Cafe Kuba Directed by David Shongo Live Soundtrack by David Shongo “David Shongo’s “Café Kuba” engages memory in an immediate, unstable, and retrospective way. The city of Kinshasa itself functions as this living, active memory, where past traumas—from Lumumba’s assassination to endless cycles of foreign interventions and rebellions—are never simply history but an active framework through which residents make sense of their uncertain future.”

Shun Owaada   04.04.2025 – 04.04.2025   SHUN OWADA @owadashun live at 20YEARS Cloud Knitters on the rooftop of @mhkamuseum live broadcasting by @radiocentraal_antwerpen and hosted by the cloud knitter himself, @leoreijnders Congrats on 20years! lastnightofthestoneage

LAST NIGHT OF THE STONE AGE AT TEDDY PICKER
19.11.2022 – 28.01.2023
Peter Adjaye Andrew Pierre Hart David Ngyah Shun Owada Yutaka Sone Rirkrit Tiravanija


Live performance at Teddy Picker, BXL Rue de la Clé 2, 1000 Bruxelles

Yutaka Sone & Rirkrit Tiravanija
17 times Rirkrit Tiravanija Smile, 2022
リクリット・ティラヴァーニャの17の笑顔


published on the occasion of the exhibition
DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY
Okayama Art Summit 2022
curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija

edited by Tommy Simoens
photography by Gert Robijns, Guci, Caroline van Dooren

Gert Robijns, Yutaka Sone and Rirkrit Tiravanija at Okayama Art Summit 2022


DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY
Okayama Art Summit 2022
Artistic Director: Rirkrit Tiravanija

30 September (Friday) to 27 November (Sunday), 2022 [51 days]

Held in Okayama City once every three years, the Okayama Art Summit is an international exhibition of contemporary art. With Rirkrit Tiravanija taking the reins as artistic director, the Okayama Art Summit 2022 brings the artistic touch to various historical and cultural sites near Okayama Castle and Okayama Korakuen Garden for two months from 30 September to 27 November, 2022. Read more

Yutaka Sone
BIRTHDAY PARTY
03.03.2022
Tommy Simoens, Antwerp


In 1997, the installation Birthday Party by Yutaka Sone was exhibited for the first time at the fourth Sculpture Projects Münster exhibition in Germany, and made Sone world-renowned. In the video, Sone celebrates his own birthday every day with a variety of people that he encounters in the city of Munster. He recorded people singing birthday songs and him blowing out the candles on the cake. He then played the edited 22-minute video on a monitor placed in the underground passageway in front of Münster’s Central Station. Daring to show a private video in a public place, the exhibit challenged the traditional relationship between the individual and society. Read more

RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA
ANOTHER SUNNY AFTERNOON
18.02 – 01.05.22
CC STROMBEEK


For his first institutional solo exhibition in Belgium, Rirkrit Tiravanija returns to the work which sparked his international career in the beginning of the 1990s and puts it in close relation with the oeuvre of Marcel Broodthaers, whose practice has remained one of his primary influences over the course of the last thirty years. With six newly produced works, Another Sunny Afternoon takes us on a journey into the past of two of the most influential artists of our time and invites the visitors to imagine and discuss which paths we may follow in times to come, beyond the current state of restrictions and withdrawal..  Read more

GIVE AND GIVE
BIENALSUR
San Juan, Argentina



Inauguration: August 20th
Visiting hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm; Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
Contrary to the popular expression of “give and take”, the exhibition proposes, from the perspective of art, an alternative economy to that of the traditional model so deeply rooted in our post-Fordist society. In a world driven primarily by social, emotional, and financial profit, “givers” appear as a strange species that helps and collaborates with others without expecting anything in return.

Rirkrit Tiravanija
ANTWERP ROAST
12.12.2018
Documantary by Aldine Reinink


November 29th 2018, Rirkrit Tiravanija “opened” the exhibition ANTWERP ROAST, at Tommy Simoens by making a hole through the gallery’s bricked up facade, making the gallery accessible again, followed by a pig roast for all visitors and friends. In this video reportage of the performance, Rirkrit Tiravanija gives us a tour of the exhibition and tells us the story behind this immersive installation. Read more

Rirkrit Tiravanija
UNTITLED 2017 (FEAR EATS THE SOUL) (WHITE FLAG)
4.04.2018
Creative Time: Pledges of Allegiance


Rirkrit Tiravanija at Creative Time: Pledges of Allegiance The message of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s flag is a reference to German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (the English translation of ‘Angst essen Seele auf’). The film first appeared in Tiravanija’s Untitled 1994 (Fear Eats the Soul), a bar he constructed at Esther Schipper’s storefront gallery in Cologne that only served beer and cola. Fassbinder’s two lead characters, a German cleaner and a Moroccan mechanic, meet in the film’s opening scene over the aforesaid drinks, and commence an unlikely relationship that brings out their own deepest fears as much as the xenophobia and racism of their surroundings. Read more

Rirkrit Tiravanija
UNTITLED 2018 (THE INFINITE DIMENSIONS OF SMALLNESS)
23.01.2018
on the Rooftop of the National Gallery, Singapore


