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LAGE EGAL is a non-commercial project space co-founded and run by Berlin-based French artist and curator Pierre Granoux. Since 2010 LAGE EGAL exists as an artist's studio as well as a place to experiment with different forms of display in close collaboration with artists and guest curators. LAGE EGAL can be read identically from both sides, making it a perfect name for the space: Pierre Granoux also organizes off-site exhibitions in different locations, private and public spaces, in Berlin or anywhere else. LAGE EGAL translates from German to "Location doesn't matter", and it definitely doesn't: it is all about the quality of the artwork and the idea behind it.

We are pleased to announce the winner of this year’s ArtOnPaper Solo Prize: João Freitas, presented by LAGE EGAL.Now bas...
03/10/2026

We are pleased to announce the winner of this year’s ArtOnPaper Solo Prize: João Freitas, presented by LAGE EGAL.

Now based and working in Brussels, the Portuguese artist approaches drawing through paper as the primary material of the work. Working with found, reclaimed and industrial papers, Freitas transforms their textures, layers and histories through a singular process of abrasion, where paper becomes at once material, support and image.

We are incredibly proud to have received the Award for Best Solo Presentation at Art on Paper Brussels 2026, for our pre...
03/10/2026

We are incredibly proud to have received the Award for Best Solo Presentation at Art on Paper Brussels 2026, for our presentation of João Freitas.

A heartfelt thank you to the fair, the jury, and the entire Art on Paper team for this recognition and for giving João’s work such a strong platform.

We would also like to warmly thank Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg for its generous financial support, which made this presentation possible.

Thank you for your trust, your support, and for celebrating João’s work with us.

Pour Art on Paper, LAGE EGAL consacre un solo de 20 m² à João Freitas — un choix évident pour une foire dédiée au dessin et au papier, où la pratique de l’artiste révèle toute sa singularité : le papier n’est plus un simple support, mais devient la matière même du dessin.

João Freitas (* 1989 à Coimbra, Portugal, vit et travaille à Bruxelles) aborde le dessin en considérant le papier non pas comme un simple support, mais comme la matière première de l’œuvre. L’artiste travaille à partir d’une grande variété de papiers trouvés, récupérés ou industriels — journaux, fardes, papiers composites, papier à poncer, surfaces de Tetra Pak… Ces matériaux ne sont jamais de simples supports neutres : leurs textures, couleurs, strates et histoires propres deviennent partie intégrante de l’œuvre.

Plutôt que d’appliquer une image sur la surface, Freitas intervient directement dans la matière. Il gratte, ponce, racle et use progressivement ses différentes couches pour faire apparaître ce qui se trouve en dessous. L’image se construit ainsi par soustraction plutôt que par addition.

Papier, colle, film plastique, aluminium, fragments imprimés et traces d’usages antérieurs entrent dans la composition. La structure même du matériau guide le geste de l’artiste, tandis que chaque intervention laisse une empreinte de friction, de résistance et d’usure.

Il en résulte une forme singulière de dessin par abrasion, où le papier est à la fois matière, support et image. Ce qui apparaît est indissociable de ce qui a été retiré : le dessin naît dans cette tension entre effacement et révélation.

LAGE EGAL × Art on Paper BrusselsFor Art on Paper Brussels, LAGE EGAL presents a 20 m² solo presentation dedicated to Jo...
23/09/2026

LAGE EGAL × Art on Paper Brussels

For Art on Paper Brussels, LAGE EGAL presents a 20 m² solo presentation dedicated to João Freitas, featuring a selection of new works developed from his recent research into paper as a primary material.

Working with found, discarded and industrial papers — newspapers, folders, composite papers, sandpaper and Tetra Pak surfaces — Freitas does not draw on the paper: he draws through it. By scratching, sanding and removing successive layers, he reveals colours, textures and structures hidden within the material.

The result is a distinctive form of drawing through abrasion, where the image emerges through subtraction and the history of the material becomes part of the work.

A selection of these works was developed during Freitas’s Paper Residency! in Berlin, in collaboration with D’mage and the Haus des Papiers. One of the resulting works has since entered the museum’s permanent collection.

João Freitas
Untitled (Buvard V)
2023
Found paper, salvaged stainless steel plate,
Plexiglas, painted wood, screws
30 x 23.5 cm
JOAO23DR013

Come and discover João Freitas at Art on Paper Brussels.

