COLLECTION

IJSBREKER 04: KUNST TE KOOP

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Anton Stevens - Jackie Claeys
The television programme ‘Ijsbreker’ always undertakes an expedition into the most dangerous areas of the cultural icy mountain ranges, reeling about this time between the peaks of visual art and the hidden iceberg of art trade, the gallery circuit, art criticism and museum policy...

A LA MER

Emilio López-Menchero
In a calm and romantic landscape, Emilio López-Menchero stands on his portable and human scaled monument that consisted of two concrete shoe leathers. The artist faces the North Sea and records the passing of time....

MUET COMME UNE CARPE

Boris Lehman
From pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. Carp stuffed ‘in the Polish fashion’, also called in yiddish ‘Gefilte Fish’ is a traditional dish eaten by Ashkenazi Jews. It is cooked, sweetened and served as a cold dish at the start of the meal...

YESTERDAY IN CITY PLANNING

Andrea Geyer
’Yesterday in City Planning’ - part of Geyer’s series of ’One-Minute Videos’ - shows the hands of a designer or architect in action – scale ruler and propelling pencil at the ready...

L'Atelier - Le Public, 2008, Mira Sanders © the artist

L'ATELIER

Mira Sanders
In ’L’Atelier (extrait)’, Mira Sanders brings together a set of imaginary figures personifying an audience in a scale model of a theatre space as if it were a micro-society. This is the first work in which Mira Sanders introduced human figures...

CHUTE D'UNE CHAISE

Michel François
This video shows us a chair falling down a staircase. It bumps and breaks. This gesture poses the artistic act as one of mutilation. Defacing everyday objects in this way alters the way in which we perceive them....

VASE DE NOCES

Thierry Zéno
A solitary man living in an abandoned farmhouse. His territory are the four elements: earth, water, air and fire. He tenderly loves a sow. Three little piglets are born out of their union. He unsuccessfully attempts to wean them, but they continue to run back to their mother. Knitted goods, feeding bottles, family meals? Death is wandering about. The man hangs the piglets, the sow commits suicide...

REIGN OF SILENCE

Lukas Marxt
A static shot shows part of a landscape, a serene body of water in front of a mountain. A motorboat enters the picture from the right, obeying the directions sent by radio and forming a spiral in the water´s surface. The boat then turns to the left and leaves the scene; solely its wake is visible for a time. Reign of Silence records a human intervention in nature...

IN LIMBO

Simon Arazi
A satirical homage to contemporary propaganda doctrine, this film consists entirely of intercepted American satellite feeds: unfiltered and raw live-footage of news as well as corporate and governmental broadcasts, destined for the employees and trainees of multinational companies and law enforcement institutions...

23 STOREYS

Ilona Ruegg
'23 Storeys’ refers to the 23 levels of the Tour Centrale, also known as the 'Lotto Building’ in Brussels. At the time of the shooting, the building was completely empty. The camera first moves from the 5th level up the fire escape escape and then down from the 23rd floor through the empty corridors and rooms, always using the elevator from floor to floor, down to the 6th...