September highlights

After the success of Equinoxes online, the Foundation has the pleasure to welcome you in its spaces for a poesy dedicated evening and invites twenty poets and readers. Theme of the evening: FRAGILE. It is also the occasion to celebrate the opening of the John Giorno Foundation in New York.

We are all fragile and resilient too. Fragile is our world, which we have achieved with tenfold acuity during this strange year, between confinement and freedom, crystallizations and metamorphoses, violence and illusions.

On September 19, 2020, for the “John Giorno Poetry Day”, the voices of poets, readers, artists, performers from all walks of life, from Turkey to Belgium, from France to the United States, all aware that fragility is fundamentally linked to our very humanity, our finitude as individuals, will resound at the Thalie Foundation on the theme of “The art of being fragile”. Kendell Geers will read the fragility of love, Ellen Leblond-Schrader that of memory, Christine Guinard lives in a leaden field, Sandra Ghosn in the ruins, Violaine Lochu shares the babbling, Charles Moody reads Rick Moody, Boys enter the house, and Sarah Riggs, Murmurations. Very fragile readings-performances that reveal snippets of aesthetic vulnerability and the “vulnerable force” of creation.

Guest readers: Pascale Barret; Greta Bellamacina; Boris Bergmann (with reservations); Janet Biggs; Haleh Chinikar; Carole Douillard; Kendell Geers; Sandra Ghosn; Christine Guinard; Nathalie Guiot; Dana Hoey; Nikias Imhoof; Ali Kazma; Ellen Leblond-Schrader; Violaine Lochu; Randa Maddah; Naomi Melville; Robert Montgomery; Charles Moody; Shannon Plumb; Barbara Polla; Sarah Riggs; Vincent Scarito; Frank Smith; Nathalie Vanderlinden.

Curating: Nathalie Guiot, Barbara Polla and Pascale Barret

Online ticketing : here [reservation required – please note that space is limited for this event].
This event will be live broadcast on our website and on the Centre Pompidou website

Practical information:
Price: 6€ / Free admission*
*Students, job seekers, under 26, SMART members
Access from 7 p.m.
You are kindly invited to arrive 45 minutes before the start of the readings for the live broadcast
15 rue Buchholtz, 1050 Ixelles
T +32 244 60 343

In partnership with the Centre Pompidou and the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris
    

On the occasion of the Equinoxe evening of poetic readings, the Fondation Thalie is pleased to announce the launching of Editions Ishtar.

As a prelude to the readings carried by the voices of our guests, the Fondation Thalie will open its doors on September 19 at 7 p.m. to present several publications published by Editions Ishtar: Le premier jour de l’étincelle (Nathalie Guiot), Traversée (Œuvre collective) and Equinoxes (Œuvre collective).
Created at the end of the lockdown in Spring 2020, Editions Ishtar is inspired by the eponymous goddess of love and war, and publishes contemporary poetry, organizing readings as well as poetic performances.

This event will be an opportunity to meet and exchange with the contributing authors around these publications, which are odes to the love of words and poetry.

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Public presentation in the presence of the authors – September 19, 2020 at 7 p.m.

Le premier jour de l’étincelle, Nathalie Guiot (2020): Publishing a first collection of poems is a perilous undertaking. Nathalie Guiot’s words sing. Ishtar listens. We read aloud, dreaming with her of a happiness that saves.

Traversée, collective work (2020): In the spring of 2020, twenty women artists testify with humour and poetry to their confinement and how this suspended time has influenced their artistic practice. Including participation of Lucile Adam, Nour Awada, Nathalie Azoulai, Janet Biggs, Léa Bismuth, Ninar Esber, Simone Fattal, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Eva Jospin, Barbara Polla, Joanna Preiss, Célia Stroom et Agnès Thurnauer.

Equinoxes, collective work (2020): A collection of creative texts resulting from readings aloud from the “Equinoxes” poetic platform online on the Fondation Thalie’s website throughout the eleven weeks of lockdown. Including participation of Pascale Barret, Boris Bergmann, Marie de Brugerolle, Lise Coirier, Mathilde Fernandez, Nathalie Guiot, Barbara Polla, Frank Smith, et Suzanne Wathelet.

Further info on Editions Ishtar website
Download Press release here

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Publications on sale at the Fondation Thalie, on our website and on the Editions Ishtar website from September 19, 2020
Limited editions of 300 copies
Wednesday to Sunday, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
15 rue Buchholtz, 1050 Ixelles
T +32 244 60 343

PRESS NEWS

Follow our press publications! 
Get a look on this publication in L’Art Même focused on « Vue liquide » solo show of Caroline Achaintre : here
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The Fondation Thalie is currently hosting « Vue liquide » a monographic exhibition of Caroline Achaintre.

Tapestry, watercolor, basketry, ceramics: the many traditional techniques Caroline Achaintre uses to create a carnival of the absurd. Her works are haggard, hysterical masks, captured in primitive cries. She creates openings, mouths, eyes, orifices. She seeks intensity in her work: « I am interested in primary sensations. This is why prehistoric art inspires me: everything is simply said and the superfluous is excluded […]. »

In her carefully composed exhibitions, the large, colorful tapestries interact with the supplely folded reptilian ceramics. The woolen pieces are inspired by German expressionism, the clay captures skin imprints, the watercolors are flowing … Caroline Achaintre constantly challenges the material to create sensual and extraordinary work.

Born in 1969 in France, raised in Germany, based in the United Kingdom, Caroline Achaintre is an internationally renowned artist. Influenced by post-war British sculpture, the early arts, Memphis design, urban cultures, Caroline Achaintre has been exhibited in internationally renowned institutions such as the MO.CO, Montpellier (2019), the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018), the Camden Arts Center, London (2016), the Tate Britain, Londres (2015). Caroline Achaintre is represented by Galerie Art: Concept, Paris and Arcade, London & Brussels.

Curating: Nathalie Guiot
Text: Vincent Honoré, Director of exhibitions at MO.CO. Montpellier

More info here

Practical information :
Opened Wednesday – Sunday, from 2 pm to 6 pm
Price: 7€/ 5€*/ Free admission**
*job seekers, under 26, SMART members
**students, children up to 12
Guided group visits (8p. min.): 15€

As part of EXTRA, with the support of the French Institute and the Cooperation and Cultural Action Service of the French Embassy in Belgium

You are a visual artist, author, poet, video artist, performer, living outside Belgium and you wish to experiment your research and share it in a historical and inspiring house?

The Fondation Thalie provides a place for writing with the opportunity of a public presentation within the program in the form of a reading, projection or performance.

You have until Thursday October 15, 2020 to submit your application!

Find all the terms and conditions of the residency and the application form on our website.