Wiels - Center for Contemporary Art
The Wiels - Center for Contemporary Art (which writes itself WIELS ) is an art museum and art center at 354 avenue Van Volxemlaan and avenue Wielemans Ceuppens in the municipality of Forest / Vorst , Brussels-Capital Region .
Buildings and history
WIELS was on 25 May 2007 at the corner of the former brewery , opened Wielemans-Ceuppens, built by the modernist architect Adrien Blomme Belgian. It offers a total of 1800 m 2 of exhibition space on three levels and houses the workshops of the artists who reside here .
The Blomme building, also called Wielemans Runde, named after its architect , is one of the rare examples of modern industrial architecture in Brussels. The remains of the old brewery were in 1993 from the Brussels-Capital Region under monument protection provided and by 2005 extensively renovated.
The name WIELS refers to Wiel's , a beer with a low alcohol content that the Wielemans-Ceuppens brewery brewed from the post-war period until the end of 1988.
Mission and Program
WIELS is a laboratory for contemporary art with international standards. The aim is not only to present art and public work, it is also aimed directly at artists. WIELS focuses on painting, sculpture and object art, but the focus is particularly on mixed forms and interactions with other disciplines across the board in order to create or offer a permanent dialogue with current developments and debates in the art world.
WIELS - without its own permanent collection - shows six changing exhibitions every year. In addition, WIELS regularly organizes conferences, festivals, film screenings and concerts.
literature
- Luc Lambrecht: Wiels! . MER Paper Kunsthalle Verlag, 2003.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wiels - Center for Contemporary Art ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- WIELS Contemporary Art Center (official website)
- Wiels - Center for Contemporary Art (Belgium-Tourismus.de)
- Literature by and about Wiels - Center for Contemporary Art in the catalog of the German National Library
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 28 " N , 4 ° 19 ′ 32" E