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Warhol & Subsequent Effects

Located in a charmingly remodelled former industrial building in the Dansaert district in the heart of Brussels, the Walter Vanhaerents contemporary art collection is presented in biannual exhibitions on three floors.

The Vanhaerents Art Collection has been developing since the mid 1970s. What originally began as a fascination with film, in particular Andy Warhol’s ‘Lonesome Cowboys‘ and ‘Sleep‘, Walter Vanhaerents quickly started collecting iconic artists such as Bruce Naumann, Matthew Barney or Cindy Sherman.

Today the collection has grown into a multifaceted hidden treasure containing some of the most relevant established artists of modern day, as well as emerging artist of the last decades.

My principle in collecting contemporary art is to not go back in time, even if I have missed important artists’ works from the seventies or the eighties. I make myself look to the future, not at the past. I want to make my choices now, not from yesterday.

WALTER VANHAERENTS

MEUSER, Auf Wiedersehen, 1989. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

MICHAEL DELUCIA, Silver Screen, 2012 ; Projection (Green), 2012. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

PHILIPPE PARRENO, Marilyn, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

Installation View Vanhaerents Art Collection. Courtesy the Vanhaerents Collection

PETER HALLEY, Partial Grounding, 1989; Terminator 2, 1990. Courtesy the Vanhaerents Collection

Installation View of Sterling Ruby and Franz Ackermann at the Vanhaerents Art Collection. Courtesy Vanhaerents Collection

STERLING RUBY, SP147, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

AROON MIRZA, Digital Switchover, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

HAROON MIRZA, Digital Switchover, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

THOMAS RUFF, w.h.s. 5, 2001. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

TOMÁS SARACENO, Galaxies on Strings, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ, Wisteria (Yellow), 2000; Double Midnight 2002. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

RYAN SULLIVAN, June 20, 2012 – June 23, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

RASHID JOHNSON, What Comes Funky, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

IVAN NAVARRO, Installation View at the Vanhaerents Art Collection

Installation View of Danh Vo and Haegue Yang at the Vanhaerents Art Collection Courtesy the artists and Vanhaerents Art Collection

DAVID ALTMEJD, Figure with Black Arms and Strawberry, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Vanhaerents Art Collection

Installation View Vanhaerents Art Collection

The Vanhaerents Art Collection is included in the Art Guide.

Warhol & Subsequent Effects

Located in a charmingly remodelled former industrial building in the Dansaert district in the heart of Brussels, the Walter Vanhaerents contemporary art collection is presented in biannual exhibitions on three floors.

Brussels (20)

Vanhaerents Art Collection

Where the connection between building and collecting is more than metaphorical

Galila Barzilaï

Galila’s P.O.C presents itself as a contemporary curiosity cabinet.

AMEXICA @The Loft

The Family Servais Collection and The Loft present AMEXICA, an exhibition curated by Marisol Rodríguez

Sun Women

"Sun Women" presents seven artists brought together from external private collections in Riva's exhibition space.

Servais Family Collection – Dérapages & Post-Bruises Imaginaries

The current hang of works from the Servais Family Collection, curated by Dragos Olea, offers a juxtaposition of concern versus hope

The Apartment

Charming presentation of contemporary art in the heart of Brussels.

Christophe Veys

An interview with the collector who owns the “invisible collection”.

Animals

An exhibition detailing the representation of the animal in contemporary art.

Remembering Mwene Mutapa – Exotic Mapping of a Collection

The Brussels-based contemporary art collection marked by a non-Western focus.

Polish Village

For the first time, the collection presents an exhibition entirely dedicated to the American artist Frank Stella.

Forever Young

The 2016 annual presentation organized by collector Alain Servais in his 900-square-meter loft in Brussels.

A from Animism, Atlas, Adrift[1]

A from Animism, Atlas, Adrift, Algorithmic, Apocryphal, Automatic, Ambiguous, Amnesia, Allegory, Above, Archive, Alien…

Human Figure

Creating a dialogue between contemporary sculptures and works from Oceanic Art

The Power and The Glory

Opening on the eve of the now infamous 2016 US elections, “The Power and The Glory” set out to examine the tension between an artist’s desire to shine and their desire to exist.

Not Really Really

Removed from the material world and undergoing various transformations.

Walter Vanhaerents

A Story About An Island

Many Suns & Worlds

The Brussels based Vanhaerents Art Collection is hosting the first solo exhibition of Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno.

Break Out!

In 1966, Alighiero Boetti created a trio of sculptures titled “Zig Zag”, consisting of the fabric of a beach chair woven in inside an aluminium cube.

Charles Riva

The Charles Riva Collection is a carefully curated gathering of contemporary art, mostly by American artists, located in Brussels, Belgium.