Harlan Levey Projects Gallery in Brussels

Editorial Profile

Co-founded in 2013 by Harlan Levey and Winnie Kwok, Harlan Levey Projects began as a project space for cross-disciplinary dialogue and has evolved into one of the more distinctive mid-scale operations within contemporary art in Brussels. Located at 65 Rue Isidoor Teirlinckstraat in Molenbeek — a working-class western district increasingly drawn into the city's gallery geography — the gallery deliberately limits itself to no more than five exhibitions a year, structuring its calendar around the depth and slowness of artist development rather than market rhythm. Its program centres on conceptual and research-based practices engaged with social, scientific, and technological questions, and is extended through residencies, lectures, workshops, and the long-running curatorial initiative Chambre d'Amis, which travels between the United States and Europe; in 2021, the gallery also co-founded Fundamental Research with the cognitive neuroscientist Beatrice de Gelder, formalising its commitment to research as an extension of artistic inquiry.

The roster includes Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Marcin Dudek, Ella Littwitz, Haseeb Ahmed, TR Ericsson, Amélie Bouvier, Andrea Éva Gyori, Sheida Soleimani, and Jeroen Jongeleen, a group whose practices move across video, installation, sculpture, drawing, and image-based work, often grounded in archival, geopolitical, or scientific research. Works by these artists have entered the collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim, Centre Pompidou, S.M.A.K., M HKA, and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, among others. As a NADA member and through its founder's involvement with Brussels Gallery Weekend and Art Brussels, the gallery occupies an active position within the broader infrastructure of galleries in Brussels, with parallel visibility in major institutions in Brussels.