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Things to see and forget about in Belgium

Category : Exhibitions
Next date : 11/06/2026 > 09/07/2026
Place : TinyGallery Brussels
Rue de la Cuve, 26
1050 Ixelles

Wout De Ridder travels Belgium with a medium format film camera, turning his lens toward the incidental and overlooked — a faded shopfront, a roadside object with no clear purpose, a wall repainted too many times. None of it is unique to Belgium. Gathered together, it becomes unmistakably, irreducibly Belgian. The word for this is Belgitude. It resists translation, which is perhaps fitting for a country that resists definition. Belgium is a place of borders — linguistic, cultural, political — and it is in those in-between spaces that something distinctly its own quietly takes root. It is no coincidence that surrealism found some of its most fertile ground here. Magritte painted ordinary objects stripped of their logic. Delvaux set familiar scenes adrift in dreamlike light. Something in the Belgian gaze instinctively finds the strange hiding inside the everyday. Alongside De Ridder's photographs, a second body of work: a Flemish family album from the TinyGallery collection, spanning nearly a century of ordinary life — from the 1910s to the 1960s. The light changes. But something persists — a certain way of inhabiting the world, modest and particular, that is difficult to define and impossible to mistake. That persistence, perhaps, is Belgitude.

Opening Thursday 11 June 2026 from 18:00 till 20:30
Date 11/06/2026 > 09/07/2026

monday and tuesday: closed
wednesday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 15:00 to 18:00
thursday: closed
Place TinyGallery Brussels
Rue de la Cuve, 26
1050 Ixelles http://www.tinygallery.photo
Information and Reservations http://tinygallery.photo
Phone (Reservation) : +32 475 27 95 56
Phone : +32 475 27 95 56
Email : olivier@tinygallery.photo
Prices 7 € - Normal
Languages
nl fr en
Accessibility
  • Accessible to pedestrians with mobility aids
Target audience
  • Children 9-12 yr.
  • Family
  • Youth 12-15 yr.
  • Schools
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TinyGallery Brussels