HASSELT.- Z33 announces a solo exhibition by Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel as well as the international group exhibition Modelling Life.

Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel: The Wet Wing
Vleugel 58
March 30–August 24, 2025

Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel’s collaborative art practice evokes a contemporary pastoral world through a monumental approach to craft practices. In their work, farm animals, local plants, man-made objects, or human anatomy are rendered into technically challenging materials such as embroidery, oak, marble, or silk. Probing divisions between nature and culture, they look towards tools, materials and imagery that explore our kinship with, and separation from the natural world. They place a high value in artisanal techniques to produce their artworks, often developing bespoke processes for the creation of singular works.

For their solo exhibition at Z33, Dewar and Gicquel have embarked on the production of a new monumental silk painting, which streams through the five galleries of the historic Vleugel 58. For this epic painting, the duo have chosen to depict a river scene with freshwater fish. As companions to this immersive aquatic scene, Dewar and Gicquel present a new series of sculptures made of stoneware ceramics and pink marble.

Based in Brussels and Brittany, the British-French artist duo Daniel Dewar (1975, UK) and Grégory Gicquel (1975, FR) have been working together since their student days in the late 1990s. Since then, the duo have exhibited widely and internationally in venues such as: MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Culturgest, Lisbon; the Secession, Vienna; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Portikus, Frankfurt; Witte de With, Rotterdam; WIELS, Brussels; Musée Rodin, Paris; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. In 2012 they were recipients of the prestigious Prix Marcel Duchamp.

Modelling Life
Vleugel 19
March 30–August 24, 2025

The exhibition Modelling Life examines how models emerge in art and everyday life: as play-spaces to collectively explore forms, perspectives, and ideas. Just as a child builds with blocks or plays with a dollhouse, the process of modelling can become a way of learning, discovering, or making anew. Through media such as drawing, sculpture, and photography the exhibition proposes “modelling” as a dynamic process of reflection and experimentation. Architectural interventions by artists such as Christiane Blattmann or Kasper Bosmans place the viewer in the model in a tangible way.

Whether through architectural structures, social archetypes, or conceptual frameworks, models offer us ways to express new realities. At the same time, such models can limit or confine us—much like an adolescent might feel uncomfortable in a world that doesn’t seem to fit. Modelling Life traces the contours of our built environment. At the same time, it asks how our identities are constructed. Whether architectural or psychological, the exhibition explores the tools we use to orient ourselves in the world.

Through installations and conceptual works, the artists in the exhibition highlight the role of the model as both mirror and blueprint of collective aspirations. Modelling Life emphasises the process of making spaces that accommodate diverse bodies, experiences, and dreams, ultimately asking of us: can we create a built environment as rich and complex as life itself?

With works by Kasper Bosmans, Christiane Blattmann, Pablo Bronstein, Jakob Brugge, Helen Chadwick, Sara Deraedt, Caroline Van den Eynden, Robert Gober, Joseph Grigely, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Mark Manders, Park McArthur, Diane Simpson, Rosemarie Trockel.

Curator: Kevin Gallagher