‘The Importance of Being …’ was initiated when the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba invited Bruno Devos to organize an exhibition on Contemporary Belgian Art in the broadest meaning possible. For the project the up-and-coming Cuban curator Sara Alonso Gomez was chosen. Being specialized in contemporary art she has developed a fresh vision [...]

‘The Importance of Being…’ is an exhibition of 40 artists. At the moment the exhibition is presented in The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Cuba. Click here to see more about the participating artists.      

‘The Importance of Being …’ is an exhibition dedicated to the rich Belgian contemporary art world. It brings 40 of Belgium’s most prominent artists in several disciplines together. As every selection, it remains insufficient and precarious, even if the first and last wish was to be as comprehensive and inclusive as possible. In this sense, [...]

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When in 2012, Nico and I talked about utopias and the related Utopia Station exhibition, our conversation quickly turned towards his poster A Poem A Day (2003). Very soon our verbal exchange turned into an idea, a plan, an open invitation to friends, asking them to respond to this idea of a poem for every [...]

In 1997, I suddenly, surprisingly found this image A Poem A Day, these four words, these small noises … this work without compromise, on the inside of an empty cardboard box I had recycled from a garbage container next to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I used this box to wrap and protect [...]

Zanele Muholi will present the ‘Faces and Phases’ book launch. The book is a culmination of black and white photographs in which most of our friends, lovers, relatives and acquaintances feature that archives and documents the existence of black lesbians and transgender people in South Africa and beyond, captured between 2006-14. The book is published [...]

From October 30th until November 1st 2014, upon invitation of Olafur Eliasson & Institut für Raumexperimente and part of the David Chipperfield exhibition ‘Sticks and Stones’, A Poem A Day will be on display and performed by Katharina Schrade, Augustin Maurs & Louis Scoufaras. The calendar ‘A Poem A Day’ was initiated by Nico Dockx [...]

Op zaterdag 8 november 2014 om 15.00h opent de tentoonstelling A Poem A Day, gecureerd door Clara Meister, Nico Dockx en Bruno Devos en op uitnodiging van Philip Van den Bossche. Bijna 400 verschillende bijdragen van kunstenaars, schrijvers, curatoren, mensen uit de museumwereld en andere creatieve geesten, verschijnen op de muren van Mu.ZEE. Vanuit het [...]

From October 30th until November 1st 2014, upon invitation of Olafur Eliasson & Institut für Raumexperimente and part of the David Chipperfield exhibition ‘Sticks and Stones’, A Poem A Day will be on display and performed by Katharina Schrade, Augustin Maurs & Louis Scoufaras. The calendar ‘A Poem A Day’ was initiated by Nico Dockx [...]