Céline Vahsen (°1987, Malmédy) lives and works in Brussels. She studied visual arts in Brussels, Lucerne, and Hamburg, and completed her Master in the textile department of ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels in 2013. She has been artist-in-residence at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, iMAL – Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, the Boghossian Foundation, ZSenne ArtLab, Fondation CAB in Brussels, and at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium. In 2019, she participated in the Académie des Savoir-Faire at the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in Paris, France. Her work has been shown internationally at venues such as the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, [removed] Shared Space in Tbilisi, Georgia, Marres House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht, The Netherlands, New York Textile Month in the United States and nationally at IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen, Le Delta in Namur, and in Brussels, Pilar, Ccinq, among others.
She makes self-created canvas with hand-woven and naturally colored threads, based on several traditions in geographically dispersed regions. Her compositions and use of color create an instant visual feeling, with intriguing details and multidimensionality.
Lola Daels (°1990, Jette) lives and works in Brussels. She gained her master’s degree in visual arts from the Luca School of Arts, Brussels, in 2014. Her work has previously been shown in group exhibitions at Bozar (BE), Extracity Kunsthal (BE), Art Sonje Center Seoul (KR) and Kunsthal Aarhus (DK), amongst others. Daels is currently in residency at the Academia Belgica in Rome (IT) and completed residencies at M Museum (BE), EKWC (NL), Kooshk Residency (IR), AAIR Antwerpen (BE), Cité Internationale des Arts (FR), and Fondation CAB (BE), among various others.
She mainly creates sculptures and site-specific installations in which she questions ecological issues and the notion of ‘authenticity’. Her research currently focuses on oldfashioned imitation techniques, which she reinvents and tries to make sustainable.
Anna van der Ploeg (°1992, Cape Town) lives and works in Brussels. She studied visual arts at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town, and completed her master’s degree at KASK in 2022, where she was awarded the Leu de Legaat Award for Fine Arts.
She has been artist in residence at M Leuven (BE), SAFFCA, La Cambre (BE), Reservoir Projects (ZA), MI_Lab (JP), Vice-Versa (IN), David Krut Projects (ZA) and Atelier le Grand Village (FR). She has held solo exhibitions in Cape Town, Johannesburg, New York, Brussels and Melbourne, and participated in numerous group shows internationally.
She works primarily with the media of painting, sculpture and printmaking. In this exhibition, she shows her typical wood carvings in plywood, referring to human interactions, inscription and how they relate to prescribed roles, scripts and dialogues.
Each of these three Brussels-based artists’ work possesses a tension between the material, durable object and the intangible. Objects anchor human
existence but remain entagled in broader, more ephemeral processes. In this show, the physical is a door, but ideas walk you through it. Tactile, technical, precise – this is the threshold.