Cross-reading. Monotony is nice

Oriol Vilanova with Walter Leblanc, Charlotte Posenenske, Peter Roehr

17 January – 29 May 2026 Opening: Saturday, 17 January 2026, 1–6pm Wednesday through Friday, 10am–5pm, by appointment only. Oriol Vilanova is a Brussels-based Spanish artist whose conceptual practice revolves around systems of collecting and display, often articulated through large constellations of

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INSIGHTS: Esther Ferrer in conversation with Laurence Rassel

The Walter & Nicole Leblanc Foundation is pleased to present a new chapter of INSIGHTS. To celebrate the last day of Shared Lines, the exhibition by Esther Ferrer and Walter Leblanc, Ferrer will go in conversation with Laurence Rassel, curator and thinker on feminist and institutional practices. A

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Esther Ferrer, Hommage à Satie, 1986

Shared Lines

Esther Ferrer and Walter Leblanc

13 October – 19 December 2025 Open Wednesday through Friday, 10am–5pm, by appointment only. Presented as part of Europalia España, Shared Lines brings the work of pioneering Spanish artist Esther Ferrer (San Sebastián, 1937) in dialogue with the legacy of Belgian artist Walter Leblanc (Antwerp, 1932

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Unframing Walter Leblanc

An expanded conversation on artist archives

We are pleased to present a symposium at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, on Thursday, 9 October 2025. Walter Leblanc’s legacy continues to unfold, not only through his artworks but also through the documents, ideas and networks that shaped his practice. Taking place at the Royal Academy of

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Marlene Almeida in her studio in João Pessoa, Brazil. Photo: Fred Jordão

Terra Agônica

Marlene Almeida and Walter Leblanc

28 May – 19 September 2025 The Walter & Nicole Leblanc Foundation is pleased to announce Terra Agônica, a two-person exhibition bringing together Brazilian artist Marlene Almeida and Belgian artist Walter Leblanc in a striking dialogue on materiality, gesture, and process. Opening 26 May 2025, the

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Nicole Leblanc in the foreground at the Moulay Ismaïl Mausoleum, Meknes, Morocco, 1968. Photograph by Walter Leblanc.

Insights: Karima Boudou

Continuous Signals. On the Photographs of Nicole Leblanc

We are delighted to invite you to an evening dedicated to the photographs of Nicole Leblanc, hosted by art historian and curator Karima Boudou. During the event, she will present her latest research conducted during a residency at the Foundation, exploring and reflecting on this remarkable

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Walter Leblanc's Twisted Strings, 1960 (verso, detail) on view in Contacts by Hana Miletić

Threads of Attention

A workshop on writing and/as weaving with Vivian Sky Rehberg

Please join us for Threads of Attention , a two-day writing workshop with art writer, researcher, and educator Vivian Sky Rehberg, on Saturday 8 March and Saturday 15 March, 2pm–4.30pm. Affinities between the written word and the spun cloth are interwoven in the shared Latin root— texere —of the

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New artistic residency in collaboration with the Pontevedra Museum and Matadero Madrid

We are honoured to announce a new collaboration with the Pontevedra Museum for two artistic residencies that will take place between February and April 2025. This collaboration marks an exciting new step in the Walter & Nicole Leblanc Foundation artist residency programme launched in 2023. Focusing

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Archival internship position available

The foundation is looking for an archivist intern to organise, digitise and analyse an unexplored part of Walter Leblanc's archive, as part of the pilot project “Meervoudige perspectieven: onderzoek, classificatie, digitalisering, analyse en publieke ontsluiting van de archieven van Walter Leblanc

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Karima Boudou joins our 2024 – 2025 residency program

We are thrilled to welcome Karima Boudou, a French art historian and curator based in Brussels, to the Walter & Nicole Leblanc Foundation as part of our 2024 – 2025 residency program! During her residency, Karima will delve into the Foundation’s extensive archives, exploring and reinterpreting the

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