a selection:
Jacques Moeschal: Architecture Sculptures
From May 19 to September 19, 2021
Bozar, Brussels
The exhibition zooms in on the relationship between art and architecture in the underexposed oeuvre of Moeschal, through blueprints, film excerpts, models, and interventions by contemporary artists.
contemporary artists: Kasper Akhøj, Ann Veronica Janssens, Barney Kulok
curator: Angelique Campens
co-curators: Roxane Le Grelle and Iwan Strauven
Dérive Dérivée
From October 10 to December 12, 2015
Fondation CAB, Brussels
artists: Sunah Choi, Michele di Menna, Gelitin, Beatrice Gibson, Runo Lagomarsino, Christoph Meier, Mathias Prenen, Przemek Pyszczek, Kato Six.
Curated by Angelique Campens
The exhibition explores the glorification of communal movements in art and architecture during the fifties and sixties. These movements emerged from a time torn between the promising ideas of modernity and the intense demand to critically question these principles. While their work first and foremost aimed to merely witness the world they were living in. Their ideas and ideals, for example, of communal living, artistic collaboration and playfulness have for the most part faded away in our individual-centered and sober contemporary lives. Nevertheless the nostalgia and admiration with which we look back at this sort of cultural, artistic and architectural projects is perhaps a testimony to the utopian ideals of community, sociability and equality that continues to inspire and drive many artists, architects and thinkers.
Based in Berlin
From June 8 until July 24, 2011
at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k., Berlinische Galerie.
artists: David Adamo, After the Butcher, Aids 3D, Akim Özlem, Altin, Julieta Aranda, Autocenter, Nina Beier, Rocco Berger, Gerry Bibby, Juliette Blightman, Erik Blinderman & Lisa Rave, Juliette Bonneviot, Erik Bünger, Nina Canell, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Sunah Choi, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Kerstin Cmelka, Keren Cytter, Kajsa Dahlberg, Mariechen Danz, Giulio Delvè, Simon Denny, Michele Di Menna, Aleksandra Domanović, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Köken, Ergun Evas, Arche und der Feminist, Matthias Fritsch, Kasia Fudakowski, Simon Fujiwara, Cyprien Gaillard, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Tue Greenfort, Petrit Halilaj, Jan Peter Hammer, Alexander Hempel, Yngve Holen, David Hominal, HUSH HUSH, Invisible Playground, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Ilja Karilampi, Tobias Kaspar, Nina Könnemann, Asaf Koriat, Wojciech Kosma, Kitty Kraus, Oliver Laric, Alexandra Leykauf, Klara Lidén, Ilya Lipkin, Trevor Lloyd, Maria Loboda, Florian Ludwig & Owen Hoskins, Dafna Maimon, Ryan McLaughlin, Gareth Moore, Shahryar Nashat, Anne Neukamp, Ken Okiishi, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Pantha du Prince, Amy Patton, Dirk Peuker, Ralf Pflugfelder, PMgalerie, Agnieszka Polska, Roseline Rannoch, Mandla Reuter, Yorgos Sapountzis, Thomas Sauter, Lena Inken Schaefer, Ariel Schlesinger, Jeremy Shaw, Heji Shin, Timur Si-Qin, Dominik Sittig, Juliane Solmsdorf. Fiete Stolte, Jana Unmüßig, Danh Vo, Ming Wong, Helga Wretman, Shingo Yoshida
curated by Angelique Campens, Fredi Fischli, Magdalena Magiera, Jakob Schillinger and Scott Cameron Weaver
advisors: Klaus Biesenbach, Christine Macel, Hans Ulrich Obrist
After the Fair, Kasper Akhøj
October 2010
Wiels Brussels
curated by Angelique Campens
Persona in Meno
May 2009
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy
artists: Meris Angioletti, Nico Angiuli, Lupo Borgonovo, Chiara Camoni, Canecapovolto, Carloni & Franceschetti, Manuele Cerutti, Andrea Contin, Andrea De Stefani, Nicolò Degiorgis, Federico Del Vecchio, Rä di Martino, Chiara Fumai, Alessandro Gagliardo, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Giuseppe Lana, Renato Leotta, Eva Marisaldi, Andrea Nacciarriti, Linda Fregni Nagler, Nicola Nunziata, Alberto Scodro, Marinella Senatore, Alberto Tadiello and Mauro Vignando.
curated by Angelique Campens, Erica Cooke, Chris Fitzpatrick
Strategy for a lost landscape
Watou 2009
With architects Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen and landscape architects bureau Bas Smets
curated by Angelique Campens
‘Strategy for a lost landscape” challenges us through an architectural thought exercise and reflection about a Belgian village, Watou, located on the border with the French part of Flanders (a geographical region dispersed among parts of Belgium, France, and the Netherlands).
