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International studio visits + Performance Irina Jasnowski Pascual + Lecture Christian Vindelev
26 _ 27 _ 28 _ 29 /10 / 2023 Hasselt _ Brussels
Public program Thursday 26 / 10 / 2023
free _ no registration needed
Late Lunch Lecture with Christian Vindelev
Christian Vindelev is a Copenhagen-based artist and curator. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2022, and co-founded the artist-run exhibition space Simian in 2020. His curatorial practice revolves around the programming of Simian, showcasing emerging artists as well as established artist, from different artistic positions, with the aim of producing experimental and engaging exhibitions.
Thursday 26/10/2023 19h00
VONK_Veldeman, Kempische Kaai 85, 3500 Hasselt
Performance Irina Jasnowski Pascual
Irina Jasnowski Pascual (b. 1989, Spain) is an interdisciplinary artist based between New York and Brussels. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2017. Her sculptural studio practice extends into video and performance, collaborating to produce experimental sonic theatre and public access television. Her work has been shown at Kai Matsumiya (NY), Les Urbaines (CH), Interstate Projects (NY), Etablissement d'en Face (BE), Spectacle Theatre (NY), and Kunsthal Extra City (BE). www.irinajp.com
Thursday 26/10/2023 20h00
VONK_Veldeman, Kempische Kaai 85, 3500 Hasselt
Studio Visitors
Christian Vindelev
Christian Vindelev is a Copenhagen-based artist and curator. He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2022, and co-founded the artist-run exhibition space Simian in 2020. His curatorial practice revolves around the programming of Simian, showcasing emerging artists as well as established artist, from different artistic positions, with the aim of producing experimental and engaging exhibitions.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is an art historian, curator, and writer based in New York. He received his PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2021. His writing has appeared in BOMB, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, whitehot magazine, and on artforum.com, among others. He has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art, the International Studio & Curatorial Program, and Dia Art Foundation. He was Assistant to the Curator of the 59th Venice Biennale and is currently Curatorial Assistant at the New Museum.
Nadja Quante
Nadja Quante has been Artistic Director and Curator at the Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany, since 2018, where she realized solo exhibitions with Rodrigo Hernández, Jimmy Robert, Nona Inescu, Irina Gheorghe, Dafna Maimon and Jef Geys, among others.
Previously, she worked as a freelance curator, author, and editor, realized collaborative projects with institutional archives, taught at Leuphana University of Luneburg and
had different positions as curatorial assistant/project manager and interim managing director at the Badischer Kunstverein, where she collaborated on exhibitions with Nancy Holt, Marianne Wex, Stephen Willats, and Miriam Cahn, among others.
Adriënne van der Werf
Adriënne van der Werf (1991, NL) is a curator living and working in Middelburg (NL) and Ghent (BE). She is currently assistant curator and curator at Vleeshal center for contemporary art. In the past, she obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in art science from Ghent University. In 2022, she completed the postgraduate curator degree at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Ghent (KASK). Since 2018, she has developed several projects focusing on performative aspects of artistic and curatorial practices. In the past, she (co-)curated Etcetera (2018-2019), Maintenance (2019), Enter Through The Void, Exit Through The Gift Shop (2020) and Tarot editions (2021). She is also one of the four initiators and curators of Publiek Park, a nomadic exhibition project that takes place every two years.
Laurens Otto
Laurens Otto is curator at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (MDD) in Belgium. Recent exhibitions for MDD include The Absence of Mark Manders (2023), Fruits of Labour (2023), Magali Reus—On Like Scenery (2022); Blindsight—Manon de Boer in dialogue with Latifa Laâbissi and Laszlo Umbreit (2022), Terre Thaemlitz— Interstices (2021) and Luca Frei—working spacing moving (2021). Laurens Otto has worked as curator at Het HEM, Zaandam, the Netherlands (2019–20), associate curator at Human Activities, Lusanga, DR Congo (2016–19) and assistant curator at Council, Paris, France (2015–16). He is the founder of RESOLUTION Magazine, a print magazine that explores the impact of the digital image. He is the editor of Manon de Boer & Latifa Laâbissi— Another Ghost Party (Walther König, 2023), and managing editor of Critique in Practice. Renzo Martens’ Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (Sternberg Press, 2019).
Brenda Guesnet
Brenda Guesnet (b. 1993, Bad Soden am Taunus, Germany) is Curator and Deputy Director at IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen, in the Germany-speaking community of Belgium since 2021. Previously, she worked in the Artist Liaison department at White Cube, London (2017 - 2020) and as Curatorial Assistant at Tenderpixel Gallery (2016 - 17), London, after completing an MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London (2015 - 17). Since 2015, she has been pursuing independent curatorial and writing projects, frequently as part of the curatorial collaboration ANGL.
Koen Leemans
Koen Leemans is director at Keteleer Gallery. Koen Leemans, who studied history at KU Leuven, is mostly known for his outstanding curatorial work at De Garage when he was the director at Cultuurcentrum Mechelen for over 24 years, and at Museum Hof van Busleyden, but also for his expansive knowledge of art history, his distinctive insight into today’s art world and for his heartfelt enthusiasm. As the gallery’s new director, Koen Leemans’ fresh pair of eyes and unique set of ideas will undoubtedly result in exciting new exhibitions and collaborations. Leemans’ first contribution, a duo exhibition by Ricardo Brey and Lois Weinberger, is set to open on March 4th, 2023 at our Antwerp gallery.
Harald Thys
Harald Thys has collaborated with Jos De Gruyter since the second half of the 1980s on visual work, work on paper, videos and sound art. Their work casts a merciless glance at reality. Through videos, installations, drawings, sculptures, performances and photography, the artists shape their imagination of the parallel world, how it lives in the contemporary human psyche and how it manifests itself in the everyday and in social conformism. Stories surrounding labor, leisure, family, social class, masculinity and marginalization are portrayed by a cast of non-professional actors, family members, friends, beards, objects and puppets, often in banal interiors loaded with disturbed power relations.
Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys represented Belgium at the 2019 Venice Biennale, where they transformed the Belgian Pavilion into a folklore museum displaying the human figure with the exhibition MONDO CANE.
