01.04 – 28.05.2022
Shot by Shot
Meggy Rustamova

Beige is delighted to present Shot by Shot, a new exhibition by Meggy Rustamova (b. 1985, Tbilisi, Georgia).

It will premiere the film Horaizon, an immersive and experimental film where sound and image have no hierarchy. The film addresses topics such as tourism, the human urge to visit landscapes and the ecological impact of this. Shot by Shot will showcase the bare bones of the filmic structure, as there are storyboards, the script and a film poster.

Opening: 31.03.2022, 17-20h

Born 1985 in Tbilisi. Lives and works in Sint-Niklaas.

Education
2012—2013
Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, HISK, Ghent / BE

2006—2011
Master in Fine Arts, KASK, Ghent / BE

2010
Universität der Künste, UdK, Berlin / DE

Residencies
2018
Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn / NY

2016
Artist in residence, KultuurKontakt Austria, Vienna / AT

2016
ISELP, with Messidor, Brussels / BE

Exhibitions
2020
Horaizon, solo exhibition, Ruimte van de Vrienden van het S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
Book presentation Horaizon published by Posture Editions, Ghent BE

2019
A Speech of Nature, Performance, ARTER, Istanbul / TR
Tënk, video en documentaire platform, Screening: Waiting for the Secret / FR
The HISK Connection, groupexhibition, KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels / BE
Le Musée de la Photographie, Boîte Noir, solo screening, Charleroi / BE
The Collection | Highlights for a Future, groupexhibition, S.M.A.K., Ghent / BE
There all is order and beauty, group exhibition, Argos, Brussels / BE

2018
Floraphilia, Plants as archives, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Academyspace, Cologne / DE
RU, mono no aware, group exhibition, New York / US
Personal, Risk Change, group exhibition, Kibla Portal, Maribor / SI
Un|settled KAAP, group exhibition, Raversyde, Oostende / BE
Biënnale van de Schilderkunst, group exhibition, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle / BE
Light Displacement, screening, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen / DE
Time can tell, group exhibition, De Directeurswoning, Roeselare / BE
Never Walk Alone #3 – Japan, CC Strombeek-Bever / BE
Light shifts, Lichte verschuiving, Art’s Birthday, M HKA, Antwerp / BE

2017
Light Displacement, solo tentoonstelling, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam / NL
Cosmic Words, group exhibition, Galer a Municipal de Lisboa, Boavista, Lisbon / PT
Some Arguments Later, group exhibition, by Messidor, ISELP, Brussels / BE
HISTORICODE: Scarcity and Supply, Nanjing Art Festival, Nanjing / CN
EUtopia 28, group exhibition, museumcultuur CC Strombeek, Strombeek-Bever / BE
Gemini, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam / NL
Homeless Movies, Huis van Alijn, Ghent / BE

2016
Drawing is Thinking, Thinking is Moving, group exhibition, CIAP, Hasselt / BE
Waiting for the secret, group exhibition, Halles St-Géry, Brussels / BE
Wewantosee, Gallery B, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa / JP
Artist in residence, group exhibition, KulturKontakt Austria and Bundeskanzleramt, Vienna / AT
Restart, Riga Photography Biennial, Riga / LV
From the Collection, group exhibition, S.M.A.K., Ghent / BE
Every letter is a love letter, group exhibition, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn / EE
International Film Festival Rotterdam, screening and group exhibition, Rotterdam / NL
L’invitation au voyage, screening, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart / DE

2015
SHE HE SHE SHE HE, solo exhibition, Bureau des Réalités, Brussels / BE
Observations, solo exhibition, Beursschouwburg, Brussels / BE
How to gather, screening, 6th Moscow Biennale, Moscow / RU
Videoarbeiten, solo exhibition, Kunstraum für Bewegte Ideen, Düsseldorf / DE
Displacement of All Places, group exhibition, uqbar, Berlin / DE
The Brussels Art Institute, screening, Brussels / BE
Film Cologne & Flanders Moving Image, screening during Art Cologne, Köln / DE
A Space between Words and Images, screening, cinema-w-o-l-k-e, Brussels / BE
The Future of Memory, group exhibition, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna / AT

