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Painting after Painting
Contemporary Painting in Belgium
Painting After Painting showcases the work of over seventy contemporary painters living and working in Belgium. Without striving for completeness, S.M.A.K. attempts to outline the recent developments and trends in the medium. Despite the many claims of its death, painting remains a thriving art form. Artists today draw on the motifs and techniques of the past, but equally explore and push the boundaries of the discipline. Some create narrative works addressing their daily lives, political and social issues, or questions of identity, gender and representation. Others adopt a more abstract or formalist language and explore the relationship with other contemporary image-making forms.
Painting After Painting aims to celebrate the depth and complexity of the medium painting. The exhibition is complemented by a richly illustrated catalogue, featuring essays by Dominic van den Boogerd and Tanja Boon. Furthermore, S.M.A.K. will transform Room 1 into a painting studio throughout the exhibition period, offering visitors, including groups and schools, an opportunity to express their own artistic creativity.
With works by: Michiel Ceulers, Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Libasse Ka, Hadassah Emmerich, Tatjana Gerhard, Lysandre Begijn, Marie Zolamian, Veerle Beckers, Matthieu Ronsse, Bart Stolle, Sarah Smolders, Nelleke Cloosterman, Vedran Kopljar (& ouders), Bendt Eyckermans, Kati Heck, Charline Tyberghein, Antoine Goossens, Frederik Lizen, Bram Demunter, Nel Aerts, William Ludwig Lutgens, Carole Vanderlinden, Tina Gillen, Vincent Geyskens, Felix De Clercq, Dieter Durinck, Kristof Santy, Michaël Van den Abeele, Anastasia Bay, Lisa Vlaemminck, Emmanuelle Quertain, Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Jannis Marwitz, Victoria Palacios, Leen Voet, Monika Stricker, Anna Zacharoff, Gijs Milius, Luís Lázaro Matos, Che Go Eun, Hannah De Corte, Julien Saudubray, Sanam Khatibi, Nokukhanya Langa, Henrik Olai Kaarstein, Natasja Mabesoone, Julien Meert, Aurélie Gravas, Pieter Vermeersch, Jonas Dehnen, Anne Van Boxelaere, Thom Trojanowski, Samuel Hindolo, Charlotte Vandenbroucke, Loïc Van Zeebroek, Helmut Stallaerts, Adam Leech, Louise Delanghe, Brieuc Dufour, Yann Freichels, Anthony Ngoya, Nina Gross, Jérôme Degive & Manuel Falcata, Karel Thienpont, Koen van den Broek, Mae Dessauvage, Ben Sledsens, Melissa Gordon, Diego Herman, Joëlle Dubois, Pieter Jennes, Nelson Louis, Stijn Cole.
Source: S.M.A.K. Press release
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Image credit:
Kati Heck, Zum Teufel, Positionen!, 2012. Oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm. Tim Van Laere Collection, Antwerp. Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp-Rome
Group show ELDORADO
With Lucile Bertrand, Céline Cuvelier, Diego Herman, Charlotte Quinonero, Barthélémy Toguo
Opening: Thursday 3 April 2025, 18:00-21:00
Location :
Chemin des Pins 13
B-1180 Uccle
The exhibition will be open :
Saturday 5th of April from 11:00 to 18:00
Sunday 27th of April from 11:00 to 14:00
Or by appointment :
joachim@kunstraum.art
valentinehimpens@gmail.com
+32 489 10 84 16
Closing event: Friday 16 May from 18:00 to 21:00
Photo:
Barthélémy Toguo
EINWANDERUNG, 2023
Wood, original bronze model
133 x 83 x 62 cm, bust: 53 x 43 x 28,5 cm
Edition of 3
Opening: Friday, 14th February 2025 at 19:00
in the presence of the artist
Curated by Gertrud Peters
Photo:
Melanie Loureiro, exhibition view, The Interconnectedness of Creatures, KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, 2025. Photo : © Ivo Faber
In the framework of the group exhibition "About Epic Myths", Nosbaum Reding is glad to invite you to the following event, a proposal by and in the presence of Xavier Mary, accompanied by Brenda Guesnet:
17:00 : Film Conan the Barbarian by John Milius (1982)
19:30 : Talk Do you wanna live forever with Brenda Guesnet, curator and deputy director of IKOB and the artist Xavier Mary (born 1982 in Liège, lives and works in Brussels)
Following a screening of the 1982 cult film Conan the Barbarian, artist Xavier Mary and curator Brenda Guesnet discuss cinematic myth-making and the industrial realities of Liège, Mary's hometown. They will explore how steel drives the narrative and philosophy of the film and how this resonates with the rise and decline of Liège's metal industry -- intersecting stories that inspire the core of Mary's artistic practice.
FREE ENTRY
Location :
Nosbaum Reding | Bruxelles
Rue de la Concorde, 60
1050 Brussels
About Brenda Guesnet:
Brenda Guesnet (b. 1993, Bad Soden am Taunus, Germany) is a curator with an institutional and an independent practice. She is based in Brussels, Belgium.
Since 2021, she is working as Curator and Deputy Director of IKOB – Museum für Zeitgenössiche Kunst in Eupen, in the German-speaking community of Belgium. At IKOB, she has curated solo exhibitions by Arthur Cordier, CMMC, Kristina Benjocki, Marcin Dudek, Veronika Eberhart, Francis Feidler, Helen Anna Flanagan, Alexandra Tretter, among others, as well as the group exhibitions “Eat the Rainbow”, “All our Yesterdays”, and the “IKOB – Feminist Art Prize”. She also curates and coordinates the museum's public and educational programmes, and produces the podcast ‘apropos'.
Brenda Guesnet has been realising independent curatorial projects since 2015, often as part of the collective ANGL. She is co-founder of celador, an independent space in Brussels. Recent independent projects include “The Fountain Show” at Kunsthal Mechelen, “Open M | Hidden in Plain Sight” at M Leuven and “garage” at celador. From 2025, she is the curator for Liebaert Projects, a private foundation for contemporary art in Kortrijk, Belgium.
Brenda Guesnet previously worked in the Artist Liaison department at White Cube (2017-2020) and as a curatorial assistant at Tenderpixel Gallery (2016-17), both in London, after completing an MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London (2015-17).
Text © Brenda Guesnet
Image: Xavier Mary, Group exhibition view, About Epic Myths, Nosbaum Reding Bruxelles, Brussels, 2024-2025. Photo: © Audrey Jonchères
Vous êtes cordialement invité(e) à la présentation du nouveau livre Stadtrand de Yann Tonnar.
Dimanche 1er décembre 2024 à 16:00
À la galerie
Nosbaum Reding | Luxembourg
4 rue Wiltheim
L-2733 Luxembourg
En présence de Yann Tonnar, qui partagera son travail et répondra à vos questions.
Nous serions ravis de vous y accueillir !
Yann Tonnar, Stadtrand
éd. Manufactura Pictures, Luxembourg, 2024
132 pages, 89 photos
Textes bilingues allemand / anglais : Hans Fellner, Martin Uhrmacher
Graphisme : Laurent Daubach
Avec le soutien de la Ville de Luxembourg et du Ministère de la Culture (Luxembourg)
Prix de vente: 39 €
Le livre est disponible à la galerie Nosbaum Reding, en librairie ou par envoi postal en s'adressant à info@manufacturapictures.lu