16–18 January 2015
Opening: 16 January, 6–9pm
Brussels Cologne Contemporaries
Lempertz Brussels
6, rue du Grand Cerf
1000 Brussels
In 1971 Broodthaers listed his fictional museum, The Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, for sale on the grounds of bankruptcy. To save the museum he produced an unlimited edition of gold bars and announced the sale on the cover of the catalog of that year’s Cologne Art Fair. No buyers were found.
Broodthaers’s activities at that edition of the Cologne Art Fair powerfully connected the cities of Brussels and Cologne. Both the museum and the art market are a reference point for this year’s edition of Brussels Cologne Contemporaries. Whereas Broodthaers took the institutional processes of the museum as a focal point in his work, Brussels Cologne Contemporaries will focus on how the art market, as an institution, defines the monetary and cultural value of a work of art.
Solo presentations by 13 galleries will be presented alongside an exhibition with works that move away from preconceived forms of value exchange and propose different acquisition processes of art as commodity.
With works by Astrid Bossuyt, Antone Israel, Georges Bully, Louise Lawler, Sophie Nys & Richard Venlet, Pratchaya Phinthong, Karin Schneider, Haim Steinbach and Yao Qingmei.
Curated by Heidi Ballet
Participants:
dépendance (Brussels) – Christian Flamm
Ginerva Gambino (Cologne) – Heiner von Alberti
Hopstreet (Brussels) – Egon Van Herreweghe
Levy.Delval (Brussels) – Hugo Scibetta
M29 (Cologne) – Hubert Becker
Martinetz (Cologne) – Albert Mayr
Nagel Draxler Projects (Cologne) – Anna Fasshauer
Berthold Pott (Cologne) – Colin Penno
Marion Scharmann (Cologne) – Jana Müller
Schmidt & Handrup (Cologne) – Timo Seber
Trampoline (Antwerp) – Vaast Colson
Waldburger Wouters (Brussels) – Filip Van Dingenen
Warhus Rittershaus (Cologne) – Habima Fuchs
Each year, BCC awards a prize and a solo exhibition at la Centrale for Contemporary Art Brussels to one single presentation. This year’s jury is composed of Lorenzo Benedetti (Director, De Appel, Amsterdam), Nav Haq (curator MHKA, Antwerp), Laura Herman (independent curator, Brussels/New York), Frédéric de Goldschmidt (collector, Brussels), Carine Fol (Director, la Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels), and Hans-Jürgen Hafner (Director, Kunstverein Düsseldorf).
