Contretype, Contemporary Photographic Art Centre in Brussels:
Contretype has been promoting and exhibiting creative photography at both regional and international level since 1978. Active in the areas of production, dissemination and publishing, Contretype contributes to developing the artistic careers of numerous authors, creates a link between artists, the general public, the media, curators, commissioners and collectors. Contretype organizes events that inspire reflection, debate and writing on contemporary photography.
Based since 1988 in the sumptuous Art Nouveau town house built in 1903 in Saint-Gilles by Edouard Hannon, a founding member of the Association belge de photographie, Contretype has used this space to develop a cultural project in keeping with the interests and innovative spirit of its first owner.
Past exhibitions :
Contretype presents five exhibitions of contemporary artists per year, individual and collective exhibitions of both Belgian and foreign photographers. The artists presented over the last 25 years include names such as:
1980
Robert Mapplethorpe's Retrospective.
1981
Horst, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Peter Downsbrough, Robert Mapplethorpe (Black Males series),
Daniel Brunemer, Edouard Hannon (Tsarist Russia),
Photo-Fiction (collective exhibition of photographers and writers)
1982
Karl Blossfeldt, Willy Zielke, Roger Kockaerts, Jean-Luc
Tanghe, Klaus Wittkugel, John-Charles Woods, Charles Van
Hoorick
1983
Gilbert Fastenaekens, Jacques Vilet, Stefan De Jaeger,
Adolphe Lacomblé, Francine Vanberg, Eleven photographers from Santa Fe, Clichés (Marsha Burns, Jean-Loup Sieff, Edouard Hannon), 50/04 (Alain Géronnez et Paul Vanré)
1984
Joan Fontcuberta, Romain Ickx, Sabine Weiss, The Portrait
in Germany during the 30's (Ehlert, Feininger, Jacobi,
Kranz, Kretschmer, Umbo, Wittkugel, Zielke)
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| Clockwise, from the upper left image: Andy Warhol at the opening of Robert Mapplethorpe's exhibition (1980). Photo: Jean-Luc Tanghe. Jacques Vilet (l.) and Pierre Devin (r.) (1988). Photo: Jean-Luc Tanghe. Michel Auer (g.) and Georges Vercheval (r.) (1988). Photo: Jean-Luc Tanghe. Bernard Faucon (1988). Photo: Jean-Luc Tanghe. Henri Van Lier (l.) and Jacques Meuris (r.)(1988). Photo: Jean-Luc Tanghe. Henri Storck (l.) and Jean-Louis Godefroid (r.) (circa 1985). Photo: Jean-Luc Tanghe. Christian Carez (l.) et Pierre Cordier (r.) (1986). Photo: Dominique De Gueldre. In the middle : opening of Contretype at the Hotel Hannon in 1988. Photo: Jean-Luc Tanghe. |
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