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 In commuting distance from Antwerp and Brussels and located near two prominent Belgian museums for contemporary art, the Stedelijk Museum for Contemporary Art (S.M.A.K.) and the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Galerie Tatjana Pieters seeks to introduce and support Belgian talent next to the promotion of international artists.
After 5 years at the Burggravenlaan 40 in Ghent, Galerie Tatjana Pieters has relocated to Nieuwevaart 124, transforming a 400 m2 ground floor of an old warehouse into a monumental gallery space after a design by Pieterjan Deblauwe.
This relocation is another step in the growth of the gallery, which since its inception in October 2005 has become one of the major players for contemporary art in Ghent and Belgium. Committed to the importance of art within a social framework, the gallery has explicitly chosen for an even larger space in the ‘peripheral context’ of Ghent. No central location in a matchbox, but a clear position in a location where the gallery can be an essential contributor to the field of contemporary art. Pioneers work that embraces the idea of ‘show local, act global’. This peripheral attitude is also visible within the artistic choices of the gallery, whereby the gallery chooses to represent artistic positions that are not easily categorized, presenting artists before they are emerging or re- contextualizing mid- career/established artists that have been overlooked. Galerie Tatjana Pieters chooses to function as a katalysator in the growth of the artist’s artistic development & career.
The new gallery location offers a larger exhibition space creating a platform that allows room for experiment and functions as a transit to an institutional level, underlining the vision that a gallery must be and remain a space to create exhibitions, despite of the current changes in the art market. The new gallery is located in a new development area of Ghent, near the water. It is an area where currently many new artistic initiatives are popping up: artist studios, architect offices, rehearsal spaces for dance and music .... The district has all the potential to become the ‘Chelsea of Ghent’.
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