AUGUST 16, 2008
Over the last thirty years the Belgian artist Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven has pursued an ambitious project of using the media of drawing, film and music to examine the connection between sexuality, technology and forms of representation. The exhibition in the Museum of Art Lucerne, conceived in close collaboration with the Wiels Center for Contemporary Art in Brussels and the artist herself. Some 120 drawings from 1974 until the present are complemented by a representative selection of films and videos. The exhibition runs until November 23 at the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne. (designed by architect Jean Nouvel). www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
JULY 19, 2008
This year Manifesta 7, the European Biennal of Contemporary Art, is hosted by the Trentino - South Tyrol region in Italy. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven is one of the artists selected by curator Anselm Franke to present her work in the Palazzo delle Poste in Trento (IT). A selection of drawings, collages and film are on view. The show is on til November 2. www.manifesta7.it
JUNE 27, 2008
A small but beautifull solo exhibition of Belgian artist Raoul De Keyser opened at FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (FR). The show is accompanied by a small post-exhibition catalogue.
JUNE 22, 2008
Today Marlene Dumas' travelling exhibition 'Measuring Your Own Grave' opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The large retrospective exhibition includes over 100 paintings and drawings and will travel later on to MOMA, New York and The Mennil Collection, Houston.
www.moca.org
MAY 30, 2008
Luc Tuymans' show 'Come and See' at the Zacheta National Gallery of Arts in Warsaw (PL) is the third and last venue of the travelling exhibition that also was on view in Muscarnok, Budapest (HU) and Haus der Kunst in Munich (DE). Tuymans made a large wall painting especially for this exhibition that will be on view during the show. www.zacheta.art.pl
MAY 17, 2008
'Day Night Day' is Maria Serebriakova's second solo exhibition at Regina Gallery in Moscow. The Exhibition consists mostly out of oil paintings on wood and some works on paper.
more info www.regina.ru
MAY 3, 2008
"Life on Mars," the 2008 Carnegie International, focuses on the increasingly relevant question of what it means to be human in the world today. Foregoing any universal answers to this question, the artists in the exhibition investigate particular aspects of the human condition, moving along paths that are both introspective and worldly while poetically traversing the dramatic spectrum from tragedy to comedy.
One of these artists is the Dutch artist Mark Manders, who presents “Room with Clothes, Belt and Contact Lenses” (1992-2008) in one of the rooms of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. This new installation exists of 4 works, which are brought together to one room filling sculpture.
The show opened today and will stay on until the beginning of January 2009. For more information and images: http://blog.cmoa.org/CI08/home.php.
APRIL 18, 2008
The Belgian rock band dEUS asked Michaël Borremans to design the artwork for their new record. Borremans chose for “Two Circles” of the series “The Good Ingredients”, which he made in 2006. Trevor Baker wrote in The Guardian: “The only really eye-catching album sleeve I've seen so far this year has been by dEUS - who got artist Michaël Borremans to give them a characteristically sinister painting for their excellent new album Vantage Point. The care they put into the music is reflected in the care they put into the packaging (…)”
The official dEUS website: www.deus.be.When you are there, also take a look at the video clip ‘Slow’, where Luc Tuymans plays a small part in the opening scene.
APRIL 4, 2008
Today the ‘Draaiend Huis’ (Turning House) of the Ducht artist/architect John Körmeling opened at the Hasseltrotonde in Tilbrug, the Netherlands. The house has already been designed in 1998 as a sculpture for a public space, but has only been realised this year. The house turns on solar energy at a speed of one full circle every 20 hours. Körmeling explains: “Drivers will see the house every time in a different place and will think about it. They will see the house they just left now in a different context.”
MARCH 27-30, 2008
The Armory Show, New York
MARCH 15, 2008
After De Appel in Amsterdam, the solo show ‘Veldwerk’ of Michaël Borremans opened today at Centro de Artes Visuais in Coimbra (PT). To compagnie both exhibitions, a comprehensive catalogue is published, a collaboration between CAV Coimbra, de Appel and Hatje Cantz. The show will be on until June 8. For more information: www.cav.net4b.pt/index.html
MARCH 1, 2008
The exhibition ‘wenn der frühling kommt / when springtime is coming’ at Haus der Kunst in Munich (DE) brings together paintings from the last 30 years, as well as a wall drawing, which Luc Tuymans created especially for this exhibition. The connection between the place of an exhibition and his own work, the tension-filled area between history and the present, is important to Tuymans when presenting his works: in the Haus der Kunst’s monumental exhibition spaces with its green-white overhead lighting, which Tuymans refers to as ‘deceased light’, mirrors the way in which Tuymans deals with emptiness and space in his paintings.
