serge Leblon, duo show | 04.09 - 08.11 Misaki Kawai, Susumu Kamijo, Koichi Sato, Minami Kobayashi, Hiroya Kurata Anecdote | 03.09 - 00.00
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Two different practices, photography and design, and yet the same common thread: this obsession with By opening Spazio Nobile in April 2016, in the Stems is pleased to present Jane Dickson’s first European solo exhibition. Artist Jane Dickson is a central Stems Gallery was founded in Brussels in 2015 by the organic and instinctive relationship with raw material. The same one who fed their artistic approach dynamic and cosmopolitan Ixelles neighbourhood voice in New York City creative history. Her paintings and photographs bear witness to evolution of brother and sister Guillaume and Pascaline Smets. and who leads them today to collaborate for this exhibition project at Spazio Nobile. They did not want a of Brussels (Belgium), Lise Coirier and Gian Times Square, from a grimy and lawless neighborhood in the 70s, to the heart of capitalist symbolism. The gallery exhibits the work of emerging artists, simple juxtaposition of their personal work. Lionel and Serge have aimed to achieve an original creation, Giuseppe Simeone have united their passions Born in Chicago, Dickson arrived in New York in 1977, and began a job programming visuals for Times Square’s first with a particular focuson introducing contemporary which would combine their respective practices, around a common theme. The subject has imposed itself for design and art history, initiating a dialogue digital billboard. Dickson used the opportunity to curate projects by her friends and colleagues, helping to further the American artists to European audiences. on themselves: the modification of the body by the addition of machines, of various objects at the same between contemporary applied arts, design careers of Jenny Holzer, Keith Haring, and David Hammons, as well as creating some of the first widely seen digital art. Highlighting work in all mediums and formats, time constraining, at the same time increasing the humane energy. Low-tech objects or scrap that will give and photography. Commissioning unique pieces, Dickson came to prominence in the New York art world through her involvement with the Colab art collective, including painting, drawing, sculpture,photography, birth to ephemeral human architectures. It is their DIY version of a certain transhumanism. A poetically limited editions and installations that are both the Fashion Moda gallery, and legendary exhibitions including the Real Estate Show and Times Square Show in video, and installation, the gallery’s program is imperfect version, where the philosophy of the arte povera woven into the objects and machines of Lionel experimental and artistic, with a particular 1980. Times Square Show was known to be the first radical show from the 80s. Dickson was one of the curators and driven by intuition andcuriosity rather than any Jadot, between recycling and overcycling, will be grafted on individuals from everyday life. These will sensibility to everything nature and minerality, the her work has been exhibited next to artists such as Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, Kiki Smith, rigidly de ned criteria. Each exhibition is the result then be put into images and filmed by Serge Leblon in a universe inspired by dogma95, a filmmaking gallery organises four to five exhibits each year, Jenny Holzer, Walter Robinson & David Hammons as well as graffiti artists such as Lee Quinones & Fab 5 Freddy. of a close collaboration between the gallery movement started in 1995 and eponym manifesto created by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and dedicated to both rising and established talents, Solo exhibitions of her work have been shown atThe Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, CreativeTime, and the artist or curator, allowing artists to Thomas Vinterberg. without creating borders between the disciplines, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Major museums including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan communicate their individual creative visions and the visual arts dialoguing with the fine arts. Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Karamay to witness the energy and dynamism of the Belgian The result of this combination of the augmented individuals of Lionel and the images of Serge is resolutely Museum in Xin Jiang, China, and most recently the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian own her artwork art scene. In addition to their Brussels townhouse poetic and of the order of satirical criticism. They want to provoke a humor that is reminiscent of the gallery, Stems Gallery maintains an of ce in images of Buster Keaton. We are formally approaching the ready-made, transgressive upcycling, Luxembourg. Frankenstein, the film Crash by Cronenberg, the film One Week by Buster Keaton, a combination of influences that are part of their common imagination
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TEMPLON Abdelkader Benchamma |03.09 - 24.10
15 OFF Abdelkader BENCHAMMA Pola Museum – Syncopation contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters Photo : Keizo Kioku The Show The Gallery Program This autumn, Galerie Templon’s Brussels space is hosting Abdelkader Benchamma’s first solo exhibition in The gallery was founded in 1966 by Daniel Templon, Belgium. The artist is known for his use of black ink drawings, site-specific and often ephemeral, which interact who was then only 21. In the seventies and eighties, and transform exhibition spaces into vast, strange landscapes, both physical and mental, shot through with Daniel Templon was one of the pioneers of the subtle yet chaotic energies. For Signs, Benchamma has taken a step away from immersive wall painting to contemporary art and introduced many important offer a new series of drawings and paintings on paper that explore the representation of miracles and beliefs American artists to the French public : Dan Flavin, through the ages, from ancient mythology to the digital era. The infinite variety of mythological signs invites Ellsworth Kelly, Willem de Kooning, Frank Stella, us to view and interpret the image and its status in different ways: while a sign is a mark or a script, it also, and Andy Warhol. The gallery quickly became one especially, bears witness to the impossibility of reading an event in a single way. Sign sun veils two important of the references in contemporary art in France. series for the artist—Book of Miracles, Trees and Engramme—inspired from images garnered from the press, Today Galerie Templon represents a group of internet and art history. He is intrigued by the variety of apparitions and their representations, that occur international artists. The program promotes throughout human history and the way they are transformed to reflect new technologies and beliefs. They a dialogue between generations: established depict angels, mysterious celestial phenomena, photographs of UFOs, trees twisted into a script representing artists, international mid-career artists, and the a god’s name in a unique calligraphic style, as well as the religious rituals and places of worship whose forms experiences of younger artists. The gallery also and meanings seemingly straddle time and space. Sources explored by Abdelkader Benchamma include the provides curatorial expertise and assistance in the humanities, such as anthropology, as well as the so-called parasciences, such as parapsychology and magic. mounting of exhibitions by its artists in museums or But hard sciences are not ignored, with astrophysics and its hypothetical parallel universes never far from his international exhibitions. mind
