Latest Events in Ixelles(October Updated)

Almine Rech Brussels presents “The Light Between Us,” Sylvia Ong's first solo exhibition with the gallery.

The 9th Brussels Photo Festival opened on January 23, 2025. This year's festival will feature a total of 46 exhibitions and events, with hundreds of artists presenting in galleries, art centers, institutions, private or public spaces. Highlights include, but are not limited to: the group exhibition "AImagine: Photography and generative images" held at Hanger, which re-examines the image of artificial intelligence in photography through 18 photography projects and proposes the possibility of re-imagining historical events and figures; Stieglitz 19 focuses on photographer Anders Petersen and his fragments of life in Naples. His avant-garde, strongly cropped black and white photos do not try to understand the chaos of the city, but tell the true face of the city, full of personality and atmosphere; in Galerie Eric Mouchet, European audiences can enjoy Eikoh Hosoe's masterpiece "The Rose", a series of works dedicated by the artist to novelist Yukio Mishima. Born in 1933, Eikoh Hosoe is the godfather of Japanese photography. His works are famous for exploring themes such as death, the human body, desire, and irrationality, and he has always been interested in the dialogue between Eastern and Western cultures.

Almine Rech Brussels presents 'In my cloud (NO birds)', Jenny Brosinski's third solo exhibition with the gallery.

Since the late 1980s, Janet Werner has focused her artistic practice exclusively on portraits. She paints women in all their conditions and assigned roles. Previously, she painted from her imagination, but since 2016 she has changed her approach by using photos from fashion magazines. These glossy images are then transposed to the canvas. Janet Werner's objective in painting from photos is to make the photos disappear. She says: “I've been wrestling with the photograph all along because I don't like what it signifies and I don't like how it makes forms.” (1) The artist relentlessly strives to deconstruct the photographic image by merging it with painterly gestures and layers of paint. She adds: “I often have to destroy a portrait when it gets too photographic. I get angry and start undoing the portrait, removing or altering features, messing with the paint, in the process of which something else comes through. The closet expressionist in me comes out and I'm generally much more satisfied with the result.” Like collages, her compositions are designed as hybrid forms where two sequences are brought together on the canvas. For instance, we see a swampy landscape and the portrait of a witch, or an indoor plant and half of a version of Mademoiselle Rivière (1805) by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Oblique or direct references to the history of Western painting—Picasso or Munch, Watteau or Gainsborough —find their way into her compositions. This profound relationship to the history of painting allows her to give a new role to another classical pictorial genre: the landscape. Werner explains: “In this show, the study of the landscape in relation to the figure is new. Introducing landscape spaces reflects a desire to address forces that are bigger than the individual figure, a preoccupation with the unknown, and with forms that are in some sense infinite and hard to grasp in concrete terms.” (2)

Almine Rech Brussels presents 'Jungle Jungle Jungle,' Kenny Scharf's fourth solo show with the gallery.It's always best to start at the beginning