ART BRUSSELS 2018 fairguide by Easyfairs

Contemporary Art Fair Fair Guide 2018

INSIDE THE FAIR

Galleries 5 Artistic projects 25 Talks 45 Eat & drink 70 OUTSIDE THE FAIR

Brussels galleries Private & corporate collections Museums & art centres in Brussels Artist & curator-run spaces Outside Brussels Bars, restaurants and shopping Other events

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Galleries

DISCOVERY presents 33 galleries with works produced between 2015 and 2018 by no more than three artists.

AGorgi - Sidi Bou Said with Yesmine Ben Khelil | Aicha Snoussi | Haythem Zakaria

D.38

Allen - Paris with Colin Snapp | Emmanuel Van der Meulen

D.03

BANK - Shanghai with Chen Zhe

D.33

Braverman - Tel Aviv with Oren Eliav

D.27

Conradi - Hamburg, Brussels with Suse Bauer

D.23

Dauwens & Beernaert - Brussels with LoĂŻc Van Zeebroek | Maxim Frank

D.25

Derouillon - Paris with Przemek Pyszczek

D.19

Dohyang Lee - Paris with Elisabeth S. Clark

D.35

Lucie Drdova - Prague with Marketa Othova | Pavla Scerankova | Aleksandra Vajd

D.15

D.07

Eastwards Prospectus - Bucharest with Razvan Anton

D.04

Escougnou-Cetraro - Paris with Laura Gozlan | Michael Jones McKean

D.02

Exile & Polansky - Berlin & Prague with Martin Kohout

D.06

Francisco Fino - Lisbon with Karlos Gil

D.29

Felix Frachon - Brussels with Nandita Kumar | Shine Shivan | Apnavi Thacker

D.28

Annie Gentils - Antwerp with Marie Cloquet | Klaas Kloosterbroer

D.13

The Hole - New York with Morgan Blair | Jonathan Chapline | Anne Vieux

D.01

Hunter / Whitfield - London with Christopher Page

D.18

l'étrangère - London with Joanna Rajkowska

D.12

Levy.Delval - Brussels with Alfredo Aceto | Martin Belou | Mohamed Namou

D.09

Ani Molnár - Budapest with Sari Ember | Radenko Milak | Roman Uranjek

D.10

Öktem Aykut - Istanbul with Can Alta | Sinan Logie

D.31

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Dürst Britt & Mayhew - Den Haag with Lennart Lahuis

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PACT - Paris with Dorian Gaudin | Manuel Scano Larrazàbal

D.21

Parafin - London with Hynek Martinec

D.08

Parisian Laundry - Montréal with David Armstrong Six

D.26

Barbara Seiler - Zürich with Bob Eikelboom

D.17

SMAC - Cape Town, Johannesburg, Stellenbosch with Georgina Gratrix

D.16

Stems - Brussels with Tyrrell Winston

D.20

tegenboschvanvreden - Amsterdam with Cristina Lucas | Anna Ostoya

D.22

Tiwani - London with Mequitta Ahuja

D.24

Waldburger Wouters - Brussels with David Polzin

D.05

The White House - Lovenjoel with Heide Hinrichs

D.14

z2o Sara Zanin - Rome with Evgeny Antufiev | Alessandro Roma

D.37

The DISCOVERY Prize is awarded every year to the gallery with the best presentation in the DISCOVERY section. Art Brussels wishes to encourage the work of galleries, which support emerging artists, and has therefore instigated a prize of 5,000 euros since 2013, which is awarded each year to the gallery that has made the most original and engaging presentation in the fair.

This year's jury members are:

Galleries

The DISCOVERY Prize is supported by

Contemporary or modern galleries presenting established and mid-career artists on an international level

10 Chancery Lane - Hong Kong

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ADN Galería - Barcelona Martin Asbaek - Copenhagen Enrico Astuni - Bologna Piero Atchugarry - Garzón Avlskarl - Copenhagen AYE Gallery - Beijing

La Patinoire Royale - Galerie Valérie Bach - Brussels Albert Baronian - Brussels Base-Alpha - Antwerp Baton - Seoul Laurence Bernard - Geneva Bernier / Eliades - Athens, Brussels Blain | Southern - London Thomas Brambilla - Bergamo Brandstrup - Oslo

C.05

C.17 A.40 E.05 A.25 C.29 A.26

E.04 B.28 C.12 B.40 C.03 B.32 B.37 B.15 C.14

Ceysson & Bénétière - Paris, Luxembourg, Saint-Etienne, New York Chelouche - Tel Aviv Choi&Lager - Cologne Continua - San Gimignano, Les Moulins, Beijing, Havana Cøpperfield & Division of Labour - London

Patrick De Brock - Knokke Kristof De Clercq - Ghent dépendance - Brussels Eric Dupont - Paris

A.17 A.11 A.08 A.21 C.39

B.38 A.03 C.31 B.02

Imane Farès - Paris Fifty One - Antwerp Les Filles du Calvaire - Paris Thomas Fischer - Berlin Flatland - Amsterdam MLF Marie-Laure Fleisch - Brussels Fold - London Jean Fournier - Paris

Christophe Gaillard - Paris galerie du jour agnès b. - Paris Gana Art - Seoul Geukens & De Vil - Antwerp, Knokke

Habana - Havana Harlan Levey Projects - Brussels HdM - Beijing, London Kristin Hjellegjerde - London

C.15 C.25 C.46 B.04 C.13 B.42 A.09 A.36

A.07 E.07 C.48 B.16

C.02 C.20 B.03 E.01 11

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Hopstreet - Brussels Xavier Hufkens - Brussels

Jahn und Jahn - Munich Michael Janssen - Berlin rodolphe janssen - Brussels

Kalfayan - Athens, Thessaloniki Krinzinger - Vienna Kuckei+Kuckei - Berlin Kusseneers - Brussels

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IrĂ¨ne Laub - Brussels, Shanghai Lelong & Co. - Paris, New York LMNO - Brussels

Ron Mandos - Amsterdam Martos - New York Maruani Mercier - Brussels, Knokke, Paris Mario Mauroner - Salzburg, Vienna Mazzoli - Berlin Greta Meert - Brussels Meessen De Clercq - Brussels Mendes Wood DM - SĂŁo Paulo, Brussels, New York Galeria de las Misiones - Montevideo Mitterrand - Paris Anne Mosseri-Marlio - Basel

New Art Centre - Salisbury Nosbaum Reding - Luxembourg 12

A.02 B.29

C.41 B.01 B.18

C.10 B.20 A.44 A.42

E.09 A.31 A.12

C.30 A.16 C.36 C.26 C.27 B.17 C.34 A.22 A.35 B.36 A.10

B.22 & A.23 B.41

Nathalie Obadia - Brussels, Paris Office Baroque - Brussels Oniris Florent Paumelle - Rennes OV project - Brussels

Tatjana Pieters - Ghent PLUS-ONE - Antwerp pop/off/art - Moscow Proyectos Monclova - Mexico City

Raum mit Licht - Vienna Almine Rech - Paris, Brussels, London, New York (re)D. - Antwerp Michel Rein - Brussels, Paris Repetto - London Ronchini - London Rossicontemporary - Brussels

B.32 A.18 A.37 A.20

C.08 B.07 E.03 C.22

C.50 B.25 C.01 B.06 B.09 C.24 A.43

Sage - Paris C.37 Eduardo Secci - Florence C.09 Semiose - Paris C.04 Senda - Barcelona A.28 Shulamit Nazarian - Los Angeles C.18 Tommy Simoens - Antwerp B.12 Skopia P.-H. Jaccaud - Geneva C.21 Filomena Soares - Lisbon A.24 Sorry We're Closed - Brussels B.08 Pietro SpartĂ - Chagny B.11 Marc Straus - New York B.39 Super Dakota - Brussels C.23