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BOTANIQUE others ,…). Clovis XV Museum du Botanique : Gauthier Hubert/ Galerie du He has made many readings and performances around the world since Botanique : Yves Lecomte The nearly theatrical presence of the works, as well as the democratisa- Svea Mausolf & Moritz Englebert / Partir, c’est tojours 1965. Ditto for the exhibitions. Jacques Donguy published a monograph tion of form and interpretation, leaves the surrounding space (hosting this year at ADLMN / Les Presses du réel. 03.09.20 - 27.09.2020 mourir un peu both the work and the body of the moving spectator) to be the main He’s 80 this year. Gauthier Hubert (°1967) est un artiste belge qui vit et travaille à Bruxelles. 02.09.2020 - 26.09.2020 concern for Minimalist artists. Figures on a Ground disrupts singular de- Lauréat, en 1999, du Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge, il expose depuis lors, I walk the streets in solitude finitions on Minimal art, while staying true to this specific characteristic. Garage Cosmos de façon collective ou en solo, principalement au Royaume-Uni, en Islande Through the rain, through the night Garage Cosmos is a non-commercial art center particularly active in et en Belgique. Why did you leave me, why did you do it? CENTRALE You just laughed and said showing artists active in the 50s and 70s, who were part of movements such as letterism, visual poetry, and conceptual art. Exhibitions are also A la rentrée 2020, il présente, au Botanique, deux projets d’expositions «It was all just a game, no rules, no goal.» Centrale: Xavier Noiret-Thomé- Henk Visch /Panorama I believed in us, I trusted you. done with young artists with similar concerns. distincts : « réunions familiales » (un goût de liberté), une analyse à 03.09.2020 - 17.01.2021 rebours de ses vingt dernières années de peinture mettant l’accent And now it’s all over because of some show Xavier Noiret-Thomé is a French visual artist based in Brussels. sur sa méthode de travail et « ...fils de... » (Les retrouvailles), un tout Look me in the eyes, say it to my face Grande Surface Laureate of the French Academy in Rome and resident at the Villa autre accrochage, un tout autre propos pour une galerie de portraits. I want to hear it from you now, or don’t you dare? Medici in 2005, his work has since been shown in Belgium and abroad. L’humour et les jeux de mots sont, pour Gauthier Hubert, des vecteurs «Manivoles» Les artistes du collectif de Grande Surface et qui lui permettent de revisiter l’histoire de l’art et d’aborder des sujets l’invitation de Victor Rachet Henk Visch : Henk Visch: Dutch sculptor, designer and graphic FdG Projects d’ordre politique, sociologique ou historique. Dans son travail, les mots et 03.09.2020 - 06.09.2020 artist based between Eindhoven and Berlin. The works by this les images sont en dialogue permanent. Il commence d’ailleurs chacune « … ça s’est fait comme ça pendant la nuit, sans même qu’il s’en aper- international artist are part of several private collections and Ruben Montini «Questo Anonimato E’ Sovversivo» de ses œuvres en lui donnant un titre ; les mots génèrent les images. Tel çoive, et il m’a fallu un temps fou pour/ imaginez le/ si ça vous arri- international museums. In 1988, he represented the Netherlands at 03.09.2020 - 06.09.2020 un romancier qui, avant de se mettre à écrire, élabore ses personnages, vait, vous/ il m’a fallu un temps fou pour l’aider à comprendre que the Venice Biennale and in 1992, he took part in Kassel’s Documenta IX. Questo Anonimato E’ Sovversivo (This Anonymity is subversive) is a pro- ce n’était pas un rêve. » As part of the 2020 edition of the BGW festival, Gauthier Hubert les imagine, les décrit et les nomme bien avant de les ject by Italian artist Ruben Montini, which has been developed since 2016. peindre. De l’écriture à la peinture, il peut se passer des années avant Grande Surface offered author and director Victor Rachet to work on Panorama (03.09.2020 > 17.01.2021) : will be Xavier Noiret-Thomé’s first Questo Anonimato E’ Sovversivo consists in a vast hand embroidery piece qu’il ne décide de l’aspect que prendra une narration imaginée en amont. Manivoles, an exhibition named after Rachet’s short story. Together, major exhibition in Brussels: made up of five chapters, the exhibition that will be the result of the cooperation between people living across the EU. they created a nonvisual space where they explore how sounds, set presents paintings, sculptures and in situ installations allowing for a Participants are welcome to embroider whatever they feel like. The pro- Le travail d’Yves Lecomte (Binche, 1974, vit et travaille à Bruxelles) designs and texts challenge the making up of the daily blending of genuine immersion in the artist’s universe, in dialogue with Henk Visch. ject gives total freedom to the audience. The artist does not ask nor com- fiction and reality, of memory and lies, of presence and phantoms s’organise notamment autour du plaisir, de l’effacement, du mission any pattern: even more, he would ask - instead - to leave the last double, du passé et de l’accident. Il matérialise les possibilités et Centrale Lab : Justine Bourgerol. Strata thread loose… so that people in the following stops of different countries les apories du dédoublement, du reflet, des paradoxes logiques et 03.09.2020 - 08.11.2021 can continue, or modify, or interpret in their own, personal way what has IMAL visuels, des renversements linguistiques et des mises en abyme. In this new in situ installation, Justine Bougerol (born 1988, France, lives been started by someone else. By doing so, the piece embodies the idea Yves Lecomte assimile les codes de l’esthétique minimale sans jamais and works in Brussels), travels through the