OPENING • UN-SCENE III

WIELS presents: UN-SCENE III 30.05 – 09.08.2015 With: Béatrice Balcou, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Sébastien Bonin, Kasper Bosmans, Erika Hock, Hedwig Houben, Stephanie Kiwitt, Julien Meert, Yuki Okumura, Marina Pinsky, Marnie Slater, Leen Voet, Freek Wambacq OPENING: 29.05.2015 - 19:30 goo.gl/A3X8ln ■■■■■■■■■ Un-Scene III is a group exhibition of 13 emerging artists in or from Belgium. It presents a slice of a scene at a particular moment, and reveals the position of WIELS as an international institution firmly rooted in the Belgian landscape. The works presented in Un-Scene III include new and existing pieces, and range across all media. The scope of ideas explored is equally broad, while certain common themes emerge. These include: the impact of digital imagery on our way of seeing and making images; an interest in beauty, craftsmanship and the decorative; the appropriation of artworks and the delegation of authorship; the evocation of an absent or dematerialised body. The title – with its play on words suggesting both unseen and a non-scene – has perhaps a different connotation today than when previously employed at WIELS, for the first and second editions of Un-Scene (in 2008 and 2012). If there remain numerous, overlapping art scenes in Belgium (if not divided along language lines, then still often grouped around linguistic affinities), there is also an international scene that has grown in both scale and renown over the past years. It is perhaps the very heterogeneous nature of the Belgian art world that attracts so many foreign artists, who can find pathways into this amorphous network. This diversity is manifested in the selection of artists for Un-Scene III. Born between 1970 and 1990, they represent an extended generation, include seven different nationalities, and cannot be ascribed to one single scene. Curators: Devrim Bayar & Zoë Gray Assistant: Marwann Frikach ■■■■■■■■■ Music by Le Pacifique Records, Brussels (http://lepacifique.be) with Lawrence Ledoux, Nobuo and Aidons Antoine. ■■■■■■■■■ WIELS Av. Van Volxemlaan 354 1190 Bruxelles - Brussel