Objects with Narratives

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Objects with Narratives

OWN believes in shifting the incentive of design from esthetics and function to objects powered by n In between those worlds, OWN creates its own hybrid genre.

On rare occasions, one can become engaged with a piece to a level beyond flash, when they start to create a deeper bond with the object. Storytelling does this far more powerful than esthetical or functional considerations alone. With this approach, objects become merely the medium where it is more about owning a narrative rather than the physical object. Therefore we believe in shifting the incen

tive of design to objects powered by narratives. Hence our platform’s name Objects With Narratives...

A Nomad Gallery
OWN is neither a niche gallery nor a stand alone commercial shop. A platform that concentrates on the value and the story of the pieces itself rather than the name, style or era of the designers that represent the objects. We make uncommon & collectible design pieces accessible for everyone around the world in a transparent and reasonable way, while taking care of their designers needs. We thus provide a creative space actively empowers bold creators to present their story-driven work through an interactive web shop, other online channels and physical exhibitions around the world. A platform for designers by designers. We work together with household names as with young designers who don’t have or have a limited following and notoriety, as long as each designer has a strong narrative behind their work and practice. Our services vary depending on the level of support the designer needs. We will be able to offer sales and marketing, logistic and production options. The designers benefit from a large network of other designers that they can collaborate with.

01/06/2026

Ben Storms - Permanent residency at The Grand Sablon 40
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Ben Storms is a Belgian designer and craftsman who thinks in terms of materials. By using state-of-the-art techniques he transforms them to captivating shapes that defy expectations.Storms equally masters thinking and making. He has refined his craft as a stonemason, sculptor and woodworker. In his practice, he often combines traditional techniques with high-tech processes to create unique pieces of furniture with a sculptural character.
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For more info, please contact us on [email protected]
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OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES
PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS
THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

30/05/2026

Excited and honored to announce the opening of our 3rd permanent space in restored Hôtel d’Hanins located in Bruges
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A series of Rooms
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Nestled in the historic center of Bruges, alongside the Coupure canal, our new showroom occupies the apartments of the Hôtel d’Hanins de Moerkerke, a former 18th-century mansion built in 1765 following the canal’s excavation. The building sets on ancient foundations of a Dominican monastery and once belonged to Pierre-Jacques d’Hanins de Moerkerke and Claire Diericx, a family whose prominence was bound to the inland shipping trade that made Bruges one of medieval Europe’s great commercial metropoles. It was this mercantile activity that fueled the city’s extraordinary cultural growth, most visibly preserved today in its Gothic architecture, a testament to the wealth, ambition, and artisanship of those who built it.
The choice of Bruges is deliberate: few cities in Europe have navigated change with such attentiveness to continuity. Its architectural philosophy treats the built environment not as a fixed relic but as a living document: one that embraces transformation while honoring original materials, construction techniques, and spatial memory. The city’s urban fabric is a form of chronological layering, where each historical period leaves its mark without erasing what came before. It is a philosophy of deep respect for craft and authenticity, and one that cultivates everything we set out to do here.
Our space positions itself within this lineage. It is not a showroom in the conventional sense, but an extension of the same impulse that has guided Bruges across centuries: the valorization of history, the elevation of craft, and the belief that beauty grows meaning through time. We seek to honor the encounter between the city’s heritage and the work of contemporary artists and makers from across the world: a dialogue between art history and living practice, between tradition and innovation, between what endures and what is newly made.
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Open on appointment only
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Please contact us through [email protected]

29/05/2026

“A gesture becomes a structure” is the starting point of Olivia Cognet’s exhibition, centered around a fountain. The fountain is not treated here as a symbol, but as something active, something that never fully settles. Water gathers for a moment, takes form, then immediately breaks apart again. It flows, spreads, disappears, and returns. There is no final image, only a continuous movement that keeps reshaping itself.
Made in black stoneware with fine chamotte, the fountain has a presence that feels almost geological. It sits somewhere between something ancient and something still alive. Water moves through it without hierarchy or direction, passing from one basin to another, overflowing and escaping the edges. Nothing is contained in a fixed way, everything remains in transition.
From this point, the rest of the exhibition unfolds as a continuation of the same language. Tables, seats, lamps, and sculptural objects extend the logic of the fountain into other forms. The material seems to carry the same movement, as if it were still in the process of becoming, slowly stabilizing without ever becoming completely still.
In the end, the gesture briefly becomes structure, and the structure immediately begins to dissolve again, returning to movement to something that cannot be held in place.
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For more info, please contact us on [email protected]
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OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES
PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS
THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

