Antwerp Art Weekend 2019 by Antwerp Art

Antwerp Art Weekend

16 – 19 May 2019

Antwerp Art Weekend Celebrating our fifth edition, the Antwerp Art Weekend takes place once more. Each year, art venues in and around Antwerp put their hands together to celebrate contemporary art. Experience the city

and its flourishing art scene, this time with over 80 art spaces, galleries, art schools, museums, temporary exhibitions and art events during this intense, four day, citywide manifestation.

It all starts at the Academy and so does the Antwerp Art Weekend of 2019. Although all venues will be opening on Thursday, May 16 from 18h-21h, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts will be this years host for the actual opening, taking place in the Academy’s garden and restaurant.

You’ll be able to get food and drinks from 19h on, see performances, visit exhibitions and experience a party with the Academy’s lecturers behind the DJ booth, well past 21h. More information on the Academy’s full program can be found on page 32.

Opening: 16 May, Thursday 18h−21h Opening hours: Friday to Sunday 12h−18h

Some museums and spaces keep to their regular opening hours and entrance fees.

Opening Night at the Academy

16 – 19 May 2019

01. Subbacultcha Belgium, Photo by Lara Gasparotto

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01. Rory Pilgrim, Software Garden, 2017, Courtesy of the artist and Andriesse Eyck Galerie, Amsterdam.

De Studio

Conversing Motherboards

Amber Vanluffelen, Josefin Arnell, Raphaela Vogel, Rory Pilgrim Shygirl, Mechatok, Romi Luna, Yunobi, 9M-MRJ, Amber Vanluffelen, Josefin Arnell

16–19 May, Opening 16 May at 18h

Maarschalk Gérardstraat 4, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 3 260 96 10 info@villanella.be

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De Studio functions as the main venue for the Antwerp Art Weekend, conveniently located in the center of the city, hosting a curated exhibition, performances and our annual celebratory party, the Nacht van

de Beeldende Kunst or Night of the Visual Arts. This year’s curator is Petra Heck, who put together the exhibition Conversing Motherboards with artists Rory Pilgrim, Raphaela Vogel, Josefin Arnell and

Amber Vanluffelen. For the Nacht van de Beeldende Kunst we invited Subbacultcha Belgium to put together a musical program that correlates to the exhibition.

Nacht van de Beeldende Kunst

Saturday 18 May 21h

Conversing Motherboards curated by Petra Heck Antwerp Art Weekend invited the Dutch guest curator Petra Heck to curate a program for De Studio. She presents ‘Conversing Motherboards’, a project consisting of video and performative works by the artists Josefin Arnell, Rory Pilgrim, Amber Vanluffelen and Raphaela Vogel. ‘Conversing Motherboards’ comes from a line of poetry by Carol R. Kallend, the central narrator to Rory Pilgrim’s music video album. Key themes that recur through his album ‘Software Garden’ include the boundaries between the human, artificial, organic, technological, political, poetic and spiritual. As Software Garden attempts to

offer a meeting point where ‘all the hearts of our motherboards converse’, Petra took two words out as a title for the show since she is, like Rory, interested in the point in which these boundaries could touch. In ‘Conversing Motherboards’ she attempts to create an unstable platform by presenting these artists as a counter image towards dominating binary relations. How to be able to expand ideas around gender, behaviour and sex. Not trying to solve paradoxes or having multiple visions collapse, but to trouble oneself, their ideas and dreams. How to express the differences and similarities between everything and everyone (animals,

nature, human beings), of ‘being in touch’ as the American feminist theorist Karen Barad would say. The video installations by Rory Pilgrim, Josefin Arnell and Raphaela Vogel will be visible throughout the Antwerp Art Weekend. The performances by Josefin Arnell and Amber Vanluffelen will take place on Saturday night during the Nacht van de Beeldende Kunsten (NBK). Additionally, every hour of the day there will be screenings in the cinema of De Studio of the following films: ‘Infection Drivers’ (2018) by Kate Cooper, ‘Our dead dogs’ (2013) by Janis Rafa and ‘Scrolling into the Deep’ (2016) by Valerie van Zuijlen.

from popular culture and subculture. In doing this, she also minds and cares about the social constructions at work within the different fields. Vanluffelen is interested in translating some of the motives, attitudes and outlooks that mark these genres. As she often rehearses in public spaces, she started to integrate elements from voguing (as part of ballroom culture) and waacking – her two preferred dance

styles - into her daily and artistic practice. Steadily and intuitively, Vanluffelen has identified transferable facets and elements to integrate them into her dancing, where she can communicate its narrative rather than its aesthetics. What speaks from her practice is primarily the energy and drive that underpin these styles, including the philosophy of “getting life”; of being totally in the moment, owning the situation.

installation. In this horror (infected love) story, blood sucking ticks have taken over the world. Together with a team of actresses and an opera singer Josefin plays with failure as a concept or emotion for trying to reflect on the darker side of humanity itself and our complicated

coexistence with nature. A family drama breaks out between Mother earth, The humans, Fear, Mutated Ticks and its targets. Cast: Stina Fors & Jeannette Huizinga. In 2018 Josefin was awarded the Theodora Niemeijer Prijs for emerging women artists based in the Netherlands.

hung down from the ceiling, clenching a video projector in its teeth almost threatening to destroy it. The video shows the artist in her studio in a duel with a drone, whose camera is filming the dramatic and psychologically charged scene. Raphaela Vogel acts and steers the camera the

camera at the same time, which creates a grotesque atmosphere between control and the loss of it. Vogel’s work makes you wonder about the intimate and personal access to technology but shows the unstability and fragility of the seemingly perfect surfaces.

an accompanying music video. Software Garden cultivates diverse musical influences to explore how a music album can be used as a political space to bring people together in a time of increasing nationalism and political isolationism. Focussing on the connections between technology, disability, and the systems that care for a society, the performance is narrated by poet and disability advocate Carol R. Kallend.

Software Garden asks how we meet and create connection from both behind and beyond our screens. As digital and robotic technologies change the fabric of human systems, is it possible to create spaces that unite the human, ecological and technological with basic principles of empathy, care and kindness?

Amber Vanluffelen (BE) Vanluffelen wonders how she can relate to the here and now. This has led her to various (in-situ) works, including performances and installations, exhibited in art venues, festivals or public space. The artist tries to extend the framework of her interests and passions at hand; the public space, dance, but also basketbal or anime by isolating and incorporating choreographic, moving and aesthetic elements Josefin Arnell (SE) Working across different media on the border of fiction and documentary, Josefin navigates within the space of ‘exuberance and self-exploitation’. Antwerp Art Weekend commissioned Josefin Arnell for her latest piece: ‘Failure’ is a feeling that exists long before it comes; a performance and video Raphaela Vogel (DE) Raphaela Vogel often constructs video sculptures by using readymade objects like dixi toilets, ashtrays and lion sculptures for works wherein we are no longer just men and women, we also tend to be animals or machines. In Prokon, an aggressively looking hay bale gripper is Rory Pilgrim (UK) Centred on emancipatory concerns, Rory Pilgrim’s work aims to challenge the very nature of how we come together, speak, listen and strive for social change through sharing and voicing personal experience. Nurtured over 2 years of collaboration, workshops, and live concerts Rory Pilgrim released his first full length music album entitled Software Garden in 2018. The album unfolds over 11 tracks, each with

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Nacht van de Beeldende Kunst (NBK) invites Subbacultcha Belgium The Nacht van de Beeldende Kunst or Night of the Visual Arts is our celebratory art party and each year we invite an organisation with one foot in music and one in the arts. For the fifth Antwerp Art Weekend, Subbacultcha Belgium puts together a musical program that mingles with the ideas of Petra Heck’s exhibition, ‘Conversing Motherboards’, also visible in De Studio during NBK on Saturday 18 May,

and includes performances by the artists Amber Vanluffelen and Josefin Arnell. Subbacultcha is an independent community, based in both Belgium and Amsterdam, hopelessly devoted to emerging music and art. At the heart of Subbacultcha you’ll find a membership. Members get access to the most exciting concerts and events for just €8 a month. Together with this dedicated community,

Subbacultcha is supporting artists from the start and give them the audience they deserve. The community also doubles as a meeting place. Members become part of a very exciting family; small scale but custom made, the perfect place to hear new music first-hand, hang with interesting people and witness new developments front row.

between what society expects women to be, when and how women communicate sexual needs and who women like Shygirl are. The project was released on NUXXE,

a label she runs together with Sega Bodega, coucou chloe and Oklou.

crew BALA CLUB. Contrary to lots of his peers who’re often more percussion-oriented, Mechatok continued refining his own distinct pop-sensible melodic sound,

soaked in melancholic euphoria. His last single ‘All I Want’, together with Swedish trapper Bladee, sounds very promising for the near future.

Soulection tracks to J-Dilla and Erykah Badu, brings forth a soulful and refreshing selection. She’ll hit the decks with an

eclectic mix and knows how to make your feet move for sure.

808’s of Gunna, Migos and Travis Scott. Check out his DJ-mixtapes on his Soundcloud profile to get into the mood.

If you haven’t already, of course.

resident mostly plays in Antwerp, he isn’t timid of crossing the border. Having played at Signal in Moscow and Interzone in

Berlin, 9M-MRJ is ready to bring off the right vibe for the right moment.

Shygirl (UK) South East London singer and DJ Shygirl has become an established name in the experimental club scene. Her 5-track EP ‘Cruel Practice’ explores the juxtaposition Mechatok (DE) Now signed to Lorenzo Senni’s imprint Presto!?, Mechatok first gained attention as a member of post-club internet collective STAYCORE and an affiliate of London Romi Luna (BE) Romi Luna is an up-and-coming DJ based in the city of Antwerp. This urbaneer’s wide range of influences, ranging from Yunobi (BE) Another talented DJ hailing from Antwerp. Bringing the trap to the club, Yunobi will be turning up the place. Get ready to crank to 9M-MRJ (BE) Belgian techno DJ 9M-MRJ might not be the most visible, but absolutely not one to be overlooked. Although the MØRSK Timetable

Saturday 18 May

21h00

doors are open

21h15–22h00

Josefin Arnell (curated by Petra Heck)

Performance

22h30–23h00

Shygirl

Live

23u30–00h00

Amber Vanluffelen (curated by Petra Heck)

Performance

00h00–01h00

Romi Luna

Deejay

01h00–02h00

Yunobi

Deejay

02h00–03h00

Mechatok

Deejay

03h00–end

9M-MRJ

Deejay

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Venues

(re)D.

Put Your Hand In Mine (and don’t look back)

Narcisse Tordoir, Jean-Marie Bytebier, Maryam Najd, Damien De Lepeleire, Stijn Cole, Tim Breukers, Joan van Barneveld, Hamid El Kanbouhi, Lucas Devriendt and Philippe Vandenber

16 May–20 June Opening 16 May at 17h

Mechelsteenweg 4, 2000, Antwerp

T +32 478 25 80 44, info@redgallery.be

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When Gabriël Van De Weghe, founder of the print gallery of the same name, died in 2007, the gallery was continued by his son Hendrik. In 2009 the gallery was moved to Antwerp and a new project with mainly mid-carreer Belgian artists was started in the museum district. In 2016 Galerie Van De Weghe moved to the city center and was renamed (re)D. The new name reflects the program of the gallery, with alternating exhibitions of emerging artists of different nationalities and shows of

contemporary mid-carreer and established artists. The gallery focuses on painting and drawing, but is also open to other forms of expression. Put Your Hand In Mine (and don’t look back) To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the gallery in Antwerp, a curated group exhibition is organized. Hendrik Van De Weghe, owner and inspirer of the gallery, appointed artist-curator Hilde Borgermans to coordinate and curate the project.

The participating artists are Narcisse Tordoir, Jean-Marie Bytebier, Maryam Najd, Damien De Lepeleire, Stijn Cole, Tim Breukers, Joan van Barneveld, Hamid El Kanbouhi, Lucas Devriendt and Philippe Vandenberg. Hilde Borgermans graduated as a Master in Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. She has been working as an assistant-apprentice for Jan Vercruysse. Recently she finished a postgraduate degree in Curatorial Studies at KASK Ghent.

AAIR

Null Island

Koba De Meutter, Alexis Gautier, Runo Lagomarsino, Cristina Lucas, Monica Restrepo & Ana Maria Millán, Tianzhuo Chen + STRT Schot winner 2018 Miguel Angel Montoya

16 May–10 June Opening 16 May at 18h

Ploegstraat 27, 2018 Antwerp

T +32 485 87 09 97, info@aair.be

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AAIR is a new artist-oriented organisation which provides time and space for artists by facilitating affordable studio spaces and offering long-term residencies. AAIR enhances international artistic mobility and pursues site-specific criticality using different formats such as temporary public interventions, online publications, discussions, visiting programs, symposia and readings. AAIR feeds the discourse on residencies and studio space policy

connecting various partners from inter/ national institutions to local governments. The launch of AAIR takes place during Antwerp Art Weekend with the inauguration of the building, website, logo and public program. Null Island At the exact center of the world, on the cross point between the Meridian and the Equator, lays a fictional island. It is named Null Island and was invented in order to

localize geolocation mistakes. There are pictures of Null Island, all though it doesn’t exist. In this exhibition Null Island is used as a metaphor to create time and actual space to provide a context to question the role of origin in our current society, to blur or erase its importance. It provides a structure where every visitor agrees to accept what they don’t understand.

Annette De Keyser Gallery

25 Years For A Better World (Part Ii) Resonance Room 5

Robert Cash, Marc Claes, Nassermann, Oliviero Rainaldi, Francesco Russo, ManfreDu Schu, Mariëlle Soons, Lore Vanelslande, Lotte Vanhamel

23 March–22 June

Generaal Belliardstraat 19 2000 Antwerp

T +32 476 33 39 34 annette@annettedekeyser.com

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The world is changing and so is the gallery: what began 25 years ago as a search for authentic and sincere art has become a mission, one that the gallery shares with its artists. Our aim is to provide people with a tool to touch them in the depths of

their being and to transform them. During the exhibition, visitors can hear my voice converting the energy and frequency of the artworks into sound. Hearts are opened up by the resonance of the artworks between themselves and with the

sound. In this way the gallery becomes a space for self-empowerment. To guarantee an intense experience without disturbance, during the week the gallery will only be open by appointment. On Saturday no appointment is needed.

Annie Gentils Gallery

Code Carambole

Kris Fierens, Pieter Laurens Mol

12 May–15 July, Opening 16 May at 14h

Peter Benoitstraat 40 2018 Antwerp

T +32 477 75 67 21 mail@anniegentilsgallery.com

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An afterimage of aesthetic order. Annie Gentils Gallery presents works by Pieter Laurens Mol and Kris Fierens PLM + KF = AGG (Spring-formula, Antwerp 2019). Two ships, whose differences in outward appearance might very well stand out at first glance, sail the same seas. The exhibition unfolds meridians in the search for a positioning in the world. PLM and KF organize according to unobserved characteristics. A chemistry that is expressed through an intuitive approach. Time and again, it is the memory of the spectator that links the trace of the active artist with his – the – world. PLM and KF have been presenting work in dialogue

since the 1980s, apparently yearning for a ruling natural order that is already contained in the matrix of their origin. PLM and KF each make ‘assemblages’ with which they navigate the contemporary mental space. A highly disciplined helmsman’s art underlies their endeavour: both artists recognize and appreciate in each other’s work the need for hesitation as an indispensable seed of creativity. Wherever amazement emerges, sympathies can develop out of mutual recognition: the challenge of engaging in a new, yet unknown energy, fuelled by fusions. The tingling in the fingers of the artists can best be compared to the nervous wiggling

of a compass needle. As with magnetism, the actions in their workplaces are of an enigmatic order, yet nevertheless they determine the course and direction. While a chick was scratching for food on a dung heap, it discovered a pearl. “Precious thing, you lie in an unworthy place!” it said. “If someone out for money had seen you here, you would long have regained your former splendour. But that I, who care much more about food, have found you, that cannot be an advantage for you nor for me. I say this for those who do not understand me. Fables, Classical Gallery 65, Phaedrus.

