This solo exhibition by Matias Faldbakken reflects the artist´s on-going interest in transforming an existing language of forms related to a particular period in modernism. For this specific... Read more

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Kato Six: Focus moves aside, objects appear

The exhibition Focus moves aside, objects appear is the result of a study on memory and the things that surround us. Memory isn't used to represent the past or tell a story. The work is... Read more

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Joëlle Tuerlinckx: WOR(LD)K IN PROGRESS?

WIELS is presenting the first large-scale exhibition of Joëlle Tuerlinckx' work in Brussels, the city where she lives and works. WOR(LD)K IN PROGRESS? retraces Joëlle Tuerlinckx's practice via new pieces and through the reactivation of earlier works and constellations.  Read more

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Laura Wiedijk : Waver

The WIELS project room presents a new work, developed during the last year, a spatial installation titled “Waver”. The installation partitions the room in 4 categories in which several works take... Read more

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Leigh Ledare, et al.

Leigh Ledare (b. 1976 Seattle, USA) uses photography, archival material, and text to explore human agency, social relationships, taboos and the photographic in equal turns. Formally trained... Read more

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Un-Scene II

Belgium, one might say, has no single art scene. Or it may be, perhaps, more accurate to say that Belgium, built as it is on divergent historic, linguistic, and cultural foundations and given its... Read more

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Festival Art & Alpha

Since 2010, WIELS and Lire et Ecrire Brussels South, thanks to the support of Alpha Culture, have offered weekly artistic workshops to an adult alphabetization group. Taking inspiration from the... Read more

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Jeremy Deller : Joy in People

Jeremy Deller, born in 1966 in London where he now lives and works, studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art before devoting himself to artistic creation in the early 90s. Very... Read more

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Cathérine Lommée : holes make stacks/Flexionen

Coating a piece of paper with a thin layer of veneer is sufficient to synchronise two substances into a spatial unit. Subsequently plane depth is created, a moment in/of space, delay. 'Flexionen' is... Read more

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Jean De Lacoste : Interior Landscape

Presentation of a new film by Belgian artist Jean De Lacoste, made during his residency at WIELS in 2011. Collections slumber in the graveyard of art, no longer available to sight and cast away... Read more

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Rosemarie Trockel : Flagrant Delight

This survey constitutes the first large exhibition of Rosemarie Trockel (1952, Schwerte) in Belgium. Although the work of Rosemarie Trockel is clearly referencing the symbolic and aesthetic legacies... Read more

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Mai Hofstad Gunnes : Bike and Bolex

The 16mm film Bike and Bolex echoes Mai Hofstad Gunnes’ ongoing reflection on the construction of identity. A group of five women bicycle in circular paths while filming each other with Bolex... Read more

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Daan van Golden : Apperception

Apperception provides an overview of the work of Dutch artist Daan van Golden (b. 1936) from the early 1960s until today. Van Golden’s work has gone through several phases since the 1960s, phases... 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