Opening of "Forms of the Unseen: Art and Invisibility"

The evening inaugurates a major group exhibition curated by Laurence Dujardyn (SYBIL), unfolding around the elusive and multifaceted theme of “the invisible.”

Spanning over six decades, the exhibition brings together more than fifty works, creating a dialogue between seminal figures of conceptual and post-war art and a younger generation of contemporary artists. Significant works by Sol LeWitt, Robert Barry, Piero Manzoni, Rosemarie Trockel, Robert Mangold, Lynn Hershman Leeson, David Wojnarowicz, and Tino Sehgal are presented alongside artists such as Carole Vanderlinden, Michel Tombroff, Loup Sarion, Loïc Raguénès, Sin Wai Kin, Valérie Mannaerts, and Armineh Negadari.

Through this cross-generational lens, the exhibition explores invisibility as a conceptual strategy, a visual paradox, a spiritual condition, and a tool to reveal political realities. It traces how artists, from the 1960s to today, have engaged with what resists perception—whether by reducing form to its most minimal expression, dematerialising the artwork entirely, or revealing what remains hidden within systems of representation.

In painting, the invisible emerges through processes of reduction and abstraction, where monochromatic surfaces and minimal gestures evoke the immaterial and the unseen. In conceptual practices, it challenges the necessity of physical presence, positioning the idea itself as the artwork—sometimes existing only as a set of instructions, a certificate, or even a thought.

Lastly, the invisible takes on a political dimension, exposing underlying power structures, systemic violence, and the realities of marginalised or surveilled communities.

By bringing these approaches together, the exhibition offers a compelling exploration of how art can make visible what is, by nature, unseen.