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Avenue de Stalingrad, 26 - 1000 Brussels map 0478-56.86.26
Dauwens & Beernaert is a contemporary art gallery founded by Laurence Dauwens and Joris Beernaert exhibiting mainly young promising artists.
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Chaussée de Forest, 90 - 1060 Saint-Gilles map + 32 (0)488-07.38.63
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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.
Rue Borrens, 32 34 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-644.34.32
CAB is a private centre dedicated to contemporary art. It promotes that genre by holding art projects in a splendid Art Deco exhibition space located not far from Flagey. CAB supports artists by giving them visibility in a place that’s neither an institution nor a gallery. It organises two projects a year, from September to December and from April to June, inviting a curator from a museum or gallery, Belgian or international. With its projects, CAB wants to encourage dialogue and inform the public about the emerging art scene.
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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.
rue Général Leman, 69 - 1040 Etterbeek map 02-648.40.06
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Rue Fourmois, 9 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-534.77.72
In September 2014, Elaine Lévy and Florent Delval joined forces to create Levy Delval. Originally, the Elaine Lévy Project was founded in January 2006 in the Châtelain district and installed in unusual premises, on the upper floor of a renovated beer warehouse. By becoming partners, Elaine Lévy and Florent Delval intend to promote artists from the young European and international scene, through multidisciplinary works of art. In this way, the gallery endeavours to find a balance between different types of contemporary media and up-and-coming or established artists.
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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.
Rue Ravenstein, 32 - 1000 Brussels map + 32 (0)2-219.44.51
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Rue de l'Ermitage, 86 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 (0)2 644 42 48
La Loge is a Brussels-based space dedicated to contemporary art, architecture and theory founded by architect Philippe Rotthier. Its aim is to develop a high-quality program that plays a critical role in today’s cultural conversations through specific and precise projects. Architects, artists, curators and cultural agents are invited to develop propositions in which they seek out the characteristic and the peculiar within their practices.
La Loge is a space where ideas, discussion and presentation coexist. Public formats vary depending on the project; from exhibitions, symposiums, screenings, lectures, and performances to events’ series. Its identity is drawn from the architectural gem that houses it, as well as from the commitment and concerns of its founders. La Loge values engagement of thought and feels particularly interested in exploring questions of space, habitat and use. The small-scale format of La Loge contributes to a context where intimate and direct conversations with its audience and the diversity of protagonists it invites can be initiated and sustained.
Rue Washington, 186 - 1050 Ixelles map +00 32 2 537 22 02
AEROPLASTICS contemporary occupies a peculiar place in the art gallery scene in Brussels. The dichotomy of its unusual exhibition space is a fine expression of the policy Jerome Jacobs is pursuing with Aeroplastics, where the spectacular often rubs shoulders with the intimate, no matter how extreme , though containing some poetry or bizarreness.
Alternating between group and monographic exhibitions, the gallery is confronting established artists with emerging and mid-career ones, giving preference to works that develop their own direct language and offer immediate visual accessibility.
Among the subjects dissected at Aeroplastics, the mechanisms of the artworld and its immediate surroundings occupy an important position, as do the multiple facets of the great "Human Comedy" : sexuality, individual or collective violence, the transformations and limitations of corporality, the excesses of our consumer society. Recently, the gallery has developed its programming even more towards the ever growing ecological issues, the socio-economical stereotypes and the religious volatility.
After having occupied a peculiar space for many years, Aeroplastics has decided to take it to the next level now: They become a nomad art gallery that will occupy exceptional places in Brussels, or elsewhere.
For their first stop, they move into a special place: a former chapel in the heart of the Tenbosch neighbourhood in Brussels.
This new contemporary art space will be opening on April 19th, 2017.
Rue Veydt, 15 - 1060 Saint-Gilles map +32 (0)2 533 03 90
On the occasion of Brussels Gallery Weekend's 10th edition, Valérie Bach Gallery is pleased to present Koen Vanmechelen's first solo exhibition at the gallery. His work has already been presented by the gallery during the collective exhibition "Force of Nature" curated by James Putnam in 2016 as well as in the current group show "Summer in the city" that will end on July 20. This exhibition entitled "Vision of The Owl" is also curated by James Putnam.
