Opening expo met performances

The tragic and the funny meet again

24 Nis 2009

Flemish Art Centre De Brakke Grond presents from 25 April until 24 May the exhibition The tragic and the funny meet again with Flemish, Dutch and international artists. Curated by the Flemish art collective Cakehouse the exhibition shows video art, installations and drawings. The tragic and the funny meet again opens with an introduction by the writer and art historian Paul Ilegems, followed by performances by the collective Bissy Bunder and Messieurs Delmotte.

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12 X Red Wine (Live - Un/Performance: Act of Services) by Messieurs Delmotte -

Bissy Bunder (BE/DE, 2006) consists of the artists Julia Wlodkowski, Rani Bageria, Johanna Trudzinski, Michèle Matyn, Tina Schott and Kati Heck. Their action theatre is a hotpot of actuality, popular culture, literature, art, folklore, and history. In de Brakke Grond, Bissy Bunder presents the work Hendrik’s Heimat Frikafoon: a monstrous cuckoo clock brought to life especially for this opening night.

Messieurs Delmotte (BE, 1967) creates videos and performances, in which he himself is always the focus of attention. This is also the case in 12 X Red Wine (Live - Un/Performance: Act of Services), an action he confronts us with that is as banal as it is absurd. 12 X Red Wine is a typically Delmotte moment, the here and now of an artist who likes to describe himself as ‘more a fly than an artist and less an artist than a fly’.

Artists in the exhibition: Fred Bervoets (BE), Olaf Breuning (CH), Bissy Bunder (DE/BE), Vaast Colson (BE), Anton Cotteleer (BE), Michael Dans (BE), Bart Van Dijck (BE), Geert Goiris (BE), Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys (BE), Kati Heck (DE), Nick Hullegie (NL), Marijn van Kreij (NL), Tom Liekens (BE), Xavier Noiret-Thomé (FR), Julien Prévieux (FR), David Shrigley (GB), Walter Swennen (BE).

Admission free