WIELS welcomes you to the 9th iteration of Open School, where the current artists-in-residence let you in on their work, processes and reflections.
Open School is the opportunity to meet the artists, get to know their work through talks, presentations and performances, and discuss about their artistic practice in their studios. The WIELS residency programme hosts up to 9 artists from various origins, locations and positions every semester.
Free entry
Programme below
PROGRAMME
11:00-18:00 I Residents' studios open
Meet the WIELS residents in their studios, become acquainted with their practice and discuss their work in progress:
Marcia Tello · Studio 1
Jaeuk Lee · Studio 2
Paola Siri Renard · Studio 4
Brigitte Louter · Studio 5
Fumimaro Ayano · Studio 6
Ian Waelder · Studio 8
Ongoing I Across the building
Fumimaro Ayano
Installation I Mezzanine (ground floor)
Ian Waelder
Sound piece I Staircase
As Far As I Can Recall, 2022–2023.
The artist whistles from memory the only existing trace of his grandfather's music, Federico Waelder. The audio track loops throughout the WIELS stairway.
Brigitte Louter
Projection I Staircase
Marcia Tello
Installation I Panorama (top floor)
Hermoso paisaje sobre edificio
AKONITO
Performance I Studio 7
Ghost Zoo (present when present)
AKONITO's performance can be seen from outside their studio, through the glass doors, which will remain closed at all times.
Artist Talks I Auditorium
13:00-14:00 I Ian Waelder in conversation with Emile Rubino
Ian Waelder discusses his practice with artist, writer and editor Emile Rubino, former WIELS resident.
BIO I Emile Rubino (°1992, FR) plays with the ambiguous, even clumsy nature of photography and its declaratory register of reality. By drawing out photography’s contextual relationship to care and labor, he questions the notion of ‘the photographic’ and its social implications.
14:30-15:30 I Marcia Tello in conversation with Nancy La Rosa
Marcia Tello invites her Peruvian peer and former WIELS resident Nancy La Rosa to discuss about the representation and reproduction of nature in contemporary practices.
BIO I Nancy La Rosa (1980, PE) works across drawing, printing, photography, video and installation to refer to the extraction of common goods as well as to the power relations that exist in traditional representations of the territory. She’s interested in the ways in which territories are experienced, represented, and valued, in addition to the social implications of the current economic model, linked to predation, contamination, indifference or violence.
18:00-19:00 I Fumimaro Ayano in conversation with Suchan Kinoshita & Yuki Okumura
Fumimaro Ayano invites fellow Japanese artists Suchan Kinoshita and Yuki Okumura for a conversation on their practices and generational approaches to memory and storytelling.
BIO I Yuki Okumura (1978, JP), former WIELS resident, explores instructed simple actions after conceptual art as a chance-oriented translational device to go beyond time, space and biography, and, through its ultimate failure, to generate the most genuine form of self-portraiture and auto-biography of the performer as a lived body or embodied life.
BIO I Suchan Kinoshita's (1960, JP) work is always on the borderline: both inside and outside the walls of an exhibition space, with or without the public’s active participation, recognisable as an artwork or camouflaged. Throughout her oeuvre, we can find elements from theatre and experimental music, two fields she was active in for quite some time. Duration (time) and the conscious approach to the spectator are two of the most important aspects in her creations.
