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Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Elen Braga, Che Go Eun, Laura Puska, Robert Soroko, Anya Tsyrlina & Sid Iandovka, Philippe Vandenberg, Sophie Varin, Bert Villa.
Gates (might) open soon
09/07/2021 — 17/07/2021
Gates (might) open soon explores the socio-cultural phenomenon of the festival and its various manifestations. Traditionally understood as celebrations that include rituals and ceremonies, festivals also question social hierarchies and produce ephemeral communities based on sharing. Offering both escapism and liberation, festivals open the gates to a flow of emotions, revealing the sensual, spontaneous, and even darker sides of human nature.
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Hahaha. The Humor of Art
15/09/2021 — 16/01/2022
“Nothing is serious enough to take seriously” Marcel Duchamp.
A bottle of wine, a snow shovel, a sentence, a urinal… They don't seem that special. Who could have thought that they would be the start of an artistic revolution and completely change how we see art? And most importantly, that this change started in the middle of the First World War? Discover our new exhibition: Hahaha. The Humor of Art.
Artistic revolution
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Hall & Tea Room
It Never Ends – Bureau Barbier Bouvet
24/09/2020 — 25/04/2021
For It Never Ends, John M Armleder proposed to Bureau Barbier Bouvet – a studio founded by French, Swiss trained, Brussels based artist and designer Stéphane Barbier Bouvet – to conceive the spatial strategy for the entrance hall, the welcome desk of the Showroom, and the Café / Tea Room around which the Level 0 of the exhibition is organized.
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Big Bird (Homage to Caroll Spinney)
IT NEVER ENDS – Domenico Battista, Thomas Downing, Olivier Mosset
18/03/2021 — 25/04/2021
John M Armleder has always had a passion both for the beauty and strangeness of popular culture and for the visual radicalism of geometric abstraction. This exhibition once more shows how the artist connects the worlds of childhood and abstract painting, of humour and conceptual rigour. And yet the title of this exhibition should not mislead visitors: it refers only obliquely to Caroll Spinney, actor and puppeteer of the children’s TV series Sesame Street throughout the 1970s, who died in 2019.
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Homage to George Maciunas and Dick Higgins
It Never Ends – Flux Boxes and Intermedial Objects
04/02/2021 — 07/03/2021
In the 60s and 70s, a host of figures from within the Fluxus galaxy, under the impetus of the artist George Maciunas, produced Flux Boxes: this limited series contained all kinds of objects - miniature works, musical scores, poems, etc. and were sold at low prices thus fulfilling the goal of rendering art that was meant to be democratic and internationalist accessible to all.
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It Never Ends – Sylvie Fleury
04/02/2021 — 25/04/2021
The Swiss artist, a major figure on the international stage since the 1990s, relentlessly creates hybrids of art, fashion and counterculture in her fascinating, ever-evolving oeuvre. For It Never Ends, she presents a huge mushroom in gold resin, which glows in the industrial space of level 2 of the KANAL Showroom.
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It Never Ends – Christian Marclay
04/02/2021 — 07/03/2021
Christian Marclay’s work which stands at the crossroads of visual arts and sound, has focused since the late 1970s on the connection between music, objects, films, and images. Organised around two major works by the London-based Swiss American artist that were produced two decades apart, this exhibition reveals the artist's continued focus on the musical symbols present in our everyday lives, like the many calls to act out our existence.
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None of the Above, 2004 – 2020
24/09/2020 — 27/12/2020
For this exhibition, John M Armleder invited around 50 artists from all over the world to present a work of art either no bigger than a postage stamp, or one that is immaterial: the result is an exhibition in which the works are either there to be discovered, or they are invisible.
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”””CHARLEWORLDSSS CREATORSSS CARILLONNN”””””
It Never Ends – Charlemagne Palestine
24/09/2020 — 25/04/2021
The unclassifiable artist, pioneering musician and tireless experimenter Charlemagne Palestine will install a monumental carillon on the ground floor of the Showroom for a period of seven months. Based in Brussels, this leading figure of the American avant-garde proposes to activate this invasive installation regularly on the occasion of hypnotic concerts.
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Loyalty Doesn’t End with Death
It Never Ends – Genesis (Breyer) P-Orridge
18/03/2021 — 25/04/2021
An artist who pushes out limits, a cult figure, originally part of the industrial music scene, a public figure committed to the gender battle, Genesis P-Orridge died in New York in March 2020. For 50 years she maintained an artistic correspondence with John M Armleder, who wanted to dedicate an exhibition to her.