thickness of things. By creating of collaboration and distant-working in order to achieve a common goal. «Post Growth» par DISNOVATION.ORG, Pauline Briand, tenter d’en reproduire le discours. L’ensemble de son œuvre est empreinte an artificial mountain – or is it an iceberg? – straddling the two superim- Baruch Gottlieb, Julien Maudet, Clémence Seura d’une rigueur toute conceptuelle, mais volontairement contaminée, posed spaces of CENTRALE.lab, the artist works with the concept of the The final outcome of this humongous embroidery work will, in 03.09.2020 - 17.09.2020 sur un mode humoristique et poétique, par des éléments fortuits. Pour diorama and questions the dreamlike and contemplative potential that fact, tell the story of several people that have met - in a metapho- In the context of current crises (climate change, collapse of bio- son exposition au Botanique, Yves Lecomte partira d’un ensemble emanates from a material image, or in other words, from imagined matter. ric way - on the surface of this cotton sheet. While making this pie- diversity, pandemics, decline of oil), the societal sensitivities de miroirs retournés et encadrés, condamnés à ne plus rien refléter. ce, they will have experienced the same feeling of sharing and union. around such subjects are undergoing profound transformation. By manipulating form, colour and organic substance of this por- Therefore the embroidery activity is “only” an excuse to The Post Growth exhibition takes the form of critical experiments that sti- Fondation CAB tion of miniaturized landscape, Justine Bougerol draws our gaze create something bigger, apparently intangible: the sense mulate and enrich the imaginations of post-economic growth scenarios. to the breach, the crack, visible as a shameless wound, to make of community, of belonging to a wider, borderless union. Figueres on a Ground - Perspectives on Minimal Art the intimate value contained in an unfathomable depth resonate. At the crossroads between art, science and activism, the series of works 10.06.2020 - 12.12.2020 Garage Cosmos presented invite us to consider the radical consequences of a world re- Figures on a Ground presents works by female pioneering Minimalist Centrale Box: Max Kesteloot. GOOD LOST CORNERS connected to the physical, material and living realities of the biosphere, artists alongside contemporary practices that inscribe themselves in, 03.09.20 - 08.11.21 Jean-François Bory Abracadada drawing inspiration from thoughts and practices from eco-feminism, en- or question the movement. Minimal art is thus approached through For more than 10 years, Max Kesteloot (1990, Ghent, lives and works in vironmental accounting, indigenous knowledge and hacking. Post Growth 03.09.2020 - 03.10.2020 themes such as spatial perception, relationships, nature, the sacred, Oostende) has captured his observations on photograph. During walks is the result of action-research work conducted by DISNOVATION.ORG to- Abracadada is a poem first shown in 1977 in a small bookstore in Paris, the body and spirituality. For an exhibition on Minimalism, Figures on or travels, his main focus is on the surrounding urban context with of- gether with Pauline Briand, Baruch Gottlieb, Julien Maudet and Clémence which has since closed. It was written in the spirit of the typography of the a Ground might seem rather antagonistic in its boldness and abun- ten seemingly banal architectural elements. His images are devoid of Seurat. DISNOVATION.ORG is an artists collective and working group, historical avant-gardes of the first half of the century: futurism, dadaism. dance. Despite the common thread of reductionism that forms the people and refer indirectly to a potential presence or action. Keste- based in Paris. As part of their practices, they study the issues behind the «A « legend of the century » written in the spirit of the avant-garde in the base principle of minimal art, this exhibition maxes out in an attempt loot’s work seems to be about how we absorb our environment, and cult of technological innovation and the constant ideology of growth, as form of a poem, « sound and fury » as Shakespeare said, a story of the to renegotiate the conditions against which we perceive Minimalism. how it results in fragmented impressions and associative memories. well as their consequences on society. They thus develop situations of crash and the collapse of the avant-garde that ends today.» interference, debate and speculation aimed at diverting the dominant
The exhibition challenges rigid juxtapositions such as universality to In the exhibition GOOD LOST CORNERS – places that appeal to me, visitors ideology in order to stimulate the emergence of alternative narratives. Jean-François Bory spent his childhood and adolescence in South East the personal; the rational to the emotional; calmness to hysteria; reduc- can hear a constant voice that refers to places that have been photographed Asia. A major figure in contemporary poetry, whose work also unfolds in tion versus expansion and so forth, that have been used as vehicles in by the artist and then used as a source for making visual works. It is impos- Post Growth is their first solo exhibition in Belgium, which will go visual art / publishing continuity. Renowned in the 1960s for its participa- academic writing and journalism, to describe Minimalism as an art form sible for the viewers to know which text belongs to which work or image, in-hand with a full program of events (panel discussions, perfor- tion in the international visual avant-garde. Published one of the very first that negates the external world. Self-referential and non-representa- but this is exactly what makes it interesting to explore the work further. mances, etc.) in order to debate and enrich the proposed thematic. anthologies of international visual poetry in New York in 1968. tive, the widespread use of mass-produced, standardised and indus- trial materials only further stressed this notion of human detachment. He has published around a hundred books, poems, prose, essays as well as an incalculable number of magazines, created some of them («L’Humidité» for example), co-edited others («Approches», «Celebrity Cafe» among Brussels Gallery Weekend OFF Program 52 Brussels Gallery Weekend OFF Program 53
