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Leuven has got a new museum and the location might surprise. The tower of the university library at the Ladeuzeplein is transformed in a five floor counting walk throught the library's history. Each storey focuses on another historical aspect: from the destructive fire in 1914 to information about the so called 'de vredesbeiaard'. The opening of this exhibition marks the start of different events in Leuven, to remember the First Worldwar. © De Redactie
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Last chance to visit these exhibitions: Javier Téllez - The praise of Folly 12.10.2013 – 26.01.2014 S.M.A.K., Ghent As the son of two psychiatrists Venezuelan artist Javier Téllez (1969, Valencia) grew up in an environment where the mentally ill were part of everyday life. His film projects involve close collaborative ventures with what are usually 'invisible' communities, such as psychiatric patients or people with disabilities, allowing them to participate in the work process in order to produce a dignified and non-stereotyped image of those who are stigmatized. Combining documentary and fictional elements, Téllez works together with these people to provide a fresh interpretation of classical myths, private and collective memories and historical references. His work lends a voice to those who are marginalized, outsiders and the disenfranchised in order to challenge the concept of what is normal and what is pathological in our society. The largest survey of his work to date, 'Praise of Folly' throws a spotlight on most of Javier Téllez's major films and installations of the last ten years. Focusing on the use of film in contemporary art, this S.M.A.K exhibition is part of a series of one-person shows in which Joachim Koester, Koen Theys and Jordan Wolfson have already been featured. Against the background of 'Praise of Folly' Téllez is curating San exhibition of works by K.F. Drenthe from the collection of the Ghent-based Dr.Guislain Museum of psychiatry and mental health. The artist is taking the opportunity of this interaction to reflect upon the local history of psychiatry and reflect it in his exhibition. © S.M.A.K.  KunstNu | Florian Auer: Casino Noir
12.10.2013 - 26.01.2014 S.M.A.K., Ghent Traditionally earmarked for young talent, the KunstNu room is occupied this time by an installation custom-made by the German artist Florian Auer (°1984, Augsburg). Florian Auer may be a member of the 'digital natives' generation but he is keenly interested in the 1980s, a time he believes that for the first time produced the kind of environment in which the prevailing aesthetic value, culture, technology and mentality allowed success to be achieved on the basis of nothing, irrespective of origins or social circumstances. Casino Noir offers an ironic commentary on the decadent nature of the marketing culture that arose during the 1980s: whenever an individual personality gets lost in an extreme form of 'branding', it actually moves in the opposite direction to attain complete and utter anonymity. © S.M.A.K. Recently, the Museum Dr. Guislain in Ghent reopened their large permanent collection of outsider art. The museum is located in the oldest psychiatric hospital of Belgium. Through exhibtions they try to break the stigma around mental ilness. They have two permanent collections you can visit: history of psychiatry and hidden worlds. In hidden worlds you can look into the private lifes of outsider artists, artists without any academic knowlegde and artists living in the margin of society, often psychiatric patients or prisoners. The collection is very impressive for those who love unconventional art. © Museum Dr. Guislain A selection of some of our favorite works showcased in the exhibition: Mandela27: the fight against apartheid from behind bars 09/01/2014 - 13/03/2014 Belvue museum, Brussels From tomorrow you can visit the new exhibtion Mandela 27 in the BELvue museum in Brussels. The exhibition immerses you in Nelson Mandela’s life during his 27-year incarceration. The dimensions of the exhibition are exactly the same as those of Mandela’s cell on Robben Island. Visitors can discover how apartheid rose from oppression, see what life was like in the political prison on Robben Island, and learn about the rise of the anti-apartheid movement and the democratic process in South Africa. © Belvue museum © Youtube
