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Artist duo Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys will represent Belgium at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. The project ‘MONDO CANE’ will be curated by Anne-Claire Schmitz (La Loge).
Jos de Gruyter (b. 1965) and Harald Thys (b. 1966) live and work in Brussels. They have formed an artist duo since the late 1980s. Their photos, installations, drawings, objects, performances and videos are permeated by black humour, (self-)reflection, overlapping realities, fiction and repressed history, and toy with ideas of superficiality and banality.
De Gruyter and Thys have exhibited their work in institutions such as Kunstverein München, Munich (2017); MoMA PS1, New York (2015); Raven Row, London (2015); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2014); M HKA, Antwerp (2013); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2010). They have also taken part in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2013 ‘Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace’, curated by Massimiliano Gioni. De Gruyter and Thys are represented by galerie dépendance, Brussels
Anne-Claire Schmitz (b. 1981, Belgium) is the founding director and curator of La Loge, a Brussels-based non-profit space that started its activities in 2012. Since its opening La Loge has developed projects with Sophie Nys, Roe Ethridge & Zin Taylor, Kate Newby, Peter Hutton, UP, Emily Wardill, Shana Moulton, Michael Beutler, Gareth Moore and Arvo Leo among others. Prior to this, she was a curator at Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, in Rotterdam. In 2012 WIELS invited her to co-curate, with Elena Filipovic, the exhibition Un-Scene II, a triennial project intended to present a panorama of the Belgian artistic scene. Alongside her work at La Loge, she was the Belgian consultant for Europe Europe a group show curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thomas Boutoux and Gunnar B. Kvaran and curator of Individual Stories – Collecting as portrait and methodology with Luca Lo Pinto and Nicolaus Schafhausen at Kunsthalle Wien. Recently she curated Les Bons Sentiments, the exhibition of the 19th Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize in Paris.
The jury consisted of Guillaume Désanges (curator and art critic), Anne Pontegnie (curator and art critic), Katerina Gregos (curator), Sébastien Ricou (gallerist), Bernard Marcelis (representative of the ‘Commission consultative des Arts plastiques’), Eva Wittocx (curator, among others of the Belgian Pavilion in 2017), Cis Bierinckx (curator).
In 2019 the French-speaking Community will be in charge of the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In the light of the partnership agreement for culture between the Flemish Community and the French-speaking Community, the selected project is a reflection of the collaboration between Belgium’s two largest communities.
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