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Suzanne Tarasieve - Paris Templon - Paris, Brussels Valerie Traan - Antwerp Transit - Mechelen Triangle Bleu - Stavelot Tucci Russo - Torre Pellice Steve Turner - Los Angeles

A.01 A.29 A.04 C.45 E.06 C.33 E.10

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Isabelle van den Eynde - Dubai C.35 Sofie Van de Velde - Antwerp B.07 Tim Van Laere - Antwerp B.19 Axel Vervoordt Gallery - Wijnegem, Hong Kong B.35 Nadja Vilenne - Liège C.19

Wetterling - Stockholm Bryce Wolkowitz - New York

A.39 E.08

Xippas - Paris, Geneva, Montevideo

B.21

Zeno X - Antwerp Zidoun-Bossuyt - Luxembourg Zwart Huis - Brussels, Knokke

B.31 A.06 E.11

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Luis Adelantado - Valencia A.38 with DarĂo Villalba Henrique Faria - New York C.43 with Jaime Davidovich | Carlos Ginzburg | Osvaldo Romberg Antoine Laurentin - Brussels, Paris C.44 with Evelyne Axell | Balder | Jacques Verduyn Axel Vervoordt Gallery - Wijnegem, Hong Kong C.42 with Ida Barbarigo

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The REDISCOVERY booths are dedicated to art from 1917 to 1987, by living or deceased artists who are underrecognized, underestimated or forgotten. Tracing a timeline that spans the beginnings of conceptual art to neo-conceptualism, via the twentieth-century avant-garde, this section aims to excavate and highlight surprising, unknown and original practices that have not yet broken into the art historical mainstream.

Galleries

The SOLO exhibitions present work by established and upcoming artists and are spread throughout the fair. Galleries have the opportunity to make a distinctive statement by presenting one specific project by an individual artist. This gives the visitor the opportunity to discover the work of an artist at greater depth. The SOLO presentations are pre-selected by the International Selection Committee.

Alice Anderson E.02 La Patinoire Royale - Galerie ValĂŠrie Bach - Brussels Justin Brice Guariglia C.38 Maruani Mercier - Brussels, Knokke, Paris Alex Chaves A.16 Martos - New York Daniel Firman A.08 Choi&Lager - Cologne Andrea Galvani C.09 Eduardo Secci - Florence Ivan Grubanov C.28 Ron Mandos - Amsterdam Stelios Karamanolis C.11 Flatland - Amsterdam

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Frog King (Kwok Mang Ho) C.07 10 Chancery Lane - Hong Kong Sophie Kuijken B.30 Nathalie Obadia - Brussels, Paris Florian Meisenberg C.29 Avlskarl - Copenhagen Peter Morrens A.05 Kristof De Clercq - Ghent Marlon Mullen B.10 Sorry We're Closed - Brussels Sofie Muller B.16 Geukens & De Vil - Antwerp, Knokke Prune Nourry A.27 Templon - Paris, Brussels Nicolas Party B.27 Xavier Hufkens - Brussels Florian Pugnaire & David Raffin A.15 Ceysson & Bénétière - Luxembourg, Paris, Saint-Etienne, New York Bart Stolle C.40 Zeno X - Antwerp Chaim van Luit C.32 Meessen De Clercq - Brussels Carole Vanderlinden E.11 Zwart Huis - Brussels, Knokke

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Leen Voet B.26 Albert Baronian - Brussels Beat Zoderer C.06 Semiose - Paris Romain Van Wissen E.06 Triangle Bleu - Stavelot

The best SOLO show is rewarded with the SOLO Prize (10.000 euros for the artist) and selected at the fair by a jury of curators and collectors.

This year's jury members are:

Galleries

Suzanne Cotter | Director MUDAM (Luxembourg) Abaseh Mirvali | Independent project producer and curator Beatrix Ruf | Curator Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo | Founder and President Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) Bruno & GaĂŤl van Lierde | Collectors

The SOLO Prize is supported by â&#x20AC;&#x192;

International Selection Committee

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This committee, composed of Belgian and foreign galleries, selects the participating galleries in PRIME & REDISCOVERY and pre-selects the SOLO presentations. Albert Baronian | Galerie Albert Baronian (Brussels) Loïc Bénétière | Ceysson & Bénétière (Paris, Luxemburg, Saint-Etienne, New York) Michael Callies | dépendance (Brussels) Simon Devolder | Xavier Hufkens (Brussels) Benedicte Goesaert | Zeno X (Antwerp) Rodolphe Janssen | rodolphe janssen (Brussels) Thomas Krinzinger | Krinzinger (Vienna) Polina Stroganova | Proyectos Monclova (Mexico City)

DISCOVERY Committee The DISCOVERY Committeee, for the selection of the DISCOVERY section, consists of a group of international curators and gallerists. Michael Callies | dépendance (Brussels) Adam Carr | Curator, writer and lecturer (Liverpool) Martha Kirszenbaum | Curator and writer (Los Angeles) Barbara Seiler | Barbara Seiler (Zürich) Sofie Van de Velde | Sofie Van de Velde (Antwerp)

D.32 D.36 D.36 D.34 D.30

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Galleries presenting upcoming or established contemporary artists creating art works in a multiple artlead - Brussels Editions Dilecta - Paris Galerie 8+4 / Bernard Chauveau - Paris GDM - Paris Spazio Nobile - Brussels

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Art Contest Belfius Wealth Management BelgianArtPrize BOZAR FĂŠdĂŠration Wallonie-Bruxelles Ruinart Stibbe The Skateroom visit.brussels

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ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL M.1 artpress M.8 CODE South Way M.5 Contemporary Lynx M.6 Elephant M.7 Gagarin M.4 H art M.2 KUNSTforum M.3

Curated by Elena Sorokina Exhibition design by Richard Venlet Hôtel de la Poste - Tour & Taxis

Artistic Projects

Mystic Properties is the artistic project for the 2018 edition of Art Brussels developed in collaboration with the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent, or HISK. It is curated by Elena Sorokina, curator for the HISK, and includes works by alumni and current and future friends of the HISK. The point of departure for the project is the Ghent Altarpiece, also known as The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, which was first exhibited in Ghent’s Saint Bavo Cathedral in 1432. Painted by Jan and Hubertus Van Eyck, the altarpiece is considered one of the most important paintings of the Western canon, a monument of a proto-modernity still rife with such dichotomies as mysticism and realism, art and craft, and myth and science. The exhibition looks beyond the canonized status of the altarpiece to focus on two propositions: the altarpiece’s local belonging and its epic migrations. For centuries, it was an object of desire for kings and heads of state, dictators, governments and regular citizens. Its various panels were sold, looted and ransomed, incorporated into royal collections and migrated between countries as spoils of war. With this vertiginous perspective on the historical shifts in the status of the Ghent Altarpiece in mind, Mystic Properties examines histories of possession and temporalities of 26

belonging, displacement and recovery, as well as the paradoxes of owning and showing art in the present day. Today, ownership of art grows increasingly disconnected from its being exhibited, from making it accessible to the public. In the specific context of this exhibition, the altarpiece is considered a local treasure, intimately connected to the city of Ghent. Nonetheless, the HISK artists question both the relationship to its canonical greatness and the impurity of categories and canons as such. The artists recast the question of the actual belonging of the work, asking if it can indeed be considered a part of ‘the commons’, like air, water, or language, a public cultural property belonging to everyone. In further exploring the motif of belonging and possession, participating artists have invented new ‘regimes of ownership’ for art, developed ‘acquisition scores’, and created their own crypto-currencies, or seed banks, in the form of works of art.

