past projets

09.10 > 17.10.2020 - Goda Palekaité - Architecture of Heaven - curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou

at Centre Tour à Plomb, Brussels

October 8 opening from 6pm to 9pm and Schismatics book launch and reading from 7.30pm to 8pm

October 10 from 7pm to 9pm performance-dinner in collaboration with Jonas Palekas - Digestive System of Humanity : The Mouth
free entrance but limited seats – register at info@sb34.org

Exhibition open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 6pm
Centre Tour à Plomb / salle le Foyer
24 rue de l’Abattoir
1000 Brussels

A biographer of the strangeness, Goda Palekaitė is interested in historical characters imbued with mystery; in transgressive figures who, breaking with the dominant thought of their time, find themselves proscribed or marginalized by History. Through her research-based practice, she digs into these particular lives, their lacunar stories and what they allow us to deduce or speculate about the psychology of the protagonists. She draws these portraits through a practice of writing, mixing factual references and fictional interpretations in order to question the phenomena of historical construction and collective memory. What is inscribed, what is forgotten and what is perceived today. Fully assuming the hybridity of her narratives, she challenges us about these individuals as they are often deeply committed and have complex, liminal, personalities. She plays on the credibility of the testimony, the power of subjective projection and identification that inspires the audience.

For her exhibition at la Tour à Plomb, Goda Palekaitė takes over the “Foyer” with a series of artworks that interact with the singular architecture of this vaulted room that resembles a crypt. Under the title Architecture of Heaven, it gathers figures from different eras whose lives are marked by mystical revelations and visions of ecstasy that have led them to a second life, set back from the secular world. The exhibition brings together sculpture and video installations, as well as a performance to be held on October 10. The opening of the exhibition, on October 8, will also be dedicated to the launch of her book, Schismatics.

26.09 > 04.10.2020 - Baptiste Conte & Alix Dussart - This world needs everything, except additional information

Opening Friday September 25 at 7:00 p.m.

Exhibition and artist studios open on September 26 and 27 and October 03 and 04 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., as well as as part of the night of the galleries of Saint-Gilles on September 30 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m + performance Step by Step at 7.30 pm

Baptiste Conte and Alix Dussart present This world needs everything, except additional information as part of the Parcours d'Artistes in Saint-Gilles. This exhibition, which takes the form of an immersive installation, questions our relationship to information flows, treated here metaphorically by a smoke-producing material unfolding in rural landscapes.
They are asking: How do we make society ? How are we ?

25.07 > 06.09.2020 - Annaïk Lou Pitteloud - Long Distance 
an exhibition curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou 

Opening Friday 24.07 - 17h > 21h

The exhibition is open every Saturday from 2pm to 6pm and by appointment at info@sb34.org / paulinehatzi@gmail.com 

+ during Brussels Gallery Weekend
September 02 from 6pm to 10pm
& September 03-04-05-06 from 2pm to 6pm

We kindly ask visitors to wear a mask upon entering the exhibition. Please be aware that the exhibition is only visible for 2 persons at the same time. The waiting area will allow a maximum of 6 visitors, taking physical distancing in account.

Annaïk Lou Pitteloud (*1980) is a Swiss artist who lives and works between Brussels and Bern. Her practice is characterized by sober interventions through which she questions and thwarts the systems of representation and the norms that determine the social uses of spaces. While paying particular attention to institutional frameworks, her work often probes the gaps between language and object, between the perceptual phenomenon and mental projection. Elements drawn from established systems of measurement, relationships of proportions and other formats are subjected to transpositional procedures that give rise to meaning-making inadequacies and narrative reverberations.
For her first personal exhibition in Brussels, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud presents Long Distance, a site-specific exhibition which brings into play the notions of time and space, playing on physical scales, as much as inscribing itself to the implicit reference and questioning the legacy of an artistic figure. Based on the status and particular physicality of The Pool, it reflects on the value and the relationship that binds the artist to his or her production, while wondering what remains of this intimacy beyond the public transfer of the work - if such fidelity ever existed. Initially scheduled for the end of April to mid-May to coincide with the Art Brussels fair, the exhibition was postponed during the summer, in accordance with health measures. Without modifying the contents, this project has in the meantime seen its meaning influenced by the context we are living in and which reaffirms its purpose. With a large part of social life being put under the bell, communication tools become the relay for human relations that are subjugated to isolation and distance, whereas in art, they provide platforms for relocation, reducing it to issues of visibility and distribution, leaving more than ever the power relations linked to artistic work and production in the shadow. [...]

