Brussels Cologne Contemporaries

01/04/2016

Heidi Ballet, former BCC curator, is mentioned among the 20 most influential young curators in Europe, on Artsy.

The canons of art history are fluid and changing. And it’s the role of curators to come in, make sense of it all, and present a picture of where art will head next. They act as stewards, activate ideas, draw connections, bring attention to lesser-known artists and overlooked regions, and highlight t…

22/01/2015

January 17, 2015

19/01/2015

Sam Steverlynck on BCC (hart-magazine) ENGLISH

H ART is een tijdschrift dat elke drie weken verschijnt. H ART bericht op een alerte, kwaliteitsvolle en toegankelijke wijze over de hedendaagse kunst.

17/01/2015

AND THE BCC AWARD 2015 GOES TO

VAAST COLSON

CONGRATS!!

Many thanks to the committee members:

Lorenzo Benedetti (director De Appel, Amsterdam), Nav Haq (curator M HKA, Antwerp), Laura Herman (independent curator, Brussels/New York), Frédéric de Goldschmidt (collector, Brussels), Carine Fol (director la Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels), Hans-Jürgen Hafner (director Kunstverein Düsseldorf) and Heidi Ballet (curator BCC 2015)

15/01/2015

SPEND on bcc

15/01/2015

Mateus West on BCC (DeMorgen.City)

15/01/2015

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14/01/2015

Sam Steverlynck on BCC (AGENDA magazine)

(© Habima Fuchs)Brussel mag zich dan wel – misschien al te vaak – spiegelen aan Parijs, er zijn in de wereld nog andere invloedssferen en modellen. Zoals Duitsland bijvoorbeeld. Een stad als Keulen was in de jaren 1970 het epicentrum van de...

14/01/2015

This Friday at BCC:

WARHUS RITTERHAUS

HABIMA FUCHS born 1977 in Ostrov (CZ), lives and works in Berlin and Prague.

For several years now Habima Fuchs has been living as a nomad. Her art tells about her paths, and functions as an object of utility, a souvenir and an artefact. She integrates natural, cultural and spiritual identities, as well as everyday life and environment into her work with the consequence that things are not just objects of observation in a white cube, but they are staged in the exhibition space as if somebody is living together with them. The presentation of object collections as a coherent artistic installation addresses the transition of findings and everyday objects to art only through the artist’s will and with this a reconception of value in terms of price.

14/01/2015

This Friday at BCC:

WALDBURGER WOUTERS

FILIP VAN DINGENEN, born 1975 in Diest (BE) and lives and works in Brussels.

‘The Belgian frank cries’, wrote Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf on December 7, 2001 as the news spread that Filip Van Dingenen stamped every banknote that passed through his hands with a tear. Over 500 stamps were distributed as an invitation to participate in adding a tear on banknotes that were covered with cultural heroes such as Magritte, Ensor, Permeke and Horta. Van Dingenen’s goal was to set up a rhizome of notes questioning and provoking the value and speculation of ‘signed’ or ‘non-signed’ notes in public space, a few months before they would leave circulation, when the Euro got introduced. After more then a decade of common currency the Euro still divides people, and nostalgic dreams about returning to national currencies are recurrent. Public Tears questions accurately those public emotions. Collective memory and human-animal relations are central in the oeuvre of Van Dingenen. Previous and ongoing works are Zoonation, Copito de Nieve, and Ecole Mondiale (currently on show at the gallery), in which Van Dingenen critically rethink a planned but never built school by former King Leopold II, by setting up field stations worldwide.

14/01/2015

This Friday at BCC:

TRAMPOLINE

VAAST COLSON born 1977 in Kapellen (BE), lives and works in Antwerp.

Vaast Colson’s Refund Paintings consists of a number of rectangular and square fields of silver foil tape and coins applied directly on the booth walls, mimicking the standard presentation strategy for an art fair accrochage. The temporary and improvised quality of the monochromes questions the sustainability of value and challenges the aestheticization and recuperability of abstract painting. Fortunately the surface hides a generous compensation for the ones who decide to take the leap.

13/01/2015

This Friday at BCC:

SCHMIDT & HANDRUP

TIMO SEBER, born 1984 in Cologne, lives and works in Berlin.

In Timo Seber’s tailor doll sculptures wear black capes with silk-screened Mahajara portraits and brass plates swathed by a single panel of a meters long hand-loomed original sari fabric. Seber examines the peculiarities of fame and its representations. He identifies different symptoms and motifs of contemporary fan culture and the adoration of historical and public figures. Conceptual practices, an ambiguous materiality and a self-reflective, personal impetus meet in mutual cross-references to create new narratives. Timo Seber has been studied at the Kunsthochschule für Medien K.ln under Prof. Marcel Odenbach und Prof. Johannes Wohnseifer. He was recently granted the Columbus Fellowship for Contemporary Art and the Award of the State of North Rhine Westphalia for emerging artists.