The title proposes that this show can be perceived through the eyes of the owl whose vision is peripheral. Although it can only look forwards, the owl is able to turn its head nearly 360 degrees, which has led to a folklore belief that it has supernatural powers. Its ability to predict weather conditions has also inspired people to think that it can foretell the future or that when an owl is sighted it means a change is coming. In the context of this exhibition, the owl evokes associations with myth and magic but in a wider sense reflects the climate of uncertainty surrounding the current state of world affairs. 'Vision of the Owl' is about conflict and how our society is dealing with it, a theme that Koen Vanmechelen explores using metaphors he has drawn from his vast experience of working with the animal world.
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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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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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.
Rue Saint-Georges, 107 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-639.67.31
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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.
Rue de Livourne, 32 - 1000 Brussels map 02-538.08.18
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Rue de l'Ermitage, 86 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 (0)2 644 42 48
La Loge is a Brussels-based space dedicated to contemporary art, architecture and theory founded by architect Philippe Rotthier. Its aim is to develop a high-quality program that plays a critical role in today’s cultural conversations through specific and precise projects. Architects, artists, curators and cultural agents are invited to develop propositions in which they seek out the characteristic and the peculiar within their practices.
La Loge is a space where ideas, discussion and presentation coexist. Public formats vary depending on the project; from exhibitions, symposiums, screenings, lectures, and performances to events’ series. Its identity is drawn from the architectural gem that houses it, as well as from the commitment and concerns of its founders. La Loge values engagement of thought and feels particularly interested in exploring questions of space, habitat and use. The small-scale format of La Loge contributes to a context where intimate and direct conversations with its audience and the diversity of protagonists it invites can be initiated and sustained.
rue Saint Georges, 26 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 2 648 77 70
The gallery was created to present and promote in and from Brussels, the young contemporary art scenes from the « emerging » countries.
Following of seasonal themed programmation of 5 to 7 solo-shows questioning the essence of frontiers, time and politics, different discours, medias, origins, and art practices.
The seasons are as follow: India 2016/17, Africa and its diaspora 17/18, Central & South America 18/19 and Arabic Countries 19/20.
All the shows in one season are interlinked not by the « origin » or « place of work » of the artist, but by the questions and « Propos » defended by each artist.
Following our aim to introduce different cultures, a book will be edited and a seminar organized.
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.
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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Place du Petit Sablon, 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. The represented artists include : Douglas Gordon, Tinho Sehgal, Sven Augustijnen, Mario Garcia Torres and Pierre Bismuth. It also has a space in Mexico.
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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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Rue Jean d'Ardenne, 46 - 1050 Ixelles map 0485- 69.91.46
Harlan Levey Projects (HLP) works in close collaboration with some international artists, drawing up an annual programme that includes solo projects, group exhibitions revolving around a set of themes, and performances and educational activities. HLP also offers a consultancy service for artists, partners of the creative industry and any type of contemporary art collection.
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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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Rue du Châtelain, 46 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-640.55.04
BERNIER/ELIADES GALLERY was founded in 1977 in Athens and has since continued working dynamically in the field of contemporary art in Greece. During the gallery's function, Jean Bernier and Marina Eliades have introduced to the Greek public numerous artistic currents, such as Arte Povera, Minimalism, Land and Conceptual Art and the younger generation of American and European artists.
In 2016 the gallery opened a new space in Brussels close to Le Châtelain.
Rue Saint-Georges, 109 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 2 511 05 55
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Rue Ravenstein, 44 - 1000 Brussels map 0484-599.228
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Rue Van Eyck, 44 - 1000 Brussels map 02-511.35.80
Keitelman is a gallery that has been specialising in modern and contemporary art for 30 years. Its eclectic choices of works (Evsa Model, Lisette Model, Lucien Hervé, Nelly Agassi, Lucile Bertrand, James Brown, Gabriele Di Matteo, Mounir Fatmi, etc.) and artistic media (paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs) offers collectors a global view of art.
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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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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.
Boulevard de Waterloo, 11 - 1000 Brussels map 02-513.38.38
Vedovi Gallery has earned a credible and convincing reputation since its establishment in 1995. The gallery’s expertise has always remained on the secondary market of post-war and contemporary European and American art.
Historically the gallery has been vastly affiliated in exhibiting leading surrealists artists such as René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Jean Dubuffet or Max Ernst.
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.