25.06 > 19.08.2020 - Boris Steiner & Ricardo Van Eyk - ROTATOR
an exhibition curated by Jacopo Pagin 

We are opening Thursday the 25th of June, from 17h to 21h.
Troughout the opening weekend of the 26th, 27th and 28th of June, the show will be open from 12h to 17h.

We kindly ask visitors to wear a mask upon entering the exhibition.
Please be aware that the exhibition is only visible for 2 persons at the same time.
The waiting area will allow a maximum of 6 visitors, taking social distancing in account.

The show will run until the 19th of July.
During which we open every Sunday from 12h to 17h,
and by appointment for private viewing.jacopopagin@gmail.com
 

12.03.2020 - 7PM > 9PM : FILMS PLASTIQUES 

21.02.2020 - 6PM > 9PM: RECTANGLE’S BOOK LAUNCH 

17.01 > 1.02.2020: UNAFFECTED INTEREST ^1-7

with Fabrizia Flühler, Eliane Bertschi, Naama Roth, Emmanuel Berti and Damiano Curschellas
curated by Emmanuel Berti & Damiano Curschellas

opening 16.01 - 5PM > 9PM



In Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, George Perec understands a footnote as a trace in the space. It is often placed at the bottom of a printed page and adds a comment, reference, remark etc. to a designated part of a main text.
The group show unaffected interest^1-7 uses the location of The Pool which is underneath the ground level to refer to the space of the footnote.

29.11.2019 -  7pm: TUMBLEWEEDS by Gala Knörr, a performative reading

Tumbleweeds is a project based on the epistolary relationship that artist Gala Knörr established with her ‘silent mentor’ Jack Kerouac. A mentor whose answers can only be found within his oeuvre, one she devoured in her late teens continuing to enjoy along with other Beat writers when she moved to Paris to pursue her studies in art. Modeling her writing after ‘Satori in Paris’, a cognac infused short novel on Kerouac’s search for his family origins on a ten day trip to Paris and Brest, in which the author alludes to a spiritual awakening, yet finds said ‘kick in the eye’ in a series of Parisian pilgrimage-like extravagant encounters. [...] 

This exhibition is the fourth and last episode of The plot is in the process of writing, a cycle of exhibitions thought out by Nicolas de Ribou for SB34 – The Pool on narrative, writing, history, between fiction and reality, where it is a matter of activating persona’s, characters that question our relation with the world and invite us to deconstruct the imposed images by creating others, more singular.

10>26.11.2019 - Two of Hearts
with Aisha Christison & Jack Burton
Angyvir Padilla & Yoel Pytowski
Ekaterina Kaplunova & Richard Venlet
Gary Farrelly & Gilles Hellemans
Marie Sardin & Rémy Thit
Nils Alix-Tabeling & Justin Fitz Patrick
curated by Jacopo Pagin 

opening 9.11.2019 4pm > 9pm

12>26.10.2019 - The one that’s always there, the one that came late, the one that never arrived and the one that wasn’t invited
with Darya Diamond, Esther Gatón, Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou, Isabella Benshimol, Manon van den Eeden, Patricia Bandeira and Rebeca Romero

curated by Naz Balkaya

Opening 11.10.2019 - 6pm > 9pm

How do we feel at exhibition openings today and what does it mean to enter a creative site without the feelings of doubt and intimidation? What will happen if we approach each and every day of an exhibition as an opening / a party?
The exhibition ‘The one that’s always there, the one that came late, the one that never arrived and the one that wasn’t invited’ is trying to answer these questions by hosting a reception and a nocturnal atmosphere that doesn’t last for a short period of time. It is fun, messy, disoriented, surprising, freaky and long-lasting. You are invited to a happening which turns the exhibition space into a genuine organism, where everyone could feel free and enjoy their problems. [...]