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02. Maurice Doherty, Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the bastards get you down, 2017, Courtesy of the artist

05. Pieter-Laurens Mol, Pavonine Self Portrait, 2005, Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery

04. MariĂŤlle Soons, Parallel Universes, 2016, Courtesy of Galerie Annette De Keyser

03. Kleir Clarke, Mania, Null Island StreetView, Courtesy of GoogleMaps

Artelli Gallery

Streets and Stones

Liesbet Bussche

Mechelsteenweg 120, 2018 Antwerp

T +32 474 31 65 87, valerie@artelligallery.com artelligallery.com

A crowd control barrier sparkles like a gemstone. Fifteen queens show off their hundred and twenty pearl necklaces. Antwerp diamond dealers reveal their identities through frivolous diamond logos. Artelli Gallery celebrates the ten-year artistry of Liesbet Bussche with the exhibition ‘Streets and Stones’. The exhibition is on display from 12 May till the 29th of June and shows new work alongside highlights of her career. In her body of work, Bussche researches the significance of jewellery

as a historical, cultural and social phenomenon. Substantive and formal characteristics of archetypal jewellery like the pearl necklace, charm bracelet or engagement ring define starting points for her artistic research. Normally unobserved adornments in the city or remarkable facts in the newspaper or on the Internet trigger her inspiration. She processes her findings in a wide range of media such as objects, posters, photographs and interventions, which she presents in unconventional

Axel Vervoordt Gallery

The Crime of Mr Adolf Loos The Unfinished Paintings of Charles Rosenthal

Group exhibition, curated by Alistair Hicks Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, curated by Jill Sillverman van Coenegrachts

Stokerijstraat 19 2110 Wijnegem

T +32 3 355 33 00, info@axelvervoordtgallery.com

Boris Vervoordt created the Axel Vervoordt Gallery in 2011. The gallery opened in a historic space in the centre of Antwerp with an exhibition by Günther Uecker. Boris chose to open the gallery in the same exact place where his father had mounted exhibitions for Uecker and Jef Verheyen in the 1970s. The first exhibition — and those that followed — linked this new start to the company’s long history with art and its original home in the Vlaeykensgang. This continued a path of more than 40 years of working closely with artists. Boris’s goal was to create the best possible platform for solo artists to present their work. Central to the gallery’s on-going mission is a commitment to partnering with artist’s estates, as well as rediscovering artists whose work was under-appreciated during their lifetimes to preserve and promote their valuable contributions to art history. The gallery’s early program included a specialty in post-war and contemporary art

with a specific focus on art from Europe, Japan, and Korea, particularly art from the ZERO and Gutai movements. An emphasis on Dansaekhwa followed, as the gallery’s program and participation in global art fairs grew in prominence and its roster of artists expanded. The Crime of Mr Adolf Loos Axel Vervoordt Gallery is proud to present a large group show entitled, The Crime of Mr Adolf Loos, curated by British curator, writer and advisor Alistair Hicks. Since the beginning of the 20th century, in a claim to modernity, ‘unnecessary’ decoration was removed from any work of art and architecture. Today, this idea seems obsolete. Most of the artists included in this show believe that it’s possible to be modern and embrace ornament. In his 1908 essay “Ornament and Crime”, Adolf Loos, declared that you could not be decorative and modern. He makes no good arguments for this outrageous claim, just asserts it. This

Base-Alpha Gallery

I capsule I

Katleen Vinck

Kattenberg 12, 2140 Borgerhout

T +32 476 62 03 17 info@basealphagallery.com

Base-Alpha Gallery opened in 2007 with the aim of showing and promoting contemporary art by young Belgian and international artists who have a clear link with the Belgian art scene. With somewhat of a risk-taking approach to curating, the gallery distinguishes itself through its hardnosed commitment to Belgian artists such as Lieven Segers, Michèle Matyn, Nadia Naveau, Geoffrey de Beer, Denie Put, Suse Weber and Kathleen Vinck, as well as its artist-curated series of shows. Located on the outskirts of Antwerp’s art gallery

district, a short walk from the Central Station, the gallery has carved out a name for itself as a space for forward-thinking, subversive art whose quality and pertinence is never put into question. I capsule I In her new solo show, Katleen Vinck presents sulptures and prints on wood. After research about modular capsule architecture and the brutalist architecture of Willy Van der Meeren, the focus for her new series finds output in a reflection of the “in between” space. Where capsule architecture is mostly

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12 May–29 June contexts whereby the public domain takes centre stage. Streets and Stones Streets and Stones marks the tenth anniversary of Liesbet Bussche’s work. Her artworks, presented in the gallery and in the city, show her fascination with urban life and demonstrate a quirky interpretation of jewellery as an age-long medium that reveals wealth, beauty and envy of mankind.

16 March–25 May 16 March–31 August axelvervoordtgallery.com exhibition is devoted to contemporary artists who are resisting Loos’ edict. The Unfinished Paintings of Charles Rosenthal Axel Vervoordt Gallery is pleased to present the complete cycle of paintings created in 1999 showing the room installation of white constructions, which are elements from the last proposed unfinished exhibition by Kabakov avatar and invented character Charles Rosenthal. Conceived as part of the large body of works within the oeuvre, The Alternative History Of Art – The Unfinished Paintings Of Charles Rosenthal / Room No. 6, the exhibition is part of a collected, invented revisionist history given to us as a way of reading the Kabakovs’ complex imagination that rewrote art history from the end of the last century through to the end of Stalin, as a parable.

9 May–22 June basealphagallery.com approached from inside, Vinck carries the viewer’s point of view from above, to experience the sculptures with some kind of a bird perspective. It reflects to the specific capsular typology and refers to the monolite as a natural phenomena. Smooth, mirroring surfaces are placed next to robust and solid materials as concrete and ceramics. They also serve as soccle or backdrop, fullfilling their role in doubling elements with a dash of Space Age.

08. Katleen Vinck, 2018, Courtesy of Base-Alpha Gallery

06. Liesbeth Bussche, 11 pieces strand of pearls, Courtesy of Artelli Gallery

07. Asli Cavusoglu, The Place of Stone, 2018, as installed at Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery

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BEHIND BARS

Modus

Filip Verreyke

16 May–15 June, Opening 16 May at 18h

Otto Veniusstraat 18, 2000 Antwerp

behindbarsruimtevoorkunst@gmail.com

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BEHIND BARS -ruimte voor kunst- is an art space and artist initiative founded in 2014 by the artists Anne-Marie Volders and Ronald De Preter. The gallery aims to

show 20th Century & Contemporary Art. Open Friday and Saturday from 2-6pm during exhibitions and by appointment.

Modus New work by Antwerp based artist Filip Verreyke.

CASSTL

Was I Not That?

Margaret Welsh

16–26 May, Opening 17 May from 18h–21h

Braziliëstraat 27, 2000 Antwerp

info@casstl.com

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C A S S T L is a nonprofit artist initiative founded and run by Carla Arocha, Stéphane Schraenen and Luc Tuymans in 2017. Their intention is to provide an experience not limited by the traditional and practical needs of an institution or commercial space. They organize project based events including exhibitions, publishing editions, performances, readings, screenings by

local and international artists. C A S S T L is located in the Antwerp harbor neighborhood Het Eilandje, near MAS museum. C A S S T L presents Margaret Welsh: Was I Not That? RULES 1: Replace artist materials by human materials.

2: Use colors rejected by others (known as “mistake colors”). 3: Replace arbitrary forms with found geometry. 4: Replace painterly gestures with orderly actions. 5: Follow the lines. Margaret Welsh, 9 February 2019.

Callewaert Vanlangendonck Gallery

High tide along the River Seine, Belgians in Paris

Willy Anthoons, Jan Saverys, Pierre Alechinsky, Michel Seuphor

16 May–27 July, Opening 16 May at 19h

Wolstraat 21-23 2000 Antwerp

T +32 475 92 67 24 gallery@callewaert-vanlangendonck.com

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Callewaert Vanlangendonck Gallery, founded in 2012 in Antwerp, Belgium, displays lyrical and geometrically abstract artists from the following groups: Cobra, Art Abstrait, Art Construit, Formes, G58, the New Flemish School and the ZERO movement and contemporary artists in line with this visual language. The gallery also publishes art books on its represented artists. Gallery owners Yoeri Vanlangendonck and Brecht Callewaert emphasize the importance and the contemporary character of the Belgian artists of the 1950s and 1960s. By engaging them in a dialogue with current abstract artists, an interaction between present and past arises. It shows how timeless, universal

and cross-border this avant-garde art still is. The gallery has two spaces: one at both corners of the Wolstraat-Coppenolstraat crossing and the main space in Sint-Jacobstraat, next to St. James’ Church (university quarter). In addition Callewaert Vanlangendonck is an exhibitor at Art Brussels, a must-see in the international art calendar. As a partner of Delen Private Bank, the gallery organizes exhibitions at the bank’s headquarters and lends artworks for fairs such as BRAFA and Interieur Kortrijk, of which Delen Private Bank is the main sponsor. High Tide Along The River Seine, Belgians In Paris Callewaert Vanlangendonck Gallery shows

four Belgian artists who worked and lived in Paris. Jan Saverys (1924-2017) studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1951. Willy Anthoons (1911-1982) moved to Paris around 1949, where he joined the artists around the painter Geer van Velde. Michel Seuphor (1901-1999) made Paris his hometown in 1925 and was at the epicenter of the first abstract art movement, being one of the closest friends of Mondrian. Pierre Alechinsky (1927) went to Paris to study engraving at Atelier 17 under the guidance of Stanley William Hayter in 1951. All four artists were at the same time in Paris and knew each other..

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ABSTRACT Painting Redefined

Daems van Remoortere, Ayrton Eblé, Jef Meyer, Timothy Segers

9 May–27 July

Sint-Jacobstraat 17 2000 Antwerp

T +32 475 92 67 24 gallery@callewaert-vanlangendonck.com

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On a unique location with a courtyard next to St James’s Church, Callewaert Vanlangendonck shows important artworks dating from the postwar era in dialogue with contemporary artists in line with this visual language. ‘Abstract Painting Redefined’ During the Antwerp Art Weekend, Callewaert Vanlangendonck Gallery will present five young artists who redefine abstract art, according to each artist’s insights and gifts. The exhibition has not so much modified or challenged the definition of abstract art, as it has let a new generation of abstract artists work together and challenge their own ideas in accordance with that of peers. By doing so the audience will experience an interesting dialogue between abstract artworks conceived by artificial intelligence (Daems van Remoortere), visiting building sites and unfinished locations on a weekly basis (Eyrton Eblé), works made in concrete with “found” molds (Jef Meyer) and steel

and plastic sculptures conceived by iPad drawings (Timothy Segers). The exhibition is curated by the artists themselves. Daems van Remoortere (Lena Daems (°1988) and Frederik van Remoortere (°1986)) are an artist duo based in Antwerp and have been active since 2009. They work in a multidisciplinary way and cross the line between theatre, cinema and visual art. Their research results in abstract drawings, sculptures, films and installations. Ayrton Eblé (°1994) visits building sites and unfinished locations on a weekly basis, Eblé has his eyes on the dialogues, rhythm and aesthetics peculiar to these raw settings. Inspired by perpetual urban developments, the artist emulates the relationship between man and the architectural materials of his time and transforms it into aesthetical research. Jef Meyer (°1989) mainly works with concrete, his favorite material. During the preparation process he experiments with

shapes, types of sand, different layers and pigments. In this way he deliberately creates reliefs, figures and structures in his work. Depending on which types of sand he combines, he determines the final drawings and color nuances and shows the versatility of his material. The interplay between a delicate shine and a matt effect, light and shadow, also occurs during the creation. This creates a subtle movement. Timothy Segers (°1983) makes objects that stem from light, unmediated, improvisational gestures, realized in the moment. He devises them without knowing their ultimate destination, as indeterminate objects that can be positioned by others: the curator, the collector and, ultimately, the viewer. Segers makes a quick drawing on his iPad, which he distorts using vectoring programs, then produces them enlarged in powder-coated steel pieces that are hung on the wall with magnets.

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10. Margaret Welsh, Was I Not That?, Courtesy of the artist 12. Daems van Remoortere, Blinds, 2018, Photo by Geert Van Hertum, Courtesy of Callewaert Vanlangendonck

09. Filip Verreyke, modus, 2019, Courtesy of the artist 11. Jan Saverys, Composition, 1951, Courtesy of Callewaert Vanlangendonck

De Zwarte Panter

Exchanging Looks NatuurElle African Queens Schrijversportretten

Wim De Schamphelaere Frieda Van Dun Michael Bastow Kris Vanhemelrijck

5 May–23 June 5 May–23 June 5 May–23 June 5 May–23 June

Hoogstraat 70-72-74 2000, Antwerp

T +32 3 233 13 45 galerie@dezwartepanter.com

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De Zwarte Panter is Flanders oldest gallery, organizing contemporary art exhibitions, book launches, and concerts since 1968. Housed in a large historical monument in Antwerp’s city centre, the gallery often presents several exhibitions simultaneously, including a permanent display of works by painter Fred Bervoets. Next to Bervoets, the gallery represents, amongst others, Nick Andrews, Marc Kennes, Tom Liekens, Benjamin Demeyere, Frank Wagemans, Jan Vanriet, Michel Buylen, Agnes Guillaume, Dr. Hugo Heyrman, Roger Van Akelijen, Ysbrant, Jan Cox, Herr Seele, and Kamagurka.

‘Exchanging Looks’ Wim De Schamphelaere Fascinated by the people, De Schamphelaere works with African, Indian, and Cuban communities. In his work, he uses hundreds of single photographs to digitally construct extremely detailed, monumental images. ‘NatuurElle’ Frieda Van Dun In her paintings and gouaches, Van Dun departs from a personal interpretation of nature, resulting in intricate abstractions: colour tones in motion. The exhibition shows new works, including ceramic sculptures.

‘African Queens’ Michael Bastow Following the 2016 ‘100 Chinoises’ series, Bastow shows a new set of portraits, ‘African Queens’. In these pastel drawings he presents a tribute to the vitality, and the almost mythical presence of women. Kris Vanhemelrijck ‘Schrijversportretten’ Vanhemelrijck’s large portraits are snapshots of writers’ lives. In his mixed media drawings, the aura of their body of work shines through. The works seem to arise from a personal relationship between the artist and the depicted writers.

DMW Art Space

The alley of the universe / Afri lunar station

Marius Ritiu & Kiluanji Kia Henda

9 May–16 June

Koolstraat 15 2140 Borgerhout

T +32 494 99 98 09 info@dmw-artspace.be

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DMW Art Space is a project space and gallery in 2140 Antwerp, Borgerhout, established in 2016. DMW focuses on the role of the artistic dialogue in the exhibition process. As a project space, DMW organises monthly duo exhibitions. These events show the works of an artist selected by DMW alongside the works of another artist who is invited by the selected artist. Each collaboration is concluded with the presentation and sale of a limited edition of new and unique works of the artists.

The collaborative approach of the project space has served as the basis for selecting a roster of artists represented by DMW. Currently, DMW represents Dries Segers, Denitsa Todorova, Caroline Van den Eynden and Joris Vanpoucke. The alley of the universe / Afri lunar station This unique expo at DMW Art Space brings together two new projects by the Romanian artist Marius Ritiu and the Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda. The

projects ‘The Alley of the Universe’ and ‘Afri Lunar Station’ reinterpret elements from the diverse cultural and historical backgrounds of the artists into fictionalised short stories either set or originating in outer space. Ritiu transforms the ancient myths of Transylvania into a mysterious tale of vampires and sentient objects from space, while Kia Henda uses the history of an ill-fated Angolan space adventure to tell a story about an African basis on the Moon in the 1970s.

Eva Steynen Deviation(s)

Nick Hullegie

16 May–22 June, Opening 16 May at 17h

Zurenborgstraat 28, 2018 Antwerpen

T +32 486 20 95 64, eva@evasteynen.be

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Nick Hullegie (°1970, lives and works in Antwerp) studied Monumental and Architectural Design and Arts from 1991 till 1996 in Arnhem (NL) and from 2001 till 2004 at the Higher Institute for the Arts, in Antwerp. He exhibits in the Netherlands and later in Belgium and Germany since 1996. Since 2003 his sculpture ‘Grow Up’ is part of the Marta Herford (D) collection. In 2018 he created ‘Penarie’, a playful sculpture for a roundabout at the Zurenborg quarter in

Antwerp. As well as in his sculptures as his two-dimensional work on paper and canvas, the optical illusion and the inversion of spaces are recurring figurations. Everyday utensils Hullegie integrates in playful architectural structures. Forms are reduces to their essence and what looks evident at the first sight is undermined with a surrealistic touch, always attended with poetical sense of humour.

Eva Steynen.Deviation(s) was founded in 2013. Situated in the upcoming eastside of Antwerp, on the ground floor of a 19th century mansion. The gallery has a multidisciplinary approach and works closely with a small group of mid-career and emerging artists, Belgian based and international, and distinguishes itself by more risk-taking and curatorial shows often with a museal character.

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13. Frieda Van Dun, Als Bloemen, 2018; Courtesy of De Zwarte Panter 15. Nick Hullegie, untitled, 2019, Courtesy of Eva Steynen.Deviation(s)

14. Marius Ritiu, The Alley of the Universe - Rocking chair, 2019, Courtesy of DMW Art Space

Fifty One Too

Lanesville

Saul Leiter

7 May–29 June

Hofstraat 2, 2000 Antwerp

info@gallery51.com

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Gallery FIFTY ONE specializes in fine art photography and works on paper. Since its founding in 2000, the gallery has been focusing on 20th- and 21st-Century photography (vintage, classic, fashion, African and contemporary). Since 2011, the gallery started an ongoing dialogue between photography and works on paper. In 2014 a new gallery space opened its doors: FIFTY ONE TOO.

Lanesville By Saul Leiter In FIFTY ONE TOO the show on Saul Leiter (USA, 1923-2013) will be extended by a series of seven nude photographs taken in 1958 in Lanesville, New York. In addition to the focus on black-and-white photography and gouache paintings in Gallery FIFTY ONE, ‘Lanesville’ aims renewed attention at Leiter’s famous use of colour. These seven

variants of one model, Jay, posing relaxed in front of Leiter’s lens, illustrate the artist’s celebrated recipe of unconventional compositions and vantage points. The combination of soft pastel colours and natural light adds to the particularly romantic atmosphere of this series.

FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerpen

Photobook Belge Hotel Solaire Restricted Images, made with the Warlpiri of Central Australia Enghelab Street, A Revolution through Books. Iran 1979–1983 Bad habits in the museum café

Sébastien Reuzé Patrick Waterhouse

1 March–6 October 1 March–9 June 1 March–9 June

Hannah Darabi

1 March–9 June

Beni Bischof

16 May–19 May, Opening 16 May at 21h

Waalsekaai 47, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 3 242 93 00, info@fomu.be

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The Antwerp Fotomuseum (FOMU) is a national museum affiliated to the Museumstichting (Museum Foundation). It is one of the most prestigious photography museums in Europe. FOMU is recognised at home and abroad as a leading expert in the preservation and management of photographic heritage. The museum’s historical and contemporary collections enjoy worldwide renown. There are 3 million objects in total - including photographic images, equipment and books - covering the history of photography in Belgium and the rest of the world. The digital collection is also growing year by year and becoming increasingly accessible. FOMU operates an open house policy focused on interacting with a broad public and remaining engaged, socially relevant and innovative. The museum organises some ten exhibitions per year by Belgian and international photographers. It hosts a regular programme of lectures and workshops. FOMU also champions young photographers through various projects, exhibitions, events and a dedicated magazine .tiff. The museum thus represents a dynamic platform for sharing its knowledge and passion for photography. Photobook Belge Photobooks have been one of the most effective means of expression for photographers since photography began. They remain in circulation, are portable and can be reissued, thus reaching a larger public than an exhibition ever could. To date, hardly any research has been conducted into Belgian photobooks. Photobook Belge

aims to fill this gap by providing an overview of the evolution of the Belgian photobook from the mid-19th century to today. This exhibition and publication are finally giving the Belgian Photobook – a concept in itself – the recognition it deserves. The publication Photobook Belge is published by FOMU in partnership with Hannibal. Curator: Tamara Berghmans Sébastien Reuzé – Hotel Solaire Hotel Solaire is French photographer Sébastien Reuzé’s (FR, °1970) first major museum exhibition in Belgium. The dominant theme is the expressiveness of colour. Reuzé develops most of his own work in the darkroom, where he plays with various light-emitting sources. The resulting photographic objects reflect this spontaneous approach to the medium. Reuzé takes the viewer into a fictional landscape bathed in the warm glow of an omnipresent sun. He spent months capturing images of desolate places in the desert, creating an intimate journey through an elusive world. Any narrative is conscientiously and systematically subsumed into a climate where anything is possible; a dazzle in which one drifts and is lost. Curator: Rein Deslé Restricted Images, Made With The Warlpiri Of Central Australia – Patrick Waterhouse For the past 7 years, Patrick Waterhouse has created an extensive archive of colonial representations of Australia. He also took photographs in the Warlpiri communities in Central Australia. Local artists from the Warlukurlangu Art Center appropriated both

the historical collection and his photographs by using the traditional Aboriginal technique of dot painting. In doing so they revised their own representation. Curator: Joachim Naudts Hannah Darabi: Enghelab Street, A Revolution Through Books. Iran 1979 – 1983 FOMU presents Iranian artist Hannah Darabi’s (IR, 1981) collection of unique photographic and political books to mark the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution. By bringing together works published between 1979 and 1983 Hannah Darabi takes us to the heart of the intense political period that breathed new life into Iranian photography. The project is a collaboration between the artist and LE BAL, Paris. Beni Bischof - Bad Habits In The Museum Café In collaboration with PLUS-ONE Gallery, FOMU invites you to practise some bad habits with BENI BISCHOF. The MUSEUM CAFÉ Pixel will be turned in to an immersive art INSTALLATION. Beni Bischof, an UNCLASSIFIABLE visual ARTIST, sculpts with clay, metal, or chewing gum, paints with watercolours, draws with his fingers and humorously takes inspiration from everything from art brut to Saint Gall SAUSAGE. His HEAVY USE of photography is characterised by the re-appropriation of existing images from the internet or traditional media. His absurd digital MANIPULATIONS and sometimes BRUTAL physical interventions reveal a kinship with Dadaism mixed with a neo-punk spirit. Stefano Stoll

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17. Beni Bischof, Courtesy of FOMU and PLUS-ONE Gallery

16. Saul Leiter, Lanesville, 1958 Â©Saul Leiter Foundation, Courtesy of Gallery FIFTY ONE

Frans Masereel Centrum

Leon & Benny

Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx, Leon Sadler

16–19 May Opening 16 May at 18h

Turnhoutsebaan 124, 2140 Antwerp

T +32 1 485 22 52 tine.geerts@cjsm.vlaanderen.be

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The Frans Masereel Centrum, located in rural Kasterlee, is a print media lab where possibilities of graphic applications are being researched, widened, reformulated and updated. The Centre is one of the largest residencies and workspaces in Europe for print media. The focus of the Centre is mainly on creating and experimenting at the workshop or researching the position of graphics in relation to other plastic arts. Artists are challenged to critically question printing techniques and place them in relation to their own artistic oeuvre. It involves actual research into the added value of graphics for the artistic

process, as well as into the opportunities offered by new printing applications to translate thematic issues. Since 1972 each artist has donated one work of art to the archive after his/her residency. As a result, this collection has grown into a real reference archive of graphic works; into the centre’s memory. The Centre is a platform for the audience, the artists and their work. By means of exhibitions, lectures, tours, artist talks, workshops, open portfolio moments, print-related demonstrations, etc. the Frans Masereel Centrum wants to stimulate new, graphic applications and promote other print related media. The Centre also

co-produces as well as issues its own publications, editions and prints. Leon & Benny For the Antwerp Art Weekend of 2019, FMC invited artists Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx and Leon Sadler for a short residency period of which they will show their results in a duo exhibition simply named Leon & Benny. The exhibition will take place within the boundaries of the city of Antwerp, rather then at FMC. Both artists will be presenting new work and an edition, all produced at the Frans Masereel Centrum.

Galerie Schoots + Van Duyse

Armando, Henderikse, Peeters, Schoonhoven Multiples and publications about ZERO and NUL

16 May–29 Sept, Preview 16 May at 18h, Book presentation 19 May at 13h30 16 May–14 June, Preview 16 May at 18h, Book presentation 19 May at 13h30

Napoleonkaai 15 2000 Antwerp

T +32 3 689 13 14 info@galerieschoots-vanduyse.com

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Since 2012, Galerie Schoots + Van Duyse is located at the Eilandje, near the MAS. Galerie Schoots + Van Duyse represents several artists from the ZERO and NUL movement and shows the work of a surprising group of leading and emerging Belgian and international artists. ‘NU’ Armando, Henderikse, Peeters, Schoonhoven When Armando, Jan Henderikse, Henk Peeters and Jan Schoonhoven founded the Dutch Nul movement in 1958, the informal painting that these people connected in the years before gave way to the rigorous pro-

gram of Nul. Nul-art was cool and pragmatic. New sources were tapped: alternative materials, assemblages and constructions that were directly influenced by light and movement. The art was renewed and the public was emancipated. The many international ZERO exhibitions of the past years have revealed the current nature of the oeuvre of these artists. In the exhibition ‘Nu’ we show a selection from the oeuvre of the Nul-artists that emphasizes this timelessness. Editie - Multiples And Publications About ZERO And NUL It was Marcel Duchamp who, together with

the Dadaïsten, laid the foundation for the creation of the multiple. Artists from the Fluxus and ZERO wanted to reduce the distance between the art forms and also democratize art. Editions and special art books are therefore inextricably linked to the ZERO era. They are an expression of one of the starting points of this avant-garde group. Multiples are also the main indicator of the emergence of conceptual art. The ideas of the artist are more important than the artwork itself. That makes the multiple an interesting phenomenon.

Galerie Transit

Editie

Antwerp Art Pavilion

16 May–19 May, Opening 16 May at 18h

Hanzestedenplaats 15, 2000 Antwerpen T +32 478 81 14 41, +32 475 47 74 78 art@transit.be

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Transit collaborates in this exhibition with contemporary art partners from Mechelen: Academy of Fine Arts, Mechelen Cultural Centre, De Garage, Nona Art Center & Museum Hof van Busleyden. Transit gallery Mechelen displays and promotes international contemporary art and organises a new exhibition every two months. The gallery is part of an art deco building dating from 1934. In both the house and

present a selection of artworks by Virginie Bailly (painting), Arne Bastien (painting), Karel Breugelmans (sculpture), Johan Creten (sculpture), Luc Dondeyne (painting), Wouter Feyaerts (sculpture) & Bram Van Meervelde (installation). For both the experienced arconnoisseur and the keen amateur, there are gems of contemporary art to be discovered in the Antwerp Art Pavilion.

the garden, visitors can discover different works by artists all the time. Artists represented by Transit gallery include Arne Bastien, Virginie Bailly, Karel Breugelmans, Johan Creten, Luc Dondeyne, Wouter Feyaerts, Nikita Kadan, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Allart Lakke, Tom Polo, Bram Van Meervelde and Jenny Watson. Transit gallery exists 30 years. For our first exhibition during Antwerp Art Weekend, we

Galerie Verbeeck-Van Dijck

Arcane Rumble

Ruben Boeren, Olivier Wouters

Verbindingsdok Westkaai 12 2000 Antwerp

T +32 475 34 23 88 paul.verbeeck2@telenet.be

Arcane Rumble For their first shared presentation ‘Arcane Rumble’, visual artist Ruben Boeren collaborates with his friend and sound designer Olivier Wouters. Mutual feelings and interests led them to finally team up artistically. The image of a giant concrete sphere smashed into a forest, gave them the urge to work around this mysterious sight. Expect a sinister insight into the

impermanence of matter and its many ways of transforming. Ruben Boeren (°1988) lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium). He studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp, followed by a postgraduate degree in Artistic Research at the Sint Lucas School of Arts, also in Antwerp. His work has been exhibited in venues such as De Warande, Turnhout (B), Extra-

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16 May–2 June, Opening 16 May at 18h

City Kunsthal, Antwerp (B), Gallery-55, Amsterdam (NL), CdB Art Space, Brussels (B), Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (B), WARP Contemporary Art Platform, Sint-Niklaas (B). Olivier Wouters (°1994) lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium). As an autodidact, influenced by early digitalization and ‘musique concrete’ his work leans towards the more abstract soundscapes.

21. Ruben Boeren, Arcane Rumble, 2019, Galerie Verbeeck-Van Dijck

19. Nu, Courtesy of Galerie Schoots + Van Duyse

18. Leon sadler, Human bodies should be chopped, 2018, Courtesy of the artist

20. Johan Creten, The Herring, 2018, Photo Bert de Leenheer

Gallery FIFTY ONE

East 10Th Street Book launch and signing

Saul Leiter Bruno V. Roels

7 May–29 June 18 May from 16h–18h

Zirkstraat 20, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 3 289 84 58, info@gallery51.com

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East 10Th Street By Saul Leiter Gallery FIFTY ONE is proud to present a new Saul Leiter (USA, 1923-2013) show, focusing on his studies of the female figure both in black-and-white photography and painting. In addition to his colourful poetic street photographs that by now belong to the collective art memory, the nude photographs Leiter took in his apartment at East 10th Street in New York, give an intimate insight into

his personal environment. One of the great qualities of these images is their candid, spontaneous atmosphere. On the occasion of this exhibition, the gallery will launch a new FIFTY ONE Publication: ‘Saul Leiter, EAST 10th STREET’. Book launch And Signing Bruno V. Roels will launch and sign his new book ‘A Few Model Palm Trees’ (Art Paper Editions, 2019) on Saturday, May 18th from 16h–18h.

Gallery Geukens & De Vil

Over my (dead) body

Oxana Shachko, Sofie Muller, Katya Ev

16 May–15 June, Opening 16 May at 14h Artist talk 18 May at 15h

Leopoldstraat 12 (first floor) 2000 Antwerp

T +32 474 38 20 68 geukensdevil@geukensdevil.com

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Geukens & De Vil is a contemporary art gallery that is founded in 1998 in Knokke by Yasmine Geukens & Marie-Paule De Vil, two art historians. In 2006 they opened a second venue in the dynamic art district of Antwerp (Het Zuid). In 2015, the Antwerp gallery moved to the first floor of a large neoclassical building in the center of the city. Geukens & De Vil shows established artists but also aims to show young (inter)national talent. Additionally, they ask guest-artist to co-curate an exhibition and semi-annually, they curate larger group shows in which

they merge young and more established, national and international artists. Over my (dead) body In Over my (dead) body, the work of radical feminist FEMEN figure head Oxana Shachko (°1987, Ukraine) will be shown for the first time to the public at large, since her passing in 2018. Alongside her many protest actions, Shachko painted iconoclastic icons according to the traditional rules of icon painting. By adding transgressive elements, she confronts religious dogmas with feminist

and political messages. The exhibition, curated by Azad Asifovitch, is a dialogue between the work of Shachko, Sofie Muller (BE) and Katya Ev (FR-RU). In addition to the common theme of the human body, there is a mutual use of natural materials: alabaster and blood (Muller) wood and milk (Ev) - tempera, egg yolk and gold (Shachko). Geukens & De Vil organizes an artist talk on Saturday May 18 at 15h with curator Azad Asifovitch and artists Sofie Muller and Katya Ev.

Gallery Sofie Van de Velde Nieuw Zuid

Leeway ROSEBUD

Maaike Schoorel Erich Weiss

11 May–16 June Performance 19 May at 17h

Léon Stynenstraat 21, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 486 79 19 93 sofie@sofievandevelde.be

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Gallery Sofie Van de Velde’s location at Nieuw Zuid, a space shared with PLUS-ONE Gallery, presents a strong and diverse exhibition programme. Both galleries not only share a space, but also a philosophy. While keeping their own perspective on artistic choices, they believe in a positive and transparent attitude of collaboration. Being one of the first to settle in this new neighbourhood, the gallery also

seeks opportunities for the integration of more art at Nieuw Zuid. Maaike Schoorel - Leeway Curator : Joost Declercq Solo exhibition by Maaike Schoorel with a reflection on classic, modern, contemporary Belgian art. This exhibition will be in dialogue with the work of Guy Mees, amongst others. Special thanks to the Mondriaan foundation for their support.

ROSEBUD ‘ROSEBUD’ is the title of the newest performance by Belgian-born artist Erich Weiss. As usual the piece can be defined as a kind of ‘multi-media collage’ containing plenty of references and will take place on Sunday during the ‘tSluit op ‘t Zuid event at 17h.

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23. Oxana Shachko, untitled, Courtesy of Geukens & De Vil/ Estate Oxana Shachko 22. Saul Leiter, Untitled (Jay, nude), 1957 Â©Saul Leiter Foundation, Courtesy Gallery FIFTY ONE 24. Maaike Schoorel, Studio shot, 2019, Courtesy of Galerie Sofie Van de Velde Zuid

Het Bos

Extra Academy Destination Earth Antwerp Taart Moving Cake Guy Rombouts

Charlotte Koopman Zoot Ruf Ski and Cosmo knex Group exhibition Joud Toamah and Sadrie Guy Rombouts

Lecture 16 May at 19h Concert and party 17 may at 21h Happening 18 may at 14h Workshop 19 may at 10h Ongoing

Ankerrui 5-7, 2000 Antwerpen

T +32 3 238 23 32

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Het Bos is a Cultural Center for the Youth supported by the city of Antwerp and a Multi-disciplinary Artistic workspace supported by the Flemish Community. After 16 years of isolation on the fringe of Antwerp, between the nettles and away from everything, Scheld’apen founded a new house in the center of town. A house for artists, bricoleurs, makers, thinkers and others. Het Bos not only offers art but also coffee, soup, organic beer, aimless palaver and dancing. Het Bos loves odd, queerness and deviance. Het Bos thinks and acts sustainable, it’s her natural state. Het Bos an sich is relatively eternal, things in Het Bos are relatively temporary. Het Bos is a permanent experiment. Extra Academy: Charlotte Koopman EA organises an open programme of lectures, performances, workshops and screenings about artistic practice, reflection and research. EA a platform which is constantly ‘under construction’ and wants to offer new or underexposed material as a supplement -or disruption- to the the fixed academic models. EA is an alliance between the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Sint Lucas School of Arts and Het Bos, curated by artists Nico Dockx and Steven Van den Bosch. Charlotte

Koopman, the pillar of Antwerp food collective Otark, will shed her light on how she sees the fusion of film and food during the recurring Otarkino dinners, tell more about how she sees collaborations or explain why garlic and jazz is such a special combination. Start: 7pm Antwerp Taart Het Bos celebrates it’s 5th anniversary in May. For this occasion we are organizing Antwerp Taart; a cake-matinée, a baker-banquet or a pie-party with an army of artistic partypoopers. Het Bos invited a battalion of bakers to make a cake, which may or may not be edible, and present it on Antwerp Taart. With artists Fleur de Roeck, Frederick Lizen, Gerard Leysen, Jan Mathé, Karen Spiessens, Lieven Segers, Marijs Boulogne, Pieter de Clerck, Joke Van den hof, Sharon Van Overmeiren, Ward Heirwegh, Miljan Vukicevic, Tom Volkaert, Hannah Giese, Emma Louise Johnson, Kasper De Vos, Kevin Van Gaver, Klaas Rommelaere, Rachid Laachir, Roman Hiele en Michelle Woods, Hamer Kormeling, Fluwelen Koord, Michèle Matyn, Rufus Michielsen, Yorgos Tsakiridis, i.a...

Destination Earth Antwerp based artists Zoot Ruf Ski and Cosmo Knex aka Johann Kauth build a spaceship and invite people from the likes of NOVL3 and Soumaya Phéline to perform in it. Moving Cake by Joud Toamah and Sadrie (Boslabs / Workshop) In the aftermath of Antwerp Taart, Joud and Sadrie drop by with paper, pins, paint and stamps. With patterns, linocut stamps and leftover paper, we construct textural characters and make delicious, moving cakes. Joud Toamah is a student graphic design at Sint Lucas School of Arts. She’s from Syria and works with Sadrie aka Sarah Adriaanssens, a Brasilian illustrator who works and lives in Antwerp. Guy Rombouts During four days, Guy Rombouts will take care of our buildings facade with a brush, pots of paint and an aerial working platform. It’s quite possible that he does something with chalk, branches, iron wire, greenery and / or black paint. Come over and watch the artist at work!

26 IBASHO Borders of Nothingness & On the mend: Borders of Nothingness Revisited BLACKOUT

Margaret Lansink

16 May–19 May, Opening 16 May at 18h

Hitoshi Fugo

21 March–19 May

Tolstraat 67, 2000 Antwerpen

T +32 3 216 20 28, info@ibashogallery.com

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IBASHO means ‘a place where you can be yourself’ in Japanese. IBASHO is showing Japanese photography ranging from works by well-known Japanese photographers to younger contemporary Japanese artists as well as works from Western photographers who were inspired by Japan. IBASHO intends to show the versatility and beauty of Japanese photography in its many guises, from the raw and unpolished to the minimalist and still. Margaret Lansink ’Borders Of Nothingness & On The Mend’ Borders Of Nothingness Revisited In the infinite flow of everything, people

come and go in our lives. While the presence of some can be so subtle that we hardly register when it begins or ends, with others it’s far clearer. In Borders of Nothingness, Margaret Lansink dwells in the transitional ambiguity of her daughter’s decision to suspend contact with her, photographing landscapes and nude women whose disappearing presence raises the same question: is this the moment you were gone? When Lansink and her daughter reconnected to investigate whether their break could be mended, Lansink revisited her work mirroring their efforts of healing, inspired by the Japanese

practice of repairing ceramics with gold leaf, hoping to create a bond that is stronger and more beautiful. Hitoshi Fugo ‘BLACKOUT’ In theatre the word “blackout” refers to the moment in which the stage lights are extinguished to indicate the passage of time. Almost entirely shot in India, the pictures in this series tread a fine line between light and shadow, life and death. As human moments alternate with raw matter and the patterns of nature, BLACKOUT invites us to question the power of photography and its relationship with the ever-changing flow of time.

