SB34 — Brussels

upcoming exhibition at SB34 concorde Dwelling house Émile Hermans @emile.p.hermans In ‘W. B. Yeats: Poet and Astrologer’ (1998), Elizabeth Heine highlights the structuring role of astrology in Yeats life and work. According to commonly cited sources, Yeats was born on June 13, 1865, at 10:40 pm. However, Heine records his date of birth as July 13, 1865, at the same hour. While the origin of this discrepancy remains unclear, it generates a productive ambiguity, which Émile Hermans further extends in his work, where he speculates on its consequences at both the human and celestial scales. * Dans “W. B. Yeats: Poet and Astrologer” (1998), Elizabeth Heine met en lumière le rôle structurant de l’astrologie dans la vie et l’œuvre de Yeats. Selon les sources généralement citées, Yeats serait né le 13 juin 1865 à 22h40. Cependant, Heine indique sa date de naissance comme étant le 13 juillet 1865, à la même heure. Bien que l’origine de cette divergence reste obscure, elle génère une ambiguïté féconde, qu’Émile Hermans prolonge dans son travail, où il en envisage les conséquences à la fois sur les plans humain et céleste. Opening on Friday 15.05.2026, 18:00—21:00 Exhibition open on Friday and Saturday 14:00—18:00 and by appointment at [email protected] at SB34 concorde Rue de la Concorde, 16, 1050 Ixelles Saturday, 13.06.2026, 18:00—19:30 - ‘Amplifications’ Screening (ENG) at SB34 The Pool Rue Saint-Bernard, 34, 1060 Saint-Gilles * Cette exposition est présentée avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles et s’inscrit dans la programmation du Offestival.

collective exhibition during 🌀Offestival🌀 16.05 - 14.06.2026 Born from a joint initiative by Metarage and Becue, Offestival 2026 brings together and highlights Brussels’ artist-run spaces in a collective, joyful, and self-organized spirit. This year, SB34 joins the project, inviting its resident artists to take over Metarage’s exhibition space. * Né d’une initiative de Metarage et Becue, Offestival 2026 rassemble et met en lumière les artist-run spaces bruxellois dans un esprit collectif, joyeux et auto-organisé. Cette année, SB34 rejoint le projet et invite ses artistes résident·es à investir l’espace de Metarage. Avec / With :  Clara Agnus, Jules Boucaud, Yuna Mathieu Chovet, Louis Everaert & Hadrien Verlinden, Nicolas Gutierrez, Miky Kray, Lionel Maes & Sophie Martin, Rokko Miyoshi, Fanny Patarin, Anna Luz Pueyo, Justin Sanchez, Raphaëlle Serres Opening on Saturday 16.05.2026, 19:00—22:00 Performances with Amina Abouelghar, Linora Dinga & Mehdi Mojahid starting at 20:00, curated by @metarage.bxl 

Exhibition open on Thursday 14:00—18:00 and by appointment at [email protected] at Metarage Rue du Métal, 32, 1060 Saint-Gilles during @offestival.brussels

opening this Friday at SB34 concorde Dwelling house a solo exhibition by Émile Hermans @emile.p.hermans marking the opening day of this year’s Offestival @offestival.brussels join us from 18:00 to 21:00! * Opening on Friday 15.05.2026, 18:00—21:00 Exhibition open on Friday and Saturday 14:00—18:00 and by appointment at [email protected] at SB34 concorde Rue de la Concorde, 16, 1050 Ixelles also, note in your agenda: Saturday, 13.06.2026, 18:00—19:30 - ‘Amplifications’ Screening (ENG) at SB34 The Pool Rue Saint-Bernard, 34, 1060 Saint-Gilles * Cette exposition est présentée avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles et s’inscrit dans la programmation du Offestival.

Hélène Moreau residency - Silice & Capitons thank you to everyone who stopped by SB34 concorde last weekend to discover Hélène Moreau’s work in progress. we’re also grateful to those who joined and shared their voices and care during the performed reading of Silice & Capitons – Elles Terrissent. Hélène will remain in the space for one final week. If you’d like to meet her, appointments can be arranged via [email protected] also many thanks to Valentine Siboni @_valsib_ for accompanying Hélène during this period with an external perspective after that, she will return to Théâtre Le Boson @le_boson in Ixelles for a final period of on-stage residency 3.4 - 4.5.26 SB34 concorde Rue de la Concorde 16 1050 Ixelles * Avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, en collaboration avec Le Boson. @le_boson #artbrusselsoffprogramme #artbrussels2026

