As one of the leading institutions for contemporary art in Belgium, and one without a permanent collection, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre focuses on presenting temporary exhibitions by national and international artists, both emerging and more established. In addition to regular exhibitions, WIELS houses nine residencies for young artists and an active education program, all of which is housed in a former beer brewery (from thence the name WIELS, short for the Wielman Ceuppeman’s beer) originally designed in the 1931 by Belgian architect Adrien Blomme, now a restored and historically classified building. Its vast former brewing hall entrance area (housing a café, bookshop, and ticketing booth alongside the brewery’s restored copper vats), gives way to WIELS’ main exhibition spaces – spread over four floors, their post-industrial scale and details gives a particular character to these display spaces.

EXHIBITIONS

Thomas Bayrle — All-in-One

09.02 – 12.05.2013

WIELS is presenting the first major survey exhibition in Belgium of German artist Thomas Bayrle, a pioneer of Pop, seriality and Media Art. Over the years, Bayrle has built up an important body of work, one that is surprisingly consistent, obsessive even, while combining allegiances to Pop, Conceptual and Op art with humour. Instead of arranging the work along chronological lines, the show will bring into the same space the various, and sometimes contradictory, themes that run through the artist’s work, including consumerism and consumer society, political propaganda, sexuality and religion.

Curator : Devrim Bayar

Tauba Auerbach — Tetrachromat

22.03 – 02.06.2013

In TAUBA AUERBACH’S work traditional distinctions between image, dimensionality and content collapse. Surface, specifically the larger issues surrounding topology, has been a central concern in her recent paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books. Auerbach interweaves discordant positions such as disorder and order, readability and abstraction, permeability and solidity – phenomena that are usually viewed as incompatible – into unified surfaces and volumes.

Curator : Solveig Øvstebø

EVENTS

Experienz

18–21.04.2013

Experienz is an annual event conceived as an experimental platform, a mixture of discussions, new works and artistic practices.

18.04
19:00    DAN PERJOVSCHI   “Transparent action”
19:00    NINAR ESBER   “The Good Seed”
19:30    OLIVER BEER   “The Resonance Project”
20:00    ANTONIO CONTADOR   “Tu te Tus”
21:00    ESTHER FERRER   “El arte de la performancia teoría y práctica”
21:45    LIZ MAGIC LASER   “Stand Behind Me”
22:00    MALENA BEER   “Endless”
Impromptu performance • ESTEFANÍA PEÑAFIEL LOAIZA   “Compte à rebours”

19.04
19:00    DAN PERJOVSCHI   “Transparent action”
19:00     LIZ MAGIC LASER   “Stand Behind Me”
19:30     GIUSEPPE CHICO & BARBARA MATIJEVIC   “I am 1984”
20:00     DAVIDE BALULA   “Manifestation des couleurs”
21:00     MALENA BEER   “Endless”

20.04
14:30    LIZ MAGIC LASER   “Stand Behind Me”
15:00    GUILLAUME DÉSANGES   “Child Play”
15:00    DAN PERJOVSCHI   “Transparent action”
15:30    Talk with the participation of GUILLAUME DÉSANGES, MARC & JOSÉE GENSOLLEN, ROSELEE GOLDBERG (PERFORMA), NATHALIE GUIOT, CHANTAL PONTBRIAND

21.04
19:00    CAROLE DOUILLARD   ”Face”
20:00    HSIA-FEI CHANG   “77105 – episode 2”
21:00    concert SERGEJ JENSEN & STEPHAN MÜLLER / SUD

www.experienz.org