Named untitled 2018 (the infinite dimensions of smallness), the immersive installation which stands at a towering four metres high, draws its inspiration from materials, craftwork and architecture from Asia. The maze references traditional hand-built bamboo scaffolding found across Asia, while the Japanese tea house evokes the rich culture of tea with its centuries-old ceremonies. Visitors are invited to navigate through the bamboo maze as they go in search of finding something special such as the wooden teahouse located at its centre, and along the way, encounter and interact with each other. Read more

the Quay Brothers
THE BLACK DRAWINGS 1974 – 1977
15.11.2017
book signing


CURFEWS, the Quay Brothers’ first exhibition at Tommy Simoens, presents a new and immersive diorama installation of 6 haunting ‘Peppers Ghost’ animations. The objects and animations in CURFEWS echo the Quay Brothers’ typical motifs and fascinations: trams, pylons, churches, pantographs and a choreographic use of calligraphy. With the title of the show the brothers invite the viewer on a night time excursion along with a series of enigmatic scenes. Read more

Gert Robijns
BERND LOHAUS: ‘STONE / BRONZE’
3.09.2017
Gert Robijns’ RESETHOME


Bernd Lohaus ‘Stone / Bronze’ brings two monumental outdoor ‘stone’ sculptures, the 10-part work ‘TEIL/GELEBT-GELIEBT, from 1987 and the work GLUT, from 1990, both presented in the garden of RESETHOME. Inside the house and the nearby renovated warehouse, two groups of bronze sculptures go in dialogue with the architecture of RESETHOME and it’s surroundings. Read more

Yutaka Sone
PARADISE IS NOW: PALM TREES IN ART
27.04.2017
Salon Dahlman


For more than two thousand years palm trees have been extraordinarily popular in both the East and the West. Regardless of continent, religion, or culture, palms tell stories of wealth, peace, and salvation. No other motif conveys this promise of good fortune and happiness as convincingly as the palm tree does. Read more

Gert Robijns
LUC TUYMANS: THE SWAMP
9.04.2017
Gert Robijns’ RESETHOME


On 9 April 2017, RESETHOME will welcome its first illustrious guest, the artist Luc Tuymans, with his solo exhibition ‘THE SWAMP’. Luc Tuymans is one of the few artists who, from the 90ies onwards, continually questioned and redefined painting, thereby recalibrating the medium’s potential on a global scale. RESETHOME is a sculpture, an artist residency and an exhibition venue combined. Conceived and built by the Belgian artist Gert Robijns in the footprint of his grandmother’s former home, as a free space for art, RESETHOME is dedicated to bringing artists and audiences together in the village of Borgloon, Limburg. Read more

Yutaka Sone
TRAVEL 1987—88
1.09.2016/
MHKA Inbox


In 1989 Sone made a selection from these slides, which are presented together as a thematic whole. In light of the far-reaching impact of current events in the Middle East the work has taken on an array of poignant overtones, given the fact that a significant portion of the buildings he photographed have since been destroyed, just as a number of the individuals he portrayed have either been killed or seen their lives drastically overturned. Yutaka Sone’s Travel 1987—88, compiled by the artist in 89, will be presented at Muhka INBOX for the first time, from 13 – 29 January 2017. Read more

Gert Robijns
RESET, A FILM BY ALDINE REININK
26.04.2016


RESETHOME is Gert Robijns’ sculptural re-invention of his grandmother’s former home in Gotem. In 2012, the year his grandmother moved into a nursing home, he purchased the building and dismantled it, leaving only the two main supporting walls standing. Ten centimeters further on, he started re-building the house as a monumental sculpture that combines personal memorial and innovation in a new platform for the production and presentation of contemporary art. Read more

Gert Robijns
RENÉ DANIELS: WORKS FROM 2006 TO 2017
16.02.2022
Gert Robijns’ RESETHOME


The exhibition René Daniels: Works from 2006 to 2017 at Reset features a comprehensive selection of paintings on canvas which René Daniëls has created since 2006. Very few of these paintings have ever been exhibited before. Twenty years after suffering a haemorrhagic stroke in 1987 Daniëls started to paint again. The exhibition at Reset reveals these canvases to be an idiosyncratic body of work that has the potential to modify the perception and evaluation of Daniëls’s oeuvre as a whole. curated by Ulrich Loock openinging Sunday April 22, 2PM info@resethome.be www.resethome.be Read more

Eduardo Sarabia
SALON ALEMAN
16.02.2022
ENTOURAGE


Thursday September 6, 9 PM Opening Party: Salon Aleman @ café Entourage following the reception at the gallery Eduardo Sarabia and Tommy Simoens are looking forward to see you at the party in honour of the artist at ENTOURAGE Waalsekaai 33, 2000 Antwerp, next-door of the gallery. Salon Aleman opening night’s dj’s are Peter Adjaye aka AJ Kwame and DAOUD by Charlotte De Cock. Sarabia’s ongoing party project Salon Aleman first premiered in Berlin, in the basement of unitednationsplaza, and has since traveled to venues in cities all over the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial, the New Museum in New York, the 21c Museum in Louisville, Kentucky and Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing as part of the exhibition Yutaka Sone: Obsidian. Read more