COLLECTION

INSTRUMENT VOOR ÉÉN LIED

George Smits
In the course of his life George Smits made all sorts of experimental musical instruments, often from metal, polystyrene and bamboo. Smits’ constructions frequently transcended the status of instrument: on many occasions they almost filled the entire space (of the gallery) and thus they were more like a sculpture...

VOMIT STAR

Steve Reinke - John Marriott
In 1997, John Marriott proposed ’Vomit Star’, a six-foot star constructed from fake vomit, for his solo exhibition at the Power Plant Toronto. The project was rejected, regrets lingered. “Marriott and Reinke demonstrate the affirmative value of domestic voodoo in this descent into crime-scene-glitter-porn (which is presumably one word in German)...

A PEE, A POOP, A PLATE, PARADISE (HEIDI IN DREAMLAND)

Ken Kobland
…the dog in dreamland? Or is it me?...

FRON'T

Charley Case
“Democracy with a military brain is the same thing as art without a brain. In the world of political twilight, where art along with life loses its place, war is imposed as a natural catastrophe because "there is no other solution"...

MAX BILL

Jef Cornelis
Max Bill, an artist who worked with plastics and member of the Swiss ’Zurich Concrete’ group, spent many years investigating mathematical abstractions – and sculpting, in his way, another life. "Is it necessary to say that a mathematical approach to art has nothing to do with any ingenious system of calculation based on ready-made formulas?" he wrote in 1949...

DREAMACHINE

Edith Dekyndt
Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville conceived the Dreamachine at the beginning of the 60’s. It is the first object in history conceived to be viewed with closed eyes. The Dreamachine makes it possible to go down in Alpha brain waves, while remaining awake...

Leçon de Vie, 1995, Boris Lehman © the artist

LEÇON DE VIE

Boris Lehman
This film consists of poetic and philosophical variations on the theme of Paradise lost, or the loss of innocence necessary to reach a state of knowing. Here, a selection of men, women and children try to converse alone with nature, with water, the sky, flowers, trees, insects.....

BED

Johan Grimonprez
‘Bed’ is an interactive installation, consisting of a continuous projection of an empty bedroom projected on the wall of a house or a building. The scale is almost 1:1 with respect to real life size, creating the illusion as if one is actually looking through a window in the wall of a house...

MONSIEUR EZIO BUCCI, SUPPORTER

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

SOUTH CIRCULAR

Mónica de Miranda
South circular first shows us two women, in the shadow of nondescript ruins over the Tagus river in Lisbon...