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Rectangle is pleased to present
OLD MASTER
a group exhibition with
Alexandra Crouwers
Auriea Harvey
Joan Heemskerk
Jan Robert Leegte
Lorna Mills
Clement Valla
Opening Saturday 27 June 2026, 5–8pm
27 June – 27 July 2026
Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2–6pm
at Wouters Gallery
Bd d’Anvers 49, 1000 Brussels
Biography
Alexandra Crouwers 1974 NL.
Alexandra Crouwers is a visual artist and artistic researcher negotiating real-world ecosystem collapse through digital media. She uses an array of technologies – such as 3D animation, photogrammetry and simulation – as mediators between time, space and ecologies, searching for ways to escape anthropocentric perspectives and rethink human / non-human relations. At times, the results are equally absurd as they are tragic.
Her work centres on films and video installations, but extends to GIFs, emoji proposals, augmented reality, 3D-scanned objects, audio compositions and text-based experiments. Working with digital tools, she constructs speculative metaphorical spaces that function as both sites of memory and imagined futures, bridging environmental history, post-human landscapes and technological mediation.
ecent exhibitions include Ludwig Museum, Budapest (‘Smaller Worlds. Diorama in contemporary art‘, HU, 2022), Technische Sammlungen, Dresden (‘Hydromedia: Seeing with Water’, DE, 2024-25), 38CC, Delft (’16UP’, NL, 2024), Museum M, Leuven (‘Time and Again’, BE, 2022), and a solo exhibition at Collectie De.Groen in Arnhem (‘NGMI’, NL, 2022). Other projects took place online, such as ‘Down the Silicon Meadow‘ (Office Impart, Berlin, DE) and ‘Who is online? Game art in the age of NFTism‘, VirtualHEK, Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel (CH).
Films were screened at the Conjuring Creativity Conference (London), Uppsala Short Film Festival, Go Short (Arnhem), Transmediale (Berlin), Impakt (Utrecht), Portable Film Festival (Australia), Microwave festival (Hong Kong), Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Woodhorn Museum (Ashington), Toffee Factory (Newcastle), Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
https://www.alexandracrouwers.com/
Auriea Harvey is a digital artist and sculptor living and working in Rome. Her practice encompasses virtual and physical artworks created with a blend of digital and handmade production. Drawing from her extensive experience in net art and video games, she brings a synthesis of mythology, autobiography, art historical reference and imagination – made visible through form, interaction and immersion. Auriea is engaged across time, media, and material to define what sculptural production means in the present moment. Her work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, KADIST Collection, Rf.C Collection, and Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology. She has exhibited widely with international success including exhibitions at the Tinguely Museum, Basel; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the New Museum, New York; and ZKM, Karlsruhe.
Joan Heemskerk is a Dutch contemporary artist. Her artistic practice is centred around the internet, with a current focus on exploring the potentials of web4, spanning from cryptography systems to the realm of quantum non-binary computing. Her diverse body of work includes photography, video, software, games, websites, NFT, performances and installations.
_ She is also a member of the art collective JODI >>>
JODI, or (jodi.org) – pioneered net.art in 1995. JODI were among the first artists to investigate and subvert conventions of the Internet, computer programs, and video and computer games. Radically disrupting the very language of these systems, including visual aesthetics, interface elements, commands, errors and code. JODI stages extreme digital interventions that destabilise the relationship between computer technology and its users by subverting our expectations about the functionalities and conventions of the systems that we depend upon every day.
JODI’s work is featured in most art historical volumes about digital and media art, is exhibited worldwide in ; Documenta-X; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; ZKM; ICC; CCA; Guggenheim; IMAL; Centre Pompidou; Eyebeam; FACT; MoMi; Harvard Art Museums; Rhizome; MoMa, among others.
Jan Robert Leegte 1973 NL.
Jan Robert Leegte is one of the first Dutch artists to work on and for the Internet since the 1990s. In 2002, he shifted his main focus to implementing digital materials in the context of the physical gallery space, aiming to bridge the online art world with the gallery art world, making prints, sculpture, installations, drawings, and projections, connecting to historical movements like land art, minimalism, performance art, and conceptualism. As an artist Leegte explores the position of the new materials put forward by the (networked) computer. Photoshop selection marquees, scrollbars, Google Maps, code, and software are dissected to understand their ontological nature.
Leegte lives and works in Amsterdam. His work has been exhibited in various national and international museum and locations. Including: Centre Pompidou (FR), Ludwig Museum (DE), Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. (NL), Van Gogh Museum (NL), Kunsthalle Zürich (CH), Kröller-Müller Museum (NL), CODA Museum (NL), Museum MORE (NL)Z, KM Karlsruhe (DE).
https://www.leegte.org/
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Lorna Mills is a Canadian net.art and new media artist known for her digital animations, videos, GIFs, and restrained offline installation work. Her use of GIFs are gathered through the dark net which includes 4chan, pornfails, and Russian domains. By working with the pre-existed materials, her works critique consumption, representation, accelerationism, and nationalism as they are expressed and exaggerated through Internet culture.
Mills’ work has been exhibited throughout the world since the 90s. Recent exhibitions include “Dreamlands” at the Whitney Museum, NY; “Yellowwhirlaway” at the Museum of the Moving Image, NY; “The House and the sky” at Hayward Gallery, London and “The Great Code” at Transfer Gallery, NY, among others.
Clement Valla is a New York based artist whose work considers how humans and computers are increasingly entangled in making, seeing and reading pictures.
He has had recent solo exhibitions at PC Galleries in Providence, XPO Gallery in Paris and Transfer Gallery in Brooklyn. His work has also been exhibited at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Breda, Netherlands; Bitforms Gallery, New York; Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris, France; Haus der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; KIM Contemporary Art Center, Riga, Latvia; Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh; and The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis;
His work has been cited in The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, El Pais, Huffington Post, Rhizome, Domus, Wired, The Brooklyn Rail, Liberation, and on BBC television. Valla received a BA in Architecture from Columbia University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Digital+Media. He is currently an associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.
https://clementvalla.com/