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DAILY NEWS, VIEWS, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS
CRITICS' PICKS, OPENINGS, YOUR VIDEOS, YOUR BLOGS
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THERESA SIMON ON ARTBRUSSELS AND STANDS FOR ATTITUDE AT LOCUSLUX
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ArtBrussels is now considered to be one of Europe's leading contemporary art fairs, so the VIP programme comes equipped with red carpet service, BMW chauffered cars and visits to major gallery openings, such the new Luc Tuymans show at 'Wiels' and a three-part show called "...Stands for Attitude" at Locuslux.
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JO COUCKE ON BORIS MIKHAILOV AT THE DEWEER GALLERY, OTEGUM
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Unlike many people of his generation, such as Ilya Kabakov and Eric Bulatov, who moved from Ukraine to Moscow and then emigrated to the West, Boris Mikhailov kept on living and working in his hometown of Kharkov until well into the 1990s. He was and still is attached to the vast and forgotten hinterland of the former Soviet Union, and even though he now lives in Berlin, he regularly spends time in the town in which he grew up. In view of the economically turbulent times the world is going through at the moment, Boris Mikhailov has chosen in this exhibition to exhibit just two series of works which show how he responded to the crisis that ravaged his country in the beginning of the 1990s. 
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PIERRE-YVES DESAIVE ON SHADI GHADIRIAN AT AEROPLASTICS CONTEMPORARY, BRUSSELS
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Aeroplastics Contemporary presents the first comprehensive exhibition of the Iranian photographer Shadi Ghadirian. Coming to wide public attention in 2001 with the series 'Qajar' and 'Like Everyday', the artist has continued to explore the theme of conflict between tradition and modernity, and the position of women in a society dominated by male stereotypes. 
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SERENA BENTLEY ON MARCIN CIENSKI AT GEUKENS & DE VIL, ANTWERP
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The writer Neal Brown has described viewing Marcin Cienski's paintings as 'like coming across a Hitchcock film half-way through, at the freaky bit, without having any idea of the plot.' A recent trip to Antwerp is the inspiration behind Cienski's current series, 'Bad Air', a study of the Great Plague focusing
particularly on the stoicism of victims in the face of this invisible danger. 
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STEVE PULIMOOD ON BANKS VIOLETTE AT GALERIE RODOLPHE JANSSEN, BRUSSELS
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Were you to create the epitome of destruction that embodied the yin and yang of light and dark, cacophony and silence, what would it look like? Banks Violette's 'No Title (Throne)' offers a spectacular answer. A Baroque pendant chandelier, like a prop from a Gothic novel, has crashed to the gallery floor, its presumptive light extinguished. Like sediment-encrusted wreckage from a sunken ship, the chandelier is covered in salt crystals that seem to have grown organically on its lustrous metallic fragments. 
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ART BRUSSELS: 18-21 APRIL 2008
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On Friday 18 April, the 26th edition of artbrussels opens its doors presenting 179 galleries from 24 countries. Works of more than 2,000 artists will be featured, including well-known Belgian artists such as Wim Delvoye, Jan Fabre, Michel François, Hans Op de Beeck (below) and Panamarenko. 
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NATHALIE DJURBERG AT SINT LUKAS GALLERY, BRUSSELS
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Swedish-born Nathalie Djurberg uses lo-fi materials for her animated films, moulding plasticene figures which she then places in bizarre and surreal scenarios. There's a chance to see her most recent work in this exhibition at the St Lukas Academy gallery in Brussels. You can also watch videos by Djurberg by clicking on our Video archive in the Contents menu, and you can read Saatchi Online's interview with the artist by clicking here.
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SANTHAl FAMILY: INDIAN SCULPTURE AT MUHKA, ANTWERP
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Opening on 1 February, this exhibition takes as its starting point 'Santhal Family', a work made by Indian artist Ramkinkar Baij in 1938 which is considered to be the first major modernist public sculpture in India. The exhibition will feature painting, sculpture, installation, literature, historical documents, performance and film, and includes major new commissions by contemporary Indian artists as well as non-Indian artists responding to Baij's work. Bringing these diverse elements together, Polish artist Goshka Macuga will design a series of sculptural exhibition structures to help audiences navigate the diverse material on display. 
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CLEMENS VON WEDEMEYER & MAYA SCHWEIZER AT ARGOS, CENTRE FOR ART & MEDIA, BRUSSELS
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Clemens von Wedemeyer's films combine an awareness of social issues with an investigation of the multiplication of cinematic perspectives and the processes of filming in front of as well as behind the scenes. For his current exhibition, Wedemeyer presents a film installation, Otjesd and a work made with fellow artist Maya Schweizer entitled Metropolis, Report from China, referencing Fritz Lang's classic film as it explores the growth of the Chinese mega-city. 
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AVI MOGRABI AT VAN ABBE MUSEUM
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Mograbi's films and videos explore stories based on the military and political conflicts in the Israel region whilst weaving them with echoes of the age-old local cultural myths - a body of work that critiques the Israeli treatment of Palestinian people with an uncommon, at times shocking, sense of humour, writes Lupe Nunez-Fernandez.
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LUC TUYMANS AT MUHKA, ANTWERP
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This Summer, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp has organized an exhibition by Luc Tuymans entitled 'I don't get it', which reveals the drawings, photographs, film-stills and Polaroids that are the basis for Tuyman's paintings. Controversially, Tuymans has also created exhibition a smoking room in the exhibition (below) - a gesture in defiance of the smoking ban from the artist whose smoking habit he claims has been vital to his work. 
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'THE PROJECTION PROJECT' AT MUHKA, BELGIUM
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Anri Sala's 'Window drawing' (pictured) is one of the works on view at an exhibition which explores the complicated phenomenon of projection in contemporary life, and how art offers alternatives to projections we are faced with day to day in politics, entertainment and technology. Catch this show before it closes on 25 Feb, and see a special screening of artists' films this Friday.
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MARINE HUGONNIER AT SMAK, GHENT
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A chance to see a trilogy of films by the French artist which explore the way a landscape determines history or, vice versa, how ideology shapes a landscape. 
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