Ingrid Deuss

Instant # Memory

Peter De Bruyne

17 February–19 May, Finissage 19 May at 12h

Provinciestraat 11, 2140 Borgerhout

T +32 475 56 22 83, ingrid@ingriddeuss.be

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The Antwerp photo gallery Ingrid Deuss, located near the Central Station, is since its start in 2010 a platform and presentation space for (inter)national artists. All selected photographers are invariably characterized by their great artistic sensitivity and personal expression. To Ingrid all photography exhibitions she hosts starts from a handpicked selection out of the artists collection. To her, love at first sight in regard to the photographs chosen is a must. Emotion is key.

Instant # Memory Ingrid Deuss Gallery presents the second solo exhibition by Belgian photographer Peter De Bruyne (born 1966 in Bruges). The exhibition Instant # Memory shows around twenty pictures that centralise the proces of changing memories. In his mages, De Bruyne tries to represent distant memories, undone of their details. Memories are always the consequence of patterns of electric and chemical activity in the brain.

This activity is always in movement. Whenever we recent compare recent memories to old ones, we notice that we consecutively filter away certain details and amplify other characteristics. What was first an image full of details, dimensions and a broad pallet of color, becomes filtered until there are only contours, planes, one dimension and one color left. Finissage on Sunday 19 May from 12h, the artist will be present.

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26. Margaret Lansink, Revisited1, Courtesy by IBASHO

25. Antwerp Taart, Courtesy of Het Bos

27. Peter de Bruyne, Instant memory, Courtesy of the artist

KETELEER GALLERY

Fabien Mérelle

16 May–30 June, Opening 16 May at 17h

Leopoldstraat 57, 2000 Antwerpen

T +32 3 283 04 20, info@keteleer.com

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KETELEER Gallery opened in Antwerp in 2012. It’s run as a family business and translates this in a warm and welcoming environment with an open-door policy where young and established artists can be discovered by a large audience. The NEXT DOOR space offers a more dynamic program where KETELEER interacts with art books, lectures, installations and guest-curated shows.

In 2019 a 3rd space, BREMDONCK, will open in the middle of a forest allowing for an extended connection with nature. Fabien Mérelle KETELEER is pleased to present the first Belgian solo exhibition by Fabien Mérelle (1981, FR). Fabien Mérelle is known for his elegant and delicate line-drawings in black ink and watercolour. His detailed and

precise works exude a humble character, but it’s by examining up close that the complexities of his imagination are revealed in a rich and personal story. The artist will show a series of new drawings and sculptures, created for his debut in our gallery. The exhibition will be accompanied by a new publication.

Kunsthal Extra City

Deadly Affairs Free guided tour of Deadly Affairs Elias Cafmeyer. The choice of Ria Pacqué Stock sale

Group exhibition

Eikelstraat 29, 2600 Antwerp

T +32 3 677 16 55, info@extracity.org

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Kunsthal Extra City works with art that encourages us to reflect on contemporary urban topics. Art stimulates us to understand our changing society better – or differently. Kunsthal Extra City offers a diverse exhibition programme of contemporary visual art as well as a wide range of activities from films, talks and workshops to guided tours and debates. We encourage new links between contemporary art, artists, researchers, and city dwellers. For us, the public is as important as the art. We see our visitors as a rich and diverse collection of knowledge and experience. Since people make the city, Extra City wants to be a spot where people feel welcome, a place abuzz with meaningful contact between city dwellers and artists, laypersons and connoisseurs. Deadly Affairs With works by Boris Anje, Valentino Bellini & Eileen Quinn, Don´t Follow the Wind, Jessika Khazrik, Daniel Lambo, Hira Nabi,

Franziska Pierwoss, Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Ashkan Sepahvand, Neda Saeedi, Susan Schuppli, Adrien Tirtiaux and Various Artists. Curated by Antonia Alampi. We are living in a time in which the human impact on our planet is so profound that it shall leave its traces for millennia to come. Excessive and expanding modes of extraction, production, and disposal are necessary to support the perpetual economic growth inherent to the modern, and particularly Western, project. The exhibition focuses on the worldwide toxic waste trade and the environmental injustice and slow, unspectacular violence that characterise it. Free guided tour in the exhibition ‘Deadly Affairs’ on Sunday 19 May, 14h–15h. Elias Cafmeyer. The Choice Of Ria Pacquée For the series of exhibitions ‘The choice of’, Kunsthal Extra City invites some of

Antwerp’s most renowned artists to nominate a promising artist who in their view is absolutely deserving of (inter)national recognition. For this second edition, Ria Pacquée has selected Elias Cafmeyer. Cafmeyer creates site-specific installations either in or inspired by public space, evoking a sense of alienation. Working with sculptures and video installations, he focuses on traces of urban development and forms of mobility signage. He sees the city landscape as a metaphor for our socially constructed behaviour.F or this exhibition he intervenes in Extra City, questioning the architecture of public space versus the institutional context. Book Sale Selling of used books from our library and new books and catalogues from our stock on Saturday and Sunday.

Elias Cafmeyer

23 March–30 June 19 May from 14h–15h 16 May–30 June, Opening 16 May at 18h 18 May–19 May

L’Edition Populaire

Miles Fishler

28 April–9 June

Bloemstraat 20 , 2140 Borgerhout Bleekhofstraat 22, 2018 Antwerp

info@edition-populaire.be

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L’Edition Populaire is a window gallery where artists can show work and build installations. The gallery can only be visited from the street, night and day. L’Edition Populaire wishes to bring art into the street scene. The

gallery is intended for residents of the street, passers-by and art lovers. L’Edition Populaire is a small scale, independent, non-profit initiative, but aims to reach a broader audience through its newsletter and website.

Miles Fishler During the Antwerp Art Weekend you’ll be able to see the work of photographer Miles Fishler while passing by the vitrines, both in the Bloemstraat and Bleekhofstraat.

LLS Paleis

Affiniteiten#2

Carla Arocha + Luc Tuymans Lucia Bru ⌘ Angel Vergara

5 May–23 June Performance 19 May at 16h

Paleisstraat 140, 2018 Antwerp

T +32 3 337 03 87, info@llspaleis.be

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LLS Paleis is an alternative art space in Antwerp, a free port for the visual arts, a place where artists can find an ally. Starting from this attitude, the organisation does not confirm traditional values of contemporary art, but focuses on the experimental and the challenging. Apart from solo presentations, larger theme exhibitions are organised, which, through their unconventional approach, contribute in a unique way to the discourse within contemporary art. LLS 387 was founded in September 2007 at Ulrike Lindmayr’s initiative, who was also the organisation’s director until 2017. The name of the not-for-profit space refers to the address (Lange LeemStraat 387) in Antwerp

where it was located. Stella Lohaus commits herself to the next ten years of LLS. From 2018 onwards, the exhibition space will be located at Paleisstraat 140 in Antwerp and will therefore be called LLS Paleis. Affiniteiten#2: Carla Arocha + Luc Tuymans, Lucia Bru ⌘ Angel Vergara Affiniteiten [Affinities] is an annual exhibition project in LLS Paleis on artist couples who live but do not work together. The title refers to a connection or relationship through which people feel attracted to each other. This series views art through the prism of the love tandem. In which works do the artists experience the artistic encounter between them? Can you associate certain

works with each of them? To what extent does an underlying, shared spirit exist? As compagnon de vie and fellow artist, the role of the partner is inevitable. The exhibition aims to focus on the resonances of this provocative and delicate subject. The choice of works is the result of several conversations and encounters with the artists. On Sunday the 19th of May, LLS Paleis together with other art initiatives in the south district of Antwerp will participate in “‘t Sluit op’ t Zuid”. Angel Vergara will do a performance at 16h and the exhibition will be open until 19h.

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28. Fabien Mérelle, Voies de têtes, 2018, Courtesy of the artist and KETELEER Gallery

29. Various Artists, toxiThropea, 2018, Courtesy of Various Artists 30. Miles Fishler, Courtesy of the artist

31. Carla Arocha + Luc Tuymans / Lucia Bru ⌘ Angel Vergara, Affiniteiten#2, Courtesy of LLS Paleis

M HKA

Am-Big-You-Us Legsicon

Laure Prouvost

INBOX: Shelf Publishing Failures of Cohabitation I’m the glue

Troebel Neyntje HISK Antwan Horfee

8 February–19 May, Finissage weekend 18–19 May 3 May–2 June 16 May–19 May Artist talk & film release 16 May at 19h

Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 3 260 99 99, info@muhka.be

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The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp’s avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum’s collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research. Whether you choose to visit with one of our guides, or explore the museum by yourself, at M HKA each visit is centred around interaction: between the viewer and art, but also between the visitors. This interaction takes place in associations and imagination, conversations and discussions, creativity and expression. We welcome families with open arms. In the Salon you can find museum games that let you experience the art of today and tomorrow. Laure Prouvost ‘Am-Big-You-Us Legsicon’ This exhibition will be the largest organised to date on the practice of artist Laure Prouvost. Offering a wide-angle panorama of Provoust’s career – ranging from a key

selection of her formative “monologue” video works, through to recent major installations – the exhibition will seek to portray the work of an artist developing complex thought through artistic languages. This museum survey will delve into the philosophical depths of Prouvost’s work, and will consider the notion of the pre-verbal, as well as its incompatibility with the verbal. Inbox: Troebel Neyntje– Shelf Publishing M HKA reserves its fifth floor for surprising interventions and intimate pop-up presentations. INBOX is a place that inspires and surprises, one that offers us a glimpse into the world of passionate thinkers and doers. With INBOX, M HKA creates a physical space in which the museum addresses often-recurring questions. With work by: Zena Van den Block, Idris Sevenans, Werner de Vos, Robby Blondbaard, J.Krissis, Dries Van Laethem, Lisa Vantorre, Nienke Baeckelandt, Jolijn Baeckelandt, Tone Pauwels, Nicolas Bal, Larsen Bervoets, Maika Garnica, Thomas Willemen, Jo Caimo, Saskia Van der Gucht, Jan Dewanckel, Rien Schellemans, AARS, Damien De Lepeleire, Hans Theys, Kristo & Kristo, Michela Dal Brollo, Amber Vanluffelen, Flexboj&LA Laure Prouvost, Finissage Weekend We won’t let the last weekend of Laure

Prouvosts ‘AM-BIG-YOU-US LEGSICON’ go unnoticed. Neither do we not feel like celebrating the opening of our downstairs exhibitions, showcasing the works of Jan Cox, Leon Van Essche, Sveta Shuvaeva and Hedwig Houben. The celebration is on and will present itself in the form of an eventful weekend at M HKA. Think art book and poster sale, a performance by Hedwig Houben, many guided tours and family first activities, rooftop terrace drinks and an overall creative vibe. Failures Of Cohabitation The exhibition introduces the work of 14 artists currently in the 2nd year of the HISK’s programme. The title Failures of Cohabitation embraces the unlikeliness of a quintessential coexistence and playfully reflects their own experience of proximity and otherness, as well as the very nature of a group show. Artists: Sofia Caesar, Lisette de Greeuw, Francesca Ferreri, Eva Giolo, Johna Hansen, Megan-Leigh Heilig, Sina Hensel, Roel Heremans, Mirthe Klück, Hannah Mevis, Mark Požlep, Bárbara Sánchez Barroso, Gintaute Skvernyte, Ingel Vaikla. Curator: Daniella Géo I’m the glue Artist talk & film release by Antwan Horfee on Thursday 16 May from 19h.

33 mariondecannière A salute to the wheel

Leon Vranken

16 May–29 June. Opening 16 May

Leopoldplaats 12 2000 Antwerpen

T +32 474 57 88 46 info@mariondecanniere.com

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mariondecannière is a contemporary art gallery that gives opportunities to national and international artists. mariondecannière welcomes artists, regardless of age, and is not bound to represent a list of artists. In collaboration with Frederik Vergaert, mariondecannière has a program where solo exhibitions alternate with group shows.

‘A salute to the wheel’ For artist Leon Vranken, the wheel has many reasons to be the centre of focus for his upcoming exhibition at mariondecannière. Considered by many as being one of the first inventions is remarkable, the wheel’s mechanical function is integral to our daily living. Vranken finds this fascinating, as well as being amused by the thought that

the first known wheel, surprisingly, is that of a potter rather than a device used in transportation. Also a point of interest is the wheel’s constant rhythm; changing but remaining the same. As well as the wheel, Vranken finds similar overlooked domestic objects to reconsider and elevate; creating paintings, sculptures and interventions with the purity of the simplest of forms.

Micheline Szwajcer

Solo exhibiton

Ann Veronica Janssens

3 May–29 June

Verlatstraat 14, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 3 237 11 27, contact@gms.be

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We are delighted to welcome a new installation of Ann Veronica Janssens in which the artist presents two identical circular light shapes, moving in a coloured field. The particular manipulation of the movement embodies the eternal play of attraction and repulsion in which the created tension takes the stage as an invisible protagonist. An hypnotic infusion to an abstract experience. The seed of this play of light may be found in Janssen’s ever lasting fascination

for the movements of celestial bodies. In the main gallery space she will present an installation of several total Solar eclipses. “So far Ann Veronica Janssens has to her credit six rendez-vous with the phenomenon, pursuing an adventure governed by the vagaries of the weather in the most remote corners of the world. The sun is a star that makes things visible while refusing us its visibility. You can’t look at the sun without being blinded. Or you have

to slice it, demarcate it, reduce it to one visible object among all the others. Which is exactly what the moon does when it crosses the sun’s limitless fire. The sun is reduced to an object, but it’s incandescence is always latently there – just as our eyes, exposed to an ever-imminent dazzling, are always on the brink of burnout.” Clelia Zernik

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32. Laure Prouvost, The fountain, 2019, Courtesy of the artist, and Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris and Brussels), carlier | gebauer (Berlin) and Lisson Gallery (London and New York), Exhibition architecture by Diogo Passarinho Studio, Photo M HKA

34. Ann Veronica Janssens, Side (studio version), 2006, Image ÂŠ Micheline Szwajcer

33. Leon Vranken, 2019, Courtesy of mariondecanniĂ¨re

NEXT DOOR | KETELEER

Curated by Nadia Bijl

Elly Strik, Ingeborg Lüscher, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra

16 May–30 June, Opening 16 May at 17h

Leopoldstraat 55 2000 Antwerpen

T +32 3 283 04 20 info@keteleer.com

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Since 2017 KETELEER Gallery has taken on a new space adjacent to the current location. It’s a dynamic space aspiring to reach a very diverse audience through it’s eclectic programming. NEXT DOOR is a place that shows young talents alongside well-established names. Every year in November and December the space turns into the BOOKSHOP at NEXT DOOR, offering the latest art

books, magazines and editions of our artists. Curated By Nadia Bijl KETELEER GALLERY has - up until now only represented male artists: heavyweights like Jan Fabre, Koen Theys, Guillaume Bijl among others. Last year KETELEER asked young curator Nadia Bijl to organise an exhibition in their project space “Next Door”, Bijl came up with the proposal to break

the status quo - albeit only temporarily - by inviting three young female artists based in Antwerp. This year Nadia Bijl sticks to the same approach and invites three international artists of a different generation to participate: Elly Strik (°1961, NL), Ingeborg Lüscher (°1936, CH) and Sandra Vásquez de la Horra (°1967, CHL).

NK Gallery

How to Learn the Upside Down World

Georgy Ostretsov

16 May–22 June, Opening 16 May at 18h, Performance 19 May from 15h–16h

Pourbusstraat 19, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 3 237 98 22, info@nkgallery.be

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How To Learn The Upside Down World Georgy (Gosha) Ostretsov is a Russian artist and performer with top international career. In his new project, specially made for NK Gallery, Antwerp, the artist turns his attention to timeless things, the search for

the transcendental origin in the discourse of contemporary art and the perception of the viewer. On Sunday May 19, NK Gallery will participate ‘t Sluit op ‘t Zuid with the performance ‘Naked Chess Play or Learning the Upside

Down World’ from 15h until 16h. For this performance, Georgy Ostretsov will make a specially designed surrealistic chess table. The visitors are invited to play a game of chess with a nude model.

Out of sight

Between there And there: The third place of belonging

Božena Končić Badurina and Duga Mavrinac, Tomislav Brajnović, Nicole Hewitt, Ana Hušman, Tonka Maleković

16 May–30 June Opening 16 May at 18h

Dokter van de Perrelei 51 2140 Antwerp

T +32 471 71 03 75 dusica.drazic@out-of-sight.be

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The name OUT OF SIGHT reflects both the physical and metaphorical state of the organisation. The venue is on the fringe of the city of Antwerp, in a residential area outside the inner ring. Metaphorically, OUT OF SIGHT aims to find a potential hidden within what we often perceive as different, marginal or even unwanted. There is room for the ephemeral and the ambiguous. A space where the poetic and the political can meet. OUT OF SIGHT was founded in 2018 by Dušica Dražić, an artist and curator from Belgrade and Wim

Janssen, an artist from Antwerp. During Antwerp Art Weekend, OUT OF SIGHT will be open from 18h-22:00 on Thursday, and from 12h-20:00 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Between there And there: The third place of belonging Authors: Božena Končić Badurina and Duga Mavrinac, Tomislav Brajnović, Nicole Hewitt, Ana Hušman, Tonka Maleković Curated by IPAK (Irena Bekić and Duga Mavrinac), in collaboration with OUT OF SIGHT.

When reflecting on modern migrations, cultural anthropology sees migrants as an active mobile subject that continuously and simultaneously creates meanings and values while weaving dynamic transnational networks. However, transmigration also implies a feeling of permanent displacement and not-belonging. The exhibition looks at the phenomenon of temporary migrations in relation to artistic performative practices. Supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and City of Zagreb.

Pedrami Gallery

The Bright Side

Nasser Bakhshi

28 March–19 May

Dokter van de Perrelei 51 2140 Antwerp

T +32 488 49 96 68 hello@pedramigallery.com

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Nasser Bakhshi`s works depicts an assessment of the world of a human who repeatedly recreates and sabotages his or her image. When living in uncertainty becomes the standard of present times and every instant manifests itself as a multi-layered state, our perception of the outer world becomes thwarted. This project is a mosaic of visual elements and imagery and as a whole, much like a pictorial puzzle, recounts our collective memory. A memory whose presence perpetuates turbulence in our ever changing lives.

