Sotheby's Auction

Black Box Gallery
Rue de Stallestraat 142, 1180 Brussels

January 22nd 2009

Benefit Auction in partnership with Sotheby's on Thursday January 22nd

The Benefit Auction organized on January 22nd has attracted a large crowd, as well as a very good press, and allowed us to raise funds which helped us to develop our magazine and curatorial projects to promote the emerging art scene.

The artists: Élodie Antoine, Isabelle Arthuis, Stephan Balleux, Pali Banine, Ruben Bellinckx, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Pascal Bernier, Sofia Boubolis, Éric Croes, Pierre Debroux, Antoine Detaille, Lionel Estève, Aline Bouvy & John Gillis, Damien De Lepeleire, Erwan Mahéo, Xavier Mary, Xavier Noiret-Thomé, Benoît Platéus, Frédéric Plateus, Robert Quint, Fabrice Samyn, Kelly Schacht, Robert Suermondt, Emmanuelle Villard.

With the help of: Sotheby’s, Leon Eeckman, Codefrisko, art(y)shoc, Sexy wine, Vedett, Laurent Gerbaud

Out of Office

Galerie de l’Espace de l’Eurorégion Alpes-Méditerranée
Bruxelles

01 November — 20 December 2008

The Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (Regional Contemporary Art Fund) of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and the Institut d’Crt Contemporain, Villeurbanne-Lyon (Institute of Contemporary Art) have invited Code, a Belgian magazine devoted to the emerging art scene, to design an exhibition and a program of evening events based around a group of works from their collections – a selection inspired by the world of office technology as represented by the exhibition site, the Espace Eurorégion Alpes-Meditérannée (Gallery of the Alps-Mediterranean Euroregion Space), located in the heart of the European quarter.

Out of Office is the title of the automatic e-mail message sent when the person you have contacted cannot reply, generally because they are on holiday. A standard response which, like everything else in the office aesthetic, suppresses all trace of individuality. CODE offers eight installations in which the artists take possession of the territory of the office, all the better to escape it.

The artists: Basserode, Alain Bublex, Claude Closky, Fabrice Hyber, Stéphanie Nava, Guillaume Pinard, Thomas Ruff, Tatiana Trouvé.

With the help of:Saison culturelle européenne, Francekunstart.be, Platform, Orange, Total, Cultures France, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Région Rhône-Alpes, Eurorégion Alpes-Méditerranée, Ministère Culture-Communication République Française, Villeurbanne, Leon Eeckman, Vedett

It's About Time

De Winkelhaak Design Centre Antwerpen

06 June — 31 August 2008

De Winkelhaak is a brand new Design Centre meant to activate design in all its forms. For its inaugural exhibition, It's about time, the Centre asked 8 emerging Belgian designers from various disciplines to imagine themselves in 2030.

In the context of this exhibition, CODE presented an in situ graphic installation presenting the Factory which the team will have created by 2030. From 2005 until 2018, going beyond its magazine status, CODE developed activities ranging from design and curating to art consultancy and production. In 2019, the exhibition entitled "In CODE we trust" at PS3 in NYC dedicated the collective. Each team member, thrust into fame, received offers of the most prestigious positions. Yhe graphic design agency, Codefrisko (of the CODE magazine) became Codesaatchifrisko. In 2026, the team formed again and decided to create a Warholian independent platform which included, a supra-contemporary museum, an erotic library, residencies for android artists, a chocolate swimming pool and an air guitar club... A 1/1 map of this "factory" was shown at the Winkelhaar Design Museum.

