Brussels Gallery Weekend 2022 is already over. This edition gave us the opportunity to see amazing shows, discover new artists and celebrate the beginning of the artistic season together. We couldn’t be happier with how everything turned out.

We would like to send a heartfelt THANK YOU to all the galleries, institutions of the Off program, artists and visitors who contributed to make this edition an exceptional moment. It was a great pleasure to be reunited again and we couldn’t have asked for a better way to celebrate our 15th edition.

This would not have been possible without the support of our sponsors, Treetop Asset Management, as well as Art Brussels and Art Shippers. We would also like to thank our partners and the subsidizing institutions which collaboration and support has been again essential this year. 

We look forward to seeing you next year.

Sybille du Roy & BGW Team

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Dear 🅐🅡🅖🅞🅢 reader,  

As the long, hot summer started slowly ebbing away, we’re eager to present our upcoming programme for the fall here at ⓐⓡⓖⓞⓢ. 

THE 1970s: _____ is the first public manifestation of a long-term research project that we launched in 2018. The exhibition highlights a remarkably prolific era of artistic production in Belgium that saw the acceleration of audiovisual experimentation, marking a period during which artists developed new forms of production that were often collaborative, immaterial, and interdisciplinary in nature.

We hope to see you on Saturday 24 September from 18:00 onward when we’ll be opening THE 1970s: _____ exhibition, together with the fifth, and final installment of our Alexander Kluge project.

Make sure to keep an eye on our events this fall. In partnership with cinema nova, we will be dedicating an evening to Videographie, the radical, nonconformist TV programme that aired on RTB from 1976 till 1986. 

Take care and see you soon!

Niels with Dagmar, Daria, Dušica, Inge, Jonas, Julia, Katia, Katoucha, Laurence, Maryam, Sander, Stijn

Joëlle de La Casinière, Dans la maison (2017)
1 September – 10 October

The film Dans la maison (du Montfaucon Research Center) by Joëlle de La Casinière shows documents relating to Sophie Podolski, who worked at the Montfaucon Research Center in Brussels from 1969 until 1973. The first part of the film Part I – rue de l’Aurore, features a detailed description of the house in Ixelles, with two cats as the only characters appearing on screen. The second part of the film, Part II – La Poésie graphique de Sophie Podolski, presents over forty of Podolski’s drawings, accompanied by the music of Jacques Lederlin.

Every month,  highlights one particular work from the collection. It can be viewed online and on site as it is shown on a window display at Koopliedenstraat 62 Rue des Commerçants (next to the rile* entrance).

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Cher.e lecte.u.r.ice d’ₐᵣᶢᴼˢ,

Tandis que les préparatifs battent leur plein chez ⓐⓡⓖⓞⓢ, la chaleur de l’été s’estompe lentement et le dolce far niente culturel semble déjà un rêve lointain. Nous avons néanmoins l’immense plaisir de vous présenter notre programme d’automne.

THE 1970s: _____ est la première manifestation publique d’un projet de recherche initié par argos en 2018. L’exposition met en évidence une époque particulièrement prolifique pour la production artistique en Belgique, durant laquelle l’expérimentation audiovisuelle s’est accélérée, et marque ainsi une période au cours de laquelle de nombreux artistes développent de nouvelles méthodes de production souvent collaboratives, immatérielles et interdisciplinaires.

Vous êtes cordialement invité.e.s le 24 septembre à 18:00 pour l’ouverture. On trinquera également au cinquième et dernier chapitre de notre projet autour des Minutenfilme d’Alexander Kluge.

Gardez aussi à l’œil nos autres événements cet automne. En collaboration avec cinema nova, on consacre la soirée du 2 octobre à Videographie, l’émission anticonformiste de la RTB qui a diffusé, de 1976 à 1986, un large éventail de vidéos et de films issus de l’avant-garde belge et internationale.

A très bientôt,

Niels avec Dagmar, Daria, Dušica, Inge, Jonas, Julia, Katia, Katoucha, Laurence, Maryam, Sander, Stijn

Joëlle de La Casinière, Dans la maison (2017)
1 septembre – 10 octobre

Dans son film Dans la maison (du Montfaucon Research Center), Joëlle de La Casinière nous montre des documents autour de Sophie Podolski au Montfaucon Research Center à Bruxelles, de 1969 à 1973. La première partie Part I – rue de l’Aurore présente une description détaillée de la maison à Ixelles, avec pour seule présence deux chats. La seconde partie du film Part II – La Poésie graphique de Sophie Podolski, nous fait découvrir une quarantaine des dessins de Sophie Podolski accompagnés de la musique de Jacques Lederlin.

