From May 8 2026, Kunstraum hosted its “Limen” exhibition with artists Alexandra Leyre Mein and Stephan Balleux
Have you ever noticed this astonishing phenomenon? You are about to leave someone, after a long exchange. But it is only then, on the threshold, that the things that truly matter are finally said.
“Limen” signifies the threshold; it is a place of the ineffable, a zone of extreme intensity, a strangeness that exceeds the power of language. It is an unstable space, an intermediate phase where forms and images transmute. At the heart of this interstice, the works of Alexandra Leyre Mein and Stephan Balleux engage in a dialogue within the exhibition Limen, attempting to make perceptible what usually operates as a low hum: shifting, alteration, and survival. Like a ghostly memory of images and gestures that traverse time and reappear unexpectedly, this “survival” constitutes a point of convergence between the two artists.
Alexandra Leyre Mein’s sculptures, installations, videos and paintings emerge from a process that goes beyond mere formal will. They reflect the complexity of human behavior, the strangeness of our attitudes, and the ambivalence of our emotional states. Their hybrid morphologies—at once organic and mineral—give life to transitory states where matter acts as a seismograph of internal dynamics, capable of recording tensions, frictions, contractions, and invisible flows. At the threshold of figuration and abstraction, the bodies appear fragmented, contorted, and stratified. They seem to carry within them layers of multiple temporalities, opening our perception to a scale that is as much archaeological as it is cosmological.
Through a similar approach, Stephan Balleux engages in a reflection on the essence of the image by drawing from the visual flow of Western culture. Navigating between cinema, photography, and media, he shifts the prism of legibility of his chosen images, implementing a series of transformations that lead his paintings, engravings, and videos toward subversion. Faced with the saturation of the contemporary visual field—which paradoxically tends to reduce the space of the imaginary—Stephan Balleux still manages to unsettle us, creating images haunted by our fantasies.
Conceived as a heterotopia, an “other space”, this exhibition lays bare the invisible structures that sustain our daily lives to freeze, for the duration of a glance, the flow of passage. It becomes the vessel for a world in perpetual metamorphosis, where mythological and media vestiges intertwine. The artists remind us that truth rarely dwells in the obvious, and that it is often here, on the threshold, that things may happen.
Text and curation : Valentine Himpens-David
Starting November 6, Kunstraum will host the Fourth-Space Chapel exhibition designed by artist Dome Wood and curator Valentine Himpens-David. This brand-new exhibition offers a unique reflection on the possibility of contemporary spirituality at the intersection of art and science.
For more than twenty years, Dome Wood has been exploring the links between metaphysics, art, and consciousness. His work is part of an in-depth investigation into what he calls the “fourth-space” an invisible and spiritual space beyond our ordinary reality, where the mind can access another reality made up of infinite possibilities. This radical freedom, which the artist claims as a form of existential resistance, is in line with quantum logic, according to which reality is never fixed, but indeterminate, unpredictable, and open. Art thus becomes a threshold between two worlds: that of multiple possibilities (the quantum world) and that of their appearance in tangible reality (the classical world).
“Quantum Time Tunnel” is a micro-architecture, the centerpiece of the exhibition, inviting visitors to cross a threshold and experience a different relationship with time, matter, and consciousness. In this space, the ordinary laws of the world are suspended and the mind is free to be or not to be, to know or not to know. Inside this installation is a selection of abstract paintings of great physical and spiritual intensity. Each one, created with small, wave-like strokes using an extremely fine brush, evokes buried forms, vibrations, and depths, like the bowels of a parallel world and an inner landscape. Through their play of shadows, textures, and light, they embody a place of transition between what we perceive and what eludes us.
Founder of the 4th Space Meditation Center and co-founder of the Agpronostic Temple, Dome Wood conceives his exhibitions as spaces of transformation. Between mental architecture and collective ritual, his works are invitations to suspend knowledge, to inhabit uncertainty, and to allow oneself to be carried away by spiritual and metaphysical experiences.
At Kunstraum, he continues this approach with a new perspective that questions our relationship to reality, time, and inner freedom.
Images ©Useful Art Services
Lucile Bertrand, Céline Cuvelier, Diego Herman, Charlotte Quinonero and Barthélémy Toguo.
This exhibition gathers five artists and explores the notion of Eldorado in a contemporary context, examining the hopes and challenges tied to migration, borders, and the promises of a better elsewhere.
Lucile Bertrand employs a minimalist and refined language to express the violence of conflicts, the precariousness of migratory journeys, and the exploitation of natural and human resources. Her installations and drawings depict a fractured world of inequalities, while allowing a fragile, silent poetry to emerge.
Céline Cuvelier questions the fabrication of contemporary Eldorados through globalized economies and social structures. Immersing herself in marginalized environments—prisons, migrant camps, psychiatric institutions—she exposes the tensions between dream and reality, the longing for elsewhere, and the brutality of the present.
Diego Herman explores the physical and symbolic boundaries that shape our living spaces. Through his paintings of urban landscapes marked by fences, barriers, and exclusion zones, he challenges the power dynamics governing the free movement of bodies and identities.