2014
John Smith, the Posthuman, performance, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht / NL
Disappearing Things, group exhibition, 55th October Salon, Belgrade / RS
The centre for dying on stage, group exhibition & performance, Project Arts Centre, Dublin / IE
Een onvervalste leugen, Emergent, Veurne / BE
Out of character, group exhibition, CAB, Brussels / BE
Punctum, group exhibition, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg / AT
Spots&Dots, Belluard Bollwerk International, Fribourg / CH

2013
Perpetual Travellers, group exhibition, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin / DE
Coup De Ville, group exhibition, public and private space, Sint-Niklaas / BE
Home & Asylum, group exhibition, InBetween, Brussels / BE
(dis)Location, screening, Beursschouwburg, Wiels, Q-O2, in the frame of Performatik, Brussels / BE
(dis)Location, performance and installation, Performatik, Kaaitheater, Brussels / BE

2012
Secret Postcards, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL
Kunstenfestival Watou, group exhibition, Watou, BE
How About We Do Something Like This?, performance, 2M3, Brussels, BE

2011
Coming People 2011, S.M.A.K., Ghent / BE
Kunstsalon, video M.A.M. (My Assyrian Mother), Circa, Ghent / BE
Performance & group exhibition, Croxhapox, Ghent / BE
Video screening M.A.M. (My Assyrian Mother) “Les soirées Flare”, Montpellier / FR
Performance and video screening, Cinema OFFoff, Ghent, BE

Collections
S.M.A.K., Ghent / BE
Art collection, Flemish Government / BE
Belfius Art Collection, Brussels / BE
School of Arts, KASK, Ghent / BE
Argos, Brussels / BE

Born 1980 in Manresa. Lives and works in Brussels.

Residencies
2019
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco / MC
2017
Delfina Foundation, Londres / UK
2013
Rif Residencie, Bni-Boufrah / MA
2012
SommerAkademie in Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern / CH
2011-12
Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris / FR
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris / FR
2010
FAR Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como / IT

Solo Exhibitions
2022
The end of the ancient world, Beige, Brussels / BE
No hiding place is completely safe, Kunstmuseum, Bochum / DE
New Models, ICA Sofia / BG
Transactions, L’Appartement 22, Rabat / MA
Segon, mercat. àngels barcelona gallery, Barcelona / SP

2021
Con los ojos abiertos en la oscuridad. Elba Benítez gallery, Madrid / SP

2020
Chinese Whispers. Oriol Vilanova. Meessen de Clercq gallery, Brussels /BE
Oriol Vilanova, Entre deux portes, Brussels / BE

2019
Anything, Everything, Buffalo AKG Museum / USA
Une collection peut en cacher une autre, NMNM, Monaco / MC
Trois chambres, Centre d’Art Le Lait, Albi / F

2018
Reversible (with Ignasi Aballí), Estrany de la Mota Gallery, Barcelona / SP

2017
Sunsets from… Artlead Salon, Brussels / BE
Old Masters. Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels / BE
42 days. Parra & Romero gallery, Madrid / SP
Sunday, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona / SP
Colección XV. Oriol Vilanova, CA2M, Madrid / SP
I.M.D.A., Billboard Artlead, Ghent / BE

2016
At first sight, M-Museum Leuven, Leuven / BE
Les mains dans les poches, Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels / BE
Palabras prestadas, Museo Cerralbo, Madrid / SP

2015
To be precise, The Green Parrot. Cabinet, Barcelona / SP

2014
Renoncer à te décrire, Centre d’Edition Contemporaine, Genève / CH
Petit taxi, grand taxi, L’Appartement 22, Rabat / MA

2013
She corrects manners laughinly, Fundació Joan Miró, Espai 13, Barcelona / SP
The Small Collections Room, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham / UK

2012
Quizá es cierto en teoría, Parra & Romero gallery, Madrid / SP
Ex Aequo, Modules, Palais de Tokyo, Paris / FR
Mirador, Capella Sant Roc, Valls / SP

Group Exhibitions
2022
Caminos III, CGAC Santiago de Compostela / SP
Phenomenon 4, Anafi / GR
Horitzó i límit, CaixaForum Valencia / SP
Chaosmos, Garage Cosmos, Brussels / BE
Panorama 02, Centro Centro Madrid / SP
Austerliz was his name, A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam / NL

2021
Picasso à l’image– curated by Laurent Le Bon, Musée Picasso, Paris / FR
Como la vida misma, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona / SP
Il sogno di Antonio, un viaggio tra arte e tessuto, Villa Olmo, Como / IT
Turno de réplica: Construcción/Composición, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid / SP
Rosa, Rosa, Rosae, Rosae, Maison Pelgrims, Brussels / BE
Une Journée en Utopie, Le Familistère de Guise – collections de fonds régionaux d’art contemporain des Hauts-de-France, Guise / FR
Institution Building, CIVA, Brussels / BE
Problemas en el paraíso, Bizkaia Aretoa, Bilbao / SP
Comme le mur qui attend le lierre. MAC’s Musée des Arts Contemporaines Grand Hornu / BE
Lost & Found, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels / BE
The Constant Glitch, M-Museum, Leuven / BE
Bye Bye His-story, chapter 5050, Centre de la Gravure, La Louvière / BE

2020
Miradas al arte, Centro Botín, Santander / SP
Unleashed Speed Unleashed Speech, Kotaro Nukaga Gallery, Tokyo / JP
Tomber en amour, Maison des Arts, Brussels / BE
Daily nightshift, Extracity Kunsthal, Antwerp / BE
Our world is burning, Palais de Tokyo, Paris / FR

2019
Chronotopes, Parra & Romero gallery, Madrid / SP
Symbiotic city, Anyang Public Art Project 6 (Triennial), South Korea / SK
Artificial Intelligence and emotions, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv / IL
Cartes Postales, Nouvelles d’un monde rêvé, Les rencontres de la photographie, Arles / FR
Picasso et l’exil, une histoire de l’art espagnole en résistance, Les Abattoirs, Paris / FR

2018
Aplicación Murillo: Materialismo, Charitas y Populismo, Sevilla / SP
Land_Scope, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich / DE
A History of Photography: Daguerreotype to Digital, Victoria & Albert Museum, London / UK
El paisaje reconfigurado, Centro Botín, Santander / SP
Antoni Tàpies. Biografia política, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona / SP
Ambras, LLS Paleis, Antwerp / BE
Entrechats, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi / BE
The Extended view, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen / DE
Biblioteques insòlites, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona / SP

2017
Il Nuovo, Etablisement d’en face, Brussels / BE
Wanderings, Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisboa / PT
Private Choices, Centrale For Contemporary Art, Brussels / BE
Lección de Arte, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid /  SP
Matèria Primera, Centre d’Art Contemporàni Fabra i Coats, Barcelona / SP
Mil bestias que rugen. Dispositivos de exposición para una modernidad crítica, CAAC, Sevilla / SP
Montag ou la bibliothèque à venir, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon / FR
Oh les Beaux Jours, Biennale 9, Louvain-la-Neuve / BE
Bibliotecas insólitas, La Casa Encendida, Madrid / SP
Manufactories of caring space-time, MSK, Ghent / BE
The walk, MSSNDCLRCQ gallery, Brussels / BE
Modus Operandi, Société, Brussels / BE
Le Musée du chat, De Markten, Brussels / BE
Itinerarios XXIII, Centro Botín, Santander / SP

2016
Art Foyer der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt / DE
Le langage des Fleurs et des Choses Muettes, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels / BE
Artists and Architecture, Variable dimensions, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York / USA
Bateau Tableau. L’image qui vient, ISELP, Brussels / BE

2015
Generación 2015, Plataforma Revolver, Lisboa / PT
ArtContest, De Markten, Brussels / BE
Mapamundistas, Sala de Armas de la Ciudadela de Pamplona / SP
Unblinking, FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague / CZ
Mythologies, 3rd Mardin Biennial, Mardin / TK
La carte postale revisité, La Compagnie, Marseille / FR
Le monde entier jusqu’à aujourd’hui, Villa du Parc, Annemasse / FR
Mare Medi Terraneum, Es Baluard, Mallorca / SP
Copied Cities, Centre d’Art Fabra i Coats, Barcelona / SP
Generaciones 2015, La Casa Encendida, Madrid / SP
Châteaux de cartes, Florence Loewy gallery, Paris / FR
Alphabet Editions, Centre d’Edition Contemporaine, Genève / CH