Tous les mois, vous permet d’accéder gratuitement aux œuvres anciennes et nouvelles de la collection sur votre écran personnel. L’œuvre sélectionnée est également présentée dans une vitrine au 62 rue des Commerçants.

NL

Beste ₐᵣᶢᴼˢ-lezer, 

Terwijl de lange, hete zomer langzaam wegebt en de culturele dolce far niente alweer een verre droom lijkt, stellen we jullie met genoegen ons najaarsprogramma voor.

THE 1970s: _____ is de eerste publieke manifestatie van een langlopend onderzoeksproject dat argos in 2018 aanvatte. De tentoonstelling belicht een bijzonder rijke periode voor de artistieke productie in België, waarin steeds meer audiovisuele experimenten plaatsvonden en nieuwe, interdisciplinaire samenwerkingen ontstonden.

Jullie zijn van harte welkom op 24 september om 18:00 op de opening van de tentoonstelling. Op dat moment lanceren we ook het vijfde, en laatste, hoofdstuk van het Alexander Kluge project.

Hou zeker onze events van het najaar in het oog. Zo wijden we, in samenwerking met cinema nova, op 2 oktober een avond aan Videographie, het baanbrekende televisieprogramma dat van 1976 tot 1986 tweewekelijks video’s en films van de Belgische en internationale avant-garde in de schijnwerpers plaatste.

Tot snel weer!

Niels met Dagmar, Daria, Dušica, Inge, Jonas, Julia, Katia, Katoucha, Laurence, Maryam, Sander, Stijn

Joëlle de La Casinière, Dans la maison (2017)
1 september – 10 oktober

Met haar film Dans la maison (du Montfaucon Research Center) toont Joëlle de La Casinière tekeningen van Sophie Podolski, die van 1969 tot 1973 werkzaam was in het Montfaucon Research Center in Brussel. Het eerste luik van de film Part I – rue de l’Aurore is een gedetailleerde beschrijving van het huis in Elsene, met twee katten als enige personages. Het tweede deel van de film, Part II – La Poésie graphique de Sophie Podolski, presenteert een veertigtal tekeningen begeleidt door de muziek van Jacques Lederlin.

Elke maand brengt oude en nieuwe werken uit de collectie naar je thuisscherm. Het werk wordt ook gepresenteerd in de vitrine van de Koopliedenstraat 62.

We are pleased to share with you the preview of our  32nd  project on show in our gallery in Rue Van Eyck 57, Brussel.

OV 32: RICHARD NONAS
            GET OUT / COME BACK / STAY AWAY

Featuring works from the 80s to the early 2010s, the exhibition traces Richard Nonas's evolution in his research of space and forms.

The preview can be downloaded via this link DOWNLOAD PREVIEW 
 
If you have any questions, or if you would like to arrange an in-person viewing, please do not hesitate to let us know

With best wishes,
 

Installation view 

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Liebe Leser:innen,

während der Herbst langsam aber sicher Einzug hält, haben wir im IKOB einiges für euch in petto! Die Ausstellung zum IKOB – Feministischen Kunstpreis neigt sich dem Ende zu und unser September-Programm steht thematisch ganz besonders unter dessen Stern.

Wir starten am 14.9 mit einem Spieleabend zum Thema Frauen in der Kunstwelt, und es geht weiter am 15.9 mit einer digitalen Diskussionsrunde mit drei queer-feministischen Organisationen des Kultursektors.

Am 24.9 präsentieren wir eine Performance von Catinca Malaimare als Teil des ersten Very Contemporary Performance-Festivals im Kunsthaus NRW, und verabschieden uns am Tag darauf von der Kunstpreis-Ausstellung mit der langerwarteten Performance OCEAN von Daniela Bershan zur Finissage.

Am Sonntag, den 9. Oktober öffnen wir die Tore wieder zur Vernissage zwei neuer Ausstellungen: Johan Tahon: Umarmung und die Gruppenausstellung Redrawing the Lines.

Wir freuen uns auf eure Teilnahme und euren Besuch!

Donnerstag 15.09.2022, 19:00

SOLIDARITY AND SISTERHOOD
Online-Gesprächsrunde mit And She Was Like: BÄM!, Engagement, & Queer is not a Manifesto

Eine Diskussionsrunde mit Vertreter:innen von queeren und feministischen Organisationen aus dem Kulturbereich dreier Länder. Die Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung ist kostenlos, sie findet in englischer Sprache statt und wird online über Zoom abgehalten.