Last chance to visit these exhibitions: Walter Swennen 05.10.2013 – 26.01.2014 Wiels, Brussels Wiels presents a retrospective exhibition of the work of Belgian artist Walter Swennen (b. 1946), which is still relatively unknown to the wider public. The exhibition, which includes over 120 works, revolves around the evolution of his paintings since the 1980s, when he abandoned ‘nostalgic’ poetry to devote himself squarely to painting. When we see the early monochrome wordplays, which resemble riddles, paired with the recent visual enigmas and playful questions about patterns, bases, the support and how to paint, Swennen appears as a singularly coherent and uncompromising artist. Never very inclined to follow fads or styles, he adopts an unconventional and conceptual approach to pictorial art. Literary recollections and art-historical citations appear suffused with his doubts and self-deprecation, in everyday and trivial themes. Whether in the playfully amusing images of his early Pop days, or in the melancholic and tragic ones of his late period, Swennen debunks illusions and deep-seated conventions with disarming sense of humour. So he wants to displace the borders of painting and of visual play. © Wiels  Embroidered field 20.09.2013 - 19.01.2014 Art & Marges, Brussels Such a strange idea, that obsolete language from a private female world where time lingers… A beautiful idea, these contemporary eyes tracking the poetic whisper, the path of the thread that would charm them… In- and outsider embroidery artists from various backgrounds are taking us far away from the rather old-fashioned world, one would normally associate with this form of expression. The exhibition develops into a field that disregards the line separating the page from the margin. A field where two poles of reflection merge: a contemporary art gallery and an outsider art museum. With works of: André Adeline, Cathy Alvarez, Thomas Baert, François Burland, Josiane Degroote, Catherine De Launoit, Laura Delvaux, Marie-Noëlle Flament, Jill Gallieni, Siebe Wiemer Glastra, Marie-Anne Grietens, Michaël Guerra, Xavier Guillemin, Brenda Heymans, MarieAnge, Lindsy Mervylde, Nicolas Schneider, Catherine Terrasson, Jacques Trovic, Cécile Verhoeven and Lenka Zelenović. © Art & Marges museum  Museum to scale 1/7Exhibition 12.10.2013 - 02.02.2014 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Museum to scale 1/7 is an initiative by Ronny Van de Velde which has been developed by the artist Wesley Meuris. In accordance with a firmly established postmodern tradition, the museum is at once subject and object of an intervention that operates as a mise en abîme – that is, the representation of an object using the object itself as a frame of reference. Museum to scale features more than a hundred miniature exhibition rooms at a scale of 1:7 that are devoted to Belgian artists and Belgian artistic movements. After a homage to Marcel Duchamp and his Boîte-en-valise, the circuit takes off with Jean-Jacques Grandville’s illustrations to Gulliver’s travels, the famous novel by Jonathan Swift in which scale assumes an important role. Thematic and historical ensembles devoted to symbolism, surrealism, photography, the Cobra movement, abstract and minimal art lead to a section in which Belgian contemporary artists have each decorated a room in their own original way. Among the participating artists are Jan Fabre, Jan De Cock, Pierre Alechinsky, Koen Van Mechelen, Ann Veronica Janssens, Michel François, and also Angel Vergara, Johan Muyle, Luc Deleu, Luc Tuymans and many more. A website makes a visit to the exhibition an interactive activity. In the exhibition, the visitor can select his favorite museums by scanning the QR codes on the title tags with a smartphone. This selection is sent to the website Museum to scale and is registered there. The individual viewing behavior is tracked by the platform of the website and thus the visitor becomes curator. He creates his own ‘ideal’ exhibition. © Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium  INDOMANIA - From Rembrandt to the Beatles
16.10.2013 - 26.01.2014 BOZAR, Brussels The splendours of the Moghuls and maharajahs, spirituality, light and colours but also poverty and the caste system are all aspects of India that have struck travellers of all eras when discovering this country. But how do Western artists see India? And how has their perception changed over time? Indomania tells the story of a passion for India shared by many artists. Painters, sculptors, photographers, writers, filmmakers and musicians with an aesthetic admiration and intellectual curiosity for this country. For the first time, the works of these artists will be brought together, from Rembrandt to Rauschenberg, over Rodin and Cartier-Bresson to Pasolini. At the request of Europalia, a number of contemporary artists will also visit India to be inspired for new artworks that will be shown in the exhibition. © BOZAR | Categories |
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