The exhibition is on show until the 12th of May and will open in Warsaw at the end of the same month. For more information: www.hausderkunst.com.
FEBRUARY 21, 2008
Dirk Braeckman’s first solo show in New York opened it’s doors today at Robert Miller Gallery. His typical black and white photographs focus on abstract spaces, domestic interiors and other loci of the built environment. For more information on the show and gallery: www.robertmillergallery.com.
FEBRUARY 14, 2008
Today Luc Tuymans’ seventh solo exhibition at David Zwirner in New York opend for public. This time the artist will focus his exacting gaze on the globally influential, yet distinctly American phenomenon of Disney. The painting and exhibition’s shared title, Forever, seemingly refers to the endurance of an ideology and a timeless, fairytale paradigm. Rife with paradox, it simultaneously proposes the practical opposites - anachronism, mortality, and dissolution. In these works, plans fail, memories fade, and perception is clouded by illusionism.
A fully illustrated catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition. www.davidzwirner.com
FEBRUARY 7, 2008
After travelling to Cape Town, the solo show “Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations” opened today at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg. It will be on view until the end of March.
www.standardbankgallery.co.za
JANUARY 25, 2008
Today is the inauguration of Dirk Braeckman’s photo H.S.-N.Y.-94-99 at the Concertgebouw in Bruges (BE). The photo is impregnated into the concrete at the top of the Atrium of the building.The architect Paul Robbrecht, the City of Bruges, the Bruges Museums and the Concertgebouw are all very excited about the acquisition of this permanent image, stated the website: www.concertgebouw.be
JANUARY 17, 2008
The Bergen Kunsthall (NO) is the second venue to host the solo show “The Absence of Mark Manders”. The show will be on view until the third of March. For more information: www.kunsthall.no
December 20, 2007
We want to congratulate Luc and Marlene on the prices and titles they received the last days.
We are very proud to announce Luc Tuymans received the honorary royal title of ‘Commandeur in de Leopoldsorde’. While Marlene Dumas is honoured with the ‘Kunstpreises 2007 der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf”.
December 14, 2007
Mucsarnok, Budapest is the first art hall in Central and Eastern Europe to host an exhibition by Luc Tuymans, who is considered, by art historians and collectors alike, to be one of the most important living painters. More than 70 works are on display, next to a large mural painting. A catalogue is published on the occasion. The show will later travel to Haus der Kunst in Munich and Zacheta in Warsaw. For more information on the show that ends February 10th, 2008: www.mucsarnok.hu.
December 5-9, 2007
Art Basel Miami Beach
November 12, 2008
New York artist Jenny Scobel presents a group of recent drawings at Kendall Gallery in Grand Rapids, MI (US). In this exhibition, the artist continues her somewhat obsessive exploration of the various ways in which alternate meaning can be constructed. The show is on until December 7th at the Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University.
November 8, 2007
The exhibition “Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations”, at iziko museums of cape town (ZA), covers a broad selection of her work. Marlene Dumas chose ‘Intimate Relations’ as a sub-title for the exhibition as it conveys the curatorial vision and selection of works that focus thinking around issues of what constitute intimate relations between people, places and paintings.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue edited by Emma Bedford. The exhibition closes on 13 January 2008. It will be shown at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg from 6 February to 29 March 2008.
http://www.iziko.org.za
October 10-14, 2007
Frieze Artfair, London
October 12, 2007
The Kunstverein Hannover presents today the most wide-ranging exhibition of works by the Dutch artist Mark Manders to be shown in Germany until now. In conjunction with a sculptural setting developed especially for these spaces, the presentation of works made between 1990 and 2007 enables a comprehensive view of one of the most striking and original positions in contemporary sculpture. The exhibition will travel to 3 other venues across Europe and Hatje Cantz will publish a catalog on the occasion of the exhibition. More information on: www.kunstverein-hannover.de.
