Le Journal Exhibitions

At Art Brussels this year, we saw an intentional shift to showcase more mid-career and established artists on an international level. The size of exhibitors was also reduced from 191 to 140 to follow current market trends focusing on quality, not just quantity. A common theme when speaking with ...

Posted: April 26th, 2016

Category: Exhibitions, Market, News

As a leading art fair of modern and contemporary art at the Grand Palais, Art Paris Art Fair recently exhibited the select works of 143 galleries. With a special focus this year on South Korea, referring to them as a guest of honour, a truly international selection of galleries and their ...

Posted: April 12th, 2016

Category: Exhibitions

Artist Pascal Dombis is a part of new group show CONNECTED at the Centrale for Contemporary Art in Brussels (March 24th – August 28th). The show aims to explore the physical and psychological themes of connection between the works’ creators and viewers through new technologies in the visual ...

Posted: March 24th, 2016

Category: Exhibitions

Here’s an interesting example of how Uli Sigg’s Chinese-centric collection became significant enough to constitute the creation and foundation of the entirely new M+ museum in Hong Kong opening in 2019. Notably, Sigg deliberately resisted following his personal tastes and instead built this ...

Posted: March 11th, 2016

Category: Exhibitions

Well known for using computer algorithms to produce abstract or unpredictable proliferations from simple lines or forms, Pascal Dombis’ latest public work is an excellent example of how his sculptures continue to push technology, even outside the art world. Dombis’ Irrational Geometrics uses ...

Posted: March 10th, 2016

Category: Exhibitions, News

A lot of debate centered around modern and contemporary art has been based on the problem of meaning. Since the demise of representational art, philosophers and art critics have wrestled with the problem of finding meaning in the abstract. From Emmanuel Kant to Roland Barthes, Clement Greenberg to ...

Posted: February 5th, 2016

Category: Exhibitions, Voices

With her dramatic technique and a talent for storytelling, Adriana Molder has crafted a strong reputation as a profound, through-provoking artist. Born in Lisbon in 1975, Molder has had a penchant for drama and cinema since her youth. This initially lead her to the theatre, where she completed a ...

Posted: February 3rd, 2016

Category: Exhibitions, Voices

Two thoughts underlie the project, Messages From Another World: on one hand, the realization that space is not empty, but a universe teeming with life that is invisible to ordinary sense perception and on the other, the realization that there are universals common to all humankind. The Swiss are a ...

Posted: February 3rd, 2016

Category: Exhibitions, Voices

Born in 1961, American artists and identical twins Doug and Mike Starn were primarily known for working conceptually with photography, and are concerned largely with chaos, interconnection and interdependence.  They have continued to defy categorization, effectively combining traditionally ...

Posted: February 3rd, 2016

Category: Exhibitions, Voices

Andy Hei About the Makings of a Successful International Art Fair. So how does one get to become the director of an art fair? Before I started this fair in 2006, I was helping different dealers with their involvement in other similar fairs, so I started from standing in the booth and helping to ...

Posted: February 2nd, 2016

Category: Exhibitions, Interviews, Market

Galerie MiniMasterpiece is a Paris-based gallery that works with the world’s most renowned contemporary sculptors to create wearable art, in the form of jewellery. The gallery was founded in early 2012 by Esther de Beaucé, who caught on the idea from her mother. Today, Ms. de Beaucé and Mr. ...

Posted: January 26th, 2016

Category: Exhibitions, Interviews