Past
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Sheida Soleimani
Credible Threats 12 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 HLP 1050 Ixelles | Elsene Sheida Soleimani’s work regularly examines the history of the petroleum trade and warfare tied to oil extraction. Her series Qatar 2022 adds spilled milk to the greased tracks. While extraordinarily wealthy because of its oil and gas reserves, Qatar imports most of its food... Read more -
Sean Crossley
Consistencies 8 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Consistencies addresses conventional notions of 'the consistent' or 'the coherent' within the dimensions of (self) expression, commerce and contemporary media. It's conceptual approach to painting and affinity for humorous word play, build on Sean Crossley's first exhibition at Harlan Levey Projects, Recreational Painting, and his more recent presentation at the... Read more -
Zach Bruder
Greeter 27 Apr - 18 Jun 2022 HLP 1050 Ixelles | Elsene Works Exhibited here Press Release here Greeter is Zach Bruder’s second exhibition at Harlan Levey Projects. The Cleveland-born, New York-based painter constructs allegorical paintings based on an extensive archive of images, collected by the artist over the past two decades. Within his distinct process... Read more -
Willehad Eilers
Holiday on Horse 10 Mar - 2 Apr 2022 In preparation for his first solo exhibition at HLP 1080 (April, 2023), Willehad Eilers' presents 'Holiday on Horse', which brings together oil and acrylic painting, drawings and video works. From the crude lines of acrylic to sharp details brushed in oil or the text-based videos that speak towards his dedicated... Read more -
Amélie Bouvier
Let There Be Night 4 Nov 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 Amelie Bouvier’s solo exhibition 'Let There Be Night' at Harlan Levey Projects 1050 reflects upon our relationship with the cosmos, the transmission of knowledge, and ever-increasing problems of pollution in our night sky. The show reunites works from three different periods of the artist’s practice, working over three different types... Read more -
Jeroen Jongeleen
Running in Circles III / Movement and Politics In The Streets Of My City 9 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 Advance booking is recommended before you visit. During Brussels Gallery Weekend 2021, Harlan Levey Projects proudly presents Running in Circles III / Movement and Politics In The Streets Of My City, Jeroen Jongeleen's third solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will extend between both of the gallery's Brussels... Read more -
Willehad Eilers, Philip Mueller
Reality Kings 1 Apr - 6 Jun 2021 In partnership with Carbon 12 (Dubai), Harlan Levey Projects presents the first collaborative exhibition of Willehad Eilers and Philip Mueller. Titled “Reality Kings,” the exhibition consists of a series of four handed paintings as the two artists make use of their respective specific skills in order to build a body... Read more -
Marcin Dudek
Slash & Burn I 3 Sep - 12 Dec 2020 Harlan Levey Projects is pleased to present Slash & Burn I, Marcin Dudek's fourth exhibition with the gallery. Regrouping the main elements of the artist’s practice (sculpture, collage and performance), Dudek continues his exploration of the underground hooligan culture that he participated in during his youth in Poland. Evoking the... Read more -
Sheida Soleimani
Medium of Exchange 9 Jan - 21 Mar 2020 Harlan Levey Projects is pleased to present Medium of Exchange, Sheida Soleimani's first exhibition with the gallery. In her latest body of work, Soleimani charts a fragmented history of the relationship between OPEC nations and western political powers since the 1960s, when the organisation was formed, highlighting the correlation between... Read more -
Emmanuel Van der Auwera
The Death of K9 Cigo 5 Sep - 14 Dec 2019 During Brussels Gallery Weekend 2019, Harlan Levey Projects and Le Botanique present two new films by Emmanuel Van der Auwera. The 'The Sky is on Fire' (10 min., 2019) and 'The Death of K9 Cigo' (22 min., 2019) are strong examples of Van der Auwera's research into how technological developments... Read more -
Sean Crossley
Recreational Painting 6 Jun - 7 Jul 2019 Artists talking (around) painting. When TR Ericsson visited Brussels last year for his exhibition 'Industrial Poems - Poèmes Industriels,' he spent several hours in Sean Crossley's Molenbeek studio. A few weeks prior to Sean's first exhibition in the gallery, the two held a second studio visit from afar. Instead of... Read more -
Haseeb Ahmed
