Société

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Société is space for contemporary art.

Geschiedenis

The Société is a new space for contemporary art in Brussels Maritime, initiated by the artists Manuel Abendroth and Els Vermang, both directors of LAb[au] (www.lab-au.com).

Our artworks share characteristics with conceptual art, system art and concrete art - though actualised with contemporary materials, techniques and formats. Our broad artistic experience and technical knowledge motivated us to start a branch as curator and art advisor.

As an artist, curator and art advisor we are curious about process based and technology driven art. In our curatorships we reflect how this situates in an art historical continuum and how this translates to truly contemporary aesthetics, through universal themes such as ‘Landscape painting’, the ‘Monochrome’,….

We think this approach is necessary to re-locale electronic arts on the map of the ‘-ism’-loving artworld. After electronic arts’ pseudo’s such as computer -, new media -,… and software arts the recent arrival of the ‘post’ prefix to digital - and internet arts points out the need to underline artistic rather than technological themes and to refocus what it’s really about: aesthetics.