The exhibition is open on Fridays and Saturdays from 1pm to 6pm and by appointment

For further information / appointments contact: nnbalkaya@gmail.com

PAST

11 & 13/09  - 6pm > 9pm : Something that always escapes by Guido Yannitto

SB34 – The pool welcomes 'Something that always escapes' by Guido Yannitto (Arg. 1981). Exploring popular cultures is one of his major interest. He´s been working with tapestries and considering this medium´s possibilities, thinking about the sculptural aspects of this planimetric technique and also interested in what he sees as major characteristics within this representational system, aspects of communication and translation. Ideas like identity, dissolve identity, oral transmission, translation, genealogy, subjectivity and collective work are the conceptual axis for his exchanges with weavers.

This exhibition is the third episode of The plot is in the process of writing, a cycle of exhibitions thought out by Nicolas de Ribou for SB34 – The Pool on narrative, writing, history, between fiction and reality, where it is a matter of activating persona’s, characters that question our relation with the world and invite us to deconstruct the imposed images by creating others, more singular.

06>08/09  - 11am > 7pm - Conversation by Alexandre Silberstein

29, 30, 31 August 2019 / 17:00 – 23:00 - IN (EN)ACTING ROLES

Performance Festival : Three day program where each artist has one hour carte blanche for a time based work.

Participating Artists: Aude Anquetil, Stephanie Becquet, Dóra Beny, Baptiste Conte & Xavier Michel, Vanessa Disler, Coraline Guilbeau, Maud Gyssel, Katinka van Gorkum, Selçuk Mutlu, Niels Poiz, Slow Reading Club, Cléo Tott, Charlie Usher, Romy Vanderveken, Simon Van Schuylenbergh

This project is initiated and organised by Dóra Benyó and Niels Poiz.

22.06 > 27.07.2019 - I AM SO MULTIPLE IN NIGHTS

Mehraneh Atashi / Babette / Fiona Hallinan / Allen Jones /  Graham Kelly / Perri MacKenzie / Liam Morrow / Gregory Polony / Sophie Varin /   

Curated by Pádraic E. Moore

THE EXHIBITION OPENS ON 21.06 SUMMER SOLSTICE
7pm > 10pm : exhibition preview
10pm > late : DJ sets by Alison Yip, kap-i-tl-iz-uh m, et al.

[...] The exhibition’s title is a translation of words by Emmy Hennings (1885-1948), one of the few women affiliated with the Dada movement, and co-founder of Zürich’s  Cabaret Voltaire - undoubtedly the most important nightclub in the history of art. In the case of this exhibition, the title also refers to the idea of the self as a continually evolving and expanding entity, recalling Jung’s belief that the many contains the unity of the one, without losing the possibilities of the many. As he understood it, the self is essentially comprised of multiple facets, some of which were necessarily concealed but permitted to manifest during particularly revelatory or visionary experiences.

The exhibition’s allusions to archetypal symbolism and invocation of rituals underscores a desire to declare visual art’s continued vitality in our increasingly techno-rational society. The sort of utopianism that flourished in the last century, concentrated in sites like the short-lived Cabaret Voltaire, may never flourish again. Nevertheless, the sphere of potential that visual art carves out remains a space in which idealistic intentions and romantic aspirations can still frequently be found: a temporary autonomous zone where we collectively climb back into the cave, and find our multiple selves.

1. The ethos of these semi regular nights is explained by the slogan that has accompanied all flyers since the inception: “Drinks above, Dancing below, cash on the bar, no egos”.

This exhibition is open Saturdays from 2 to 6 pm and by appointment. For further information / appointments contact: padraicernestmoore@gmail.com

26.05 - 6.30pm > 9.30pm - RDV synthetic with
ANNE LISE LE GAC & ARTHUR CHAMBRY

Les RDVs sont des soirées de présentations d'artistes, pouvant prendre la forme de conférences, performances ou projections. Chaque présentation est suivie de discussions bienveillantes avec l'artiste.

