9 Shows to See during Art Brussels Week
Slowly but surely, life in European cities is returning to normal. Masks are still ubiquitous features of daily life, but since the middle of May, bars, restaurants, museums, and art galleries have opened again to a public eager to reconnect with social and cultural life. The easing of COVID-19 restrictions has come at a perfect time for art lovers. From June 3rd through 6th (and through June 14th online on Artsy), Brussels, Antwerp, the coastal Belgian town of Knokke, and Paris will host a very special edition of Art Brussels, reformatted and renamed as Art Brussels Week 2021.
Founded in 1968, Art Brussels is one of the oldest and most prominent contemporary art fairs on the European circuit. This year, due to the pandemic, its usual dates in April were pushed back to mid-May, and then to June. The traditional fair-booth format had to be swapped out for something more closely resembling a gallery crawl. With travel still a complicated affair for many art lovers, Art Brussels Week 2021 has embraced the trend of digitized viewing with online interactive city maps and numerous galleries offering virtual tours in addition to online presentations on Artsy. Here, we take a look at nine standout exhibitions from this year’s event.