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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Rue Veydt, 15 - 1060 Saint-Gilles map +32 (0)2 533 03 90
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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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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Saint Georges, 5 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 2 648 77 70
The gallery was created to present and promote in and from Brussels, the young contemporary art scenes from the « emerging » countries.
Following of seasonal themed programmation of 5 to 7 solo-shows questioning the essence of frontiers, time and politics, different discours, medias, origins, and art practices.
The seasons are as follow: India 2016/17, Africa and its diaspora 17/18, Central & South America 18/19 and Arabic Countries 19/20.
All the shows in one season are interlinked not by the « origin » or « place of work » of the artist, but by the questions and « Propos » defended by each artist.
Following our aim to introduce different cultures, a book will be edited and a seminar organized.
Avenue Van Volxem, 311 - 1190 Forest map
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Rue de l'Abbaye - 1000 Brussels map 02-644.34.54
Meessen De Clercq is a contemporary art gallery that brings a group of strong, international artists. The gallery occupies three floors in a house built in 1911, including a separate video space and a "Wunderkammer", offering a particular look on the theatre of the world. The gallery also publishes catalogues and editions in close collaboration with the represented artists, in order to promote and distribute their work.
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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.
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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Rue de la Régence, 67 - 1000 Brussels map +32 2 513 69 90
Rue de la Régence is definitely one of the liveliest gallery hubs in Brussels. Also Dvir Gallery from Israel chose this neighbourhood to settle in Brussels, in the space that was previously occupied by Catherine Bastide.
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 and Lawrence Weiner.
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.
Rivoli Building - ground floor #17 - chaussée de Waterloo, 690 - 1180 Uccle map +32 486 31 00 92
Opened on 1 September 2008, Rossicontemporary is run by Francesco Rossi, a Brussels-based Italian art historian. Rossicontemporary intends to give young emerging artists the opportunity to grow and fulfil their potential in a professional context and to offer collectors and art-lovers' a selection of artworks of high standard artistic quality. The main gallery space was redesigned in June 2014, with the addition of a new exhibition space, two large showcases and a storage room. The gallery, the mezzanine gallery, the new space and the project space host each year about twenty individual and group exhibitions, mostly focusing on contemporary painting, drawing, sculpture and photography.
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Rivoli Building - ground floor #17 - chaussée de Waterloo, 690 - 1180 Uccle map +32 486 31 00 92
Opened on 1 September 2008, Rossicontemporary is run by Francesco Rossi, a Brussels-based Italian art historian. Rossicontemporary intends to give young emerging artists the opportunity to grow and fulfil their potential in a professional context and to offer collectors and art-lovers' a selection of artworks of high standard artistic quality. The main gallery space was redesigned in June 2014, with the addition of a new exhibition space, two large showcases and a storage room. The gallery, the mezzanine gallery, the new space and the project space host each year about twenty individual and group exhibitions, mostly focusing on contemporary painting, drawing, sculpture and photography.
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Avenue des Klauwaerts, 9 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-647.30.15
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Rue de Livourne, 32 - 1000 Brussels map 02-538.08.18
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Rue du Marché aux Porcs, 10 - 1000 Brussels map
c-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e is a nonprofit contemporary art space that aims at elaborating projects which are multiple and variable in character, by providing a platform for support and collaboration.
Through the activities conducted, we approach questions about art practice, and how, within it, composite configurations emerge, bind together, transform, stabilise, reiterate. Without making cuts beforehand ; neither elementary, nor sequential, neither historical, nor disciplinary. We propose to consider together the capacity of art and its practices, in a wide sense, to draw together im/material possibles. c-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e makes place for the fabrication of such possibles.
The propositions that follow from these questions can take the form of exhibitions, short-term or longer collaborations, co-productions, dialogues, lectures or conversations between actors concerned. With these, we aim at soliciting for im/material, affective and/or cognitive transformations by the invited actors, as they are effected during the encounters.
Rivoli Building - ground floor #17 - chaussée de Waterloo, 690 - 1180 Uccle map +32 486 31 00 92
Opened on 1 September 2008, Rossicontemporary is run by Francesco Rossi, a Brussels-based Italian art historian. Rossicontemporary intends to give young emerging artists the opportunity to grow and fulfil their potential in a professional context and to offer collectors and art-lovers' a selection of artworks of high standard artistic quality. The main gallery space was redesigned in June 2014, with the addition of a new exhibition space, two large showcases and a storage room. The gallery, the mezzanine gallery, the new space and the project space host each year about twenty individual and group exhibitions, mostly focusing on contemporary painting, drawing, sculpture and photography.
