Beauty through a Contemporary Lens
After exploring love in 2024, physical beauty is the second thematic exhibition at Bozar focusing on what motivates us as humans. Through the lens of photography and video, made from the 1960s to today, this exhibition explores how artists depict and challenge established norms of who is considered beautiful. Unveiling the pressures and excess of what it means to be beautiful today, the works in this exhibition offer a diverse range of propositions, from the critical to the emancipatory.
Bozar Arcade, the space dedicated to interactive digital artworks and video games in Bozar, will be integrated into the exhibition.
With works by: Ibrahim Ahmed, Yumna Al-Arashi, Francesca Allen, Sarah Amrani, Susan Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Alexandra Barancovà & Jae Perris, Baloji, Valérie Belin, François Bellabas, Kwame Brathwaite, Nakeya Brown, Juno Calypso, William Cobbing, John Coplans, Eli Cortiñas, Nicola Costantino, Laure Cottin Stefanelli, Mélanie Courtinat, Sara Cwynar, Rineke Dijkstra, Philippe Durand, Sylvie Fleury, Bryce Galloway, Moshtari Hilal, Anne Horel, Sanja Iveković, Yuki Kihara, Sandra Lazzarini, Ethel Lilienfeld, Linder, Lucy&Bart, Luna Maurer, James McColl, Ana Mendieta, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Zanele Muholi, Zed Nelson, J.D. ‘Okhai Oijekere, ORLAN, Frida Orupabo, Guillaume Pauli, Andrés Pérez, Cara Phillips, Momo Pixel, Angelo Plessas, Marilou Poncin, Chantal Regnault, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, Errol Stanley Sawyer, Cindy Sherman, Marianna Simnett, Sin Wai Kin, Ruofu Sun & Alice Yu, Ryudai Takano, Amélie Testenoire – Lafayette, Maria Tsagkari, Kristina Varaksina, Hiroshi Watanabe, Hannah Wilke, Hank Willis Thomas, Roel Wouters, Garry Winogrand, Aviya Wyse
Some works in this exhibition contain nudity and images that may be disturbing to some visitors. Please take this into consideration when planning your visit.
Practical information
Dates
Location
BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts
Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 BRUSSELS⚠️
This exhibition contains artworks with nudity.
The recommended minimum age for the Bozar Arcade (installed at the end of the exhibition) is 10 years. If all game-play stations are occupied, we encourage you to watch others playing.
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The exhibition is accessible to people with reduced mobility with the assistance of the reception staff at Bozar. The circuit includes eleven rooms. Because of the complexity of the listed building, two rooms may be difficult to access for visitors with reduced mobility.
We kindly ask you to announce your visit in advance. This will enable us to inform you and prepare your visit as well as possible. More info on accessibility.
Rates
MyBozar Card
€ 14
<26 MyBozar Card
€ 9
Standard
€ 18
< 26 year
€ 13
< 18 year
€ 0
>65 year
€ 16
Card : Preferential Reimbursement / EU Disability
€ 9
Accessibility | Wheelchair & Blind
€ 0
Accessibility | Companion wheelchair & Blind
€ 0
museumPASSmusées
€ 0
ICOM
€ 0
Carte press / Perskaarten : VVJ, AJP, IFJ, API-IPA, AICA
€ 0
Brussels Card
€ 0
Marianna Simnett, Blue Moon (video still), 2022. Courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin
Ethel Lilienfeld, “Invisible Filter”, a production by Le Fresnoy, Studio National of Contemporary Arts, 2022
Atone with Nature, from the series Facade Objects, 2015, archival inkjet print, courtesy the artist and greengrassi, London.
William Cobbing, Will.je.suis, 2020, video, courtesy of the artist.
Sylvie Fleury, Current Issues (July/August 95), 1995, video, sound, 41 min 51 sec, courtesy of the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg.
Marianna Simnett, Blue Moon (video still), 2022. Courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin
Ethel Lilienfeld, “Invisible Filter”, a production by Le Fresnoy, Studio National of Contemporary Arts, 2022
Atone with Nature, from the series Facade Objects, 2015, archival inkjet print, courtesy the artist and greengrassi, London.
William Cobbing, Will.je.suis, 2020, video, courtesy of the artist.
Sylvie Fleury, Current Issues (July/August 95), 1995, video, sound, 41 min 51 sec, courtesy of the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg.
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