With the support of Kultur LX – Arts Council Luxembourg.

ORGANIC BODIES is part of the RendezVous Brussels programme, with special opening hours:Thursday 10 September, 2—9pmFrid...
09/09/2026

ORGANIC BODIES is part of the RendezVous Brussels programme, with special opening hours:
Thursday 10 September, 2—9pm
Friday—Saturday, noon—6pm
and Sunday 13 September, 2—6pm!

We are thrilled to invite you to the opening of ORGANIC BODIES, bringing together the work of ANAHITA JUDAKI (b. 2000, Brussels, Belgium) and ASTRID KÖPPE (b. 1974, Köthen/Anhalt, Germany) at LAGE EGAL [RIVOLI] in Brussels.

One line can erase a body. Another can bring one into being. Drawing becomes a space of transformation. Through distinct gestures and materials, the two artists explore the shifting relationship between image, matter and form. In Judaki’s work, the body dissolves into rhythms and tensions; in Köppe’s, the line generates forms that oscillate between structure and organism. The represented gives way to matter.

One line can erase a body. Another can bring one into being. Drawing becomes a space of transformation. Through distinct...
07/09/2026

One line can erase a body. Another can bring one into being. Drawing becomes a space of transformation. Through distinct gestures and materials, the two artists explore the shifting relationship between image, matter and form. In Judaki’s work, the body dissolves into rhythms and tensions; in Köppe’s, the line generates forms that oscillate between structure and organism. The represented gives way to matter.

ORGANIC BODIES
LAGE EGAL CURATORIAL PROJECTS #249

ANAHITA JUDAKI
ASTRID KÖPPE

PREVIEW: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 06, 2–6PM

SEP 06 — OCT 17, 2026
THU — SAT, 2—6PM

LAGE EGAL [RIVOLI] Gallery #28
Chaussée de Waterloo 690, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Contact: +32 483 270237 (Pierre Granoux)

Please Note: This exhibition is part of the RendezVous Brussels programme as well, with special opening hours on Thursday 10 September, 2—9pm also on Sunday 13 September, 2—6pm!

ORGANIC BODIESLAGE EGAL CURATORIAL PROJECTS  #249 ANAHITA JUDAKIASTRID KÖPPE PREVIEW: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 06, 2–6PM SEP 06...
06/09/2026

ORGANIC BODIES
LAGE EGAL CURATORIAL PROJECTS #249

ANAHITA JUDAKI
ASTRID KÖPPE

PREVIEW: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 06, 2–6PM

SEP 06 — OCT 17, 2026
THU — SAT, 2—6PM

LAGE EGAL [RIVOLI] Gallery #28
Chaussée de Waterloo 690,
1180 Brussels, Belgium

We are thrilled to invite you to the opening of ORGANIC BODIES, bringing together the work of ANAHITA JUDAKI (b. 2000, Brussels, Belgium) and ASTRID KÖPPE (b. 1974, Köthen/Anhalt, Germany) at LAGE EGAL [RIVOLI] in Brussels.

One line can erase a body. Another can bring one into being. Drawing becomes a space of transformation. Through distinct gestures and materials, the two artists explore the shifting relationship between image, matter and form. In Judaki’s work, the body dissolves into rhythms and tensions; in Köppe’s, the line generates forms that oscillate between structure and organism. The represented gives way to matter.

Please Note: This exhibition is part of the RendezVous Brussels programme as well, with special opening hours on Thursday 10 September, 2—9pm also on Sunday 13 September, 2—6pm!

01/09/2026
ORGANIC BODIES — LAGE EGAL CURATORIAL PROJECTS  #249ANAHITA JUDAKIASTRID KÖPPEExhibition dates: SEP 6 — OCT 17, 2026 Ope...
01/09/2026

ORGANIC BODIES — LAGE EGAL CURATORIAL PROJECTS #249
ANAHITA JUDAKI
ASTRID KÖPPE

Exhibition dates: SEP 6 — OCT 17, 2026
Open hours: THU — SAT, 2pm — 6pm

OPENING SUNDAY, SEP 6, 2026, 2—7PM

LAGE EGAL [RIVOLI] GALLERY #28
CHAUSSÉE DE WATERLOO 690, 1180 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

Contact: Pierre Granoux +32 483 270237
[email protected]

Drawing is understood here as a process of transformation. In the work of Anahita Judaki and Astrid Köppe, it does not represent but displaces, alters and brings forth forms that move beyond their point of origin.

