Tim Van Laere Gallery, Contemporary art gallery in Antwerp, Belgium.
Tim Van Laere Gallery occupies a 1,000 m² building in Antwerp designed by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen and completed in 2019. Its facade is made of pale grey concrete panels with visible circular tie holes and vertical seams, composed of flat, intersecting rectangular volumes of different heights. Large white capital letters reading "AN LAERE GALLERY" run off the left edge of the lower front wall, and a glass entrance with dark frames sits to the right of the taller block.
Tim Van Laere founded the gallery in Antwerp in 1997. In April 2019 it moved into a 1,000 m² building designed for it by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen. In autumn 2023 a second location opened in Rome, in the 17th-century Palazzo Donarelli Ricci on Via Giulia, a palazzo whose architect-owner was Giacomo della Porta and which incorporates 15th-century terraced houses.
The gallery's name comes from its founder, Tim Van Laere, who opened it in Antwerp in 1997. It represents artists including Franz West, Kati Heck, Jonathan Meese, Adrian Ghenie and Rinus Van de Velde, and mounts about six exhibitions a year in Antwerp, plus a Rome space opened in 2023 in the 17th-century Palazzo Donarelli Ricci on Via Giulia.
The Antwerp gallery occupies a 1,000 m² building designed by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen and moved there in April 2019. It mounts six exhibitions a year, so the display changes often; check which show is running before travelling. The entrance is the glass door with dark frames to the right of the taller concrete block.
The Antwerp building opened in April 2019: 1,000 m² designed by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, with pale grey concrete panels and circular tie holes. The white lettering on the lower left wall reads "AN LAERE GALLERY", running off the edge of the facade.
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