September 28, 2007
The Belgian newspaper 'De Standaard' had a new art director for just one day. Luc Tuymans redesigned the newspaper totally yesterday together with his assistant Ives Maes. They choose to have a line of images on top of each page instead of placing the images next to the articles. On the front page of today's newspaper the artist explains: "I want to make the reader think about the relation between word and image, and about the distance between the image and it's interpretation." To see the digital newspaper: http://www.standaard.be/
September 14, 2008
From tomorrow until January 6, 2008, the Württembergischer Kunstverein and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart will be presenting within a space covering 4,000 sq. metres the first comprehensive exhibition of the works of Canadian artist Stan Douglas. The exhibition will encompass fourteen video and film installations, as well as numerous photographs. Taking place at two locations, the exhibition is conceived as one project and is to be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue. For more information: http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de and http://www.staatsgalerie.de.
September 8, 2007
In Athens (GR) two large group shows opened with work of Mark Manders included.
At the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art the international art collector Dakis Joannou shows a part of his collection. “Fractured Figure” is curated by Jeffrey Deitch and shows the work of over 30 artists. The show is up until March 23rd 2008. www.deste.gr
For its first edition, the Athens Biennial launches under the confrontational title "Destroy Athens" and the exhibition's organisers aim to challenge both positive and negative stereotypes of the Greek capital-idealised as the birthplace of democracy and culture by tourists and maligned as a smog-clogged urban waste by its residents. Around 60 international artists, including Mark Manders have been invited to display work, with a number of pieces commissioned specifically for the event. www.athensbiennial.org.
September 7, 2007
Starting today de Appel, a non-profit space in Amsterdam (NL), will explore an unknown aspect of Michaël Borremans' oeuvre, namely the films on which he has been working on the quiet. The presentation in de Appel - from 8 September through 4 November 2007 - is Borremans first solo exhibition in The Netherlands, but also counts as the international premiere of his cinematic work. In January 2008, the exhibition will travel further to the venue of co-organiser Centro de Artes Visuais in Coimbra, Portugal (21 January - 20 April 2008). To accompany the exhibition, a comprehensive catalogue will be published, a collaboration between CAV Coimbra, de Appel and Hatje Cantz.
www.deappel.nl
Art 38 Basel
We
are very proud to announce that two of our artists have been selected
for the Venice Biennale. Curator Robert Storr has selected 15 works of
Raoul De Keyser, which are now presented at the Italian
Pavilion. The works are surrounded by new presentations by other abstract
artists like Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman and Ellsworth Kelly.
The enormous wall drawing of Kim Jones can be seen at
the Arsenale. Kim Jones started from two war jackets and a war drawing
and during an entire month he has been enlarging this to a wall war drawing.
The Biennale opened June 10 and closes November 21. For the full programme,
check: www.labiennale.org.
June
1, 2007
For
his first retrospective in Paris, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh
invites us into his ‘garden’. Having crossed the wrought-iron
fence that delimits the garden, visitors follow a trail of 23 object-sculptures,
models and collages, all part of the unique oeuvre which Patrick Van Caeckenbergh
has developed over a period of more than 25 years.
The showed opened today at La Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine de
Galbert and will be on view until September 16. More information can be
found on: www.lamaisonrouge.org
Marlene
Dumas opens a new solo exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum
of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (JP). “Broken White” is the first
comprehensive exhibition of Dumas’ work in Japan. The exhibition
offers an extensive summary of her oeuvre, through some 150 works, including
ten new creations. Special focus is put on Marlene Dumas’ affinity to Japan. Her latest work ‘Broken flower’ was based on a monochrome photograph by Nobuyoshi Araki and will be displayed alongside of it. The erotic prints by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1839-1892) are also included in the exhibition, for both artists embody a strong sense of sexuality in their work. The exhibition runs until July 15.
A fully illustrated catalogue will be available in English and Japanese. More information on: http://dumas.jp
Today
a new solo exhibition by Johannes Kahrs opens in GAMeC
- Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Bergamo (IT). ‘Men
with music’ shows his works from a different angle. According to
the artist they are faster and tougher and suggest the ideas op men, sexuality
and a physical approach to reality. The paintings thus revolve around
the representation of identity and the male body in relation to sexuality,
violence, desire and loss.Kahrs’ images are never void of mystery and sensuality; they attest the artist’s interest in the fragility of human existence, and our darker and our most intimate aspects.
