Sat. September 9, 10:00AM
Brussels Gallery Weekend — Guided tour and breakfast
Join us for a delicious breakfast organised by Boulengier and Brussels Gallery Weekend, followed by a guided tour of Generation Brussels with curator Sam Steverlynck.
From the 7th until the 10th of September, more than 40 art galleries around Brussels will be open to the public as part of the Brussels Gallery Weekend. Each year, the Brussels Gallery Weekend organises Generation Brussels, a group exhibition supporting the young Brussels art scene.
The 2023 exhibition of Generation Brussels, Cet obscur objet du désir, will be curated by the art critic and curator Sam Steverlynck, drawing inspiration from the surrealist cinematographer Luis Buñuel’s eponymous masterpiece from 1977.
The works exhibited all have in common the same ambivalence as the title of the movie: a visual language that carries both a form of attraction as well as a certain threatening darkness. The exhibition invites the visitor on a surrealist journey between desire and repulsion, fantasy and impulses, the object and the abject (Kristeva), the familiar and the uncanny (Freud).
With works by Chloé Arrouy, Aurélie Bayad, Maëlle Dufour, Yvan Megal, Lucian Moriyama, Nina Robert and Bas van den Hout.
About the curator:
Sam Steverlynck is a Brussels-based art critic and curator. He has been writing for various Belgian and international publications, including De Standaard, Art Review, artpress, … From 2018 until 2021, he was editor-in-chief of HART magazine. In 2021, he was curator at the post-graduate training HISK.
He currently works at S.M.A.K in Ghent where he co-curated the exhibition Pieter Engels: Fabulous Oldest Hits together with Philippe Van Cauteren.
The 2023 exhibition of Generation Brussels, Cet obscur objet du désir, will be curated by the art critic and curator Sam Steverlynck, drawing inspiration from the surrealist cinematographer Luis Buñuel’s eponymous masterpiece from 1977.
The works exhibited all have in common the same ambivalence as the title of the movie: a visual language that carries both a form of attraction as well as a certain threatening darkness. The exhibition invites the visitor on a surrealist journey between desire and repulsion, fantasy and impulses, the object and the abject (Kristeva), the familiar and the uncanny (Freud).
With works by Chloé Arrouy, Aurélie Bayad, Maëlle Dufour, Yvan Megal, Lucian Moriyama, Nina Robert and Bas van den Hout.
About the curator:
Sam Steverlynck is a Brussels-based art critic and curator. He has been writing for various Belgian and international publications, including De Standaard, Art Review, artpress, … From 2018 until 2021, he was editor-in-chief of HART magazine. In 2021, he was curator at the post-graduate training HISK.
He currently works at S.M.A.K in Ghent where he co-curated the exhibition Pieter Engels: Fabulous Oldest Hits together with Philippe Van Cauteren.