The design of the villages in the Belgian part of Flanders is roughly comparable to the idea of Broadacre city, a concept developed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The project was designed as the antithesis of the city and the apotheosis of suburbia. The typical, ribbon development in Belgian suburbia is the starting point for research done by the architects of Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen and the landscape architects of Bureau Bas Smets. The architects moved past their impression of Watou as a standard Flemish village through their engagement with the site both in person and with topographical maps. According to them Watou is one of the least diluted places and the architects use this as a foil to the other villages in Flanders. (…)
Assistant Curator Belgian Pavilion 53rd Venice Biennial Jef Geys 7 June – 22 November 2009
Juliaan Lampens
Witte Zaal Gent/ BE
From February 27 to April 4, 2009
This exhibition was the first exhibition — i.e. since the 1991 retrospective Juliaan Lampens 1951-1990 in the Singel — to focus on some of Lampens’ most important works. The exhibition introduced an insight of the formal and cultural aspects of Lampens’ architecture through architectural drawings, floor plans, models and photographs made by Jan Kempenaers. The exhibition architecture was designed by the architect Sara Noel Costa de Araujo and a serie of new photographs was made by photographer Jan Kempenaers. The photographs and exhibits present a personal interpretation of Lampens’ architecture. They emphasise the meaning and complexity of this amazing oeuvre. Point of departure for this exhibition were three private buildings — the architect’s own house in Eke (1960), the Vandenhaute-Kiebooms residence in Huise, and the Vanwassenhove residence in Sint-Martens-Latem (1974)—and the pilgrimage chapel of Our Lady of Kerselare in Edelare (1966). 1960-1975 is the period when Lampens’ ideas arrived at their most extreme enactment through such features as a complete open plan without pillars or even without walls and the placing of every room seemingly conjoined with each other (kitchen, living room, bedrooms and bathroom all in one open space).
Curated by Angelique Campens
For Reasons of State
NY, The Kitchen, US
From May 16 until June 7, 2008
Artists: Bik van der Pol, the Bureau of Inverse Technology, Jenny Holzer, Lin + Lam, Mark Lombardi, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, Trevor Paglen, Ben Rubin and Susan Schluppi
curated by Angelique Campens, Erica Cooke and Steve Lam
While the American government guarantees its citizens the freedom of speech and press, the intertwining of corporate and political interests dictates public access to information — controlling the who, what, when, and how of what is seen and heard. Foreshadowing the upcoming presidential election, For Reasons of State addresses the ability of citizens to function as a democracy in the face of governmental secrecy. Countering information foreclosed by acts of political suppression, these artists ask us to reconsider whether our current use of the “need-to-know” principle should be exchanged for a more democratic “right-to-know.”
Unknown Pleasures
From June 22 until August 10, 2007
Bern Stadtgalerie (Loge), Switzerland
Artists: Thomas Bayrle / Wim Delvoye/ Alevtina Kakhidze /Boy & Erik Stappaerts/ Doug Fishbone/ Elodie Pong/ Lang/Baumann/ Cyprien Gaillard
curated by Angelique Campens
Pleasure often escapes the framework of culture because it is a difficult experience. As Roland Barthes puts it, pleasure may not only be experienced as frivolous fun and joy within the limits of cultural codes, but also as a transgressive bliss that is non-cultural, unspeakable and lethal for the subject. The project “unknown pleasures” aims to use this theme as a starting point, combining art, architecture, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It brings artists and theoreticians together to discuss and reflect on the topic ‘pleasure’ on a critical level. It will span over a period of two months and consist of three sub-projects including an exhibition, symposium and a weblog with videos and screenings. The exhibition consists of a combination of existing work and work that has been realized “on the spot”. It will be presented as a shop where the works of the artists will reflect on the theme. The works will be on the one hand desirable or fetish objects and on the other hand more critical objects. The project wants to put a society into question where pleasure is no longer repressed but is more and more central to our thinking about man and space. Pleasure is all too often associated with consumption, something the advertisement industry is keen to exploit. By following one’s own desires and tastes, the consumer experiences a freedom that does not have to give any justification whatsoever, as the striving for pleasure is the only aim. (…)
Zoo Logical Garden
August- September 2005
Family park Harry Malter, Ghent /Destelbergen
Artists and critics: Monika Bakke, Johan Grimonprez, Alon Levin, Vaast Colson, Stefaan Dheedene, Huang Shih-Chieh, Stefano Cagol, David Shrigley, Superflex, Anri Sala, Katie Holten, Gert Robijns et al.
Curated by Angelique Campens
A project which combines an exhibition, a catalog, weblog, videoscreening and discussions into one, while interacting with the context.
(…)The zoo is a fascinating subject. Throughout many years, it has inspired artists and appealed to their imagination. It is a place where the city reveals its true self: trying to deny its urban character and pretending to be a jungle. To no avail, really, because there is always a glimpse of the city through the carefully staged bushes, the seemingly random winding tracks and the quasi-authentic buildings.
Indirectly, the zoo culture shows strong resemblances with certain tendencies in our society. The artificiality (the cages, the articifial ice floes, the signposts), tourism and child entertainment are recurring features in our society. The economic structures of the animal park are based upon tourist norms and focus on entertaining the visitors. Nevertheless, entertainment is always part of reporting and informing about research, which offers visitors the chance to visualize cultivation techniques, behaviour patterns, conservation and ecology (…)
Artificial Landscape
From September 10 until October 9, 2005
Artists: Leo Copers / Patrick Van Caeckenbergh / Fien Muller /Pieter Vermeersch /Stefaan Dheedene/ Hannes Vanseveren / Angelo Vemeulen/ Dirk Zoete et al.
Curated by Angelique Campens
WABI SABI PROJECT
5 | 6 | 7 September 2003
Zingem
CONTEMPORARY ART / VIDEO / THEATER / LITERATURE
Exhibition curated by Angelique Campens, Tanguy Eeckhout and Valerie Verhack
Literature and theater curated by Charles De Cordier and Ludovic Bekaert
artists: Leo Copers / Louis De Cordier/ Gery De Smet/ Jan De Wachter / Fred Eerdekens / Michael Filez / Baudouin Oosterlynck/ Stefaan Smagghe / Merlin Spie / Johan Tahon / Stefaan Van Biesen / Jan Van Imschoot / Kim Vandaele / Jan Vindevogel / Tim Volckaert
