Spazio Nobile
Since April 2016, Brussels-based Spazio Nobile by Pro Materia Gallery has been dedicated to showcasing contemporary applied arts, design and photography.
Founded in 1999, Pro Materia is an international creative consultancy curating the print and online magazine, TLmag_True Living of Art & Design, and a series of editorial and design-led projects. Pro Materia also mounts exhibitions and collaborative workshops and facilitates many cultural cooperation projects co-financed by the EU Creative Europe Programme, such as Glass is Tomorrow and Human Cities. Since April 2016, Pro Materia has also launched its new gallery Spazio Nobile located at the piano nobile of a 1920s building in Brussels, as well as its online store, focusing on contemporary applied arts, design and photography.
Pro Materia offers a range of high-end services and expertise: curation, production, representation, organization, management, facilitation, and documentation in a range of mediums including publications, workshops, exhibitions, and gallery presentations. Pro Materia’s international team is always open to review and get involved into potential partnerships.
Since April 2016, Brussels-based Spazio Nobile by Pro Materia Gallery has been dedicated to showcasing contemporary applied arts, design and photography.
TL magazine is entirely dedicated to capturing and contextualising the latest innovations in craft-led; material-oriented art, architecture, design, fashion, hospitality and luxury and collector culture.
Promoting design-led craft, Glass is Tomorrow brought together a series of emerging design talents with glassmakers for a series of workshops in european glassworks, mounted multiple exhibitions and published a culminating book.
Challenging the city scale, interdisciplinary exchange platform Human Cities is a concept created in 2006 by the Belgian association Pro Materia and co-funded from 2014-2018 by the Creative Europe Programme of The European Union.
Pro Materia has been the art advisor of TF since 2007 and has supported the brand to develop itself until now in order to position itself on the highly competitive French and international urban design markets.
Bringing contemporary Polish design into the spotlight, Nasza Polska (translating as ‘our Poland’) was an unparalleled touring-exhibition gathering up-and-coming talents, established studios and legendary masters – working in Poland and abroad.
Founded in 1999 by Lise Coirier with the support of an advisory board, Brussels-based Pro Materia is a creative consultancy with a strong affinity for material culture, craft-led innovation and human-centered design. The intellectual, editorial approach and background in art and design history and management position the agency in the field of supporting and promoting up-and-coming talents on multiple fronts in different regions but to also work closely and bringing together different partners (designers, artists, makers, creative industries, design-led institutions and brands) from all over the world.
The Brussels Centre for Fine Art, Bozar is celebrating two major figures of the ZERO art movement – Pol Bury and Yves Klein.
Swedish artist and designer Mia E Göransson’s abstract ceramics constitute decontextualised and remixed forms and patterns observed in nature.
Exploring the concepts of ephemerality, consumption and waste, Marcin Rusak submerges flowers into furniture-encased resin slabs. On show at Twenty First Gallery till 16 June, the Flora Noir series is both an ode to family history and nature.