The artists: A Ciel Ouvert, Lisa Allegretta, CODE Magazine, Ephameron, Import Export Architecten, Grin, Tom Klinkowstein, Monsieur Moiré, Pantopicon, Irene Perera, Unfold.

www.winkelhaak.be

Code / Buro

Recyclart

July 2006 — July 200

From July 2006 till January 2010, Code has moved its office in Recyclart, a cultural center in Brussels, and organized monthly exhibitions. Code thus took advantage of the dynamic of Vitrin&Out, a common opening with the other studios located in the site of Recyclart, every first Thursday of the month. This regular event strengthened audience loyalty and enriched considerably the content of the magazine since Recyclart is a usual crossing point for many young artists.

www.recyclart.be

The artists: Frédéric Biesmans, Affreux, Antoine Detaille, Stefanie Scheurell, Adrien Vescovi, Justin Morin, David de Tscharner, Christiane Schmidt et Didier Guillain, Tache Production (Thomas De Decker), JMK, Eric Croes (invites: Saïd Abitar, Elodie Antoine, Stephan Balleux, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Sébastien Bonin, Pascal Bernier, Lucia Bru, Patrick Croes, Lionel Estève, Nicolas di Felice, Frédéric Fourdinier, Bernard Gigounon, Laurent Thiry, David de Tscharner, Jelle Vandemeulebroeke), Mathias Nouel & Tatiana Bohm, Sophia Boubolis, Kimberly Clark, Laurens G., François Martig, Vincent Mauger, Pierre Debusschere.

Code / Strate

Festival Maïs

October 20th 2006 — November 20th 2006

The urban art festival Maïs gave the opportunity to Code to occupy a parking located downtown Brussels. Each artist exhibited in one of the 10 floors of the parking. The paintings, videos, sculptures and other installations remained visible 24h/24h for a month. First chosen as a simple formal observation that can gather a number of artists, the theme of “stratification” led the Code team to question the urban environment. The city is, indeed, permanently remodeled by layers, as much from the material standpoint (thrown chewing gums, superimposed advertising posters, ascending skyscrapers…) as from the social one (one fashion or culture taking over another one, success crushing mediocrity, crowds…). While wandering in the parking, the visitors thus discovered monumental works, which were playful and critical at the same time.

The artists: Atelier Blink (B), Jean-Baptiste Bernadet (F), Collectif_Fact (CH), Cyprien Chabert (F), Eric Croes (B), Les Haut-Parleurs (FR), Benoît Ménard (F), Samuel Rousseau (F), Léopoldine Roux (F), Daniel Ruggiero (CH), Helmut Smits (NL), Jelle Vandemeulebroeke (B).

With the help of: Échevinat de la culture Ville de Bruxelles, Interparking Group, Leon Eeckman Assurances, Pro-Helvetia, Ambassade de France, CGRI, Pure FM Radio, Vedett

www.maiis.be

Code / Multi

Le Comptoir du Livre

October 15th 2006 - November 12th 2006

The specialist of small edition and artist’s book in Belgium, le Comptoir du Livre welcomed Code in its exhibition space. This exhibition presented 14 artists with works that are unique and multiple at the same time, questioning the concept of edition, design and product in contemporary art. A box of 14 postcards was published.

The artists: A Ciel Ouvert (B), Big Game (CH/B), Jean-Baptiste Bernadet (F), Eric Croes (B), Cyprien Chabert (F), Antoine Detaille (B), Ghostape (CH), Agnes Geoffray (F), Cornelia Hesse-Honeger (CH), Justin Morin (F), Nurse (B), Daniel Ruggiero (CH), Sen Takayama (J), Jelle Vandemeulebroeke (B)

www.lecomptoir.be

Code / Zero

Bains::Connective

October 8th - 9th 2005

The first exhibition curated by Code at the event of the launch of the first issue took place in Bains::connective, an Art Déco swimming pool which has been transformed into a cultural center. All the artists were invited to react to this atypical space, with installations that manifest a spare or even embryonic quality, akin to the first Code issue. A radio documentary by the Haut-Parleurs, an artist collective from Bordeaux, was recorded during the opening and broadcasted on Radio Campus in Brussels, Radio Sauvagine in Bordeaux and on www.radiofrac.com.

The artists: À ciel ouvert (F) / Élodie Antoine (B) / Peter Hansen (USA) / Sen Takayama (JP) / Jelle Vandemeulebroeke (B) / Liping Weng & Olivier Meys (B)

www.codemagazine.be/news
www.bains.be