Art for the City | Art Brussels: Sculpture Project with Leyla Aydoslu

Art for the City

CURATED BY CARINE FOL

As part of the fortieth edition of Art Brussels, the art fair is renewing its partnership with the Town of Brussels with Art for the City, a new version of a project that first ran from 2009 to 2012.

Art in the City has now become Art for the City, a new title that embodies a paradigm shift and underlines the fact that the winning artist will be invited to design a work for Brussels as part of a future urban development project.

This new project reflects the desire of the Town of Brussels to promote contemporary art in public space in all its diversity. Since 2024, a curator (Carine Fol) and a coordinator (Mathieu Menten) have formed the new unit, whose mission is to define a vision for the integration of art in urban space for the city. The unit will work with the Comité d'Art Urbain (Urban Art Committee), founded in 1996 by the artist Tapta, a group of experts who have initiated projects with artists such as Daniel Buren, Wim Delvoye, Peter Downsbrough, Emilio Lopez Menchero, Françoise Schein, Lucile Soufflet, and others.

For Art for the City, the galleries participating in Art Brussels were invited to submit a monumental work, 14 of which were selected by a jury and exhibited in front of the Palais 5 at Heysel during the fair. These are the works of Gert Verhoeven / Annie Gentils Gallery - Renato Nicolodi / Axel Vervoordt Gallery - Nadia Naveau / Base- Alpha Gallery - Leyla Aydoslu / FRED&FERRY - Sandra Baia / Galeria Filomena Soares - Anita Molinero / Galerie Christophe Gaillard - Marion Verboom / Galerie Lelong & Co - Atelier Van Lieshout / Galerie Ron Mandos - Matt Mullican / Mai 36 Galerie - Franck Scurty / Michel Rein - Kasper De Vos / PLUS ONE - Paola Siri Renard / Spiaggia Libera - Meta Drcar / RAVNIKAR - Stefan Rinck / Sorry We're Closed.

An international jury consisting of Joop Van Caldenborgh, Jennifer Beauloye, Samuel Saelemakers, Els Wuyts and Carine Fol will select the winner.
Alongside this new initiative, the work (Casse-toi alors) pauvre canard by Sven 't Jolle (Plus One Gallery), acquired at Art in the City in 2011, will be inaugurated on 27 April at 14.00 on Place Sainte-Catherine, near the CENTRALE for contemporary art.