2014
Abandoned Futures, Centre d’Art Fabra i Coats, Barcelona / SP
Before our eyes – Other cartographies of the Riff, MACBA, Barcelona / SP

2013
Une exposition – des projections, Jeu de Paume, Paris / FR
Le Tamis et le Sable, Maison Populaire, Paris / FR
Sous nos yeux, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse / FR
Historias Incomparables, Koldo Mitxelanea Kulturunea, Donostia / SP
Arte, Dos Puntos, MACBA, Barcelona / SP
Vivoequidem Galerie, Paris / FR
Cas d’Estudi, Can Felipa Art Visuals, Barcelona / SP
8a Bienal d’Art Leandre Cristòfol, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida / SP

2012
Jonge Spaanse Kunst, Appartment Elisa Platteau, Brussels / BE
Método(…): Montaxe Literario.(…), Fundación Luis Seoane, Coruña / SP
Critical Botox, Pavillon Center for Contemporary Art, Bucarest / RO
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki / GR
claResil-2012mg, La Capella, Barcelona / SP
Théorèmes-valeurs erronées et idées fausses, CAB Centre d’art bastille, Grenoble / FR

2011
Revisiting Time, Frac Nord Pas-de Calais / FR
La Qüesti. del Paradigma, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida / La Capella, Barcelona / SP
Future, Biennal de Jafre / SP
Modern & Present, MACBA Collection, Barcelona / SP
E il mondo va, Galeria PM8, Vigo / SP
Susurros en el desván, Espai Zer01, Olot / SP
Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich / CH
Games we never played, Triennale de Milano, Design Museum, Milan / IT
The Inhabitant of the floor above, Homesession, Barcelona / SP

2010
A Library project, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis / USA
IPS Radio, International Project Space Birmingham / UK
Give & Take, Via Farini, Milan / IT
Antes que todo, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid / SP
REF08001, Nogueras Blanchard Gallery, Barcelona / SP
Corso Aperto, Villa del Grumello & Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como / IT
Have a look! Have a look! FormContent, London / UK
Everything is out there, La Casa Encendida, Madrid / SP
Guia secreta de la Rambla, La Virreina Centre de la imatge / SP

2009
The Malady of Writing, A project on text and speculative imagination, MACBA, Barcelona / SP
A titol propi, Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona / SP
Creación Injuve, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid / SP
Bcn producció 09, La Capella, Barcelona / SP

2008
La, la, la, la on winning and losing, Sant Andreu Contemporani, Barcelona / SP
La vie est dans la rue, Sala d’art Jove, Barcelona / SP

Theatre & Performances
2022
Art Geneva / CH
2021
FILAF, Perpignan / SP
2019
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, NMNM / MC
Villa Arson, Nice / FR
2018
Playground festival, M-Museum Leuven / BE
2017
11th K_nstvl_festival, Amsterdam / NL
2016
ARTBO, Bogotá / CO
2015
LLS 387, Antwerp / BE
Granpalazzo, Roma / IT
2014
MACBA, Barcelona / SP
2013
T2G, Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Paris / FR
2012
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims / FR
Monnaie de Paris / FR
Hebbel Theatre, Berlin / DE
2011
MUSAC, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon / SP
La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona / SP
Collections MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / SP
Centre d’Art La Panera de Lleida / SP
IVAM, Valencia / SP
Fundación Montemadrid / SP
Fundación Botín, Santander / SP
Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Madrid / SP

As the first exhibition of Beige’s 2022 program, Beige is pleased to present The Praise of Folly, a group exhibition with Maud Gourdon, Gaëlle Leenhardt and Jurgen Ots on view from January 28 to March 12, 2022.

The exhibition’s title is borrowed from the satirical writings ‘The Praise of Folly’ by Erasmus who resided once in the same borough of Brussels in the 16th century where all the artists in the show have a connection to. In this book, the author’s oblique attitude and his absurdly light-hearted expression led a critical mind to take a penetrating look at the world. The three artists here broadly represent this state of mind of the time in that they can probe into the prosaic minutiae of everyday life through their unique artistic process.

