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MAREADOS by JARR & Jesús Azogue at MAAC

MAREADOS by JARR & Jesús Azogue at MAAC

This week, the opening of MAREADOS, an exhibition by the Spanish artists JARR & JESÚS AZOGUE, will take place at the charismatic MAAC, Maison d’Art Actuel des Chartreux of Brussels Council.

The show is curated by Centrifugarte Group (Alejandro Villar, Manuel Garrido y David Brieva). It confronts two differnet conceptions of contemporary art: the baroc objectuality [...]

George Condo, solo exhibition at Xavier Hufkens

George Condo, solo exhibition at Xavier Hufkens

In his second solo exhibition at Xavier Hufkens, George Condo stages a dialogue with the figure. Portraits and drawings are distorted in the style of cubism. Others are delivered in a dramatic style, evoking the costumes and brush strokes of 17th century old masters. Blue Rodrigo and Middle Aged Vampire have all the intensity of [...]

27th edition of Art Brussels contemporary art fair

27th edition of Art Brussels contemporary art fair

Art Brussels
24 - 27 April 2009
Venue
Brussels Expo - Halls 1 & 3
Place de Belgique, 1
BE-1020 Brussels
http://www.artbrussels.be
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The 27th edition of the contemporary art fair artbrussels takes place from Friday 24 to Monday 27 April 2009. 170 galleries from more than 23 countries offer an insight of the current [...]

Michel Francois at Xavier Hufkens

Michel Francois at Xavier Hufkens

Michel François
5 March - 4 April 2009
Xavier Hufkens
Sint-Jorisstraat 6-8
Rue Saint-Georges
1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 639 67 30
info@xavierhufkens.com
http://www.xavierhufkens.com
For his second exhibition at Xavier Hufkens, Belgian artist Michel François (b. 1956 in Saint-Trond, Belgium) has created four sculptural installations. Each installation reveals in its own manner and according to the wish of the artist, a ‘mise-en-abyme’ of [...]

Argos Centre for Art & Media announces two new exhibitions

Argos Centre for Art & Media announces two new exhibitions

Vito Acconci - Language Works: Video, Audio, Poetry
Karl Holmqvist -
‘I’m with you in Rockland’
January 27 - April 11, 2009
Opening
Saturday 24 January, 6pm - 9pm
Argos Centre for Art & Media
Werfstraat 13 rue du Chantier
1000 Brussels, Belgium
http://www.argosarts.org
Vito Acconci - Language Works: Video, Audio, Poetry
The work of Vito Acconci (b. 1940) treats in a critical, now and then [...]

Daniel Buren and Pae White at Xavier Hufkens

Daniel Buren and Pae White at Xavier Hufkens

Daniel Buren
Voir Double, travail in situ
Pae White
Point, Counterpoint, Cloud
15 January - 21 February 2009
Xavier Hufkens
Rue Saint-Georges 6-8
1050 Brussels, Belgium
E-mail: info@xavierhufkens.com
http://www.xavierhufkens.com
Daniel Buren
Voir Double, travail in situ
Daniel Buren (Boulogne-Billancourt, 1938) is one of the most influential living French artists. During his career, the artist has adopted an artistic stance that scrutinises and questions the essence of [...]

Krista Autio and Alexia de Ville de Goyet at Jozsa Gallery

Krista Autio and Alexia de Ville de Goyet at Jozsa Gallery

Break me a Story
Krista Autio – Alexia de Ville de Goyet
Break me a story is an exhibition showing the works of 2 feminine artists :Krista Autio (Finland, 1968) and Alexia de Ville de Goyet (Brussels, 1982). Both are using personal, intimate stories to put the accent on the loneliness in the modern society. For Krista [...]

Jean-Luc Moerman at B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation

Jean-Luc Moerman at B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation

View of the exhibition at the B.P.S.22.
Jean-Luc Moerman
© L. Artamonow
Jean-Luc Moerman’s indefinable shapes, formed by black lines around brightly-coloured tinted areas, are inspired by countless influences: mostly graffiti, but also independent comic strips, Japanese mangas, science fiction, utopian and futurist designs, car tuning, etc. Sometimes his painted forms seem to refer to biotechnological evolution, communication [...]

The Biennal is ON!

The Biennal is ON!

The Brussels Biennial is a perennial exhibition of contemporary art. Hosted in Brussels, it was founded in 2007 by independent curator Barbara Vanderlinden. It emerges at the end of a decennium that has seen an increase in large-scale exhibitions and biennials and marks an important step forward in the process of integrating the Capital of [...]

Interstitial Zones at Argos

Historical Facts, Archaeologies of the Present and Dialectics of Seeing
“An artist’s work should not be viewed solely in terms of creation; it is also an act of resistance. But what does it mean to resist? Most of all, it means to have the strength to de-create what exists, to de-create reality, to be stronger than [...]