Art Brussels

With Hrair Sarkissian

Curated by Louma Salamé

18/06/2026 – 24/01/27

The Boghossian Foundation presents Shape of absence, an exhibition initiated at the invitation of Louma Salamé, which bears witness to the ongoing heritage tragedy unfolding in Syria since 2011. he exhibition is centered on Hrair Sarkissian’s monumental installation Stolen Past, presented in dialogue with Iconem’s immersive images of the site of Palmyra. A poignant reflection on disappearance, memory, and resilience.

The monumental installation presents forty-eight lithophanes arranged like funerary stelae, creating an atmosphere of contemplation and remembrance. When illuminated, they reveal images reminiscent of black-and-white photographs depicting artefacts that disappeared from the Raqqa Museum in Syria.

With Edgar Sarin

Curated by Stephane Ibars

02/09/2026 – 17/04/2027

Borrowed from Johann Sebastian Bach, the title Matthäus-Passion refers here to a composition of autonomous voices, in which each presence acts upon the others.

Passion is understood here as a state, one of intensity, where works coexist and test one another. The artist stands amid that which has shaped him, not to produce a synthesis, but to sustain its living tension, beyond homage.

Matthäus-Passion is a place where looking becomes an undeniably physical experience; where art history is no longer a backdrop but an active material; where works do not merely respond to one another ; they persist alongside us.

With Daniel Buren

27/09/2026 – 27/06/2027

Daniel Buren was one of the 51 international artists who created a work in situ, integrated in the daily living space of the residents who were willing to open up their house for the artist and subsequently to the public. Buren’s work, Le Décor et son Double, was conceived as a work in two parts. In accordance with the concept of ‘Chambres d’Amis’, Daniel Buren realised his in situ work in the guest room of the private residence of Annick and Anton Herbert. He applied his ‘outil visuel’ on the walls of the guest room.

The artist, however, refused to entirely abandon the space of the museum – as Hoet intended it – and placed a complete and fully identical reconstruction of the guest room within the walls of the public Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, which was still part of the Museum of Fine Arts at that time. At the end of the exhibition, the Herberts retained the intervention in their guest room and the work currently forms part of the collection of Herbert Foundation. The public part of Le Décor et son Double was reconstructed in 2011 and included in the collection of S.M.A.K.

With Île/Mer/Froid (Hugo Lemaire & Boris Geoffroy)

Curated by Joël Riff

10/09/26 – 14/11/26

In Brussels, the exhibition “Elle/Terre/Chaude” brings together a significant selection of some fifty pieces – many of which have never been displayed in public before – around a central installation. This dense exhibition sees plinths, sculptures and textiles overlain with one another in a dizzying array of planes and panels. The artists’ creative process centres on carefully designed encounters between materials and a plural approach that draws on reuse and recycling. Their works bring together raw materials (wood, sandstone, linen) and mixed techniques (cuts, ceramics, dyeing), taking on a rugged appearance drawn from nature, vernacular techniques and folk art.