thank you to those who came yesterday to discover the in-progress residency showing & reading of Hélène Moreau @hlnmoreau 
second and last reading (FR) today at SB34 concorde 15:00
the space is also open from 14:00 to 18:00
come meet the artist! Silice & Capitons - Elles terrissent 
Hélène Moreau — new performative reading (residency in progress) Last day this Saturday 25.04, 14:00–18:00
Readings (FR) at 15:00 Silice & Capitons is a long-term project by artist Hélène Moreau, exploring the role of reading aloud within a visual arts practice. The project unfolds through multiple entry points, navigating between installation, set design, performance, poetry, and furniture, within a setting that encourages hospitality. 3.4 - 4.5.26 Open by appointment during the period of residency via [email protected] SB34 concorde Rue de la Concorde 16 1050 Ixelles * Avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, en collaboration avec Le Boson. @le_boson

spring residency at SB34 concorde Hélène Moreau @hlnmoreau @artbrussels OFF Programme next week-end! Open on Friday 24.04 and Saturday 25.04, 14:00—18:00 Readings (FR) Friday 24.04 and Saturday 25.04, 15:00 🧵 Silice & Capitons is a long-term project by artist Hélène Moreau, exploring the role of reading aloud within a visual arts practice. The project unfolds through multiple entry points, navigating between installation, set design, performance, poetry, and furniture, within a setting that encourages hospitality. The residency at SB34 concorde marks a moment of reflection, situated between two phases of writing work developed on stage around the activatable piece Module de lecture, created at Théâtre Le Boson in Ixelles. This project underwent an initial phase of research in Marseille between 2024 and 2025, with the support of Voyons at La Voilerie Phocéenne. Two reading sessions will offer the audience an opportunity to pause, to interweave narratives and forms of writing around the capacities for adaptation and experimentation. 3.4 - 4.5.26 Open by appointment during the period of residency via [email protected] SB34 concorde Rue de la Concorde 16 1050 Ixelles * Avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, en collaboration avec Le Boson. @le_boson

residency Hélène Moreau @hlnmoreau Silice & Capitons is a long-term project by artist Hélène Moreau, exploring the role of reading aloud within a visual arts practice. The project unfolds through multiple entry points, navigating between installation, set design, performance, poetry, and furniture, within a setting that encourages hospitality. The residency at SB34 concorde marks a moment of reflection, situated between two phases of writing work developed on stage around the activatable piece Module de lecture, created at Théâtre Le Boson in Ixelles. This project underwent an initial phase of research in Marseille between 2024 and 2025, with the support of Voyons at La Voilerie Phocéenne. Two reading sessions will offer the audience an opportunity to pause, to interweave narratives and forms of writing around the capacities for adaptation and experimentation. 3.4 - 4.5.26 Open by appointment during the period of residency via [email protected] Art Brussels OFF Programme @artbrussels Open on Friday 24.04 and Saturday 25.04, 14:00—18:00 Readings (FR) Friday 24.04 and Saturday 25.04, 15:00 SB34 concorde Rue de la Concorde 16 1050 Ixelles * Avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, en collaboration avec Le Boson. @le_boson

LIKING closed its doors last Saturday, thank you all for being part of it! an exhibition curated by Maziar Afrassiabi with a text by Michiel Ceulers 15.01 - 28.02.2026 at SB34 concorde Rue de la Concorde, 16 - 1050 Bruxelles @maziarafrassiabi @michielceulers @rib_rotterdam the exhibition and the contributions can be found on our website more to come at SB34 concorde subscribe to the newsletter to stay connected Avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (c) Fabrice Schneider

