stefaan dheedene

NOW

New publication:
Stefaan Dheedene: Against the sun - 2011
36 p. pages / 210 x 280 mm

Published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle
Language ENG / Text by Johan Pas / Design Studio Luc Derycke / Print Cassochrome, Waregem
ISBN 9789490693336
Buy: MER. Paper Kunsthalle

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June 21 - ... 2011: Tomorrow is the question / Collection S.M.A.K. - S.M.A.K., Gent (B)

A selection of recent acquisitions, 2005-2011

Tomorrow is the Question addresses the new acquisitions in an ever-changing kaleidoscope of presentations.

Current presentation:
John Baldessari, Peter De Meyer, Stefaan Dheedene, Masashi Echigo, Vincent Geyskens,
Kees Goudzwaard, Suchan Kinoshita, Lee Kit, Joachim Koester, Adam Leech, Mark Manders,
Werner Mannaers, Oksana Pasaiko, Wilfredo Prieto, Peter Rogiers, Nedko Solakov,
Pascale Marthine Tayou, Ed Templeton, Ante Timmermans, Koen van den Broeck, Jan Van Imschoot,
Herman Van Ingelgem, Lois Weinberger, Kelley Walker

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UPCOMING

February 5 - March 11, 2012: The drawing room - Deweer Gallery (B)
Opening February 4, 15.00 - 18.00

The Drawing Room features works on paper by various artists from the gallery’s exhibition programme.
Not only through drawings but also through watercolours, prints, collages and even an animation movie,
a wide array of artistic practices and a number of fundamentally different approaches to the medium of paper will confront the visitor.

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April 19 - 22, 2012: Art Brussels
The Preview & Vernissage: Wednesday 18 April

DEWEER gallery will present recent and new works by Stephan Balkenhol, Stefaan Dheedene, Jan Fabre, Tatjana Gerhard, Enrique Marty and Andy Wauman.
Next to the booth, in the section one-man shows , Deweer Gallery will present works by Norbert Erwin Witzgall.

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RECENT

November 17 - December 18, 2011: DREAMS OF POWER. POWER OF DREAMS. - Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan (PL)

preview: November 16, 2011 at 20:00|

Miros?aw Ba?ka, Hubert Czerepok, Stefaan Dheedene, Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani, Sejla Kameri?, Grzegorz Klaman, Susanne Kriemann, David Maljkovi?, Oliver Ressler,
Fabian Seiz, Sebastian Stumpf, Johan Thurfjell, Ania i Adam Witkowscy, Piotr Wyrzykowski..

curated by Agata Rogo?

The international exhibition „Dreams of Power. Power of Dreams” is a research-visual project associated with the history of the imperial castle (the present day seat of the Zamek Culture Centre),
in which Polish and German history combine. 11 artists have been invited to take part in the undertaking; they became the researchers of various stories and accounts associated with this place,
examined the relations between two nations and delved into issues related to the concept of power and its exposure in the communal awareness.
The works prepared for the exhibition create new interpretations, new readings of history and architecture of this singular edifice and demonstrate that contemporary art can be a uniquely interesting tool in interpreting history and society.
The experience of the exhibition will simultaneously be an experience of the place and history. It will become a search for the successive layers of the castle’s history.
Finally, it will be an attempt to confront the narrative themes of the exhibition: failure – inevitability – unfulfillment.

The exhibition may be visited twice with the curator’s commentary: on 20.11.11 and 4.12.11 (starting at 11:00). Maciej Szymaniak will talk about the history of the castle in the context of the exhibition on 24.11.11 at 18:00.

http://www.zamek.poznan.pl/index.php

Sept. 17 - Oct. 23 2011: Done. Finished. - Deweer Gallery - Otegem (B)

Opening: Saturday 17 September 15:00–18:30

DEWEER gallery Tiegemstraat 6A
B- 8553 Otegem, Belgium
T +32(0)56 644 893
Open on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday,
from 14:00 to 18:00, or by appointment.
Closed on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday
www.deweergallery.com/exhibitions

The works in ‘Done.Finished.’ all arise from a repetition and reorganisation of extremely recognisable signs and objects.
Although they were created separately, they come together in an exhibition structure that takes the form of a regulated apparatus,
of a place that reminds us of an order.
While being pluralistic and heterogeneous in attitude, they distance themselves from the avantgarde credo of the unconditionally new.
Here, art is treated as an interpretation, a disappointment, a translation, and, before anything else, a construction.
The process of repetition – as an artistic practice to which the aesthetic principles of chance, the incomplete and the irrational are crucial –
also implies using the credit of thoughts that have condensed into ideas only recently.
By dodging reality, imitation creates opportunities for reconsideration, thus becoming a mode of production in its own right.

Due to the care and precision manifested in the finish, the works seem to relate to minimal and conceptual art. But at least as far as minimalism
is considered - by which we mean the systematic reduction of expressive means in order to approach the pure idea - they do not.
Accordingly, the works in ‘Done. Finished.’ are not materialized ideals, but expressions of an ending.
They are moments, in which the carefully constructed could collapse and turn into decay.
At a given moment, the experiment is stopped by a finding, not an invention. In other words, what is found at that moment could not be looked for,
it could only be found. The show is a concrete proposal to the audience to get into a highly ambivalent mood.