Art Brussels WEEK

As part of the Bergen International Festival 2025, William Kentridge will stage two remarkable performances at Grieghallen. On 21 and 22 May, he presents "The Great Yes, The Great No", a theatrical and musical performance set in 1941 aboard a ship sailing from Marseille to Martinique. The production features actors, dancers, a choir, masks, and live music in a powerful, multilayered narrative. On 24 May, the programme continues with "Oh To Believe in Another World "— a visual accompaniment to Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony, featuring a stop-motion film shot in Kentridge’s studio. The film includes hand-crafted sets and representations of historical figures, merging music and moving image.

• Bergen International Festival 2025
• 21 – 24 maggio 2025

From May 18 to November 2, 2025, MAC’s – Musée des Arts Contemporains in Grand-Hornu hosts Objects for People, the first solo museum exhibition in Belgium by American artist Haim Steinbach. For over four decades, Steinbach has explored the cultural and aesthetic value of everyday objects through a distinctive approach based on selection, display, and context. His practice has played a key role in redefining the object in contemporary art. The exhibition features a wide range of works spanning the artist’s career, including two historic projects developed in collaboration with renowned Belgian collectors: An Offering: Collectibles of Jan Hoet (1992) An Offering: Collectibles of Herman Daled (2000)

• MAC's
• Grand-Hornu, Rue Sainte-Louise 82, 7301 Boussu, Belgium
• 18 maggio – 2 novembre 2025

Galleria Lia Rumma is pleased to host a talk between artist Shirin Neshat and curator Bartolomeo Pietromarchi on Saturday 17 May 2025 at 6.00pm at the gallery's Milan space. The conversation will focus on "Do U Dare!", Neshat’s latest film, presented for the first time at the gallery. The discussion will explore the development of the work and its connection to the artist’s ongoing research across different media, including film, photography and installation. The talk offers a chance to engage directly with the artist’s reflections on process, language and the relationship between image and narrative.

• Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan
• Via Stilicone, 19, 20154 Milano MI
• 17 maggio 2025

We are pleased to announce that Domenico Antonio Mancini is among the artists featured in "Le Divisament dou Monde: Italian Drawings on the Far East", the new exhibition by Fondazione Garuzzo at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.The show opens on 8 May 2025 and marks the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death through a series of works on paper that explore the influence of East Asia on contemporary Italian art. Through his contribution, Domenico Antonio Mancini reflects on the act of drawing as a site of observation, mediation and transformation—a visual language where forms of distance, identity and representation intersect.

• China Academy of Art – Hangzhou, China
• 218 Nanshan Rd, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Cina, 310002
• 8 maggio – 31 luglio 2025

We are pleased to announce “Drama 1882”, Wael Shawky’s new operatic film, presented at Albert Hall, Brussels as part of Kunstenfestivaldesarts. First shown at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Drama 1882 brings together video, sculpture and staged re-enactment to question the reliability of historical records. The eight-part Arabic-language opera reconstructs the Urabi revolt in Egypt (1879–1882), following Colonel Ahmed Urabi’s campaign against colonial rule. Filmed in a theatre in Alexandria, the work proposes a reflection on narrative, conflict and the construction of history.

• Albert Hall Brussels
• Chau. de Wavre 651, 1040 Etterbeek, Belgium
• 14 – 15 maggio 2025

We are pleased to announce the second edition of Napoli Gallery Weekend, taking place from 23 to 25 May 2025. Participating galleries: Acappella, Alfonso Artiaco, Andrea Ingenito Contemporary Art, Andrea Nuovo Home Gallery, Annarumma, Galleria Fonti, Gallerie Riunite, Galleria Solito, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Lia Rumma, Shazar Gallery, Spot Home Gallery, Studio Trisorio, Thomas Dane Gallery, Umberto Di Marino, will offer both local and visiting audiences three days of shared, coordinated openings. 23 – 25 May 2025 Opening hours: Friday 23 and Saturday 24 May (11:00 AM – 7:00 PM) Sunday 25 May (10:00 AM – 1:00 PM)  

• Naples
• 23 – 25 maggio 2025