Mehr Informationen und Anmeldung hier.

Mittwoch 14.09.2022, 19:00

SPIELEABEND
L’Art & Ma Carrière von Olivia Hernaïz

Samstag 24.09.2022, 11:00 – 18:00

VERY CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
IKOB präsentiert Catinca Malaimare: Emergency Ex

Am 24. September 2022 veranstaltet das Netzwerk der EUREGIO Very Contemporary zum ersten Mal das  » Performance-Festival cross-border «. Institutionen aus Belgien, Deutschland und den Niederlanden zeigen ausgewählte performative Positionen im Kunsthaus NRW in Aachen-Kornelimünster. Das IKOB präsentiert eine Performance der Künstlerin Catinca Malaimare, mit dem Titel Emergency Ex (2022): eine intime Begegnung zwischen menschlichen Körpern und Maschinen. 

Den Zeitplan und detaillierte Informationen zu den Künstler:innen findet ihr in Kürze auf www.verycontemporary.org und hier.

Sonntag 25.09.2022, 13:00 – 18:00

FINISSAGE: Feministischer Kunstpreis 2022 & Nika Schmitt

Mehr Informationen hier.

Sonntag 09.10.2022, 14:00

VERNISSAGE: Johan Tahon & Redrawing the Lines

Mehr Informationen hier.

Mehr Informationen hier.

ISTANBUL – TURKEY

I AM NOBODY. ARE YOU NOBODY TOO?  

Curator: Selen Ansen
September 14, 2022–February 12, 2023

MESHER – İstiklal Caddesi No: 211 Beyoğlu 34433 İstanbul, Türkiye

PROMETHEE, LE JOUR D’APRES

Co-curated by: Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris & Centre des Arts, Enghien Les Bains
Septembre 21, 2022 – December 18, 2022

CENTRE DES ARTS  12-16 rue de la libération, Enghien Les Bains, France

Time flies: today is already the last day to enjoy Brussels Gallery Weekend. Enjoy this sunny Sunday by walking around the city freely or on a guided tour to discover some of our 47 participating galleries and make the most of this last day! It’s now or never to come and discover our exhibitions Generation Brussels and Sculpture Factory at L’Imprimerie, Boulevard de Berlaimont 56. Today will also be the occasion to discover talks, workshops for children and the awarding of the Komet prize at our meeting point. See you there!

PROGRAM OF THE DAY

11am-6pm | General Opening in the galleries, Generation Brussels & Sculpture Factory
The 47 galleries, the 12 institutions of the Off program and the meeting point located at L’Imprimerie (Boulevard de Berlaimont 56), will open their doors to the public for the grand opening day of Brussels Gallery Weekend. Come and celebrate the new artistic season with us!

2 PM | Kids # /> 2 PM | Performance  | by Mary # /> 2 PM | Book Launch :  Inventory by Benjamin Sabatier | # & Beernaert
5 PM | Workshop | GUIDED TOURS :

11AM | Guided Tour | Kunstraum Collection
11 AM | Guided Tour | Downtown
11 AM | Guided Tour | Ixelles
2 PM | Guided Tour | Sablon
4 PM | Guided Tour | Ixelles
4 PM | Guided Tour | Saint-Gilles
 

Paul Kooiker at UNSEEN

tegenboschvanvreden booth nr 64
September 15  – September 18,  2022
UNSEEN
Westergas, Amsterdam 

You are cordially invited to come and visit us at UNSEEN photo fair, booth 64.
 

In his presentation at UNSEEN 2022, Paul Kooiker (1964, Rotterdam) shows recent work that moves at the intersection of fashion and art. Kooiker has made a name for himself in the world of fashion photography in recent years, doing shoots for famous brands such as Rick Owens, Marni, Givenchy and Viktor & Rolf. He has published his photos in magazines a.o. Vogue Italia, Dazed, AnOther Magazine, Vanity Fair, M le Monde, and New York Times Magazine. The fashion assignments offer Kooiker the opportunity to experiment with new ideas for his work.

“Paul Kooiker often exaggerates the shape of bodies to the extreme. Using artificial body extensions, wigs, and extravagant clothing as well as light, shadow, and fragmentation, he creates a unique visual language whose surreal undertone often recalls icons of photography and art history. Social themes such as diversity, body positivity, or the fetishization of bodies, which the fashion world takes up, also translate directly into Kooiker’s image production. Between the queer and avant-garde creations of the designers and the nostalgically anarchic look of his photographs, an effective power typical of Kooiker emerges.” (quote from the press release of Kooiker’s solo exhibition at Museum Fokwang, Essen, DE, Dec 2021-feb 2022).

