Z33 (Hasselt, BE) will open five exhibitions featuring established and emerging artists from Belgium and abroad. In our new exhibition wing, the group exhibition Leaps of Faith will open in spring, followed by the first large institutional solo exhibition in Belgium of Lucy McKenzie opening in early autumn. Also in spring, in our historic exhibition wing, Z33 will host the first institutional solo exhibition in Belgium of Daiga Grantina. In 2024, two emerging talents will also present their first institutional solo exhibitions in Belgium: Riar Rizaldi and Anna Godzina. 

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, new permanent commissions and a temporary site-specific artwork by Belgian artist Michèle Matyn will be unveiled in 2024.

Leaps of Faith |  31.03.2024 – 25.08.2024 

Press preview 27.03.2024  | Vernissage  30.03.2024 

The exhibition Leaps of Faith starts from the idea that art, like religion, involves a leap of faith. Artworks bring us close to the unknowable—to what exceeds reason or language— and allow us to linger in its presence. They can give a glimpse of a reality vaster than what we can comprehend. This is not to say that art is religion, but that the two are deeply connected. In their own ways, they offer faith as a compass. 

Leaps of Faith will explore the meanings and manifestations of faith in contemporary art and religion. The exhibition will approach faith as a force that is both spiritual and political, a force that forges paths beyond the world as we know it. 

Artists: Igshaan Adams, Francis Alÿs, David Bernstein, Peter Buggenhout, Justin Caguiat, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Edith Dekyndt, Kira Freije, Kris Martin, Sophie Nys, Antonio Obá, Namsal Siedlecki, Paul Thek, Danh Võ, Cathy Wilkes and more to be confirmed. 

Curator: Tim Roerig 

Daiga Grantina | 31.03.2024 – 25.08.2024 

Press preview 27.03.2024  | Vernissage  30.03.2024 

For her first institutional solo exhibition in Belgium, Daiga Grantina is showing newly-commissioned sculptures situated alongside earlier works. Using these as rhythmic elements, she will create a cycle of works spanning the five interconnected galleries of  exhibition wing ‘Vleugel 58’. Daiga Grantina’s sculptures are composed of simple materials – fabric, wood, string, metal, wax – with careful attention given to their sensory properties. The many uncovered skylights in the exhibition wing will become lenses of illumination for a choreography of hollow, hanging, resting forms.  

Daiga Grantina ( ° 1985, Latvia) lives and works in Paris. Grantina represented Latvia at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Art Museum Riga Bourse, Riga, LV, 2022; Liebaert Projects, Kortrijk, BE, 2021; GAMeC, Bergamo, IT, 2021; Emalin, London, UK, 2021; New Museum, New York, US, 2020; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR, 2019. In 2025, Grantina will have a solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bern, CH. 

Curator:  Kevin Gallagher 

Riar Rizaldi. Fossilis | 31.03.2024 – 16.06.2024 

Press preview 27.03.2024  | Vernissage  30.03.2024 

Artist and filmmaker Riar Rizaldi (° 1990, Indonesia) transcends the genres of science fiction, documentary and horror. His immersive works explore the complex and fraught relationship between humans and nature. At Z33, Rizaldi will translate his cinematic world into a spatial installation based around his recent work Fossilis (2023). This film  was originally commissioned by Hyundai Artlab for the 5th VH Award.  

Curator: Kevin Gallagher 

The exhibition is in collaboration with Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL). 

Autumn – Winter 2024 

Lucy McKenzie |  29.09.2024 – 23.02.2025 

Press preview TBC | Vernissage 28.09.2024 

Z33 presents the first large institutional solo exhibition in Belgium of Scottish artist Lucy McKenzie who has been based in Brussels since 2006. She will exhibit in the new exhibition wing Vleugel 19, designed by Francesca Torzo and conceived as a microcosm of the city. McKenzie will respond 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. The exhibition will feature several major new commissions, including works inspired by the mid- to late-19th-century craze for moving panoramas – a progenitor to cinema and immersive entertainment of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Lucy McKenzie works in the expanded field of artistic practice: she incorporates sculpture, painting, design, fashion and architecture into her work and exhibitions. Throughout her career,  McKenzie has investigated how the medium of painting operates within the broad spectrum of visual communication. By skillfully applying it to figures and objects, and using it as a monumental backdrop akin to both political murals and commercial advertising, she examines the functions and frictions of these different genres.  

Lucy McKenzie (°1977, Scotland, UK) attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, Scotland (1995–99) and Institut Supérieur de Painter de Bruxelles Van der Kelen-Logelain, Brussels, Belgium (2007–08). Since 2007 Lucy McKenzie has collaborated with Beca Lipscombe on the design project and fashion brand Atelier E.B. In 2020-2021, Prime Suspect, a mid-career retrospective of her work was co-organised by Museum Brandhorst (DE) and Tate Liverpool (UK) McKenzie’s selected exhibitions include Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, IT (2023); La Verrière, Brussels, BE (2022); Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (2017); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US (2014); Lucy McKenzie, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE (2009); MoMA, New York City, US (2008). She is represented by Cabinet Gallery (UK) and Galerie Buchholz (DE/US). 

Curator: Tim Roerig 

Assistant curator: Kevin Gallagher 

Anna Godzina |  29.09.2024 – 01.12.2024 

Press preview TBC | Vernissage 28.09.2024 

Through kinetic sculptures and installations, Anna Godzina (°1990, Moldova) constructs her work in response to architectural spaces. Mechanical instruments such as motors or magnets are often used in combination with natural materials such as tree branches or rusted iron. For her exhibition at Z33, Godzina will develop a new sculptural installation based around her research into artificial landscapes.  

Curator: Kevin Gallagher 

This exhibition is in collaboration with Werktank (Leuven, BE).