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Centrale also exhibits works outside its walls through various artistic projects<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Q(ee)R Codes, Anna Raimondo<\/h3>\n

Q(ee)R Codes \u2013 New Boundaries BXL 1000 is part of a long-term nomadic art project initiated by artist Anna Raimondo in 2017. In Brussels, following the project\u00a0BXL Universel II \u2013 multipli.city<\/a> at Centrale for contemporary art in 2021, the project will be continued from 2025 to 2030, thanks to a commission from the City of Brussels and the alliance of several people and institutional and associative partners. More info<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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SVEN ‘T JOLLE, (Casse-toi alors) pauvre canard ! <\/em>(since 2024, permanent installation)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The sculpture Casse-toi alors pauvre canard !<\/em> by Belgian artist Sven ‘t Jolle<\/a> represents Balthazar Scrooge McDuck,\u00a0a character who symbolises the capitalist greed in Walt Disney’s Donald Duck comic strip as the archetype of the ultimate rich man that was often staged by the popular (protest) imagination. The anthropomorphic duck is shown sitting on a beam covered in tar and feathers, a punishment that was in use in the Middle Ages and in the Wild West as a sign of public humiliation and banishment from society. The title of the work is a variation of the remark of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy (“Casse-toi, pauv\u2019 con”) to a man who refused to shake his hand. In line with his approach, Sven ‘t Jolle distorts several elements of popular and media culture with this surreal work that is both humorous and socially and systemically critical.<\/p>\n

Work acquired by the City of Brussels in 2011 as part of the project Art in the City.<\/em><\/p>\n

The artist is represented by the PLUS ONE Gallery (Antwerp) and Galerie Laurent Godin (Paris)<\/p>\n

In partnership with\u00a0 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ph : Gregory Copitet, courtesy of the artist and galerie Laurent Godin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

piKuur\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2020 > 2023)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For the first time, Centrale was partnering with a medical institution, the Marolles\u2019 H\u00f4pital Saint-Pierre<\/a>, to offer an exhibition space outside its walls. Every two months, artist Vincen Beeckman was presenting new series of photographs, genuine X-rays of life in a hospital<\/a>, while offering a reading of the institution\u2019s history. The exhibition was continuously accessible in order to be seen by the hospital users. This truly made this project innovative and unique.<\/p>\n

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Vincen Beeckman – piKuur – Centrale & CHU St Pierre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LE GRAND BANKET by\u00a0<\/strong>FRANCOISE SCHEIN\u00a0<\/b><\/span>(2016 > 2023)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

10 tables for the 10th anniversary of Centrale
\n10 tables, permanent installation (2016)<\/p>\n

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(c) Louis Colot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A participatory work<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For many years, the Belgian artist Fran\u00e7oise Schein, a trained architect and town planner, has developed projects all over the world that make citizens central to the creative process. With these participatory works, she invites us to reconsider the very notion of community. Organised to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Centrale for contemporary art, Le Grand BanKet<\/strong><\/em> continues this quest to integrate art into society.<\/p>\n

Living together <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The starting point for Le Grand BanKet<\/strong><\/em> is the meal, food and sharing provisions. The shared meal makes us see the essential value of community, a value that individualist consumerism has driven us to forget. This concept is the extension of the artist’s work, which has focused on fundamental rights and the issues of cultural and geographical borders for more than thirty years.<\/p>\n

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(c) Thibault Coeckelbergs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Creating together<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nearly 120 participants therefore became the creators of a work comprised of ten ceramic tables. The group creative work took place through some ten workshops conducted with residents and those using the Centrale’s neighbourhood. With the involvement of two philosophers, the group embarked on a brainstorming session based on the question “what do we do when we eat together?” Fran\u00e7oise Schein then proposed that the participants paint their perfect plate, what they like to eat and describe the thoughts about this idea of “eating together” focused on this meal. Individualities were expressed: fish, vegetables, mussels and cakes made up unique and sometimes surrealist creations. Arranged around an intestine drawn by the artist, these plates create a dialogue in a composition that is both unified and disparate, like the participants. Le Grand BanKet, a metaphor for urban digestion, enabled neighbours of all ages and cultures to meet and talk, think and create through convivial artistic moments.<\/p>\n

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(c) Eric Danhier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Le Grand BanKet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Such a participatory project, based on meeting and freedom of expression could only end in a blaze of glory with a festive event: a banquet! Designed as a work, orchestrated by the Brussels art group OKUP (“gathering” in Serbo-Croat), this feast brought together participants, residents and users of the neighbourhood, organisers and passers-by around the ten tables.<\/p>\n

A lasting project for all<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

After the feast featuring the traditional “mussels and chips”, a nod to Marcel Broodthaers, the project really made sense with the table-works made available in the public space on Place Sainte-Catherine opposite the black tower, between Centrale and Centrale | lab.<\/p>\n

The artist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fran\u00e7oise Schein was born in Brussels where she studied Architecture at La Cambre. She then completed a master\u2019s in “Urban Design & Architecture” in New York. She currently lives between France, Belgium and Brazil. She has been a professor at the Ecole Sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019Arts et M\u00e9dias in Caen since 2004. At the same time, she develops artistic work focusing on fundamental rights, the human rights declaration, geographic borders and city mapping. After creating metro stations in many cities (Paris, Lisbon, Stockholm, Brussels, etc.), she introduced participatory workshops in France, Brazil and Palestine resulting in works installed in the public space. In Brussels, in the Parvis de Saint-Gilles metro station, she created a work in 1992 entitled Dyades<\/em> on the theme of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.<\/p>\n

Radiocreation on the\u00a0participatory work Le Grand BranKet (in French)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n