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Rue de la Régence, 67 - 1000 Brussels map
Independent Régence is a unique permanent exhibition space located in Brussels that supports the programs of Independent's extended gallery network throughout the year. Galleries are invited to curate a special exhibition at Régence to highlight artists from their program. Independent Régence offers a platform and support to exhibiting galleries and artist to allow them to focus on curating the show.
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Rue Saint-Georges, 13 - 1050 Ixelles map +32 2 648 21 01
MLF l Marie-Laure Fleisch is pleased to announce Romanian artist Alex Mirutziu's first exhibition in Belgium, This, like..., opening September 7, 2017 in conjunction with Brussels Gallery Weekend. Employing performance, drawing, poetry and sculpture, Mirutziu looks to art to answer the fundamental questions of life – “Who are we” and “How do we perceive reality”. Inspired by philosophers such as Graham Harman and Timothy Morton who question how we use objects to interpret the world around us, Mirutziu looks to anchor the contemplation of our being in the physical world. He then enriches this basis with political histories, personal letters and the natural world, exposing how each person confronts their own existence. For his current exhibition, born from a sense of admiration and camaraderie for Iris Murdoch and an interest in the possibility for gestures to become objects, Mirutziu has created a series of drawings and sculptures which draw our attention to the moments when our attempts to grasp meaning manifest themselves physically. Whether we express ourselves through poetry, conversation, or writing, the relationship between that which is said and that which is left unsaid is extremely important. During the short period when we try to wrap our heads around complicated concepts or grand ideas, what we do during our moments of silence are very revealing.
Using the Irish philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch as an embodiment of a universal phenomenon, Mirutziu looks into the construction and de-construction of a brilliant mind that is searching for ways to comprehend and communicate the intricacies of the world we live in. Murdoch has the particularity of being an extremely prolific writer, dedicating her life to novels, philosophy and also personal correspondences with a large number of friends and lovers. Later in her life she developed Alzheimer’s, losing the capacity to navigate her own thoughts and witnessing the degeneration of her own mind. No longer able to carry on writing due to a loss of memory, Murdoch found herself in an undefined mental space, where she was unable to connect her present reality to other points of reference.
When grappling to express the ideas in one’s own mind and create meaning, we often give our internal struggle corporal form, through the lowering of our gaze or through gestures which seem to attempt to create a motor which will speed up the firing of the neurons in our brain. Using Iris Murdoch as a muse, Mirutziu gives physical weight to these temporal movements, creating drawings and sculptures which represent the unique ways a body expresses its mental exertion. For example, if Iris Murdoch could form concrete objects with her own body language, what would they look like? Or, more broadly, what are the possible physical manifestations of the mind struggling to place one's ideas in the framework of our society or even in the trajectory of one's own thoughts? Using the space between Murdoch’s body and her hands when she gesticulates, the movement of her eyes when she pauses to regroup her thoughts, or the way she shifts her body, Mirutziu creates artworks which clarify mental processes through palpable forms, underlying the relationship between one’s intellect and one’s body.
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.
Rue Hôtel des Monnaies, 66 - 1060 Saint-Gilles map + 32 (0) 25 44 16 73
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Rue de la Régence, 67 - 1000 Brussels map
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Rue de l'Abbaye, 8 B - 1050 Ixelles map +00 32 2 647 55 16
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Boulevard d'Anvers, 49 - 1000 Brussels map + 32 (0)498-49.50.86
Waldburger Wouters is a gallery for young and international art. Waldburger Wouters is based in Brussels and started its activities in November 2009 as Galerie Waldburger. In September 2014, Tim Wouters became partner and the name consequently changed to Waldburger Wouters. The origins of the gallery go back a few years, when first exhibitions with young artists were organised in temporary spaces in Switzerland and Berlin.
