Meet Suchan Kinoshita: the 2025 BelgianArtPrize winner
Meet Suchan Kinoshita: the 2025 BelgianArtPrize winner
Art

Mon. June 23, 6:30PM

Meet Suchan Kinoshita: the 2025 BelgianArtPrize winner

A conversation between four major figures of the Belgian art scene.

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Belgian Art Prize, we invite you to meet its 2025 winner, Suchan Kinoshita.


For more than three decades, Kinoshita has developed a multidisciplinary body of work that blends sculpture, installation, performance, sound, and moving image - often incorporating elements from theatre and experimental music. Her practice challenges conventional perceptions, inviting viewers to engage with time, space, and their own position within it.


In her current exhibition ‘Renovation’ at Bozar (on view until 29 June), Kinoshita reimagines the Antechambers of the Centre for Fine Arts, bringing light and movement back to forgotten architectural spaces.


This conversation brings Kinoshita into dialogue with Ilse Roosens (curator at Mu.ZEE), Jean-Michel Botquin (art critic), and Alberta Sessa (curator at Bozar and curator of ‘Renovation’). Together, they will explore her artistic process, the making of the exhibition, and curating in general.


The Belgian Art Prize celebrates this year its 75th anniversary and remains one of Belgium’s most esteemed recognitions in the field of contemporary art, supporting artists living and working in Belgium and sharing their work with a broader public.


Join us for an artful evening!


Exhibition views of the exhibition  “Suchan Kinoshita: Renovation” – BelgianArtPrize 2025 at Bozar

© Courtesy of the artist

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Suchan Kinosita

Suchan Kinoshita lives and works in Brussels. She studied rhythmics and later contemporary music theatre at the music academy in Cologne from 1981 onwards. Kinoshita’s works deal with combinations of several disciplines. Throughout her oeuvre, one can find elements from theatre and experimental music, two fields in which she was active for some time. Duration (time) and a conscious approach regarding the position of the viewer are two important aspects in her work. No themes, rather an interest in reading between the lines would describe her engagement. Kinoshita considers her work as a space where different works interact with each other but also with the viewer. How these different roles are taken by different players within a specific spatial condition is something she continues exploring. Her work was shown in several international exhibitions. She is the winner of the BelgianArtPrize 2025.

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Jean-Michel Botquin

Jean Michel Botquin is an art historian and critic, and also an author and editor. In collaboration with Nadia Vilenne, he manages the Nadja Vilenne gallery, based in Liège. He has written many essays on art and monographs. He’s particularly interested in XXth century’s art, from the historical avant-gardes to the 70’s art scene.

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Ilse Roosens

Ilse Roosens is a curator at Mu.ZEE in Ostend. Post-colonial, ecofeminist and post-capitalist topics lay the groundwork for her work both inside and outside the museum. Ilse Roosens questions existing power structures and focuses on the social responsibility of institutions, governments and artists. She is actively rethinking the formats for presenting collections by experimenting with transhistorical and transcultural concepts. At Mu.ZEE she has curated exhibitions such as Aglaia Konrad: KAMMERSPIEL (2023); Maarten Vanden Eynde: Digging up the Future (2021) together with Katerina Gregos; Orla Barry & Els Dietvorst: Wintrum Frod (2019), and Frans Masereel and Contemporary Art: Images of Resistance (2017). In 2018 she co-founded the MEER curatorial collective, focusing on artists working with video and performance art. Prior to Mu.ZEE she worked at S.M.A.K. Ghent and Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp. Ilse Roosens is currently collaborating with Suchan Kinoshita on an art commission as part of Mu.ZEE’s renovation, taking the form of the residency ‘Mu.ZEE APOTHEEK ATELIER’ (2025–2028).

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Alberta Sessa

Alberta Sessa has been coordinating and curating exhibitions at Bozar since 2007. Before joining this institution in 2002, she was a programmer at CINEMATEK. She is particularly interested in the avant-gardes of the second half of the twentieth century, and in the meeting points between contemporary art, ancient art and other artistic disciplines, especially performance art and dance. In her role at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, she has worked with artists such as Jonas Mekas, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Charlemagne Palestine and choreographer Boris Charmatz. She has also worked on major international exhibitions such as the retrospective devoted to Keith Haring in collaboration with Tate Liverpool, and more recently as co-curator of the exhibition “Chantal Akerman. Travelling.” Alberta Sessa is curator of the exhibition Renovation by the artist Suchan Kinoshita, winner of the BelgianArtPrize 2025.
Start
Mon. June 23, 6:30PM
End
Mon. June 23, 9:00PM
Format
TheMerode Talks
Language
English (US)
Guest allowed?
No

Address

Event
Place Poelaert, 6
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Parking
Parking Poelaert, Place Poelaert 1000 Brussels

Detailed programme

Welcome
Mon. June 23, 6:30PM
Conversation and Q&A
Mon. June 23, 7:00PM
Networking
Mon. June 23, 8:00PM
End
Mon. June 23, 9:00PM

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