The Stomach of Europe
22 May to 19 July 2026
Opening: Thursday, 21 May 2026
With works by Danai Anesiadou, Ethan Assouline, Sammy Baloji, Kasper Bosmans, Jef Cornelis, Gust Duchateau, Laurent Dupont, Arnaud Eubelen, Jana Euler, Béla Feldberg, Mona Filleul, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Felix Kindermann, Aglaia Konrad, Céline Mathieu, Hana Miletić, Willem Oorebeek, Jurgen Ots, Marina Pinsky, Beat Streuli, Walter Swennen, Angharad Williams and others.
The exhibition The Stomach of Europe focuses on Brussels as a multifaceted urban organism. The city combines cosmopolitan diversity, overlapping political influences, and social tensions—a chaotic but inspiring environment for artistic creation. Brussels’ architecture, colonial history, and immigration shape working methods that reflect nonconformity, resistance, and urban reality. The exhibition examines artistic perspectives on urban structures, social textures, and historical traces. With stops in Cologne and Brussels, the project links historical and geographical resonances, highlights cultural interconnections between cities, and expands the interpretation of urban topographies through artistic practices. Brussels thus becomes a model space for reflecting on how cities as living organisms can be continually reinterpreted through art.
Curated by Fabian Flückiger, Curator Brussels and Valérie Knoll, Director Kölnischer Kunstverein.
We are delighted that The Stomach of Europe has been nominated for the *WESTSTERN Prize 2026 in the category Exhibition.