28/05/2026

OBJ-05-06-07-08-09-11-12— Solo Show Manuel Bano
4th of June, 18h00
Place du Grand Sablon 40, 1000 Brussels (Ground Floor)
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Objects With Narratives presents the first solo exhibition of Valencian artist and designer Manuel Bañó, based in Mexico City. The exhibition is part of the OBJ series, an ongoing body of work composed of chronologically numbered objects that explore the relationship between material, form, and function. The exhibition brings together a selection of pieces conceived from a single material: recycled copper. Rather than a finished collection of objects, the project is understood as an open investigation into the physical and expressive capacities of copper, pushed to its limits through artisanal processes.
Each piece results from a transformation: the copper is worked through fire and hammer, without industrial mediation. The hammer becomes both tool and language, and form emerges through the repetition of gestures that deform, tension, and stabilise the metal. In this process, idea, action, and material establish a direct and visible relationship. Formally, the works originate from elemental geometries and develop as an extension of drawing into space. The objects can be read as materialised traces, where precision does not rely on machinery but on the control of the process. Rather than being understood as isolated pieces, the works operate as a system of variations. Each object introduces adjustments in proportion, geometry, and scale, configuring an ongoing field of study between function and sculpture.
Produced between Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, and Valle de Chalco, Estado de México, the pieces position Manuel’s work within a contemporary practice in which tradition operates as an active tool. In this context, copper ceases to be a support to become the essence of the project.
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For more info, please contact us on [email protected]
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OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES
PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS
THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

27/05/2026

Solo Show Marius Ritiu - My boat is bent
In collaboration with .antwerp
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Visit the exhibition this weekend during
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For Antwerp Art Weekend, My Boat is Bent, his stairway leads to heaven and I swing on meteoric dreams presents a speculative environment by Marius Ritiu, where gravity seems negotiable and matter remembers having been something else in a previous galaxy. At the center of the space stand three monumental sculptures in hand-hammered copper. They do not illustrate a story; they appear as if they have landed mid-sentence.
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The first sculpture resembles a vessel warped by time, its dented copper surface recording rhythmic labor. It feels less like a boat for water and more like a craft for navigating memory or doubt—both relic and prototype.
The second rises like an impossible stairway, suggesting ascension without structure. Its steps dissolve as they climb, turning solidity into vibration, as if transcendence were handmade.
The third arcs like a swing in orbit, suspended between motion and stillness. Its glowing copper evokes condensed sunlight, capturing a moment between play and catastrophe.
Together, the works create an unstable terrain where the absurd feels precise. Copper becomes a conductor of speculative energy, reflecting viewers as fleeting distortions.
The exhibition reads like future archaeology—objects from a civilization where poetry shaped engineering. Here, the absurd is structural, and sculpture becomes a means of leaving the ground without ever fully departing.

22/05/2026

Last days to visit Gentle Resilience — Solo Show Christian Fregnan
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Place du Grand Sablon 40, 1000 Brussels, Belgium (Objects With Narratives)
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Gentle Resilience marks an important milestone in Christian Fregnan’s professional journey: the debut of his first collection, shaped by a long process of disciplined craftsmanship.
This collection brings together works that explore the materiality of metal from multiple aspects, including the blend of heavy weight yet organic form. Each piece contributes to a larger narrative: exemplifying how contradicting components can coexist to express strength in a quiet and tender way. Organic forms and subtle imperfections are essential elements that make each piece unique and alive. Dictated by the making process, each one shows different levels of intimacy and perpetuity through patination and precise yet spontaneous metal shaping. The collection expresses resilience through the timeless shape and carries the presence of future relics.

The title Gentle Resilience speaks directly to the material, metal as a medium capable of subtlety and emotional presence, and reflects Fregnan’s artistic career. Mirroring his professional journey, the title suggests gradual and constant progression shaped by patience, humility and determination. This exhibition invites the audience to objectify resilience through metal, high-end finishing and practical function. Gentle Resilience is an embodiment of Fregnan’s artistic features of endurance and craftsmanship.

Zephyr chandelier and dining table by Maison Jonckers-For more info, please contact us on info@objectswithnarratives.com...

20/05/2026

Zephyr chandelier and dining table by Maison Jonckers
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OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES
PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS
THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

New wave stool bronze by Lukas Cober-For more info, please contact us on info@objectswithnarratives.com - OBJECTS WITH N...

19/05/2026

New wave stool bronze by Lukas Cober
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For more info, please contact us on [email protected]
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OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES
PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS
THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

17/05/2026

Lima Charlie — Solo Show Laurids Gallée
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Each sculpture emits and redirects light within its own body, so the object shifts with every step the viewer takes. They behave like silent antennas—sending nothing, yet entirely received through perception.
Because they act as transmitters, their forms follow the same internal logic. Volumes stretch into beams, tilt into cones, or open into dish-like curves. These shapes don’t mimic devices; they emerge from how a transmitting body naturally organises itself. And within this clarity, a controlled deviation always appears. Elements twist, rotate, or collide just enough to disturb perfect order. These intentional misalignments create tension—objects that almost follow their own system, but never fully.
The components merge into continuous volumes. Simple geometric primitives become seamless bodies, where light bends inward and the surface behaves like a lens. The material remains still; the image never does. A minimal system in the room—aluminium blocks and exposed lines—quietly marks the path that feeds each sculpture, a reminder that even the simplest transmission needs its own structure. They seem engineered to communicate, yet they have nothing to declare. Their message is their behaviour: loud and clear, completed only through the act of being seen.
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For more info, please contact us on [email protected]
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OBJECTS WITH NARRATIVES
PLACE DU GRAND SABLON 40, 1000 BRUSSELS
THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11H-19H

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