ANAHITA JUDAKI draws directly onto wooden panels using images taken from photographs and pornographic films. These visual sources, saturated with narrative and codes, are gradually dissolved through gesture. The line fragments bodies and recomposes them into masses, tensions and rhythms. The image ceases to be readable and becomes a surface of intensities, retaining traces of contact and movement.

ASTRID KÖPPE creates her drawings on pre-enamelled metal panels using hand-drawn and hand-cut stencils, gradually building up each composition through successive layers of enamel, which are fired in a kiln to fuse the colour to the surface. Her forms, situated between geometry and biomorphism, appear to belong to a vocabulary of the living while resisting any stable identification. They evoke processes of growth, proliferation or mutation, yet remain irreducible to classification. Fixed by enamel, the drawing nonetheless preserves a sense of latent movement, as if the form were still in the process of becoming.

Between these two practices, drawing emerges less as a representational tool than as a site of passage. In Judaki’s work, images dissolve into graphic matter; in Köppe’s, line becomes structure in a state of becoming. In both cases, forms do not describe the world: they generate intermediate, unstable and open states.

ORGANIC BODIES brings together two approaches to drawing in which forms are never given, but always in the process of emerging.

UNTITLED #144
ASTRID KÖPPE
2016
Vitreous enamel on steel
120 x 110 x 4 cm
KOEP16DR002

SUMMER HITSLAGE EGAL CURATORIAL PROJECTS  #248Exhibition dates: JULY 30 — AUGUST 29, 2026Open hours: THU — SAT, 2pm — 6p...
22/08/2026

SUMMER HITS
LAGE EGAL CURATORIAL PROJECTS #248

Exhibition dates: JULY 30 — AUGUST 29, 2026
Open hours: THU — SAT, 2pm — 6pm

SUMMER HITS evokes memories of scorching summers and bodies adrift, exploring their resonance within LAGE EGAL. These artistic practices brush against one another, overlap, and influence each other. From their encounters emerge unprecedented imaginaries, where time unfolds, layers upon itself, and invents its own rhythms. Like a summer playlist, the exhibition invites established artists and recent graduates to bring the space to life and compose new narratives.

TWENTY-SIX
LAURENCE GRAVE
2023
Oil and gesso on canvas
mounted on canvas on stretcher
80 x 60 cm
GRAV23PT003

HOW TO FIX A BROKEN LINE 03
BRAM BRAAM
2025
Wood, aluminium, oil pastel, spraypaint
70 x 45 x 3 cm
BRAA25PT011

SUMMER HITSLAGE EGAL CURATORIAL PROJECTS  #248 Bram Braam, Vincent De Roder, Marta Djourina, João Freitas, Laurence Grav...
11/08/2026

SUMMER HITS
LAGE EGAL CURATORIAL PROJECTS #248
 
Bram Braam, Vincent De Roder, Marta Djourina, João Freitas, Laurence Grave, Alekos Hofstetter, Julien Hübsch, Anahita Judaki, Wonkun Jun, Juliette Kovàcs, Astrid Köppe, Lucien Lyon, Franziska Reinbothe, Robin Wen
 
LAGE EGAL [RIVOLI] Gallery #28
Chaussée de Waterloo 690, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
30 Jul 2026 — 29 Aug 2026

SUMMER HITS brings together a selection of works by gallery artists alongside a few new commissions, celebrating the season with an exhibition that remains open throughout the summer. While many galleries take a break, LAGE EGAL continues to welcome visitors and invites them to discover a vibrant constellation of contemporary practices.

A convivial gathering will take place on the last day of the exhibition, Saturday, August 29th, from 4 to 7 pm. Everyone is warmly welcome.

Juliette Kovàcs
Untitled
2025
Acrylic on paper
24.7 x 21 cm
KOVA25DR001

Anahita Judaki
Ground_Zero_###X
2025
Colored pencils on wood
20 x 40 x 6 cm
JUDA25DR002

Anahita Judaki
Collision_X
2025
Colored pencils on plywood mounted on wood
20 x 40 x 6 cm
JUDA25DR001

Adresse

Chaussee De Waterloo 690
Brussels
1180

Heures d'ouverture

Jeudi 14:00 - 18:00
Vendredi 14:00 - 18:00
Samedi 14:00 - 18:00

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