OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES

THE GRAND SABLON 40 - Located at the cultural heart of Brussels, The Grand Sablon 40 stands as a testament to the city’s rich heritage. Erected during the roaring twenties in the Beaux-Arts style, it initially served as the headquarters for one of Belgium’s foremost fur companies. Through the years, the building underwent transformative phases, evolving into a museum and later, the auction house of Pierre Bergé, the late husband of Yves Saint Laurent. In 2006, it earned the status of a protected monument, solidifying its place as a historic landmark in Brussels. The gallery is a continuation of curated spaces, each having their own unique narrative. The promenade starts in the famously decorated ballroom where Brussels’ bourgeoisie once had their couture wishes tailored. It serves as a prelude, offering a glimpse into the diverse rooms that await. Adjacent to the ballroom is the re-imagined director’s office, seamlessly blending tradition with a contemporary twist and moving beyond, our classical white cube becomes the backdrop for wall pieces, sculptures, and objets d’art. The first floor unveils an uninterrupted space for dedicated projects, hosting solo and curated exhibitions, while the second floor unfolds as our showroom and polyvalent playground, adapting to the dynamic needs of the art and design community. - For more info, please contact us on [email protected] - OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY 11H-19H

Very proud to announce that our co-founder Robbe Vandewyngaerde has been selected for Forbes 30 under 30! Award ceremony will take place this Friday the 28th of November at 18h30 in Ghent. - For more info, please contact us on [email protected] - OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS THURSDAY -SUNDAY 11H-19H

Solo Show Marius Ritiu - My boat is bent In collaboration with @wolf.antwerp - Visit the exhibition this weekend during @antwerpart - For Antwerp Art Weekend, My Boat is Bent, his stairway leads to heaven and I swing on meteoric dreams presents a speculative environment by Marius Ritiu, where gravity seems negotiable and matter remembers having been something else in a previous galaxy. At the center of the space stand three monumental sculptures in hand-hammered copper. They do not illustrate a story; they appear as if they have landed mid-sentence. - The first sculpture resembles a vessel warped by time, its dented copper surface recording rhythmic labor. It feels less like a boat for water and more like a craft for navigating memory or doubt—both relic and prototype. The second rises like an impossible stairway, suggesting ascension without structure. Its steps dissolve as they climb, turning solidity into vibration, as if transcendence were handmade. The third arcs like a swing in orbit, suspended between motion and stillness. Its glowing copper evokes condensed sunlight, capturing a moment between play and catastrophe. Together, the works create an unstable terrain where the absurd feels precise. Copper becomes a conductor of speculative energy, reflecting viewers as fleeting distortions. The exhibition reads like future archaeology—objects from a civilization where poetry shaped engineering. Here, the absurd is structural, and sculpture becomes a means of leaving the ground without ever fully departing.

Lionel Jadot - Video @glenn__verdickt Sound @eyeveyes - Lionel Jadot’s work emerges from an instinctive dialogue with materials, wood, metal, fabric, plastic, forgotten fragments, each carrying traces of a previous life that he carefully transforms into new forms and narratives. Working from his atelier in Zaventem, inside the evolving ecosystem of Zaventem Ateliers, Jadot moves freely between collectible design, sculpture, and interior architecture, guided less by fixed plans than by gesture, intuition, and material presence. Coming from six generations of furniture makers, he combines a profound understanding of craftsmanship with an uncompromising experimental freedom, creating works that feel deeply tactile, emotionally charged, and unmistakably alive. - For more info, please contact us on [email protected] - OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

Solo Show Marius Ritiu - My boat is bent In collaboration with @wolf.antwerp - Opening: Wednesday, May 13, from 6:00 PM Public Exhibition: Thursday, May 14 through Sunday, May 17, from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM - For Antwerp Art Weekend, My Boat is Bent, his stairway leads to heaven and I swing on meteoric dreams presents a speculative environment by Marius Ritiu, where gravity seems negotiable and matter remembers having been something else in a previous galaxy. At the center of the space stand three monumental sculptures in hand-hammered copper. They do not illustrate a story; they appear as if they have landed mid-sentence. - The first sculpture resembles a vessel warped by time, its dented copper surface recording rhythmic labor. It feels less like a boat for water and more like a craft for navigating memory or doubt—both relic and prototype. The second rises like an impossible stairway, suggesting ascension without structure. Its steps dissolve as they climb, turning solidity into vibration, as if transcendence were handmade. The third arcs like a swing in orbit, suspended between motion and stillness. Its glowing copper evokes condensed sunlight, capturing a moment between play and catastrophe. Together, the works create an unstable terrain where the absurd feels precise. Copper becomes a conductor of speculative energy, reflecting viewers as fleeting distortions. The exhibition reads like future archaeology—objects from a civilization where poetry shaped engineering. Here, the absurd is structural, and sculpture becomes a means of leaving the ground without ever fully departing.

