Novità al Padiglione del Belgio

Image: (L) Hilde Teerlinck, Director of the Han Nefkens Foundation. (R) Francis Alÿs, Peshmerga embed, Mosul, 2016.

Director of the Han Nefkens Foundation Hilde Teerlinck will curate the work of artist Francis Alÿs for the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, both representing the region of Flanders within the Belgian Pavilion for the 2022 event.

"What does it mean to make art while cities such as Nimrud and Palmyra are being destroyed? If the logic of ISIS is 'destroy in order to exist' then does this mean that we must create in order to survive? Is art only a means with which to transcend the catastrophe of war?"  Francis Alÿs, 4 November 2016

From October to November 2016 Francis Alÿs was embedded as an artist with the Kurdish Army in Mosul, Iraq. Each day he recorded his impressions, notes and sketches in his diary. Since then he has returned seven times to Iraq. Alÿs’ oeuvre is characterised by his integrity and respect for the communities and people depicted within his works, who struggle every day for survival and with whom he feels closely involved. He searches for those chance moments that balance between the banal, everyday life and a deeper consciousness of existence. These experiences are crystallised visually within his work. Alÿs was selected thanks to his unique artistic language, which he uses to communicate his personal experiences not documented in his journals.

Hilde Teerlinck and Francis Alÿs’ project proposal for the Belgian Pavilion within the context of The Venice Bienniale provides the perfect setting to frame the questions that arise within Alÿs’ work and can be seen as a case study that evokes the compelling role of the artist to reveal the invisible and the inexpressible. The presentation will be a tale of hope.

Francis Alÿs was born in 1959 in Antwerp and has lived in Mexico city since 1986. Hilde Teerlinck was born in 1966 in Bruges, and today lives and works in Barcelona where she is the Director of the Han Nefkens Foundation.

Jos de Gruyter e Harald Thys per il Belgio

Dal sito https://www.flandersartsinstitute.be

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.

Padiglione Belgio

Dirk Braeckman (°1958) has spent the past 25 years  gradually developing an impressive portfolio. Working with the medium of photography, he occupies a distinctive place within the visual arts.

He has taken part in numerous exhibition both nationally and internationally, such as recent solo shows at LE BAL (Paris), De Pont (Tilburg), De Appel (Amsterdam), S.M.A.K. (Ghent) and ROSEGALLERY (Santa Monica, CA). In Belgium, his work has recently been featured at BOZAR in Brussels (2013), at M – Museum Leuven (2011) and at Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp (2015).

Braeckman’s works are part of important private and public collections around the world, including in FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais (Dunkirk), Sammlung Goetz (Munich), De Pont (Tilburg) and Fondation Nationale d’Art Contemporain (Paris), Central Museum (Utrecht), and Musée d’Art Contemporain et Moderne (Strasbourg). There are also several publications on his artistic practice and oeuvre.

Dirk Braeckman per il Belgio

Per il Padiglione del Belgio è stato selezionato l’artista Dirk Braeckman, seguito dalla curatrice Eva Wittock.

Dal sito della galleria Rose 

Dirk Braeckman has been selected to represent Belgium for the forthcoming Venice Biennale in 2017.

The 57th Venice Biennale of Visual Arts will take place from 13 May until 26 November 2017. Belgium has in the Giardini, the center of the Biennial, a country pavilion that the Flemish Community can fill in a rotation with the French Community.

Dirk Braeckman was selected by a jury from a shortlist of five. The jury assessed the five proposals following an oral presentation of the artists and curators. All five proposals made a very strong impression despite they started from a very different artistic point of view.

Dirk Braeckman and curator Eva Wittocx convinced the jury with a strong personal story, in which the medium of photography is approached in a unique way. The experiment of Dirk Braeckman the process of photography and the techniques of darkroom give his pictures an exceptional pictorial quality. The work is very authentic and with a high sensuality. The arrangement in the Belgian pavilion, which lends itself perfectly for this strengthens the whole.

