Brussels Metropolitan Area
ERNESTO DE SOUSA, EXERCISES OF POETIC COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER OPERATORS Exhibition curated by Lilou Vidal The centenary exhibition of the artist is taking place at two venues of Galerias Municipais in Lisbon, Galeria Quadrum and Galeria da Índia, from 13th November 2021 to 27th February 2022. This exhibition based on Ernesto de Sousa’s legacy, artist, poet, curator filmmaker, will explore his work and his archive through an intergenerational and transhistorical dialogic approach. Reflecting to the complexity to frame or encapsulate the multifaceted practices of Ernesto de Sousa’s work (and his kaleidoscopical definition of art through otherness and life) this show, will attempt to present the different aspects of his oeuvre and transform and turn the power of the Archive, in a way that it no longer categorizes, but un-fixes, re-reads, alliterates, displaces or activates. A current generation of Portuguese and international artists are invited to dialog with the idiosyncratic work and practice of this major figure from the Portuguese avant-garde with punctual interventions. Rather than a group exhibition, or a retrospective show, the format of this exhibition aims to question the mechanism of the monographic exhibition through the liminality and the inclusiveness of the insert of works, documents, sound pieces, but also readings, performances, screenings, conferences in collaboration with the invited artists.
Désormais envisagé comme un compagnonnage d’une année avec les artistes sélectionné·e·s, le prix Pernod Ricard s’étendra d’octobre 2020 à septembre 2021 date d’ouverture de l’exposition collective. « Bonaventure (Trafiquer les mondes) » rassemble 9 artistes invité·es par la commissaire Lilou Vidal : Meris Angioletti, Carlota Bailly-Borg, Minia Biabiany, Gina Folly, Renaud Jerez, Boris Kurdi, Tarek Lakhrissi, Ghita Skali et Adrien Vescovi
Bureau des Réalités aims at creating an intimate and critical approach to contemporary art practices through the participation of artists, curators, writers and editors in the cross-sectional domain of image, object and language circulating in the environment of the Bureau (office) as a site of thought production. The program includes exhibitions, residences, lectures, editions and publications as well as outside curatorial projects to maintain an active and plural reflection. Bureau des Réalités is a non-profit organization founded in May 2015 by Lilou Vidal, French independent curator based in Brussels and Turin. Parallel to its program in Belgium, Bureau des Réalités is developing new prospective approaches and curatorial projects in the Piedmont (Italy).
Artists in residency from 2018 - 2021: Rosa Aiello, Danai Anesiadou, Martin Belou, Katinka Bock, Hugo Canoilas, Etienne Chambaud, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, David de Tscharner, Edith Dekyndt, Daniel Dewar, Hilario Isola, Ana Jotta, Gabriel Kuri, Guillaume Leblon, Jim Lee, Erwan Mahéo, Christoph Meier, Ute Müller, Valérie Mannaerts, Ives Maes, Caroline Mesquita, Sophie Nys, Nick Oberthaler, J.Parker Valentine, Nicola Pecoraro, Francesco Pedraglio, Tania Pérez Córdova, Renaud Jerez, Bojan Sarcevic, Zin Taylor, Harald Thys, Gregor Titze, Ricardo Valentim, Michael Van den Abeele, Adrien Vescovi. Borrowed from an illustrated anthology about alchemy and poems by Daniel Stolcius de Stolzenberg in 1624, the title of this project Viridarium Chymicum (The Chemical Pleasure-Garden), pays homage to the issue of labor, pleasure and alchemy in a specific context of withdrawal. Launched in San Sebastiano da Po in Italy (Piedmont) in November 2018 by the artist Pieter Vermeersch and the curator Lilou Vidal, the project is articulated around the making of ceramics and the construction of a kiln as a tool and architectural space.
This Is My Body, My Body Is Your Body, My Body Is the Body of the Word with Simon Asencio, Gianfranco Baruchello, Tomaso Binga, Irma Blank, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Ernesto de Sousa, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Karl Holmqvist, Derek Jarman, Ketty La Rocca, Hanne Lippard, Meĺanie Matranga, Rory Pilgrim, Michele Rizzo + Book 23 Nov 2019 – 19 Avril 2020
Ezio Gribaudo, Logogrifo, Palm Tree, Cactus, De Chirico, Dino, Pinocchio & Publishing + Book