NECA — Art Exhibitions Opening Soon in Brussels

Antoine Wagner - 'Liquid'

Thu 26 April 17:00

La Patinoire Royale - galerie Valérie Bach

Rue Veydt, 15 - 1060 Saint-Gilles map +32 (0)2 502 78 24

The Valérie Bach gallery is situated in an exceptional place, an industrial-style complex listed as part of Brussels architectural heritage. The gallery focuses at supporting artists living in Belgium and introducing foreign contemporary artists, up-and-coming or established, painters, sculptors, visual artists and photographers who have captured its interest and whose work it has been following for several years.

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Filip Dujardin - 'Overview'

Sat 28 April 12:00

Atelier 34zero Muzeum

Drève de Rivieren, 334 - 1090 Jette map 02-428.33.06

A visual artist from Ghent, passionated about photography and architecture, Filip Dujardin designs unique works that reinvent the urban space. Between realism and fiction, his photographic assemblies stimulate our attention and sharpen our eyes by proposing a new point of view on the environment that surrounds us. Alongside many photographs presented in the museum's rooms, the highlight of this exhibition is the creation of six new banners - manipulated, mixed and rearranged panoramas of the cities of Ghent, Brussels and Katowice (PL) where the artist recently exposed – which will be placed in the cultural park of Atelier 34zero Muzeum.

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PRODUCTORA & piovenefabi

Tue 08 May 18:00

Maniera

Place de la Justice, 27 28 - 1000 Brussels map + 32 (0)494 787 290

MANIERA commissions architects and artists to develop limited edition furniture series. As architects often have a close relationship with the visual arts and artists are often inspired by the spatial environment, MANIERA intends to crystalize these proximities into new design proposals. More than just furniture, the objects issued by MANIERA are a deliberate search for collisions between the realms of architecture, design and art.

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Dependencies - Hana Miletić (Kunstenfestivaldesarts)

By Hana Miletić ; Curated by Caroline Dumalin ; Kunstenfestivaldesarts, WIELS, Beursschouwburg, Globe Aroma (Presentation)

Wiels - Contemporary art centre

Avenue Van Volxem, 354 - 1190 Forest map + 32 (0)2-340.00.50

Hana Miletić is an astute observer of social realities that often go unnoticed on the streets. With an eye for the prevailing scarcity and neglect, she explores the city and its migration-formed communities. She makes connections between what we pay attention to and our ideas about value. The influence of street photography is never far off, and her education in art history and gender studies is also reflected in her work. This takes various forms, from sculptures and textiles to poetry and performance. At
WIELS, Miletić exhibits work that departs from a feminist perspective on labour and care, such as a series of hand-woven textile works. She studies how certain tasks conventionally assigned to women and/or migrants are undervalued in patriarchal, capitalist societies, and introduces this issue in collaborative programmes comprising of lectures, performances, film screenings, and workshops. The reading group Knowledge Is A Does, including Miletić, presents an evening for theory and poetry
called Disassemblies in the Beursschouwburg. Besides, Miletić facilitates two workshops at WIELS, together with the open arthouse Globe Aroma.

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Get Up Stand Up!

Wed 09 May 18:00

MIMA the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art Museum

Quai du Hainaut, 39-41 - 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean map

The MIMA is situated on the remarkable site of the former brewery Belle-Vue beside the canal in the center of Brussels. The MIMA is a new museum with an international vocation that advances contemporary, accessible and viral creations such as Street Art. The MIMA presents temporary exhibitions, encounters, projections, concerts, performances as well as a permanent collection. It also houses an art shop, a restaurant and two magnificent panoramic viewing points over the canal and Brussels in a magnificent building covering four different floors.

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Rites of Exchange (performative lectures)

HISK artists
Sofia Caesar, Goeun Choi, Lisette de Greeuw, Megan-Leigh Heilig, Roel Heremans, Hannah Mevis, Mark Požlep, Marijke De Roover, Lisa Wilkens

Curatorial Studies (KASK) Curators
Nathalie Cohen, Romuald Demidenko, Maxime Gourdon, Hélène Jacques, Alicja Melzacka, Benedict Vandaele, Anna Zhironkina

ISELP

Boulevard de Waterloo, 31 - 1000 Brussels map +32 (0)2 504 80 70

Founded in 1971, the iselp – higher institute for the study of the language of the plastic arts – is a place where contemporary art is approached from various, mutually enriching points of view. This plurality is what makes it different: the monstration, discussion, research, mediation and publishing activities take into account the great wealth of the current art scene. The iselp puts on several exhibitions each year (one-man exhibitions by national and international artists, group or themed exhibitions), which follow the topical relevance of contemporary creative work by giving priority to young Belgian artists. At the same time, the institute is developing an artists’ residency programme that focuses on research, innovation and exchange. The iselp encourages critical debate on contemporary art by offering conferences, screenings, symposiums, meetings, readings, guided tours, cultural trips and educational activities.