Vincent Meessen al Padiglione Belga

Il sito Normal ci informa sul prossimo progetto di Vincent Meessen l'artista belga che porterà un progetto fra situazionismo e architettura. 

Press release

Personne et les autres - Vincent Meessen and guests

The Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale will present the work of the Belgian artist Vincent Meessen, together with international guest artists. The title of the exhibition, Personne et les autres, is borrowed from a lost play by André Frankin, a Belgian art critic affiliated with the Lettrist and Situationist Internationals. The exhibition takes the history of the Belgian Pavilion and the international context of the Biennale (both derived from the colonial exhibitions and world expositions) as its points of departure. The Belgian Pavilion itself was the first foreign Pavilion to be built in the Giardini in Venice, during the reign of King Leopold II. Meessen’s work and artistic research have consistently explored the history and afterlife of colonial modernity.

The artist’s project, selected to represent Belgium at the Biennale, moves away from the traditional format of a solo show and opens up to include multiple positions and voices. Working in close collaboration, Meessen and Brussels-based curator Katerina Gregos have developed a thematic exhibition and invited a dozen international artists to participate. Bringing together artists from the Americas, Africa, and Asia as well as Europe, whose practice is research-based, Personne et les autres challenges traditional notions of national representation at the Venice Biennale. The exhibition aims to reflect upon the legacy of internationalism—understood as the labour-movement theory inspired by Marxism and libertarian socialism, grounded in revolutionary processes, and advocating international solidarity—as a global emancipatory project. 

Personne et Les Autres challenges the Eurocentric idea of modernity by examining a shared avant-garde heritage, marked by an artistic and intellectual cross-pollination between Europe and Africa. The exhibition probes the unknown micro-histories and revisits a range of hybrid cultural and intellectual forms produced as a result of colonial encounters.
Central to the exhibition concept is a new work by Vincent Meessen filmed in Kinshasa. This piece will explore the largely unknown participation of Congolese intellectuals within the last international vanguard of modernity: the Situationist International, whose final conference took place in Venice in 1969. Belgium’s colonial history and its strategic role in the Situationist International—through key figures such as Raoul Vaneigem—form a crucial backdrop in understanding 20th-century political and artistic avant-gardes in Europe. In exploring this aspect of the Situationist International, Meessen’s work will uncover hidden episodes in the interrelated histories of art, popular music and activism.

Personne et les autres focuses not on the colonial history of Congo and Belgium as such, but on colonial modernity and its ongoing relation to artistic and intellectual radicalism. Exploring both adverse and positive cultural outcomes of colonial history, the exhibition reveals artistic and intellectual dialogues under colonization, during liberation struggles and especially in the aftermath of independence

Participating artists, include, among others:

Mathieu K. Abonnenc (b. 1977, French Guyana; lives and works in Metz)

Sammy Baloji (b. 1978, Democratic Republic of Congo; lives and works in Lumumbashi and Brussels)

James Beckett (b. 1977, Zimbabwe; lives and works in Amsterdam)

Elisabetta Benassi (b. 1966, Italy; lives and works in Rome)

Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin (b. 1971, France; b. 1972, Belgium; live and work in Nantes)

Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj (b. 1967, Brazil; b. 1976, Denmark; live and work in Copenhagen)

Maryam Jafri (b. 1972, Pakistan; lives and works in Copenhagen and New York)

Adam Pendleton (b. 1984, USA; lives and works in New York)

The official representation of Belgium at the 56th International Art Exhibition – Biennale di Venezia is commissioned by Wallonia-Brussels Federation and Wallonia-Brussels International,with additional support from Eeckman Art Insurance. It is organized by the non-profit association Normal asbl. Curator: Katerina Gregos. Exhibition design: Lhoas & Lhoas. Graphic identity: Speculoos. Catalogue design & distribution: Mousse. Exhibition manager: Monique Verhulst. Co-ordinator of Karawane, project research seminar at ERG - école de recherche graphique, Brussels: Lotte Arndt. 