ration en 2018 avec le soutien des Monuments et Sites. A l’occasion 03.09.2020 - 01.11.2020 de ces travaux, de nouveaux espaces d’exposition ont été aménagés. Kantine The term «transcoding» originates from the field of computers and more precisely from the conver- La Commune de Schaerbeek a récemment choisi d’en faire un lieu uni- sion of one digital format to another. However, «Sloan» Joseph Kusendila quement dédié à la création et à la production contemporaine dans this terminology appears more and more in the 03.09.2020 - 10.10.2020 le domaine des arts plastiques avec un important programme de mé- cultural context as a new paradigm beyond com- For Brussels Gallery Weekend 2020, Kantine is thrilled to present an ex- diation permettant l’accès de l’art contemporain à tous. Diverses ex- mon media theories. It addresses the issue of cor- hibition by Belgian artist Joseph Kusendila. The works in Sloan circulate positions sont proposées chaque année invitant des artistes confirmés respondence of signs which one medium operates around themes and materials native to Kusendila’s heterogeneous ap- ou émergents, des collectifs, workshop, jurys d’écoles supérieures… within another. We now draw with algorithm, copy/ proach to art making. Utilising text, image, sculpture, and spatial in- Deux grandes expositions par an réunissent des plasticiens et invitent paste in paintings, think resolution in photogra- terventions his works question ideas of desire and power (rapport de des curateurs à s’approprier ce lieu chargé d’histoire. Bob Verschue- phy or sculpt in 3D… illustrating this transcoding force). Working often with found, collected and accumulated materials, ren fut le premier en 2005. Il fut suivi de nombreuses expositions solo of these two spheres, the cultural and the tech- Kusendila reframes, catalogs and concentrates moments that might ou collectives. Les expositions sont le plus souvent assorties de pro- nological one. This linguistic approach has been seem ephemeral, or habitual. A musical refrain, chewed sunflower seeds, grammes d’événements (conférences, de projections, de midis décou- addressed in Fluxus and concept art by the term of a revisited family calendar or a company typeface become focal points. vertes,...) permettant de favoriser la rencontre, l’échange et la recherche. inter-media and now emerges in form of trans-me- dia. The exhibition explores the translation/coding Kantine is an artist-run exhibition space located in the center of Brussels. L’exposition « Tomber en amour – Oeuvres de la collection Veys-Verhaevert » of signs in between different forms of expression The space began in 2017 in a canteen in Amsterdam and relocated to Pour la Maison des Arts, Christophe Veys proposera une ex- as a possible reading of actual artistic production. Brussels in 2018. Kantine has recently taken up residence on the fifth floor position d’œuvres sélectionnées dans sa collection qui prend of the former office for national unemployment, located directly across pour fil rouge l’amour et ses multiples déclinaisons. La ren- With Carl Andre, Cory Arcangel, Detanico & Lain, Matan from the historic stock exchange, the Bourse. contre amoureuse bien sûr, mais aussi l’amour des grands-pa- Mittwoch, Bruce Nauman, Joachim Olender, Karin San- rents, l’amour de l’art, les mots de l’amour… chaque pièce de der, Thomas Ruff, Yann Sérandour,… and many more. la maison se fera l’écrin d’une de ces facettes amoureuses. La Loge Van Buuren Museum NADINE Omnia Communia Deserta / Mona Vatamanu and Daniel Dewaere & Gregory Giquiel en Florin Tudor We need to talk / Sara ten Westenend collaboration avec la Galerie Clearing 03.09.2020 - 14.11.2020 03.09.2020 - 20.09.2020 03.09.2020 - 06.09.2020 Over the last two decades, Mona Vǎtǎmanu and Florin Tudor have Sara ten Westenend (NL, 1978) is a visual artist who works and lives in On a beach, amongst the pink rocks, black stone developed a collaborative, research-based practice that looks into Brussels. Her work consists of installations, texts and photographs that blocks. the material and formal manifestations of ideological change. Tracing are always in dialogue with the given context in which they are pre- Small pools of clear water between the boulders, the symbolic remains of power structures in the urban landscape sented. Her abstract visual language combines modernist elements with Body and skin in contact with the polished surface. and architecture, the duo critically engages with issues surrounding humour. Using this language of forms, textures and literature, she tries to A bathroom. To extract this incipient monument, To individual and collective memory in postcommunist society. untangle and confront subjective and objective relations and attitudes. find this moment again, A basin, a bathtub, a bidet, Sculpted out of pink stone. The glitter from the sand The exhibition at La Loge will present Vǎtǎmanu & Tudor’s research on In 2012 she founded the collective ceci with Maaike Gottschal (NL) is sparkling. the Omnia Hall set to become the home of the National Center of Dance and Miriam Rohde (DE/BE) which offers an environment to work to- Sanitary ware — washbasins, bidets, toilets, and a in Bucharest after its restoration and refurbishment. Designed in 1967 by gether outside their individual trajectories and professional back- bathtub — the architect Cezar Lăzărescu as part of the headquarters of the Central grounds (visual arts, architecture, textile, writing and teaching). Are carved out of a block of pink marble stone. Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, Omnia Hall was mainly An ongoing research into the concept of dialogue led to the exhibition ] Smooth, rounded, hollow objects emerge from the used as a location for party rallies. A brutalist building with an interior of EACH[ ANOTHER SELF at nadine in 2019. The in situ work was an instal- material. wooden decorative elements referencing archaic principles and folkloristic lation of which parts were supported by the exhibition space itself. With The mineral sends these modern furnishings back to elements, its socialist modernist architectural setting and its function as a this shaky and at the same time accurate construction she wanted to a state of nature. political arena served the nationalist rhetoric and ideological agenda of make room for doubt. The conversation that took place between diffe- In the garden, the monument evokes nude bodies in Ceaușescu’s regime. rent surfaces - wood, ceramics, text, colour - was a pivotal point between an idyllic world looking and reading and reflected questions both from her as a maker With the extensive renovation plans, the meticulously staged interior of as well as from the viewer. The exhibition could be seen as a question: Omnia hall, its ornaments and sculptural elements, will be dismantled, “What do you think I’m like?”. In September 2020, exactly one year later, obliterating the building’s former symbolic function and its uncomfortable she again presents work at nadine in the solo exhibition “We need to talk.”. historical legacy
