EYE ON THE PRIZE? Koenraad Dedobbeleer might have won the Belgian Art Prize in 2019, if it were still going to be awarded and if one of the other laureates, Sven Augustijnen, Gabriel Kuri, or Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, hadn’t won it instead. Fortunately, long before that doomed prize selection came along, Wiels had realized that the Brussels-based artist’s work was more than deserving of its own solo exhibition.
LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD! In “Kunststoff – Gallery of Material Culture”, Wiels is bringing together more than forty works by Koenraad Dedobbeleer, including fifteen new works. In his sculptures, photos, slide projections, books, and works on paper, he dissects the meaning of the label “material culture” and the way in which value is attached to certain materials. This sounds serious, but Koenraad Dedobbeleer’s tongue in cheek presentation is both playful and refreshing.
22/9 > 6/1, Wiels, www.wiels.org
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