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“Ça a débuté comme ça. Moi, j’avais jamais rien dit. Rien.” -Céline, Voyage au bout de la nuit.
Art, classical music, opera, words.
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Boy with Bloody Arms, 2026

Oil on Canvas

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Unforgettable 😘🌞

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LAST WEEK, the group exhibition WHAT DID YOU PASS ON TO ME – 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘶 𝘣𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪, at Av. Louise 195, 1050 Brussels.
On view until this Saturday, June 27.
With works by @nel_aerts @francesca.comune_ @fran_vancoppenolle @dolfin_d #lilidujourie @melissajohannegordon @nokukhanyalanga @margarita__maximova #sophienys @shervinsheikhrezaei and @naamatsabar

My practice is a perceptual dialogue between time and materiality. As in my square works, the drawings pursue a similar investigation: the distinction between structure and support, the paper background and the pencil lines become almost indistinguishable.
From a distance, the image deliberately becomes illegible, creating the deceptive vision of a monochrome in which the two colored elements merge and lose their hierarchical references.
Perhaps the lines I draw are trying to encapsulate an instant, processing or working through something. Surely drawn with an ritualistic repetition.

In 2010, I paused drawing. This one I made during my residency at @themothership_tangier in 2025. It was at @citedesartsparis last autumn, that I had the space to return to them.
After 15 years, in September, a quiet and unexpected return happend.

Curated by @frederickgordts @giuliablasig @cltnwd_ @nicoledeeorourke

Photographer @matthias_mayz_yzebaert

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WHAT DID YOU PASS ON TO ME “retour au bailli” continues until June 27th.
1- Sophie Nys, Library, 2012. Courtesy the artist and @galeriegretameert
2- Naama Tsabar, Untitled (Body Wall), 2018. Courtesy the artist and @dvir_gallery .
3- Installation view with Naama Tsabar and Celine Vahsen.
4- Lili Dujourie, Untitled (male nude), 1977. Courtesy the artist and @michelineszwajcer .
5- Installation view with Celine Vahsen and Lili Dujourie.
6- Installation view with Francesca Comune, Delphine Deguislage, and Lili Dujourie.
7-Delphine Deguislage, FORME ET LANGAGE : S’HABILLER, 2026.
8- Nel Aerts, ‘self-love’, 2025.
9- Shervine Sheikh Rezaei, DISASTER PIECE, 2023.
10- Installation view with Nokukhanya Langa and Naama Tsabar.
11- Nokukhanya Langa, Untitled, 2023. Courtesy the artist and @barbegallery .
12- Installation view with Nel Aerts and Sophie Nys.
13- Celine Vahsen, Untitled, 2024.
14- Melissa Gordon, Female Readymade (Elsa 1917/2017, Rope, coal bag, hat of Rrose Selvay, large erasure, Duchamp’s models of ‘Fountain’ (1933), ‘Perseverance makes me sad,” sweater, evidence 2017), 2020.
15- Installation view with Melissa Gordon and Fran Van Coppenolle.
16- Fran Van Coppenolle, W1’23, 2022.
17- Installation view with Fran Van Copenolle and Francesca Comune.
18- Francesca Comune, Interstizio, 2026.
19. Margarita Maximova, Just Call him and See if He Picks Up, 2018, (video still)
20. Installation view with Margarita Maximova.

>>>195 Avenue Louise, Brussels. Open Thu- Sat, 2-6 pm and by appt. DM us for more info.

Photo credits: @kristiendaem for photo 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 20
Photo credits: @matthias_mayz_yzebaert for photo 4, 7, 9

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May: Venice crew and Venice view, Danai Anesiadou at KIN, Jacqueline Fraser at Damien and the love guru, Lydia Ourahmane at fiorucci Foundation, sparkly night of love for Leo and Tea, sloths and bare feet by Peter Simspon at Superdeals, WHAT DID YOU PASS ON TO ME retour au Bailly, some Adèle swag at Place Van Meenen, André Romão at Meessen, Nicolas Party at Xavier Hufkens, Florentina Holzinger at the Austrian Pavillion, Caroline Genez opening the pavilione, just IF, RendezVous Merch travels well, Alexandra Metcalff at dépendance and that guy floating in Venice

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The group exhibition WHAT DID YOU PASS ON TO ME – retour au bailli, at Av. Louise 195, 1050 Brussels. On view until Saturday 27.

It has been a long time since I showed a drawing.
In 2010, I paused drawing. This one I made during my residency at @themothership_tangier in 2025. It was at @citedesartsparis last autumn, that I had the space to return to drawing. After 15 years, in September, a quiet return happend, deeply personal and unexpected.

My practice is a perceptual dialogue between time and materiality. As in my square works, the drawings pursue a similar investigation: the distinction between structure and support, the paper background and the pencil lines become almost indistinguishable.
From a distance, the image deliberately becomes illegible, creating the deceptive vision of a monochrome in which the two colored elements merge and lose their hierarchical references.
Perhaps the lines I draw are trying to encapsulate an instant, holding on to time, or working through something, processing. Surely drawn with an obsessive and ceremonial repetition.

