February 9 - March 1, 2024
Bagbazar - Ria Pacquée and Marie-Sophie Beinke
Bagbazar is an exhibition by Ria Pacquée and Marie-Sophie Beinke and includes works made and conceptualized in Kathmandu, Nepal during their joint stay there from 20 March to 10 April 2023. The title refers to the bustling and noisy Bagbazar Street in Kathmandu, the street of all kinds of businesses, but especially the many sign shops, printing facilities and photo studios.
November 10 - December 18, 2023
Everything Nothing in Common - Olivier Bringer and David Moreno
With this exhibition linn press paired the creative compulsions of Oliver Bringer (La Garenne-Colombes, 1951) and David Moreno (Los Angeles, 1957.) The artists have never met, not even through technology. They do not communicate. They do not speak a common language...
May 18 - May 21, 2023
A Mainifesto - Wouter Van Loo
A Manifesto establishes a certain vision: the proposed innovation is the only correct way to progress. I prefer to see a good work of art as an open door. In their multiplicity, and occasionally in their intrinsic contradiction, your collages plead for nuance, perspective, ambiguity. There is not one truth, but there is a need for a conversation about truth, value, form and content...
April 20 - May 5, 2023
Fairy Tales - Marc Chan Ming Jaehun Park, Jesse Siegel, Jan Tomza-Osiecki, Vanessa van Obberghen
An exhibition about the construction and deconstruction of stories, myths and legends regarding identity, history and legacy. These works can be seen as modern-day fairy tales that we need to believe in order to survive. They are using the framework of those fairy tales to examine and question our human condition.
December 16 - December 23, 2022
In Bulge - Jack Davey
During a month-long residency in Ticino, Switzerland (May 2022), Jack developed a body of work made entirely out of parcel paper. Culminating in two full-sized, interactive installations entitled Dirty Room. The installations were supplemented by drawings, painted collage and video.
November 25 - November 27, 2022
ON RESONANCE - Eric Thielemans
A 48 hour score for an exhibition, concerts, quiet space, resonant space, performance, dance, a night time meditative resonant room, a radio stream with conversations, talks and music.
August 10 - September 16, 2022
FIXATIONS - Bruce LaBruce & Jonathan Johnson
“When mounting a retrospective photography exhibit of my work, as I have done with FIXATIONS, certain motifs, patterns, and obsessions emerge. The body, or post-body, often naked and sexualized, worshipped and desecrated, comes to the fore...
May 19 - June 10, 2022
THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING - Vedran Kopljar
For his exhibition at CASSTL Vedran Kopljar presents a series of New Teachings. These works are a meditation on images and signs that appear to signify something but in which the signified seems muddled, unclear or not to be found...
February 27 - March 18, 2022
After X-MAS - Hantrax Dolls
Hantrax Dolls is a visual project by Antwerp based composer, performer, and pianist Han Swolfs (1984). Renowned for his live electronic performances and imaginative piano stage productions, his shows are kinetic, atmospheric, hypnotic, and cinematic...
November 4 - November 26, 2021
FEED - Matheus Rocha Pitta
Matheus Rocha Pitta’s first solo show in Belgium, FEED, clashes the universal with the mundane. The five sculptures and a print frames the black hole, whose very first photograph was taken in 2019, as “a cosmic anal accumulation device”, a vanishing point that engulfs all values...
September 3 - September 12, 2021
INTENSE DENSITY - Nienke Baeckelandt
Nienke Baeckelandt (1989) zoekt in haar werk telkens de spanning op tussen intuïtie
en controle. Haar beelden zijn vaak het resultaat van concentraties of intensiteiten. Ze gebruikt
voornamelijk vluchtige, vergankelijke of transparante materialen...
October 10 - October 18, 2020
SeeThrough - Lena D'Hoore, Miia Kota, Cunshuo Ma, Mariel M. Matute, Olha Timkova-Liakhovska, Ye Wang
SeeThrough is an exhibition which brings together projects and complementary works that were developed by the bachelor students of the jewellery department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2019-2020, hereby presenting a curious exercise in which artistic concepts are realized by the interaction between the object and the viewer...
December 22, 2019
The Wanderer Paintings - Nel Aerts
Book signing and presentation of the limited edition. The Wanderer Paintings is the first monograph dedicated to Nel Aerts’ painting practice. This richly illustrated publication includes essays by Valerie Verhaack, curator of the artist’s current exhibition at M Leuven, and Dutch art critic and historian Dominic van den Boogerd, as well as shorter texts by her friends on paintings of their choice. Reference images contextualize Aerts’ work and a catalogue raisonné of her paintings from 2011 up to the present day closes the book. The limited edition of 25 unique slipcases are adorned with a wood burned selfportrait.
September 7 – 29 September, 2019
ec · dy · sis
Skip Arnold | Ron Athey | Rafa Esparza |
Anna Garner | Aimee Goguen | Todd Gray
Spencer Lewis | Gabriela Ruiz | Ilana Savdie
Curated by Shirley Morales.