 

Selezione Belga 2015

La Communauté française a le privilège de représenter la Belgique  lors de la Biennale de Venise 2015. De juin à novembre 2015, la Communauté française occupera ainsi le  Pavillon belge des Giardini. Le marché consiste en la représentation de la Communauté française   et plus précisément en l’occupation du Pavillon belge des Giardini au moyen d’un projet   artistique inédit d’un artiste plasticien, obligatoirement associé à un commissaire d’exposition de son   choix, lors de la Biennale de Venise de 2015. / ITALIE

 

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PROCEDURE

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Les offres doivent parvenir au pouvoir adjudicateur pour le   21/02/2014 à 14h au plus tard à Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles A l’attention d’Annie Lahure - Service des Arts Plastiques – Boulevard Léopold II, 44 1080 BRUXELLES.

 

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Après la Communauté flamande en 2013, la Fédération Wallonie-  Bruxelles a le privilège  de représenter la Belgique lors de la Biennale de Venise 2015.

Un marché public visant à la sélection d’un artiste plasticien,   associé à un commissaire d’exposition de son choix, et de son projet artistique et organisationnel d’occupation du   pavillon belge des Giardini lors de la Biennale 2015 a été lancé le 20 décembre   2013.

 

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On line il sito Berlinde De Bruyckere

http://www.belgianpavilion.be/

Da ieri è on-line il sito del Padiglione Belga, uno dei più attesi con il lavoro di Berlinde De Bruyckere

For the Belgian Pavilion in Venice, De Bruyckere has conceived a new site-specific installation that builds upon her existing oeuvre but derives its potency from connections to the historical context of Venice. She has invited acclaimed writer J.M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, to serve as curator and artistic collaborator. De Bruyckere and Coetzee have followed one another’s work for years.

Dettagli dal Belgio con Berlinde De Bruyckere e J.M. Coetzee

Ecco il progetto del Belgio che aveva scelto Berlinde De Bruyckere affiancata dallo scrittore J.M. Coetzee. 

Ecco il comunicato stampa: 

Berlinde De Bruyckere regularly exhibits her work in major museums and other institutions in Belgium and abroad. There is currently an exhibition of her work at the Kunsthaus and the St Dominikus Kapel in Graz (Austria). In 2012 she had solo exhibitions at Arter in Istanbul, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts (ACCA), Melbourne, and a dialogue exhibition with the work of the deceased artist Philip Vandenberg at Stichting De Pont in Tilburg (The Netherlands). In 2011 she was invited to show work at the Kunstmuseum Bern (Switzerland), the DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art in Montreal, and the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg in Halle (Germany).

For her participation in the Venice Biennale, Berlinde De Bruyckere will be entering into an unusual form of cooperation with the author J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who will be the curator of the exhibition. He will not perform the traditional task of an artistic curator, but will act as a source of inspiration and a partner in dialogue. He is also closely involved in compiling the exhibition catalogue. Berlinde De Bruyckere and John Coetzee have admired each other’s work for years. In 2012 they published the book Allen Vlees (All Flesh), which combined her images with his writings. Their collaboration in Venice is a logical extension of this previous successful project.

In addition to J.M. Coetzee, Berlinde De Bruyckere has also asked Philippe Van Cauteren to be co-curator. He has been the artistic director of S.M.A.K., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, since 2006. Under his directorship the museum has held major monographic exhibitions by Lois Weinberger, Kendell Geers, Paul McCarthy, Mark Manders, Dara Birnbaum, Jorge Macchi, Nedko Solakov, and Joachim Koester, as well as exhibitions in the public space like TRACK. Philippe Van Cauteren is currently working on a retrospective of the work of Berlinde De Bruyckere, which will be shown at the S.M.A.K. in 2014 and at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague (The Netherlands).

S.M.A.K., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent is responsible for organising the Pavilion of Belgium at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.

The official catalogue of the Belgian presentation will be published by Mercatorfonds. It includes contributions by J.M. Coetzee, Philippe Van Cauteren, Herman Parret, professor emeritus at the Higher Institute of Philosophy at Leuven University (Belgium), and Berlinde De Bruyckere.

