The CID Grand Hornu Centre for Contemporary Design generates super relevant ideas in the process of preparing exhibitions, each one more unusual than the last. To understand its narratives requires time and active brain work. An argument in favour of ‘contemporary...
DDW -Dutch Design Week (19-27 October 2024) – a ‘must see’ in the calendar of design exhibitions in Europe – industrial, bio, social – the list is long, my reporter’s article is short. Eindhoven is the brain port of the Netherlands. Our press...
Аt this year’s Gent Film Fest, I was puzzled by the idea of understanding the essence of short film. It’s not that I don’t love it. But it’s hard for me to watch several short films in a row, each time emotionally connected to a theme, usually...
The new, visible to the general public entrance to the Central art centre should change its fate dramatically. I really like the old one, with graffiti and some spirit of ‘for the initiated’ in contemporary art. But art needs to be brought to the masses and the new...
‘Love is Louder’, a paradoxical line from an installation by American artist Sam Durant, is the title of a new large-scale (120 works by 80 artists) multimedia exhibition at Bozar in Brussels. The 1967 ‘Summer of Love’ is taken as a point of reference. ‘All we need is...
The 2024 Commerce Design Brussels Awards, initiated by the annual Brussels Design September design festival, took place in the new flagship boutique of the winning design brand ‘Zangra’. The aim of the award is to emphasise the importance of collaboration...