Ruach not Rauch 24 Apr - 29 May 2019 Haseeb Ahmed's second solo exhibition at the gallery serves as an epilogue to his trilogy of Wind Egg Project exhibitions hosted by the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Harlan Levey Projects and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (M HKA). Haseeb Ahmed's transdisciplinary practice exists as clusters of... Read more -
Andrea Éva Győri
Chest Variations 17 Jan - 23 Mar 2019 'Andrea Éva Győri's practice is marked by an in-depth examination into the human body and mind. 'What do we know about our bodies? What do we share?' In 2012, the artist started a shower tour, asking people for a chance to shower in their place as she didn't have a... Read more -
TR Ericsson
Industrial Poems – Poèmes industriels 6 Sep - 15 Dec 2018 The exhibition is part of 'Crackle & Drag,' which is the umbrella title of TR Ericsson's practice since 2003 and has developed into an inspired chronicle of a rustbelt family in post-industrial America. What begins as a soft, searing, and complex portrait of intimacy and Americana evokes universal themes of... Read more -
Ella Littwitz
And a third of the waters became wormwood 18 Apr - 30 Jun 2018 Ella Littwitz's first solo exhibition with Harlan Levey Projects continues a line of investigation into cultural, political and natural geographies established throughout her past work. The work presented in the exhibition is driven by the artist's research into the Mediterranean Sea Basin's past, present and future: In the 1970s, a... Read more -
Jeroen Jongeleen
Counterclockwise 15 Mar - 7 Apr 2018 In his second exhibition with the gallery, Jeroen Jongeleen presents three works from ongoing projects. Since the 90s, Jongeleen's practice has consisted of ephemeral interventions in urban space meant to question the inherently ideological nature of municipal development and the underlying political and private interests at stake. Through challenging structures... Read more -
Amélie Bouvier
The Sun Conspiracy 11 Jan - 3 Mar 2018 Models, predictions, errors and the unknown, informed by astronomy, aerial imaging techniques and the history of science, Amélie Bouvier works between material and metaphysical modes of perception. Through pictures, astronomers try to give form to what is visible only through calculation and deduction. Bouvier deconstructs and distorts this visual narrative... Read more -
Jordan Seiler
Civilian 16 Nov - 16 Dec 2017 Jordan Seiler operates around the premise that advertising pollutes and demeans our public spaces, by propagating a consumerist ideology that is harmful to individuals and our environment, while simultaneously eradicating the democratic conversations of civilians in favor of a homogenous corpo-political voice. The regime of order produced in the process... Read more -
Marcin Dudek
Steps and Marches 7 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 During the 10th edition of the Brussels Gallery Weekend, Harlan Levey Projects is pleased to present our 3rd solo exhibition with Marcin Dudek, 'Steps & Marches.' This is a collaborative exhibition with Chapter I taking place in Brussels and Chapter II in London at Edel Assanti Gallery. Each exhibition begins... Read more -
Zach Bruder
Hardscrabbled 8 Jun - 15 Jul 2017 'Get your facts first. Then you can distort them as you please.' - Mark Twain 'Hardscrabbled' is the first exhibition in Belgium of Cleveland-born, New York-based painter Zach Bruder. Through a direct and graphic style, Bruder depicts intertwining religious, social, and often tragic narratives that are cribbed from an extensive... Read more -
Anouk Ines
From One Moment to Another 8 Jun - 15 Jul 2017 The images in the series 'From One Moment To Another,' offer a complex weave of colors and rhythm, a dialogue between chaos and calm set to a fleeting, fickle and momentarily fierce breeze. These are original images with no after the fact manipulation, overprinting or layering; only raw energy cooled... Read more -
Petr Davydtchenko
Ascension 21 Apr - 27 May 2017 Petr Davydtchenko presents his third solo show at the gallery with two works. Romantic of Terror Fire, Electric Cables, Battery parts, 412cm x 232cm, 2017 8 make-shift canvases total one large painting that repeats the phrase Romantic of Terror. Created through the technique and material of burning rubber, the physical... Read more -
A basement in the attic
Foundland Collective, Sol LeWitt, Shahar Marcus 9 Mar - 8 Apr 2017 The exhibition presents a thin red line from conceptual art to performance art to research based art, unraveling knots of success, failure, romance and tragedy; treasures lost in a basement, the bottom of top aspirations and boundaries between success and failure. Featuring works from the Foundland Collective, Sol Lewitt and... Read more -
Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Everything Now is Measured by After 12 Jan - 4 Mar 2017 'Everything Now Is Measured By After' is Emmanuel Van der Auwera's first solo exhibition at Harlan Levey Projects. Works to be shown include those presented at the Biennale d'Image Possible and build from his work 'A Certain Amount of Clarity' (first presented at the Young Belgian Art Prize) and innovative... Read more -
Star Spangled
Brad Feuerhelm, Jeroen Jongeleen, Doug Rickard, Roopa Vasudevan 10 Nov - 17 Dec 2016 In the aftermath of the US elections, this group exhibition deals with repetition, gaze, technology and public perception of political discourse. In the front room of the gallery, three works will be displayed including videos from Doug Rickard's acclaimed project 'National Anthem' and Jeroen Jongeleen's ephemeral land artwork 'Running Shapes.'... Read more -
Haseeb Ahmed
Wird 8 Sep - 29 Oct 2016 Following his acclaimed Wind Egg experiment, Haseeb Ahmed presents 'Wird'. On May 4th, the Wind Egg experiment was revealed at the NATO von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) just outside of Brussels. The Wind and a Vulture met to realise an ancient Greek theory that the wind could fertilise... Read more -
Imprints
Amélie Bouvier, Petr Davydtchenko, Marcin Dudek, TR Ericsson, Emmanuel Van der Auwera 2 Jun - 2 Jul 2016 In 'The Human Condition,' political theorist Hanna Arendt speaks about 'vita contemplativa' (contemplative, passive life) as the condition of Western society. It is a condition that opposes 'vita active,' or dynamic living, where the subject produces reality, instead of passively consuming its established narratives. This dynamism can be seen as... Read more -
Abner Preis
Eat, Shit, Smile 8 Apr - 14 May 2016 The third exhibition of Abner Preis at Harlan Levey Projects is as reductive as the title suggests. Both profoundly existential and light-heartedly humorous, three bodies of new works reiterate the artist's signature style, which employs hyper-naivety and pulls the public into his story as they become reflective material for a... Read more -
Do you speak synergy?
Hasseb Ahmed, Ella Littwitz, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Benjamin Verhoeven 26 Feb - 2 Apr 2016 In his essay 'Cézanne's Doubt,' l French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes Cézanne's impressionistic and paradoxical approach to painting, and implicitly draws a parallel to his own concept of radical reflection. Looking at the relationship between science and art in the context of Cezanne's struggle to apply 'intelligence, ideas, sciences, perspective,... Read more -
Willehad Eilers
Alter Senator 15 Jan - 20 Feb 2016 In the age of virtually simulated success, while fed by Instagram and Facebook likes, we are all top managers and superstars. We are accelerating the pace of work, engaging in more 'hobbies', which performance we also have to assess with KPIs just like our 'job' gets scored by the bosses,... Read more -
Volkan Diyaroğlu
I exhibit, therefore I die 7 Nov - 19 Dec 2015 For Volkan Diyaroglu's first solo exhibition in Belgium, we've chosen to present something like a mini-retrospective of a young and prolific career. The exhibition includes mixed-media paintings, traces of performance interventions, digital poems and conceptual works. About the Exhibition: If the sun doesn't rise, all the madness stops. The sacrificial... Read more -
TR Ericsson
All My Love, Always No Matter What 11 Sep - 18 Oct 2015 These words sign off many of the hundreds of letters, TR Ericsson received from his mother while living away from home. Works in this exhibition are selected from his epic body of mixed-media work 'Crackle and Drag,' which forms a portrait of love as it embraces ephemera and makes the... Read more -
Radek Szlaga
All the Brutes 6 Jun - 11 Jul 2015 Who was it again that wrote every time he came to Brussels, he had to think of the plundered richness of the Congo on which this city was built? From Park Cinquentenaire, to the stately avenues Louise and Tervuren, King Leopold II's Museum for Central Africa, and the many other... Read more -
Marcin Dudek
Saved by an Unseen Crack 18 Apr - 30 May 2015 One hour before kick-off, the neutral area separating opposing forces was invaded and compromised. The depths of architectural decay were quickly revealed; passive-aggression turned to aggression, fear and chaos. The wall collapsed. 39 people died and more than 600 were injured before disaster became spectacle as officials decided that the... Read more
