Office Baroque Gallery is named after one of Gordon Matta-Clark's last remaining public interventions, untimely demolished after extensive protests in Antwerp in 1980.
Office Baroque Gallery was incorporated in 2007 and is an attempt to relocate the gallery at the heart of artistic debate and developments. It is headed by Wim Peeters, former director of Extra City and Marie Denkens, former exhibitions coordinator at Extra City. In the past Peeters and Denkens have curated exhibitions with Gerard Byrne, Mike Bouchet, Terence Koh, Luc Tuymans, Jef Geys, the Atlas Group and Willem De Rooij among others.
As a platform for promoting and showing artists, Office Baroque is designed to conjure a new balance between maverick commercial and non-profit initiative. Having learned from the increasing convergence of institutions and corporate parts of the market in recent years, Office Baroque is a response to both the corporatization and ghettoization of the art world. The gallery is active in reoccupying interstitial spaces and heralds a new focus on artist centric activities. Office Baroque promotes a climate of post-corporate values favoring content-based relations between the market, the individual artist and the global arena of exhibitions. It engages in selective and specific commitments that characterize its identity of a commercial gallery, combined with the content-based, contextual approach that characterizes the work of public institutions.Office Baroque organizes seven exhibitions yearly, both individual and group presentations.
Office Baroque Gallery was incorporated in 2007 and is an attempt to relocate the gallery at the heart of artistic debate and developments. It is headed by Wim Peeters, former director of Extra City and Marie Denkens, former exhibitions coordinator at Extra City. In the past Peeters and Denkens have curated exhibitions with Gerard Byrne, Mike Bouchet, Terence Koh, Luc Tuymans, Jef Geys, the Atlas Group and Willem De Rooij among others.
As a platform for promoting and showing artists, Office Baroque is designed to conjure a new balance between maverick commercial and non-profit initiative. Having learned from the increasing convergence of institutions and corporate parts of the market in recent years, Office Baroque is a response to both the corporatization and ghettoization of the art world. The gallery is active in reoccupying interstitial spaces and heralds a new focus on artist centric activities. Office Baroque promotes a climate of post-corporate values favoring content-based relations between the market, the individual artist and the global arena of exhibitions. It engages in selective and specific commitments that characterize its identity of a commercial gallery, combined with the content-based, contextual approach that characterizes the work of public institutions.Office Baroque organizes seven exhibitions yearly, both individual and group presentations.