Often presented in minimal and precise arrangement, Maud Gourdon’s (b.1991, Beauvais, living and working in Brussels) installations are the result of intimate stories and objects wrapped up in a play of words, lines and multiple forms. Gourdon investigates history and traditions for possible connections – through analogy, homophony, homography, coincidence, slip of the pen or tongue – and brings materials together to create fictions of today.

Gaëlle Leenhardt (b.1987, Neuilly-sur-Seine, living and working in Brussels) builds a strong and intimate relationship with the context in which her works are created. Leenhardt’s sculptures are often made from materials from the construction sector, such as soil, concrete, rock or marble, which forces her works to remain non-permanent given their weight and size. In this respect, she uses photography as a tool to keep track of her work, but also as an essential part of her sculptures.

Jurgen Ots (b.1978, Dendermonde, living and working in Brussels) gives new life to used objects by turning them over, seeking them out and experimenting with them in assemblages, collages and animations. Crossing a fragile boundary between sculpture, installation and performance, Ots creates a singular visual language developed through repetitive gestures and extended ways of manipulation while exploring the possibilities of the image.

The reduced paintings and sculptures by Ute Müller take us to a timeless space where associations freely roam. Balancing on the edge of abstraction and figuration, form and anti-form, representation and presentation her works inhabit a curious space. Because of the share size of the works, the viewer not only mentally but also physically finds him- or herself immersed in the paintings or the architectural space created by the sculptures.

The colour palette is reduced by existing mainly out of blues and greys refers to dreamscapes. The shapes are reduced forms of daily objects that are then placed on top of the others to create their own language or story.  The works can be read as a modern ‘palimpsest’ or a visual kind of hard disk. The historically loaded technique of egg tempera brings about a translucent quality. The light breaks through layers of colours and lines.

Ute Müller is reducing the paintings to their bare essentials. She illustrates with one of her favourite quotes by the late Sol LeWitt: “Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person but a drawing of a line is a real line”.

Ute Müller (b. 1978 in Graz, lives in Vienna) studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the Royal College of Art in London. She is a founding member of Black Pages: http://www.blackpages.at.

Exhibitions: Établissement d‘en face, Brussels; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna; Tiroler Künstlerschaft – Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, Galerie Kunstbuero Wien (solo), Nomas Foundation Rom, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Galerie Kamm Berlin, Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien Graz, Galleria Collicaligreggi Catania (solo), 21er Haus Wien, Pigna Project Space Rom, Kumho Museum Seoul, Galerie Dana Charkasi Wien (solo), Künstlerhaus Wien, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt (solo), NJP Art Center Seoul.

 

BEIGE BRUSSELS is delighted to present its inaugural exhibition I Love Today, I Can’t Wait for Tomorrow. The exhibition showcases works by 4 artists: Laurie Charles, Chris Goennawein, Meggy Rustamova and Kato Six.

Laurie Charles’ (1987, Brussels) work draws on folklores, alternative medicine and histories with narrative and speculative fiction. Charles’ textile work Pharmakon, 2019, interprets a herstory of medicine. The symbols draw on mythological and historical stories of female health and healing: The moon represents the lunar cycle, which is closely linked to the menstrual cycle; the bowl with the snake refers to the pharmacy sign; the image of the hand with red-painted nails is linked to the healing power of the laying on of hands; ginger, spoons, scales, and herbs are all known as medical aiding instruments. They illustrate Charles’ interest for witchcraft, wellness, (female) health and illness.

The interdisciplinary oeuvre of Meggy Rustamova (1985, Tbilisi) consists of photographic works, videos, installations and performances. During her extensive travels Rustamova is often inspired by nature and the landscape in relation to the human presence, as one can tell from the photographic works Headlights and Rock Formation. Her work also offers a poetic look at the relationship between individual and collective memory, between language as communication and visual vocabulary. She searches for ways to translate contemporary social tendencies and issues into her own work, often by means of microhistories. Her latest film Babel shows the artist’s mother recalling Assyrian words. As she remembers some words, she is unable to cite everything. It talks about language and migration but also of memory or dementia, as she often explores the thin line between fact and fiction.