The theme of ‘doubt’ that she touched in her first exhibition, will La Maison des Arts be explored further in the upcoming show. “Every idea must be vulnerable.”, from Unfolding Meaning by David Bohm. ‘Vulne- « Tomber en amour » / Collection Veys-Verhaevert rable’ as in, visible from several sides, temporary and negotiable. The exhibition explores the idea of the sculpture as a space, or rather 06.09.2020 - the sculpture as an area (‘gebied’) where the spectator is part of. La Maison des Arts, animée par le Service Culture française de la Commune de Schaerbeek, est un lieu singulier, une maison entièrement classée du début du XIXème siècle rachetée par la commune en 1950. Société La maison, située en intérieur d’îlot, possède également un grand jardin. Les pièces du rez-de-chaussée ont fait l’objet d’une minutieuse restau- From Translating to Transcoding Brussels Gallery Weekend Vander Borght 5754 Brussels Gallery Weekend Vander Borght 55
Curator and Artistes Evelyn Simons
and the artists
Since 2018, Brussels Gallery Weekend has developed its own exhibition, aiming to highlight young artists from Brussels which are not yet represented by galleries. ‘Generation Brussels’ brings together a range of artists living and working in Brussels, whether they’re art school students, recent graduates, up and coming artists, or those with a bit more experience. This year, ‘Generation Brussels’ reinvents itself by connecting private and public spaces. For this new edition, the BGW is pleased to welcome Evelyn Simons, a young Belgian curator living in Brussels. Generation Brussels 2020 brings together a selection of emerging artists, art school students, young artists recently graduated from art schools, and others a little more experienced, living and working in Brussels. This year, Generation Brussels reinvents itself and proposes a journey through the city, combining indoor and public space!
Evelyn Simons
For 2020 we have chosen to collaborate with Belgian curator Evelyn Simons. Her Generation experience and reputation both in Belgium and abroad, as well as her insight in the emerging Brussels arts scene, will amplify this reconfigured edition of Generation Brussels. Challenged by unprecedented circumstances, the exhibition abandons its regular home, and will permeate the city as an artistic itinerary. This approach hints at Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents, an exhibition she curated for Fondazione Prada in Athens as sequence of solo-presentations taking over vacant shopfronts, lively café’s and urban parkings in the neighbourhood of Exarcheia. These projects follow Evelyn’s interest in mediating contemporary art in public space as well as in peripheral contexts Brussels - further explored through her activities with Horst Arts & Music (on the military terrain of Asiat in Vilvoorde), an the soon to be launched Kunsthal Ter Rijst (co-directed with Isabel Van Bos in a renovated neo-classical Castle in the Pajottenland, in the countryside South-West of Brussels). Evelyn and the artists participating in Generation Brussels want to bring their art close to the unassuming wanderers that inhabit this city, as a way to spark imagination, to stir contemplation or to ignite instinctive wonderment with those who weren’t looking for it.
Portrait Evelyn Simons
Artists
Badi Rezzak, Bert Jacobs Carlotta Bailly-Borg Elise Peroi Hélène Meyer Héloïse Rival
Jot Fau mountaincutters Naomi Gilon, Siemen Van Gaubergen Simon Demeuter Tom Hallet Brussels Gallery Weekend Vander Borght 56 Brussels Gallery Weekend Vander Borght 57
Tom Hallet Carlotta Bailly-Borg On view: Galerie Louise, Boulevard de Waterloo 34 Waterloolaan, On view: Galerie Louise, Boulevard de Waterloo 34 Waterloolaan, 1000 Brussels 1000 Brussel Tom Hallet (b. 1990, Leuven) is a visual artist based in Brussels. He is the (b. 1984, Paris) lives and works in Brussels. Her practice oscillates co-founder of Soilcollective and is currently a resident at AAIR Antwerp. His between drawing, painting on canvas, ceramics, frescoes or painting work consists of drawings and sculptures. Hallet presents his drawings as under glass, working an anthropomorphic imagery that draws heavily letters addressed to personal icons - both queers and their violators. His from Greek or Hindu mythological sources, medieval manuscripts sculptures depart by taking the body as emotional geography. By bringing or Japanese erotic representations. The universal occupation with both elements together he investigates the process of transformation physical love, is expressed through the depiction of gender-fluid bodies through the body and the fairy tale as a critical tool to question dominant whose limbs and spirits are wrapped in entanglement, both in awe narratives about gender and sexuality and its representation. and desire, as well as awkward and disjointed towards one another. Bert Jacobs Simon Demeuter On view: Taschen, Rue Lebeau 59 Lebeaustraat, 1000 Bruxelles On view: Rue de la régence 55 Regentschapsstraat, 1000 Brussel Bert Jacobs {b.1987, Turnhout, Belgium} lives and works in Brussels, Simon Demeuter (born in 1991 in Soignies, Belgium) lives and works in Belgium. He is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the field of installation- Brussels. In his practice, Simon seeks a form of immediacy through the art, sculptures, drawings, prints, multiples and editions. While working simplification of forms. It is through colour that he tries to convey a feeling, across a variety of media, Bert Jacobs’ work touches on many relevant topics an emotion, a sensation, a mood, a physical or psychic state. for today, such as the mechanisms of memory and intuition, imagination, He likes to draw from his childhood memories and to nourish himself from collecting, scenography and drawing. Via different collaborations, ranging his travels to enrich his inner landscape. His inspirations are multiple; folk from setting up group-exhibitions, happenings and collaborative projects, art, impressionists, cinema, music,... An object, as insignificant as it may he merges visual art, music and performance in a persistent totality. be, can be the starting point for a new series of paintings. The model can In 2010 he received his Master degree in Fine Arts at School of Arts in Gent. become a motif like any other. The artist can paint it infinitely, it will never In that year he set up Villa Drashhoek: an experimental artist-run-space. have the same face, the same size and will become rich of its imperfections. Jacobs´ work has been exhibited at different places in Europe: Cinema Simon tries to retranscribe the trace of an emotion in the simplest and most Art House Domnakinoto Sofia; Bulgarian Embassy, Helsinki; Hypercorps, stripped down way, it is the medium of painting that offers him this field Brussels; Cinema Kosmos, Plovdiv; Noplace, Oslo; Air Antwerpen; of exploration. KunstWerke Berlin; basis e.v. Frankfurt am Main; KIOSK, Gent; among others.