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Rinus Van de Velde, I had a flash of insight: that this was in fact my life. This is how it exactly looked like and presumably always will. I received, I was a well, I endured. I was endurance itself. Now these days are over, the party stops. Now I am the night of nights, the negation of the negations. Still a terrible drummer but at least nothing else, 2017, charcoal on paper, 240 cm x 360 cm, courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery

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Philip Metten, C-091, 2017, collage on paper, 29.1 x 28.3 cm, courtesy of Zeno X Gallery

Participating artists: Michiel Alberts, Bili Bidjoka, Kasper Bosmans, Ricardo Brey, Clément Cogitore, Raffaella Crispino, Heide Hinrichs, Hedwig Houben, Ola Lanko, Ella Littwitz, Almudena Lobera, Philip Metten, Wesley Meuris, Pedro Moraes, Cadine Navarro, Femmy Otten, Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo, Nicolas Provost, David Schutter, Ante Timmermans, Joris Van de Moortel, Rinus Van de Velde, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Pieter Vermeersch, Vermeir & Heiremans, Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan), and Ghosttransmissions pt.2 curated by Nico Dockx with sounds by Gívan Belá, Michael Esposito, Francisco López, Marcos Lutyens, Ramuntcho Matta, Raqs Media Collective, Koichi Shimizu, Lamont Stigler, Eric Thielemans, Steve Van den Bosch, André Vida, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

With the kind support of

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Biography Elena Sorokina: Elena Sorokina is curator of the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Ghent, Belgium. Between 2015-2017 she was curatorial advisor for documenta 14 in Athens / Kassel. She is an alumna of the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP in New York, and has previously obtained her degree in Art History from the Friedrich Wilhelm’s University in Bonn. Her many projects include: Museum (Science) Fictions at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Forms of Togetherness (and Separation) at WIELS, Brussels and the Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne; Spaces of Exception a special project for the Moscow Biennial; Agnes Varda. Temps Trituré, at LVMH Brussels; and the symposium What is a postcolonial exhibition?, a collaborative project of SMBA and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. She has published in numerous catalogues, and has written for Artforum, Flash Art, Cabinett Magazine, Manifesta Journal, Moscow Art Magazine, and other publications. Sorokina is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has been invited as lecturer at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée Picasso, Paris; YBCA, San-Francisco; ISCP, New York; Garage CCC, Moscow; amongst other institutions.

Interviews and conceptualisation by Philippine Hoegen Stand E.06b

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To celebrate its 50th anniversary, Art Brussels commissioned a film to explore the Belgian art scene as perceived from different positions and time frames over the past 50 years. The film offers insight into the burgeoning and intricate character of Belgian art, with focus on Brussels as a place of particular development. In a series of conversations between people immersed in diverse practices and places in the contemporary art environment, the film explores the direct experiences of those who have been part of and have helped shape the recent history of Belgian art, investigating their artistic and social paths, how their trajectories have shaped certain practices and what this means today. During this process, we asked all of our interlocutors to suggest new contributors. In this way, each conversation generated new exchanges. With this project, we hope to reveal impressions, cross-sections, portraits and insights into an art world that is rich and raw, sturdy and precarious, local and international â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the whole of which we all help create.

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Interlocutors include: Albert Baronian, gallery Albert Baronian, Brussels | Sonia Dermience, director at Komplot, Brussels | PĂŠlagie Gbaguidi, artist | Nav Haq, curator at M HKA, Antwerp | Amaryllis Jacobs, gallery MANIERA, Brussels | Sophie Lauwers, head of exhibitions at BOZAR, Brussels | Betty Lechien, widow of Ivan Lechien of gallery Cogeime, Brussels | Harlan Levey, Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels | Sophie Nys, artist | Dirk Snauwaert, director of WIELS, Brussels | Adrien Tirtiaux, artist | Maarten Vanden Eynde, artist | Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, artist | Eva Wittocx, senior curator at M - Museum, Leuven | Biography Philippine Hoegen: Philippine Hoegen (b. 1970) is an artist based in Brussels and Amsterdam. Her multi-stranded practice engages with issues of objectness and personhood. Her work consists primarily of performances and performative interventions, collaborative events and workshops, as well as writing and moderating. She teaches at AKV St Joost Academy in Breda (NL) and at A-pass (Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies) in Brussels. She is a researcher at the Expertise Centre for Art and Design at the Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda. 31

Esplanade Tour & Taxis Nine monumental sculptures surprise the visitor at the entrance of Art Brussels 2018.

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The large scale artworks by renowned artists and emerging talents, represented by participating galleries, are on display outdoors, on a 3000 m² esplanade at the beautiful, industrial site of Tour & Taxis. Caroline Coolen, Flag, 2010, The White House Paolo Grassino, Cardiaco, 2011, Mario Mauroner Bernd Lohaus, Eupen, 1993, Tommy Simoens Stefan Nikolaev, Candélabres, 2010, Michel Rein Bernard Pagès, Échappée II, 2006, Ceysson & Bénétière Karl Philips, Hand Pump Car, 2017, Dauwens & Beernaert Shine Shivan, Untitled, 2018, Felix Frachon Bernar Venet, Indeterminate Line, 2007, Ceysson & Bénétière Henk Visch, Das Kino, 2011, Tim Van Laere

Artistic Projects Bernd Lohaus, Eupen, installation at Grand-Hornu, 1993, wood, 85 x 550 x 1650 cm. Photo: Philippe De Gobert, courtesy of Tommy Simoens Antwerp

Ben Van den Berghe, Alexey Shlyk, Edi Danartono, Private Eden VIP Lounge

Artistic Projects

The VIP Lounge of Art Brussels welcomes collectors, curators and art lovers from all over the world. On invitation of Art Brussels, Ben Van den Berghe (b. 1985), Alexey Shlyk (b. 1986) and Edi Danartono (b. 1986), artists and friends with different artistic backgrounds, will present Private Eden, a multi-media installation as part of their ongoing project: The Plastic Number, an exploration into escapist aesthetics. For their installation at Art Brussels, the artists were inspired by the life and work of Edward James (1917–1984), an eccentric British millionaire, collector and patron of many artists from the surrealist movement and a ‘surrealist by birth’ himself. In 1947, while living in semi-exile, James acquired a coffee plantation in a subtropical rainforest in the mountains of Mexico and transformed it into Las Pozas: a home for exotic animals with thousands of orchids, waterfalls, pools and concrete structures spreading out over more than 40 ha of lush tropical jungle. Intrigued by Edward James’ surrealist Xanadu, the artists collectively explore the desire to escape reality into a constructed paradise. In a total installation with various elements such as sculpture, painting and photographic architecture, they transform the VIP Lounge into a temporary refuge. 34

Artistic Projects Ben Van den Berghe, Alexey Shlyk, Sketch for Private Eden, 2018. Archival pigment print, 60 x 40 cm. Courtesy of the artists.

Ben Van den Berghe and Alexey Shlyk are the laureates of Art Contest 2017. With the kind support of: Van Den Weghe, Supercolor, Nome Furniture and Art Contest. www.benvandenberghe.com www.alexeyshlyk.com www.danartono.com 35

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Inspiring / inspired: women in the Belfius Art Collection Belfius Lounge Belfius Wealth Management presents Inspiring / inspired: women in the Belfius Art Collection, a series of works selected for Art Brussels, and an invitation to discover our art collection from a new angle. We invite you to follow the woman on the canvas and behind the canvas: as a model, a muse or an artist, as the endless source of inspiration or as a pioneer in her art. When bringing together significant works by a.o. Lili Dujourie, Marthe Wéry, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and artists such as Michaël Borremans, Paul Delvaux, Rik Wouters and Luc Tuymans, new conversations emerge, between men and women, between model and artist, between yesteryear’s and tomorrow’s society, and between modern and contemporary art.

