The Foundation wishes you a beautiful summer!

The Fondation Thalie affirms its singularity as a place of speech and direct relationship to artists and authors in the Brussels cultural landscape.

The public programme has been conceived as a place for conversations and encounters on nowadays issues. Since October 2018, the programme is focus on the theme: Renaissance, Artist as a worker. There were several highlights: the reconstruction in an exhibition format of Karine Rougier’s studio (April-June 2019) in the heart of this neo-modernist architecture house occupied by the foundation, an exhibition designed in dialogue with the ceramics inspired by vegetal forms made by Alessandro Roma, some conversations about the spirit of the artist studio and the physicality of the gesture, poetic readings, meetings of authors and visual artists around their works, concerts and so forth.

Beyond the walls, the Foundation continues its involvement in the creation dedicated to societal issues, with the launch of a new Open call the “European Chronicles” about how can the artists be source of proposals to build a collective intelligence for the Europe of tomorrow? In partnership with the Evens Foundation, this call is open to authors and visual artists.

In the last semester, the Foundation have welcomed almost forty personalities: Philippe Graffin, Gilles Collard, Sao Soulez Larivière, Fabien Vallos, Heba Y. Amin, Rana Hamadeh, Natania Hoffman and Zilvinas Brazauskas, Karine Rougier, Alessandro Roma, Boris Bergmann, Christine J. Lee, Véronique Caye, Amy Norrington, Bernard Marcadé, Emmanuelle Brugerolles, Agnès Thurnauer, Nina Léger, Karski Quartet, Yannick Haenel, Joana Preiss & Olivier Martinaud, Clément Cogitore, and Philippe-Alain Michaud to name only them!

In September, the Foundation will continue its cross-disciplinary programme which combines visual arts, literature, cuisine and contemporary thought, inviting creators to a residency or a shorter format. The Foundation welcomes a wide variety of audiences: collectors, academics, students, institutions and very curious public as well as commissions each year a work for its spaces, most recently a textile artwork by Valérie Mannaerts.

Find most of our conferences in podcast on our website and on the following platforms: apple, google, podcast and Spotify.

We are looking forward to seeing you in October for the launch of the new season!

Have a nice summer!

The Evens Foundation and the Fondation Thalie are launching a call for a research and production residency for a visual artist and writer duo.

European Chronicles aims at creating a collaboration between a visual artist and a writer who are invited to propose a collective project engaging with challenges that Europe faces today and envisioning perspectives for its future. The artist and writer duo may be an already established partnership or formed specifically for the call.

The research themes may include but are not limited to:
• Identities and different forms of belonging in contemporary Europe
• Resurgence of nationalisms and redefinition of borders
• New forms of political communities, struggles and solidarities

Who is this residency for?
The call is addressed to artists and authors of all nationalities based in Europe, without age restriction. Candidates must speak French and / or English. The literary work may be produced in any European language; translation into French and English will be envisioned for the final exhibition and / or publication.

Duration of the residency: flexible, with a minimum of 6 weeks, starting January 2020

Selection Committee
Julien Amicel, director of Fondation Thalie
Anne Davidian, head of Paris office, Evens Foundation
Diane Dufour, director of LE BAL
Matthias Enard, writer
Nathalie Guiot, president and founder of Fondation Thalie
Nadja Romain, producer, trustee of Women For Women International
Béatrice Salmon, deputy director in charge of Visual Arts, DG for Artistic Creation, Ministry of Culture, France
Dirk Snauwaert, director of Wiels

Apply online via the Foundation website.

Throughout the summer, you can discover most of our podcast conferences on our website and on the following platforms: apple, google podcasts, Spotify.

Nathalie Guiot is co-curator with Benjamin Zurstrassen, director of the Horta Museum of an exhibition about the work of the French artist Marie-Ange Guilleminot, who invests the house-studio of Victor Horta (1861-1947), jewel of the art nouveau in Brussels. An obvious resonance exists between this architect known for his passion for know-how and Marie-Ange Guilleminot who likes to develop collaborations with artisans to design what she calls her “sculptures d’usage”, La Malle, Le meuble spirale or Le Livre de seuil. The works of the artist arranged in each room of the house as a new narrative, harmoniously dialogue with the past of Horta, as if they both conversed on their respective influences, ranging from William Morris to Japanese prints, through the passion of materials and gardens.

This exhibition is part of the Brussels Design September.

Graduated from the Villa Arson in 1985, Marie-Ange Guilleminot lives and works in Paris. In 1997, she received the honorable mention at the Venice Biennale with the Salon de transformation. She is very present on the international art scene (first major acquisition in the United States for the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1996) then Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005 / Kyoto Art Center, 2006 / Center Pompidou Paris, 2010 / Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier, Poissy, 2012 / “The ghosts of our past actions. Man Ray, Sonia Delaunay, Marie-Ange Guilleminot”, Villa Noailles, Mallet-Stevens, Hyères, 2014 / Touchez-voir, ordering an installation, made for the Palais Galliera, 2013-2016 / The exhibition Laps, at the Cité of the Ceramics of Sèvres, presents in 2015 a retrospective of his work, then “Destine-moi une maison” unfolds at the Art Center La Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc, Thouars, 2015 as a synthesis or artistic program of La Maison de Vie whose primer is developed today at Maison Horta, autumn 2019 / Le Paravent, 1995-2019 … and its enrichment in 2018: Labyrinthe, a performance realized at La Monnaie de Paris during the Nuit Blanche.