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Wiels is a contemporary art centre situated in Forest, in the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium in a former brewery. The centre opened in 2007.[1] It has three exhibition platforms with a total exhibition space of 1,800 m² (19,000 sq ft), an auditorium, studio workshops for artists-in-residence, and a café/foyer and bookshop in the former brewing hall. Wiels has no collection, instead putting on temporary exhibitions by national and international artists.[2]^{[citation needed]}

Wiels

Location within Brussels
Established	2007
Type	Art museum
Website	www.wiels.org/en/

Wiels hosts nine artist-in-residency studios, for which it receives hundreds of applications every year.[3]

For its tenth anniversary in 2017, Wiels organized a group exhibition called The Absent Museum, a reference to the incorrect assumption that Wiels is an art museum.[4]

Building history

In 1931, the Wielemans-Ceuppens built the Blomme building (named after its architect Adrien Blomme [nl]) to expand its brewing business. At the time, it was the largest brewhouse in continental Europe. In 1988, the brewery closed, and in 1993, the building was given protected status, saving it from demolition. In 2001, the Brussels Capital region acquired the building and began renovating it to open Wiels.[5][6] The name Wiels was derived from Wielemans-Ceuppens. It is one of the few examples of modernist industrial architecture in Belgium.[2]

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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[de] Wiels – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst

Das Wiels – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst (das sich selbst WIELS schreibt) ist ein Kunstmuseum und Kunstzentrum in der Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354 Ecke Avenue Wielemans Ceuppens in der Gemeinde Forest/Vorst, Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt.

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- [en] Wiels

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