COLLECTION

DIEU EST UNE PIPE

Jacques Lennep
The work refers to Magritte’s famous painting. According to Lennep, the pipe represents a form for thinking. He also discusses the origin of Belgian contemporary art....

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - RÉPÉRAGE CAMBRIOLE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
A male voice-over suggests that video has made the life of furniture makers easier and safer. Pieces of furniture, alluminated by tracking lights, are being recorded....

SITUATION (1)

Hans Op de Beeck
A moving camera takes us along an endless row of cash registers in a desolate supermarket. The cashiers are waiting behind their empty desks and it’s quiet as a mouse… The contrast between the inert location on the one side, chaotic and lively in normal circumstances, and the moving camera on the other, makes this absurd sequence into a kind of dream image...

Disorient, Laurent Van Lancker, 2010 © the artist & producer

DISORIENT

Laurent Van Lancker - Florence Aigner
A polyphony of tales by migrants who return to their homeland after having lived abroad. Whether they are Vietnamese, Indian, Syrian, Iranian, Chinese, Pakistani, academics, contract workers, political refugees, businessmen or students, they all are confronted with a second exile: coming home...

THE BREECHES (1)

Messieurs Delmotte
A person – Messieurs Delmotte himself ? – stands with his back in front of the camera. He is wearing white, almost transparent underwear; the only part filmed is his mid section. Slowly something brown and sticky is filling the underpants. An early Dadaistic piece, definitely not suited for the faint of heart. Part one of two....

MARCEL BROODTHAERS °1924

Jef Cornelis
On September 27th 1968, the Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924 – 1976) opened his fictional Musée d’Art Moderne – Département des Aigles, Section XIXème Siècle (“Museum of Modern Art, Eagles Department, Section of the 19th Century”) in his house in Brussels, Rue de la Pépinière...

BONJOUR TRISTESSE

Robert Cash
Bonjour tristesse is a sober portrait of a couple of young men, smoking their cigarette. The viewer is left alone to construct a narrative to go along with the emotions their eyes reveal....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 44. SELF HELP

Steve Reinke
"I spent too much time worrying about the future..."...

YOURS,

Eva Giolo - Rebecca Jane Arthur - Katja Mater - Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan Efrat - Maaike Neuville
A group of artists are invited to be inspired by the work of the well-known, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, specifically her film News from Home (1976). The busy city of New York serves as the film’s main character. Meanwhile, we hear Akerman’s voice reading letters from her mother in Brussels...

OOG EN HAND ALS UITDRUKKING 01

Jef Cornelis
For the art programme 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' Cornelis made two essayistic television reports in 1972 about the use of hands and eyes in the visual arts, “a way to look and to communicate.” With regard to its form, 'Oog en hand als uitdrukking 01' ('Eye and hand as expression 01') is very free, certainly bearing in mind the television standards of the time...