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Laurent Van Lancker - 'Disorientation(s)'

Sat 12 May 18:00

ARGOS, Centre for Art & Media

Werfstraat/ Rue du Chantier, 13 - 1000 Brussels map +00 32 (0)2 229 00 03

The Argos art centre was founded in 1989 to stimulate and promote audio-visual art. Today the institution, which is located near the canal in downtown Brussels, is regarded as the country’s main source of reference for this type of artistic practice. Argos presents a diverse programme through exhibitions of audio-visual and visual art, film and video screenings, lectures, and performances.

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Bie Michels & Marie Voignier - 'Dialoguing Gazes'

Sat 12 May 18:00

ARGOS, Centre for Art & Media

Werfstraat/ Rue du Chantier, 13 - 1000 Brussels map +00 32 (0)2 229 00 03

The Argos art centre was founded in 1989 to stimulate and promote audio-visual art. Today the institution, which is located near the canal in downtown Brussels, is regarded as the country’s main source of reference for this type of artistic practice. Argos presents a diverse programme through exhibitions of audio-visual and visual art, film and video screenings, lectures, and performances.

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State of Statelessness

Sabrina Chou, Marijke De Roover, Yuki Okumura, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (Chris Dreier & Gary Farrelly), Meggy Rustamova, Eleonore Saintagnan, Gen Ueda, Jonathan Vinel, Beny Wagner, Justyna Wierzchowiecka. Un projet de Alicja Melzacka, Hilde Borgermans, Maxime Gourdon, Romuald Demidenko

Sat 12 May 19:00

ISELP

Boulevard de Waterloo, 31 - 1000 Brussels map +32 (0)2 504 80 70

Founded in 1971, the iselp – higher institute for the study of the language of the plastic arts – is a place where contemporary art is approached from various, mutually enriching points of view. This plurality is what makes it different: the monstration, discussion, research, mediation and publishing activities take into account the great wealth of the current art scene. The iselp puts on several exhibitions each year (one-man exhibitions by national and international artists, group or themed exhibitions), which follow the topical relevance of contemporary creative work by giving priority to young Belgian artists. At the same time, the institute is developing an artists’ residency programme that focuses on research, innovation and exchange. The iselp encourages critical debate on contemporary art by offering conferences, screenings, symposiums, meetings, readings, guided tours, cultural trips and educational activities.

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Ermias Kifleyesus - 'Grapes darken by looking at each other'

Wed 16 May 19:00

Kusseneers Gallery

Rue de Menin - 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean map +32 475 651109

Kusseneers gallery is a contemporary art gallery and opened its doors on September 11, 2003 in the south of Antwerp. End 2013, the gallery moved to a large industrial building in Brussels.
Open to all media, the gallery presents the work of emerging and mid-career artists. Its programme encourages diversity and experimentation, and strives to present all of the artists’ work within a heathy cultural context, to give the viewer the best opportunity to gain understanting of the artist's intentions.

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Thomas Houseago

Thu 17 May 17:00

Xavier Hufkens II

Rue Saint-Georges, 107 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-639.67.31

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Une collection de photographies

Nobuyoshi Araki, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Balthasar Burkhard, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Michel François, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin,
Robert Mapplethorpe, Eadweard Muybridge, Helmut Newton, Thomas Ruff, Sam Samore, Stephen Shore, Jeanloup Sieff, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Bernard Voïta, William Wegman, James Welling

Thu 17 May 18:00

Rodolphe Janssen

Rue de Livourne, 35 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-538.08.18

Since it was opened in 1991, the gallery has held more than 120 exhibitions and taken part in forty or so international fairs (Art Basel, Fiac, Art Brussels, etc.). In the first few years of its existence, the gallery was recognised for its programme of photographers such as diCorcia, Stephen Shore, Sam Samore, and Balthasar Burkhard. Since 2000, it has also been championing a generation of artists using various media, such as Wim Delvoye (B), Jean-Luc Moerman (B), Banks Violette (USA), and Farhad Moshiri (Iran).

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Charlemagne Palestine

+ Performance Charlemagne Palestine and Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson

Fri 18 May 20:00

NICC

Rue Lambert Crickx - 1070 Anderlecht map 0485-62.51.34

The International Cultural Centre (ICC) in Antwerp was the first official institution for contemporary art in Flanders. In the 70s and early 80s the organization contributed significantly to the dissemination and encouragement of the Belgian and foreign avant-garde art. Now established in Brussels, NICC creates spaces for interaction between visual artists, institutions and society, with specific attention to the position of the visual artist, on a local, regional and international level.
NICC plays an active role in the support and self-realisation of the professional visual artist. Its aim is to function as a first contact and mouthpiece for visual artists, striving for a qualitative social framework enabling the visual artist to develop his/her practice in a professional and autonomous way.

