Lecture

PER-FOR(M)ATIONS

With Wiels as a pretext several guest speakers will present their view on the relationship between art and architecture. This way they will contribute to the question how one discipline relates itself to other in public and private spaces. Read more

Performance

Andrea Crews

A unique, colorful and festive closing event for Yayoi Kusama's exhibition at Wiels! Read more

Screening

Sex in the Sixties

3 erotic films by female directors in the 60's: an original viewpoint on the debate opposing feminism and pornography.

Christmas on Earth by Barbara Rubin, 1963, 30 min.
Fuses by... Read more

Lecture

Lars Bang Larsen

Psychedelic art of the 1960s is a subject mired with nostalgia and cliché (drugs, revolution, 'The Summer of Love' and so on); and it has always suffered from being misunderstood as an... Read more

Lecture

Yu Kanki

Yu Kanki will present the relationships between art and feminism in New York in the Sixties and Seventies and, in particular, the political aspects and feminist symbols in Kusama’s work. The... Read more

Event

Complementary Program

Wiels presents a program of lectures, films and performances related to Yayoi Kusama’s universe. Read more

Lecture

Anselm Franke

In this talk, Anselm Franke will discuss Mimesis and Mimicry in relation to Yayoi Kusama's work, and trace other genealogies of the mimetic in modern and contemporary art as well as in a... Read more

Event

Grand Opening Weekend

Wiels, the new Contemporary Art Centre of Brussels, invites the public to discover contemporary art in an exceptional building. Read more

Performance

Paulina Olowska/Bonnie Camplin

A danced and animated tribute by two young artists to a famous dancer and choreograher who lived in Brussels Read more

Screening

Ann Veronica Janssens

The abstract magic of a natural phenomenon captured by one of the greatest contempary Belgian artists Read more

Screening

Hiraki Sawa

A meticulously choreographed rêverie by a young master in animation film Read more

Music

François Deppe

François Deppe, cellist of Ictus ensemble, will interpret Pure, a composition by Cedric Dambrain, in Berlanger’s installation. Read more

Series of three lectures around Particle Projection (Loop), the film realized by Simon Starling for Wiels. Read more

Series of three lectures around Particle Projection (Loop), the film realized by Simon Starling for Wiels. Read more

Lecture

Controlled coïncidences

Series of three lectures around Particle Projection (Loop), the film realized by Simon Starling for Wiels. Read more

Screening

Particles

Series of three lectures around Particle Projection (Loop), the film realized by Simon Starling for Wiels. Read more