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Kader ATTIA (born in 1970), winner – Yto BARRADA (born in 1971)
Barthélémy TOGUO (born in 1967) Ulla von BRANDENBURG (born in 1974)
Curator: Alicia KNOCK

A few months after their exhibition in Paris at the Centre Pompidou, the four artists honoured by the 2016 Marcel Duchamp Prize will be having a group show in Brussels hosted by the Centre d’Art Hangar H18 and its Artistic Director Sophie Hasaerts.

The exhibition A look at the French scene is orchestrated by Alicia Knock who was the curator of the exhibition of the 16th edition of the prize in the Musée national d’art moderne. Thirty or so works – drawings, collages, photos, videos and installations – have been chosen for this new art centre located in the heart of the Brussels art gallery and museum district.

Press conference and preview on the 19th of April, the day before the opening of the Brussels Art Fair.

The exhibition benefits from the noteworthy support of Artcurial, a faithful sponsor of the ADIAF as well as the CBC bank.
This is part of the EXTRA program set up by the Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle of the French Embassy in Belgium with the support of the Institut français and the Alliance Française for Brussels-Europe in the aim of highlighting the various facets of French contemporary creation in the field of the visual arts, live shows and performance art.
14 Belgian institutions are featured in the EXTRA 2017 Program (2nd edition) with thirty or so established and emerging artists in the cities of Brussels, Ghent, Charleroi, Louvain-la Neuve and Bruges.

Press release : ADIAF-Hangar H18 Brussels a Marcel Duchamp prize exhibition

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4 exhibitions in Europe and Asia over the next few months

Honouring some 70 artists since its creation in 2000, the Marcel Duchamp Prize offers a wide panorama of the various trends in contemporary art. The organization of the exhibitions of the artists honoured by this collector’s prize throws invaluable light on the current energy and vitality of the French scene. The ADIAF can be credited with fifty or so exhibitions, including about 15 worldwide. Empowered by the prize’s international renown and the new impetus gained in 2016, the ADIAF is going on world tour again. Four major events are programmed during the first half of the year 2017:

Belgium/Brussels
Hangar H18: 20th of April to 8th of July 2017
With the support of Artcurial et and the bank CBC
Part of the French Embassy in Belgium Program EXTRA

China/ Beijing and Canton
Red Brick Art museum in Beijing: 27th of May to 27th of August 2017
Times museum in Canton: 3rd of June to 27th of July 2017
With the support of the French Embassy in China and the Institut français

Saint Louis /Alsace/Basel
Fondation Fernet-Branca: 15th of June to 1st October 2017

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Private view on Saturday, 5th of September at the Riga City exhibition Hall, the “Riga Art Space”.
Exhibition from the 5th of September to 20th of November 2015.

This exhibition entitled ‘The Housebreaker’ proposes a discovery of the plurality of artistic practices taking place on the French scene since the year 2000.

The curator, Gaël Charbau, has imagined an original scenario where we step into the shoes of a burglar breaking into the homes of a few collectors in order to steal their latest discoveries and create his own fictive collection…
56 artists from the French scene will be taking part.

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Whereas the Marcel Duchamp Prize is celebrating its 15th anniversary, an exceptional exhibition of fifty works by the fourteen winners of this prestigious prize is being shown in Brussels at the CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, the contemporary art centre of the City of Brussels.

The exhibition is curated by Alfred Pacquement, President of the Marcel Duchamp Prize jury from 2000 to 2013 and former director of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou.
Many of the works have been loaned by private French and Belgian collectors and, in particular, by members of the ADIAF (Association for the International Diffusion of French art).

Please note: a Franco-Belgian collector’s day is being organized on the 22nd of June around the theme “Passion Dévoilée”.