Office d'Art Contemporain

Brussels, Belgium

Brussels, Belgium
www.officedartcontemporain.com

The « Office d’Art Contemporain » (« Office for Contemporary Art ») is an art centre that was founded in 1993 in Brussels in Belgium. Up to now we have presented some one hundred visual artists with a panoramic and at the same time an intimate view of contemporary artistic creativity. The engagement in our cultural and artistic policy is based on principles of internationalism, pragmatism, efficacy and accessibility. We are calling the audience to meet unique, multidiscipline and often unexpected experiences where the art has a role to act, guide, communicate and initiate. Our work is founded on our will to serve as a springboard and a place of discovery. That is what makes us special, the dialogue we seek with the artist, within his workshop, with final purpose of placing his works in the space-time framework we live in.

Our objectives are:
1. To exhibit regularly young artists linked in the international milieu of Brussels where they can add their own cultural backgrounds and realities. This creates a fresh picture of the atmosphere of today, as well as our way of presenting the already well established artists in their less known paths.
2. To stimulate the exchanges and interlocutions between various associations and institutions working in the field of visual arts of today.
3. To promote and diffuse contemporary art in all of its forms.

Benoît Félix: "Screen Shot 2", sculpture in paper, 2009, photo by the artist
Isbel Baraona: "Dialogue", ink on paper, 2007, photo: Office d'Art Contemporain
Maren Dubnick: "Tightening", photography, 2009, photo by the artist
Jacques Dujardin: "Clones", grease on glass, 2009, photo by the artist
David Clément: "8", screen print, 2008, photo: Office d'Art Contemporain
Mikko Paakkola: Untitled, oil and pigments on board, 2006, photo by the artist
Juan Paparella: Untitled, photography, 2008/2009, photo by the artist
Jean-Marie Stroobants : Untitled, label and stickers, 2007, photo: Office d'Art Contemporain
Manuel Alves Pereira: "Noir-jaune-rouge", photography, 2009, photo by the artist