The gallery (2010) situated in Antwerp’s historical center is a lively meeting point for art, architecture and the daily object. Since its beginning, the gallery has pushed the boundaries between different domains by commissioning exhibitions from a variety of artists. Seeking for creators with a strong, empathic content and a sense of imperfection. Artists who work in cross-genre, leaving their comfort zones by mixing disciplines in order to transform, reconstruct and find beauty in ordinariness and in the daily.

The question whether or not it is art, design or architecture is irrelevant within the interdisciplinary scope of the gallery. This attitude is also reflected in the physical set-up of the gallery:
as an extension of her home, gallery director Veerle Wenes even made every private room part of an ever-changing set-up. 

“A place for encounters,

for things and themes,

for functionality and subjectivity,

for exhibiting and living.

Pushing the boundaries between art, design and architecture,

between public and private space”

I opened the gallery to meet people, to create things, new concepts, new exhibitions,
new encounters, so in a way it was to create a new way of life.
(Veerle Wenes)

www.valerietraan.be

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reyndersstraat 12

2000 antwerp

belgium

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Thu - Fri - Sat 2-6 pm

during scheduled exhibitions or by appointment

closed on public holidays