With great works by @nel_aerts @francesca.comune_ @fran_vancoppenolle @dolfin_d #lilidujourie @melissajohannegordon @nokukhanyalanga @margarita__maximova #sophienys @shervinsheikhrezaei and @naamatsabar

Curated by @frederickgordts @giuliablasig @cltnwd_ @nicoledeeorourke

Photographer @matthias_mayz_yzebaert

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Last Tuesday I attended at the opening of the exhibition WHAT DID YOU PASS ON TO ME. <RETOUR AU BALLI>

This exhibition included works of o.a.: NEL AERTS (Photo: 3, 14), SHERVIN/E SHEIKH REZAEI (Photo: 1, 9, 10), MELISSA GORDON (photo: 2) LILI DUJOURIE, (photo: 5,6,7,) MARGARITA MAXIMOVA (Photo: 4) SOPHIE NYS,(Photo: 11, 12) NOKUKHANYA LANGA (Photo: 13), FRAN VAN COPPENOLE (Photo: 15).

CURATORS: FREDERICK GORDTS, GIULIA BLASIG, CHARLOTTE NORWOOD and NICOLE O’ROURKE

UNTIL 27.06.2026
AVENUE LOUISE 195, BRUSSELS

#guiliablasig @charlottenorwood #nicoleorouke @frederickgordts @

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"Half a century after Galeries du Bailli’s heyday of Conceptualism, WHAT DID YOU PASS ON TO ME “retour au Bailli” returns to this historic Brussels site to reconsider artistic inheritance...

The tautological, performative, and site-specific strategies that shaped Le Bailli’s 1970s legacy serve as a point of departure, but the artists in this exhibition engage this history critically rather than reverently. Where Le Bailli once reflected a largely masculine, Eurocentric perspective, the works in this exhibition both continue and challenge that lineage.

Across sculpture, installation, photography, textile, painting, and sound, the artists adopt and destabilize the formal structures of early Conceptualism. Their practices draw on craft-based, process-oriented methods that also function within feminist and queer frameworks. They confront the exclusions embedded in traditional art histories, emphasize the performative potential of the body, and dissolve rigid distinctions between painting and sculpture into fluid, biomorphic, and associative forms. Site-specificity, architecture, language, and digital media also play central roles throughout the exhibition.

While the historical figures of Le Bailli established a canon of intellectual rigor, their work emerged from a particular model of spatial and formal authority. The artists in this exhibition disrupt that legacy both conceptually and aesthetically, deliberately avoiding the detached atmosphere often associated with Conceptual art. This exhibition is fuller, louder, and more tactile. Through fabrics, thread, digital technologies, structural interventions, and domestic materials, the artists replace the cool distance of early Conceptualism with embodied, active participation. In doing so, they suggest that inheritance gains meaning not only through preservation, but through revision and reinvention." -excerpt from exhibition text.

curated by Frederick Gordts, Giulia Blasig, Charlotte Norwood, and Nicole O’Rourke.

images: (1) Vito Acconci and (2) Daniel Buren (both 1974 at Le Bailli) courtesy of Philippe De Gobert.

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Very welcome to join us next week for the opening of “What did you pass on to me” at Le Bailli. I’m very happy to share that my work will be shown alongside works by deeply inspiring female artists in this remarkable space.

I’m also excited to present a new sound work developed over the past month together with sound artist Victor Gybels (@gibbywesh). The piece emerged through an intensive collaborative process and was created in dialogue with an earlier work, DISASTER PIECE (2023).

The exhibition revisits the history of the galleries of Le Bailli through a feminist-responsive lens, bringing together works by artists including Melissa Gordon, Sophie Nys, Margarita Maximova, Nel Aerts … and others, alongside archival research into the history of male conceptual artists who exhibited at Le Bailli.

Hope to see you at the opening on next Tuesday 26.05.2026.

With sincere thanks to the curators: Charlotte Norwood, Nicole O’Rourke, Giulia Blasig and Frederick Gordts.

@cltnwd_ @nicoledeeorourke @giuliablasig @frederickgordts

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Please join us next Tuesday for the opening of WHAT DID YOU PASS ON TO ME « retour au bailli »

26.05.2026 18:00-21:00
galeries “le bailli” avenue louise 195(6/7) 1050 bruxelles

26.05.2026 - 27.06.2026 thu-sat 14:00-18:00

A group show curated by @nicoledeeorourke @cltnwd_ @giuliablasig @frederickgordts

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De wereld van de klassieke muziek en kunst is rijk. Dat maakt onze gast Frederick Gordts nogmaals duidelijk bij De Liefhebber. Hij gidst ons langs prachtige muziekstukken.

Benieuwd naar zijn muziekkeuzes?
Beluister nu deze aflevering en nog veel meer op VRT MAX 🎧.

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weekend recap ☎️🤗🍸🐼🇬🇧

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