Artistic Projects Rik Wouters, La folle danseuse - Het zotte geweld, 1912, sculpture, bronze, 198 x 115 x 130 cm, courtesy Belfius Art Collection

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© Otobong Nkanga, In Pursuit of Bling, 2014, video still from the installation In Pursuit of Bling, HD video with sound, 11’59’’, courtesy of the artist, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam and In Situ Fabienne Leclerc Gallery, Paris

In Pursuit of Bling, Otobong Nkanga Hôtel de la Poste - Tour & Taxis La Jeune Peinture Belge / De Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst, organizer of the BelgianArtPrize, is proud to give prominence to Otobong Nkanga, winner of the BelgianArtPrize in 2017. Otobong Nkanga (NG/BE) was born in 1974 in Kano, Nigeria, and lives and works in Antwerp. Nkanga’s multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, photography, installation, video and performance, and focuses on the interrelation between environment, architecture and history. Her work weaves together concerns about land, natural resources, architecture, the value connected to them and the dynamic status of remembrance. These predominantly political topics are incorporated into poetic combinations of autobiographic and collective narratives, memories and concepts. 38

The BelgianArtPrize is an historic, biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Belgium, organised and coproduced since 1950 by La Jeune Peinture Belge / De Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst and BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, and benefits from a structural partnership with ING. It aims to stimulate talented leading artists living and working in Belgium, contributing to the development of their careers and international visibility. In 2017, the finalists of the BelgianArtPrize were Edith Dekyndt, Denicolai & Provoost, Otobong Nkanga and Maarten Vanden Eynde, who won the ING Public Prize. The next edition of the BelgianArtPrize will take place in 2019. The four finalists will be announced in April 2018 and invited to conceive new works that will be exhibited at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts from March 15 to May 26, 2019. Under the High Patronage of His Majesty the King With the support of BelgianArtPrize main sponsor ING and sponsors Proximus Art Foundation, Van Den Weghe, Eeckman Art & Insurance, Linklaters and Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.

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At HĂ´tel de la Poste, Otobong Nkanga presents a video that is part of her installation, In Pursuit of Bling, first shown in 2014 at the eighth Berlin Biennale. In Pursuit of Bling is the confluence of several research avenues into the numerous metamorphoses that natural resources undergo during their transition from raw material to finished product. The video, showing Nkanga presenting shiny objects, refers to the historical connection that exists between past and present, and to our insatiable appetite for raw materials â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as well as to our desire to turn these raw materials into commodities, to make nature into a commodity. In addition to the mineral story and references to history in general, the video embodies the constant quest and strive to embellish ourselves through the use of minerals.

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Pierre Jean Giloux, Invisible Cities, 2015-2017 Project curated by Gregory Lang Stand D.11 Invisible Cities is a tetralogy inspired by in the 1960-70s Metabolist utopist movement. This cycle of films questions the notion of landscape and brings together several portraits of Japanese towns: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Osaka. It is close to what is called “augmented reality” as it combines 3D or 2D images with images of social and urban reality, filmed or photographed. The choice of showing Japan through hybrid plastic shapes results from the use of the technological tools that constitute it, with the goal of recreating it. These eclectic cities, sorts of laboratories where architecture and urbanism are in perpetual evolution, entail a dialogue between reality and fiction. The digital techniques used to create this project are based on the hybridization of photographic, filmed and computer-generated images. The cycle terminates with the film Stations, a real and fictional travel in urban and natural landscapes of the Kansai region. The film explores the utopia of the Metabolist movement in a virtual reconstruction of the “Osaka 70” World Exhibition. It invites us to a memorial journey into the historical sites of Nara and Kyoto, towards the doors of a virtual town on the Biwa Lake, elaborated following the guidelines of the Kyoto Protocol. 40

Artistic Projects Pierre Jean Giloux, Invisible Cities, 2015-2017. Exhibition view 'Utopia-Dystopia’, MAAT, Lisbon, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Solang Production Paris Brussels - © Adagp

Pierre Jean Giloux, Invisible Cities, 2015-2017 Metabolism #1 - Japan Principle #2 Shrinking Cities #3 - Stations #4 4 full HD videos with soundtracks Courtesy the artist and Solang Production Paris Brussels 41

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Liu Bolin Champagne Bar by Ruinart Champagne House Ruinart is pleased to announce its partnership with the artist Liu Bolin (1973, Shandong). Liu Bolin is a Chinese performance artist and photographer known for using chameleon-like methods to immerse himself in environments. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Discover his work through a series of photos at the Ruinart Champagne Bar. Elegance, know-how and light are the watchwords of the oldest champagne house. The early commitment to art began in 1896 when the house commissioned Czech artist Alphonse Mucha to create a poster. Maison Ruinart continues today its artistic commitment through its support for the biggest international art fairs and entrusts each year a carte blanche to a contemporary artist. A way to express its heritage, its history and its know-how through the original and creative vision of artists.

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Friday 20 April 2 PM - Belfius Lounge The Secret of Sustainable Private Collections — EN by Lucy 't Hart

Talks

3 PM - Talks Room (Hôtel de la Poste) Expanding Horizons — EN with Abaseh Mirvali and Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo 4:30 PM - Talks Room (Hôtel de la Poste) Ways Beyond the Post-Internet — EN by iMAL and Link Art Center, with Yves Bernard, Peter Beyls, Josephine Bosma, Constant Dullaart, Valérie Hasson-Benillouche, Hampus Lindwall, Fabio Paris, Domenico Quaranta and Carlo Zanni

Saturday 21 April 1 PM - Talks Room (Hôtel de la Poste) Mystic Properties: Conversations — EN Exhibition curator Elena Sorokina in conversation with Pierre Bal-Blanc and Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet, Vermeir & Heiremans, Hampus Lindwall, Heide Hinrichs, Kasper Bosmans, Samuel Saelemakers, and Joris Van de Moortel

Saturday 21 April 2:30 PM - Belfius Lounge Pourquoi et comment collectionner — FR with Muriel de Crayencour, Galila, Sabine Bown-Taevernier and Diane Delvaux

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4:30 PM - Talks Room (Hôtel de la Poste) What's taboo to you? — EN with Aaron Cezar, Philippine Hoegen and Elena Soboleva, among others

Sunday 22 April 2 PM - Talks Room (Hôtel de la Poste) LUMA: Building an art institute of the 21st century — EN with Dimitri Jeurissen, Jan Boelen, Beatrix Ruf and Bas Smets 3 PM - Belfius Lounge Collectionneurs et montreurs — FR with Muriel de Crayencour, Frédéric de Goldschmidt and Christophe Veys 4 PM - Talks Room (Hôtel de la Poste) Père et fils, deux générations de galeristes — FR with Christophe Dosogne, Stéphane Janssen, Sébastien Janssen and Xavier Deleplanque

Friday 20 April â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 3 pm Talks room (HĂ´tel de la Poste - Tour & Taxis)

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FundaciĂłn Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Madrid The new project of a collector and patron who, with her Turin based art foundation, has shaped the role of contemporary art for over 25 years. A conversation between Independent Curator and Project Producer Abaseh Mirvali, and Art Patron and Collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Founder and President of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin). Madrid, chosen for being a bridge between Latin America and Europe, will see, in 2019, the opening of a new center for contemporary art by the renowned contemporary art patron and collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo at the vibrant cultural center Matadero. Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo will expand the limits and horizons of her foundation in Turin, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, to reach the community of a city she considers her second home, by exhibiting works from her collection, nourishing Spanish and Latin American talent, discovering emerging local and international artists and curators while finding new ways and projects that connect contemporary art with the community.

Abaseh Mirvali has had a long-term relationship with Latin America and the city of Turin throughout her career, curating exhibitions and developing projects internationally.

