COLLECTION

WE WERE MADE FOR LOVING YOU, BABIES ! YOU WERE MADE FOR LOVING US !

Messieurs Delmotte
Registration of a performance by Messieurs Delmotte in Warsaw at the Galeria Sztuki, the 27th May 2011. As the title of the piece refers to the famous song ‘I was made for loving you’ by KISS, Delmotte wears make up very much like the leadsinger of this glamrock band...

Gand Nord, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

GAND NORD

Angel Vergara
Vergara filmed this piece looking northward over Ghent. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies an open catalogue of Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition which took place in Ghent in 1986. With a brush in his hand, he traces the images with gestures that suggest he is painting...

THE SIMPLE FACT OF NOT BEING A WOMAN (2)

Messieurs Delmotte
After having dressed up as some disco diva in ‘The Simple Fact of Not Being a Woman (1)’, Messieurs Delmotte poses in this early piece again frontally naked for the camera. This time, he is wearing a fake pair of rather explosive breasts…...

Adieu Rita, André S. Labarthe, 1987. Courtesy the Artist

ADIEU RITA

André S. Labarthe
André S. Labarthe pays tribute to Rita Hayworth, who died on May 1987 while television reports from the 40th Cannes Film Festival. This heartfelt goodbye evolves into a meditation about the situation of the cinema in the era of television’s cultural hegemony...

DE KUNSTBERG... STAD OP DE HELLING

Sven Augustijnen - Barbara Visser
A subterranean exploration of the Brussels Kunstberg/ Mont des Arts site. In the belly of the buildings, unexpected spaces testify of human activity. ’De Kunstberg... Stad op de helling’ was realised for the exhibition ’Stad op de helling, laboratorium voor de stad van morgen’ (City on a slope, laboratory for the city of tomorrow)....

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - LE PRÉSENTATEUR DE 20 CLIPS [20 X 30'']

Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman - Joëlle de La Casinière
A newscaster announces each of the different video clips of the series ’Video à la chaîne’ separately....

Brokenlight, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist

BROKEN LIGHT

Ria Pacquée
The image of a light that flashes on and off in the shower of a hotel room alternates with the image of a man parading in a ritualistic and outlandish procession, his face entirely covered with gold paint....

THE BIRDER

Grace Schwindt
The Birder focuses on fragility in a world driven by capitalist logic. In a capitalist society it is easy to forget that bodies are vulnerable and death does not seem to exist – until it happens...

BLACK BEHIND WHITE

Andreas Brehmer
In this video compilation, Brehmer toys around with words, images and sounds as in some sort of visual essay concerned with how we perceive things, how we describe them and how we deal with them. In order to understand what we see, a certain amount of belief in what we see is indispensable. Brehmer tests the associative imaginative powers of the spectator...

DANIEL BUREN (PALAIS ROYAL)

Jef Cornelis
For the installation Les Deux Plateaux (The Two Levels, 1985-1986), Daniel Buren (°1938) placed a grid of 260 black and white striped cylinders of different heights in the elegant courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris...