“Voyages Apstrakcija”
Vedran Kopljar (& parents)

Vedran Kopljar (& parents) presents Voyages Apstrakcija at Pizza Gallery Antwerp. Musing on notions of spiritual and identitary travel —and how they relate to abstraction—the artist transforms the gallery into a speculative travel agency.
In Voyages Apstrakcija the visual language of tourism and travel agencies is abstracted and applied to ideas of the self and identity. The exhibition features sculptural display shelves and pedestals which house magazines, miniatures, scale models and other trinkets of non-geographical travel. Marrying the artifice of a touristic travel brochure with the presupposed profundity of matters of identity, Kopljar (& parents) creates compositions featuring a variety of self-designed brochures and magazines with covers that promise to inform you on the numerous aspects of selfhood. These are laid out as objects, boasting terms such as Class, Hobbies, Trauma, Ideology, and so on. They solicit travels of the mind whilst potentially never materializing beyond an image. Abstraction as a tool for escapism and aestheticism is set against its potential for othering and dehumanizing. Rather than depictions of seas, beaches, mountains or forests, visitors to this travel agency are goaded only by images of abstraction.

“A Legato or Your Perfect Hair In The Bathroom Sink, Adorning”
Jonas Dehnen

Jonas Dehnen presents A Legato or Your Perfect Hair In The Bathroom Sink, Adorning at Pizza Gallery Ghent.

The exhibition will present an extensive series of interrelated paintings developed over the last two years. The work has accumulated around a number of repeating motifs that triangulate a way forward whilst remaining constant vectors that gradually accumulate riffs and meaning(s) in an iterative and gradual process of picture making. As such, the works constitute diagrams (of a material process, memory and personal history), tokens (of the same things), bridges (between those same things), shelters (for those same things), islands in (and of) the world - all at once. The paintings will be accompanied by a collaborative piece of writing by Alicja Melzacka, Febe Lamiroy and Myrthe van der Mark.

“Stab Candy”
with Rufus Michielsen & Tom Volkaert 

opening friday November 21, 2025 
from 6 - 10 pm