The exhibition will be on show until July 29. For more information: www.gamec.it
March
16, 2007
Today
is the first day of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s long
awaited Berlinale. Two Berlin galleries have simultaneously opened an
exhibition, presenting her work to the German audience. At DAAD Gallery
Anne-Mie is presenting “Uber das ICH (Willkür und Transzendenz)
[and a lot of fun]”, the end result of a year of living and working
in Berlin (DE). The show opening at Barbara Thumm’s Gallery is called
“Oh, the Sick Lady/ Ah, the Sick Lady (Explodes from within)”
and focuses on paintings, drawings and computer films. The exhibition
will be on view until April 21. Films by Anne-Mie will be shown at the
Filmhaus das Arsenal from March 26 through March 31. Check out the webpages
of: www.clubmoral.com
- www.bthumm.de - www.daad-berlin.de
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven was also selected as guest curator
of the Time festival in Ghent (BE). This festival takes place every two
years, each time with different curators. This ensures an ever-changing
viewpoint on contemporary urban an artistic life. Every festival is different,
for a large part is determined by the curator’s personality. This
year the focus will be on symbolism, on the ambiguity of certain images
and ideas that are not what they appear to be at first sight. The festival
includes exhibitions, films, music performances, lectures and so on. It
will be opened at the Vooruit April 19, and will appear and disappear
at different sites all over the city until April 28. For more information:
www.timefestival.be
February
15, 2007
At
Bozar in Brussels (BE) the exhibition “Het Verboden Rijk (The Forbidden
Empire)” opened today. The curators of the show, Luc Tuymans
and Yu Hui, have attempted to create a dialog between art of the southern
Netherlands and China. Old meets New. East meets West. Artists such as
Van Eyck, Rubens, Ensor, Spilliaert and Magritte are confronted with works
on paper and silk, dating back to the Ming- and Qingdynasty. The two very
different traditions are carefully and respectfully approached, so they
do not lose their own significant uniqueness. The exhibition will be on
view until May 6 and will then travel to the Palace Museum in Beijing,
where it will be shown from June 17 until September 2.
More information can be found on www.bozar.be.
We
would like to congratulate Raoul De Keyser with his price
from the Flemish government for General Cultural Merit. He received his
award today from the minister of culture, Mr. Bert Anciaux. The entire
cultural scene gathered at the Flemish opera house in Gent to honour Raoul
De Keyser.
Raoul De Keyser had his first exhibition in 1965. He constructed his own
painterly language and in each painting he searches for the right brush
stroke and colour, until today.
Six
Dutch architects were asked in September 2006 to develop a project for
the Dutch pavilion on Expo 2010 in Shanghai in China. One of them is John
Körmeling, architect represented by zeno-x gallery, who
is announced as winner today with his design ‘Happy Street’.
From 2009 he will start building his curving walkway with floating icons
of the Dutch architectural history on the side. His studies on paper are
now on show at Zeno X Gallery and the real stuff will be ready to visit
from March until October 2010 at the World Expo in China.
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven started her own publishing house,
called ‘The AntiSade Press’. The first edition of ‘The AntiSade Press’ is a calendar for 2007. The calendar contains the 12 images that AMVK made in 2005. They are the continuation of the series “19 philosophical rooms”. The cover image called ‘Zerzan’, shows musician Mauro Pawlowski in an interior inspired by the philosophical theories of American anarcho-primitivist Zerzan. ‘Zerzan’ is also the title of the next solo show AMVK will present in Zeno X Storage in January - February 2007.
The calendar is for sale at Zeno X Gallery and Zeno X Storage for € 10.
Today
Jan De Maesschalck presents his new book ‘De sublieme
alleenheid’ (Sublime solitude). A selection of works from 2002 until
2006 will be presented in the book, next to texts by Bernard Dewulf, Rudy
Vandendaele, Marc Ruyters and Jeroen Laureyns. Sublime solitude is something different from utter isolation. Jan De Maesschalck often paints secluded girls and women, reading on their own, steeped in a parallel world, submerged with bated breath.As happy as possible in a self-imposed isolation.