A collective memory of any era is made of elements and images that exhibit their own origin and essence that can be identified by analyzing the composition. This was the outset of his exploration: The bright side The bright side Nasser Bakhshi`s works depicts an assessment of the world of a human who repeatedly recreates and sabotages his or her image. When living in uncertainty becomes the standard of present times and every instant manifests itself as a multi-layered state, our perception of the outer world

becomes thwarted. This project is a mosaic of visual elements and imagery and as a whole, much like a pictorial puzzle, recounts our collective memory. A memory whose presence perpetuates turbulence in our ever changing lives. A collective memory of any era is made of elements and images that exhibit their own origin and essence that can be identified by analyzing the composition. This was the outset of his exploration: The bright side

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38. Nasser Bakhshi, The Bright Side, Courtesy of Pedrami Gallery

36. Georgy Ostretsov, How to learn the upside down world, 2019, Courtesy of NK Gallery

37. Ana HuĹĄman, Postcards, 2013, Courtesy of the artist

35. Elly Strik, Bride (Obedient Face), 2013, Courtesy of the artist

PLUS-ONE Gallery New South

I’m the glue

Antwan Horfee

11 May–16 June Artist talk & Film release 16 May at 19h

Léon Stynenstraat 21, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 491 50 72 89, info@plus-one.be

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PLUS-ONE Gallery New South presents Antwan Horfee °1984 Paris, France. Antwan Horfee first gained recognition as an independent creative artist in Paris. Inspired by Avant-Garde art movements, he projects the action and performative aspect of his work outdoors into his gallery work, using spray techniques for his abstracted and slightly distorted representations. He skilfully combines figurative and abstract elements, in works that are often critical about the contemporary art

world and the art historical canon. The surreal characters in his works, are signs of an age of diversity, noise, abundance, and uncertainty. His intense dynamics and colour palette are symptomatic of a time when the flow of (digital) images is extensive and fast. Inter-world passages, for example in between the online and offline life, are his favorite places. There can be found an impressive and theatrical observation point which shows only the essential. What interest Antwan Horfee is this

mutation of forms and this passage into another dimension: a strange shift of drawings and sculpture towards pixels which makes it possible to envisage painting once more as a virtual reality. Recently he had a Virtual Reality project in Palais de Tokyo in Paris, this gave him the chance to create a real Inter-world passage. This is his second solo project in PLUS-ONE Gallery I’m the glue Artist talk & film release at the MuHKA on Thursday 16 May from 19h.

Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

The Behaviour of the Clouds Till It’s Over Track Report book launch Reclining Nudes

Nicolas Lamas, In Situ³ students SKaGeN, Richard Jackson Ines Cox, Charlotte Lybeer Mike Bouchet, Kasper De Vos, Tracey Emin

16–24 May, Opening 16 May at 18h 14–19 May, Performances each day at 20h 16 May, Book launch at 18h 3–25 May

Mutsaardstraat 31, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 3 213 71 00, academie@ap.be

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Founded by the Flemish painter David Teniers in 1663, the Antwerp Academy is one of the first art schools in the world as well as one of the first artists’ collectives. It is hosted in an impressive historical site in the center of Antwerp, a city that is internationally acknowledged as a booming hub of creativity. Providing bachelor and master programmes in fine arts (painting, sculpture, art integration, printmaking, photography, graphic design, theatre costume design, jewellery design and fashion), we attract students from all over the world. Our strength is in the unique combination of traditional skills, edgy experiment and critical discourse. Apart from the work in the studios, the Antwerp Academy fully engages in publishing and exhibiting, often in close collaboration with museums, art schools and other art institutions from Belgium and abroad. Our exhibition programme centers around ‘De Lange Zaal’ (The Long Gallery) a spectacular exhibition space at the core of our campus, but we also engage for exhibitions and events in the city and abroad. Our goal is to be a cultural motor

for a society in need of the creative and the critical. The Behaviour Of The Clouds A site-specific project by artist and guest lecturer Nicolas Lamas and In Situ³ students, that allows a series of objects and materials to temporarily take over the ceiling structure of our Wintertuin. The displayed pieces will take, as a metaphor, the fleeting condition of the clouds to emphasize the ephemeral nature of things and how they generate encounters, interrelate and exchange information at different levels before their imminent disappearance. Till It’s Over A cross-disciplinary collaboration between SKaGeN and American artist Richard Jackson, concerning themes of civil war, tenderness and revenge. Jackson has made an installation based on Picasso’s famous war painting Guernica. Every day at 20h in our Temple, actors Valentijn Dhaenens and Clara van den Broek create a theatrical performance based on the same theme. How do two people deal with the consequences of extreme violence, and what is the permanent impact when time

has passed? Can violence bring us closer together? Does violence create intimacy? Make sure to reserve your spot, participation is limited. www.skagen.be Track Report book launch With Table of Contents, graphic designer Ines Cox created an installation for her newest publication SAVE. Photographer Charlotte Lybeer presents her book Linus’ Blanket. Both publications are for sale on the opening night of Antwerp Art Weekend. Reclining Nudes For the second exhibition of the NICC in the Academy, the motif of the reclining nude will be critically investigated by artists Mike Bouchet, Kasper De Vos and Tracey Emin in a project for De Lange Zaal. Opening at the Academy The Royal Academy of Fine Arts will be the host for the opening of the Antwerp Art Weekend of 2019. You’ll be able to get some food from 19h on, drinks too of course, see performances, the exhibitions and experience an after party with the academy’s teachers behind the DJ booth.

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39. Antwan Horfee, Unfortunately Looking Up To Authority, 2018, Courtesy of PLUS-ONE Gallery New South

40. Wintertuin, Royal Academy of Fine Arts

Ruimte Morguen

The hour between dog and wolf: L’heure entre chien et loup

Frederick Bell, Steven Scott

Waalse Kaai 22, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 3 226 52 77

The hour between dog and wolf: L’heure entre chien et loup An exhibition by Frederick Bell and Steven Scott at Ruimte Morguen. “The hour between dog and wolf, that is, dusk, when the two can’t be distinguished from each other, suggests a lot of other things besides the time of day…The hour in which…every being becomes his own shadow, and thus something other than

himself. The hour of metamorphoses, when people half hope, half fear that a dog will become a wolf. The hour that comes down to us from at least as far back as the early Middle Ages, when country people believed that transformation might happen at any moment.”- Jean Genet This French saying which describes a particular time of day when the fading light makes it difficult to distinguish between

Stieglitz 19

Chinese Spring part 4 (Markgravelei 95)

Cai Dong Dong, Chen Wei, Sick Girl, Feng Li, Ren Hang, 223 , Huang Xiaoliang, Liang Xiu Sybren Vanoverberghe, Thomas Vandenberghe, Vincent Delbrouck

17–19 & 25–26 May Reception 18 may at 14h 11 May–22 June Opening 11 May at 14h

Markgravelei 95, 2018 Antwerp Klapdorp 2, 2000, Antwerp

T +32 495 51 57 77 info@stieglitz19.be

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Chinese Spring part 4 This Unique show on location at the old Pastorijhuis, a building designed by Bourla, will host an exhibition by a selection of the

most acclaimed Chinese Photographers of the moment. Odysseus With Odysseus we want to explore how

we can detach ourselves from our own subjects that deal with time and space, memory and people. The exhibitions are open from 14–18h.

Tim Van Laere Gallery

Kunst Kunst Kunst

Adrian Ghenie, Jonathan Meese, Rinus Van de Velde

20 April–19 May

Jos Smolderenstraat 50 2000 Antwerp

T +32 3 257 14 17 info@timvanlaeregallery.com

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Tim Van Laere Gallery, founded in 1997, works with young, upcoming artists and established international contemporary artists. The gallery represents Marcel Dzama, Armen Eloyan, Gelatin, Adrian Ghenie, Kati Heck, Anton Henning, Tomasz Kowalski, Friedrich Kunath Edward Lipski, Jonathan Meese, Ryan Mosley, Tal R, Peter Rogiers, Ben Sledsens, Ed Templeton, Rinus Van de Velde, Aaron Van Erp, Henk Visch,

Franz West and Anke Weyer. All media (sculpture, painting, video, installation, photography) are represented. Kunst Kunst Kunst Tim Van Laere Gallery is pleased to present Kunst Kunst Kunst, a group exhibition with Adrian Ghenie, Jonathan Meese and Rinus Van de Velde.This exhibition inaugurates the new space of the gallery, which was designed by architects OFFICE Kersten Geers

David Van Severen. OFFICE is known for its quirky architecture, in which realizations and theoretical projects stand side by side. Their assignment was simple: to create a building in function of art. As a series of rooms, the building ‘shows’ its structure, its silhouette. The building makes a statement for both its immediate surroundings and inside; art is central and is immediately visible and accessible to everyone in the city.

Odysseus (Klapdorp 2)

21 March–19 May

similar things is appropriate for today, when even in broad daylight we can be looking in a metaphoric twilight or gloaming. In this exhibition Frederick Bell and Steven Scott show work that examines the way we look at and perceive the world through the ambiguous and often contradictory nature of images.

44 Tique INTIMATE STRUCTURES #2

Romy Alizée, Elena Aya Bundurakis, Valentina Stellino, Dinaya Waeyaert

09 May–1 June

Korte Vlierstraat 5, 2000 Antwerp

info@tique.art

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Tique is a platform for contemporary art focused on presenting and supporting both emerging and established artists. It aims to do so by presenting artists in the publication Tique | art paper and by hosting exhibitions, residencies, lectures and workshops at the Tique | art space in Antwerp.

Intimate Structures #2 Intimacy, between lovers, family members, friends or even strangers, has for decades been an inherent aspect of photography. Whether candid and raw or tender and affectionate, images that let us into the intimate world of the photographer themselves, or that of their subject, have

the power to captivate us by virtue of their intensity and mystery. Intimate Structures seeks to remind the viewer of how an exquisite photograph can reconnect us with our hidden, inner selves and with others, and include works by Romy Alizée, Elena Aya Bundurakis, Valentina Stellino and Dinaya Waeyaert.

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44. Dinaya Waeyaert, J. and S. taking a bath, 2016, Courtesy of Tique

42. Chinese Spring part 4, Courtesy of Stieglitz 19

43. Tim Van Laere Gallery, Courtesy of the gallery

41. Steven Scott, Ingesloten, 2019, Courtesy of Ruimte Morguen

Tommy Simoens

give and give

Gert Robijns, Yutaka Sone, Rirkrit Tiravanija

10 May–30 May Artist talk 19 May at 14h

Waalsekaai 31 2000 Antwerp

T +32 3 345 06 01 info@tommysimoens.com

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Tommy Simoens was established during the Spring of 2016 in Antwerp’s South district. The gallery works with individual artists in a wide range of projects, organising solo and group exhibitions in Antwerp as well as facilitating broader curatorial projects worldwide. The gallery is committed to stimulating art scenes both in Antwerp, Belgium and beyond, with a range of diverse projects initiated in dialogue with artists.

give and give Taken from a quote by On Kawara, the exhibition titled ”give and give” proposes an alternative economy that goes against the traditional ‘give and take’ model of exchange. It focuses on the actions and commitments that Gert Robijns, Yutaka Sone and Rirkrit Tiravanija are making towards various communities outside of what we commonly acknowledge as the

‘art world.’ Each artist respectively raises pertinent questions about social, industrial, and emotional heritage, globalization, and the ethics of ecology and society. ‘t Sluit opt Zuid, Sunday May 19th, 14h: Conversation between film maker Manu Riche and artist Gert Robijns about their upcoming collaboration ‘Charbon’.

Valerie Traan

Cosmic Gestures Fake Flowers

Octave Vandeweghe at the Front Space

16 May–22 June, Opening 16 May at 18h 16 May–22 June, Opening 16 May at 18h

Reyndersstraat 12 2000 Antwerp

T +32 475 75 94 59 gallery@valerietraan.be

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Valerie Traan was founded in 2010 as a space for objects and subjects. The gallery, located in the centre of Antwerp, is a vivid meeting point for art, architecture and daily objects. The gallery pushes the boundaries between different sectors by commissioning exhibitions by a variety of artists of different disciplines and by curating museum exhibitions on the border between art and design. These include Le fabuleux destin du quotidian, Le labo des héritiers, and an upcoming Nature Morte/Nature Vivante exhibition at Grand Hornu.

Cosmic Gestures – Octave Vandeweghe In Cosmic Gestures the artist Octave Vandeweghe (1988) delve deeper into the meaning of superstition and spiritualism of minerals and stones. The work is a continuation of a previous project Cultured Manners, where he turned gems into cutlery, creating poetic tension between functionality and beauty. By blowing up the tools in scale, the artist creates stone sculptures, which refer to a monolith and its spiritual connotations. Octave’s work continues to explore tension between nature and culture, as well as fascination of human evolution and prehistoric tools.

Fake Flowers – curated by Bruynbroeck & Collier In The Front Space #4, Clarisse Bruynbroeck and Ralph Collier highlight, with the exhibition Fake Flowers, the impact that fiction has on our lives. Inspired by Joris-Karl Huysmans’ novel À Rebours, the exhibition is based on the staging of our reality. Like the main character of the book, who flees his daily social life to create a refined artificial world, Anthe Hermans, Damiano Curschellas, Ralph Collier, Tim Verherstraeten and others investigate how fiction slips into everyday life.

Zeno X Gallery

Philip Metten Syzygy

Philip Metten Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven

16 May–29 June, Opening 16 May at 18h 16 May–29 June, Opening 16 May at 18h

Godtsstraat 15 2140 Antwerp

T +32 3 216 16 26 info@zeno-x.com

zeno-x.com

In 1981 Frank Demaegd founded Zeno X Gallery and started showing the work of architects and installation artists. In 1988 the painter Raoul De Keyser had an exhibition and two years later Luc Tuymans was presented for the first time. In 1996 a small factory was bought in Borgerhout and transformed into an additional space and storage. After more than 30 years Zeno X Gallery has moved the main focus of its program from the Antwerp South district to the East part of the city, Borgerhout. The existing Zeno X Storage was extended and is now connected with the neighboring building as it originally was in the first half of the 20th century when milk factory Schellekens was housed there. This expansion gives Zeno X the opportunity to mount

more prominent and larger scale exhibitions. In over 35 years Zeno X Gallery has put together more than 200 exhibitions and attended more than 100 art fairs. Philip Metten Philip Metten (b. 1977) will have his first solo exhibition at the gallery. Alongside new collages and sculptures, Metten will also present ‘Cinema’ which was earlier on view at Salonul de proiecte in Bucharest. The cinema is both object and place, exhibit and scenographic element, and resembles an old bellows camera. In his practice Philip Metten freely moves between the respective media and regimes of sculpture and architecture, purposefully suspending disciplinary differences. Bringing together sculpture, drawing, interior and building

design with kaleidoscopic intensity, the artist develops a visual language that espouses future with prehistory. Anne-mie Van Kerckhoven - Syzygy Zeno X Gallery and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (b. 1951) have been working together since 1982, staging more than ten exhibitions. Van Kerckhoven creates a universe in which a synergy arises between the female body, mysticism and technology. She manipulates and transforms images; she mirrors them and cuts them up; she changes the colours and makes digital and textual annotations. Interior, if not domestic spaces often serve as settings for her drawings and collages, from which dreamlike futuristic enactments between human and machine-like forms unfold.

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47. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Blank, 2018, Courtesy of Zeno X Gallery

45. give and give, Courtesy of Tommy Simoens 46. Octave Vandeweghe, Courtesy of Valerie Traan

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Temporary exhibitions

48 Arte Arte x Benny

Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx

16 May–16 June, Opening 16 May at 18h

Kammenstraat 54, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 485 08 17 35, info@arte-antwerp.com

arte-antwerp.com

Arte emerges from the arts and is shaped by them. What once began as a clothing label is gradually evolving into a multidisciplinary creative house. Graphic design and other visual arts have been at the base of Arte’s collections. Arte is a creative label, rather than just a clothing brand. Arte is a way of life that reflects a great sense for aesthetics and an out-of-the-box state of mind. The brand thrives for autonomy, authenticity and self confidence as they translate these values into their products,

because that is what they believe in. Arte wants to make space for creators and creative notionalists of all kinds, because that is who they are. Arte is also the sponsor for the Antwerp Art Weekend 2019 tote bag. Arte x Benny For the Antwerp Art Weekend, Arte is collaborating with Antwerp based artist Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx, following in a series of collaborations with artists from multiple disciplines. Benny’s work revolves around the self and the

other, to see and to be seen, as well as working around a specific shape that has determined the visual style of many of his works. These are ceramic sculptures, paintings, drawings and collages, often with an underlying message buried within them. For their collaboration, Arte will be using some of Benny’s drawings and shapes as the base for new clothing pieces and the artist will be showing original works at Arte’s storefront.

Art Gallery De Wael 15

Greet billet

28 April–26 May

Leopold De Waelstraat 15, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 479 57 54 09, info@dewael15.art

dewael15.art

Originally launched to exist as a platform for emerging artists in 2015, the gallery has become a venue for discovering new talented artists. Art Gallery De Wael 15 hosts a vast variety of contemporary art exhibitions of the most prominent forms of visual art and creative media. The gallery is showing 8 exhibitions a year and also publishes catalogues and editions in

collaboration with the artists. Greet billet Once we have acknowledged that what we perceive is a mirror image, we always begin from the principle that the mirror ‘tells the truth’. And it is so true that it does not even bother to reverse the image (as a printed photograph does to give us an illusion of reality). The mirror does not even allow

us this tiny advantage that would make our perception or our judgement easier. A mirror does not ‘translate’; it records what struck it just as it is struck. It tells the truth to an inhuman extent, as it is well known by those who – facing a mirror – cannot any longer deceive themselves about their freshness. Our brain interprets retinal data; a mirror does not interpret an object.