Charlotte Quinonero works with themes of dreams and memory, capturing those suspended moments where the past and the imaginary intertwine. In her works, Eldorado becomes an intimate space, an inner quest where memory redraws the contours of possibility.
Barthélémy Toguo, between dreamlike vision and political engagement, sheds light on the contradictions of mobility. Goods circulate freely, but what about people? His monumental stamp sculptures, installations, and drawings denounce bureaucratic obstacles and the paradoxes of globalization, making the invisible visible and revealing the tensions between hope and oppression.
Together, these artists sketch a subjective map of the modern Eldorado—between pursuit and disillusionment, exile and belonging, promise and defiance. Will the promised land be the one we have long imagined?
Opening :
Thursday 3rd of April 2025 from 6pm to 9pm
The exhibition will be open :
Saturday 5th of April from 11am to 6pm
Sunday 27th of April from 11am to 2pm
Or by appointment :
joachim@kunstraum.art
valentinehimpens@gmail.com
+32 489 10 84 16
Closing event, Friday 16th of May from 6 to 9 pm
© Amélie Bataille
The exhibition is a dialogue between Dimitri Autin and Mélissa Medan, recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Art of Brussels. Through drawing, sculpture and video, it invites us to reflect on the durability of our lifestyles, our desire to expand and our ceaseless quest for new territories.
Using the delicacy of paper, the artists imagine a world where machines take on animal forms, evoking both mystery and absurdity. Their exploration of space, omnipresent in their works, highlights the fragility of our contemporary lifestyles, inviting the viewer to introspect on our complex relationship with technology and our environment.
Location : Chemin des Pins 13, 1180 Uccle
Opening :
Thursday 11th of April 2024 from 6pm to 9pm
The exhibition will be open :
Saturday 13th of April from 11am to 6pm
Sunday 28th of April from 12am to 4pm
Or by appointment :
joachim@kunstraum.art
valentinehd@yahoo.fr
+32 489 10 84 16
Hannah Kircher & Guillaume Thunis
This exhibition questions the subjective variations of the measurement of things.
Two artists come together to present different ways of perceiving time and seek to make perceptible what we cannot observe.
Through their works, the artists’own rhythms intertwine to celebrate the present moment in their skilled way of playing with the concept of time using different techniques and medias.
They present a series of artworks where the painting express an individual vision of what time is.
Exhibition gathering artists around erotical abstraction. Artists invited :
” The history of abstraction is intrinsically linked to freedom of expression. Every generation of artist inevitably finds themselves swinging on the pendulum between figuration and abstraction, between freedom and fashion. When is a line on paper a border and when is it a decorative device ?” (Kendell Geers)
The exhibition ‘Borderline, between a line and a border’ embraces the questions of freedom and abstraction.
In the early 1970s, Belgian artist Evelyne Axell used color and seemingly decorative forms to create politically charged erotic paintings that transcended the boundaries of her socio-political reality. The exhibition traces the history of Abstraction from Evelyne Axell through artists like Le Corbusier, Liu Dao, Heinrich Maria Davringhausen, Hadassah Emmerich, Kendell Geers, Michel Mouffe, Anne-Marie Schneider and Agnes Thurnauer. The artworks speak about the body and sensuality, about social limitations, taboos and their transgression, in ways that invite the viewer to think outside the traditional borders of their social, political or religious context.
EXHIBITED ARTISTS
Evelyne Axell
Le Corbusier
Liu Dao
Heinrich Maria Davringhausen
Hadassah Emmerich
Kendell Geers
Michel Mouffe
Agnes Thurnauer
Anne-Marie Schneider
EXHIBITION
9,10,11 SEPTEMBER 2022
Based on the first April 2022 Edition at Kunstraum which was successfully curated by Kendell Geers,
this exhibition intensifies the Dialogue with Disrupture.
30 Years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Apartheid Regime in South Africa, artistic imagination shows the expression of these dramatic changes.
With 11 artists’ interpretations, a thrilling extract of these 30 years periods’ creativity is presented by this exhibition.
Artists exhibited
Most artists are exhibited twice illustrating even more the dialogue which is the heart of the extended exhibition.
Through this dialogue, you will see the artworks of the following artists:
Kendell Geers (former curator of the first exhibition)
Walter Swennen
Usha Seejarim
Jean du Plessis
Wolfgang Flad
Bernardi Roig
Chris Soal
Themba Khumalo
Michel Mouffe
Robin Rhode
Juan Miguel Pozo
PRACTICAL INFOS:
Friday September 9 from 18.00 to 20.30
Saturday September 10 from 10.00 to 14.00
Sunday September 11 from 10.00 to 14.00
Kunstraum
Chemin des Pins 13
1180 Bruxelles
with the artist Stephane Noel
The exhibition invites visitors to explore the inner experience of time through three distinct artistic approaches. Erica Hinyot presents her toiles organiques hors temps, where matter and temporality intertwine. Thomas Vanoost captures the movement and chaos of reality in his photographic compositions, while Guillaume Thunis reveals his tracés à l’infini, gestures that extend beyond the instant. Together, their works offer a dialogue on perception, duration, and the fluidity of time.
Thomas Vanoost
Guillaume Thunis
