Re-Opening

“Re-opening” is a group show in three chapters with which Deweer gallery will open its doors after a thorough renovation and rebuilding of the entire gallery. An entirely new exhibition hall was added to the two existing ones, and the gallery now boasts more than 1200m² of exhibition surface. But “Re-opening” is also meant as an artistic statement by Gerald and Bart Deweer, who have taken over the gallery from their father Mark Deweer. The show brings together some 25 young, emerging and established artists from the Deweer gallery’s programme and from the international scene.
Each part or chapter of “Re-opening” is a group show in its own right and takes up one of the three exhibition halls Deweer now has. Two of the three shows are curated thematic entities.

In the new exhibition hall and lobby, new or rarely shown works by a number of individual positions are presented: Michaël Aerts, Stephan Balkenhol, Sergey Bratkov, Jan Fabre, Günther Förg, Tatjana Gerhard, Melissa Gordon, Enrique Marty, Benjamin Moravec, Yehudit Sasportas, Jorinde Voigt and Norbert Witzgall.

Room II, the renovated hall downstairs, will host a group show on contemporary sculpture. Focusing on the use and re-interpretation of the object as one of the dominant shifts within contemporary sculptural practice, it addresses how the object has become the primary matter and how the prevailing form in sculpture has become essentially installational. It does so through a diverse range of mentalities and approaches, featuring works by Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Monica Bonvicini, Stefaan Dheedene, Kasia Fudakowski, Simon Dybbroe Møller and Andy Wauman.

The group show in Room III, the hall upstairs, elaborates on narration - literary or personal – as a generating principle. Works by artists who use the autobiographical, tales and personal mythology and with whom Deweer gallery’s programme is associated, like Panamarenko and Ilya Kabakov, are confronted with works by Athanasios Argianas, Keren Cytter, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Gerda Scheepers and Alexandre Singh.