Abaseh Mirvali (US/IR) Abaseh Mirvali is an Independent Contemporary Art & Architecture Curator & Project Producer, based in Berlin and Mexico City. She is currently curating a show of Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian, to be presented at OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin during the summer of 2018. Her latest publication, “The relationship between the transcendental and the tangible. The use of gold and its meaning in the work of Mira Schendel, Mathias Goeritz, and Liliana Maresca,” is part of the exhibition catalog, A Tale of Two Worlds Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s-1980s, currently shown at the MMK Frankfurt Am Main, and to be inaugurated at the MAMBA in Buenos Aires later this year. Mirvali served as CEO, Executive Director and Comisaria of The Biennial of the Americas. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of the Colección Jumex and Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo. Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (IT) Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is the founder and President of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. She turned her passion for art into an organized activity in 1995 when she created the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. In 1997 49

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In this conversation, Patrizia and Abaseh will discuss the highlights of the planning and design of Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Madrid, how Patrizia and her Turin foundation have helped to shape the role of contemporary art in Turin and abroad for more than 25 years, the importance of the Collection for the Madrid project, why Madrid is the perfect city for a new foundation, what programs of the Fondazione could also be implemented in the Spanish Fundación as well as how the two bodies will work together and in what ways will they be different.

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the first venue of the Fondazione, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, was opened at Guarene d'Alba. In 2002 an exhibition venue opened in Turin, an internationally acknowledged center for research, experimentation, and exchange between artists, critics, curators and collectors from all over the world. She is a member of the International Council of MoMA and of Tate Gallery, of the Leadership Council of New Museum, of the Modern and Contemporary Art Committee of Philadelphia's Museum of Art, of CCS Board of Governors of Bard College, among other institutions. She has been awarded the title of “Riconoscimento di Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana” (2005) and the title of “Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Republic (2009).

Friday 20 April — 4:30 pm Talks room (Hôtel de la Poste - Tour & Taxis) A panel with artists, collectors, curators, gallerists, art critics and theorists. Moderated by Josephine Bosma | Art critic (NL)

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Yves Bernard | Co-founder iMAL (BE) Peter Beyls | Artist/scientist (BE) Constant Dullaart | Artist (NL) Valérie Hasson-Benillouche | Gallery Charlot (FR) Hampus Lindwall | Composer and art collector (SE/BE) Fabio Paris | Curator and co-founder Link Art Center (IT) Domenico Quaranta | Art critic and curator (IT) Carlo Zanni | Artist (IT) Borrowing its title from the (in)famous launch of the Postinternet label at the DLD (Digital Life Design) conference in 2012 (the round table “Ways Beyond the Internet”, introduced by Hans Ulrich Obrist), this panel wants to explore recent developments in the field of media art. Now that a broader aknowledgment that we are living in an age shaped by digital technologies has taken place, that “digital aware art” has found its way in the global art world and market in stable, material, post-digital forms, what’s emerging in terms of aesthetics, poetics, formal choices, politics and economics?

This debate is proposed by iMAL and Link Art Center in the continuation of the exhibition #LAYERS (Contemporary Art in the Digital Era) organised by iMAL at Charleroi Danse, Brussels: La Raffinerie, rue de Manchester 21, 1080 Brussels (18 April - 27 May 2018). Yves Bernard (BE) Yves co-founded iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology in Brussels in 1999 to promote art practices with contemporary technologies. He is its artistic director and he curated many media arts exhibitions in Brussels and Europe.

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Peter Beyls (BE) Peter is a Belgian born artist/scientist working on the intersection of computer science and the arts. He develops generative systems in music, the visual arts and hybrid formats. Josephine Bosma (NL) - Moderator Josephine is a freelance critic and theorist working in the expanded field of art and new media. She organised many smaller and bigger events around art and the Internet, and lectures and publishes internationally. Constant Dullaart (NL) Constant works primarily with the Internet as an alternative space of presentation and (mis)representation. His often-political approach is critical of the control that corporate systems have upon our perception of the world, and the way in which we passively adopt their languages. ValĂŠrie Hasson-Benillouche (FR) ValĂŠrie founded in 2010 the Gallery Charlot (Paris). in order to promote innovative contemporary art practices. The gallery focuses on the relation between art, technology and science.

Hampus Lindwall (SE/BE) Hampus is a Swedish organist and composer living in Brussels. He is collecting contemporary art in various forms and formats ranging from paintings & sculptures to videos & websites.

Domenico Quaranta (IT) Domenico is a contemporary art critic and curator. His work focuses on the impact of current means of production and dissemination on the arts, and on the way they respond syntactically and semantically - to the technological shift. He is the author of Beyond New Media Art (2013) and AFK. Texts on Artists 2011 - 2016 (2016), and the curator of a number of exhibitions, including Collect the WWWorld (2011 - 2012) and Cyphoria (2016). Carlo Zanni (IT) Carlo creates time-based works combining a social consciousness and a focus on identity and the self. He researches alternative selling models for digital art and he is the author of the book Art in the Age of the Cloud.

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Fabio Paris (IT) Fabio is a contemporary art curator and co-founder of Link Art Center. His work is focussed in art that tackles the themes, languages, and forms that have emerged during the digital turn of the last twenty years.

Saturday 21 April — 1 pm to 3 pm

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Talks room (Hôtel de la Poste - Tour & Taxis) An integral part of the exhibition Mystic Properties, these conversations will elaborate on what it might mean to “own” an artwork, focusing on immaterial and instruction-based projects, reflecting on “regimes of ownership” in different cultures, introducing “acquisition scores”, and exploring the motif of “belonging” and “possession”. These conversations feature projects for which the display in the exhibition space is but one component, and which need an additional discursive or performative situation to be fully understood. Predominantly, but not exclusively, the conversations will be moderated by exhibition curator Elena Sorokina (see biography p. 29).

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Pierre Bal-Blanc is an independent curator, former curator at documenta 14 and director of Contemporary Art Center (CAC) Brétigny, France. He is the organizer of the “Phalanstère Project” (since 2003), a series of site-specific proposals that aim at a critical rethinking of the logic behind accumulation of art works. His exhibition sequences “La Monnaie Vivante/ Living Currency” in 2005–10 (CAC Brétigny/Micadanses; Stuk, Louvain, Belgium; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Berlin Biennale), and “Draft Score for an Exhibition” in 2011–12 (Le Plateau, Paris: Artissima, Turin; Secession, Vienna; Index, Stockholm) negotiate current and historical analysis of the body and performance strategies in the visual arts. Kasper Bosmans is a laureate at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK, Ghent) and graduated with a master at the Royal Academy of Antwerp. He lives and works in Brussels and Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions include: Chip Log, Gladstone Gallery, New York (2018); A Temporary Futures Institute at M HKA, Antwerp (2017); The Words and Days (mud gezaaid, free range), De 55

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Pierre Bal-Blanc and Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan) will dialog about “acquisition scores” and the ways to own instruction-based work. Vermeir & Heiremans will explain to Hampus Lindwall their Art House Index - a mysterious blend of art and real estate they created for living, working, and fictional speculating. Heide Hinrichs will be interviewed by Kasper Bosmans, starting from the question “who owns a translation?". Samuel Saelemakers will introduce Joris Van de Moortel’s Songs of the incomplete, a collection of medieval-inspired hymns created to be performed but never recorded. Ultimately, Joris Van de Moortel will play on acoustic guitar a selection of tunes from his song-book publication, made in collaboration with Mauro Pawlowski.