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Malte Zenses - 'have you ever heard about der Traum ist aus?'

solo show in collaboration with Ricardo Domeneck

Wed 23 May 17:00

Damien & the love guru

Rue de Tamines, 19 - 1060 Saint-Gilles map

Damien & The Love Guru is a Brussels-based curatorial field of experimentation in contemporary art with an anthropological twist. It is currently functioning as an art space staging compelling and non-conventional exhibitions by emerging artists. Our mission is to activate immersions in and critical approaches to the cross-disciplinary fields of visual art, performance and sound via independent projects and collaborations. At Damien & The Love Guru we channel the emphasis of an art project as a way to create an inclusive and tangible environment.

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Ross Bleckner - 'Time of disquiet'

Thu 24 May 16:00

Maruani Mercier

Avenue Louise, 430 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 2 512 50 10

Representing 20 artists, MARUANI MERCIER is a contemporary art gallery. Since opening its doors in 1995 it has focused on established artists from the USA in the ‘80’s. The gallery has maintained a long-term representation of influential artists like Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Francesco Clemente, Eric Fischl, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, McDermott & McGough, and Sue Williams.
At the turn of the new century, the gallery has developed its program with emerging artists such as Lyle Ashton Harris, David Lachapelle, Hank Willis Thomas and Wendy White.

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Claudio Abate

Thu 24 May 17:00

Almine Rech Gallery

Rue de l'Abbaye, 20 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-648.56.84

Occupying an impressive space in Ixelles, the Parisian gallery defines its strategy according to strong individual characters : the artists. They are invited to feel free to use the gallery space as they wish. Based on minimalist and conceptual artists, the programme includes artists whose works, using different media, can be compared beyond styles and beyond their generation, within the gallery.

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Surya Ibrahim - 'Entreprises de l’absence'

Thu 24 May 17:00

Jozsa Gallery

Rue Saint-Georges, 24 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 478 48 77 09

Open since January 2007, Jozsa presents and supports promising artists from Belgium and abroad. Its programming explores the diversity of languages and media of present-day art. With confidence and enthusiasm, the very energetic Catherine Jozsa is not afraid to champion a vision and media underappreciated by the public, in particular video and installation.

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Adam Henry - 'The Sun Never Heard of a Day'

Thu 24 May 18:00

Meessen De Clercq

Rue de l'Abbaye, 2/A - 1000 Brussels map 02-644.34.54

In 2008, Olivier Meessen and Jan De Clercq created a new platform for contemporary art in Brussels. Spread over three floors of a house built in 1911, the gallery presents solo and curated group shows, creating catalogues in close collaboration with the artists involved. By 2018, Meessen De Clercq will be able to look back on seventy solo exhibitions, thirteen group shows and twelve publications (often first monographs on emerging artists). The gallery has participated in forty-seven international art fairs, including Art Basel, Frieze New York and Fiac.

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Traces écrites

Nikolaus Gansterer, Jason Gringler, Katharina Hinsberg, Rebecca Horn, Christine Ödlund, Arnulf Rainer, Santiago Reyes Villaveces, Bernardí Roig, Giuseppe Stampone

Thu 24 May 18:00

MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch

Rue Saint-Georges, 13 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 2 648 21 01

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Felipe Pantone - 'Solo Show'

Thu 24 May 18:00

Alice Gallery

Rue du Pays de Liège, 4 - 1000 Brussels map 02-513.33.07

ALICE Gallery opened in 2005 in the center of Brussels. Founded by Alice van den Abeele and Raphaël Cruyt.
The gallery has gained a reputation by supporting both emerging and established contemporary artists working in all media : sculpture, painting, photography and new media. The gallery represents artists who share an aesthetic that combines the codes of contemporary art with those of subcultures.
They include Clare Rojas, Maya Hayuk, Steve Powers, Boris Tellegen aka Delta, Parra, Paul Wackers, Nicolas Karakatsanis, MOMO, Atelier Pica Pica, Todd James, Hell'O and Mon Colonel & Spit.

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Line Boogaerts invited by Koen Leemans

Fri 25 May 15:00

Hopstreet Windows

Rue Saint-Georges, 109 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 2 511 05 55

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Matthieu Ronsse

Fri 25 May 17:00

Almine Rech Gallery

Rue de l'Abbaye, 20 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-648.56.84

Occupying an impressive space in Ixelles, the Parisian gallery defines its strategy according to strong individual characters : the artists. They are invited to feel free to use the gallery space as they wish. Based on minimalist and conceptual artists, the programme includes artists whose works, using different media, can be compared beyond styles and beyond their generation, within the gallery.