Art Partout

Printed in Antwerp

Luc Tuymans

16 May–30 June, Opening 16 May at 18h

Napoleonkaai 39, 2000 Antwerpen

T +32 475 66 12 59, tout@artpartout.be

artpartout.be

Art Partout arises in 2007 from the common interest of 2 collectors in the graphic work of Luc Tuymans: Bart Van Acker and Gert Junes. At first Art Partout exists exclusively on line, but after a number of successful pop-up exhibitions, the initiative evolves into a ‘real’ gallery in Antwerp in the Kloosterstraat. At the end of 2017 Art Partout moved to the Antwerp “Eilandje” at the Willemdok. There we have a representative space where we regularly

bring new graphic work and multiples from leading artists from home and abroad. Art Partout has always been focussing on the graphic work and the editions of Luc Tuymans over the years and therefore has a very extensive offering. Since a lot of works have already been handled by us, we dare to call ourselves specialists in this area. Luc Tuymans: Printed in Antwerp Art Partout will showcase an important selection from the graphic work of Luc

Tuymans: all works printed in Antwerp in the studio of Roger Vandaele. We focus on the craftsmanship of master printer Roger Vandaele and the years of collaboration with Luc Tuymans. A complete overview of all works ever printed by Roger Vandaele commissioned by Luc Tuymans: 33 silkscreen prints issued over a period of 25 years: from 1990 to 2015.

Ballroom Project

Invited galleries

16 May–19 May Reception 17 May from 21h–23h

Pekfabriek, Kattenberg 93 2140 Borgerhout

T +32 494 99 98 09, +32 476 62 03 17 info@ballroom-project.be

ballroom-project.be

In the framework of the larger city-wide project that is Antwerp Art Weekend, Ballroom wants to offer a space for outside galleries to be present through a creative, dynamic and artistic platform, without losing sight of the commercial aspect. The aim is to put together a project that straddles the line between art exhibition and commercial platform, between expo and sale, starting from an invited selection of like-minded galleries. The project space itself – the ‘ballroom’ of

Pekfabriek – has an open character that above all exudes a distinctive ‘out-of-thebox’ impression. Ballroom Project In order to ensure a dynamic energy for the project, Ballroom is reaching out to Dutch and Brussels’ colleagues. This will give the galleries and their artists a unique opportunity to discover the thriving Antwerp/Flemish scene and market, or to build on and reconnect with their existing contacts. Ballroom will be more than a

mere presentation of artworks. Therefore, the participating galleries will show their artists in a curated show instead of regular or standard fair booths, with curatorial overview by Yirka De Brucker. The project, initiated by DMW Art Space and Base-Alpha Gallery, will be open throughout the Antwerp Art Weekend, with a special late night reception on Friday 17 May from 21-23h.

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49. Greet Billet, Here, Courtesy of De Wael 15

48. Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx, There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we are walking away from it, 2018, Courtesy of the artist

50. Luc Tuymans, X-Phone, 2011, Courtesy of Art Partout

51. Denitsa Todorova, Salt, 2018, Courtesy of Ballroom

52 CAPS Rubble

Tobias Lengkeek

2–26 May, Opening 16 May at 18h

Gijzelaarsstraat 10, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 495 52 80 97, paul@c-aps.be

c-aps.be

CAPS was founded by Paul Poelmans in 2013 after the closure of CypresGalerie (Leuven) and operates as an independent, nomadic art platform focusing on young Belgian and international artists. CAPS has no brick and mortar gallery space but instead organizes 5 to 6 exhibitions a year in art hotspots e.g. Antwerp (BORGER#, Little HISK, AAW), Brussels (Rivoli), Ghent (BAD), Mechelen (D.ART), Ostend (TAZ) and Leuven. In 2016 CAPS participated at the Antwerp Art Weekend with “Teken aan de Wand”, a show exclusevely dedicated to drawings. In 2017 we were back with the solo presentation of “The Trail” by

wellknown artist/radio talkshow host Koen Fillet and in may 2018 we showcased work by painter Giovanni Winne and sculptor Edith Ronse. Last september CAPS participated at the Art on Paper art fair in BOZAR Brussels and won the SOFAM Best Solo Show Award with artist Lisa Wilkens. Last winter CAPS resided in a new gallery space in Ostend to show work by Giovanni Winne, Koen Fillet, George De Decker, Chris Vanderschaeghe and Sarah Carlier among many others. Tobias Lengkeek: “Debris” “For debris to exist, an act of violence is implied much like paint simplifying reality

only to the visual. “Debris” signifies that these objects once had a function. It illustrates an action like painting, lines from skateboarding, old layers, screw and the frame all visualize how a painting was made. They are visual traces of something that happened, just like debris. It is from an urge to paint that I look around to find something to paint. With the violent interference painting has on reality, I attempt to filter reality to its essence. When I look at a painting I feel that every day things hold a higher meaning and realize that even though my eyes are open, I don’t always truly see the things around me.” (T.B.)

Escautville vzw

A selection of Escautville productions

Koen Theys, Frank Theys, Ria Pacque

16–19 May

Lange Leemstraat 387, 2018 Antwerp

T +32 497 48 17 27, info@escautville.org

escautville.org

Escautville is a production platform founded in 2011 by artists Wim Catrysse, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Ria Pacquée, Frank Theys and Koen Theys. Based in Antwerp, the organisation supports, produces, promotes and distributes audiovisual art projects not only by founding artists, but also, on a one-off basis, by artists such as Els Dietvorst, Lisa Spilliaert, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Benjamin Verhoeven. By organising events like the six-day audiovisual program ‘Ten Slotte’, in collaboration with Het Bos and De Imagerie,

Escautville aims to engage in the continuous expansion of the debate around new forms of audiovisual representation. Escautville is run by Ulrike Lindmayr and Vincent Stroep. During the Antwerp Art Weekend Escautville will showcase a selection of their productions. Koen Theys, A Day in the Life of the Holy Blood. A group of biblical characters from the Procession of the Holy Blood, lethargically waiting in a white cube purgatory, are exhibited as a ‘ready-made’.

Frank Theys’, Googly Moogly captures an action-performance for which Theys travelled to the Google offices in California, US. Ria Pacquée, Blessed Amulets. The subject of her latest film is the objects people use to project their hopes on and the rituals in which they are being used. Benjamin Verhoeven’s, 50.000 SCANS is part of an on-going project called ‘Scanning Cinema’ that revolves around scanning moving images.

Everyday Gallery

In real life

Group exhibition

16–19 May, Reception 17 May 17h

Jos Smolderenstraat 20, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 493 79 42 23

borisdevis@icloud.com

Everyday gallery (YYY) hosts a group show curated by Boris Devis that reflects 2019 as a time capsule for future reference. ‘In real life’ will serve as a concept before even becoming one. In the last era on the verge of virtual and augmented

reality a group of trans-disciplinary artists will dive deep into the radical world of fine and functional arts. Participating artists are Tom Volkaert, Stef Van Looveren, Leo Luccioni, Robuche, Touche-Touche, Anna Aagaard Jensen,

Schimmel & Schweikle, Carlo Lorenzetti, Nicolas Erauw, Thomas Ballouhey, Daan Gielis, Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx, Carolin Gieszner, Theo Demans, Nicholas Riis and Theophile Blandet.

Fosbury & Sons

Lauren Gregory

16 May–19 May

Mechelsesteenweg 271, 2018 Antwerp

T +32 3 303 44 44 morgane@fosburyandsons.com

fosburyandsons.com

Fosbury & Sons is an antidote to the office of the past. A human workspace where people collaborate, celebrate and learn from one another. The demand for a different kind of workspace is not limited to freelancers or start-ups. We welcome all types of businesses (from 1 to 100 persons and even more). Today, also large corporations experience the benefits of serviced offices. Not only is delocalising part of their team an answer to a damning mobility issue, but working alongside other com-

panies fosters creativity and productivity. Fosbury & Sons aims to make a difference in the world of work and to increase the quality of life of their members. We’ve created a new kind of workplace, one that values the humanity of the people within its walls, a place that feels like home. Alongside the work spaces we offer meeting rooms and host different types of events. Our restaurant Coffeelabs is also open for non-members on reservation for a delicious and healthy lunch.

Lauren Gregory Use Fosbury & Sons as a hang out spot, a place to plan your next stop, get a small bite and a big coffee. During the entire weekend, three films by artist Lauren Gregory will be playing in succession on Fosbury & Sons’ big screen for you to enjoy while you take your brake. A steward will be standby, should you need any help on deciding where to go next.

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55. Lauren Gregory, Tussle, 2018, Courtesy of the artist

53. Koen Theys, A Day in the Life of the Holy Blood, 2015, Courtesy of the artist

52. Tobias Lengkeek, Plant Debris, 2018, Courtesy CAPS

54. Touche-Touche, Thrown Chair, 2019, Courtesy of alfa.antwerp

56 GOWIE Daily Pleasures

Lutgart De Meyer

15 May–30 June

Kleine Markt 7-9 2000 Antwerp

T +32 486 87 84 81 everything@panache.works

hart-magazine.be, panache.works kunst-werk.be, bureaumarnef.be

GOWIE is the work and project space of H ART magazine, Panache, Kunst/Werk and Bureau Marnef. It hosts contemporary art exhibitions, presentations and gatherings. Its activities take place on an irregular basis. GOWIE was created in 2018 and resides in the heart of Antwerp. Daily Pleasures The exhibition ‘Daily Pleasures’ presents

the work of Lutgart De Meyer (1924). As one of the founding members of the Antwerp avant-garde movement G58, she dedicated herself to ceramics and soon got recognized as one of the key figures establishing the artistic autonomy of this medium. Besides the sculptures and design objects she created in her first period, ‘Daily Pleasures’ also shows her

recent work. Aged 94, Lutgart De Meyer works nowadays mostly with textiles and objects found on her walks through the city. The exhibition gives an insight into the artist’s playful vision on art and the art world. Posture Editions publishes a book on Lutgart De Meyer’s life and work (launch on May 15 at GOWIE). It is available throughout the exhibition.

57 HISK Failures of Cohabitation

Group exhibition

16–19 May

M HKA, Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 9 269 67 60, info@hisk.edu

hisk.edu

Advanced Studies & Practice-based Research in Visual Arts. Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten / Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) offers a post-graduate course in visual arts and provides young artists from Belgium and abroad with a workspace of their own and pedagogical guidance for a duration of two years. The emphasis at the HISK lies on individual practice and close contact with a community of distinguished visiting lecturers - artists, writers, curators and scholars. Based on diversity

of artistic practices and positions, the unique HISK concept gives the artists every opportunity for critical research within a broader aesthetic, social and cultural context. M HKA / Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen is hosting the Failures of Cohabitation exhibition on the occasion of Antwerp Art Weekend. Failures of Cohabitation The exhibition introduces the work of 14 artists currently in the 2nd year of the HISK’s programme. The title Failures of

Cohabitation embraces the unlikeliness of a quintessential coexistence and playfully reflects their own experience of proximity and otherness, as well as the very nature of a group show. Artists: Sofia Caesar, Lisette de Greeuw, Francesca Ferreri, Eva Giolo, Johna Hansen, Megan-Leigh Heilig, Sina Hensel, Roel Heremans, Mirthe Klück, Hannah Mevis, Mark Požlep, Bárbara Sánchez Barroso, Gintaute Skvernyte, Ingel Vaikla. Curator: Daniella Géo.

58 Kontrapunt Kontrapunt

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Danny De Vos, Christine Clinckx, Charif Benhelima, Mekhitar Garabedian, Maryam Najd

16–29 May, Opening and Concert 16 May from 19h–22h Panel talk 17 May at 16h

Platform Bernaerts, Verlatstraat 20 2000 Antwerp

T +32 478 25 80 44 maryamnajd@gmail.com

platformbernaerts.be

Kontrapunt is a project curated by Maryam Najd which accumulates a discussion about the issues that are not efficiently and widely used and recognized in every society. Maryam Najd: “As we know there are many societies that cannot agree with the freedom of expression but here in Belgium and generally in Europe we have a

better situation than the rest of the world. I would like to take a benefit of this position by organizing an exhibition, which shows to the public, the power of art in opposition to censorship and control.” Participating artists: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (BE), Danny De Vos (BE), Christine Clinckx (BE), Charif Benhelima (BE/ MR), Mekhitar

Garabedian (SY), Maryam Najd (IR). On the opening, 16th May at 9 pm, Dez Mona will be performing their newly released album, Book of Many. On 17 May at 16h, there will be a panel discussion with the participating artists and Kathleen Weyts (director of H ART magazine) as the moderator.

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56. Lutgart De Meyer and her work, 1957, Courtesy of GOWIE

57. Caesar-de Greeuw-Heilig-Hensel-KlĂźck, Failures of Cohab, 2019, Photo by Megan-Leigh Helig, Courtesy of HISK

17 Oxana Shachko

58. Maryam Najd, Self Portrait Series, Courtesy of the artist

Kunst in Huis

De Nieuwe Garde 2019

Antoine Goossens, Homa Arkani, Calixte Poncelet, Polien Boons, Charlot Van Geert

17–26 May, Opening 16 May at 18h

Zuiderpershuis, Timmerwerfstraat 40 2000 Antwerp

T +32 2 247 97 10 info@kunstinhuis.be

kunstinhuis.be

At Kunst in Huis one can borrow a unique artwork from a diverse and dynamic collection of over 5,000 artworks. Ranging from drawings and oil paintings to photography and objects, we offer access to the work of over 350 artists. The collection provides a broad overview of contemporary art in Flanders & Brussels and is regularly updated with new artists and artworks. Kunst in Huis is based in Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and Leuven. Visit us to learn more about the collection, and to reserve, select, exchange or purchase an artwork. For only 12 euros per month, you can bring a unique artwork to your home and borrow it for a year; after that, you must decide: do I buy it, or choose something else? At Kunst in Huis, you are warmly welcome to do both.

Kunst in Huis offers opportunities to young, emerging and lesser-known artists from Flanders and Brussels to present their work to a wide audience. They receive financial compensation when their artworks are hired or sold. In this way, Kunst in Huis plays a role in strengthening and developing the position of the artist in society and the art world. Kunst in Huis places equal emphasis on encouraging as many Flemish people as possible to develop a passion for art and to make it part of their homes. Kunst in Huis offers a diverse range of original, contemporary artworks that can be hired or purchased at reasonable and affordable rates: a risk-free way to try things out and experiment. As a result, we make contemporary art more accessible.

De Nieuwe Garde 2019 Every year, Kunst in Huis selects new artists who are in the early stages of a promising career. A selection of these artists is presented in an annual group exhibition: De Nieuwe Garde. At Zuiderpershuis we bring together artists who are not yet well-known by the wider public but, in our view, are already worth discovering. Defying categorisation according to traditional disciplines, they work in different materials and styles. Loosely interconnected artworks coalesce into individual oeuvres that, while multifaceted, already point in clear directions. Kunst in Huis introduces ‘De Nieuwe Garde’ of 2019: Antoine Goossens, Homa Arkani, Calixte Poncelet, Polien Boons and Charlot Van Geert.

La Piscine d’Activité vzw

Time & space, Here & Now...

Group exhibition

1–29 May, Performance 17 May

Wolstraat 33, 2000 Antwerp 1st floor

T +32 477 27 65 92 lapiscinevzw@gmail.com

amandla.be

La Piscine d’Activité vzw focuses on diversity and multicultural cross pollination. Our non-profit organization stands for the promotion of the visual arts. The local project of the organization is to show and stimulate young experimental artists. Internationally, we mainly work with African artists. La Piscine is open to partnerships with organizations and individuals who pursue the same objectives. Time & space, here & now..., becomes an

artistic project of visual arts, with the focus on creation and presentation. Wouter Van Loo curates 10 young visual artists, as many women as men. The artists were invited to participate in a specific creation assignment with exhibition. They are now faced with the challenge of creating a work of art that is more responsive to perception than to thinking. In short, the exhibition should above all become a sensory experience in which the perception of the

viewer is autonomous in time and space. This project is realized with the support of the City of Antwerp. With artists: CMMC (Céline Mathieu and Myrthe van der Mark), Karen Moser, Karolien Chromiak, Maika Garnica, Benny Van den Meulengracht Vrancx, Vedran Kopljar, Jo Caimo, Bram Van Meervelde, Gijs waterschoot. Curated by Wouter Van Loo.

Onder Stroom

Residency works at AGA LAB

Emma Verhulst

16–19 May, Opening 16 May at 19h

Tavernierskaai 11, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 468 56 94 90, tim@onder-stroom.be

onder-stroom.be

Onder Stroom is a newly founded birdnest and cultural power plant, populated by a group of creative and creating individuals and organisations, varying from copywriters and graphic designers to documentary makers and installation artists. They have taken over an old site that was used as an old marine hangar until a few years ago. Onder Stroom offers space for all those who want to organize, create, entertain or connect.

Emma Verhulst: Residency works at AGA LAB In 2016 Emma Verhulst graduated in illustration at Sint Lucas Antwerpen. During the last months she has been participating as a resident in AGA LAB. The focus within her practice lies in the search for a personal approach of timeless topics such as relationships, misunderstandings and frustrations. The banality of her life is also returning. She harks back to

rhymes, proverbs or loose patches of text, which emphases the randomness and the associative character of her thinking. The fascination for these everyday life themes is distinctive to her work. It manifests itself thematic but also formally by searching for various structures, materials and techniques that get a consistency by screenprinting and Risography.

62 Oranjestraat25 Dicke mädchen

Rosa Schützendorf, Jack Davey Carmen Schabracq

16–19 May, Opening 16 May from 18h–22h

Oranjestraat 25 2060 Antwerp

T +32 470 62 22 06 rosa.schuetzendorf@gmx.net

@Oranjestraat25 (Facebook)

ORANJESTRAAT25 is the momentary heart of a fluid collective, which forms itself time and time again to organize exhibitions and events. It is still a living room, transformed to a gallery. An intimite place that at the same time is opened up to a broader public and which allows a look into the heart, head and house of the artist. During the first edition titled VAN TIET TOT TEEN in ORANJESTRAAT25, 5 women made work that was close to their hearts

and welcomed friends and strangers. Dicke mädchen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytXN3dTwqaY #dickemädchen #jackdavey(tosca) #rosaschützendorf #carmenschabracq #antwerpart #oranjestraat25 #homesweethome #vettig #feestje #art #performance #expo #painting #sculpture #andmore #adamgalachmaakteten #renskevanenckevortgaatzingen #iemandgaatvast-

dansen #iemandgaatvastdronkenworden #rondevormen #fattyfatfat #chubby #vrolijkevrouwlijkheid #joiedevivre #yolo #würstchen #zweet #slagroom #andartagain #you’rewelcome Er was eens een Duits carnavalsnummer en dat ging zo: DICKE MÄDCHEN haben schöne namen heißen Tosca (aka Jack), Rosa oder Carmen.

