The exhibitions in 2025

Z33 (Hasselt, BE) will open three exhibitions. In our new exhibition wing, the group exhibition Modelling Life will open in spring with new commissions from Kasper Bosmans and Christiane Blattmann, followed by the solo exhibition of Michael Beutler opening in early autumn. Also in spring, in our historic exhibition wing from 1958, Z33 will host the solo exhibition of Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel. 

In addition, the international public art project Art on the Meuse continues to take shape. After the Tree of Life by American artist Mark Dion, a new permanent commission by Laure Prouvost, Germaine Kruip and Adrien Tirtiaux will be unveiled in 2025.

Lucy McKenzie. Super Palace ​ | ​ Until 23.02.2025 ​

Z33 presents the first large institutional solo exhibition in Belgium of the Scottish artist Lucy McKenzie. The artist responds to the building’s distinctive architectural volumes with a series of scenes that echo public and semi-public spaces ‒ including a shopping street, a train station and a fairground ‒ as well as focusing on domestic space. On the last day of the exhibition ​ (23.02) we organise an artist talk with Lucy McKenzie, designer Beca Lipscombe, and curator Elisa De Wyngaert (Fashion Museum Antwerp). More press information and interview with curator Tim Roerig.

Modelling Life ​ | ​ 30.03.2025-24.08.2025

Press preview 26.03.2025 – 10:30 ​ | ​ Vernissage: 29.03.2025 ​

As we grow into the world, we are literally and figuratively shaped by our environment. We form and are formed by the spaces in which we live. Modelling Life traces the contours of our environment as much as the construction of identitities, values and expectations of the (un)built world. At the heart of the group exhibition lies the question: how do we use models to orient ourselves? With a selection of 14 Belgian and international artists, this exhibition explores modelling as a tool for world-building and self formation.

With works by Kasper Bosmans, Christiane Blattmann, Pablo Bronstein, Jakob Brugge, Helen Chadwick, Sara Deraedt, Caroline Van den Eynden, Robert Gober, Joseph Grigely, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Mark Manders, Park McArthur, Diane Simpson, Rosemarie Trockel. Kasper Bosmans and Christiane Blattmann will present major new commissions for Z33.

Curator: Kevin Gallagher

Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel ​ | ​ 30.03.2025-24.08.2025

Press preview 26.03.2025 – 10:30 ​ | ​ Vernissage: 29.03.2025 ​

Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel’s collaborative art practice evokes a contemporary pastoral world through a monumental approach to craft practices. In their work, farm animals, local plants, man-made objects, or human anatomy are rendered into technically challenging materials such as embroidery, oak, marble, or silk. Probing divisions between nature and culture, they look towards tools, materials and imagery that explore our kinship with, and separation from the natural world. They place a high value in artisanal techniques to produce their artworks, often developing bespoke processes for the creation of singular works.

For their upcoming solo exhibition at Z33, Dewar and Gicquel are embarking on the production of a new monumental silk painting, which will stream through the five galleries of the historic Vleugel 58. For this epic painting, the duo have chosen to depict a river scene with freshwater fish. As companions to this immersive aquatic scene, Dewar and Gicquel will be presenting a new series of sculptures made of stoneware ceramics and pink marble.

Curator: Kevin Gallagher

BIO

Based in Brussels and Brittany, the British-French artist duo Daniel Dewar (1975, UK) and Grégory Gicquel (1975, FR) have been working together since their student days in the late 1990s. Since then, the duo have exhibited widely and internationally in venues such as: MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Culturgest, Lisbon; the Secession, Vienna; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Portikus, Frankfurt; Witte de With, Rotterdam; WIELS, Brussels; Musée Rodin, Paris; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. In 2012 they were recipients of the prestigious Prix Marcel Duchamp.

Michael Beutler ​ | ​ 28.09.2025-22.03.2026

Press preview 24.09.2025 – 10:30 ​ | ​ Vernissage 27.09.2025

Michael Beutler presents a major solo exhibition at Z33. The German artist includes new and existing work, and engages with the unique architecture of Wing 19. He is known for his playful installations at the intersection of sculpture and architecture. He works with everyday, recyclable materials such as paper, wood and textiles. He often chooses materials with a link to local industry.

Beutler designs simple devices to fold, press or weave his materials. With these, he creates the building blocks of his large installations. The devices are usually operated by two or more people, which leads to a dialogue about artistic choices such as use of color, shape and scale. The production process is open and participatory: Beutler allows his team a great deal of freedom so that the end result is the work of shared imagination.

Working with inexpensive materials, simple techniques and a team of enthusiastic participants, Beutler shows that making art is within everyone's reach. He sees the production process as a learning process: participants discover together the artistic possibilities of the material.

In collaboration with students from architecture and art schools in the Euregio. In September 2025, UHasselt will open a new architecture campus in the renovated beguinage houses next to Z33.

BIO

Michael Beutler is an artist working in the field of sculpture and installation. He studied at the Städel school in Frankfurt Main from 1997 to 2003 and the Glasgow School of Art in 2000 and 2001. ​ He taught at the Muthesius School of Art in Kiel in 2016 and 2017 and is a Professor for Sculpture at the HFBK in Hamburg since 2019.

Recent institutional solo exhibition include “Haus Beutler”, La Loge, Brussels, “Pump House” at Spike Island, Bristol and Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, “Moby Dick” at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwartskunst as well as “Plonger et Pluiser” at Hangar a Bananas, Nantes and “Stardust” at Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen. He has also been part of international Biennales, such as the Singapore Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Berlin Biennale and the Venice Biennale. A great deal of his work is dedicated to the development of public art projects which can be found for example at the Wilhelmina Polder, Netherlands “Polder Peil”, Fondatione La Raia, Liguria “Oak Barrel Baroque” or in Råby, Sweden,“Råby Planet”.

He had numerous solo exhibitions in Galleries such as Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt am Main, Galerie Nagel/Draxler in Berlin and Cologne, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main, Galeria Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Pinksummer,Genua and Ehrhardt Flórez, Madrid.