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Brussels Gallery Weekend continues today with a high quality program. Come and visit us at L’Imprimerie, 56 Boulevard Berlaimont, to discover the magnificent exhibitions Generation Brussels and Sculpture Factory. While you’ re there, have a walk in the city and enjoy the exhibitions of our 47 participating galleries. And if you feel like celebrating the launch of the artistic season, don’t forget to come to our afterparty at LaVallé tonight!

PROGRAM OF THE DAY

11am-7pm | General Opening in the galleries, Generation Brussels & Sculpture Factory
The 47 galleries, the 12 institutions of the Off program and the meeting point located at L’Imprimerie (Boulevard de Berlaimont 56), will open their doors to the public for the grand opening day of Brussels Gallery Weekend. Come and celebrate the new artistic season with us!

GALERIES AND OFF PROGRAM :

2 PM | Book Launch :  Victory over the Sun by Xavier Mary | Baronian
3 PM | Talk with Alice Audouin | La patinoire royale
8 PM | Brussels Gallery Weekend Afterparty | LaVallée

GUIDED TOURS :

11AM | Guided Tour | Kunstraum Collection
11 AM | Guided Tour | Sablon
2 PM | Guided Tour | Ixelles
4 PM | Guided Tour | Ixelles
4 PM | Guided Tour | Sablon
4 PM | Guided Tour | Saint-Gilles

11 AM | Workshop | NFT 1:1 with PINSL
11 AM | Talk by PINSL : Artist talk with TR Ericsson
2 PM | Kids Workshop
6:30PM | Performance  | Mary Szydlowska
 

It has been a great opening, thanks for coming! Today we’re thrilled to welcome you to the galleries and l’Imprimerie to visit the Generation Brussels exhibition. Discover below the whole program of the day, and see you soon!

PROGRAM OF THE DAY

11am-7pm | General Opening in the galleries, Generation Brussels & Sculpture Factory
The 47 galleries, the 12 institutions of the Off program and the meeting point located at L’Imprimerie (Boulevard de Berlaimont 56), will open their doors to the public for the grand opening day of Brussels Gallery Weekend. Come and celebrate the new artistic season with us!
 

5 PM | Guided Tour | Ixelles
6PM | Guided Tour | Kunstraum Collection
6:30PM | Performance  | SPA FOR SPIRITS | L’Imprimerie
 

Opening: 15 september 19:00 (deuren open om 18:30)
Performance met Tessa Mars

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Kristina Sedlerova Villanen
MAIN COURSE
Turning to Dust and Bones, part 3

Opening: Saturday 10 September, 20-24 hrs
Until 16 October, Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs
 

horizon is tilting with each propulsion of oars dragging the speculative transformations and arrangements behind. transfer will happen at the deepest if zeros will not bleed too much before.

stone boats, anatomy of numbers, towel, alienation from the present moment and perhaps an attempt to grasp the totality of the matter just a minute later. inert movement of layers (after a splash) are part of the large scale transaction. the subject of orange melts into the purple one.
future currency will corrupt the codes of today, even those covered with sun cream

/ she left for a swim after all

The work of Kristina Sedlerova Villanen (Finland, 1987) can be described as emotionally loaded transitions in perishable matter. She is interested in the inconsistency of human nature, the attraction of humankind towards building unequal systems, creating concepts and the need to believe in them. Working with geological sediments, poorly made degradable materials, immaterial sources and language deposits, she alters these raw materials and the information history they are loaded with, unfolding the structures behind hierarchies and ownership history of natural resources.

With a series of sculptural gestures, MAIN COURSE is examining its own name and internal and external relationships, mingling with the space of P/////AKT.

Sedlerova Villanen is a graduate of the Academy of the Fine Arts Master’s degree program in Sculpture and the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture degree program in Scenography, both in Helsinki Finland. She has been exhibiting at Extra City Kunsthal Antwerp, Oksasenkatu 11 Helsinki, Park Tilburg, Outo Olo Helsinki, Art au Centre #3 Liège, Van Eyck Open Studios Maastricht, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Titanik Gallery Turku, MUU Kaapeli Gallery Helsinki, Eemil Art Museum Lapinlahti, Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo, FISAD 2015 Turin, Exhibition Laboratory Helsinki, Taiga-Space Saint Petersburg and Sorbus Gallery Helsinki among others. She is currently based between Helsinki and Brussels.