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60. Courtesy of La Piscine d’Activité

61. Emma Verhulst, Courtesy of the artist

62. Carmen Schabracq, Muse III, 2019, Courtesy of Oranjestraat25

59. Polien Boons, no title, 2017, Photo by Tomas Uyttendaele

TICK TACK

Immigrant’s Eyes and Changing Landscapes CINEMA TICK TACK & ARGOS: Exploding mirrors

Miyeon Lee Hänzel & Gretzel

3 May–9 June 16–19 May Opening 16–19 May from 21h–05h

Mechelsesteenweg 247 2018 Antwerp

T +32 499 10 79 57 info@ticktack.be

TickTack.be

TICK TACK (2019) is a new destination for contemporary art in Antwerp. Housed in the brutalist complex ‘De Zonnewijzer’, a 1955 key work by architect Léon Stynen, TICK TACK occupies a historic duplex, facing the tram stop and landscape park ‘De Harmonie’. The 6-meter-high windows function here as an interface between artists and audience, and between private and public space. The TICK TACK program is binary. By day, TICK TACK presents exhibitions, after sunset, the windows transform into a projection screen under the name CINEMA TICK TACK, a new and exclusive venue for video and digital arts. As a result, both day and night, TT constantly challenges the

physical and mental boundaries between inside and out. Miyeon Lee – Immigrant’s Eyes and Changing Landscapes For its inaugural exhibition, Tick Tack is pleased to announce the first European solo show of Miyeon Lee (1980, S. Korea). On show are recent paintings, works on paper, an in-situ mural and objects by Lee Castro - a design duo formed by Lee and Ruben Castro in 2016. Lee moved from S. Korea to the USA in her late teens, and lived/worked in NYC until her mid 30’s, before moving to Berlin (DE), to Limburg (BE) and finally to Chur (CH) in 2019. S. Korea still remains an anchor where she

returns to on a regular basis. Lee uses landscape and architecture to reflect the state of her navigation and to carry her notion of home. Lee will serve Korean tea during the exhibition to meet and to be met with her audience. CINEMA TICK TACK & ARGOS: Hänzel & Gretzel – Exploding mirrors Hänzel & Gretzel was the pseudonym of Daniel Mangeon, video artist, author, maker of music video, television director and image dresser of all sorts, who died in 2000 at the age of 34. Exploding mirrors is a silent visual poem with footage starring Gerard Malanga. Public screening starts daily at 21h and loops all night.

64 weekend(s) Galleryinresidence

Charim Galerie (Vienna), Devening Projects (Chicago), Martinetz (Cologne) and Clages (Cologne)

16–19 May, Opening 16 May at 18h

Hotel Rubenshof, Amerikalei 115-117 2000 Antwerp

galleryweekends@gmail.com

galleryweekend.org

Galleryinresidence is a project organised by weekend(s)- an umbrella group of 19 independent weekends (including Antwerp Art Weekend, Brussels Gallery Weekend, Paris Gallery Weekend etc...), gallery associations, and curatorial groups from Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Galleryinresidence has invited galleries from several different cities (Chicago, Cologne, and Vienna) to take residence in Antwerp during the Antwerp Art Weekend. Each gallery has been asked to present a solo exhibition of an artist from their gallery program. The galleries will take

residence in the hotel and organise an exhibition. Galleryinresidence participating galleries include: Charim Galerie (Vienna), Devening Projects (Chicago), Martinetz (Cologne) and Clages (Cologne).

65 YUST Can’t Make The Scene If You Don’t Have The Green

Loïc Devaux

16–19 May, Opening 16 May at 18h

Coveliersstraat 2, 2600 Berchem

T +32 479 76 46 53, nelson@yust.be

yust.com

Young artist at YUST ‘Can’t Make The Scene If You Don’t Have The Green’ is the first exhibit by Antwerp born-and-raised artist Loïc Devaux, showing early sculptures and recent paintings.By showing ‘ambition’, which he does through portraying memories with fellow artistic friends and acquaintances, Devaux wants to put a spotlight on the international and youthful mindset both YUST and the artist stand for. Loïc Devaux has been heavily influenced by a lot of

self-taught artists from around the world. His wish is to be considered an example to his peers by giving them the same feeling he experienced when he first found out about his influences. His work speaks of a child-like naivety but is backed up by the obvious references to the work of contemporary predecessors such as Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Alice Neel and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The great ambitions he’s got are clearly visible throughout his work when speaking about the size of his paintings and

considering the fact that the works on view were done between the age of 19 and 21. Since this project is located in Antwerp’s Green Quarter, most of the works shown are easily linkable to ‘The Green’, not only relating to money but, more importantly, to nature. Both aspects mentioned have been very important to YUST in their goal of creating inexpensive & environment-friendly housing for international guests to stay and young creatives to show.

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65. The Prince of Zurenborg and his humble servant 2017-2018, Courtesy of the artist

63. Miyeon Lee, Clouds on Calanda, 2019, Courtesy of TICK TACK

64. Hotel Rubenshof, Courtesy of weekend(s)

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Artist run

ABC Klubhuis

Groot of klein

Helgi Thorsson

4 April–25 May

Sint-Jacobsmarkt 59, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 465 27 60 27, abcklubhuis@gmail.com

abcklubhuis.com

ABC Klubhuis is an artist run initiative founded by 6 Icelandic artists whom have been living or studying in Belgium for the past years. ABC Klubhuis is run by Baldvin Einarsson, Guðlaug Mía Eyþórsdóttir, Helgi Þórsson, Jóhanna Kristbjörg Sigurðardóttir, Kristín Karólína Helgadóttir and Valgerður Sigurðardóttir Groot of klein

ABC Klubhuis presents Helgi Thorsson an Icelandic artist well known for his unique fashionable works that leaves no soul untouched. Helgi was travelling with the Smyril Line, when we caught up with him on the phone. Helgi told us that he is working in small working spaces these days and has to make some of his ideas in miniature models, his studio is the size of

a toilet at the moment. “In the final stages of preparation for the exhibition it will all be made in the right scale” Helgi says. “But how can you know the right size I ask? Well?...” There’s a disruption on the line, he manages to tell me that there will be other works than miniature ones and he will celebrate Antwerp Art Weekend with a book release at the Klubhuis.

Artist Driven Space

Bettina Hutschek, Camille Cluzan, Dennis Tyfus, Ersi Varveri, Esther Venrooy, Gijs Waterschoot, Hard End Soft, Jan Gordts, Karina Beumer, Kris Van Dessel, Lieven Segers, Maika Garnica, Ria Pacquée, Rien Schellemans, Tram Scawped, a.o.

16–19 May, Starting 16 May

Starts at De Studio

T +32 497 44 98 88

artist-driven-space.com

Artist Driven Space A free random shuttle service between the participating galleries, museums and art spaces of Antwerp Art Weekend. During these tours, passengers are able to listen to sound files from the participating artists via the sound system of the car. This

mobile event will start every day from the central Art Weekend location: De Studio. Passengers themselves indicate to which location they want to be brought. Participating artists are Bettina Hutschek, Camille Cluzan, Dennis Tyfus, Ersi Varveri, Esther Venrooy, Gijs Waterschoot, Hard End Soft,

Jan Gordts, Karina Beumer, Kris Van Dessel, Lieven Segers, Maika Garnica, Ria Pacquée, Rien Schellemans, Tram Scawped, a.o. Artist Driven Space is organized by Artist Run Space, a mobile display for international contemporary art, founded in the beginning of 2019.

68 CLAPTRAP What’s He Building in There

Leendert Van Accoleyen (BE), Timothée de Brouwer (BE), Doris Hardeman (NL), Leo Alessandro Lopez (FR), Azuli Peeters (SA), Albert Riera Galceran (ES) and Robert Soroko (BE)

16–30 May Opening 16 May at 18h

Wolstraat 31, 2000 Antwerpen

T +32 487 70 25 86

claptrap.be

CLAPTRAP (noun) / klaptrap/ absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas, pretentious nonsense. CLAPTRAP is a new initiative led by artist Leo Alessandro Lopez born from the will to provide a professional and free-minded space to showcase the work of international young emerging contemporary artists and forward-thinkers of all kind. Located in the basement of the 31 Wolstraat building, headquarters of the artists collective ERCOLA, one of the oldest and still active groups of the Antwerp art

scene (since 1968), CLAPTRAP is determined to pursue its heritage by providing a polyvalent space for dialogue and experimentation. What’s He Building in There The exhibition What’s He Building in There, reference to a song by Tom Waits, will be the inaugural show hosted at CLAPTRAP. It will display a series of works by young international artists all actively working to shape a new narrative in the contemporary arts. Deciding to engage with materiality as

a whole, giving it motion, strength or fragility, the oeuvres of each artist belongs to now. Reaching the importance of tactility, the stimulation of senses and the experience of simply being. Participating artist: Leendert Van Accoleyen (BE), Timothée de Brouwer (BE), Doris Hardeman (NL), Leo Alessandro Lopez (FR), Azuli Peeters (SA), Albert Riera Galceran (ES) and Robert Soroko (BE).

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68. Azuli Peeters, Angie, 2018, Courtesy of CLAPTRAP 66. Helgi Thorsson, Courtesy of ABC Klubhuis

67. Tram Scawped, 2018, Courtesy of Artist Driven Space

Drop City

The Studio for Arousing Tools

Jani Ruscica (FI), Christian Jendreiko (DE) and Angus Carlyle (UK)

16–19 May Opening 16 May from 18h–21h

GLV, Osystraat 45, 2060 Antwerp

T +32 483 23 83 35, post@drop-city.net

drop-city.net

Committed to pursuing meaningful and longterm collaborations with artists and other initiatives locally and abroad, Drop City was founded in 2014 in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne as a platform for collaborative process, taking on various models and roles: gallery, host, publisher, guest. Drop City’s continuously responsive approach to its programming structure and locations fosters the emergence of new perspectives and paradigms of cultural hospitality. As of 2019 operating on an occasional basis from the inner-city garden at the home and studio of its founders, artist Eleanor Wright and curator Sam Watson, Drop City encourages new developments in contem-

porary art stemming from the practices of artists and other practitioners. Selected collaborations: M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art and AIR Antwerpen; PUBLICS, Helsinki; The Pink House, Antwerp; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Poppositions, Brussels; Arcade, London; Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf; ARCOmadrid; Hotel Ufer, Düsseldorf; Saskia Gevaert, Brussels; Durham Castle Museum; MAUVE, Vienna; Laing Art Museum, Newcastle. The Studio for Arousing Tools Launching Drop City’s permanent location in Antwerp, artists Jani Ruscica (FI), Christian Jendreiko (DE) and Angus Carlyle (UK) will

be brought together as part of The Studio for Arousing Tools: a space for sharing experiences, opinions and desires, taking shape around intimate assemblies developed with a multiplicity of collaborators. Though distinct in their methods, each artist explores the possibilities of working with sound and approaches to developing works incrementally, often involving others in the work’s manifestation. The Studio for Arousing Tools will provide a space for reflection, (re-)imagination and further investigation of slower approaches to working within Drop City’s inner city garden throughout the weekend.

70 Flasher! MSK

Itsuki Kaito, Shogo Shimizu, Kazquiz

16–19 May

Flasher! will be walking around the city of Antwerp

T +32 494 05 51 91 flasherartspace@gmail.com

@flasherartspace (Instagram)

Flasher! is an artist run, non-profit art space residing inside a trench coat. As follows, it does not have a set location, Flasher! will be walking around, popping up and flashing it’s exhibitions to willing and unwilling spectators. Flasher! aims to bring exhibitions intuitively and at a fast pace. It derives its concept from the idea of a street salesperson, flashing their trench coat with jewelry or watches mounted on the inside. All of the imagery surrounding Flasher! therefore refers to someone

hiding something inside their coat, with nodges to the origins of the trench coat’s popularity as a military jacket in the Britsh Army and the original Burberry trench, as well as using items that can be added to clothing, such as labels, pins and patches, to promote Flasher! and its exhibitions. The art inside Flasher! will be small and practical, making for deliberate in-situ-type exhibitions that can happen anywhere at anytime. MSK For the Antwerp Art Weekend of 2019,

Flasher! invites MinamiShogoKazuki (MSK), a Japanese collective from Sapporo comprising of three artists: M = Itsuki Kaito (H.R Cointoss, Painter), S = Shogo Shimizu (Artist, Director of 4649) and K = Kazquiz (Mega Manga Otaku, Director of KG CORNER PRINTING). The artists have been friends since high school. Flasher! will walk around the city of Antwerp during the Antwerp Art Weekend, showing the exhibition to anyone who asks or doesn’t ask.

GALLERY GALLERY

Evelin Brosi & Elvis Bonier

16–19 May

Schoenstraat 58, 2140 Borgerhout

T +32 495 62 83 99, info@gallerygallery.be

gallerygallery.be

In 2012, Rens Cools set up an artist initiative called GALLERY GALLERY. The platform started off as a web space presenting artists, with curated online exhibitions and live feeds of performances. In 2018, GALLERY GALLERY established a foothold in 2140 Antwerp (Borgerhout). GALLERY GALLERY is a non-profit

artist-run initiative organising one-time events focusing on post-conceptual art. Evelin Brosi & Elvis Bonier It is most likely that Evelin Brosi & Elvis Bonier will present an installaton that builds on the work ‘trying to fall asleep with the index-finger stuck on the z-key (20:00 – 08:00)’ that was performed in the

Beursschouwburg in 2018. At present (March 2019) switches, buttons and their dumb behaviour hold an unhealthy fascination for Brosi & Bonier and as cultural devices and techniques they play a crucial role in the artist(s)’s ever failing attempt to turn the power of repetition against repetition.

Pinkie Bowtie

Dogshop Daisy

Guillaume Bijl

16 May–16 June Opening 16 May from 18h-22h

Wolstraat 31, 2000 Antwerpen

info@pinkiebowtie.com

pinkiebowtie.com

Pinkie Bowtie is an artist-led enterprise born out of a desire to fill the gap between the institution, the commercial and the independent art space. A joint exploration towards self-determination. Pinkie Bowtie functions as a platform for collaborative working practices and aims to (re)present, communicate, distribute and sell the work of its artists. It acts as a blueprint of their practice, wanting to amplify and materialise their artistic attitude to the world. Pinkie Bowtie is operating out of a space at

Wolstraat 31 in Antwerp, which also houses its archive and a shop with artist editions. Artists: Vaast Colson, Peter Fengler, Dennis Tyfus Dogshop Daisy (2019) Pinkie Bowtie proudly presents the master of appropriation; Guillaume Bijl. His intervention will direct Pinkie Bowtie’s future. Thus not a swan song but a new perspective. Cultural appropriation is the act of taking over, borrowing, recuperating or using elements of a certain culture by

another culture. Some criticize cultural appropriation, especially when formal elements of a social-ethnic minority are used by members of a dominant culture. Often coinciding with stereotyping and putative political correctness. In this case Pinkie Bowtie willingly goes along with the take over and relishes the idea of a shared shift in perspective. ‘Upgraded’ döner with goat cheese and pumpkin seeds will be served during the opening.

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71. Evelin Brosi & Elvis Bonier, Courtesy of the artist

72. Guillaume Bijl, Dogshop Daisy, Courtesy of the artist 69. Jani Ruscica, Ring Tone (en plein air), 2016, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anhava 70. Kaito Itsuki, 2018, Courtesy of the artist

73 Pulsar The Circle Club

Group exhibition

16–31 May, Opening 16 May at 18h

Frankrijklei 51, 2000 Antwerp

T +32 479 90 85 74, info@pulsar.gallery

pulsar.gallery

Pulsar is an independent artist-run space, founded by David Wauters. Bypassing both market trends and curatorial discourse, Pulsar has been engaged in a variety of artistic collaborations involving upcoming and established artists from Belgium and abroad.

The Circle Club Since January 2019 Pulsar has been home to a group of contemporary abstract artists, called The Circle Club. They have regular meetings where they bring along works that are subjected to critique, admiration and/ or mockery. Some works stay, some don’t. Ever since the first meeting a collection of

abstract art has been growing steadily on the walls of Pulsar. This collection is now on display. The Circle Club members are David Wauters, Boy & Erik Stappaerts, Timothy Segers, Henk Delabie, Filip Collin, Jef Meyer, Luc Coeckelberghs, Kris Burm, Philip Janssens Tamara Van San, Manu Engelen and Ina Leys.

Showhouse JayJay

My Biggest Small

Group exhibition

16–26 May, Opening 16 May at 18h

Jacob Jordaensstraat 67, 2018 Antwerp

T +31 67 94 89 50, ralfkokke@gmail.com

@showhouse_jayjay (Instagram)

Showhouse JayJay is an initiative by artists Heidi Ukkonen and Ralf Kokke. Their goal is to offer a platform to artists based in the Netherlands and Belgium where they can work together and find the freedom to build their own exhibitions. Heidi and Ralf want to focus on the work process that goes hand in hand with the organization of exhibitions because they realize that artists enjoy collaboration and creating a good presentation as much as the vernissage and the exhibition itself. Collaboration is the key word in Showhouse JayJay. Artists share knowledge, experiences and inspiration with

each other during the setting up. Thanks to this, new friendships and collaborations emerge, and artists share their networks with each other. Heidi and Ralf have created a space where both artists and visitors can feel at home. The Showhouse is a project space where established and emerging artists meet. This is why Showhouse JayJay has developed in a short time to be a meeting place for artists, collectors and gallery owners. My Biggest Small What is the impact of a small work in a big space? Is it possible for a small format work of art to compete with a large format

work? The artists in “My Biggest Small” show how their smallest paintings can attract attention, and how they treat the subject in relation to the format. During this show we test the artists’ ability to form a cohesive body of paintings which increase the visual perception of small format works. Participating artists: Stijn Bastianen, Kristien Dirkx, Joost Elschot, Raquel van Haver, Ralf Kokke, Bent van Looy, Hélène Meyer, Micha Patiniott, Tom Poelmans, Marie Reintjes, Fleur de Roeck, Valgerður Sigurðardóttir, Charline Tyberghein, Hannelore Vandepoel, Samuel Vanderveken, Heidi Ukkonen & Mila Xinyue.

