Lecture by Mark von Schlegell. American-born Cologne-based cultural critic turned science-fiction writer, witness to a number of exhibitions by Mark Leckey, and amateur of the sort of cyber cultures... Read more
Lecture - Performance
Dublett book presentation
Dublett is a series of ‘double publications’ focusing on an artist’s practice, an artistic collaboration or an artistic project. Each Dublett consists of a new artist’s book and an anthology... Read more
Talk-Guided tour of the exhibition Mark Leckey: Lending Enchantment to Vulgar Materials by Elena Filipovic, curator of the exhibition.
22.10.2014, 19:00
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Lecture by Christophe Van Gerrewey on Echolalia.
Christophe Van Gerrewey is a writer and critic. He has published novels, essays and articles on architecture and the arts in... Read more
Lecture - Bookshop
Book presentation: Maurizio Lazzarato - Gouverner par la dette
Maurizio Lazzarato is an independent researcher, philosopher and sociologist. He wrote on immaterial labour, the end of the wage system, and contemporary cognitive capitalism. His... Read more
Guided tour of During the Exhibition, the Studio Will Be Close by Caroline Dumalin, assistant curator of the exhibition. 23.07.2014, 19:00 Read more
Guided tour of Rossela Biscotti's For the Mnemonist, S. by Caroline Dumalin, assistant curator of the exhibition.
16.07.2014, 19:00
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Guided tour of Rossela Biscotti's For the Mnemonist, S. by Dirk Snauwaert, curator of the exhibition and art director of WIELS.
02.07.2014, 19:00
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Lecture
Lecture Renata Salecl
In the framework of Rossella Biscotti's exhibition For the Mnemonist, S., Renata Salecl will give a lecture on the artist's work. Renata Salecl is a slovene philosopher, sociologist and legal and... Read more
Round table discussion moderated by Lorenzo Benedetti, During the Exhibition, the Studio Will Be Close's curator. In the presence of Aukje Koks, Cathérine Lommée, Lorenzo Benedetti, Dirk... Read more
The "vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph" - on Robert Heinecken's Polaroid practice Read more
Lecture
Look Who's Talking: Devrim Bayar
Guided tour of Robert Heinecken's Lessons in Posing Subjects and Allen Ruppersberg's No Time Left to Start Again and Again by Devrim Bayar, curator of the exhibitions.
05.06.2014, 7pm
Lecture - Bookshop
Art by Telephone ... Recalled - Book Launch
This book enables the rediscovery of an exhibition project : Art by Telephone, as well as contributing to the understanding of art practices since the 1960s. Art by Telephone took... Read more
On the last day of Akram Zaatari’s solo exhibition, WIELS organises a conversation between the artist and curator Dirk Snauwaert to officially launch Zaatari’s exhibition publication. Hot... Read more
Since the early 1990s, there has been a growing artistic interest in memory as the medium of history, and a revival of biographical discourses about art. But does this lead to individualistic... Read more
Talk - guided tour in Akram Zaatari's exhibition This Day at Ten by Dirk Snauwaert, artistic director of WIELS and coordinator of the exhibition.
12.03.2014, 19:00
In the framework of Akram Zaatari's solo exhibition at WIELS and the lecture series DISSENT !, a conversation will take place in which the artist will discuss his cinematic work. How to represent... Read more
Hosted by the Cameroonian artist magazine DiARTgonale, the two special editions JAMAN (2012) and ECHOES (2013) present the outcome of a long-term curatorial endeavour, initiated in... Read more
Gareth Long (b.1979, Toronto) currently lives and works in London. He is the first ever Curator in Residence at the Kunsthalle Wien. He holds a BA in Visual Studies and Classical Civilizations from the University of Toronto and an MFA from Yale University. Read more
The other side of the picture (the art of war, unremittingly starting all over again) :an essay that weaves several threads round a central question, that of representing war. In contemporary art... Read more