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Tatiana Defraine and Romain Juan - 'This is a love song'

Fri 25 May 18:00

Deborah Bowmann

avenue Jean Volders, 24 - 1060 Saint-Gilles map

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Thorsten Brinkmann

Sat 26 May 15:00

Hopstreet Gallery

Rue Saint-Georges, 109 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 2 511 05 55

Marie-Paule Grusenmeyer and Pascal Lambrecht are the driving force behind Hopstreet Gallery. Located in Galerie Rivoli, a shopping precinct built in the seventies that houses several galleries spaces, they promote artists that have a common interest in the sculptural and the spatial. They work like archaeologists and are interested both in the physical object and the nature of the meaning of objects. The main gallery space also hosts a box for curated shows or guest artists.
The artists attached to the Hopstreet Gallery include Bas van den Hurk, Davide Bertocchi, Sara Bjarland, Thorsten Brinkmann, Veronica Brovall, Jonathan Callan, Christof Mascher, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Egon Van Herreweghe and Tinus Vermeersch.

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Material Longevities : A conversation between Andy Hunt, Diana Kaur and Tris Vonna-Michell

Jan Mot

Petit Sablon / Kleine Zavel, 10 - 1000 Brussels map 02-514.10.10

Jan Mot is a leading conceptual art gallery that focuses on eclectic programming, with both Belgian and international artists. Jan Mot represents Francis Alÿs, Sven Augustijnen, Pierre Bismuth, stanley brouwn, Manon de Boer, Rineke Dijkstra, Mario Garcia Torres, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Joachim Koester, David Lamelas, Sharon Lockhart, Tino Sehgal, Philippe Thomas, Tris Vonna-Michell and Ian Wilson.

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Thomas Dupal - 'Song of Selfie' (one night performance)

Island

rue Général Leman, 69 - 1040 Etterbeek map 02-648.40.06

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Leaving Room

Ramy Fischler (Dora Garcia, Christian Hidaka, Stefan Nikolaev, Dan Perjovschi, Enrique Ramìrez, Michael Riedel, Edgar Sarin, Anne-Marie Schneider, Franck Scurti, Sophie Whettnall, Raphaël Zarka)

Thu 31 May 18:00

Michel Rein

Rue Washington, 51 A - 1050 Ixelles map 02-640.26.40

After spending several years collecting works of art, each purchased as and when they appealed to him, Michel Rein decided to open a gallery in Tours in 1992. There, he exhibits the work of prestigious artists such as Philippe Mayaux, Chen Zen, Allan Sekula and Daniel Buren. After seven years, Michel Rein closed the gallery in Tours and, in 2000, opened a space in Paris. The list of represented artists was added to with artists who have since then gained renown, such as ORLAN, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Saâdane Afif and Didier Marcel, as well as young artists including Armand Jalut and Raphaël Zarka. In 2013, Michel Rein opened a new space in Brussels with the desire to offer his artists a new market and give the gallery a European dimension.

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William Allen - 'Good Fish - Bad Fish'

Thu 31 May 18:00

Super Dakota

Rue Washington, 45 - 1050 Ixelles map + 31 (0)2-649.17.72

Founded in 2012, Galerie Dakota became the Super Dakota gallery. Continuing the initial reasoning behind Dakota - to discover and promote up-and-coming young artists - Super Dakota is renewing this ambition and confirming its determination to be more open to international art. This decision is consistent with the perspective of contemporary art as a demanding discipline whose roots lie deep in the history of art and with the search for a dialogue between generations in order to produce creative synergy.

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David Lamelas - 'Murs pliés. Gevouwen muren.'

Fri 01 June 18:00

Jan Mot

Petit Sablon / Kleine Zavel, 10 - 1000 Brussels map 02-514.10.10

Jan Mot is a leading conceptual art gallery that focuses on eclectic programming, with both Belgian and international artists. Jan Mot represents Francis Alÿs, Sven Augustijnen, Pierre Bismuth, stanley brouwn, Manon de Boer, Rineke Dijkstra, Mario Garcia Torres, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Joachim Koester, David Lamelas, Sharon Lockhart, Tino Sehgal, Philippe Thomas, Tris Vonna-Michell and Ian Wilson.

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Alexandre da Cunha and E'wao Kagoshima

Fri 01 June 18:00

Office Baroque

Place du Jardin aux Fleurs, 5 - 1000 Brussels map 0484-59.92.28

Originating from Antwerp, Office Baroque opened a new place in Brussels at the end of 2013, in an impressive Art Nouveau building designed by the architect Paul Hamesse, which used to house a former brewery. The gallery represents both promising and more established, European and American artists.

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Lawrence (Felt) - 'Second Thoughts'

Selected Drafts and Notes compiled and arranged by Paul Kelly and Christian Flamm

Fri 01 June 19:00

dépendance

Rue du Marché aux Porcs, 4 - 1000 Brussels map 02-217.74.00

The Brussels-based gallery dépendance was founded in 2003 by Michael Callies and Stephan Jaax. The gallery’s artist programme includes the work of contemporary artists who take a social and political stance and operate both inside and outside the established art circuit. dépendance was among the first galleries to open a space in downtown Brussels, which later became the most significant area for young art in the Belgian capital, with both commercial and non-profit spaces.