Currently the gallery is renovating and moving. The opening of a new space is scheduled next April 21th at Boulevard d'Anvers 49, Brussels
Rue du Canal, 13 - 1000 Brussels map 02-219.14.22
Occupying an impressive Art Nouveau building designed by the architect Louis Bral and then restored by architects Hilde Daem and Robbrecht, the gallery was founded in 1988 under the name of Gallery Meert Rihoux. In 2006, it changed direction and assumed the name of the new director, Greta Meert. From the start, the gallery has placed the emphasis on the minimal and conceptual art of the seventies (Donald Judd, Robert Mangold, Richard Tuttle, Robert Barry, Hanne Darboven, Niele Toroni) and also paid particular attention to photography from the eighties (Thomas Struth, Louise Lawler, Jeff Wall, Ken Lum, Ian Wallace and John Baldessari. In addition, the gallery presents a more future-focused selection of artists including Eric Baudelaire, Iñaki Bonillas, Johannes Esper, Valerie Krause, Anne Neukamp, Tobias Putrih and Johannes Wald and the Belgian artists Edith Dekyndt, Stef Driesen, Sophie Nys, Koen van den Broek, Catharina van Eetvelde and Pieter Vermeersch.
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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.
Place de Belgique - 1020 Laeken map 02/475 47 64
On the occasion of the 2017 edition of Design September, the ADAM [Brussels Design Museum] works together with the hotel BLOOM! by proposing a pop up of its permanent exhibition, the Plasticarium. Through a selection of objects from the museum's collections or photographs, the exhibition gives a taste of 50 years of plastic design history. From the Cactus of Guido Drocco & Franco Mello to the Universe of Joe Colombo and the icons of Kartell, it is the utopia of ‘everything in plastic’ that settles for 4 weeks at the BLOOM!
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Chaussée de Forest, 90 - 1060 Saint-Gilles map + 32 (0)488-07.38.63
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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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Avenue Van Volxem, 354 - 1190 Forest map + 32 (0)2-340.00.50
It was the brewer Léon Wielemans who asked his friend, the architect Adrien Blomme, to design and build the new buildings of his brewery in Forest. It became the leading monument of industrial archaeology in the art deco style, and houses now Wiels, an international laboratory for the creation and the diffusion of contemporary art. Focusing on visual arts, but granting a particular attention to the crossings and interactions with other disciplines, the centre wishes to present contemporary art in all its diversity and to offer a permanent dialogue with the developments and the most recent debates of the art world.
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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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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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Rue Ravenstein, 23 - 1000 Brussels map 02-507.82.00
After a particularly successful exhibition on Jules Wabbes, BOZAR turns the spotlight on another great post-war Belgian designer: Ado Chale. Born in Brussels, he is a mineralogist and blacksmith, who uses crystals or petrified wood in his works of art, and approaches making furniture like a craftsman rather than as a designer. This very first retrospective outlines the career and the world of Ado Chale, through carefully selected pieces of furniture and objects, such as his famous Goutte d’eau bronze table, inspired by pre-Columbian art. To coincide with the exhibition, publishing house Aparté is bringing out a new important book on Chale. An opportunity for the general public to get acquainted with this internationally renowned artist who combines craftsmanship with innovation.
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Avenue Van Volxem, 354 - 1190 Forest map + 32 (0)2-340.00.50
Rita McBride works with the language of sculpture, employing the vocabularies of architecture and design. Her cross-disciplinary practice also encompasses collaborative publications, editions, performances and large-scale works in public space. Following in the line of surveys at WIELS by mid-career artists, this exhibition – titled Explorer – features new productions and existing works, including several pieces never before shown in Europe. Attuned as she is to space and context, with her signature humour McBride has developed an exhibition that responds to the particular qualities of the WIELS building and its exhibition architecture. She is fondly critical of Modernist architecture and the utopian project of Modernism. As one critic put it, McBride’s work is a “light-handed and witty critique of the pleasures and vagaries of Modernism’s nervous breakdown.”
Spanning all three floors of WIELS’ exhibition spaces, McBride presents a new work titled Guide Rails (2017). The installation, 200 metres of freestanding white wooden structures, quotes original guide rails found in the Santa Monica mountains that once led to the private ranch of the humourist and celebrated cowboy, Will Rogers. The length of McBrides’ Guide Rails replicates that of the white walls of Richard Venlet’s exhibition architecture, commissioned by WIELS for its 10th anniversary exhibition, The Absent Museum. These newly created temporary delineations for WIELS highlight the lively and co-dependent relationships between architects, artists, cultural institutions and the politics of real estate.
