EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS 2022 | Behind the exhibition | 'Rinus Van de Velde: Inner Travels'

Through diverse media ranging from drawings to sculptures, installations and film, Rinus Van de Velde creates a mirror universe where elements from reality and imagination coalesce into a unique kind of visual storytelling. A self-proclaimed armchair voyager, Van de Velde often narrates tales of semi-heroic quests and adventures articulated around his imaginary travels and his fictitious encounters with figures of recent art history. In the framework of his exhibition 'Rinus Van de Velde: Inner Travels', a production by EUROPALIA, centred on a circular story of leaving and returning home with the train as a metaphor for the journey, Van de Velde premieres his new film, 'La Ruta Natural', and presents a survey of primarily recent works. Parallel to this, he brings together and reframes a selection of works by modern and contemporary artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Joseph Cornell, Fischli/Weiss, Joan Mitchell, Claude Monet, Monster Chetwynd Laure Prouvost, Josephine Troller and Jean Tinguely, among others. An open invitation to join the artist on his 'inner travels', the exhibition is a visual journey of discovery that offers a glimpse inside the constructed world of Rinus Van de Velde that is ever-expanding.
Discover 'Rinus Van de Velde: Inner Travels' at Bozar, Brussels until 15 May 2022: europalia.eu/en/trains-and-tr...
In the framework of EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS, from 14 October 2021 until 15 May 2022: europalia.eu/en/trains-and-tr...
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Step on board for EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS, from 14 October 2021 to 15 May 2022! This year, EUROPALIA dedicates an edition to the train, an invention that shaped society and appears to be playing a leading role again today. EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS presents a multidisciplinary programme of over 70 projects-mostly new creations and residencies-spread across artistic institutions but also, and especially, to be discovered in stations and aboard trains.
Every two years, EUROPALIA compiles a diverse artistic programme focusing on a country or a theme. For four months, in Belgium and its neighbouring countries, EUROPALIA, in collaboration with a wide network of cultural partners, presents a biennial with a myriad of artistic and socio-cultural projects that bring together visual arts, performing arts, film, music, literature and debate so as to stimulate an exchange of ideas. Newly commissioned projects and artistic residencies hold a central place in the programme that engenders a unique interaction between heritage and art.
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