Welcome to day three of the Antwerp Art Weekend!
Be sure to drop by to see Winnie Claessens’ exhibition, 'All Tomorrow’s Parties'.
In the exhibition ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’, a contemporary tragedy unfolds in which three versions of the Earth exist side by side.Each worldview speaks with equal certainty, claiming to hold the truth. Images, voices, and signs attempt to persuade the viewer, while doubt quietly lingers in the background. What we know reaches us through screens, books, and mediated authorities, far removed from direct experience. Conviction becomes a matter of choosing rather than questioning. The title, inspired by William Gibson’s All Tomorrow’s Parties, gestures toward a world caught between overlapping futures, where reality is shaped in transitional zones rather than fixed conclusions. Between black and white, the space for nuance, dialogue, and mutual respect slowly disappears. This exhibition invites the viewer to step back into that fragile in-between space.
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Image:
Winnie Claessens
The Silent Message Overhead, 2025
Video (13 min 19 s.) + sculptuur 260 x 100 x 150 cm + sculptuur 197 x 40 x 50 cm
This installation was also on display last year @mhkamuseum as part of the group exhibition – curated by Nav Haq – ‘The Geopolitics of Infrastructure – Contemporary Perspectives’.
We are delighted to invite you to *magh- ✨✨✨
*magh- is a site-specific Adventure Lecture Performance by Julla Kroner (@postbotenschreck ), blending magical realism, developed in 2023 and now presented at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) in collaboration with Platform 0090.
Up to ten participants follow a guided tour using a shared iPad that reveals augmented reality images—dreams of the Fuller’s pirates—while a portable speaker provides an immersive soundtrack.
Practical:
- *magh- (performance walk) from Monty to KMSKA on Thursday 14/05: 13.30 – 14.30 + 16.00 –17.00
- *magh- (performance walk) from Monty to KMSKA on Friday 15/05: 14.30 – 15.30 + 16.00 - 17.00
- *magh- (performance walk) from Monty to KMSKA on Saturday 16/05: 14.30 – 15.30 + 16.00 – 17.00
- *magh- (performance walk) from Monty to KMSKA on Sunday 17/05: 14.30 – 15.30 + 16.00 – 17.00
The performance explores the museum’s architecture and hidden spaces, weaving an alternative history that connects industrialization, the museum’s construction, and the mythical pirates who inscribed their dreams into the building itself. Combining architecture, history, technology, and fiction, magh- offers a unique narrative experience between a tour, lecture, and adventure.
Register/book via [email protected] or [email protected]
This project is a collaboration between @platform0090 , @kmska_museum and @_fredferry_
The project is presented during the @antwerpart weekend
#fredandferrygallery #kmska #platform0090 #jullakroner #antwerpartweekend2026
Grand Chambord Interchange — chapter 4, 2026
For the upcoming @antwerpart weekend, Grand Chambord Interchange has undergone a final transformation. All horizontal elements of the structure have been removed and replaced with additional vertical beams, giving the staircase an elegant cylindrical look — a perfect fit for @winnieclaessens ’s beautiful exhibition currently on view in the gallery.
This series of photographs documents the descent from the attic to the gallery entrance, before retracing the different stages of the sculpture from its present state back to its original construction in September 2025.
After spending so much time on public commissions, with all their constraints and paperwork, it was a pleasure to work on site the way many artists work in the studio: empirically adjusting, testing, and reinforcing the piece until it naturally found its final form. Many thanks to @_fredferry_ for this opportunity, and happy anniversary!
Photos @lynnvanoijstaeijen
A warm welcome to everyone today at the opening of Winnie Claessens’ third exhibition at our gallery.
‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’
We are open from 2 pm to 7 pm.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
"Of all the forms the world contains,
none is so restless as man;
he travels over sea and land,
and draws lines where no boundary ever began.
He names the earth: flat, round, or hollow, ...
and locks it in a fragile scheme;
he seeks for proof in air and soil,
yet shapes his findings to fit what he deems.
He tames the beast, the measure, word, and wind,
and bends the storm to match his own desire;
yet still he weaves together truth with doubt,
a slender thread that holds and weighs him entire.
No force but doubt escapes his grasp,
no fear he does not strive to overcome;
but when the ground of knowledge gives beneath him,
each form and proof collapses, all undone.
O sharpened mind, so powerful and so clear,
guided by measure he can steadfast be;
but should he crown himself the only truth,
he builds on air—and falls with all he sees."
(inspired by Sophocles' Antigone)
Image:
@winnieclaessens
STAY STATIONARY TRUST YOUR SENSES, 2026
90 x 1,5 cm
Photo @lynnvanoijstaeijen
In her latest exhibition, Winnie Claessens presents a contemporary tragedy where three versions of the Earth coexist side by side. Each worldview speaks with equal certainty, claiming to hold the truth. Images, voices, and signs attempt to persuade the viewer, while doubt quietly lingers in the background. What we know reaches us through screens, books, and mediated authorities, far removed from direct experience. Conviction becomes a matter of choosing rather than questioning.
The title, inspired by William Gibson’s *All Tomorrow’s Parties*, gestures toward a world caught between overlapping futures, where reality is shaped in transitional zones rather than fixed conclusions. Between black and white, the space for nuance, dialogue, and mutual respect slowly disappears. This exhibition invites the viewer to step back into that fragile in-between space.
**Opening this Saturday, May 9th, from 2 p.m.**
@winnieclaessens
Thank you for visiting!
