Residence

Guilmot & Coussement: Permeable Cabinet

Audiences usually get to hear their music in such a formalised, highly structured way, that when it is unformalised, it sounds incoherent to them. Most music organisational devices are about... Read more

The work of Annelies Vaneycken focuses on cultural differences and identities. It deals with the transformation of identity in situations that cause ‘friction’, in situations where people are... Read more

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Shelly Nadashi: Where is Camino

"Camino" (masculine noun), Spanish for: 1. way, path 2. road 3. journey Where Is Camino is a series of monochrome silk prints portraying holes, which were made during summer 2011. They were... Read more

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Yto Barrada : Riffs

Riffs is the first survey exhibition of the work of Yto Barrada, whose photographs, films, publications, installations and sculptures engage with the peculiar situation of her... Read more

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Wafae Ahalouch el Keriasti : IN FREAKS WE TRUST

The WIELS Project Room presents a new series of paintings and a new installation by artist-in-residency Wafae Ahalouch el Keriasti.

In her drawings, paintings, installations and... Read more

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Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972

This expansive survey of Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973) coincides with the Polish presidency of the European Union and is one of the first major solo exhibitions of the artist's work... Read more

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Michel Lorand : Lacrimae rerum

Lacrimae rerum is a video triptych on the subject of a woman crying. Any visitor can freely appropriate the installation for him or herself, in private, with no time constraints or external... Read more

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Charlotte Beaudry : Get Drunk

This exhibition, whose title evokes the exuberant rebelliousness of a punk slogan, presents Charlotte Beaudry's (Huy, 1968) last ten years of artistic practice. Her work in various media (paintings,... Read more

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Theo Cowley: Held

The work of Theo Cowley reflects on the underlying mechanisms of theatre and other cultural forms. Interested in a wide variety of physical, visual and textual languages from vastly different... Read more

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Perennial

Perennial a temporary auditorium, thought of as a salon, shaped as an event. The term "perennial" refers to the cyclical blooming of plants, as well as to the notion of universal recurrence of... Read more

Nasreen Mohamedi (1937–1990) is regarded as one of the most important Indian artists of her generation, and her paintings, drawings and photographs, produced from the early 1960s to the late 1980s,... Read more

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Sven Augustijnen : Spectres

Sven Augustijnen lives and works in Brussels. These last years, Augustijnen has been working on Spectres, a long film (90 min), which analyses Belgian colonial history, in particular the... Read more

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Eleni Kamma : Enlever & Entretenir II

During her 1-year residency at Wiels, Eleni Kamma (b. 1973 Athens; lives and works in Brussels and Maastricht) finalized and published the book Enlever et Entretenir, that forms the starting point of... Read more

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The Other Tradition

With : Danai Anesiadou, Ei Arakawa (& Silke Otto-Knapp), Cezary Bodzianowski, Sharon Hayes, Sung Hwan Kim, Roman Ondák, Jimmy Robert, Katerina Šedá, Tino Sehgal, Jiří Skála, Pilvi... Read more

To conclude her residency at Wiels, Aukje Koks presents a project made in collaboration with the artist Ištvan Išt Huzjan, entitled ‘Fraud, absence, impossibility’. In the context of their... Read more

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David Claerbout : The time that remains

This first major retrospective of David Claerbout’s work in Belgium will present several new video installations and a survey of existing works, alongside other media. Although David Claerbout is a... Read more

Presentation of the work of the Norvegian artist Lina Viste Grønli, to conclude her 9-month residency at Wiels. On the opening night, friend and collaborator Nils Bech will perform songs... Read more

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Lorna Macintyre : Granite and Rainbow

Lorna Macintyre bases the new sculptural and photographic installation for her first solo exhibition in Belgium on Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, written in 1931, the same year that the former... Read more

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Kasper Akhøj : After the Fair

For his exhibition “After the Fair” Danish artist Kasper Akhøj will present a number of his research-based works incorporating photography, slide projections and sculptural installation.
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Evelyne Axell : Contestatory Images

The exhibition presents the work of Evelyne Axell, a Belgian Pop artist (born in 1935 in Namur, died in 1972 in Brussels) and early feminist whose represention of female sexuality has recently been... Read more

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Francis Alÿs : A Story of Deception

Wiels presents a major exhibition of work by the celebrated artist Francis Alÿs (born Belgium 1959). Using diverse poetical and allegorical approaches, Alÿs explores political subjects such as... Read more