From 1 March 2020, the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens will be presenting two remarkable solo exhibitions of artists who have never been exhibited solo in Belgium before: the important and internationally renowned British artist Gary Hume (°1962) and the New Zealand artist Francis Upritchard (°1976) who will be reinterpreting her sensational show in 2018 at the Barbican Centre in London.
Read MoreExtra Extra brings people in the city together through culture and eroticism. Next to a biennial print magazine and an online platform, it also presents live events in different cities. On Friday March 27th, Extra Extra is staging the 5th edition of Extra Extra Night in Rotterdam: a nocturnal artistic adventure celebrating the social and the sensual city life.
Read More‘EXIT’ is the first Belgian retrospective dedicated to the work of Kris Martin (b. 1972, Kortrijk, Belgium). The artist is nationally recognised for ‘Altar’, his sculpture on the beach at Ostend. After having shown his work internationally for twenty years, the Belgian public is finally being given the opportunity to get to know his eloquent oeuvre in more detail.
Read MoreIBASHO is delighted to introduce two new artists with the exhibition ‘Parallel Crossings’.
Ariko Inaoka and Sean Lotman are wife-husband on a 'parallel' course with geographic 'crossings' in their photographic aesthetic.
From 1 February 2020, the Barbé-Urbain Gallery in Ghent will be presenting an exhibition by the Belgian-Dutch duo of artists, Middernacht & Alexander. The exhibition Am I Ready Now? holds a mirror up to visitors by means of layered portrait photographs in self-made frames, daring installations made of glass, and minimalist rubber sculptures.
Read MoreA French artist based in Brussels, Xavier Noiret-Thomé creates singularly-varied paintings and collages that feed on knowledge, experience and lived experiences. He has chosen to invite internationally-renowned Dutch sculptor, draughtsman and painter Henk Visch, whose monumental and miniature sculptures , to him, echo the human thought process.
Read MoreThe MAC’s is organising the first monographic exhibition of work by Matt Mullican in a museum in Belgium. Born in 1951 in Santa Monica, the American artist now lives and works in New York and Berlin. In the early 1970s, Mullican was marked by his studies with John Baldessari at the California Institute of the Arts.
Read MoreWith *Dooltocht/A desperate quest to find a base for hope, the M HKA presents the first retrospective exhibition of the Antwerp artist Els Dietvorst. The exhibition presents a coherent overview of her large and complex oeuvre, which includes social actions, documentaries, films and videos, clay sculptures, theatre texts, ink drawings and installations.
Read MoreGerman artist Jonathan Meese (b. 1970, Tokyo; lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg) will turn 50 on 23 January 2020. To celebrate this, Tim Van Laere Gallery is organising a large solo exhibition with new work. The exhibition will include paintings and sculptures. Meese will also introduce “canvas sculptures”, a new aspect in his oeuvre.
Read MoreFollowing the critically acclaimed ‘Banana Show’ of 2015, Studio Job present their long-awaited return to the Samuel Vanhoegaerden gallery in Knokke, Belgium with the ¥€$ ¥€$! exhibition. Following a visit to Studio Job’s sculpture atelier, Samuel and Job Smeets, along with the atelier team, selected a collection of pieces consisting of a few classic works, and never before seen pieces to be presented for the first time on 21st December 2019.
Read MoreTraditionally the Japanese have many celebrations connected to nature. The changing of the seasons leads to beautiful poems to be written and art to be created. With this in mind IBASHO wishes to celebrate the approaching winter with the exhibition ‘Hatsuyuki’, a group exhibition honouring the first snow. Through the works of 17 Japanese photographers and 5 Western photographers the beauty of a white, wintery world will be shown.
Read MoreTim Van Laere Gallery presents Anton Henning's third solo exhibition with the gallery. Henning (° 1964 Berlin, lives and works in Berlin and Manker) works in various media. His works can be seen as a contemporary interpretation of the Gesamtkunstwerk.
Read MoreThe Belgian furniture artist and designer Casimir launches a new webshop where he offers accessories and smaller furniture for sale. For the past 30 years, the 'furniture artist' has been working on the border between art and furniture, between craftsmanship and poetry. His timeless artisan-made oak objects and furniture pieces have survived all trends.
Read MoreLannoo Publishers is presenting the first overview of the work of ROA. CODEX is a selection of the famous Belgian artist’s work and is divided into 4 chapters, each focusing on the continents where his work can be seen: Eurasia, Africa, America and Oceania.
Read MoreThe renowned Belgian furniture artist Casimir launches three new objects: a rack and two low tables. The new objects are launched within the context of the 30th birthday of Casimir as a furniture artist. To celebrate this, he will release 12 new pieces.
Read MoreArts centre STUK and museum M Leuven are joining forces for the thirteenth edition of Playground, the annual festival that builds bridges between live and visual arts. Playground is a sanctuary for experiment, fusing installation, film, architecture, sculpture and choreography into long-running installations and live activations.
Read MoreIBASHO exhibits the work of Canadian photographer Guillaume Simoneau (°1978). When he was a child, Guillaume Simoneau’s family adopted a nest of baby crows orphaned from a fallen tree. Photographs from this time, taken by Simoneau’s mother, a poet and painter, are set in dialogue with Simoneau’s works, produced in the Spring of 2016 and 2017 in Japan.
Read MoreIngrid Deuss Gallery is presenting a remarkable exhibition by the Dutch photographer Joost Vandebrug (1982, lives and works in London and Antwerp), starting 24 November.
Read MoreTim Van Laere Gallery presents Live Forever, a group show with work by Bram Demunter, Gelatin, Adrian Ghenie, Kati Heck, Friedrich Kunath, Edward Lipski, Jonathan Meese, Tal R, Daniel Richter, Peter Rogiers, Ben Sledsens, Ed Templeton, Henk Visch and Anke Weyer.
Read MoreAt the end of October, the first monograph by the frequently acclaimed Dutch artist Suzanne Jongmans (1978, Hoeven, the Netherlands) is published by Lannoo Publishers. This book is a complete overview of her oeuvre, in which the traditions of painting, medieval costume design and circular economy come together.
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