Current
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The Salt of Two Seas:
BERNADETTE DESPUJOLS, CALEB HAHNE QUINTANA + ESTEBAN CABEZA DE BACA 22 Mar - 2 May 2024 “The silence spoke, not with harsh sounds, but softly to the rhythm of our blood. ‘What is it?’ I asked, for I was still afraid. ‘It is the presence of the river,’ Ultima answered.” — Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima (excerpt). Within Latin traditions, emotions are frequently expressed through... Read more -
Art Brussels 2024
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Past
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Viktor Mattsson: Pleasure Island
2 Feb - 14 Mar 2024 Since time immemorial, the human imagination has conjured visions of utopian realms where life is easy, and dreams of relaxation and plenty are fulfilled. Such places have rivers that flow with wine, skies that rain cheese; trees bear ready-cooked meats, and grilled geese fly directly into one’s mouth. Lands of... Read more -
Art Antwerp 2023
14 - 17 Dec 2023 Newchild is delighted to announce its participation to Art Antwerp 2023. Organised by Art Brussels, the fair is returning for its 3rd edition from Thursday December 14th to Sunday December 17th 2023 at Antwerp Expo. The fair welcomes over 70 participating galleries from 12 different countries, representing a mix of... Read more -
Jo Dennis: Town Hall Disco
8 Dec 2023 - 25 Jan 2024 There exists a tendency to situate an object of waste somewhere between two extremes: as ‘just a modest thing’ by which to measure some process or change or more spectacularly, as a thing through which to experience a full blown revelation. The former sees waste as a mere outcome or... Read more -
Once, Then, Gone
James Collins, Haroun Hayward, Ella McVeigh, James Owens, Yi To, Cheung Tsz Hin + Alyina Zaidi 27 Oct - 30 Nov 2023 Observation is frequently employed as a crucial method for unravelling the enigmas of reality. Whether it involves scrutinizing natural or human-made structures, the artists featured in Once, Then, Gone turn to nature and introspective observation to uncover the possibilities for direct access to the divine. Amid the intimate scale and... Read more -
Brittney Leeanne Williams: I’m There Where the Angel is Missing
15 Sep - 19 Oct 2023 The artistic journey towards that one elusive masterpiece, a work borne of divine intervention, is a narrative that has spanned centuries. In I’m There Where The Angel Is Missing, Brittney Leeanne Williams embodies this tradition, eagerly awaiting the touch of transcendence as it materializes within her rich palettes depicting Neoclassical... Read more -
KIAF 2023: Madeleine Bialke | Leaves Of Grass
6 - 10 Sep 2023 “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars” —Walt Whitman For its inaugural participation in KIAF Seoul, Newchild presents a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based painter Madeleine Bialke (b. 1991, Elmira, New York, US).Titled Leaves Of Grass, the exhibition features in the artist’s distinctive... Read more -
Frieze No. 9 Cork Street: Continuum
Konstantina Krikzoni & Ella McVeigh 29 Jun - 15 Jul 2023 Antwerp-based gallery Newchild presents Continuum, a selection of new works by Konstantina Krikzoni and Ella McVeigh. Constantly unfolding, the works of Konstantina Krikzoni and Ella McVeigh, two London-based painters featured in Newchild's debut participation at No. 9 Cork Street, occupy separate rooms within the exhibition space. Both artists share a... Read more -
Snakes In The Grass
Jason Herr, Robert Gober, Viktor Mattsson, Shona McAndrew, Rose Nestler, Justin Liam O'Brien, Chris Oh, Anousha Payne, Iiu Susiraja, + Tesfaye Urgessa 23 Jun - 7 Sep 2023 Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. — Phaedrus Presenting itself as a morally thought-provoking exhibition, the artworks in Snakes In The Grass carefully explore the social and religious values that inform our reading... Read more -
Foolish Fire
Yoo Geun-Taek, Kazuhito Kawai, Christopher Page, Stefan Rinck, Jennifer Rochlin, Antonia Rodrian, Pauline Shaw, Raqib Shaw, + Alyina Zaidi 12 May - 14 Jun 2023 The artworks in Foolish Fire circumvent reason and logic to present us with images fringing on illusion, with depictions in the form of sculpture, painting and tapestry that challenge the nature of perception allowing us to see beyond the surface of the object. The painter Christopher Page transforms architectural spaces... Read more -
Art Brussels 2023
20 - 23 Apr 2023 For its first participation in Art Brussel, Newchild presents 'Half-Light', a group exhibition featuring works by Madeleine Bialke, Yoo Geun-Taek, Caleb Hahne Quintana, Konstantina Krikzoni, Ella McVeigh, Christopher Page, Andrew Sendor, Khushna Sulaman-Butt, Kristian Touborg and Brittney Leeanne Williams. In 'Half-Light', deeper truths lie beyond the surface. Upon closer observation,... Read more -
Konstantina Krikzoni: Chamber
24 Mar - 4 May 2023 The hollow spaces of the heart; rooms within buildings; worlds within worlds. Chambers are spaces of sanctuary, resonance, and containment; vessels inside vessels designed for the exchange of fluids and sounds. Across her practice, Konstantina Krikzoni constructs spatialised environments that both resemble and contain female bodies; through a visceral palette... Read more -
Kristian Touborg: Dandelion
3 Feb - 16 Mar 2023 Dandelions can't be found in flower shops. Instead, they sprout from cracks in the concrete gutter and as weeds in well-maintained gardens, an outsider flower, unpolished yet particularly delicate and authentic. I find them utterly alluring because of their honest and naked presence —wherever they can grow, they will— natural... Read more -
ART ANTWERP 2022
