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11—14.12.25 Antwerp Expo
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The Screen
Art Brussels 2025 is proud to launch The Screen, a new curated screening program dedicated to video art. This initiative offers participating galleries the opportunity to present a video work by one of their artists, fostering deeper engagement with time-based media within the fair’s dynamic setting.
A professional jury, composed of Eliel Jones (Curator of Performance and Time-based Media at KANAL-Centre Pompidou) and Brussels-based filmmaker Alex Reynolds, have carefully reviewed the submissions by galleries and selected six standout video projects. Each selected work will be given a dedicated one-hour screening slot at the Tribune at the fair, ensuring maximum visibility for fair attendees. With two screenings per day from Friday to Sunday, The Screen establishes a focused space for video art, enriching the visitor experience and highlighting the medium’s significance in contemporary artistic practice.
By introducing The Screen, Art Brussels reaffirms its commitment to showcasing diverse artistic expressions, further cementing its position as a key meeting point for collectors, curators, and art enthusiasts.
— Pedro Barateiro, Love Song, 2024, 30 min. Represented by GALERIA FILOMENA SOARES (Booth #5D-12)
— Mariona Berenguer, La Siesta, 2023, 6 min 48 sec. Represented by NAVE (Booth #6D-07)
— Céline Condorelli, After Work, 2022, 13 min. Represented by Galeria Vera Cortês (Booth #5D-34)
— Hannah Perry, Manual Labour, 2024, 17 min. Represented by GALERIE KANDLHOFER (Booth #6D-08)
— Léonard Pongo, Tales from the Source, 2024, 39 min. Represented by Kristof De Clercq gallery (Booth #5E-20)
— Emmanuel Van der Auwera, White Cloud, 2023, 18 min 30 sec. Represented by Harlan Levey Projects (Booth #5C-41)
Eliel Jones is the Curator, Performance and Time-based Media at KANAL – Centre Pompidou, a new interdisciplinary museum of modern and contemporary art due to open in Brussels in 2026. His research interests and methodologies stem from intersectional approaches to queer and feminist discourse and are guided by his involvement in direct community action and solidarity. Prior to KANAL he was the Curator of the 2nd Brent Biennial, which took place across 12 venues in Northwest London. He has also held curatorial positions at Metroland Cultures, Cell Project Space and Chisenhale Gallery (all in London), where he worked towards realising multidisciplinary commissions by emerging artists including Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Hannah Black, Lydia Ourahmane, Paul Maheke, Krzysztof Baginski, Carlos Maria Romero (AKA Atabey Mamasita) and Jose Funnell, amongst others.
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic he curated ‘Queer Correspondence’, a mail-art initiative that reached nearly 1000 subscribers in 42 countries through monthly letter-sized commissioned projects by artists and writers. His independent curatorial projects include: Gelare Khosghozaran, ‘To Be the Author of One’s Own Travels’, Delfina Foundation, London; ‘do you host?’, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Warsaw; ‘Acts of Translation’, Mohammed and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, Jordan; and ‘Experiments on Public Space’, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas. Jones has written criticism on contemporary art and performance for various international platforms and publications, including e-flux, Frieze, Artforum, The Guardian, Flash Art, Mousse and X-TRA. He is currently a faculty member of the Curatorial Studies postgraduate programme at KASK School of Art & Conservatorium in Gent; a visiting tutor of De Ateliers in Amsterdam and curator of the forthcoming OFFSPRING 2025 exhibition; and a Trustee of PEER in London.
Photography: Henry Mills
Alex Reynolds explores our modes of relation and affection as they appear embodied in cinematic language, questioning the medium’s conventions to explore the emancipatory potential of play and refusal. Blurring the limits of film language, her work transcends the strictly visual, finding expression in sound, text, photography, or sculpture.
Her work has been shown at Contour Biennale, Guggenheim Bilbao, Beursschouwburg, Index Foundation, Hollybush Gardens, Caixaforum Barcelona, Ca2m or the Miró Foundation, among others. Her films have been screened at festivals such as the BFI London Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Prismatic Ground, Zinebi or Documenta Madrid. She is currently visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent.
Photography: Aurelie Bayad