Art Brussels

Sunday 26 April 
11:30 – 12:30 PM at the Tribune

Artist talk with Orshi Drozdik (artist, Einspach & Czapolai Fine Art),and Viktor Van den Braembussche (MER. Books), moderated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte (curator of the ’68 Forward section)

Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte will open the conversation with a short introduction. 
The first part of the discussion will explore what it means to create art that is not permitted to exist—or at least not openly. The conversation will be structured around five short “show-and-tell” objects selected by Orshi Drozdik from works produced between the 1970s and 1990s, offering entry points into her practice. Drozdik will reflect on the conditions under which certain works could only survive in the form of performance or photography. This will be followed by a short Q&A based on questions prepared by Louis-Philippe. 

In the second part, Louis-Philippe will moderate a conversation between Orshi and Viktor Van den Braembussche of MER on the book and its approach. 

About the speakers:

Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte  
Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte is a Belgium-based curator, consultant, and critic. He has curated projects for institutions and galleries including White Columns (New York), Z33 (Hasselt), dépendance (Brussels), and Carlier Gebauer (Berlin). He has been the curatorial advisor for the ’68 Forward section at Art Brussels since 2019, championing both established and underrecognized artists.  
He has lectured at KU Leuven, the University of Oregon, and the Misk Art Institute, and currently serves as an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in London.  

Orshi Drozdik 
Orshi (Orsolya) Drozdik (b. 1946) is a Hungarian-born visual artist resident in New York, who was not only one of the defining figures of Hungarian conceptual art in the 1970s but is also an outstanding exponent of international feminist art, a trend that came to the fore in the 1980s. In her works the human body is a reappearing motif and often it can be the medium too. With the concept of using her own body Drozdik is examining the relations to the traditional female role model that appears in physical and psychic spaces and that is fixed in academic discourse. Orshi Drozdik’s figures and shapes are rendered indistinct through the act of erasure. They simultaneously reflect on presence and disappearance, on completeness and absence, on recognisability and unrecognisability, on physicality and sensuality, on freedom, and on the image of female identity in her own times. 

Viktor Van den Braembussche
Viktor Van den Braembussche is a graphic designer who works for Studio Luc Derycke and MER. Books, and who is specialized in art books and — in a broader sense — in books in the cultural field such as architecture, design and artistic research. He was educated in graphic design at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent. Collaborators or subjects of completed projects include Donald Judd, Koen van den Broek, Luc Tuymans, Zlatko Kopljar, Ria Bosman, Johan De Wilde, Michel François, S.M.A.K. Ghent, MoMu Antwerp, Bozar Brussels, and others.