In her artistic research Kato Six (1986, Bruges) uses familiar material culture to reconfigure the ways we make ourselves at home in the world. She creates a poetic dialogue between a domestic space and a more formal environment. The sculpture Outer Hebrides, 2020, is based on a photograph the artist took while visiting one of Scotland’s outer islands. In resemblance to architectural practice she extracts the experience of landscape from its original form. In the Outer Hebrides / Dust, 2020, which relates to the sculpture, Six explores how far one can push a material until it goes beyond its conventional limits. Colored mdf plates are sanded and through static electricity fixed on the wall. The fragility of the work gives it a poetic status and raises questions about temporality, disintegration and decay.

The work of Chris Goennawein (1979, Heidelberg) is marked by a specific graphic precision. It is severe yet playful. A play on words is a recurrent theme throughout his oeuvre. The diptych Tabula Rasa Rasa Tabula, 2020, is a fine example of the interchangeability between words and images. He actives the viewer’s imagination while being economical with images. The neon illustrates a functional and alternative way to view the world around us.

BEIGE presents its two-part exhibition in separate venues: A Gust of Wind by Studio for Propositional Cinema, and RECORD: Redundant as eyelids in absence of light. by Hampus Lindwall & Studio for Propositional Cinema.

Studio for Propositional Cinema is known for their innovative exhibition formats and polemical poetics. Their work taps into the tradition of conceptual art and deals with the use of language as a means of creation, interpretation, and communication. This attitude often results in the exhibition space through text-based installations and audio works.

Hampus Lindwall is a Swedish organist and composer of contemporary experimental music. He frequently collaborates with artists like Cory Arcangel, Noriko Baba, Raphaël Cendo, John Duncan, Leif Elggren, and others.

The exhibition RECORD: Redundant as eyelids in absence of light consists of a libretto for a five-dimensional dystopian opera set in a society in which all forms of language and interpersonal communication have been mitigated or eliminated. It was realised in various formats: first as a concert, then as an exhibition at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen and finally as a publication and vinyl record. The libretto was translated from English to Greek to an endangered Greek whistled language, then transcribed to musical notation. Each of the six songs of the libretto represents the desperate attempts of the protagonists to relearn various forms of communication.

 

BEIGE presents its two-parts exhibition in separate venues: A Gust of Wind by Studio for Propositional Cinema, and RECORD: Redundant as eyelids in absence of light. by Hampus Lindwall & Studio for Propositional Cinema.

Studio for Propositional Cinema is known for their innovative exhibition formats and polemic poetics. Their work taps into the tradition of conceptual art and deals with the use of language as a means of creation, interpretation and communication. This attitude results in the exhibition space as text installations and audio pieces. 

The exhibition A Gust of Wind is centred around a series of small publications produced in Naples between 2019 and 2021. The full series is shown together for the first time with hand-mixed silkscreens and framed at Beige. The series includes Ancient Knowledge Survival Kit (pub. Tanya Leighton), Fabulist Manifesto and The Storytellers’ Fountain [Frame Tale] (pub. Fondazione Morra Greco), Ancient Knowledge Survivalist Manifesto (pub. Jacob Lawrence Gallery), and Anatomy of a Disaster Film (pub. Beige). Anatomy of a Disaster Film is the fifth publication of A Gust of Wind, a publishing entity but also an archetypal fictional character who appeared in several past works by Studio for Propositional Cinema. It was hand-printed in a small linotype printing workshop in Naples, Italy, as part of an ongoing series of publications.

Studio for Propositional Cinema was founded in 2013 in Düsseldorf. Solo exhibitions and projects include Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (forthcoming), Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (2019); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2017); Swiss Institute New York, New York (2017); Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2016); Taylor Macklin, Zurich (2016); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2016); Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2015); mumok, Vienna (2015). Performances: LISTE Performance Project, Basel (2018); Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (2017); Kunsthal Bergen, Bergen (2016); Index, Stockholm (2016).

BEIGE is dedicated to exhibiting conceptually driven art through a thoughtful curatorial approach, creating a framework of content and events around its program. The gallery offers an international lineup while maintaining strong connections with the Brussels art community.

The aim is to provide artists and audiences with an intimate viewing experience that fosters experimentation, discussion, engagement, and learning. This is often accomplished by working transgenerationally, bridging different generations of artists from both local and international scenes.

BEIGE was founded by Ann Cesteleyn in October 2021.

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Unless indicated differently all installation views at Beige, Brussels are by Isabelle Arthuis.

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