C A S S T L & Antwerp Art Pavilion / Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, BE
May 15 - May 26, 2019
Was I Not That? - Margaret Welsh
RULES
1. Replace artist materials by human materials
2. Use colors rejected by others (known as “mistake colors”)
3. Replace arbitrary forms with found geometry
4. Replace painterly gestures with orderly actions
5. Follow the lines
Margaret Welsh
9 February 2019
December 15 - December 23, 2019
a redoute - Gert Verhoeven
On Sunday 27 January from 1pm till 6pm children will be present at C A S S T L for this signing session and unexpected guests will join. Unexpected but trusted art world friends in another role...
December 15 - December 23, 2018
BANG THE BOX - Raphaël Vandeputte
With his boxes Raphaël Vandeputte transforms walls into sculptures. These are cardboard prosthesis. Artifical growth with corners that are as natural as curves...
December 1, 2018
Adriaen Brouwer anno 2018 - Guillaume Bijl
The Antwerp premiere of Guillaume Bijl’s latest film “Adriaen Brouwer anno 2018” (2018) and the making-of's of other exhibition projects of Guillaume Bijl...
October 2018
THE POETRY OF THE BEE - Iris Rombouts
It has long been a dream of art director Iris Rombouts to produce an art book that sheds new light on our familiar surroundings and our daily food in particular. And what better way to do that than with the bee...
August 30 - September 2, 2018
EMPTY - Zlatko Kopljar
Although presented in slightly unexpected forms, the works from the new series by Zlatko Kopljar, Empty, do not shift away from his basic and well-recognized artistic preoccupation...
March 22, 2018
Karl Holmqvist - CASSTL & Pinki Bowtie
Karl Holmqvist is an artist living and working in Berlin. The main focus of his artistic practice is on language and includes writing in the form of artist’s books, in video animations and room size installations as well as in spoken word performances. His writing is mostly made up of quotations from a variety of sources rearranged in the form of a type of written collage that deals with repetition, double meaning and memory function. Recent one-person exhibitions include Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Geneva, Indipendenza, Rome (with Klara Liden), Kunstverein Braunschweig (with Klara Liden), Power Station, Dallas and Camden Arts Centre, London. He has participated in the Venice Biennial in 2003 and 2011, and Performa, New York in 2005, 2007 and 2013.
In collaboration with Pinkie Bowtie, De Player, C A S S T L, Beursschouwburg and Nico Dockx.
April 1, 2018
Empty Trash - Koen Roggen
Too much data on your computer can cause a lot of stress. Here are 3 methods to free your mind...
January 27 - February 16, 2018
Eichmann and the Angel - Gustav Metzger
C A S S T L invites you to the exhibition Gustav Metzger - Eichmann and the Angel. Taking its name from the one of the last key works created by the acclaimed artist Gustav Metzger, this installation is the single work exhibited...
December 16, 2017
A Studio Visit - Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen
A Studio Visit an exhibition of works by Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen.
Most of the exhibited works have not been shown in Belgium.
November, 2017
“L’homme moderne jette tout” - Emmanuel Botalatala
C A S S T L is proud to present “L’homme moderne jette tout” a two day exhibition of new works by Congolese artist Emmanuel Botalatala also known as Le Ministre des Poubelles.
November 18 - November 19, 2017
Lord Nelson - Nel Aerts
Lord Nelson FW17 by Nel Aerts. This two day event will present an edition series of quilted Denim jackets. The Sunday event will be particularly playful!
September 10, 2017
Direction Angle - Eric Thielemans and Arocha-Schraenen
Eric Thielemans plays Direction Angle a sculpture by Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen.
September 22 - September 24, 2017
The Plastic Number - Ben Van den Berghe & Alexey Shlyk
The Plastic Number is an ongoing study of escapist aesthetics in which the artists incorporate elements from modernist architecture, trompe l’oeil techniques, ratio-balance and color theory a.o. to create photo-collages that transform spaces into ‘photographic architecture’. For this exhibition a series of new sketches for future scenographies will be presented along with a book launch and the screening of a documentary on Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Barcelona Pavilion.
June 23 - June 25, 2017
CURRENCY - David Wauters
货币 (currency) features all new works by David Wauters.
We are also proud to present C A S S T L edition n°3: Derivative, 2017 an edition of 20 signed and numbered.
June 9 - June 11, 2017
11937 km - Nils Verkaeren
11937 km features painting by Nils Verkaeren which he made on his 11937 km journey through Argentina in the winter of 2016.
We are also proud to present C A S S T L edition n° 2: a flip book titled ‘Climbing and painting a vulcano and letting the paint dry’.
May 19 - May 21, 2017
NO PRESSURE - Hans Bellmer, John McCracken, Robert Mapplethorpe, Francois Morellet, Jack Whitten
This exhibition is a selection of works from private collections meant exclusively for viewing, provoking thought and enjoyment.
No Pressure will feature works by Hans Belmer, John McCracken, Robert Mapplethorpe, François Morellet and Jack Whitten.
March 10, 2017
COME AND PLAY WITH FILIP - Filip Collin
C A S S T L opens its doors for the first time with Come and Play With Filip, Filip Collin’s first solo exhibition. This exhibition focuses on Puzzlebox...