15 - 18 Dec 2022 Newchild is delighted to invite you to the opening of Art Antwerp. The fair will run from Thursday 15 December until Sunday 18 December 2022 at Antwerp Expo. The fair welcomes 68 participating galleries presenting a mix of over 300 emerging and internationally established artists. Newchild will be located at... Read more -
Madeleine Bialke: Death Motel
9 Dec 2022 - 26 Jan 2023 Narratives departing from the American dream are numerous and often disheartening. In Death Motel, the first solo exhibition of Madeleine Bialke at Newchild, one of those narratives, namely, the experience of a lifestyle close to nature is undoubtedly on the brink of crumbling. The 1920s saw the birth of a... Read more -
ARTBO 2022
26 - 30 Oct 2022 Madeleine Bialke, Caleb Hahne Quintana, Konstantina Krikzoni, Ella McVeigh and Brittney Leeanne Williams. A pilgrimage is a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good. A sense of belonging implies... Read more -
Chloë Saï Breil-Dupont: I NEVER BROKE UP WITH YOU
7 Oct - 1 Dec 2022 I NEVER BROKE UP WITH YOU — I love this title because it calls forth both the impermanence of relationships and their eternity. If we consider love, friendship and all our other relationships from the perspective of a linear timeline, it is as though they are amputated. In order to... Read more -
Neither
Robert Gober, Lukas Luzius Leichtle, Andrew Sendor, + Grace Woodcock 13 Aug - 1 Oct 2022 Ambivalent, sensitive and slow, the works in neither carry messages disseminated through barriers: skin, windows, visual representations of internal narratives and invented realities. The exhibition brings together a variety of mediums by Robert Gober, Lukas Luzius Leichtle, Andrew Sendor, and Grace Woodcock that explore the representation of something happening behind... Read more -
Peripheries
Anthony Cudahy, Liang Fu, Erin M. Riley, Maddalena Tesser, Keioui Keijaun Thomas, + Kristian Touborg 18 Jun - 6 Aug 2022 Narratives of self-existence have not historically included women, queer, or trans bodies with equal agency as male figures, thus resulting in restricting constructs of identity and self-worth. In Peripheries, a group exhibition featuring artists Anthony Cudahy , Liang Fu , Erin M. Riley , Maddalena Tesser , Keioui Keijaun Thomas... Read more -
Shivering Trees, Curling Flames
Madeleine Bialke, Brittney Leeanne Williams, + Alyina Zaidi 23 Apr - 11 Jun 2022 Shivering Trees, Curling Flames features three painters, Madeleine Bialke, Brittney Leeanne Williams, and Alyina Zaidi, who capture the natural world with vibrant palettes and uncanny compositions.Their superlative hues—acid yellow, brilliant blue, cadmium red—and soft-edged geometries suggest landscapes more psychological than real. All three artists consider the connections between nature and... Read more -
Yoo Geun-Taek: Growing Room
12 Feb - 9 Apr 2022 The works exhibited in Growing Room are laden with literary devices in which fantastical stories and ambiguity play a defining role. The artist, through the use of traditional Korean materials like hanji (mulberry paper), oyster shell powder and ink, creates distinctive compositions built of multilayered textures and multifaceted narratives. His... Read more -
Ella McVeigh: Each Glance Branching
10 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 Ella McVeigh’s paintings are webbed with art history, the role of nature in art-making and the possibilities and meanings of painting today. Starting primarily from found imagery of the natural world, McVeigh explores painting as a mental performance of visual decision-making. Whereby these images from her personal collection, ranging from... Read more -
FLESH
Guillermo Martín Bermejo, Crispijn van den Broeck, Eugène Delacroix, Chloë Saï Breil-Dupont, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Thomas Frye, Christopher Hartmann, Kurt Kauper, Lukas Luzius Leichtle, Shona McAndrew, + Rembrandt van Rijn 10 Sep - 27 Nov 2021 Throughout the artworks in FLESH, skin haunts the edges of paintings, becomes a source of joy and shame, and allows artists to reconsider the idea of the “gaze” throughout art history. Christopher Hartmann suggestively outlines a pile of white socks and Calvin Klein boxers with fleshy peach ripples. Shona McAndrew’s... Read more -
Tesfaye Urgessa: Sleepy Baby Bird
25 Jun - 28 Aug 2021 Newchild is delighted to announce the opening of Sleepy Baby Bird ,a solo exhibition by Ethiopian artistTesfaye Urgessa. Sleepy Baby Bird is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in Belgium.The exhibition brings together a new body of work and earlier works ranging from 2015 to 2021, which brilliantly... Read more -
Wild Blue Yonder
12 Mar - 12 Jun 2021 Newchild is pleased to present ‘Wild Blue Yonder’, a group show featuring works by Madeleine Bialke, Ella McVeigh, Antonia Rodrian, Kristian Touborg and Taylor Anton White which will be paired with a selection of historic photographs from NASA’s golden age (1940s-1970s) and meteorites. The exhibition brings together a group of... Read more -
Ma' Was Heavy
30 Oct 2020 - 13 Feb 2021 Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work ... Her hazel eyes seemed to have experienced all possible tragedy and to have mounted pain and suffering like steps into a high calm and a superhuman understanding. She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the... Read more -
A Very Long Wait
25 Jul - 3 Oct 2020 For its inaugural exhibition, Newchild is pleased to present a multigenerational show of artists whose unique approaches to art-making has led them to find recognition at different stages in their careers. On view will be works by Yoo Geun-Taek, Norman Hyams, Adam Shield, and Vojtĕch Kovařík. Several of the works... Read more
