Art Brussels

Saturday 25 April
4 – 4:50 PM at the Tribune 

With two artists from the Horizons section: Elen Braga (artist, Wouters gallery) and Zuzanna Czebatul (artist, sans titre), moderated by Devrim Bayar (guest curator for Horizons)

Devrim Bayar brings together artists Elen Braga and Zuzanna Czebatul for a conversation exploring their participation in the Horizons section, which she has curated for Art Brussels. Dedicated to large-scale works that transcend the limits of traditional booths, Horizons opens up new possibilities for exhibiting ambitious practices within the context of an art fair. 

In this discussion, Bayar will address both the challenges and the opportunities involved in presenting monumental works in such a setting. Together with the artists, she will consider how questions of scale, spatial dynamics, and display conditions influence not only artistic production, but also the ways in which these works are experienced and understood. 

About the Speakers:   

Elen Braga 
Elen Braga is a Brazilian artist living in Belgium. She’s a multidisciplinary visual artist in the fields of installation, sculpture, and public space. Her large-scale installations often accompany a performative aspect connected to the use of her own image. She challenges herself to work with new materials and techniques; sewing, ceramics, metal. Elen Braga researches themes such as strength-requiring and resilience.  

Zuzanna Czebatul 
Zuzanna Czebatul (born in 1986, Poland) lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Städelschule Frankfurt in 2013, and later attended the MFA Program at Hunter College, New York as Fulbright Fellow. By deploying monumental relics, commemorative infrastructure and architectonic interventions, Czebatul questions how political ideology produces an aesthetics of power and how it can be altered. 

Devrim Bayar
Devrim Bayar is Senior Curator at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels. Previously she was curator at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels. Her independent curatorial projects include the Geneva Biennale — Sculpture Garden (2022) and Poésie contre fin du monde conceived with French artist Ethan Assouline as a sort of experimental community library in Montpellier (2024). Bayar is an author and editor of numerous publications and exhibitions catalogues, and she recently initiated the Brussels Ass Book Fair, an independent book fair featuring productions from LGBTQIA+ communities, as well as a music programme dedicated to sound productions by multidisciplinary artists broadcasted on community radio Kiosk.