Online Viewing Room WILD WIND

Artist Talk . Zhang Yunyao . October 17 . 5 pm . Join by RSVP

Finissage . October 25 . 2 – 6pm

WILD WIND brings together works by ten artists, several made especially for the exhibition. Together, they form a constellation of distinct practices, connected through shifting relationships between image and object, movement and stillness, material and memory.

Our curatorial and art advisory practices meet in this exhibition. Curating creates dialogues among artworks, the space they inhabit and the viewer. We accompany people as they acquire and collect art, attentive to what resonates with them, how an artwork relates to a place and its architecture, and the dialogue it may establish within an existing or developing collection.

The exhibition brings different generations, geographies and aesthetic languages into proximity. Across sculpture, drawing, installation, textilebased work and photography, images and materials are transformed, enlarged, reworked and placed in particular relationships.

The exhibition takes place at Re-Rom, the new cultural site on the historic Rommelaere campus of Ghent University, managed and activated by Monumento. WILD WIND is the first art exhibition within this new chapter for the site and, with the support of Monumento, opens a new chapter for the location.

With new work by Maxime Brigou,Chiara Angelica Gandini (Haus Nuller), Marina Woisky and Zhang Yunyao, alongside carefully selected artworks by N. Dash, Esther Kläs, Bram Vanderbeke, Sybren Vanoverberghe, Erika Verzutti and Jack Whitten, the exhibition examines how artists through material, form and gesture, challenge the way we look, think and experience, and what that reveals about the times we live in.

TIME EXPOSED offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the private art collection of Frederika Declerck and Johan Rogiers. The exhibition reveals how collecting can connect generations and explores what it means to grow up in an environment where art is ever-present.

With works by Vito Acconci, Helena Almeida, Nobuyushi Araki, Matthias Bitzer, Dirk Braeckman, Peter Buggenhout, Kathe Burkhart, Sophie Calle, David Claerbout, Angela de la Cruz, Hélène Delprat, Rineke Dijkstra, Elmgreen & Dragset, Nezaket Ekici, Elger Esser, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Tina Gillen, Nan Goldin, Frances Goodman, Paul Graham, Shilpa Gupta, Federico Herrero, Gregory Hodge, Leiko Ikemura, Lúcia Koch, Friedrich Kunath, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Thomas Lerooy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Aleksandra Mir, Yasumasa Morimura, Hans Op de Beeck, Tony Oursler, Marria Pratts, Robin Rhode, Andres Serrano, Helmut Stallaerts, Mircea Suciu, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Joris Van de Moortel, Rinus Van de Velde, Jan Van Oost, Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel

ENERGIA . Artistic presence in the Belgian – Brazilian landscape

Curated by Benedicte Goesaert & Kathleen Weyts for TheMerode, Brussels. 

The exhibition brought together more than 140 works from over 30 lenders, artists, collectors, galleries, and institutions from Belgium and Brazil. It features landmark works such as Cildo Meireles’ iconic Projeto Coca-Cola (1970s), Sebastião Salgado’s Serra Pelada, and Paloma Bosquê’s Plate | Placa, while also presenting a new generation of artists who are defining today’s artistic scene.

By weaving voices across disciplines, continents, and generations, Energia reflects the richness of a shared cultural heritage. This dialogue extends beyond the exhibition itself, offering a critical and editorial perspective that amplifies its reach. At TheMerode, we believe art does not provide easy answers, but better questions. With Energia, we invite you to sense, reflect, and imagine anew, to experience the currents of energy that link Belgium and Brazil, and to feel the transformative force art brings into our collective life.

Artists presented

Marlene Almeida, Denilson Baniwa, Bruno Baptistelli, Kasper Bosmans, Paloma Bosquê, Amélie Bouvier, Dirk Braeckman, Elen Braga, Lieven De Boeck, Edith Dekyndt, Lia D Castro, Julien Creuzet, Marcin Dudek, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Anna Bella Geiger, Hudinilson JR, Karámujinho, Bart Lodewijks, Fernando Marques Penteado, Rodrigo Matheus, Cildo Meireles, Jota Mombaça, Paulo Monteiro, Nástio Mosquito, Aline Motta, Sofie Anny Nicea, Otobong Nkanga, Antonio Obá, Els Opsomer, Camille Orso Caël, Dalton Paula, Rosana Paulino, Marina Rheingantz, Sebastião Salgado, Françoise Schein, Rebecca Sharp, Paula Siebra, Miguel Rio Branco, Ante Timmermans, Luc Tuymans, Philippe Van Snick, Erika Verzutti, Aline Xavier.

Watch Benedicte Goesaert & Kathleen Weyts’ interview for TheMerode.

Based in Ghent . a personal conversation

with artworks by ⁠
Dirk Braeckman, Peter Buggenhout, Willem Cole, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Liza François, Marie Mees, Nastio Mosquito, Alexander Popelier, Bram Vanderbeke, Philippe Vandenberg, Sybren Vanoverberghe, Philippe Van Snick & Shirley Villavicenzio Pizango⁠ ⁠

Curators Benedicte Goesaert and Chantal Pattyn selected about 60 artworks unfolding from the sensuality of earthly matters to the exploration of metaphysical energies. Artworks selected from the private collection by Frédéric de Goldschmidt.

Rooms of Resonance is a journey that can be different every time you walk through it: perhaps your company has changed, your feet walk a different path or the weather is sunny or rainy that day. Each room in the exhibition is a vessel that holds different kinds of resonance between the artworks themselves. However, another kind of resonance is possible the moment you enter each room.

54 artists

Adriano Amaral, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Gabriele Beveridge, Cecilia Bjartmar Hylta, Mohamed Bourouissa, Lucia Bru, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, James Castle, Mathew Cerletty, Julian Charrière, Clément Cogitore, Laurent Da Sylva, N. Dash, Jacqueline De Jong, Michael Dean, Svenja Deininger, Edith Dekyndt, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Fernanda Fragateiro, João Gabriel, Alexis Gautier & Max Pinckers, Dimitar Genchev, Nadia Guerroui, Camille Henrot, Hudinilson Jr., Krištof Kintera, Maria Kley, Ícaro Lira, Ella Littwitz, George Henry Longly, Luciana Magno, Gohar Martirosyan, Rachel Monosov, Michèle Morgan, Musa N. Nxumalo, Gabriel Orozco, Richard Prince, Laure Prouvost, Louis-Cyprien Rials, Ry Rocklen, Ed Ruscha, Anri Sala, Tomás Saraceno, Raja Babu Sharma, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ayesha Sultana, Jirō Takamatsu, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cléo Totti, Margo Wolowiec, Trevor Yeung, Yunyao Zhang.