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Hallen, Haarlem (2017); Kathmandu Triennale, Nepal (2017); Poetica_Politica, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg (2016); Decorations, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2016); Specimen Days, S.M.A.K., Ghent (2016); Loot, Soil, and Cleanliness, CIAP, Hasselt (2016); Motif (Oil and Silver), Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); Yesterday was Different, with Marthe Ramm Fortun, KOMPLOT, Brussels (2015); Des hôtes: a foreigner, a human, an unexpected visitor, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong (2015); Little Cherry Virus, P/////akt, Amsterdam (2015); Un-Scene III, Wiels, Brussels (2015). Bosmans’ work is currently on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles from January 28 until May 6, 2018. Heide Hinrichs is born in Germany, lives and works in Brussels. She is alumna of the HISK - Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium. Heide Hinrichs’ works balance ambiguity and contradiction, telling stories of past emotions, mental states and gestures. Her installations use objects, wood, clay, papier-mâché, rubber and fabrics, arranged in a state of careful equilibrium. Textures and volumes, scale and colors, contribute to a tactile, multi-sensory experience. Her recent exhibitions include Heildelberger Kunstverein (Germany), Galerie Tatjana Pieters (Ghent, Belgium), Seattle Art Museum, Manifesta (Rovereto, Italy), Kunstverein Ahlen (Germany). Hampus Lindwall is a Swedish organist and composer living in Brussels. He is collecting contemporary art in various forms and formats ranging from paintings & sculptures to videos & websites. Samuel Saelemakers is a Curator at Witte de With since 2012. He holds an MA in Art Philosophy and Aesthetics from the Université Paris IV-Sorbonne and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Antwerp. Projects he (co-)curated at Witte de With include a.o.: THE NUDE AND THE SAP by Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel; the king, the door, the thief, the window, the stranger, the camera by Judy Radul; Decora56

Joris Van de Moortel currently lives and works in Antwerp (Belgium). Graduated from the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (Germany) in 2013, as well as the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) of Ghent (Belgium) in 2009, the work of Joris Van de Moortel has been showcased in solo shows like Pink Noises, held at the Savannah College of Art and Design of Atlanta in 2016; and Ça vous intéresse l’architecture? Botanical vibrations travel through the air tangled as wires, attempting to play with the rhythmic structure at the Be Part Art Center in 2015. His upcoming solo show takes place at Bozar (Brussels, Belgium) next October 2018, on the occasion of the Baroque Season of the museum. Joris Van de Moortel also took part in the following exhibitions (selection): Ecce Homo at Mayer Van Den Bergh museum (Antwerp, Belgium 2017); at Ludwig Museum (Berlin, Germany, 2015); Boghossian Foundation-Villa Empain (Brussels, Belgium, 2015); Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France, 2014), and SMAK (Ghent, Belgium, 2013). Vermeir & Heiremans The videos and installations of the artist duo Vermeir & Heiremans investigate the complex relationship between economy, spatiality, and social reality in today’s highly globalised world. Focusing on the mechanisms of financial structures and the ways in which they produce and generate cultural processes, the duo raises questions about the ever-growing entanglement between urban development, social status, and fetishism. The artists employ financial tools, historical references, technology, and cinematic language to reflect on social codes as well as on the production of value in today’s artistic and non-artistic realms.

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tions by Kasper Bosmans; WERE IT AS IF by Bik Van der Pol; two thousand fifteen by Mark Geffriaud; Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland; In Light Of 25 Years with Özlem Altın, Zin Taylor, Xu Zhen, Wineke Gartz, Mahony, Raimundas Malašauskas, Germaine Kruip, Camille Henrot, and Freek Wambacq; Art In The Age Of… Planetary Computation; Dai Hanzhi: 5000 Artists.

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Vermeir & Heiremans have presented their work (inter)nationally a.o. at the 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007), Arnolfini, Bristol (2009), Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin (2010), Viennale, Vienna (2011), 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial (2012), Manifesta 9, Limburg (2012), Argos, Brussels (2012), Extra City, Antwerp (2012), Riga Art Space (2013), 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), Stroom, Den Haag (2014), Rotwand Gallery, Zurich (2014), Triennale Brugge (2015), Dojima River Biennale, Osaka (2015), Curated by_Vienna at Georg Kargl Gallery (2015), Transmediale, Berlin (2016), Bucharest Biennale 7 (2016), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2017), Glassyard Gallery, Budapest (2018) Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet live and work in Paris. Under the generic title les gens d’Uterpan, they have developed creations focusing on experimentation. Their action touches upon several points, by exploring, among other things, the limits of the human body and of representation. This process implies redefining the practice of dance and the function of the dancer. Their work has been presented at (selection): documenta 14, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2007 (France), Project Arts Centre, Dublin (Ireland), ICA and Tate Modern, London (United Kingdom), Festival Ardanthé, Vanves (France), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (Switzerland), and other institutions.

Saturday 21 April â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 4:30 pm Talks room (HĂ´tel de la Poste - Tour & Taxis)

This year, the art world has been rocked by revelations, from #MeToo to money-laundering. While artists face political suppression in many parts of the world, the art market enjoys economic freedom without global regulation. How does the 'art world' thrive in light these issues - and will it all end in doom and gloom? Conceived and moderated by host Aaron Cezar (Director, Delfina Foundation), What's taboo to you? takes on the challenge of discussing hot topics in the arts with surprise guests and audience participation. Come and join the discussion that provokes tough questions and even tougher answers. With contributions by Philippine Hoegen (artist) and Elena Soboleva (Curator of Artsy Projects and Experiential)

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Mixing the format of a TV chat show and an interactive game, this frank but fun conversation aims to address some of the current taboo subjects in relation to the arts.

Aaron Cezar is the founding Director of Delfina Foundation, where he develops, curates and oversees its interrelated programme of residencies, exhibitions and public platforms. Over the last ten years, he has positioned Delfina Foundation as a meeting point and incubator of creative talent, forming partnerships with leading institutions internationally. He has written opinion pieces for The Art Newspaper, Harper's Bazaar Art and ArtAsiaPacific, to name a few.

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Philippine Hoegen (1970) is an artist living in Brussels and Amsterdam. Her multi-stranded practice engages with issues of objectness and personhood. Her work consists primarily of performances and performative interventions, collaborative events and workshops, and also writing and moderating. She teaches at AKV St Joost Academy in Breda, NL and at a-pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) in Brussels, BE. She is a researcher at the Caradt: Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology, Avans University, NL. Elena Soboleva leads Artsy Projects, a curatorial platform within Artsy that invites contemporary artists to create public installations, site-specific commissions, and performances around the world. She has commissioned projects for global brands, including Gucci, UBS, Microsoft, and Snapchat, and worked with artists including Hank Willis Thomas, Guerrilla Girls, Dan Colen, Katherine Bernhardt, JR, Rachel Rossin and Erwin Wurm to name a few. She has been named “30 under 30” by Artinfo, “Who’s Who of Internet Art”, by W Magazine, and co-curates The Embassy Brussels, a private collection in Ixelles. @elenasoboleva

Sunday 22 April — 2 pm Talks room (Hôtel de la Poste - Tour & Taxis) Moderated by Dimitri Jeurissen | Founder BaseDesign (BE)

Shifting values towards an updated role of art In 1994, artist Michelangelo Pistoletto wrote his “Progetto Arte” manifesto stating “Art is the most sensitive and complete expression of thought and it is time for artists to take upon themselves the responsibility of ensuring communication between all other human activities (...). In other words, all aspects of the social fabric.” Settled in Arles, the LUMA foundation is exemplifying this injunction through the building of a unique and ambitious project binding art, environmental issues, human rights, education and culture. Through the presentation of Atelier Luma - think tank, production workshop and learning network of the LUMA Foundation - the panel will discuss the increasing engagement of the artistic scene in social and ecological projects and practices, and its given responsibility to think about, act forward and generate a sustainable future.

