Institution Building

Institution Building displays and questions the diverse elements of a museum—from the most visible parts (the exhibition) to the often unseen or hidden components (archive, administration, maintenance). The exhibition has been growing week by week, with an institutional element added sequentially, presenting the institution as a cadavre exquis—an ever changing organism, constantly questioning and legitimizing its raison d’être.

Hospitality / August 26: architecten jan de vylder inge vinck, Daniel Birnbaum,  DJI Mini 2 Drone, Jean Glibert,  Zak Kyes / Radim Pesko, Jacques Ligot (with Eimi Leggett, Timothy Nouzak, Mary Szydlowska, Mooni Van Tichel)

Format / September 2: Atelier Kanal (noArchitecten, Sergison Bates architects, EM2N), Thomas Bayrle, Laurent Busine / Maurice-Karel Heymans / Léonard Homez /Paul Otlet / Wouter Van Acker, Simon Denny / Linda Kantchev, Asli Cicek, An Fonteyne,  Jean Glibert, Victor Horta, Rosalind Krauss, Lesley Lokko / African Futures, MAIO, Amelyn Ng, Hila Peleg, Dennis Pohl / Bouwcentrum-Cegos, Hilary Sample, Harald Szeemann, Oriol Vilanova

Collection / September 9: Iñaki Ábalos / Giovanna Borasi—Canadian Centre for Architecture / Juan José Castellón González / Stefano Graziani / Juan Herreros / OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, David Adjaye, Olivier Bertrand / Piero Bisello / Benjamin De Backer / Diego Thielemans / Sophie Varin, Caryatide (Simon Campedel, Thibault Lambert, Claudia Mion, Antoine Stevenot) / Marcel-Louis Baugniet / Victor Bourgeois / Louis-Herman De Koninck / Marcel Depelsenaire / Henri Derée / Albert-Charles Duesberg / Maurice Gaspard / Gustave Herbosch / Oscar Jespers / Elisabeth Prins / Émile Sergysels / Auguste Vanden Nieuwenborg, Aric Chen, Samia Henni,  Johan Lagae, Jill Magid, MANIERA (Amaryllis Jacobs, Kwinten Lavigne), Parasite 2.0, Traumnovelle

Audience / September 16: Altitude 35 (Benoît Barnaud, Clara Loukkal) / Marie Cazaban-Mazerolles / Julien Claparède-Petitpierre / Antoine Espinasseau / PEAKS (Charles Aubertin, Camille Dupont, Samuel Jaubert de Beaujeu, Éva Maloisel) / UR (Chloé Valadié, Gaétan Brunet) / ZEFCO (François Peyron, Florian Dupont), David Apheicex / Constructo / Camille Frechou / In out Concept / MBL architectes (Benjamin Lafore, Sébastien Martinez Barat) / Vulcano, Apparatus 22 (Maria Farcas, Dragos Olea, Erika Olea, Ioana Nemes), Cyrus Ardalan / Ophélie Dozat / Lucien Dumas, Shumon Basar / Douglas Copland / Hans Ulrich Obrist,  DOGMA (Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara), Keller Easterling, Guy Gypens, Victor Horta, Rem Koolhaas / Ingo Niermann, Rimini Protokoll (Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel), Tamaya Sapey-Triomphe, The Critical Inquiry Lab Design Academy Eindhoven

Agency / September 23: Gabriela Anco / Vadim Zakharov, BMA Bouwmeester Maître Architecte (Kristiaan Borret, Géraldine Lacasse, Tine Vandepaer), Gideon Boie / Lieven De Cauter / Cinéma Jolia (Jolien De Nijs, Giulia Lazzara), Maurice Culot, Vincent Detroy / V+ (Jörn Aram Bihain & Thierry Decuypere), Isabelle Doucet, Forensic Architecture, Rupali Gupte / Prasad Shetty, Ania Jaworska, Pierre Leguillon, Tobias Rehberger, Martha Rosler, Aleksandra Wasilkowska, XDGA I Xaveer De Geyter Architects

Pedagogy / September 30: Valerio Borgonuovo / Silvia Franceschini / Remo Buti, Renaat Braem, CLARA / Wim Cuyvers, Beatriz Colomina, Luc Deleu – T.O.P office, Antoine Devaux, Cornelia Escher / Lars Fischer / Oswald Mathias Ungers, Jacques Gillet / René Greisch / Félix Roulin / Jacques Antoine, LABEL (Jean-Didier Bergilez, Michel Lefèvre, Thibaut Rome) / MUOTO (Gilles Delalex, Yves Moreau), Frei Otto / IL, Raphael Pirenne / WIP (Justine Babut, Adèle Boterf, Victoria Cattani, Justine Debaene, Jade Rouanet), NEWROPE (Panayotis Antoniadis, Seppe De Blust, Lukas Fink, Falma Fshazi, Evelyne Gordon, Michiel van lersel, Freek Persyn, Charlotte Schaeben, Ina Valkanova), Vera Sacchetti, Social Design Collaborative (Swati Janu), Paul-Émile Vincent, Mark Wigley