Hélène Meyer Jot Fau Kunst in Huis On view: Muntpunt, Place de la Monnaie 6 Munt 1000 Brussel Hélène Meyer (b. 1993, Belgium) lives and works in Belgium. Her practice Born in Belgium, in the year 1987. Graduated with a Masters from Marseille’s as a painter is continuously informed by a fascination for spaces and Fine Art school in 2012. their specific architectural qualities. This originated during a residency in Questionning the concept of identity, of doing and becoming. Of searching Morocco, where Meyer was drawn to the symbols found in architecture, and leaving on expeditions. Of remaining and renewal. Of departures textile, ceramics and woodworking by the artisans of Taroudant. The without ever arriving. I’m a harlequin (1) and so is the work. The shapes nearly hypnotic interplay with harsh light and bright colours, allowed for in which it comes are very eclectic. Going from sculptures to installations, these symbols to be abstracted and disconnected from their content, to objects, textile, drawings, videos, poetry, photographs, and sound. become objectified. In Meyer’s paintings, they are appropriated as forms Nevertheless, all of it finds it’s origin in that one mountain of material in that appear architectural, while also organic, creating a new imagined which I’m digging. environment in which they can coexist and shift appearance. These (1) The Harlequin, wearing his coat made out of bits and pieces is the image utopian, nearly psychedelic places, come into being through the animated itself of the multiple and the multitude. The harlequin isn’t part of any gesture of painting. community, but very slightly, he is being part of every single one. - Michel Serres, Le tiers instruit, 1991. mountaincutters
On view: Galerie Louise, Boulevard de Waterloo 34 Waterloolaan, Naomi Gilon 1000 Brussels Mountaincutters (born 1990) is a hybrid identity, a duo of artists working On view: Galerie Louise, Boulevard de Waterloo 34 Waterloolaan, in Brussels. With a focus on in-situ sculpture, they draw on the connection 1000 Brussel between human beings and the environments they inhabit. Their steel Naomi Gillon works essentially on the idea of hybridization of forms and structures, glass elements, ceramics, fabrics and organic materials, as well subjects in an environment which is her own, and which she situates as their poems and copper circuits form temporary ecosystems, in which between the real and the imaginary. energy is channeled between the human, the organic and the inanimate. In order to do so, the artist manipulates all types of materials (imitation mountaincutters’ interventions generate, through the establishment of a leather, fur, car hood, motorcycle tank, plaster, concrete, clay) that she poetic system, an aesthetic uncertainty that favors transient situations and invests in a reality that she desires. unfinished forms. They take analog photographs and unique editions that keep track of these ephemeral scenes. Brussels Gallery Weekend Vander Borght 58 Brussels Gallery Weekend 40Info Galleries & Access 59
Elise Peroi
On view: Galerie Louise, Boulevard de Waterloo 34 Waterloolaan, 1000 Brussels Elise Peroi (b. 1990, Nantes) is a visual artist, weaver and performer, whose practice is informed by a will to reconcile and blur rigid categorisations between craftsmanship, performance and the visual arts in general. Her works are often the result of physical performances with textile, in which ancestral weaving techniques appear like forms of contemporary dance, expressing a quest for unison between the body of the artist and the works she is creating. This encompassing approach often brings her to collaborate with choreographers and musicians, as a way to install a temporal though timeless reality. She depicts opulent, but tranquil landscapes in order to express a poetic encounter between mankind and nature, made apparent through the motif of the garden.
Héloïse Rival
On view: Galerie Louise, Boulevard de Waterloo 34 Waterloolaan, 1000 Brussels Héloïse Rival (born 1990, Paris) studied at ENSAD (Strasbourg) from 2010 to 2011, and continued her studies at La Cambre in Brussels, where she obtained her degree in graphics in 2017. Her practice initially focused on screen printing, distorting and manipulating data. Recently she decided to focus exclusively on ceramics, investigating the bas-relief as a functional object as well as a carrier of narratives. Rival combines mythological scenes with biblical stories and botanical motifs into an imaginative and vivid visual language. Her practice blurs the lines between art and applied crafts. Educational Badi Rezzak
On view: Rue de la régence 55 Regentschapsstraat, 1000 Brussel Badi Rezzak (born in 1990 in France) lives and works in Brussels. He began his career as an artist at the Villa Arson school of Nice where he obtained his DNAP, a national diploma in plastic arts. There he will develop his taste for sculpture and painting. He continued his studies in Brussels and Social at the ERG school (school of graphic research) where he met Christophe Wavelet, critic and curator, as well as Joelle Tuerlinckx, who thaught him more about performance until 2018. Today his work is mainly based around the culture of sports. In a process of archiving, he collects gestures, movements, attitudes, motives in forms of sculpture, painting, performative proposition.