Mutter presents Janne Schimmel
Modders and Poachers

Opening: Saturday 10 September, 20-24 hrs
Until 16 October, Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs

Until the summer of 2023, and expanding the horizon to the future beyond, P/////AKT will be closely collaborating with some of Amsterdam’s youngest and finest. A celebration of The Initiative, of its dedicated organizers and of the many many talented artists that they (re)present and care for. We will talk, think, share experiences and insights – connive why not – and see what makes The Initiative tick. For starters our former P/////AKTPOOL space is put to new use by hosting initiative-initiated projects. After Tilde’s kick-off (1934, curated by Masha Domracheva) it’s now Mutter’s turn.
 
Mutter is a newly open contemporary art platform based in Amsterdam set up in the communal event space formerly known as filmhouse De Lange Adem, run by three of the inhabitants of the Ruychstraat 295 t/m 301. They will present the work of Antwerp based artist Janne Schimmel, who deconstructs existing hardware and technological devices to reimagine what technology is and our relationships with it.

Charlott Markus
Some Things Bleak

Opening: Saturday 10 September, 20-24 hrs
Until 16 October, Thu – Sun, 14 – 18 hrs

Some Things Bleak is a publication about seeing versus not seeing, about gender, class and climate, a work about representation and reproduction. In short, a vehicle for perception and togetherness. It is more of an artwork than an actual book. A hardcover that contains loose sheets, which all have been folded into separate folders. Folders that can be democratically taken out and be used as separate artworks. Three colors give the publication its identity, white, black and blue, which are combined in both paper choices and in different layers of ink, transparent and opaque alike.

Charlott Markus will be present in the P/////AKTSALON during the opening on Saturday 10 September,  inviting anyone who wants to have a talk or a private reading.
 
Texts by Charlott Markus and Sophia Seawell
Designed by Hans Gremmen 
Some Things Bleak is published by Fw:Books 
 
This project is made possible with the kind support of AFK – Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Stichting Stokroos, Tijl Fonds via Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stichting Jaap Hartenfonds and indirectly via Mondriaan fund.

Finally here, available from our opening next Saturday onwards: the publications by our final P/////AKTPOOLers Benjamin Francis (Artez Arnhem, 2020) and Tessa Langeveld (AKI, 2020) who participated in the program in 2021-22.
With contributions by Àngels Miralda, Laura van Grinsven and Nesli Gül Durukan and Zeger Reyers, Gabriel Lester and Mickey Yang respectively. 

Francis and Langeveld were preceded by Stefan Cammeraat (HKU, 2015), Thomas Swinkels (St. Joost Breda, 2015), Lisa Sudhibhasilp (GRA, 2016), Monique IJsseldijk (AKI, 2016), Emiel Zeno (HKU, 2017), Loïs Richard (KABK, 2017), Brigitte Louter (KABK, 2018), Pia Hinz (GRA, 2018), Laura Hogeweg (MAFAD, 2019) and David Grønlykke (GRA, 2019).

P/////AKTPOOL Vol. 1 comprises the endeavours of all twelve participants of this special program, who were each invited shortly after their bachelor graduation. Each of them realised three consecutive presentations with special guests and produced a publication on the results of their project at P/////AKT.

Sarah Pichlkostner’s solo exhibition (6 – 20 August) is the second part of an
organisational exchange with David Dale Gallery in Glassgow. For all of you
who didn’t make it there, DDG’s Max Slaven’s documentation of the project
and a commissioned text work by Clarinda Tse are available on our website
here. 

Join our Facebook event here.

Our events are featured on Public Data for Public Events
 

P/////AKT would like to thank:

Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and 

Stadsdeel Amsterdam Oost.

It starts today! After a year of waiting, the Brussels Gallery Weekend celebrates today the first day of a weekend full of events and artistic discoveries. Come and discover the exhibitions of our 47 galleries and 12 institutions of the Off program and celebrate with us the launch of the artistic season. We look forward to seeing you at L’Imprimerie, 56 Boulevard Berlaimont, to discover the Generation Brussels exhibition as well as the Sculpture Factory project and many other surprises.

We look forward to seeing you!!

Quarterly Arts Journal

For an Exhibition, of Sorts

including
Genoveva Filipovic
Christian Flamm
Dorota Jurczak
Goergia Küng
Alan Michael
Peter Wächtler

Vernissage Thursday Sep 8 from 6:00pm
Exhibition till Oct 15 2022 at Saint-Martin Bookshop