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L’industrie…Et après?

Claire Chevrier, Jean-Pierre Gilson, Marc Pataut, Bernard Plossu, Jorge Ribalta, Michel Séméniako, Valentine Solignac

Tue 05 June 18:00

Contretype

Cité Fontainas, 4 A - 1060 Saint-Gilles map + 32 (0)2 538 42 20

Contretype is an association that was founded in 1978 by Jean-Louis Godefroid (1952-2013). It describes itself as an exhibition, production and distribution space focusing on creative photography irrespective of particular practices or genres. For more than thirty years, Contretype has been engaged in catering for European and extra-European artistic output in Brussels and, by establishing working relationships with its partners, distributing the output of Belgian artists abroad. The main activities of Contretype are : exhibitions in Hannon House or, externally, setting up photographic missions, artists’ residencies, publishing photography books and portfolios and holding conferences on photography.

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Design Generations. Intersections 5

42|54, Alain Berteau, Alain Gilles, Damien Gernay, Hoet & Hoet, IOL, Jean-François D'Or, Kaspar Hamacher, Luc Druez and Sylvain Willenz

Tue 05 June 19:00

ADAM – Brussels Design Museum

Place de Belgique, 1 - 1020 Laeken map 02/475 47 64

Exhibition in cooperation with Wallonia-Brussels Design-Mode (WBDM) as part of the biennale in contemporary design of the ADAM. ‘Design Generations’ invites to look at design in a different way, hustling the dichotomy between subject and object. A tale for children, which, thanks to an open staging and interactive animations, explains the importance of design and its cultural value. But above all, an experience that allows us to better understand the objects that surround us, in our homes and in our cities, which, as the characters in a story, have meaning and give meaning to life.
This exhibition is a tribute to life, ours and that of the design objects: everyday interfaces, custodians of valuable legacies of the past, social and aesthetic experiences, production models and sustainable products, vectors of innovative scenarios for a better future.

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Louise Boghossian - 'Ocytocine'

Wed 06 June 18:00

Island

rue Général Leman, 69 - 1040 Etterbeek map 02-648.40.06

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Matt Connors

Thu 07 June 17:00

Xavier Hufkens

Rue Saint-Georges, 6 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-639.67.30

Xavier Hufkens is one of the most influential galleries for contemporary art in Europe. When it opened in 1987, Xavier Hufkens concentrated on promising artists at that time, such as Felix-Gonzalez-Torres, Anthony Gormley and Jessica Stockholder. In 1992, its move to a 19th-century house renovated by Robbrecht Daem and Marie-Josée Van Hee coincided with the representation of a selection of established artists. Today, with thirty or so artists of different generations (including Richard Artschwager, Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Adam Fuss, and Hans Op de Beeck), Hufkens runs a varied programme of exhibitions with solo exhibitions by the gallery’s artists and group shows and specific projects. The gallery offers a unique combination of paintings, drawings, sculptures, photography, video and installation work. In 2013, the gallery opened another space on the same street. This new space was designed by Swiss architect Harry Gugger. An eclectic but nonetheless very clear vision underlies all the gallery’s activities.

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Claude Viallat - 'Les échelles de Nîmes'

Thu 07 June 17:30

Templon

Rue Veydt, 13 a - 1060 Saint-Gilles map + 32 (0) 2 537 13 17

Daniel Templon founded his gallery in 1966 in Paris, at just 21 years of age. At the time, Templon was one of the French pioneers of contemporary art. Many artists, who now form part of the history of art, have been represented by the gallery : Boltanski, Buren, de Kooning, Cucchi and Warhol, among others. Daniel Templon has always been very influential in the world of art in France, notably through his magazine Art Press and his association of collectors ADIAF. In 2013, at the age of 68, the Parisian gallery owner decided to open a new space near rue Louise in the Belgian capital. Today, the gallery is still true to its principles, representing thirty or so international artists. The programme is designed to promote a dialogue between different generations : established artists of “classic” contemporary art, international artists in mid-career, and experiences of younger artists.

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Joshua Smith

Thu 07 June 18:00

Albert Baronian

Rue Isidore Verheyden, 2 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-512.92.95

Albert Baronian opened his first gallery in 1973 and immediately enjoyed international success thanks to the presentation of Arte Povera artists Alighiero e Boetti, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini and Gilberto Zorio. Later, as the president of the Gallery's Association, the Brussels Art fair took a more international turn whilst under his direction. He sees the responsibility of the gallery as threefold : to work for the long term development of each artists' career while acting as a liaison to international galleries and museums as well as placing works in collections ; to create an historical archive for each artist ; and to act as an accessible public space in which the exhibitions become an exemplary gesture of the power of subjectivity to the audience at large.
The program is dedicated to contemporary art as well as important artistic movements and artists that have defined the last forty years.

