Art Brussels

Inside + outside Art Brussels, along with Girls Heart Brussels + Independent Brussels, Apr 19 – 23

20 April 2017

The 35th edition of Art Brussels is on at the Belgian capital’s Tour & Taxis landmark building opens April 21 to 23.

The 2017 art fair will be host to 145 galleries, and is divided into sections which include Discovery (young and emerging), Prime (established modern and contemporary artists), Rediscovery (art work spanning from 1917 to 1987, including both living and deceased artists) and Solo presentations, which offer an in depth approach to viewing an artist’s practice.

There are a number of other events happening outside of the art fair that we recommend, including Indpendent Brussels, running April 19 to 23, and the fifth edition of Girls Heart Brussels that focuses solely on “lesbian, queer and feminist initiatives.”

Some of our recommendations include:

–  Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) premieres film Brussels (2016) at Les Brigittines, Apr 21
– Miaux live performance at Les Brigittines, Apr 22
Aline Bouvy gives a guided tour of Maison Grégoire, Apr 23

Indpendent Brussels

– Carlos/Ishikawa London presents work by Issy Wood & Darja Bajagić
– Levy Delval presents works by Cheryl Donegan, Alex Morrison and Mohamed Namou
– Exile presents a solo presentation of new work by Nathalie Du Pasquier

See the Art Brussels website for the full programme and more details.**

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Art Brussels 2016, Apr 22- 24

18 April 2016

From Discovery to Rediscovery is the titular theme of this year’s Art Brussels fair, which is on at the large former industrial building, Tours & Taxis, running April 22 – 24

This year the organisers have decreased the size of the fair by about 50 galleries, promising quality over quantity, and have opened up a strand titled ‘Rediscovery‘ —dedicated to art from the 20th century by artists who are either under-represented or have been forgotten about. In with the rediscovery will be the following, whose booths aqnb recommends to go and see if you are in the capital:

Piotr Łakomy, Leo Fitzmaurice and Tyra Tingleff @ Sunday Painter

Anahita Razmi @ State of Concept

Helen Johnson, Parker Ito and Cayetano FerrerChâteau Shatto

Grear Patterson @ Ellis King

Christine Sun Kim @ Carroll/ Fletcher

Yung Jake @ Steve Turner

Navid Nuur + Anne De Vries @ Martin van Zomeren

Josh Reams + Kate Steciw @ Evelyn Yard

Jonathan Monaghan, Quayola and Addie Wagenknecht at bitforms

At the same time, there is Independent —the smaller art fair that was founded in New York in 2010 is coming to Europe (and Brussels) for the first time —running April 20 to 23.

At Independent Brussels will be Lloyd Corporation at Carlos Ishikawa, Philipp Timischl and Stano Filko at Galerie Emanuel Layr, and Rachel de Joode at Christophe Gaillard. There’ll also be ÅYR, DIS, Ned Vena and Sean Steadman at Project Native Informant, and Caroline Achaintre, John Finneran and John Wallbank at Arcade, along with booths from Ellis King, Brand New Gallery, Château Shatto, Room East and Temnikova & Kasela.

There is also Deborah Bowmann at Poppositions, as well as YIA art fair starting on April 21. The latter being held in the LOUISE 186 building and in there we recommend Julien Langendorff‘s ‘Gutter Magic’.

Also happening in Brussels (no fair) and opening on April 19 running June 4 at Galerie Jeanroch Dard is a solo show by London-based artist Dominic Samsworth called Lounge Elopes and Oscar Tuazon’s General Contractor at  dépendance.

See the Art Brussels exhibition page for more details.**

Christine Sun Kim, too possessive for score (2015). Courtesy the artist
Christine Sun Kim, ‘too possessive for score’ (2015). Courtesy the artist.
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Art Brussels, Apr 25-27

11 April 2014

From April 25 to 27, Brussels will host the 32nd edition of its annual contemporary art fair, Art Brussels. A private, invitation-only preview will take place during the day on April 24, followed by a vernissage from 5pm to 10pm that night.

The sweeping art wait will host over 190 galleries from all over the world, featuring as many as 2,000 artists, ranging from those with international recognition to promising young talents showing at the fair for the first time. Each year, the fair’s visual campaign is entrusted to one artist, who will work to highlight the city of Brussels as an upcoming art city; this year, the honour falls of Brussels-based photographer Jimmy Kets

Portrait series. Jimmy Kets. Image courtesy artist.
Portrait series. Jimmy Kets. Image courtesy artist.

Amongst the 190 international galleries are Berlin’s Aanant & Zoo, Paris’s Galerie Samy Abraham, Brussels’s Alice Gallery, Riga’s Alma, as well as Amsterdam’s Galerie Paul Andriesse, each bringing in a few exceptional artists from their roster. **

For a complete list of galleries and artists participating, take a look at the official art fair lineup, and for the fair program, go here. To find out event details and contact information, visit the aqnb event listing. **

Image header: ‘V’ (2009) by Kris Salmanis. Image courtesy Alma Gallery. 

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