final days for LIKING, closing this Saturday at SB34 concorde open today and tomorrow 14:00-18:00 Shahin Afrassiabi curated by Maziar Afrassiabi @maziarafrassiabi with a text by Michiel Ceulers @michielceulers Closing 28.02.2026 Exhibition open on Friday and Saturday 14:00-18:00 and by appointment at [email protected] SB34 concorde Rue de la Concorde 16 – 1050 Shahin Afrassiabi’s recent series of paintings takes as its starting point a 1971 photograph of Francis Bacon in his London studio, taken by Francis Goodman and now held in the National Portrait Gallery. Afrassiabi dissects and reinterprets this image through a range of expressive painterly variations that hover between figuration and abstraction. Figuration, because we recognise the image of a person; abstraction, because that recognisability — bound to myth and to the legacy of painting itself — becomes self-reflexive. The familiar image is reconfigured, made strange yet not entirely detached from its origin. What once sustained the “constructed Bacon” as a coherent figure of artistic authority is here loosened, interrupted, and rendered indeterminate. Each canvas carries traces of fleeting gestures and deliberate ruptures that unsettle the authority of the original image. Afrassiabi, who has worked across media including sculpture, sound, film, and installation, approaches painting without fixed allegiance to style or medium. His practice operates through shifting modes of engagement, continually questioning painting’s own foundations. This latest project extends beyond homage. By multiplying and distorting Bacon’s likeness, Afrassiabi turns the figure of the painter into a cipher for painting itself — the “artist” as both subject and object, myth and caricature. * Avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles @rib_rotterdam (c) Fabrice Schneider

On January 31st, we had the pleasure of hosting the launch of issue #9 of @accattone_magazine at SB34 concorde A huge thank you to everyone who showed up and took the time to also visit the “LIKING” exhibition. Your energy made the evening truly special 🔩 If you couldn’t make it, you can still support Accattone and grab your copy at: @peinturefraichebookshop @wiels_brussels @librairie.tulitu @marinabautier @saintmartinbookshop Accattone #9 brings together a reflection on the ebb and flow between affirmation and denial as well as material- conceptual operations with dirt. It features a reassembled art residency, furniture made from salvaged materials (and new bolts), drywall marquetry, a punk farm, the earliest cave construction, a lavatory covered in goose feathers, cars buried under asphalt, fake nails, gabion walls, hairy stuff, mud, a recipe for concrete rubble walls and slabs, a sandbag façade, theory fed to worms, a leaking fountain, theoretical fatbergs and the yes of the no. With Jérémie Dussault-Lefebvre and Sébastien Roy, Arnaud Eubelen, Matthew Stadler, Emma Cocker, Homo neanderthalensis via Sophie Verheyden and Jacques Jaubert, Hélène Frichot, Maxence Grangeot, Baukunst, TEN and Babini Geysen with Tiphaine Abenia and Olivier Campagne, Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth, Truwant + Rodet +, Willie Morlon. * Editors and designers: Ismaël Bennani, Sophie Dars, Orfée Grandhomme, Carlo Menon, Galaad Van Daele The making of this issue was supported by Cellule architecture / Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

A huge thank you to everyone who came to the opening of Liking by Shahin Afrassiabi, curated by Maziar Afrassiabi. It was great fun to see you for a new start of the year! We’re open Friday and Saturday, 14:00-18:00 and by appointment at [email protected] SB34 concorde
 Rue de la Concorde 16 – 1050 * Avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

SB34’s new exhibition at SB34 concorde is all about painting: LIKING Shahin Afrassiabi Opening 15.01.2026 18:00-21:00 Closing 28.02.2026  Exhibition open on Friday and Saturday 14:00-18:00 and by appointment at [email protected] SB34 concorde Rue de la Concorde 16 – 1050 Shahin Afrassiabi’s recent series of paintings takes as its starting point a 1971 photograph of Francis Bacon in his London studio, taken by Francis Goodman and now held in the National Portrait Gallery. Afrassiabi dissects and reinterprets this image through a range of expressive painterly variations that hover between figuration and abstraction. Figuration, because we recognise the image of a person; abstraction, because that recognisability — bound to myth and to the legacy of painting itself — becomes self-reflexive. The familiar image is reconfigured, made strange yet not entirely detached from its origin. What once sustained the “constructed Bacon” as a coherent figure of artistic authority is here loosened, interrupted, and rendered indeterminate. Each canvas carries traces of fleeting gestures and deliberate ruptures that unsettle the authority of the original image. Afrassiabi, who has worked across media including sculpture, sound, film, and installation, approaches painting without fixed allegiance to style or medium. His practice operates through shifting modes of engagement, continually questioning painting’s own foundations. This latest project extends beyond homage. By multiplying and distorting Bacon’s likeness, Afrassiabi turns the figure of the painter into a cipher for painting itself — the “artist” as both subject and object, myth and caricature. Curated by Maziar Afrassiabi @maziarafrassiabi With a text by Michiel Ceulers Avec le soutien de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. #shahinafrassiabi #maziarafrassiabi  #michielceulers #francisbacon #francisgoodman #sb34concorde