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Group Show

Thu 07 June 18:00

Dvir Gallery

Rue de la Régence, 67 - 1000 Brussels map +32 2 513 69 90

The Rue de la Régence 67 is definitely one of the liveliest gallery hubs in Brussels.
Also Dvir Gallery from Israel chose this neighbourhood to settle in Brussels, on the first floor of the front Building.
The gallery was established in 1982 by Dvir Intrator, who wanted to promote contemporary Israeli art.
In the mid-1990s, the gallery started to represent international artists such as Douglas Gordon, Lawrence Weiner, Jonathan Monk, Adel Abdessemed amongst many others.
Gallery co-director Yotam Shalit-Intrator explained that the decision to expand was a natural progression of the gallery’s activities.
After combining their three spaces around Tel Aviv into a five-story building, where the gallery is still housed today, it was time to grow outside of Tel Aviv.

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Rajak Ohanian

Thu 07 June 18:00

Albert Baronian II

Rue de la Concorde, 33 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-512.92.95

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Robert Nava

Thu 07 June 18:00

Sorry We're Closed

Rue de la Régence, 67 - 1000 Brussels map +32 478 354 213

Sorry We’re Closed is a contemporary art gallery created by Sebastien Janssen. The focus of the gallery is upon mid-career and emerging artists from Belgium and abroad. Since 2015, the gallery is located in a new 130 meter square space, in the center of Brussels. The gallery maintains a diverse exhibition program with solo exhibitions of the gallery artists as well as group exhibitions and special projects as editing artists jewels or showing vernacular photography.

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Tatiana Wolska - 'Transgression'

Thu 07 June 18:00

Irène Laub Gallery

Rue Van Eyck, 29 - 1050 Ixelles map +00 32 2 647 55 16

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Etienne Courtois, Paul Lee, Bernd Lohaus, Richard Nonas

Thu 07 June 18:00

OV Project

rue Van Eyck, 57 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-201.37.83

o v project, conceived by Olivier Vrankenne, is located in uptown Brussels. Its ambition is to create 'projects in a room' that the Brussels-based architecture firm Lhoas and Lhoas has been invited to design a unique space.

Our main objective is to confront various disciplines and artistic languages in a shared environment to generate a sense of curiosity and critical thinking. OV aims to create interactions and previously unseen connections between different artistic fields, based on mutual dialogues beyond traditional art histories. With flexibility at the heart of its programming, OV will be simultaneously launching its off-site hors les murs projects.

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Walter Robinson + Adrianne Rubenstein

Thu 07 June 18:00

Stems Gallery

Rue de la Concorde, 68 - 1000 Brussels map +32 470 40 27 75

Among the latest newcomers to the Brussels gallery scene is Stems Gallery, which was launched at the beginning of 2015 by Pascaline and Guillaume Smets. The gallery aims to focus on young, upcoming talent and has a penchant for American artists like Zach Reini, Leon Benn, and Matt Connolly and the New York-based Greek artist Panos Tsagaris, known for work in which he overpaints the texts on the front page of the New York Times with gold paint. The gallery often chooses to work with curators. Hence, its opening show – which brought together a varied mix of artists, from Jack Lavender to Henning Bohl and Ben Vautier – was curated by Rob Tufnell.

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Artist talk Simon Starling

NICC

Rue Lambert Crickx - 1070 Anderlecht map 0485-62.51.34

The International Cultural Centre (ICC) in Antwerp was the first official institution for contemporary art in Flanders. In the 70s and early 80s the organization contributed significantly to the dissemination and encouragement of the Belgian and foreign avant-garde art. Now established in Brussels, NICC creates spaces for interaction between visual artists, institutions and society, with specific attention to the position of the visual artist, on a local, regional and international level.
NICC plays an active role in the support and self-realisation of the professional visual artist. Its aim is to function as a first contact and mouthpiece for visual artists, striving for a qualitative social framework enabling the visual artist to develop his/her practice in a professional and autonomous way.

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Lucas Arruda - 'Neutral Corner'

Fri 08 June 17:00

Mendes Wood DM

Rue des Sablons, 13 - 1000 Brussels map +32 (0)2-502.09.64

Mendes Wood DM was founded in 2010 by partners Felipe Dmab, Matthew Wood and Pedro Mendes with the intent to exhibit international and Brazilian artists in a context conducive to critical dialogue and cross-pollination. Central to the gallery’s program is a concern for regional difference and individuation while fostering cosmopolitanism and collaboration. Inspired by a belief that artistic practices broaden the scope of human agency and have the power to both touch and change the world, Mendes Wood DM cultivates a program premised on conceptualism, political resistance and intellectual rigor.

