Exhibitions:
Minute Papillon. Florence Doléac 
Les collections à travers le choix de KVM (Ju Huyn Lee & Ludovic Burel)
Tubologie — Nos vies dans les tubes

The FRAC Grand Large continues to enrich its collection and presents its acquisition with its new committee (Evelien Bracke for design). Currently, visitors can discover Florence Doléac’s work. Inspired by the childish world, the exhibition, Minute Papillon, transforms the domestic world with humour and malice. From 21 April, the FRAC invites the artist and designer duo, KVM (Ju Huyn Lee & Ludovic Burel) to design an exhibition from its collections. Tubologie – Nos vies dans les tubes is inspired by the figure of the “horizontal worker” and examines the future of eco-social art and design

Photography: Keren Detton © Ville de Dunkerque

Exhibitions:
Soviet Design. Red Wealth
Night Fever. Designing Club Culture
Design Generation 

Opened in December 2015, the ADAM- Brussels Design Museum is a recent museum dedicated to historical and contemporary design. Originating with the purchase of a large and unique private collection of 2,000 objects, all made of plastic, the museum offers as permanent exhibition an original take on the history of artistic and technical creativity from the utopian 1960s to the present day. Simultaneously, temporary exhibitions and events explore the design world through other themes, materials, techniques and times. We are excited this year to have our visitors discover two exhibitions with an innovative approach on the history of design (Soviet Design. Red Wealth and Night Fever. Designing Club Culture), and we are proud to showcase the terrific talent of contemporary Belgian designers in our third exhibition, Design Generation.

Photography: Arnaud Bozzini

From 30 March, Poème Brut (curators: Siegrid Demyttenaere + atelier lachaert d’hanis) explores the renewed interest of designers in crafts, local techniques and materials. As a counterpoint to aspects of globalisation and dematerialisation in today’s world, many designers are not only currently focusing their attention on old and new materials, but also on the creative process and its application. From 18 May, the unusual perspective of Maarten Baas will be added. Located at the intersection of art and design, his work is known as conceptual, humorous, rebellious and theatrical. Hide & Seek, Maarten Baas presents an overview of his most important work over the past 15 years. This is followed by Object Stories. Verhalen uit de collectie, which investigates how objects from a collection can be presented in a contemporary and flexible context.

Photography: Katrien Laporte

Exhibitions:
Together: The New Collective Architecture
Halte à la croissance. Design en transition
Benoît Deneufbourg. Question de choix

The Centre for Innovation and Design begins the year with an exhibition exploring new community architecture. Summer is devoted to the theme of de-growth. What responsibility does design play in the consumer society? Which projects call for reducing the consumption of raw materials and fossil fuels? Does a non-profit design exist? Could design become an experimental ground for reversing dominant economic processes? Can design escape the obligation to grow? The year ends with a monographic exhibition of work by designer Benoît Deneufbourg.

Photography: Marie Pok © Photo Frédéric Raevens