Vanhaerents Art Collection

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The Vanhaerents Art Collection is a collection of contemporary art located in a former industrial building in the Dansaert district in Brussels.

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The Vanhaerents Art Collection is a collection of contemporary art located in a former industrial building in the Dansaert district in the heart of Brussels.

From May 2011 onwards the second collection presentation of the collection ‘Sympathy for the Devil’, as well as the exhibition ‘David Altmejd – Colossi’, will be open to the public.


Sympathy for the Devil
April 30, 2011 – November 30, 2013

For this second group exhibition in the Vanhaerents Art Collection curators Walter Vanhaerents and Pierre-Olivier Rollin have again chosen the title of a rock song : ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ is the first track on the Rolling Stones album ‘Beggars Banquet’. The exhibition contains works of Walter Vanhaerents’ vast art collection. Each of them are linked in one way or the other to prominent ideas in the song : the fascinating beauty of evil, the attraction of moral or psychological hell, death and danger as a celebration of life, extreme and transgressive behaviour, aggressive plastic expressions and a pronounced tendency towards sexuality. Some loaned works complete this exceptional and consistent selection.

Participating artists:
Hamra Abbas – David Adamo – Christian Boltanski – James Lee Byars – Wim Delvoye (courtyard) – Nick Ervinck – Urs Fischer – Barnaby Furnas – Anna Gaskell – Kendell Geers – Antony Gormley – Mark Handforth (courtyard) – He Sen – He Wenjue – Jenny Holzer – Matthew Day Jackson – Barbara Kruger – Gabriel Kuri – Terence Koh – Claude Lévêque – Nathan Mabry – Steve Mc Queen – Mario Merz – Jean-Luc Moerman – Yasumasa Morimura – Farhad Moshiri – Bruce Nauman – Ugo Rondinone – Christoph Schmidberger – Sudarshan Shetty – Yinka Shonibare – Johan Tahon – Wang Du

For information and reservation: www.vanhaerentsartcollection.com

"The Vanhaerents Art Collection is a unique and comprehensive collection of contemporary art, assembled by Walter Vanhaerents and his children Els and Joost. It enjoys the individual approach to collecting of its founders, as well as their shared passion for new and provocative art."