Commissioner: Joke Schauvliege, Flemish Minister of Environment, Nature and Culture

Curator: J.M. Coetzee, novelist, essayist, literary critic, linguist, translator

Co-curator: Philippe Van Cauteren, artistic director of S.M.A.K., the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent 

Organizer: S.M.A.K., the Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent

Joke Schauvliege, the Flemish Minister for Environment, Nature and Culture, appointed Berlinde De Bruyckere to be the Belgian representative at the 55th Venice Biennale of visual art. The Minister chose Berlinde De Bruyckere because of her profound human commitment as an artist; because she has a consistent oeuvre that is still in the midst of development and has the power to transform her participation in the Biennale into a lasting international career.

Berlinde De Bruyckere (b. 1964, Ghent) draws and creates sculptures in an individual and expressive visual idiom that is highly physical. Such elements as vulnerability, mortality and solitude are threads running through her oeuvre. De Bruyckere uses the bodies of horses, and trees and human and animal bodies cast in wax, which she then shows in a twisted or damaged state. She takes inspiration from literature and film history, but in her sculptural work also displays a great affinity for such old masters as Lucas Cranach and Antonello da Messina.

Padiglione Belga trovato il curatore..

Pare che la realizzazione del Padiglione del Belgio sia definizione, con un nome di prestigio, attualmente l’artista invitato Berlinde De Bruyckere sta trattando con J.M. Coetzee, noto scrittore sudafricano, per la curatela.

Belgio Berlinde De Bruyckere

Schauvliege Joke, ministro fiammingo dell'ambiente, natura e cultura,  ha annunciato che il Belgio sarà rappresentato dall'artista Berlinde De Bruyckere (nato a Gand nel 1964).

L'artista recentemente ha visto il premio dell'arte fiammingo nel 2009, lavora con la galleria Hauser & Wirth  

Comunicato stampa 

The Flemish Minister for Environment, Nature and Culture, Joke Schauvliege, has nominated Berlinde De Bruyckere to represent Belgium at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.

Berlinde De Bruyckere (°1964, Ghent) lives and works in Ghent. In February 2010, she received the Flemish Culture Prize 2009 for Visual Arts. De Bruyckere's sculptures, installations and drawings set out to embody the world's great stories. The forms and materials she uses are consistently selected for their metaphorical power. For several years now, she has been constructing a highly personal vocabulary, in which a refined vision of the melancholy relationship with the world and the things in it has gradually risen to the surface.

De Bruyckere can count on a growing international interest. An exhibition putting her work in dialogue with the work of the deceased artist Philippe Vandenbergh is currently running at Museum De Pont in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Last week, she presented her work within a dance performance, a coproduction with Romeu Runa, at the St James's Church Southwood Garden, London. Last summer, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne showed an impressive exhibition of her work. Next autumn, De Bruyckere will show her work in Beijing, China.

... e per il Belgio

Per il Padiglione Belga alla 54ma Biennale di Venezia è stato scelto l’artista Angel Vergara, artista multimediale, con curatore il noto pittore Luc Tuymans.

L’artista presenterà un progetto intitolato Feuilleton ispirato al tema dei sette peccati capitali.

Padiglione Belgio storia / history

Accanto c’è quello del Belgio un edificio alquanto semplice e lineare progettato da Léon Sneyers nel 1907, rinnovato completamente nel 1948 da Virgilio Vallot, fu il primo Padiglione Nazionale realizzato ai giardini.


2013 — Berline de Bruyckere (Curatore: John Maxwell Coetzee)
2011 — Angel Vergara (Curatore: Luc Tuymans)
2009 — Jef Geys (Curatore: Dirk Snauwaert)
2007 — Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen (Curatore: Moritz Küng)
2005 —
2003 —
2001 — Luc Tuymans
1999 —
1997 —
1995 —
1958 — Jules Lismonde (fr) (winner of the Renato Carrain Prize)
1948 — Louis Buisseret