ARTBRUSSELS: Off Programme



 

Appart of the oficial program of ArtBrussels, visitors can also expect a broad side programme of activities, with events organised in the fair building and elsewhere.

Programme 21/4

15.00 "Brussels Biennale"
At one time Venice was the only city to organise a biennale on contemporary art. Now every self-respecting city has one. But what motives lie behind this biennale fever? A debate among leading biennale curators will try to find an answer to that question.

17.00 "The reception of conceptual art"
A debate moderated by Sophie Richard, starting out from her research on the ways in which a network of artists, dealers, museum curators, private collectors and critics tried to arouse interest in conceptual art during the 1960s and 1970s in Europe.

 

Off Programme

A part of the off-programme, besides vernissages and guided exhibition visits, also includes concerts and video presentations, for stand-holders and VIPpassholders such as dealers only. The more festive part of the programme, like Gallery Night with its many vernissages for example, is this time around open to everyone.

Friday 20 April

18.00 to 21.00
Brussels Gallery Night

Galleries organising a vernissage this evening: Aeroplastics (with gest artist
Ronald Ophuis) Baronian – Francey (Eric Poitevin), Crown Gallery (Frank Van
Der Salm, Edwin Zwakman, Olivo Barbieri) Dependance (Harald Thys) Gallery
Catherine Bastide (Geert Goiris), Les filles du Calvaire (Stephane Dean, Anne
Deleporte, Dominique Figarella) Galerie Frederic Desimpel (Cedric Christie)
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen (Marcel Berlanger) Tache-Lévy Gallery (Tracey
Snelling) and Xavier Hufkens (Richard Artschwager, Louise Bourgeois, Roni
Horn, Raymond Pettibon, Padraig Timoney).
The opening will also take place during Gallery Night of the Chema Madoz
exhibition in the Instituto Cervantes, Tervurenlaan 64, 1040 Brussels.
Entry free

18.00 to 22.00
Wiels Offsite
Video projections of work by Francis Alÿs, Ann Veronica Janssens, Paulina
Olowska & Bonnie Camplin, and Hiraki Sawa.
Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Brussels. Free entry.

20.00
Vernissage of the Kendell Geers exhibition
SMAK Ghent
Citadelpark, 9000 Ghent
Free entry.

22.30
Party with performances by Namosh and HK 119.
Beursschouwburg
Auguste Ortsstraat 20-28, 1000 Brussels
Free entry.

Saturday 21 April

14.00 to 18.00
Videos by Bill Viola
Flagey Studio 5, Heilig Kruisplein, 1050 Brussels.

On the programme:
- 14.00: Four Songs (1976 – 33min)
- 14.45: The Reflecting Pool (Compilation, 1977-80, 62min)
- 16.00: Hatsu Yume (First Dream, 1981, 56min)
- 17.00: The Passing (1991, 54min13s)

Public show
(The same programme will also run on Sunday 22 April)