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Josef Koudelka

Wed 13 June 18:00

Botanique

Rue Royale, 236 - 1210 Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode map +00 32 22183732

The former botanical gardens provide the unique location for the stylish cultural centre of the French community and are a great place to relax. Concerts are held in the intimate surroundings of its eight spaces and multipurpose halls, of which the most famous are the Orangerie, the Rotonde, the Museum, and the Witloof Bar.

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Philippe Herbet - 'Vagabondage et fugue avec Albert Dada'

+ artist talk and presentation at 16h + end of season drink at 17h.

Eté 78

Rue de l'Eté, 78 - 1050 Ixelles map

ETE 78 is an independant, non commercial art space, which opended its doors in February 2014. It is located in Ixelles, close to the "Université Libre" of Brussels. It can be visited by appointment only. All visitors will receive a guided tour, since the personal encounter and discusions with our visitors are at the heart of the project. Our programm focusses on visual arts;

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Summer Exhibition (Group Show)

Wed 20 June 17:00

Galerie Nathalie Obadia

Rue Charles Decoster, 8 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 (0) 2 648 14 05

Parisian gallery Nathalie Obadia opened a branch in Brussels in September 2008. In beautiful contemporary spaces, the gallery represents the artists championed by the Parisian owner from the early days, including the late Martin Barré, Pascal Pinaud and Carole Benzaken. The Belgian outlet also has its own programme, combining painting, sculpture, video and installations.

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Group show curated by Kasper Bosmans

Thu 21 June 18:00

Gladstone Gallery

Rue du Grand Cerf, 12 - 1000 Brussels map 02-513.35.31

Gladstone Gallery is a leading gallery dedicated to contemporary art founded by Barbara Gladstone. Based in New York and Brussels, it represents no fewer than 35 internationally renowned artists, such as Anish Kapoor, Shirin Neshat, or more emerging artists. The Brussels gallery, situated in a building with a personal atmosphere, has already exhibited the work of artists such as Carroll Dunham, Roe Ethridge, Wangechi Mutu and Dave Muller.

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Eric Croes & Jean-Baptiste Bernadet - ‘Le quart d’heure américain’

Sat 23 June 20:00

NICC

Rue Lambert Crickx - 1070 Anderlecht map 0485-62.51.34

The International Cultural Centre (ICC) in Antwerp was the first official institution for contemporary art in Flanders. In the 70s and early 80s the organization contributed significantly to the dissemination and encouragement of the Belgian and foreign avant-garde art. Now established in Brussels, NICC creates spaces for interaction between visual artists, institutions and society, with specific attention to the position of the visual artist, on a local, regional and international level.
NICC plays an active role in the support and self-realisation of the professional visual artist. Its aim is to function as a first contact and mouthpiece for visual artists, striving for a qualitative social framework enabling the visual artist to develop his/her practice in a professional and autonomous way.

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Celebration of Le Grand BanKet’s two years anniversary With the artist Françoise Schein

CENTRALE for contemporary art

Place Sainte-Catherine, 44 - 1000 Brussels map 02-279 64 35 / 52

The ambition of the CENTRALE for contemporary entrale is to give contemporary visual arts the widest possible audience. This centre for contemporary art of Brussels City seeks to raise questions about today’s society. The idea is to be a space that is open to the world, Europe, the city and the neighbour-hood, and to respond to the specific characteristics of Brussels, with its diverse population and rich cultures.
With the CENTRALE.box and the CENTRALE.lab the CENTRALE for contemporary art supports the emerging, young creation and experimentation.

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Antoine Neufmars, Cie Garçon Garçon - 'GEN Z, searching for beauty'

Wed 27 June 18:30

CENTRALE.lab

Place Sainte-Catherine, 16 - 1000 Brussels map +32 (0)2-279.64.44/52

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Letters of Last Resort

Group project featuring:Henry Andersen, Anna Bak, Eric Baudelaire, Tatiana Bohm, Simon Bedwell, Laurie Charles, Anthony Colclough, Liam Gillick, Jenny Holzer, Lukas Müller, Office For Joint Administrative Intelligence, Linder Sterling, Parasite 2.0., Suzanne Treister, Frank Wasser, Zero Desk
Curated / Edited by Pádraic E. Moore

Fri 29 June 17:00

Damien & the love guru

Rue de Tamines, 19 - 1060 Saint-Gilles map

Damien & The Love Guru is a Brussels-based curatorial field of experimentation in contemporary art with an anthropological twist. It is currently functioning as an art space staging compelling and non-conventional exhibitions by emerging artists. Our mission is to activate immersions in and critical approaches to the cross-disciplinary fields of visual art, performance and sound via independent projects and collaborations. At Damien & The Love Guru we channel the emphasis of an art project as a way to create an inclusive and tangible environment.