75 Souterrain BANJOBELLA

Yorgos Maraziotis & Jesus Eloy

16–19 May. Opening 16 May at 18h

Sint-Laureisstraat 37 2018 Antwerp

T +32 478 42 44 35 lieven.s.segers@gmail.com

lievensegers.be

Souterrain is an exhibition space run by visual artist Lieven Segers. Yorgos Maraziotis and Jesus Eloy take over the historical site of Souterrain and architecturally intervene in space with the aim to create a site-specific installation that plays between reality and fiction.

BANJOBELLA With the usage of different medium such as sculptures, paintings and found material of an every day aesthetic, the two multidisciplinary artists focus on creating a landscape that narrates different realities and blends the notions of existence, safety, violence and rawness. The audience is invited to

enter the whole created landscape, wonder around its full of humour and irony elements, and become part of it by experiencing the different tensions between their soma and the body of the artworks. Banjobella can be viewed as an idea or a medium through which, Yorgos Maraziotis and Jesus Eloy search for a “New World”.

The Mothership

Landscape with car drama and other works

Ian Smith

16 May–9 June, Opening 16 May at 18h

Albert Grisarstraat 52 2018 Antwerpen

T +32 479 24 23 61 veronikwillems@gmail.com

@themothershipartspace (facebook)

The Mothership is an artist initiative / small art space founded by Veronik Willems and co-run by Sophie Anson, Josine De Roover, Koen Sels and Rinus Van de Velde. We organize exhibitions by fellow artists with various artistic and other backgrounds. To do so, we start from artistic affinity and try to ignore a few (often artificial) boundaries and parameters, such as age, aesthetics, medium,

genre, concept, (local) scene and so on. Not because categories and ideas do not matter, but because today it seems better to be aesthetically fluid and open, than to wallow in a sad narcissism of small differences. Ian Smith, ‘Landscape with car drama and other works’ Ian Smith (1950) is an Australian painter of energetic works that move back and forth

between figuration and abstraction. Once based in Antwerp, he has been living and working in Brisbane for a long time now. The Mothership will present a few works spanning a decade-long carreer.

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75. Yorgos Maraziotis & Jesus Eloy, Courtesy of Souterrain

76. Ian Smith, Landscape with car drama, 2015, Courtesy of The Mothership 74. My biggest small, Courtesy of Showhouse Jay Jay

73. Boy & Erik Stappaerts, Hip Hop Dancefloor, Beginning of the Second Gulf War, Courtesy of Pulsar

The Pink House

CineHS • Introduction

Camille Cluzan, Rien Schellemans, Daniel Van Espen, Ersi Varveri, Gijs Waterschoot

16–19 May

Italiëlei 63, 2000 Antwerp

the2pinkhouse@gmail.com

the-pink-house.wixsite.com/pinkhouse

The Pink House is a self-organised artistrun space, situated in the north of Antwerp. An old house with three floors and painted in pink, for the last two decades has enabled and hosted many happenings across many different art forms, also constantly changing the group of inhabitants there and the working models according to what each group was envisioning. At the

moment the place combines living space, shared studios, a guest room and a ground floor space suitable to host events. CineHS • Introduction [...] can be inside, outside, where peoplelike to gather? and it’s not only about the plot and the special effects, it’s also about the moving, of course, or dreaming, the sitting in the dark and watching inside the big

story, The story! or a story that you are telling me and you have to whisper and then I can imagine, also the sitting-next-to and the popcorn, and always someone coming in late with the street lights following -lost the beginning! and then one is coughing and you miss the line, but ok because all together look there!! Look!! But also ‘Luke I am your father’ things like that@ N.N.

Troebel Neyntje

Shelf Publishing

Troebel Neyntje and friends

2 May–2 June

Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerp

info@troebelneyntje.be

muhka.be

Troebel Neyntje is a non-realistic initative, presenting an edition called “Shelf Publishing”, which will be at INBOX in, M HKA. Zena Van den Block, Idris Sevenans, Werner de Vos, Robby Blondbaard, J.Krissis, Dries Van Laethem, Lisa Vantorre, Nienke Baeckelandt, Jolijn Baeckelandt, Tone Pauwels, Nicolas Bal, Larsen Bervoets,

Maika Garnica, Thomas Willemen, Jo Caimo, Saskia Van der Gucht, Jan Dewanckel, Rien Schellemans, AARS, Damien De Lepeleire, Hans Theys, Kristo & Kristo, Michela Dal Brollo, Amber Vanluffelen, Flexboj&LA Shelf Publishing Non-realistic initiative Troebel Neyntje invites its friends together with Dr J.S. Stroop to dig

in their shelves and drawers to reconstruct a new edition, in shape of a shelf and an archival drawer, entitled “Shelf Publishing”. Of course with the full support of the vzw English Language Jokes for Dutch Speaking People. Flauwe kul will never die!

Tuur & Flup Marinus

Men & Monumentality

Tuur & Flup Marinus

16–19 May

Gasstraat 90, 2060 Antwerp

flupmarinus@gmail.com

tuurflupmarinus.com

Brothers Tuur & Flup Marinus work as an artist duo across various contemporary art disciplines, ao dance, performance, painting, comics... Recurring themes in their work (in painting and performance) are reflections on the imprint of decades of colonial imagery that are constituent of the Flemish cultural archive. In 2016 they showed their 16 pages trompe-l’oeil oil painted copies of their

childhood stamp collection of “Belgisch Congo Belge” in Antwerp Art Weekend. In another line of their work (in comic drawings, paintings and collages) Tuur & Flup Marinus research on the correlations between the concepts of “man/male”, “monumentality” and “crisis”. Men & Monumentality In the exposition “Men & Monumentality”

brothers Tuur & Flup Marinus will research if via cartoon related imagery they can create a new openess (in the visual arts) in regards to the coagulation of the concepts “men” and “monumentality”. Tuur & Flup Marinus are putting themselves to the test to find whether masculinity can find another way out of its crisis then a clinging to bygone notions of monumentality.

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77. Bela Kaboo, VHS Diaries, 2014, courtesy of the artist

79. Tuur & Flup Marinus, Men & Monumentality, Courtesy of the artists

78. Troebel Neyntje, Shelf Publishing, Courtesy of Troebel Neyntje

Antwerp Art Weekend

Activities

Opening Night at the Academy

Opening night, Performances, Party

Mutsaardstraat 31, 2000 Antwerp

Thursday 16 May, Starting at 19h

Entrance is free

T +32 3 213 71 00, academie@ap.be

www.ap-arts.be

It all starts at the academy and so does the Antwerp Art Weekend of 2019. Although all venues will be opening on Thursday, May 16 from 18h-21h, the Royal

Academy of Fine Arts will be this years host for the actual opening. You’ll be able to get some food from 19h on, drinks too of course, see performances, exhibitions

and experience an after party with the academy’s teachers behind the DJ booth. More information on the academy’s full program can be found on page 32.

Antwerp Art Pavilion

Exhibition, Gather information

Hanzestedenplaats 15, 2000 Antwerpen

16–19 May, Opening 16 May 18h

Entrance is free

T +32 478 81 14 41, info@antwerpart.be

antwerpart.be

Building upon our further cooperation with the city of Antwerp, we have been granted one of the pavilions sited next to the MAS (Museum Aan de Stroom). The Malines contemporary art sector is temporarily settling in Antwerp. During AAW you get a taste of the variety of art the Dijlestad has to offer. It is buzzing, now and in the future!

Participating artists Virginie Bailly (painting), Arne Bastien (painting) Karel Breugelmans (sculpture), Johan Creten (sculpture), Luc Dondeyne (painting), Wouter Feyaerts (sculpture), Claudy Jongstra (textile), Monique Mbeke Phoba (video), Chloé Op de Beeck (video), Maarten Vanden Eynde (painting) en Bram Van

Meervelde (sculpture). Showing partners: Academie Mechelen, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, De Garage, kunstencentrum nona (Contour Biennale), Galerie Transit, Museum Hof van Busleyden. There will also be a steward present to help you on your way. More information on the exhibition can be found on page 20.

Bad Habits in the museum café

Art café

FOMU, Waalsekaai 47, 2000 Antwerpen

16–19 May, Opening 16 May 18h

Entrance is free

T +32 3 242 93 00, info@fomu.be

fotomuseum.be

In collaboration with PLUS-ONE Gallery, FOMU invites you to practise some bad habits with BENI BISCHOF. The MUSEUM CAFÉ Pixel will be turned in to an immersive art INSTALLATION. Beni Bischof, an UNCLASSIFIABLE visual ARTIST, sculpts with clay, metal, or chewing gum, paints with watercolours, draws with his fingers and humorously takes inspiration

from everything from art brut to Saint Gall SAUSAGE. His HEAVY USE of photography is characterised by the re-appropriation of existing images from the internet or traditional media. His absurd digital MANIPULATIONS and sometimes BRUTAL physical interventions reveal a kinship with Dadaism mixed with a neo-punk spirit. His prolific, CHAOTIC, FUNNY work challenges the

STATUS QUO and can be approached from many different angles. What sets him apart is the FREEDOM with which he interprets complex social PHENOMENA. His magazines, installations, and visual re-appropriations are an attempt to INJECT meaning and poetic POTENTIAL into the continuous media flow and recall that an image is above all a picture in the mind’s eye. Stefano Stoll

Fosbury & Sons

Short films, Hang out, Plan your next move

Mechelsesteenweg 271, 2018 Antwerpen

16–19 May

Entrance is free

T +32 3 303 44 44 morgane@fosburyandsons.com

fosburyandsons.com

Use Fosbury & Sons as a hang out spot, a place to plan your next stop, get a small bite and a big coffee. During the entire

weekend, three films by artist Lauren Gregory (US) will be playing in succession on Fosbury & Sons’ big screen for you to

enjoy while you take your brake. A steward will be standby, should you need any help on deciding where to go next.

ArtLand

Guided tours

Meeting at the Antwerp Art Pavilion (Hanzestedenplaats) next to the MAS.

Participation is free, but please register via

+32 486 23 20 11 last.edition@hotmail.com

ArtLand is a collaboration between six galleries located around Willemdok on the Eilandje in the old harbor: Galerie 15/16, Galerie Verbeeck-Van Dyck, Pedrami Gallery, Gallery Schoots + Van Duyse,

ArtPartout and Galerie Raf Van Severen. On Friday 17, Saturday 18, Sunday 19 May, ArtLand organizes a guided walk around the Willemdok with a visit to the six galleries, the exhibitions, a meeting with

NBK

Exhibition, Performances, Party

De Studio, Maarschalk Gérardstraat 4, 2000 Antwerp

Saturday 18 May Starting at 21h

Entrance is 10 euros

T +32 3 260 96 10, info@villanella.be

destudio.com

The Nacht van de Beeldende Kunst (NBK) or Night of the Visual Arts is our celebratory art party and each year we invite an organisation with one foot in music

and one in the arts. For the fifth Antwerp Art Weekend, Subbacultcha Blegium put together a musical program that mingles with the ideas of Petra Heck’s exhibition,

Conversing Motherboards, also visible in De Studio during NBK. More information on the full program can be found on page 6.

‘t Sluit op ‘t Zuid

Exhibitions, Performances, Drinks, Multiple venues

South area of Antwerp (Zuid)

Sunday 19 May

We’ll be ending the Antwerp Art Weekend in the South area, with multiple venues staying open until 19h and performances

happening throughout the day. After that, you’re invited to close the Antwerp Art Weekend, together with its participants,

for an after hours drink at Beni Bischof’s art café, located in the Museum Café of FOMU (number 17 on the map).

Antwerp Art Weekend

Friday 17- Sunday 19 May Starting at 15h

the gallerists and present artists. During the walk, attention is also paid to ‘t Eilandje today and its history.

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

16 May 18h

Antwerp Art Weekend is officially open

Most venues have opening receptions

18h

Artist driven space shuttle service

De Studio

p. 52

18h

Book launch

Royal Academy of Fine Arts

p. 32

19h

Opening night

Royal Academy of Fine Arts

p. 32

19h

Lecture

Het Bos

p. 22

19h

Artist talk and film release

M HKA

p. 28

19h

Concert

Kontrapunt

p. 44

20h

Performance

Royal Academy of Fine Arts

p. 32

21h

All night screening

Tick Tack

p. 48

21h

Opening Art bar

FOMU

p. 18

12h

Artist driven space shuttle service

De Studio

p. 52

16h

Panel talk

Kontrapunt

p. 44

17h

Reception

Everyday Gallery

p. 42

18h

Reception

CASSTL

p. 14

20h

Performance

Royal Academy of Fine Arts

p. 32

21h

Concert and party

Het Bos

p. 22

21h

Late night reception and performances

Ballroom

p. 40

21h

All night screening

TICK TACK

p. 48

12h

Artist driven space shuttle service

De Studio

p. 52

12h

Book sale

Kunsthal Extra City

p. 26

12h

Finissage weekend Laure Prouvost

M HKA

p. 28

14h

Happening

Het Bos

p. 22

14h

Reception

Stieglitz 19 (Markgravelei 95)

p. 34

15h

Artist talk

Geukens & De Vil

p. 24

16h

Book launch and signing by the artist

Gallery FIFTY ONE

p. 22

20h

Performance

Royal Academy of Fine Arts

p. 32

21h

Nacht van de Beeldende Kunst (NBK)

De Studio

p. 6

21h

All night screening

TICK TACK

p. 48

12h

Artist driven space shuttle service

De Studio

p. 52

12h

Book sale

Kunsthal Extra City

p. 26

12h

Finissage weekend Laure Prouvost

M HKA

p. 28

12h

Workshop

Het Bos

p. 22

12h

Finissage

Ingrid Deuss

p. 24

13h30

Reception and book presentation

Galerie Schoots + Van Duyse

p. 20

14h

Guided tour

Kunsthal Extra City

p. 26

14h

Artist talk

Tommy Simoens

p. 36

15h

Performance

NK Gallery

p. 30

16h

Performance

LLS Paleis

p. 26

17h

Performance

Galerie Sofie Van de Velde Nieuw Zuid

p. 22

20h

Performance

Royal Academy of Fine Arts

p. 32

21h

All night screening

TICK TACK

p. 48

Performance by Guy Rombouts

Het Bos

p. 22

Troebel Neyntje at M HKA

M HKA

p. 58

Screenings

Escautville

p. 42

Screening

Fosbury & Sons

p. 42

Screenings

De Studio

p. 6

17 May

18 May

19 May

Ongoing

There is a lot going on during Antwerp Art Weekend. Make sure to check out these activities in detail at the referenced page number. Antwerp Art Weekend

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Antwerp Art Antwerp harbours a vibrant contemporary art scene, ranging from internationally renowned museums, galleries and art centres to artist-in-residencies, project spaces, young and upcoming initiatives and pop-up exhibitions.Conveniently located in the proximity of Brussels, Paris, London, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Cologne, Antwerp hosts a continuous flow

of artists and art lovers, complementing the already, vibrant local scene. Since 2014, the non-profit organization Antwerp Art connects and promotes the activities by its members - a selection of quality contemporary art galleries, art spaces and museums -, as well as a brisk pool of upcoming art initiatives and pop-up exhibition spaces, located in Antwerp. Antwerp

Art is the joint platform for these exhibition spaces, listing relevant exhibitions and openings for both professionals and a wider audience. Next to this, Antwerp Art organizes the annual Antwerp Art Weekend, a manifestation for contemporary art in Antwerp. Disclaimer: Antwerp Art is not responsible for changes in programmes or individual opening hours.

by Thalys high-speed train 3 hours from Cologne by Thalys high-speed train Car Park and rides (P+R) free parking just outside the city, close to an excellent public transport system. You can find all P+R’s here. Free parking (when available) Scheldekaaien Sint-Michielskaai, Cockerillkaai and De Gerlachekaai Gedempte Zuiderdokken Waalsekaai en Vlaamsekaai Pidpa at Desguinlei

Plane There’s a one-hour direct flight from London City airport to Deurne Airport. Cityjet flies from Antwerp to London City 4 times a day with excellent connections to the rest of Europe. From Schiphol (Amsterdam) Airport and Zaventem (Brussels) Airport direct trains stop at Antwerp Central and Antwerp Berchem stations.

Velo Move fast within the Singel of Antwerp and on Linkeroever with the bikes from Velo Antwerpen. Velo also has a free app, availavle for iOS and Android. With a day pass, week pass or year card you can make short rides between the different Velo-stations. Read all about it, and find all Velo stations on the website. A day pass is only 3,90 Euro Use the bike for a whole week for 9 Euro velo-antwerpen.be

Tram and bus Plan your route on their website, or via their free app. Tip: buy your tram or bus ticket in a point of pre-sale (newsagent’s, supermarket, the vending machines at the various stops or in the visitor centres of Visit Antwerp), where tickets are cheaper. You can also buy an Antwerp City Card, which includes the use of public transport in the city for the time your card is valid. delijn.be

Get to Antwerp Antwerp is conveniently located between Brussels, Paris, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, London, and Cologne. Train Plan your train trip through b-europe.com/ Travel 40 minutes from Brussels Central Station 1 hour from Rotterdam Central Station, or only 30 minutes by Thalys high-speed train 2 hours from Amsterdam Central Station, or only 1:15 hrs by Thalys high-speed train 2 hours from Paris Get around in Antwerp Antwerp is a pocket-sized city. Many of the attractions are within walking or biking distance of each other. Another way of getting around the city is on the trams and buses of De Lijn. Antwerp has an excellent public transport system, taking you from one cluster of art spaces to the next epicenter of galleries. Next to this, you can use a city bike, the Velo.

Antwerp Art Weekend

Antwerp Art Weekend 2019

Has been made possible by: De Studio, Villanella, Niemeijer Fonds, dasKULTURforum, Frieze, Art Viewer, Arte, H ART, HISK ,Duvel Moortgat, Parfuma, YUST, Fosbury & Sons Antwerp Art is supported by: its members and the City of Antwerp and the Flemish Government.

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Antwerp Art Weekend