Focus on Brussels

As Brussels Design September and Brussels Gallery Weekend take over the Belgian capital, this month is set out to be a true celebration of local designers. Here are TLmag’s highlights of the over 100 events scheduled for this month!

TLmagazine spoke to Lionel Jadot about his ambitious journey creating this daring and unique project close to Brussels.

Inspired by western and non-western masters alike, visual artist Sanam Khatibi interrogates our personal and political power-structures through material and scenic juxtapositions in her paintings, embroidery, tapestries and ceramic sculptures. TLmag talks to the Belgian artist and reflects on the underlying personal attributes that influence her intuitive practice.

This Brussels studio cultivates a carefully reasoned approach to graphic design. Contemporary, meticulous and rather trendy, the Stoëmp style is centred on experience and ethical practices. TLmag met with Italian-Polish designer-duo Gaetano Licata and Wojciech Szlachta, the source for the most multicultural “stoemp” in the Belgian capital.

Designing fabrics that are exported around the world, these two designers are as close as they are complementary. TLmag meets with half of the otherwise inseparable duo Barbara Repole, who, together with Sébastien Pescarollo, co-founded Belgian label ‘PIECEOFCHIC’.

Thanks to POOL IS COOL, an open platform of Belgian citizens and experts, people will be able to enjoy and jump into three of Brussels’ many ponds for the first time in decades.

The experimental, labour-intensive and nature-informed practice of Finnish visual artist Antti Laitinen takes over Brussels with exhibitions in Tournay-Solvay Park and La Patinoire Royale/Galerie Valérie Bach.

Last week the 31st edition of La Cambre-Mode[s] show took place at Kanal Centre Pompidou. TLmag reflects on and highlights some of the talented designers that took home prestigious awards from the exciting event.

ADAM – Brussels Design Museum’s latest exhibition offers a sociological reflection of the aspirations and ideals of the past through an analysis of their interiors.

Martin Szekely presents the ambiguous nature of drawers in his minimal structural configuration ‘The Drawers and I’ at Pierre Marie Giraud gallery.

What does it mean to collect? This year, Brussel’s Horta Museum celebrates three monumental anniversaries by presenting three exhibitions that each sheds a different light on the notion of the collecting.

Richard Venlet offers a playful overview of his 28-year practice and varied methodology as an artist, architect, curator and exhibition designer in his latest exhibition at BOZAR.