Siemen Van Gaubergen
On view: Taschen, Rue Lebeau 59 Lebeaustraat, 1000 Bruxelles “The first dino bone, was not seen as a dino bone, but just as a very big bone.” - Siemen Van Gaubergen In his practice, Siemen Van Gaubergen investigates contemporary visual culture and the way in which we understand images. Narratives of all kind form the multilayered background against which his images take shape. In the creation of his work, he additionally makes use of existing or newly created photographs, videostills, instruction sheets, language and graphic signs. The result is often complex, and demands to be viewed and reviewed, deciphered. Brussels Gallery Weekend Info & Access 60 Brussels Gallery Weekend Info & Access 61
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National Medias
HART is a Belgian monthly art magazine that is mostly published in Dutch, but does also include sections and supplements in English and/ or French. The magazine covers the art world in Belgium and abroad, in the form of news features, reviews, interviews, city reports, columns, essays, …As HART always followed visit.brussels is the Brussels tourist agency. Its mission is to bolster and spread the image of the Brussels- the Brussels’ art scene from nearby - institutions, galleries, private collections and non-profits – it Capital Region. visit.brussels wishes to put Brussels on the local and international map as the capital became a natural decision to team up with Brussels Gallery Weekend. Also this edition, HART will follow of 500 million Europeans, the «world city» where 180 different nationalities mingle, making Brussels a the events around BGW from nearby: with in-depth reviews and interviews, but also through social media cosmopolitan and cultural place with permanent links to the rest of the world. and our renewed website. For the occasion, we will also launch a free, handy trilingual publication listing the highlights of this year’s edition besides interviews and background information. In September, we will also launch our reshaped magazine in a new design. Meet us in the Vanderborght centre on September 7 during the talk that is organized by HART – theme and speakers to be confirmed – to discover our renewed magazine and to get to know our collaborators.
Avec le soutien de Christos Doulkeridis, Bourgmestre, de Ken Ndiaye, Echevin de la Culture et du Musée, de Art Press is a monthly contemporary art review that celebrates diversity and the breaking of past artistic Els Gossé, Echevine de la Culture néerlandophone et de la Vie de quartier et des membres du Collège des habits. We commemorate change, we look for equality and stand strong in the eyes of injustices as our Bourgmestre et Echevin·e·s de la Commune d’Ixelles | Met de steun van Christos Doulkeridis, burgemeester, founder and editor-in-chief, Catherine Millet, did in 1972 when she founded Art Press. van Ken Ndiaye, schepen van Cultuur en het Museum, van Els Gossé, schepen van Nederlandstalige Cultuur en Although being a french magazine, we have found that working on the international art scene has proven Wijkleven en van het college van burgemeester en schepenen van de gemeente Elsene. to be prosperous. The establishment of a real contemporary art community in Brussels is one of our goals in the logical partnership between Art Press and Brussels Gallery Weekend.
Accessible and international, humorous and playful, smart but jargon-averse, Elephant is the place to discover the art—as well as fashion, film and visual culture—stars of the future. It is passionate about what’s new and what’s next. As such, it aims to give a platform to emerging makers before they achieve wider artworld fame. Published quarterly, each issue of the print magazine is themed. In keeping with the magazine’s mantra of “Life Through Art”, these themes are drawn from everyday life and examined through artists’ responses to create a vital, visual portrait of global 21st-century existence.
Deeply invested in contemporary art, Widewalls magazine aims to provide a unique experience for its readers in form of in-depth and quality journalism. With strong enthusiasm, it became a pertinent source of information and a relevant platform in producing engaging content. Dedicated to art lovers and collectors alike, the magazine offers a comprehensive, year-round coverage of top exhibitions, festivals, events and art fairs worldwide, alongside breaking news and collectors’ tips, elaborated featured articles on various trending topics in arts and the art market, interviews with today’s most intriguing contemporary artists, latest results from art auctions, entertaining «Top lists» and much more. Widewalls provide art lovers and art collectors with one of the best places on the planet to discover modern and contemporary art.
Focus on works, interviews with artists, exhibition reports, Point contemporain makes a commitment with artists and professionals in the art world to share with its readers the best of contemporary creation in France and in Europe. Quarterly, the Contemporary Point magazine tries to favor the meeting of the public with the contemporary art with the desire to place at the heart of its action the word of the artist. In a spirit more qualitative than quantitative, only 500 copies are printed of each issue for the happiness of art lovers and collectors! Brussels Gallery Weekend Our Partners 68 Brussels Gallery Weekend Partners 69
A destination for discovery, Cultured offers a distinct voice at the intersection of contemporary art, architecture, design, and fashion. Cultured speaks to a discerning audience through its compelling interviews, luxurious features and innovative portraits of the personalities shaping the creative world today. Published five times a year, Cultured is where each conversation begins and continues online at culturedmag,com and across social media platforms at @cultured_mag
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TLmag_True Living of Art & Design is an international biannual bilingual print (FR/EN) and continuous online magazine dedicated to curating and capturing the collectible culture. It has evolved for a decade with creative influencers that have shaped the contemporary art and design scene. This latest issue TLmag 31_Îles de la création /Islands of Creation is the Spring-Summer issue «questioning islands referring to “A Field of Islands” (Champs d’Îles) by Martinican author Édouard Glissant, whose vision of a “Whole-World” (Tout-Monde) is so well recounted to us by Hans Ulrich Obrist in his essay opening this edition of the magazine.