Art Brussels - 2026 🎉
Tales of Taboo, Torture
& Habsburger, Hipocrisy
Solo booth with FRED&FERRY Gallery
Photo by @misspocketknife
We would also like to highlight the work of Krystel Geerts, 'This weight stayed with me', 2026
Acrylic resin, fiberglass, pigment
265 x 162 x 83 cm
Unfortunately, the exhibition featuring this work has just concluded. Still, we want to share this powerful sculpture with you—one that explores the contrasts between heaviness and lightness, determination and vulnerability. From a distance, it appears as a solid, heavy clay work, but up close, it reveals a fragile plastic shell marked by traces of emotion.
Geerts works with over 800 kg of reused clay, letting her body guide the process—both compass and boundary. For This weight stayed with me, she drew inspiration from Bernini’s Ecstasy, retaining only the bed upright. The front evokes a Baroque column; the back exposes a raw, unfinished interior.
Her work reflects a world in flux, where form is temporary. As Geerts herself says: “I see the world as a landscape of folds—a map constantly reshaping under memory and emotion.” This vision is also evident in her glasswork, where frozen movements distort perception and highlight life’s complexity.
(Words after Indra Devriendt for @galleryviewer magazine.)
📸 @krystelgeerts
Bo Stokkermans’ Snakes and Ladders closes today—but the questions it asks don’t disappear. How does a material support itself—not just physically, but conceptually? For Stokkermans, even the hanging mechanism is part of the work, part of the conversation.
The exhibition explores this through movement and material. Blown glass, in collaboration with Marc Barreda, introduces volume and sculpture, challenging two-dimensionality with self-supporting forms that redefine hybridity. Doors and brooms merge techniques and materials, probing the tension between necessity and decoration, structure and ornament.
Even the drawings play with this balance, blending abstraction and figuration, blur and clarity.
Today is your last chance to see it—so come by before it’s too late! From 4 PM, we’re even serving pancakes. Don’t miss the chance to experience it all firsthand
@bostokkermans.sincere
🔍 Conspiracy, Myth, and the Weight of Paint
Antoine Waterkeyn’s new series for Art Brussels unfolds like a labyrinth of unstable logics—where historical, fictional, and political narratives collide and overwrite one another. These aren’t claims, but myth structures: recurring mechanisms through which power is imagined, projected, and endlessly recomposed.
🎭 Aristocracy, Taboo, and the Escape
The motif of lineage and control takes center stage in Jacques Demy’s Peau d’Âne (1970), starring Catherine Deneuve. A fairy tale where a king’s obsession with legacy and desire traps his daughter in a cycle of inheritance—until she flees, disguised as an enchanted donkey, a creature of gold and subversion.
🖌️ Painting as Method, Painting as Deconstruction
This series marks a return to canvas after years exploring digital painting and cut-out installations. Here, processes of layering, fragmentation, and recombination—once digital—are materialized in lacquer, medium, and iridescent pigment. Each work is rooted in a different conspiracy theory, forming a constellation of narratives that mirror and dismantle one another.
Power isn’t just depicted—it’s performed.
#artbrussels2026 #AntoineWaterkeyn #ConspiracyTheory #PeauDAne #CatherineDeneuve
@waterkeynantoine@artbrussels
📸 @lynnvanoijstaeijen
Art Brussels 2026 is open!
Everybody welcome to pay us a visit.
You can find us at booth 5A-31.
On show: 'Tales of Taboo, Torture and Habsburgers Hypocrisy' by Antoine Waterkeyn.
Looking forward tot see you soon.
#antoinewaterkeyn
#artbrussels2026
#brusselsexpo
#contemporaryartfair
@waterkeynantoine@artbrussels
📸 @lynnvanoijstaeijen
Everyone welcome on Saturday 25 April for the finissage of the current exhibitions.
This is your last chance to see the fantastic works by Jana Coorevits, Krystel Geert and Bo Stokkermans!
To make this occasion even more special, we’re organising 'pancakes and drinks' from 16:00 onwards.
We look forward to seeing you there!
It is our great pleasure to invite you to Art Brussels 2026.
For this edition, we have invited Antoine Waterkeyn to present a solo exhibition.
You will find us at booth 5A - 31.
In his most recent series, created especially for Art Brussels, Antoine Waterkeyn continues his critical and narrative practice. Focusing on power, myth and the manipulation of images, this time he turns his attention to figures from the Habsburg dynasty and the European aristocracy.
Waterkeyn explores how old elites still resonate in the imagination of today, and how conspiracy theories – from reptiles ruling the world to aristocratic women drinking blood to preserve their youth – give these historical figures a new, grotesque relevance. The result is a visual universe in which satire, history and contemporary paranoia merge.
His paintings balance between seriousness and absurdity, between heritage and fiction. They raise questions about how power perpetuates itself, how visual language colours our collective memory, and how conspiracy thinking becomes both a critique and a caricature of the world in which we live.
With this series, Waterkeyn aims not only to reveal the dark sides of power structures, but also the fascination and imagination that accompany them. The works thus open up a space where art history, social debate and contemporary myths intersect – a critical and playful contribution to the way in which visual language colours our history and contemporary imagination.
INFO:
ART BRUSSELS
Brussels Expo – Entrance Hall 5
Place de la Belgique 1
1020 Brussels
OPENING DAY
Thursday 23 April 2026
Preview | 11am – 4pm
Vernissage | 4pm – 9pm
PUBLIC DAYS
Friday 24 April 2026 | 11am – 7pm
Saturday 25 April 2026 | 11am – 7pm
Sunday 26 April 2026 | 11am – 6pm
#antoinewaterkeyn #artbrussels2026 #contemporaryart #contemporarypainter #contemporaryartfair