13/01/2015

Upcoming this Friday January 16 at BCC:

MARION SCHARMANN

JANA MULLER born 1977 in Halle/Saale (DE), lives
and works in Berlin.

Jana Müller’s oeuvre explores memory, the cinematic, and storytelling. The human being between public and private space and the construction of identity lie at the heart of her works. The artist lays out clues and evidence that evoke numerous tales. For her work Dirty Laundry Jana Müller borrowed a container of dirty laundry from a hotel close to the exhibition space. The piece has an enormous sculptural presence, but it is also ephemeral and refers to intangibility. The dirty laundry symbolizes intimacy and seems full of secret stories. So the work is like an investigation of the human being. The sheets in a clean state mirror luxury, while in a dirty state they evoke disgust, until they are clean again. The container, used for the transportation of things, refers to a shift of contexts and to change—e.g. the change of value.

13/01/2015

Upcoming this Friday January 16 at BCC:

BERTHOLD POTT

COLIN PENNO born 1980 in Mühlheim and der Ruhr (DE), lives and works in Essen (DE).

The conceptual works of Colin Penno, that can be paintings, installation, photography, objects or sculptures, pick up on aspects of the given spatial situation—be this architecture, interior and/or material—and make use of the fewest means possible. His artistic strategy begins with a clear reference to the “value” of that which already exists, and then transforms this through minimal alterations or by establishing new contexts. For his contribution to the BCC, Colin Penno will present works on canvas, created by bleaching pre existing coloured cotton fabrics.

12/01/2015

Upcoming this Friday January 16 at BCC:

NAGEL DRAXLER PROJECTS / REISEBÜRO

ANNA FASSHAUER, born 1975 in Cologne, lives and
works in Berlin.

Fasshauer employs classical sculpture as if it were easy. She transforms material into forms, put into space. She neither designs nor draws, but produces herself in an energy consuming act of bending and flexing large and heavy objects. Also her „paintings” are results of this process-oriented working method. Their format is classical, their topic is the surface, their expression is abstract. Fasshauer achieves a setting in the great tradition of abstract art of the 20th century, as if this tradition were a continuum. After showing at Reisebüro she became part of Nagel Draxler’s program and had her first exhibition with the gallery in Berlin in 2014.

12/01/2015

SEE YOU THERE on BCC

Your Belgian agenda for the week full of art festivals, openings & concerts in Ostend, Brussels and Antwerp!

http://www.seeyouthere.be/the-week-from-12-to-18-january/

Featuring Bonnefooi Brussels, Galerie Albert Baronian, Super Dakota, Delire Gallery, David Widart, LA VILLA HERMOSA, ZOOT WOMAN, Trix Muziekcentrum, duyster, Studio Brussel, Tipi Bookshop, Björk, La Monnaie De Munt, GALERIES, Brussels Cologne Contemporaries, Levy Delval, Hopstreet Gallery, Schmidt & Handrup, Ginerva Gambino, Vrijstaat O, and more!

Cover photo Grégoire Pleynet

12/01/2015

Upcoming this Friday January 16 at BCC:

MARTINETZ

ALBERT MAYR, born 1975 in St. Pölten (AT), lives and
works in Vienna.

Albert Mayr, in an almost neo-dadaistic way, recycles the iconic fragments of our everyday common surrounding. He undermines art history, by plain and simply reconstructing it. Additionally Mayr, as an enthusiastic and playful innovater manipulates the sizes blowing up the dimensions of well-known objects, bringing in a temporary disorientation. Mayrs work Walking (for Marcel) is referring directly to Duchamps N**e Descending a Staircase, No.2 which, for the Viennese artist Albert Mayr coincides with his own artistic approach. Mayr sees his referential work as a specific exchange within the field of artistic practice, and is including the concept of the importance of these transactions as the premise for the subsequent development of an art of social, political, semiotic and media contexts.

12/01/2015

Upcoming this Friday January 16 at BCC:

M29

HUBERT BECKER born 1954 in Olpe (DE), lives and
works in Cologne.

Hubert Becker’s photography plays with the ideas of the original vs. the copy, reality vs. imagination, fictions and forgeries. His source materials are often well-known images from popular media and famous works of art, which he quotes, copies, reframes, rephotographs and appropriates to become his own work. The photographs dissolve their authenticity through an artistic act between collection, experimentation and production. Becker’s works deal with famous works of photographic history; they quote known photographers such as C.E. Watkins (born 1829), Harold Edgerton (born 1903) and Paul Outerbridge (born 1896). With the image Saltine Box, Becker refers to the photo with the mysterious shadow of Outerbridge, which originated in 1922 and remains one of the most expensive photographic works.