Biannual magazine System explores the people and dialogues at the very heart of the fashion industry, those that both reflect and influence the broader worlds of culture, society and business. System examines the most relevant subjects in fashion, presenting meaningful conversational features and compelling photoshoots with high-production values. System’s editorial focus lies in timelessness and the notion of ‘long-form’ journalism. As such its stories are developed over time – anything from six months to up to two years – allowing the editorial team to create biannual issues which are unique, insightful and thought-provoking. Brussels Gallery Weekend Partners 70 Brussels Gallery Weekend Partners 71
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Vellum is a print/e-publication featuring emerging artists in all disciplines. It is written in a non-critical format focusing on the artist’s studio practice. It is geared towards a wide range demographic with a goal of reaching not only art connoisseurs but everyday people who might not otherwise be exposed to young contemporary art.
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Mousse is a contemporary art magazine. Established in 2006, and publishing four issues every year, Mousse is made of interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism, visual arts, and curating today, alternated with a series of feature columns. Mousse is peculiarly printed as a newspaper and bound as a magazine. Mousse keeps tabs on international trends in contemporary culture around the world. Mousse has an average print run of 35,000 copies and widespread distribution in Europe, America, Australia, and Asia, as well as in Italy, where it is available free of charge. After being trained at the names of great names in gastronomy, Arno opens Point Albert in 2012. Catering, home or table d’hotes, this «food enthusiast» lover of beautiful products offers dishes inspired by the market and its impulsivity. Fine groceries with various authentic products, Point Albert also reveals to its guests a wide choice of wines and champagnes. Perfect alliance with the flavors found on the plate. To meet the various expectations of customers, Arno and his team offer home delivery service or home catering to satisfy your festive and gourmet desires. Brussels Gallery Weekend Partners 72 Brussels Gallery Weekend Partners 73
As a Contemporary Art Centre of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the “Musée de la Photographie” has been installed in a refurbished, Neo-Gothic, former Carmelite convent since 1987. Today, thanks to the addition of Others a new contemporary wing, it has become the most extensive and one of the most important photography museums in Europe. It is a place where photography reveals all its artistic and technical diversity through three circuits across more than 2,200 m^2 of exhibition. Almost 800 photographs taken from collections tell the history of photography from the pioneers to contemporary creation, in Belgium and throughout the world. Located in and around Brussels, it is the first to offer families the largest offer of funeral services. It The many temporary exhibitions explore all aspects of the medium in order to sketch as broad as possible brings together women and men with natural empathy and a great sense of listening. She is a pioneer in a panorama of both Belgian and international, historical and contemporary photography. Passionate about the sale of funeral formulas online with cremation and / or burial, accessible and quality. The first agency contemporary art and photography, the staff of the “ Musée de la Photographie ” is used to re-discover the was taken over in 2010 in the Altitude Cent district of Uccle, with the aim of offering quality, dignified, panorama of contemporary art through art experiences, fairs… Through the Brussels Gallery Weekend, the “ warm and friendly services, at a fair price. Starting in 2017, senior management has evolved to foster Musée de la Photographie ” has the opportunity to create synergies by inviting his VIP Friends Of to visit the rapid growth and build a strong team. Today, the company is a leader in funeral services in and around different galleries in Brussels and meet new artists, other art lovers or collectors. Brussels.
The 37th edition of Art Brussels took place in April 2019. Since 1968, Art Brussels has played a pivotal role to the energy that exists today in the contemporary Belgian contemporary art scene. As the leading Benelux contemporary art fair, Art Brussels is delighted to support for the fifth year the Brussels Gallery Weekend as a preferred partner. This cheerful season opening event celebrates Brussels as a contemporary art city and unites an interesting selection of players in Brussels who hold a leadership role in the contemporary art scene throughout the year. Besides promoting the galleries, Art Brussels and the Brussels Gallery Weekend share another important interest: connecting the contemporary art scene to art lovers. During the Brussels Gallery Weekend, Art Brussels is happy to offer a shuttle service that brings the art lovers from one gallery district to another. Circulation is an important element to enhance the success of the Brussels Gallery Weekend. We hope this will serve galleries, artists and thousands of art lovers and look forward to welcome every one again for the 38th edition of Art Brussels, from 23rd to 26th April 2020.
Before its extensive renovation in 2015, the BPS22 was known as a space for contemporary creation, a pioneer of Charleroi’s cultural development since the beginning of the century. Today, the BPS22 is a major art museum in the Belgian cultural landscape, setting itself apart with its specialised, at times radical, exhibitions, yet accessible to all thanks to innovative mediation activities. Anxious to contribute to the elaboration of critical thought, relations between art, power and society are the main focuses of the Museum’s programming and acquisition policy. Partner of the Brussels Gallery Weekend, the BPS22 supports the current artistic creation and is interested in all the events that open the world of contemporary art to the widest audience. Brussels Gallery Weekend Partners 74 Brussels Gallery Weekend Partners 75
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Billy offers shared electric bikes in Brussels. As a local company, Billy’s mission is to offer an alternative law to cars, to effectively improve the quality of life not only of their users but also of every Brusseleir. By partnering up with Brussels Gallery Weekend and offering free riding credit to its visitors, Billy aims to give the BGW audience the opportunity to easily and freely move between the different participating galleries, while discovering a new mobility solution that they might incorporate in their daily routine.
La coopérative Molenbike : votre partenaire logistique pour le transport à vélo, du pli à l’armoire normande. Molenbike est une coopérative de coursiers bruxellois, active depuis 2017, spécialisée dans le transport de marchandises à vélo pour les professionnels et les particuliers. Nous mettons un point d’honneur à développer une logistique de qualité et de faible impact environnemental. Dans une logique équitable, Molenbike offre à ses coursiers un emploi durable et justement rémunéré.
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