Emancipation / October 7: Aristide Antonas, Alexander Auris, BC architects, Felix Beytout / Jacques Hondelatte /Juan Perez Amaya, Bicoli Collective (Emma Herman, Cléo Hesse, Alix Meuwly), Blurbs – Generative Writing Club (Dana Kuehr, Ailsa Cavens, Tania Garduño Israde), Anne Dessing, Leong Leong / Killefer Flammang Architects, Mothers & Daughters (Alice Versieux, Ben Pigeard-Benazera, Byrthe Lemmens, Claire Gilder, Jessica Gysel, Joëlle Sambi Nzeba, Katja Mater, Marnie Slater, Mia Melvær, Misha Verdonck, Nyira Hens, Robin Brettar), Pedro Pitarch, Selma Robert / Akarova / Denis Martin / Michèle Noiret / Madie Marcuna / Anne Van Zeeland / Flora Romana, Raphaël Julien Saint Amand, Apolline Vrancken / Simone Guillissen-Hoa / Marcel Anneet / Jacques Dupuis / Eliane Havenith / Nicolas Schimp-Urban.brussels, Studio Ossidiana,Whanganui River, Woman Cave Collective (Chloé Macary-Carney, Léticia Chanliau, Aleksandra Belova)

Environment / October 14: Accattone magazine (Ismaël Bennani, Sophie Dars, Orfée Grandhomme, Carlo Menon, Galaad Van Daele) / Alice Nouvet / Alice Paris / Camille Pons / Plant & Houtgoed (Jeroen Deseyn, Nicolas Vandenplas), Daniel Barber, Paul Duvigneaud, Jean-Jules Eggericx, Peter Fischli / David Weiss, Sharona Franklin, Stephan Kampelmann, KARBON’ Jean Garcin / Claire Valette, Openstructures (Thomas Lommée), Jean Painlevé, Coline Rosoux, Maria Fernanda Serna, Bas Smets, SUPERFLEX, Wael Al Awar / Kenichi Teramoto

Preservation / October 21: AgwA, Lucia Allais, Bovenbouw Architectuur & DDS+ / Caruso St John Architects/ MA2 Metzger et Associes Architecture / René Stapels, b+ (Arno Brandlhuber, Olaf Grawert, Angelika Hinterbrandner, Roberta Jurčić and Gregor Zorzi), Pieterjan Ginckels + STUDIO SNOWFLAKE (Eva Demulder, Sarah Tilley, Ferre Vander Elst), Sandi Hilal / Alessandro Petti, Victor Horta, Stanislas Jasinski, Clara Leverd / Véronique Patteeuw / Madelon Vriesendorp, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Jorge Otero-Pailos, PEAKS (Charles Aubertin, Camille Dupont, Samuel Jaubert de Beaujeu, Éva Maloisel), Permanent Brussels (WIP), Marie-Françoise Plissart, Sumayya Vally, XDGA I Xaveer De Geyter Architects / Barbara Van der Wee

Idiom / October 28: Apparatus 22 (Maria Farcas, Dragos Olea, Erika Olea, Ioana Nemes), architecten jan de vylder inge vinck / Patrick Demuylder / Renaud De Staercke / Christophe Méaux, dank.lloyd.wright, Luca Frei, Carsten Höller/ Barbara Vanderlinden / Jens Hoffmann, Andrés Jaque, John Knight, Zak Keyes (Zak Group), Léopold Lambert, New South (Meriem Chabani, Etienne Chobaux, John Edom), OASE Journal (Justin Agyin, Tom Avermaete, Aslı Çiçek, Bart Decroos, Stefan Devoldere, Kornelia Dimitrova, Jantje Engels, Christoph Grafe, Maarten Liefooghe, Sereh Mandias, Véronique Patteeuw, David Peleman, Elsbeth Ronner, Hans Teerds, Christophe Van Gerrewey), PLMD PleaseLetMeDesign, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Territorial Agency (John Palmesino & Ann-Sofi Rönnskog), Wim Waelput

The first project by the newly appointed artistic director Nikolaus Hirsch, the exhibition marks the beginning of a transition phase during which CIVA will move to a new location at Kanal, with an inauguration in 2024. Institution Building is an institutional self-reflection, a questioning of the role of cultural institutions as such—and of the CIVA in particular.

The podcast series include: David Adjaye, listen / Rem Koolhaas & Ingo Niermann, listen / Hilary Sample, listen / Daniel Barber, listen / Wael Al Awar, listen / Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, listen / Simon Denny, listen / Vikramaditya Prakash, listen / John Palmesino, listen / Aric Chen, listen / Juan Perez-Amaya and Félix Beytout, listen / Parasite 2.0, listen / Vera Sacchetti, listen / Sharona Franklin, listen / Keller Easterling, listen / Samia Henni, listen

Curated by Nikolaus Hirsch, Matylda Krzykowski, Cédric Libert

Press inquiries: Dieter Vanthournout, d.vanthournout [​at​] civa.brussels, T +32 (0) 497 90 12 51