BRUSSELS ART DAYS 7th Edition
September 12,13 & 14th
Brussels Art Days is delighted to annonce its forthcoming 7th edition that will take place on
Saturday September 13th and Sunday September 14th, 2014.
On the occasion of the Brussels Art Days, we are pleased to invite you to a press
conference followed by a round table discussion.
Brussels is becoming more and more important on the contemporary art scene. Each day,
the city becomes more attractive for art amateurs, collectors and artists.
In September, 29 leading and internationally active galleries are opening their doors
together, mounting high quality exhibitions. The participating galleries were selected based
on their dynamism and program.
For the 7th edition of the Brussels Art Days, the international profile has become even more
refined, so as to offer absolute impeccable quality to thousands of national and international
visitors.
The 29 participating galleries are all opening their doors on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14
September from noon till 7 pm.
More information can be found on the website: www.brusselsartdays.com and a mobile
application will be available during the weekend
The press conference, organised by Brussels Art Days, will take place on the 12th of
September at 11 am at The Hotel. The conference room is called Vista and is on the 27 th
floor.
After the conference, we would like to invite you to a talk during which the following question
will be addressed: ‘How to transform Brussels into the most important European capital
for contemporary art?’ This discussion will start at 11.30 am.
Several topics will be touched upon: the position and importance of Brussels on the
European art market, the stakes and opportunities for cultural entrepreneurs in Belgium,
public subventions and private investors, the support for galleries, the role of art fairs, etc.
The spokesmen for the talk, with Pierre Iserbyt as moderator, will be: Yamila Idrissi, Rudi
Vervoort, and Michel Draguet.
At 12.30 pm, guests are warmly invited to exchange thoughts during a light lunch.
Please confirm your presence before the 8th of September at info@brusselsartdays.com
Kind regards,
The BAD team
Pierre Iserbyt is a Belgian collector and the administrator of Aedifica and the Herbert
Foundation. He has been on the Board of Directors of WIELS since its opening in 2008 and is
Chairman of the Board since two years. And recently Founding member of First Sight, the fund
of les Amis de la Loge.
Graduate in Law, Rudi Vervoort is a major Belgian politician and member of the country’s
socialist party. He has been the mayor of Evere since 1998, while also being a member of the
parliament and the minister-president of the Brussels-Capital Region since 2013. He is notably
responsible for the city’s urban development as well as for its monuments and important sites,
making him a key figure in the evolution of arts in the capital. What is more, he is at the centre of
the project that aims to develop a media centre in Brussels that would enable Belgian television
channels, such as RTBF or VRT, to gain back their importance.
Doctor in Philosophy and Literature and professor at the Literature and Philosophy Department
of ULB, Michel Draguet is the general director at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. In
2009, he opened the Magritte Museum in Brussels and in December of 2013, he inaugurated the
Fin-de-Siècle Museum. Specialised in the history of painting from the XIXth and XXth century, he
is the commissioner of numerous exhibitions relating to symbolism, to Belgian art in the XXth
century as well as to Magritte. He also the author of Khnopff or the poetic ambiguity (Paris,
Flammarion, 1995 – Winner of the Arthur Merghelynck Prize 1996 of the Royal Academy of
Belgium) and Chronology of art of the XXth century (Paris, Flammarion, 1997; new edition in
2003).
Yamila Idrissi is a lawyer and member of the Flemish parliament for sp.a, the socio-democratic
party, in Brussels. In June of 2009, Yamila Idrissi became the first party leader of Moroccan
origine to be chosen for the Flemish parliament, where she resides for sp.a. Since the closure of
the modern art wing at the Royal Museum of Fine Art in Brussels in January 2011, Idrissi has
been pleading for a museum of modern and contemporary art alongside the canal in Brussels. In
2013, together with some 150 other culturally and politically engaged people from Brussels, she
started a campaign for a MAK, 'Museum aan het Kanaal'.