Wiels
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Wiels is a contemporary art gallery situated in Forest, in the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium in the building of the old Wielemans-Ceuppens brewery.
Officially opened on May 25, 2007, Wiels has three exhibition halls with a total exhibition space of 1,800 m2 (19,000 sq ft), a cinema / auditorium, studio workshops for artists-in-residence, and a café and bookshop in the former brewing hall. The institution has no permanent collection, instead putting on temporary exhibitions by national and international artists.
Wiels has been described as "an international laboratory for the creation and the diffusion of contemporary art"[1] and is one of the leading contemporary art institutions in Belgium.[2]
It has nine artist-in-residency places for which it receives hundreds of applications every year.[3]
The name 'Wiels' comes from a beer formerly brewed by Wielemans-Ceuppens.
Artists to have exhibited there include Yayoi Kusama, Mike Kelley, Luc Tuymans, David Claerbout and Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven.
Building
The Blomme building (named after its architect Adrien Blomme), also known as the "Wielemans tower", is one of the few examples of modernist industrial architecture in Brussels, and was built in 1931.[2]
References
- ^ "Wiels - Center for Contemporary Art". BrusselsMuseums.be. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
- ^ a b "Gallery Wiels". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
- ^ Rachel Donadio (2015-07-17). "Brussels Making a Strong Bid for Art". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-02-17.