Art of the Loom: 32 Tapestries Woven on the Looms of Mark Deweer’s Factory, Otegem, Belgium

Mark Deweer, founder of both DEWEER gallery and a carpet factory, merged the two passions that defined his life and created ‘Art of the Loom’, a stunning collection of 32 exclusive tapestries that challenge our views on the crossings between contemporary art and design.

The show is much more than a display of the entire collection. It puts the ‘Art of the Loom’ project into perspective. In an experimental exhibition lay-out, the carpets are displayed together with new and rarely shown works of art by several artists who were crucial to the ‘Art of the Loom’ project and to the gallery’s intriguing history.

With Stephan Balkenhol, Sergey Bratkov, Tony Cragg, Jan De Cock, Stefaan Dheedene, Jan Fabre, Günther Förg, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Thomas Lange, Matthieu Laurette, Josef Felix Müller, Panamarenko, Koen Vanmechelen, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, and others.

The illustrated book on Art of the Loom was written by Max Borka and designed by Studio Luc Derycke.