On Friday December 22th Jan De Maesschalck will present this new book at bookstore ‘Walry’ in Gent (Zwijnaardsesteenweg 6). From 6 to 8 pm the artist will be signing and selling his books. This 152 pages book is a unique gift for the Holidays! www.oogachtend.be
December
6-10,2006
Art Basel Miami Beach
Parasol
unit foundation for contemporary art is pleased to open today 'Lonely
long meaningless way home: Johannes Kahrs', the first
solo exhibition of Kahrs' work in a UK institution. Having taken a quote
from Franz Kafka, Lonely long meaningless way home, for the title of his
exhibition Kahrs will show a series of paintings together with pastel
and charcoal works on paper, both of which media are of equal significance
to him.'Lonely long meaningless way home: Johannes Kahrs' is accompanied by a full-colour catalogue with essays by Ziba de Weck Ardalan and Nicola Suthor published by JRP I Ringier.
There is also a limited edition print for sale after a study for ‘Therapy (in the kitchen)’.
More information on: www.parasol-unit.org
At
Espace photographique Contretype in Brussels Dirk Braeckman’s
new works are included in the group show “Genre Humain”. The
show will stay on until January 14th 2007. “Three photographers show the way they live and vice versa; they are deeply involved in their images, on a knife’s edge, exposed to every danger, photography being their only shield. Their image have the power to disturb us: they expose the human condition by immortalising our mortality; they also translate the desperate search for oneself in the other: they touch the fire of passion that reduces everything to ashes.” (Jean-Louis Godefroid, curator of the exhibition)
www.contretype.org
The 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art opend today in Sevilla
(ES). Artistic director Okwui Enwezor included the work of Kim
Jones in his selection, together with 90 other artists from different
nationalities. Not only fine arts are put on show, also film and theatre
are a significant part of the programme. The exbihition is on view until
the beginning of January 2007 and for more information: www.fundacionbiacs.com
Kim
Jones: A Retrospective’ opens today in the First Floor,
Lightwell, and Second Floor Galleries at UB Art Gallery, Center for the
Arts. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, is on view
through December 17, 2006.Though Kim Jones is recognized internationally for his performance art, installation, sculpture, and drawing, this is his first full retrospective. ‘Kim Jones: A Retrospective’ features sculpture, drawings, collages and a photo-documentation timeline giving a comprehensive overview of the artist’s performances and installations from 1954 to the present, as well as two large scale installations conceived for the exhibition.
‘Kim Jones: A Retrospective’ is organized by Sandra Firmin and the UB Art Galleries and Julie Joyce and the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles. A 160-page monograph featuring four essays, over fifty color plates, and a comprehensive bibliography accompanies the exhibition. Essayists include writer-historians Robert Storr and Kristine Stiles, and exhibition curators Sandra Firmin and Julie Joyce. The exhibition will travel to the Luckman Gallery (March 24-May 19, 2007) following its stay in Buffalo.
October
17, 2006
David
Zwirner’s new space opened a month ago and today Raoul De
Keyser’s latest works are put on display in this brand
new venue. It is the artist’s third solo exhibition at this New
York gallery. A fully illustrated catalog with these 30 new works will
be published.
www.davidzwirner.com
October
14, 2006
Almost
500 people joined us today to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Zeno X
Gallery. We started in the afternoon with a preview at Zeno X Gallery
with new works on display by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Michaël Borremans,
Yun-Fei Ji and Johannes Kahrs. At Zeno X Storage Luc Tuymans, Raoul De
Keyser, John Körmeling, Marlene Dumas, Jenny Scobel and Cristof Yvoré
showed their latest work. In total 64 works of 37 different artists are
represented. Both exhibitions give a good overview of the 25 passed years
and what we want to bring in the future. After the preview the celebrations
continued at De Roma, where a dozen volunteers and the catering team of
Koen Wellens served great food and drinks the entire night. DJ David Neirings
played swinging tunes until the morning. Thank you all!
July
14, 2006
The
Serralves Foundation in Porto (PT) includes a great park, a new contemporary
art museum and the formal villa of the family Serralves. While in the
museum a group show was going on that includes Johannes Kahrs,
Luc Tuymans was busy preparing his solo show in the villa. For
a week Tuymans and his assistant Ives Maes, together with curator Hans
Rudolf Reust, worked there to make an extraordinary presentation. Next
to the 18 paintings on show, a lot of archive and documentation material
is put on show to give the viewer a look behind the scenes. Also the new
catalogue introduces us in the world of Luc Tuymans before he starts painting.
