For ten days, 32 designers and artists from Zaventem Ateliers remodel the long-lasting Artwork Deco residence right into a lived-in atmosphere for modern collectible design and artwork. The challenge is conceived not as a conventional exhibition, however as a functioning home. Cooking, working, internet hosting and each day motion all happen contained in the house, permitting the works to exist in actual time moderately than as static shows.
The objects introduced aren’t staged. They’re used, dealt with, and repositioned as a part of on a regular basis exercise. Guests enter a setting that’s already energetic, the place design and artwork function inside each day life moderately than being noticed from a distance. The challenge proposes a substitute for typical truthful or museum codecs by introducing a extra intimate and embodied rhythm of expertise.
Exhibition at Villa Empain
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 67, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
11-19 March 2026 / From 11 am to six pm
Extra data : Villa Empain Zaventem Ateliers
Objects Activated By Day by day Use
Inside this setting, collectible design is introduced as practical, experimental and social. Tables and chairs are proven in use, emphasizing interplay and presence moderately than remoted kind. The home itself turns into a working mannequin demonstrating how design and artwork can exist inside lived environments as a substitute of behind glass.
Craft, Course of and the Human Hand
Each bit proven on the venue in Brussels is handmade. Supplies, gestures, time and course of stay seen, highlighting the function of expertise and the hint of the human hand. The works are produced deliberately and aren’t mass-manufactured.
At Zaventem Ateliers, practitioners work throughout disciplines together with structure, sculpture, furnishings and set up. The strategy blurs boundaries between fields and leads to items that look at how individuals reside, collect and inhabit house. By putting these works inside a home setting, the presentation raises the query of how artwork and design operate when built-in into each day life.
Based in 2019 by Lionel Jadot, Zaventem Ateliers is an unconventional inventive hub housed in a former Nineteenth-century paper mill. This huge 6.000 m² industrial web site, reimagined as a middle for inventive manufacturing, now brings collectively round thirty artisans, artists and designers. Conceived as a spot for making, experimentation and alternate, Zaventem Ateliers embodies a recent imaginative and prescient of design, deeply rooted in materiality, gesture and craftsmanship.
Photographs Zaventem Ateliers
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