In dialogue with this new installation, the exhibition presents a selection of McBride’s pieces that reveal how sculpture and architecture inform and measure one another. These works reintroduce forms that are often overlooked in our built environment: air conditioning units, pipes, skylights, telecommunications boxes. McBride transforms their typical materials or shifts their scale to explore the tensions between functionalism and formalism. The earliest date from 1992, the most recent from 2017, revealing the consistency of her approach and vision. They include her Glass Conduits (1999-2004), White Elephants (1999-2015), Managers and Minimanagers (2003-2004), and Vents (2010), among others.
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.
Rue des Palais, 116 - 1030 Schaerbeek map +32 (0)2 250 11 66
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Quai des Charbonnages, 30 - 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean map +32 (0)2-410.30.93
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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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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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Werfstraat/ Rue du Chantier - 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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Werfstraat/ Rue du Chantier - 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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Werfstraat/ Rue du Chantier - 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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Place de Belgique - 1020 Laeken map 02/475 47 64
During the Autumn 2017, the ADAM – Brussels Design Museum will host the exhibition Tribute to Componibili, realized in collaboration with the Kartell Museo (Milan) to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this iconic piece of 60’s design.
This new type of furniture was designed in 1967 by Anna Castelli Ferrieri ( 1920 – 2006 ) and they were the first modular and stackable interior design objects in ABS, a type of plastic used for the first time.. The Componibili responded to the new needs of that time as it was a very functional product which fitted into any context and bore out that concept of modularity, becoming a ‘leitmotif’ lasting down through the following decades.
The exhibition tells the history of Componibili from an emotional viewpoint and personal interpretations by designers as Ron Arad, Nendo, Philippe Starck, Mario Bellini, Ferruccio Laviani,..The Brussels edition of the exhibition will be enriched by the view of Belgian designers on this iconic piece.
Rue de Tenbosch, 124 - 1050 Ixelles map 02-850.42.38
Charles Riva Collection opened to the public in 2007.
It is Charles Riva Collection’s will to promote education and appreciating for contemporary art by making works available to a large audience.
CHARLES RIVA COLLECTION is located in Louise District in a 19th century mansion house. It has been showed monographic exhibitions by Jim Lambie, Paul McCarthy, Sterling Ruby or Robert Mapplethorpe and Steven Shearer. Thematic exhibitions have been presented as “California” gathering artists such as Mike Kelley, Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, Jim Shaw or “Made in New-York” including works by Price Seth, Josh Smith, Cheyney Thompson, John Miller, Christopher Wool.
RIVA PROJECT is a new space dedicated to contemporary sculpture and situated in a loft in Chatelain area. This space shows exhibitions through dialogue between several shapes of art or thematic presentation.
Charles Riva Collection presents long-terms exhibitions curated primarily from the collections. The main line of the collection is American contemporary art. Artists showed are mostly American but also European modern and contemporary artists.
The collection includes the work of renowned artists such as Thomas Houseago, Mike Kelley, Sherrie Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ugo Rondinone, Steven Shearer, Josh Smith, Frank Stella, Francesco Vezzoli, Tom Wesselmann, Christopher Wool.
Some works are also exhibited in the collector’s apartment but only accessible by appointment.
Boulevard de Waterloo, 50 - 1000 Brussels map + 32 (0)2-511.20.62
Officially opened in 2000, the Verrière-Hermès is part of the international network of galleries of the Hermès Enterprise Foundation. This foundation supports projects that resonate with the values of the Hermès firm: promoting traditional craft skills and supporting creativity, and involvement in the field of education and the environment, while at the same time developing its own programmes (exhibitions, artists’ residencies for the visual arts, the Émile Hermès Prize for design, the Skills Academy, and calls for biodiversity projects). Within the framework of this patronage, the Verrière produces and promotes four contemporary art exhibitions a year, coupled with design presentations. A small catalogue is published following each exhibition.
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Avenue Van Volxem, 304 - 1190 Forest map + 32 (0)2 502 38 78
In October 2012, the “Fondation A Stichting” opened its doors in south Brussels on the site of the former Bata factories. Created upon the initiative of Astrid Ullens de Schooten, and recognized as promoting the public interest, it has a vocation to support the creation, knowledge, and preservation of the photographic image. Nothing exists any longer that does not seem to have to be attested by the image. Yet the idea of recording the real using photography does not go without saying. What happens to our capacity to see and to discern when, in their overabundance and their virtual immediacy, the images surrounding us are rapidly and powerfully becoming more complicated. The foundation’s project consists in exploring the stakes and contradictions of the image-document, putting into question this world in which all is visible. It organizes three temporary exhibitions each year, accompanied with workshops on reading and writing the image designed for youths and children. High-school and university students are invited to come and engage in dialogue with the artists during their visits, Premières Découvertes.
