In Time
CURATED BY TIM GOOSSENS STEPHAN BALLEUX, DIRK BRAECKMAN, KOENRAAD DEDOBBELEER, EDITH DEKYNDT, PHILIP METTEN, WILLEM OOREBEEK, ELS OPSOMER, FABRICE SAMYN, PIETER VERMEERSCH The title of the exhibition is derived from a song by the late Leo Ferré, and the works included bear references to time: either in a formal time-based, performative way or in direct…
Sui generis
Derived from Roman law, sui generis is a term meaning “of its own kind”. It thus originally refers to a problem of legal taxonomy and is used to designate a case whose singularity is such that it cannot be classified in any of the categories already listed, thus necessitating the creation of specific texts. Inspired…
Oh you Pretty Things
This new body of work collapses images and time, speaking to concepts of existence and human nature, desire, fear, and attraction. Through these allegories that are disguised in adult fairy tales, Balleux attempts to produce a particular feeling created by the many layers and possible interpretations, haunting the imagination. Inspired by Belgian artist René Magritte,…
The Dust of the Meteors
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Alain Bashung’s album “l’Imprudence” which evokes with powerful poetry the feeling of impermanence. Using different types of mediums, he composes a path of relationship between the different pieces with new, recent works, most of which were created for the LaVallée exhibition space. What is the relationship between…
Based On True Events
At the invitation of Thierry de Valériola and Valerie Decroix, an exceptional and prestigious Brussels house, for sale and lent for the occasion as an exhibition space, allowed me an unprecedented experience: to put in relation a set of works belonging to different periods. Heterogeneous in appearance, time and form, this exhibition brings together the…
Rhymes and Enantiomorphs
‘Rhymes and Enantiomorphs’ is a collaboration between Denitsa Todorova and Stephan Balleux on pictorial deconstruction and reconstruction. The complex, ambiguous œuvre of Stephan Balleux reveals the artist’s obsession with the mechanisms involved in the power of the image. Through an expertly analytical approach, Balleux turns the media environment to which we are all subjected daily…
3 Collectionneurs, #7
Group exhibition at summer78, Brussels For this 7th edition of the 3 Collectors, we invited Monia Warnez, Julie & Gabriel Nallet and the R.PATT collection to lend us some of their works. We will discover rarely or never exhibited works by Michaël Aerts, Stephan Balleux, Pauline Bastard, Marcel Broodthaers, Kapwani Kiwanga, Jirí Kovanda, Leigh Ledare,…