A must see, until the beginning of November! www.serralves.pt
The Serralves Foundation made a great catalogue of which 100 copies
are signed and dated by the artist. This edition is sold for very democrate
prices and is a great gift for all Tuymans fans.
The
Swiss female artist Miriam Cahn presented her new solo
exhibition and catalogue today in the Kirchner Museum in Davos (CH). “überdachte
fluchtwege” shows us new works of the last 3 years and gives a good
overview of the works Cahn produces. Colourful portraits are mixed with
black and white drawings in series on the wall. The catalogue presents
the works on a similar way, by altering large and smaller pictures and
includes some interesting texts. The exhibition runs untill October 22nd
2006. For more information: www.kirchnermuseum.ch
June
13-18, 2006 - Art Basel
These days we were in Switzerland for the 37h edition of Art
Basel. People were rushing in at the preview day to see new work(s) by
Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Johannes
Kahrs, Mark Manders, Luc Tuymans and Cristof Yvoré, but also the
light-boxes of Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, paintings by Maria Serebriakova
and photographs of Dirk Braeckman were drawings the attention of the collectors.
Herewith we want to thank the team of Art Basel for a great event, which
gave us and the collectors the opportunity to see nice expositions in
town and surroundings, have nice dinners and a lot of parties. It was
a successful fair for all of us!
June
8, 2006
Today
a peculiar exhibition of Luc Tuymans’ oeuvre opened
at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain in Geneva (CH),
together with six other smaller presentations of different artists. The
show brings about 40 portraits togethere, all painted in the period 1975-2003.
"Portraits" provides us with a totally different angle on Tuymans’
work and is a real eye-catcher.
The show will stay on until the beginning of September 2006. For more
information you can visit the website: www.mamco.ch
A
dozen new drawings, a few paintings of the exhibition Horse Hunting and
some older drawings: these are the ingredients for a new solo show by
Michaël Borremans. La Maison Rouge, fondation de
Galbert in the center of Paris (FR) opened today with some festivities.
The exhibition "the good ingredients" shows a series of new
drawings which show hostages with their aggressors. Two circles, crosses
and other geometrical figures appear on the ground, as the hostages lay
down on the ground to obey the instructions of the hostage takers. Take a look at their great website for more information: www.lamaisonrouge.org
May
26, 2006
At
the end of the Trans-Siberian Railway you enter Vladivostok. Three Belgian
artists arrived there a week ago to install some works for the exhibition
'Extremities' in the new Museum of Modern Art, Artetage/FENTU. Dirk
Braeckman selected 30 of his pictures and installed them as small
icons. Luc Tuymans painted an enormous pigeon on the
wall, named ‘Dracula’. And Anne-Mie Van Kerkchoven
showed her amazing video ‘Deeper’, next to her most
recent works printed on textile. Also an interactive work of her is on
display, so visitors can work with her creative images. The exhibitions
stays on show until the beginning of July.
Closer to home the Belgian artist Patrick Van Caeckenbergh became an honorary citizen of the city were he lives and works. The mayor of Horebeke, politician Herman De Croo and professor Clem Neutjens opened the celebrations with a speech and the local band played some songs. Congratulations!
May
19, 2006
Galerie
der Stadt Backnang invited Jenny Scobel to have her first
solo show in Germany. Seventeen works are on display in six rooms, giving
a nice overview of her work from the nineties until present. The show
opened its doors today and will run until the end of July. To visit the
exhibition and the lovely city, first check: www.backnang.de
When you are in the neighbourhood you can always stop in Stuttgart to
see a selection of drawings of Michaël Borremans
at the Württembergischer Kunstverein: www.wkv-stuttgart.de
The
Ducht artist Kees Goudzwaard was invited in Lisbon (PT)
for a solo show at Culturgest, together with a group exhibition of ROMA
publications. At this group show you can see work by Mark Manders as well.
The opening of both shows started today with a lecture by Philippe Van
Cauteren and a poetry reading by Marijke Langelaar and others. Next to the exhibition a new catalogue is published on the work of Kees Goudzwaard. The book starts with views from his solo show at the S.M.A.K. in Ghent (BE) and gives us a closer look at Goudzwaard’s paintings.
