Rest your eyes and join the discussions raised by the curated tour of exhibitions and projects that complements this year’s Brussels Art Days.
Two panels will reassess the shifting roles of artists, galleries and institutions at once from a local and an international perspective.
Organisation: Caroline Dumalin and Helena Kritis
Programme:
►11:00 – 11:45: Galleries and the Economy of Conceptual Art
The first panel presents a historical take on the (critical) role of galleries in Brussels versus its periphery, and zooms in on a certain provincialism in the Conceptual art of the seventies. Artist-run space apes&castles was invited to elaborate on its near-institutional type of exhibition, based on the recently published book by art critic Laurence Pen Des stratégies obliques. Une histoire des conceptualismes en Belgique (Presses Universitaires de Rennes).
Speakers: Jacques Charlier and Laurence Pen
Moderated by: Koen Brams
In collaboration with: apes&castles
Spoken language: French
►11:45 – 12:00 Coffee break
►12:00 – 12:45 When Artists Make Institutions
The second panel is founded on Aleppo’s two-day programme of workshops and screenings titled The Use of the Use, which reflects on a certain return to order in the current political and artistic landscape. The focus, here, lies on an on-going global phenomenon in the visual and performing arts: the creation of institutions through artistic projects.
Speakers: Matteo Lucchetti, Marinella Senatore and Jozef Wouters
Introduction by: Daniel Blanga-Gubbay
In collaboration with: Aleppo
Spoken language: English
12:45 – 13:00 Q&A
