27 Jun 2012

Z33 presents Mind the System, Find the Gap

Mind the System, Find the Gap is this year's summer exhibition at Z33 – House for Contemporary Art. More than 30 international artists seek out the gaps in the system.

Our society is governed by all sorts of systems and structures that organise and steer life. No system, however, whether political, legal, economic, socio-cultural or spatial, can comprise life in its entirety. Every system has gaps, leaks and ambiguities.The artists in the exhibition Mind the System, Find the Gap seek out these gaps. They set forth from this intermediate position to unveil, circumvent or criticise ruling systems and structures. In doing so, maybe art can change the world.

Mind the System, Find the Gap does not proffer an overly simplified critique on the notion of systems and structuring principles, but aims to seek out its complexity.

For the past few years, strong thematic exhibitions on societal issues have been Z33's trademark. It is Z33's ambition to challenge the visitor to look at the day-to-day reality with a different set of eyes, as do the artists in Mind the System, Find the Gap.

Artists:
Agency (INT), Atelier Van Lieshout (NL), Shigeo Anzaï (JP), Yto Barrada (FR/MA), Heath Bunting (GB), Jordi Colomer (ES), Minerva Cuevas (MX), Jaime Davidovich (AR/US), Elmgreen&Dragset (DK/N), Leandro Elrich (AR), Dora García (ES), Simon Gush (ZA), Anne Holtrop (NL),Tadashi Kawamata (JP) Matthieu Laurette (FR), Minouk Lim (KOR), Jill Magid (US), Gordon Matta-Clark (US), Ahmet Öğüt (TU), Karl Philips (BE), Julien Prévieux (FR), Esther Stocker (IT), Sebastian Stumpf (D), Stephanie Syjuco (US), Pilvi Takala (FI/NL), Pablo Valbuena (ES), Stijn Van Dorpe (BE), Benjamin Verdonck (BE), Katleen Vermeir (BE), the YES Men (US), Carey Young (US/GB)

Curator:
Z33: Karen Verschooren, Ils Huygens, Evelien Bracke

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Extra info + interview requests
Tim Toubac
0032 (0)11 295 996
0032 (0)494 33 70 13
ttoubac@z33.be

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