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Rue de l'Eté, 78 - 1050 Ixelles map
ETE 78 is a space for creation and realizations, a box of projects, a facilitator, a
place of rehearsals and monstrations, exchanges and discoveries ...
Place Sainte-Catherine, 16 - 1000 Brussels map +32 (0)2-279.64.44/52
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Place Sainte-Catherine - 1000 Brussels map 02-279 64 35 / 52
Collectors, both Belgian and international, have had a lot to do with the emergence of new museums in Brussels over recent years - a period that has also seen a number of private collections become more accessible to the public. This exhibition offers an opportunity to explore the passion of private collectors for contemporary art.
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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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Rue des Palais, 116 - 1030 Schaerbeek map +32 (0)2 250 11 66
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Place Sainte-Catherine, 44 - 1000 Brussels map + 32 (0)2-279.64.44/52
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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.
Gemeenteplein - 1853 Strombeek-Bever map + 32 (0)2-263.03.43
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Gemeenteplein - 1853 Strombeek-Bever map + 32 (0)2-263.03.43
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Gemeenteplein - 1853 Strombeek-Bever map + 32 (0)2-263.03.43
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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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Chaussée de Forest, 90 - 1060 Saint-Gilles map + 32 (0)488-07.38.63
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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.
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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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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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.
Rue de la Régence, 67 - 1000 Brussels map +32 2 513 69 90
Rue de la Régence is definitely one of the liveliest gallery hubs in Brussels. Also Dvir Gallery from Israel chose this neighbourhood to settle in Brussels, in the space that was previously occupied by Catherine Bastide.
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 and Lawrence Weiner.
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.
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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Rue de l'Abbaye - 1000 Brussels map 02-644.34.54
Meessen De Clercq is a contemporary art gallery that brings a group of strong, international artists. The gallery occupies three floors in a house built in 1911, including a separate video space and a "Wunderkammer", offering a particular look on the theatre of the world. The gallery also publishes catalogues and editions in close collaboration with the represented artists, in order to promote and distribute their work.
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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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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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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.
Gemeenteplein - 1853 Strombeek-Bever map + 32 (0)2-263.03.43
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Avenue de Stalingrad, 26 - 1000 Brussels map 0478-56.86.26
Dauwens & Beernaert is a contemporary art gallery founded by Laurence Dauwens and Joris Beernaert exhibiting mainly young promising artists.
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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.
Place de Belgique - 1020 Laeken map 02/475 47 64
In collaboration with the Moscow Design Museum, Soviet Design. Red Wealth is the first retrospective showcase bringing together daily objects and graphics designed in the USSR in the past century. From the fifties to the Moscow Olympic games (1980), the exhibition will feature iconic pieces of the Soviet lifestyle, examples of graphic and industrial design, technical drawings and prototypes made by Soviet designers from the Moscow Design Museum and private collections.
The exhibition is divided into sections, each representing a certain aspect of a Soviet citizen’s life and material culture: childhood and leisure, sports and public events, visual communication and packaging design, furniture and household products, precision engineering and industrial production, as well as unique projects of the All-Union Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics (VNIITE). Now, when Russian design of the 21st century is being formed it is important to look back at the achievements of decades past and unveil the names of the designers who shaped the lifestyle of Soviet people.
Place de Belgique - 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. ‘Domestic Tales’ 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.
Place de Belgique - 1020 Laeken map 02/475 47 64
Nightclubs and discos are the epitome of contemporary culture. They merge architecture and interior design with sound, light, fashion, furnishing, graphics and visual effects to create a modern Gesamtkunstwerk. As place of cultural experimentation for subcultures and avant-garde, they question the established codes of social life and offer individual and collective freedom by playing with different identities and realities.
If the 20th century was the age of pop culture, the nightclub was probably its most powerful design expression. Night Fever is the first exhibition to examine the design history of the nightclub. It will feature exhibits from design, art, architecture, music and media including films and original photographs, flyers, posters, records covers, models, furniture, magazines as well as 1:1 installations that will immerse the visitors in a journey of creative experimentation.