Solo Show Marius Ritiu - My boat is bent In collaboration with @wolf.antwerp - Opening: Wednesday, May 13, from 6:00 PM Public Exhibition: Thursday, May 14 through Sunday, May 17, from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM - For Antwerp Art Weekend, My Boat is Bent, his stairway leads to heaven and I swing on meteoric dreams presents a speculative environment by Marius Ritiu, where gravity seems negotiable and matter remembers having been something else in a previous galaxy. At the center of the space stand three monumental sculptures in hand-hammered copper. They do not illustrate a story; they appear as if they have landed mid-sentence. - The first sculpture resembles a vessel warped by time, its dented copper surface recording rhythmic labor. It feels less like a boat for water and more like a craft for navigating memory or doubt—both relic and prototype. The second rises like an impossible stairway, suggesting ascension without structure. Its steps dissolve as they climb, turning solidity into vibration, as if transcendence were handmade. The third arcs like a swing in orbit, suspended between motion and stillness. Its glowing copper evokes condensed sunlight, capturing a moment between play and catastrophe. Together, the works create an unstable terrain where the absurd feels precise. Copper becomes a conductor of speculative energy, reflecting viewers as fleeting distortions. The exhibition reads like future archaeology—objects from a civilization where poetry shaped engineering. Here, the absurd is structural, and sculpture becomes a means of leaving the ground without ever fully departing.

Katana’s installation by Vladimir Slavov for @omaivillas Architect @_saota Photographer @nateleecocks - For more info, please contact us on [email protected] - OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

Lima Charlie — Solo Show Laurids Gallée - Each sculpture emits and redirects light within its own body, so the object shifts with every step the viewer takes. They behave like silent antennas—sending nothing, yet entirely received through perception. Because they act as transmitters, their forms follow the same internal logic. Volumes stretch into beams, tilt into cones, or open into dish-like curves. These shapes don’t mimic devices; they emerge from how a transmitting body naturally organises itself. And within this clarity, a controlled deviation always appears. Elements twist, rotate, or collide just enough to disturb perfect order. These intentional misalignments create tension—objects that almost follow their own system, but never fully. The components merge into continuous volumes. Simple geometric primitives become seamless bodies, where light bends inward and the surface behaves like a lens. The material remains still; the image never does. A minimal system in the room—aluminium blocks and exposed lines—quietly marks the path that feeds each sculpture, a reminder that even the simplest transmission needs its own structure. They seem engineered to communicate, yet they have nothing to declare. Their message is their behaviour: loud and clear, completed only through the act of being seen. - 📸 @mathijslabadie For more info, please contact us on [email protected] - OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

Soft Gravity Holds — Solo Show Olivia Cognet 4th of June, 18h00 Place du Grand Sablon 40, 1000 Brussels (2nd Floor) - “A gesture becomes a structure” is the starting point of Olivia Cognet’s exhibition, centered around a fountain. The fountain is not treated here as a symbol, but as something active, something that never fully settles. Water gathers for a moment, takes form, then immediately breaks apart again. It flows, spreads, disappears, and returns. There is no final image, only a continuous movement that keeps reshaping itself. Made in black stoneware with fine chamotte, the fountain has a presence that feels almost geological. It sits somewhere between something ancient and something still alive. Water moves through it without hierarchy or direction, passing from one basin to another, overflowing and escaping the edges. Nothing is contained in a fixed way, everything remains in transition. From this point, the rest of the exhibition unfolds as a continuation of the same language. Tables, seats, lamps, and sculptural objects extend the logic of the fountain into other forms. The material seems to carry the same movement, as if it were still in the process of becoming, slowly stabilizing without ever becoming completely still. In the end, the gesture briefly becomes structure, and the structure immediately begins to dissolve again, returning to movement to something that cannot be held in place. - For more info, please contact us on [email protected] - OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

Free form chair lacquered blue by Lukas Cober - For more info, please contact us on [email protected] - OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

OBJ-05-06-07-08-09-11-12— Solo Show Manuel Bano 4th of June, 18h00 Place du Grand Sablon 40, 1000 Brussels (Ground Floor) - Objects With Narratives presents the first solo exhibition of Valencian artist and designer Manuel Bañó, based in Mexico City. The exhibition is part of the OBJ series, an ongoing body of work composed of chronologically numbered objects that explore the relationship between material, form, and function. The exhibition brings together a selection of pieces conceived from a single material: recycled copper. Rather than a finished collection of objects, the project is understood as an open investigation into the physical and expressive capacities of copper, pushed to its limits through artisanal processes. Each piece results from a transformation: the copper is worked through fire and hammer, without industrial mediation. The hammer becomes both tool and language, and form emerges through the repetition of gestures that deform, tension, and stabilise the metal. In this process, idea, action, and material establish a direct and visible relationship. Formally, the works originate from elemental geometries and develop as an extension of drawing into space. The objects can be read as materialised traces, where precision does not rely on machinery but on the control of the process. Rather than being understood as isolated pieces, the works operate as a system of variations. Each object introduces adjustments in proportion, geometry, and scale, configuring an ongoing field of study between function and sculpture. Produced between Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, and Valle de Chalco, Estado de México, the pieces position Manuel’s work within a contemporary practice in which tradition operates as an active tool. In this context, copper ceases to be a support to become the essence of the project. - For more info, please contact us on [email protected] - OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

‘Lima Charlie’ is still running @objectswithnarratives until the end of the month. Drop by if you’re in Brussels! 💙