Flowers at Room Temperature
Chantal Akerman, Marianne Berenhaut, Karina Beumer,
Tony Cragg, Daan Gielis, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys,
Daniele Formica, Katja Mater, Céline Mathieu, Anthony
Ngoya, Angyvir Padilla, Evita Vasiljeva, Jean-Luc
Vilmouth
Each year Antwerp Art Weekend appoints a curator to create a central exhibition at De Studio, aiming to complement the wide programme presented around the city. The central exhibition of Antwerp Art Weekend 2023, Flowers at Room Temperature, is built around the question of what constitutes a home. It brings together different artistic practices rooted in the domestic, revealing a ‘home’ as not just an external, but also an internal space. Flowers at Room Temperature invites the audience to pay closer attention to the immaterial foundations our homes are built on: memories, routines, intimacy, our identities, and the passing of time.
The exhibition refers to the previous uses of De Studio, originally the stately home of a prominent Antwerp family and later a hotel. The works that now occupy its rooms build upon these tentative traces of domesticity, and draw attention to the meanings we assign to the objects that surround us in our daily lives.
The exhibition includes new commissions, existing works, and works from the collection of M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp).
Photography: Lina Van Hulle
Exhibition floorplan
Work descriptions