W139 cordially invites you to the opening night of W139 hosts… on Friday 8 September—kicking off seven weeks of artistic experimentation! Starting at W139 from 19:00 with drinks among the exciting projects of week one and food by Common Ground, continuing with a free afterparty down the street at our friends from Kanaal40.
We hope to see you there!
Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
Substitutes engages with queer history and discourses around the body, gender, and sexuality. It features artists across several generations working in a variety of mediums to contextualise and converse with these discourses. The exhibition is about the absence of bodies, the abstraction of the body, and the tools and language we use to maintain or describe our bodies—costuming, staging, masks, layering, clothing. It questions the normative frameworks that queer and functionally diverse people are subjected to. The human body is, paradoxically, both absent and present within the exhibition.
Initiated by the artist Philipp Gufler, Substitutes brings together works of Lorenza Böttner, Johanna Gonschorek, Elisàr von Kupffer, Rabe perplexum, Louwrien Wijers, Johannes Büttner, and Bruno Zhu. Philipp Gufler will show a new work titled Body/Text: a large-scale silk screen printed textile piece that draws inspiration from Elisàr von Kupffer’s panorama painting Klarwelt der Seligen (Clear World of the Blissful). By connecting contemporary discussions to historical perspectives, the exhibition aims to create a ‘living archive’. Drawing together artistic positions from then and now, the exhibition traces queer lives and networks from the past to our present.
Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
Visual identity by Jacob Hoving.
W139 invites you to the grand opening of People’s Forum, an exhibition by Farida Sedoc, on Friday 17 November from 19:00 to 22:00 at W139.
We hope to celebrate the kick-off of the exhibition with you! We will start with an opening speech by Urmy Macnack and Seada Nourhussen, followed by a dazzling performance of Strangie and sounds by Farida. As a welcome drink, we will serve herbal lemonade made by Yvonne’s Kitchen.
People’s Forum, Farida Sedoc’s first solo exhibition, explores the conditions for art as livelihood and as a vehicle for change. The exhibition will bring together a program offering alternative forms of artistic production and autonomy, including an office-in-residence by Platform BK.
We hope to see you there!
Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
The first SALWA Gathering in 2023: Exploring the Intersection of Community, Migration and the Internet. Starting at W139 or program, talks, food and drinks, and at 23:00 prepare to party hard in Garage Noord with Brussels based collective Yalla Nightlife.
Tickets €5 at the door. Combined ticket of €10 for the exhibition and the after party at Garage Noord.
