Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
The 10th edition of the MDD Painting Biennial will gather contemporary artists who explore painting without painting. Textile, ceramic, glass, wax, plastic, beads or stone are among the materials artists use to escape the modern pictorial space and its correlated notions of autonomy and separation. By endorsing ancestral techniques associated with craft and tradition, artists explore ways to step aside from compromised emancipatory ideals to find new modes of connection and question hierarchies.
MDD is a community-rooted museum created by and from local artists and patrons along the Lys River. Its commitment to regional specificity does not insulate it. On the contrary, it enables it to create its own center of gravity to better welcome and explore others’. The exhibition at MDD celebrates a global conversation between artistic languages that deepen, not dilute, their differences and their attachments.
Artists
Carla Accardi, Igshaan Adams, Olga de Amaral, Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Lynda Benglis, Julien Creuzet, Rachel Eulena Williams, Kazunori Hamana, Lubaina Himid, Kapwani Kiwanga, Patricia Leite, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Fernando Marques Penteado, Eric N. Mack, Katja Mater, Guy Mees, Hana Miletic, Roger Raveel, Rosemarie Trockel, Erika Verzutti and Pei-Hsuan Wang.
Curator
Anne Pontegnie