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Jan Boelen | Artistic Director Z33 (BE) Beatrix Ruf | Curator (NL) Bas Smets | Landscape architect (BE)

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Dimitri Jeurissen (BE) - Moderator Dimitri is Base’s CEO & Founding Partner, and develops new ventures for BaseDesign. Since 2011, his central role embraces something he has always done intuitively: exploring new territories, developing raw ideas, encouraging initiative and triggering self-initiated Base projects, all this to push the Base Brand and studios forward. Having co-founded BaseDesign in 1993, Dimitri has passed through all the stages a founding partner should. He studied graphic design at “La Cambre”, school of visual arts and started as a designer but then quickly moved on to art direction. He developed image campaigns for fashion brands including Loewe, Delvaux, and Wrangler, collaborating closely with photographers like Serge Leblon, David Armstrong, Magnus Unnar, and Daniel Jackson, among others. He co-developed BEople, a magazine about a certain Belgium! In 2001 Dimitri moved with his family to New York, where he became the studio’s creative director. He spearheaded a string of successful projects with clients including Puma, L’Oréal, Kiki de Montparnasse. Entrenched in the world of contemporary art, Dimitri also led the creation of cultural brands like MoMAQNS, Bozar, Haus der Kunst or recently the communication strategy and identity for Atelier LUMA and LUMA Days, and books for artists such as Joseph Kosuth, Kendell Geers, Ed Ruscha, and Ann Veronica Janssens. Back in Brussels in 2006, Dimitri took over Base’s global management. Dimitri has spoken at DesignThinkers, Columbia University, the AIGA conference in NYC. Jan Boelen (BE) Jan Boelen is artistic director of Z33 House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt, Belgium, artistic director of Atelier LUMA, an experimental laboratory for design in Arles, France, and curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (22 Sep–4 Nov 2018) in Istanbul, Turkey. He also holds the position of the head of the Master department Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

Beatrix Ruf (NL) Beatrix Ruf served as the Director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam from November 2014 to January 2018. From 2001 to 2014 Ruf was Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle ZĂźrich. 1995 to 2014 Ruf has been the curator of the Ringier Collection and since 2010 she is a member of the think tank core group of the LUMA Foundation. Ruf is a member of the Committees of the Istanbul Modern, Garage Moskow, MAXXI, Rome, the Samdani Foundation, Bangladesh and the Acquisition Committee of La Caixa, Barcelona. At the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, she has initiated exhibitions with, among others, Tino Sehgal, Ed Atkins, Liam Gillick, Isa Genzken, Avery Singer, Jordan Wolfson, Jana Euler and Seth Price. She also initiated and realised a reorganisation of the programming and spatial use of the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building titled BASE; TURNS and NOW, which includes a continued programme of research based exhibitions activating the collection and a full reinterpretation of the permanent collection hang with a wall display developed by OMA/Rem Koolhaas, which opened in December 2017. 63

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Since the opening, Z33 House for Contemporary Art has been fashioning projects and exhibitions that encourage the visitor to look at everyday objects in a novel manner. It is a unique laboratory for experiment and innovation and a meeting place with cutting-edge exhibitions of contemporary art and design. With Z33 Research, design and art research studios established in 2013, Boelen is transforming Z33 from exhibition-based to a research-based institution. At the initiative of Z33 and the Province of Limburg, Manifesta 9 took place in Belgium in 2012. As part of his role at Z33, Boelen curated the 24th Biennial of Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2014. Boelen also serves on various boards and committees including the advisory board of the V&A Museum of Design Dundee in the UK and Creative Industries Fund in the Netherlands. Boelen holds a degree in product design from the Media and Design Academy (now the LUCA School of Arts) in Genk, Belgium.

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Bas Smets (BE) Bas Smets received a Master’s degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the University of Leuven and a postgraduate qualification in Landscape Architecture from the University of Geneva. He founded his office in Brussels in 2007 and has since constructed projects in more than 12 countries with his team of 17 architects and landscape architects. Each of his projects is considered as part of an encompassing research into the possible roles of landscape projects. The aim is to invent ‘augmented landscapes’, by using the logics of nature. He regularly lectures at international institutions, such as the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the EPF in Lausanne. In 2008 he was awarded the biennial French prize for young landscape architects ‘Les Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes et des Paysagistes’. In 2013-2014 a first monographic exhibition of his projects was co-produced by the International Arts Campus deSingel in Antwerp and the Arc en Rêve centre for architecture in Bordeaux, and in 2016 he curated the exhibition ‘The Invention of Landscape’ at Bozar in Brussels. Since 2014 he is in charge of the landscape architecture of the campus of the Fondation LUMA at Parc des Ateliers in Arles. He was appointed General Commissioner for the Biennial of Architecture of Bordeaux in 2017.

Sunday 22 April — 4 pm — in French

Père et fils, deux générations de galeristes parlent de leur 50 ans d'expérience dans le milieu de l'art contemporain. Stéphane et Sébastien Janssen témoignent de l'évolution de la scène artistique contemporaine, en résonance avec l'historien de l'art Xavier Deleplanque. Modéré par Christophe Dosogne | Rédacteur en chef COLLECT (BE) Stéphane Janssen | Collectionneur (US/BE) Sébastien Janssen | Galeriste (BE) Xavier Deleplanque | Historien de l'Art, conférencier (BE) En cinquante ans, le milieu de l'art contemporain a considérablement changé et évolué. Au départ composé de structures quasi artisanales, dans les décennies 1960-1970, privilégiant une relation humaine inscrite dans le temps long et la fidélité aux artistes, il s'est peu à peu transformé, dès la fin des années 1980, et a évolué vers un marché mondialisé qui se compose notamment de méga-galeries, multinationales employant jusqu'à 250 personnes, où le court terme et la loi du marché semblent omniprésents.

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En parallèle, les collectionneurs, longtemps restés de vrais amateurs passionnés, paraissent volontiers s'être mués en investisseurs considérant l'art comme une valeur à faire fructifier rapidement, tandis que certains artistes, se focalisant moins sur leur œuvre, développaient peu ou prou une stratégie de la réussite, au détriment parfois de leur relation avec les galeries.

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Dans le même temps, on passait de trois foires annuelles en Europe (Art Cologne, Art Basel et la Foire d'Art Actuel / préArt Brussels) à plus de trois foires par mois dans le monde ! Comment dès lors, en regard de cette surenchère, ne pas s'interroger sur le devenir de la création? En s'appuyant sur l'expérience d'un père et de son fils, Stéphane et Sébastien Janssen, l'historien de l'art Xavier Deleplanque remet cette évolution en perspective. Xavier Deleplanque (BE) Licencié. Agrégé en Histoire de l’Art et Archéologie (Section Art Contemporain) de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles. Professeur à l’Institut Supérieur St Luc, La Cambre – Arts Visuels, au CAD Bruxelles, aux Amis Belges de l’Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem. Conférencier auprès de musées et diverses associations culturelles. Organisateur et responsable de voyages culturels axés sur la découverte du monde contemporain (l’urbanisme, l’architecture, les musées et collections,…) tant en Europe qu’aux Etats-Unis. Christophe Dosogne (BE) - modérateur Historien de l’Art, diplômé de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Il mène une carrière de journaliste et de critique d’art depuis une vingtaine d’années, en Belgique et à l’étranger. Rédacteur en chef du mensuel COLLECT Arts Antiques Auctions (Gand) depuis 2008, il fut, de 2010 à 2016, conseiller artistique puis secrétaire-général de la Fondation Boghossian à la Villa Empain (Bruxelles).

