current exhibitions
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current exhibitions —
Until 15 June 2025
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Just one year ago, the idea for this exhibition seemed both bold and unsettling. Delving into the world of artificial intelligence to explore its intersections with photography—a discipline we have championed for nine years at Hangar—could have been seen as a rupture, even a betrayal. However, it was a necessity, almost a mission: to meet the challenge of a dialogue between tradition and innovation, and to explore the future of the image.
To build this project, we adopted a hybrid methodology: an international call for projects, allowing fresh ideas to reach us, combined with a rigorous selection of works discovered during our research. We quickly chose a structuring theme: revisiting historical events or figures through the lens of artificial intelligence. This framework allowed us to avoid purely aesthetic abstraction and focus the reflection on the dialogue between the past and the future.
Supported by experts in photography and image, the Hangar curation team approached this selection with increasing confidence. The chosen artists stand out for their deep reflection on their practice, reinterpreted in light of this new tool, regardless of their generation. These works do not merely present photorealistic images: they embody a new visual category yet to be named, a new generation of creation that could be called, why not, promptography.
With this exhibition, Hangar reaffirms its identity: an art center resolutely focused on photography and image, but also firmly rooted in the heart of contemporary art history’s transformations.
Welcome to a journey between the real and the virtual, the past and the future, where imagination is written at the intersection of humanity and machine.
- Delphine Dumont, director of Hangar
14 March - 11 May 2025
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Navigating the boundaries between documentary and fiction, the Paradise series serves as a parable about our capacity for adaptation. It offers a glimpse into the next place that will have to undergo this slow healing process after disasters whose causes are increasingly human. It suggests our growing separation from nature, our hubris in trying to defy it at all costs.
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Hangar bookshop, specialized in photo books, offers a unique experience to all visual art lovers. The bookshop situated in the front area of Hangar Photo Art Center is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 12 to 6pm(during exhibitions). The space lets you discover a rich collection of photography publications, from classic names to emerging artists. In addition to books, Hangar bookshop offers limited editions, magazines, posters and items related to photography.
A photo bookshop in Brussels with a focus on the Belgian scene
The Brussels photo bookshop offers a large choice of photography books with a special attention to the Belgian scene, highlighting the talent and creativity of local photographers. In fact, the aim of the bookshop is to promote photography as a visual art. Support emerging and established photographers. Raise public awareness of the diversity of photographic art. Strengthen photography’s presence in Brussels’ cultural landscape.
A selection of books about the current and past exhibitions
A large part of the bookshop is dedicated to publications by artists presented in the exhibitions. To prolong the discovery, Hangar Bookshop in Brussels has designated a section of its store to a rich and varied selection of books about the artists or the theme of the exhibition. Hangar believes that art is an ever-evolving conversation between artists, artworks, and the public. The bookstore invites you to browse the selection of photo books to join this conversation. Not only to broaden your perspective but also to continue to explore the ideas and inspirations that come from Hangar’s unwavering commitment to the visual arts.
Not just a photo bookshop in Brussels, but also a publisher
Starting in 2020 with the first self-published catalog, “Ruud Van Empel — 25 Years of Photo Works” Hangar count now 14 books in his collection. As a matter of fact, Hangar’s commitment to photography goes beyond the presentation of captivating exhibitions. The photo art center takes pride in creating and shaping the story of each exhibition through meticulously designed books and catalogs. All the Hangar’s team take part of the process to ensure that the essence of each exhibition is preserved in its printed form, making it accessible to a wider audience.
A special treat for Hangar Members
Moreover, Hangar reserves special attention for its members by allowing them to benefit from a reduction on every article and books of the bookshop. As a Hangar Member, you benefit from a 10% discount on all books and products in the shop.
Selection of the month
Catalogue of the exhibition
20€
New Farmer - Bruce Eesly
15€
Special edition of Robin Lopvet
220€
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