ANNE LISE LE GAC
Moteur à mouvement perpétuel du faire avec, annaliste du contexte et fabricante de dopamine(x1000). https://www.al-lg.com/

ARTHUR CHAMBRY
Fabriquant et manipulateur d’expériences mélodi-rythmiques et raconteur du quotidien, il transforme l'anecdote en matière vibrante. http://arthurchambry.com/

+ An evening on Friday 26.04 - 6pm> late

Opening weekend of the studios that will focus attention on the singularities of the work processes while establishing dialogues between the resident artists:
Henry Andersen and Charlie Usher; Vanessa Disler; Alix Dussart and Julie Krakowski; Julie Larrouy; Jules Lagrange and Lucien Roux; Léa Mayer and Maëlle Maisonneuve; Alicia Jeannin and Jacopo Pagin; Kevin Senant; Rokko Miyoshi; Niels Poiz, Majolein Guldentops, Dóra Benyó, David Beylemans and Sandrine Morgante.

Les Nuits Ovales #1 is the first of a series of live performances devoted to electronic music in all its forms. The purpose of the regular concerts is not only to showcase the musical experiments of the Fenêtre Ovale collective but also those of musicians from other music genres. 

The Pool is hosting Caveat for a collective reading of original texts by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica such as TROPICALIA, APOCALIPOPOTESIS, and Les Possibilités du Creloisir, in relation to stock images portraying a new model of worker, one who is both in vacation and at work. These texts were selected by Sofia Caesar, one of the artists at the core of Caveat's collective research.

The Pool is hosting Nowhere Collective, who will present ‘read.me’ – the third issue of their zine, with the contributions by Sofia Caesar, Emile Hermans, Toril Johannessen, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec and Paula Smolarska.
This is the first issue to be launched simultaneously online and offline, in two complementary versions. Besides the zine, Nowhere will present a surprise side programme with works by some of the contributing artists.
More info: www.nowherecollective.org

10.01 > 15.02.2019 - rosa rosa rosae rosae  The rosa rosa rosae rosae project brings together the works and interventions of artists in an exhibition punctuated by performative moments - films, readings, listening sessions - on a theme that is contingent on the collective itself: there will be questions of language and translation, orality and circulation,transmission and repetition, writing and selection. By focusing on the learning processes and references at the origin of their composition, the works formulate new stories, questioning our destinations. exhibition & moments with Marc Buchy, buren, Sofia Caesar, Audrey Cottin, Maíra Dietrich, Eva Giolo, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Alicia Jeannin, Sabir, Charlie Usher, Yoann Van Parys and Eleanor Ivory Weber curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou with the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles exhibition open on Saturdays 14.00 > 18.00 & by appointment at info@sb34.org moments: 10.01 – 18.00 > 21.00 opening 18.01 – 19.00 text reading by Deborah Birch & performance “flat music session” by Charlie Usher 01.02 – 19.00 screening of the film Nou voix by Maxime Jean-Baptiste & presentation of the project Ka Kualmaku by Marc Buchy 08.02 – 19.00 screening of the film Noise and knowledge by Sofia Caesar & presentation of the film A tongue called mother / Say A by Eva Giolo 09.02 – 20.00 Sabir La Nuit#2 with Sophie Senecaut, Amélie Derlon-Cordina, Kevin Senant, Clément Delhomme et Carole Louis 15.02 – 19.00 performance “Four Tables” by Audrey Cottin performance by Eleanor Ivory Weber: reading and listening session of Ong, W.J., 1982. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. Reprint 2002. New York, NY: Routledge.(2017-). & finissage 5.12 > 9.12.2018 - 100% de confluence Exhibition by the students of the Master in Painting - Royal Academy of Fine Arts (ArBA-EsA), after a dialogue with Cédric Noël. Opening Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 18h-21h. Exhibition from Thursday, December 6 to Sunday December 9, 10 am-6pm.