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Phone:
+32 2 340 00 53

Hours:
Sunday11am - 6pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday11am - 6pm
Wednesday11am - 6pm
Thursday11am - 6pm
Friday11am - 6pm
Saturday11am - 6pm


WIELS is a contemporary art centre situated in Forest, in the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium in a building of the former Wielemans brewery. Officially opened on May 25, 2007, WIELS has three exhibition platforms with a total exhibition space of 1,800 m2 , an auditorium, studio workshops for artists-in-residence, and a café/foyer and bookshop in the monumental brewing hall. The institution has no collection, instead putting on temporary exhibitions by national and international artists. Wiels has been described as an international laboratory for the creation and the diffusion of contemporary art and is the leading contemporary art institution in Belgium.It has nine artist-in-residency studios for which it receives hundreds of applications every year. and numerous programs of educational activities and community oriented programs. For its tenth anniversary, WIELS organized in 2017 The Absent Museum, an ambitious exhibition project in which all departments were involved. The name 'WIELS' comes from a pils formerly brewed by Wielemans. Artists to have exhibited there include René Daniëls, Rita McBride, Yayoi Kusama, Mike Kelley, Luc Tuymans, David Claerbout, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Walter Swennen,Francis Alÿs, Jef Geys, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Daan Van Golden , Tauba Auerbach, Franz Erhard Walther, Mark Leckey, Thomas Bayrle and Edith Dekyndt.
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