Façade 2012 consists of an art route through Middelburg, with fourteen spectacular interferences in the cityscape by internationally renowned artists…

However, in spite of its name, ‘SuperBodies’ is not an exhibition about super-bodies and super-people. On the contrary, it is actually about just regular bodies. Because even though bodies are not all that extraordinary or perfect, they do wonderful things—they are, in fact, wonderful machines.

‘SuperBodies’ explores thus the fascination of many artists and designers for the way in which our body secretly moulds and shapes our experiences. The exhibition presents the body in all of its often half-conscious operations. A large, interactive ensemble of works from visual artists, choreographers and (fashion-) designers makes us see and feel the body as the source of our thoughts and emotions. Upcoming and internationally established artists and designers operate on the boundaries between disciplines to unravel the mysteries of the body. Of course, not only are fashion, design and contemporary art all present in ‘SuperBodies’. There are also choreographers present in the exhibition, in some places with physical works of art and in others with performances.

The whole of the city of Hasselt will qualify as a stage, but the main focus will be on larger venues such as the Cultural Center, the house for contemporary art Z33, theFashion Museum, CIAP and the city museum Het Stadsmus.

Who’s is Pieter T’Jonck
Curator Pieter T’Jonck is an engineer-architect. He has had his own firm since 1986. Furthermore, he is one of Belgium’s most important dance critics. He has been a contributor to innumerable domestic and international newspapers, magazines and radio. He has also worked on various books about theatre, dance, architecture, urban development and the visual arts.

Artists
Vincen Beeckman (1973, BE), Sylvia Bossu (1962-1995, FR), Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010, FR), Trisha Brown (1936, US), Fernando & Humberto Campana (1953 & 1961, BR), Boris Charmatz (1973, FR), Lygia Clark (1920-1988, BR), Contredanse (Baptiste Andrien & Florence Corin) (BE), Christophe Coppens (1969, BE), Theo Cowley (1976, GB), Christoph De Boeck (1972, BE), Deufert & Plischke (1973 & 1971, DE), Ivo Dimchev (1967, BU), Angelo Figus (1975, IT), Naomi Filmer (1969, GB), William Forsythe (1949, US), Lisbeth Gruwez (1977, BE), Ann Veronica Janssens (1956, BE), Eric Joris (1954, BE) + CREW, Hannah Joris (1984, BE), Rei Kawakubo (1942, JP), Kaisu Koski (1975, FI), Ginna Lee (1982, KR), Bernhard Leitner (1938, AT), Jorge León (1967, BE), Lemm&Barkey (ID & BE), Bernd Lohaus (1940-2010, DE), Lawrence Malstaf (1972, BE), Martin Margiela (1957, BE), Linda Molenaar (1972, NL), Jean-Luc Moulène (1955, FR), Matt Mullican (1953, US), Ernesto Neto (1964, BR), Anna Opperman (1940-1993, FR), Steve Paxton (1939, US), Gaetano Pesce (1939, IT), Piero Gatti (1940, IT), Cesare Paolini (1937, IT) & Franco Teodoro (1939, IT), Michelangelo Pistoletto (1933, IT), Gio Ponti (1891-1979, IT), Janneke Raaphorst (NL), Liesje Reyskens (1984, BE), Martin Riches (1941, UK), Kiki Smith (1954, US), Erwin Stache (1960, DE), Meg Stuart (1965, US), Studio 65 (1965, IT), Superamas (1999, AT/BE/FR), Ilke Theeuwes (1986, BE), Marloeke van der Vlugt (1971, NL), Danny Venlet (1958, AU), Junya Watanabe (1961, JP), Franz West (1947, AT), Yang Zhenzhong (1968, CN), Anna-Nicole Ziesche (1972, DE), Zhang Huan (1965, CN)

Flanders House is currently showing an exhibition of 22 works by Flemish photographers that illuminate the pictorial skill, expertise, and diversity of the visual art scene in Flanders. The survey includes examples of documentary photography, portrait photography, landscape photography, and commercial photography.

Highlights include a series of four photographs by the renowned and influential photographer Harry Gruyaert, who has been a member of Magnum’s elite group of documentary photographers; and a rare portrait of Paul McCartney by Herman Selleslags, who documented both national and international events for almost half a century and was a photographer for the popular entertainment magazine Humo.

The exhibition can be visited by appointment only during weekdays, between 3 pm – 5pm. For inquiries, please contact info@flandershouse.org.

Photographic Mission: Transgenic Landscape proposes to reflect on the architecture and landscape of Guimarães as a cultural construction. Commissioned by Paulo Catrica and Pedro Bandeira, the project challenges four different artists, Katalin Deér, Filip Dujardin, JH Engstrom and Guido Guidi, all of whom use photography for aesthetical and critical reflection, to look upon a territory that strives to resist the economic crisis that lasts for a few years now, moreover since the global markets dislocated the textile industry. The geographer Álvaro Domingues named this territory, Guimarães and the Vale do Ave, a “transgenic landscape”: a schizophrenic place, polarised between the “extraordinary” city filed with memories, narratives and identities, and the “ordinary” landscape, generic, diffused, where the remains of the rural world have dissolved among factories, meadows, thickets, houses and roads. The intention of this mision is to propel an imaginary “fictional” photographic construction that could reflect upon the indexical properties of the medium, and its documental ability, while considering and making use of the nouvelle paradigms that photographs seem to implicate nowadays. Somewhere between analogue reality and digital veracity.

POP-UP, Artistic links offers an original and interactive overview of contemporary Belgian art.

From a selection of works recently acquired by the Museum of Ixelles including Sven AUGUSTIJNEN, Stephan BALLEUX, Lucile BERTRAND, BONOM, Bert DE BEUL, Edith DEKINDT, FELTEN-MASSINGER, Michel, FRANCOIS, Geert GOIRIS, Gauthier HUBERT, THE PLUG & Stéphanie ROLLIN, Xavier MARY, Denis MEYERS, Jean-Muc MOERMAN, Hans OP DE BEECK, Benoît PLATEUS, Walter SWENEN, Harols THYS & Jos DE GRUYTER, Jan VAN IMSCHOOT, Freek WAMBACQ, Cindy WRIGHT… – such artists are invited to present another of their creations.  In an attempt to open up the spectrum further, they will in turn present a young artist of their choice.  
Visitors will elect their favourite and the Museum of Ixelles will offer the winner a solo exhibition in 2013.
A wonderfully diverse vision of contemporary art.