Stéphane Janssen (BE) Né à Paris en 1936, élevé à Bruxelles 1952 : À l’âge de 16 ans, achat d’une première peinture, une petite oeuvre d’Oscar Dominguez, qui marqua le début d’une amitié. 1965 : Ouverture d’une galerie-librairie, La Balance, sise entre la Galerie Carrefour et les Studios Hergé à Bruxelles 1967-1976 : Galerie Stéphane Janssen 1968 : Première edition de la Foire d’Art Actuel en la salle Arlequin, dans les sous-sols de la Galerie Louise 1976 : Début d’une vie partagée entre les Etats-Unis et Bruxelles 1986 : Première exposition de la collection privée de Stéphane Janssen, Portrait of a collector, au Louisiana Museum (Danemark) Organisation de nombreuses expositions au depart de sa collection privée en Floride, Oklahoma, Texas et Arizona.

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Sébastien Janssen (BE) Né à Bruxelles en 1966 1998 - 2007 : travaille pour la galerie Rodolphe Janssen 2008 - ... : Propriétaire et directeur de la galerie Sorry We’re Closed, Bruxelles 2009 - ... : participe avec la galerie Sorry We’re Closed a plusieurs foires internationales (Art Brussels, Armory Show, NADA, Art Basel, FIAC, etc…) Depuis 2012 : Vice-Président de la Fondation César, Bruxelles

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Friday 20 April â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2 pm The Secret of Sustainable Private Collections How to deal with collection management: from appropriate storage conditions to safe handling Lucy 't Hart Collection managers, collectors, gallery-owners and insurers are becoming increasingly aware of the risks involved with managing collections of contemporary art. These risks include damage that occurs during handling or transport, mishaps when art is being installed or if it is stored inappropriately. Risks also include the loss of valuable information due to a lack of proper registration and digitisation. This presentation will give the audience an overview of the visible and invisible hazards facing art collections and includes a series of handy tips and tricks for keeping your collection in optimum conditions. Lucy â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Hart is consultant preventative conservation and master metal conservator (UA) at International Platform for Art Research and Conservation (IPARC).

Saturday 21 April — 2:30 pm — in French Pourquoi et comment collectionner Three lady collectors tell the story of how their collections came into being and how they go about collecting. From the first work they ever bought to understanding their collections today as they continue to expand. A passion for art, but also a role with artists. Moderated by Muriel de Crayencour | Founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine Mu in the City Galila | Collector Sabine Bown-Taevernier | Art enthusiast Diane Delvaux | Collector

Collectionneurs et montreurs Two passionate, well-informed collectors who are accustomed to regularly showing works from their collection by staging their own exhibitions. Why they exhibit and why it’s important for them. And, finally, what is the role of the collector in the ecosystem of contemporary art in Brussels? Moderated by Muriel de Crayencour, founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine Mu in the City Frédéric de Goldschmidt | Collector Christophe Veys | Collector

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Sunday 22 April — 3 pm — in French

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The participating galleries located in town extend their opening hours the day before the opening of Art Brussels, on Wednesday 18 April from 6 to 9 pm.

Felix Frachon Vishal K Dar

6 5 Rue Saint-Georges 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Olga de Amaral, Jeanne Susplugas, Zorka Ságlová & Agnès Thurnauer

Group show

Albert Baronian

Hopstreet

1 15 Rue Veydt 1060 Brussels (Saint-Gilles)

Olaf Holzapfel

2 2 Rue Isidore Verheyden 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Max Frintrop

2b 33 Rue de la Concorde 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Bernier/Eliades

6b 26 Rue Saint-Georges 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Noé Sendas

7 109 Rue Saint-Georges 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Xavier Hufkens Sherrie Levine

8 6 Rue Saint-Georges 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Nikos Navridis

Alessandro Pessoli

Dauwens & Beernaert

rodolphe janssen

3 46 Rue du Chatelain 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Laetitia de Chocqueuse, Marco De Sanctis, Quinten Ingelaere, Stanislas Lahaut, Benjamin Sabatier, Karl Philips, Jules Wabbes 4 26 Avenue de Stalingrad 1000 Brussels (city centre)

dépendance

Thilo Heinzmann

5 4 Rue du Marché aux Porcs 1000 Brussels (city centre)

Brussels Galleries

La Patinoire Royale Galerie Valérie Bach

8b 107 Rue Saint-Georges 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Sam Moyer

9 35 Rue de Livourne 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Ellen Berkenblit

9b 32 Rue de Livourne 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Kusseneers Bart Gielen

10 10 Rue de Menin 1080 Brussels (Molenbeek-Saint-Jean)

Irène Laub

Panos Papadopoulos 11 29 Rue Van Eyck 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Antoine Laurentin

Evelyne Axell, Balder, Mi van Landuyt, Pol Mara, Roger Raveel, Paul Van Hoeydonck, Jacques Verduyn

MLF Marie-Laure Fleisch Eugenio Tibaldi

20 13 Rue Saint-Georges 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

12 43 Rue Ernest Allard 1000 Brussels (city centre)

Nathalie Obadia

Harlan Levey Projects

21 8 Rue Charles Decoster 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

13 46 Rue Jean d'Ardenne 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Office Baroque

Levy.Delval

22 5 Place du Jardin aux Fleurs 1000 Brussels (city centre)

14 9 Rue Fourmois 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

OV project

Ella Littwitz

Martin Kohout, Viktor Timofeev

LMNO

Adrien Lucca

15 19 Rue de la Concorde 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Maruani Mercier

Phong Bui, Bill Jensen, Margrit Lewczuk, Nathlie Provosty

Joris Van de Moortel

Sascha Braunig

Etienne Courtois Paul Lee Richard Nonas

23 57 Rue Van Eyck 1180 Brussels (Uccle)

Almine Rech Marcus Jahmal

24 20 Rue de l'Abbaye 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

16 430 Avenue Louise 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Michel Rein

Greta Meert

25 51a Rue Washington 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Carlos Caballero, Jean-Luc Moulène

17 13 Rue du Canal 1000 Brussels (city centre)

Meessen De Clercq

Ignasi Aballí, Chaim van Luit 18 2a Rue de l'Abbaye 1000 Brussels (city centre)

Mendes Wood DM Anna Bella Geiger Leticia Ramos

19 13 Rue des Sablons 1000 Brussels (city centre)

Sophie Whettnall

Rossicontemporary

David Quinn, Marie Rosen, Etienne van Doorslaer, John Van Oers 26 690 Chaussée de Waterloo 1180 Brussels (Uccle)

Sorry We're Closed Yann Gerstberger

27 67 Rue de la Régence 1000 Brussels (city centre)

Stems

Cali Thornhill-DeWitt New York Sunshine

28 68 Rue de la Concorde 1000 Brussels (city centre)

Super Dakota

Alex Clarke, Sarah Derat, Fischli & Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Wade Guyton, Louis Malle, Adam Pendleton,Mitchell Syrop, Raymond Pettibon, Ariane Schick, Robert Rauschenberg 29 45 Rue Washington 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Suzanne Tarasiève

A.R. Penck, Romain Bernini, Alkis Boutlis, Neal Fox, Gil Heitor Cortesão, Eva Jospin, Markus Lüpertz, Boris Mikhaïlov, Julien Salaud, Pierre Schwerzmann, Terry Taylor, Anne Wenzel 30 37 Place du Châtelain 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

Templon Jan Fabre

31 13a Rue Veydt 1060 Brussels (Saint-Gilles)

Waldburger Wouters Lynn Hershman Leeson 32 49 Boulevard d'Anvers 1000 Brussels (city centre)

Zwart Huis

Albert Pepermans

33 690 Chaussée de Waterloo 1180 Brussels (Uccle)

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Sanam Khatibi

34 30 Quai du Commerce 1000 Brussels (city centre)

Spazio Nobile

Die Werkstatt - Damien Gernay, Kaspar Hamacher, Jonas Loellmann,Valentin Loellmann, Fabian von Spreckelsen and Bela Silva 35 142 Rue Franz Merjay 1050 Brussels (Ixelles)

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