For more information: www.culturgest.pt and www.romapublications.org
May
12, 2006
Today
the solo exhibition "Restoration" of Luc Tuymans
opened at Wako Works of Art in Tokyo (JP). The show includes new paintings
and drawings, all based on the same theme. The religious order of the
Jesuits (or Society of Jesus) inspired Tuymans to make for instance a
protrait of Saint Ignatius, an interior scene of the Saint Ignatius church
in Jihlava (Czech Republic) and a portrait of Santa Barbara. The show
stays on until the end of June.
More information on: www.wako-art.jp
In
the Fundaçao de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea in
Porto the work of Johannes Kahrs is on show, next to
the work of Havekost, Plessen and Sasnal. "Imagens em Pintura"
brings together the work of four painters, two of them grew up in countries
is the Eastern Block and two in Western Germany. They all started exhibiting
around 2000 and refer to different types of photographic models. Almost
20 works of each artist are included in the exhibition and are displayed
in the catalogue. Until the beginning of June you can see the work at
the Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto. www.serralves.pt
May
3, 2006
Dirk
Braeckman made a production for the NTG in Gent (BE) together
with the Belgium author and theatre producer Peter Verhelst. The production
“Chemisch Insect – Aankomst van de treinen” brings images
together that create a story on its own. Without words. The production
can be seen from May 2nd until May 13th. More information on: www.ntgent.be
and www.kingkong.be
(photo's: © Predrag Momcilovic)
Do
not forget to visit the Berlin Bienniale. The work of both Mark
Manders and Michaël Borremans received
already a lot of attention and will be up until the beginning of June.
For more information: www.berlinbiennale.de/
April
20, 2006
Today
Luc Tuymans received an honorary degree from the Antwerp
University. On April 20th Mr. Ernest Van Buynder presented the artist
in a speech and documented his words with images and sound. Luc Tuymans
received the honorary degree from the university of his hometown for general
merit. We want to congratulate him with this honorary doctorate.
April
8, 2006
John
Körmeling constructed the smallest covered bridge in the
world at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL) . His work “Echt iets
voor u” opened today and connects the Van Abbemuseum with a small
street in the back. The pink house is a real eye catcher and also at night
it gives the backside of the museum a sparkling shine.
April 2006
Welcome to our newspage. From now on we will keep you updated on a regular base about what is going on in the gallery and abroad.
At
this time we are very busy working to help venues around the world to
make interesting exhibitions.
The work by Johannes Kahrs for instance will be included
in a group show of international painters in Colecçao Fundaçao
de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto (PT). Together
with the work of Havekost, Sasnal and von Plessen almost 20 works will
be on show of him.
Also Luc Tuymans will have an exhibition in Colecçao
Fundaçao de Serralves, opening mid July. This solo show will bring
works together from all over the globe. New works on the other hand will
be exhibited in Japan at Wako Works of Art in Tokyo during May and June.
At the same time Kees Goudzwaard will have his solo show
in Culturgest, Lisbon (PT). Roma publications will produce a new book
on this emerging artist.
Within a few weeks the American female artist Jenny Scobel
will have her first solo show in Germany. For this exhibition in Galerie
der Stadt Backnang a small publication on her work was released some weeks
ago.
In June also Michaël Borremans’ solo show
in Maison Rouge (Paris) opens and the work of Dirk Braeckman
will be included in the group exhibition ‘ClickDoubleClick’
in BOZAR (Brussels), which already showed at Haus der Kunst in Munich
(DE).
And
what about the other artists?
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven is living and working in Berlin
at the moment. Within the framework of the D.A.A.D. (German Academic Exchange
Service) program she will be staying in Germany for one year. Within this
year she will have an exhibition and work closely with other artists from
different nationalities. The website: www.clubmoral.com/amvk/inberlin/
We received good news concerning Kim Jones, of whom we
had a great exhibition last month in our Zeno X Storage. His work will
be included in the Seville Biennial (ES) at the end of this year, curated
by Okwui Enwezor. Also this year Robert Storr and some other authors will
publish a large monograph on the life and work of Kim Jones.
Also Miriam Cahn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan
De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Yun-Fei
Ji, Maria Serebriakova, Patrick Van
Caeckenbergh and Cristof Yvoré are working
really hard to prepare other exhibitions around the globe and to make
sure we will have a great booth again this year during Art Basel. See
you there!