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Hugo Pernet - 'Solo Show'

Thu 05 July 18:00

Super Dakota

Rue Washington, 45 - 1050 Ixelles map + 31 (0)2-649.17.72

Founded in 2012, Galerie Dakota became the Super Dakota gallery. Continuing the initial reasoning behind Dakota - to discover and promote up-and-coming young artists - Super Dakota is renewing this ambition and confirming its determination to be more open to international art. This decision is consistent with the perspective of contemporary art as a demanding discipline whose roots lie deep in the history of art and with the search for a dialogue between generations in order to produce creative synergy.

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Resistance

Wed 26 September 18:00

CENTRALE for contemporary art

Place Sainte-Catherine, 44 - 1000 Brussels map 02-279 64 35 / 52

This year marks the 50th anniversary of May ’68 and its movements of contestation. On this occasion, Alderwoman for Culture Karine Lalieux decided to bring all the cultural institutions in the City of Brussels together with the shared projection “2018, Year of the Contestation”.

In this context, the CENTRALE presents, starting from September 2018, the exhibition RESISTANCE, in which the role of the artist as a major player in revolutionary thinking will be central. Whether it is notable works by Belgian and international artists from 1968 or more contemporary works, all the pieces presented are steeped in the beliefs of their authors concerning major social issues, such as feminism, globalisation, ecology, and more.

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Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – today

Mon 19 November 19:00

ADAM – Brussels Design Museum

Place de Belgique, 1 - 1020 Laeken map 02/475 47 64

The nightclub is one of the most important design spaces in contemporary culture. Since the 1960s, nightclubs have been epicentres of pop culture, distinct spaces of nocturnal leisure providing architects and designers all over the world with opportunities and inspiration.

"Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today" offers the first large-scale examination of the relationship between club culture and design, from past to present. The exhibition presents nightclubs as spaces that merge architecture and interior design with sound, light, fashion, graphics, and visual effects to create a modern Gesamtkunstwerk. Examples range from Italian clubs of the 1960s created by the protagonists of Radical Design to the legendary Studio 54 where Andy Warhol was a regular, from the Haçienda in Manchester designed by Ben Kelly to more recent concepts by the OMA architecture studio for the Ministry of Sound in London. The exhibits on display range from films and vintage photographs to posters, flyers, and fashion, but also include contemporary works by photographers and artists such as Mark Leckey, Chen Wei, and Musa N. Nxumalo. A spatial installation with music and light effects takes visitors on a fascinating journey through a world of glamour and subcultures – always in search of the night that never ends.

A coproduction with the Vitra Design Museum.

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Openings

Antoine Wagner - 'Liquid'

Filip Dujardin - 'Overview'

PRODUCTORA & piovenefabi

Dependencies - Hana Miletić (Kunstenfestivaldesarts)

Get Up Stand Up!

Rites of Exchange (performative lectures)

Laurent Van Lancker - 'Disorientation(s)'

Bie Michels & Marie Voignier - 'Dialoguing Gazes'

State of Statelessness

Ermias Kifleyesus - 'Grapes darken by looking at each other'

Thomas Houseago

Une collection de photographies

Charlemagne Palestine

Malte Zenses - 'have you ever heard about der Traum ist aus?'

Ross Bleckner - 'Time of disquiet'

Claudio Abate

Surya Ibrahim - 'Entreprises de l’absence'

Adam Henry - 'The Sun Never Heard of a Day'

Traces écrites

Felipe Pantone - 'Solo Show'

Line Boogaerts invited by Koen Leemans

Matthieu Ronsse

Tatiana Defraine and Romain Juan - 'This is a love song'

Thorsten Brinkmann

Material Longevities : A conversation between Andy Hunt, Diana Kaur and Tris Vonna-Michell

Thomas Dupal - 'Song of Selfie' (one night performance)

Leaving Room

William Allen - 'Good Fish - Bad Fish'

David Lamelas - 'Murs pliés. Gevouwen muren.'

Alexandre da Cunha and E'wao Kagoshima

Lawrence (Felt) - 'Second Thoughts'

L’industrie…Et après?

Design Generations. Intersections 5

Louise Boghossian - 'Ocytocine'

Matt Connors

Claude Viallat - 'Les échelles de Nîmes'

Joshua Smith

Group Show

Rajak Ohanian

Robert Nava

Tatiana Wolska - 'Transgression'

Etienne Courtois, Paul Lee, Bernd Lohaus, Richard Nonas

Walter Robinson + Adrianne Rubenstein

Artist talk Simon Starling

Lucas Arruda - 'Neutral Corner'

Josef Koudelka

Philippe Herbet - 'Vagabondage et fugue avec Albert Dada'

Summer Exhibition (Group Show)

Group show curated by Kasper Bosmans

Eric Croes & Jean-Baptiste Bernadet - ‘Le quart d’heure américain’

Celebration of Le Grand BanKet’s two years anniversary With the artist Françoise Schein

Antoine Neufmars, Cie Garçon Garçon - 'GEN Z, searching for beauty'

Letters of Last Resort

Hugo Pernet - 'Solo Show'

Resistance

Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – today