The 7th Biennial of Painting focuses on the Inner Spaces

From 26 July to 18 October 2020, the three visual art museums at the banks of the Leie —Museum of Deinze and the Leie Region (Mudel), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in collaboration with Sint-Martens-Latem, and Roger Raveel Museum — join forces to present the 7th edition of the Biennial of Painting. World renowned artists such as Roger Raveel, Raoul De Keyser, Emile Claus, Chantal Akerman, Jan Vercruysse, Rik Wouters and Luc Tuymans are combined with up-and-coming names such as Joëlle Dubois, Bendt Eyckermans and Sarah De Vos.

Under the title Binnenskamers (Huis clos, Inner Spaces), this edition of the Biennial focuses on the interior within the tradition of art history and contemporary practice. Traditionally, the interior forms the backdrop for a scene, the shell of a story — a frame within a frame. The interior conceals as much as it reveals. It exists within the limits of its own intimacy and security. Yet any 'inside' presupposes an 'outside'.

Although the subject of ‘Inner Spaces’ was chosen long before the outbreak of the Corona virus, it takes on a particularly powerful resonance in the wake of the confinement with which much of the world has been confronted. The borders separating the public from the private collapse into various forms of digital collectivities and intimacies, opening up new hybrid spaces between domestic life, work and leisure. When our line of sight is limited to the dimensions of our windows and computer screens, and the world outside seems to be framed as a virtual reality, the question of what can legitimately pass as ‘interior’ becomes pressing.

Each partner institution in the Biennial of Painting adopts a distinctive approach to this question, while sharing a common framework: works drawn from their own collections enter into dialogue with paintings on loan from public and private collections, as well as with contemporary artworks. In a Biennial first, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens collaborates with Sint-Martens-Latem to curate displays in various sites of the municipality, including the Gust de Smet Museum and the Gemeentehuis. As has been the case the previous editions, both Mudel and Roger Raveel Museum present a combination of works from their own collection next to loans from connected private and public collections, as well as recent work by contemporary artists.

Biennial of Painting
Inner Spaces
26 July - 18 October 2020
MDD, Mudel & Roger Raveel Museum

⟫ ᴄᴏᴍʙɪ-ᴛɪᴄᴋᴇᴛ (€12/€9/€0):
- MDD, Deurle
- mudel, Deinze
- Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen - Zulte

⟫ Free locations (without ticket):
- Museum Gust De Smet (Sint-Martens-Latem)
- Crypte / gemeentehuis (Sint-Martens-Latem)

⟫ ꜱᴜᴘᴘʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ (€5):
- Woning Van Wassenhove
- Wunderkammer

Partial list of artists

Mudel: Emile Claus, Sarah De Vos, Léon De Smet, Joëlle Dubois, Bendt Eyckermans, Olga Fedorova, Charles Picqué, Jan Sluijters, Charley Toorop, Jan Van Beers, Kristof Van Heeschvelde, Carel Willink

Roger Raveel Museum: Chantal Akerman, Jean Brusselmans, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Lili Dujourie, Raoul De Keyser, René Daniëls, Vedran Kopljar, Valérie Mannaerts, Roger Raveel, Narcisse Tordoir, Jan Van Imschoot, Philippe Van Snick, Jan Vercruysse

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens & Sint-Martens-Latem: Mamma Andersson, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Léon De Smet, Gust. De Smet, James Ensor, Melissa Gordon, Suchan Kinoshita & Olivier Foulon, Marie-Fleur Lefebvre, Lucy McKenzie, Walid Raad, Maaike Schoorel, Chris Huen Sin-Kan, Louis Thevenet, Luc Tuymans, Rik Wouters.

Locations

Mudel
Lucien Matthyslaan 3-5, 9800 Deinze
www.mudel.be

Roger Raveel Museum
Gildestraat 2-8, 9870 Machelen-Zulte
www.rogerraveelmuseum.be

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Museumlaan 14, 9831 Deurle
www.museumdd.be

Gemeentelijk Museum Gust De Smet
Gustaaf de Smetlaan 1, 9831 Sint-Martens-Latem

Gemeentehuis Sint-Martens-Latem
Dorp 1, 9830 Sint-Martens-Latem