The exhibition Landslide, presented at the Chapelle de Boondael in Ixelles, brings together several artists around a shared reflection on transformation, fragility, and reconstruction.

Through installations, sculptures, and visual interventions, the artists focus on what remains after the collapse: fragments, traces, and remnants. Here, these elements become a form of language through which the memory of places can be explored, revealing how mineral, organic, and industrial materials bear the marks of time within them.

The exhibition design plays a central role in the project. Some installations draw on forms and principles borrowed from architecture—columns, alignments, and structural elements—while others appear as scattered fragments dispersed throughout the space. This tension between order and disorder creates a delicate balance, evoking at once a construction site, an archaeological excavation, or a landscape in the aftermath of collapse.

Far from presenting ruins as merely picturesque relics, the exhibition suggests them as signs of a transition within modernity: an ongoing process of destruction and chaos that gives rise to transformation. This dystopian imagery, deeply rooted in literature and video games, expands the exhibition’s conceptual framework and invites viewers to consider this imaginary world as a source of aesthetic exploration.

As an extension of this reflection, from September 24 to 27, the participating artists and game designers Sohel Bourgeau, Barthélémy Cabry and Lucas Leffler will present interactive installations that invite visitors to explore these imaginaries. By proposing an active approach to the works, these installations provide a framework for questioning our relationship to familiar environments and the narratives we construct around them.

Practical Information:

Dates: September 4–27, 2026
Vernissage: Friday, September 4, 6–10 PM
Opening Hours: Thu, Fri & Sun: 2–6 PM · Sat: 11 AM–6 PM
📍 Chapelle de Boondael, Square du Vieux Tilleul 10, 1050 Ixelles, Brussels

Lithologies is Veronica de Giovanelli’s first solo exhibition in Brussels, bringing together works created over the past several years that explore the mineral world. Curated by Claire Leblanc, the exhibition examines the material, temporal, and poetic dimensions of geology through a range of artistic practices.
The title Lithologies refers to the geological study of rocks, but its use in the plural lends it a poetic dimension, echoing the word “mythologies.” In this way, rocks become narratives, witnesses to real or invisible worlds, connecting the microcosm of mineral structures with the macrocosm of the universe. 
In this exhibition, the artist highlights the processes that shape, transform, or erase mineral landscapes, such as sedimentation, erosion, solidification, and crystallization. Her most recent research also explores Belgian blue stone, whose marine fossils reveal the traces of a vanished landscape and make the depth of geological time perceptible within the urban environment.
Lithologies brings together works ranging from painting and collage to frottage and installation, making visible both what appears on the surface and what lies secretly buried beneath, while approaching the landscape in all its complexity.

Curation and Text: Claire Leblanc

Practical Information:
Dates: 12/09–04/10, 2026
Vernissage: Friday, September 11, 5–10 PM
Opening Hours: Thu, Fri & Sun: 3–7 PM · Sat: 11 AM–6 PM or by appointment by writing to vdg.atelier@gmail.com
📍 KULT XL Expo, rue Wiertz 23, 1050 Ixelles
Finissage: Sunday, October 4