TEN WOMEN / DIX FEMMES / TIEN VROUWEN / ZEHN FRAUEN is the third stage of the portrait series by Kristien Daem. On the occasion of this new publication, the eponymous exhibition will take place at INBOX, MUHKA from 1 until 24 September 2023.
Kristien Daem embraces the tradition of portraiture in art and photography in an ongoing series on the representation of women in the art world. For this series she made portraits of women artists only, based in Brussels, from various generations working with different media and diverse genres. Among them Marianne Berenhaut, Rossella Biscotti, Sylvie Eyberg, Judith Geerts, Melissa Gordon, Hana Miletić, Marina Pinsky, Batsheva Ross, Birde Vanheerswynghels and Leen Voet. These women artists explore complex themes and make works that cannot be categorized and do not belong to a single aesthetic subject.
The portraits are placed within a quire including a list of works by the artists shown in the exhibition. The publication is designed in collaboration with Saskia Gevaert.
The exhibition is the “wall-floor” version of the publication: ten portraits of women artists are evenly spaced on the walls of the INBOX exhibition space, overlooking works by these artists arranged on ten white-painted panels centered on the floor. The works are brought together from different contexts, mixed up and placed together despite their lack of connection.
Portrait series I, II & III are available in the bookshop of the museum.
Invitation card designed by Saskia Gevaert
Sylvie Eyberg, 2023 by Kristien Daem
Fine Art Inkjet Paper, 50 x 40 cm, mounted on multiplex panels with metal hooks
behind Perfect White Art Glass
Marina Pinsky, 2023 by Kristien Daem
Fine Art Inkjet Paper, 50 x 40 cm, mounted on multiplex panels with metal hooks
behind Perfect White Art Glass
Rossella Biscotti, 2023 by Kristien Daem
Fine Art Inkjet Paper, 50 x 40 cm, mounted on multiplex panels with metal hooks
behind Perfect White Art Glass
Melissa Gordon, 2023 by Kristien Daem
Fine Art Inkjet Paper, 50 x 40 cm, mounted on multiplex panels with metal hooks
behind Perfect White Art Glass
Leen Voet, 2023 by Kristien Daem
Fine Art Inkjet Paper, 50 x 40 cm, mounted on multiplex panels with metal hooks
behind Perfect White Art Glass
Marianne Berenhaut, 2023 by Kristien Daem
Fine Art Inkjet Paper, 50 x 40 cm, mounted on multiplex panels with metal hooks
behind Perfect White Art Glass
Judith Geerts, 2023 by Kristien Daem
Fine Art Inkjet Paper, 50 x 40 cm, mounted on multiplex panels with metal hooks
behind Perfect White Art Glass
Hana Miletić, 2023 by Kristien Daem
Fine Art Inkjet Paper, 50 x 40 cm, mounted on multiplex panels with metal hooks
behind Perfect White Art Glass
Birde Vanheerswynghels, 2023 by Kristien Daem
Fine Art Inkjet Paper, 50 x 40 cm, mounted on multiplex panels with metal hooks
behind Perfect White Art Glass
Batsheva Ross, 2023 by Kristien Daem
Fine Art Inkjet Paper, 50 x 40 cm, mounted on multiplex panels with metal hooks
behind Perfect White Art Glass
Exhibition view INBOX, M HKA
Ten portraits and ten works of Marianne Berenhaut, Rossella Biscotti, Sylvie Eyberg, Judith Geerts, Melissa Gordon, Hana Miletić, Marina Pinsky, Batsheva Ross, Birde Vanheerswynghels and Leen Voet
Exhibition view INBOX, M HKA
Ten portraits and ten works of Marianne Berenhaut, Rossella Biscotti, Sylvie Eyberg, Judith Geerts, Melissa Gordon, Hana Miletić, Marina Pinsky, Batsheva Ross, Birde Vanheerswynghels and Leen Voet
Exhibition view INBOX, M HKA
Ten portraits and ten works of Marianne Berenhaut, Rossella Biscotti, Sylvie Eyberg, Judith Geerts, Melissa Gordon, Hana Miletić, Marina Pinsky, Batsheva Ross, Birde Vanheerswynghels and Leen Voet
Marianne Berenhaut, Et ils eurent beaucoup d’enfants..., 2023
Judith Geerts, Untitled, 2023
Batsheva Ross, Inside out, 2023
Rossella Biscotti, Stranded, 2021
Birde Vanheerswynghels and Hana Miletić from the portraits series III by Kristien Daem; Marina Pinsky, I-Ching Wheel Version 2, 2023
Sylvie Eyberg, Three riso prints produced for the door of rue_du_chapeau_10, spring 2021: — photographic excerpt from the she, 2014, Sylvie Eyberg / AsgerTaiaksev, Gevaert Editions, Brussels; last sentences from The String Quartet,1921 by Virginia Woolf — set, 2021, photographic excerpt from one page of Cinematographer, March 1968 issue — jour, 2021, photographic excerpt from two pages of POSITIF, February 1980 issue Printed by Axel Claes - chez rosi, Brussels 42 x 29.7 cm each
Melissa Gordon, Dumping grounds, 2023
Batsheva Ross from the portrait series III by Kristien Daem; Leen Voet, Heilig-Graf, portret #4, 2023
Birde Vanheerswynghels, No Title, 2023; Marianne Berenhaut, Et ils eurent beaucoup d’enfants..., 2023; Hana Miletić, Materials, 2023; Melissa Gordon Dumping grounds, 2023
Leen Voet, Heilig-Graf, portret #4, 2023; Marina Pinsky, 2023 from the portrait series III by Kristien Daem
Rossella Biscotti and Marian Pinsky, 2023 from the portrait series III by Kristien Daem
Exhibition view INBOX, M HKA