Spazio Nobile Gallery
Photo: Jörg Braüer
EN_ By opening Spazio Nobile in 2016 in the very lively and cosmopolitan neighbourhood of Place Brugmann in Brussels, art historians Lise Coirier and Gian Giuseppe Simeone have united their passions for design and art history, initiating an erudite dialogue between contemporary applied arts, design and photography. With no boundaries between disciplines, the visual arts interact with the fine arts. Commissioning a collection of unique pieces, limited editions and installations both experimental and artistic, with a particular sensitivity to everything related to nature and minerality, each year the gallery organises five exhibitions and several events in art and heritage venues (Maison Louis Carré, Yvelines, France, arch. Alvar Aalto; Ancienne Nonciature, Grand Sablon, Lempertz (former galerie Leroy Frères), Brussels, etc). Spazio Nobile also takes part in Belgian and international fairs such as Art Brussels, Luxembourg Art Week, Art on Paper, Collectible Design Fair, PAD Paris and PAD London, Design Miami / Basel, Unique Design Shanghai, etc. The gallery is celebrating its 5th anniversary in 2021, and represents around 30 emerging and renowned artists and designers on an international scale, while promoting high-end craftsmanship and the cultures of East and West. Spazio Nobile also curates “TLmag_True Living of Art & Design”, established by Lise Coirier in 2008; through this bi-annual art and design magazine, available in print and online, the gallery shares its selection and its artistic and cultural commitment to collectible art and design. Spazio Nobile has received the Homo Faber label of excellence, and continues exploring its “Glass is Tomorrow” international project. In 2020, Spazio Nobile Gallery opened Spazio Nobile Studiolo, a permanent exhibition space located across from the main gallery which is located at the ‘bel étage’ of a 1920s house. The ‘Studiolo’ was the Italian Renaissance ancestor of the cabinet of curiosities. Simultaneously intimate, educational, symbolic and allegorical, it is open to the public, creating an environment that encourages discovery, and shaped a taste and appreciation for the arts. Its thematic window display can be unexpected, and provides illumination into Spazio Nobile through its curated exhibitions. Spazio Nobile also has a window display in the heart of the Sablon – Brussels Arts District, in the atelier of artist Bela Silva, across from Brussels’ Baroque Minimes Church.
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FR_ En ouvrant Spazio Nobile Gallery en 2016 dans le quartier cosmopolite de la place Brugmann à Bruxelles, Lise Coirier et Gian Giuseppe Simeone, tous deux historiens de l’art, ont uni leurs passions pour la création et l’histoire de l’art, en initiant un dialogue érudit entre les arts appliqués contemporains, le design et la photographie. Sans tisser de frontières entre les disciplines, les arts visuels interagissent avec les beaux-arts. Initiant une collection de pièces uniques, d’éditions limitées et d’installations à la fois expérimentales et artistiques, avec une sensibilité particulière à tout ce qui touche à la nature et à la minéralité, la galerie organise chaque année jusqu’à cinq expositions et plusieurs événements dans des hauts lieux d’art et de patrimoine (Maison Louis Carré, Yvelines, France, arch. Alvar Aalto ; L’Ancienne Nonciature, Grand Sablon, Lempertz (ex-galerie Leroy Frères), Bruxelles, …). Spazio Nobile participe aussi à des salons d’art belges et internationaux tels que Art Brussels, Luxembourg Art Week, Art On Paper, Collectible Design Fair, PAD Paris et PAD London, Design Miami / Basel, Unique Design Shanghai… La galerie fête ses cinq ans en 2021 et représente une trentaine d’artistes et de designers émergents et renommés à l’échelle internationale tout en promouvant le savoir-faire d’excellence et les cultures d’Orient et d’Occident. Spazio Nobile est également l’éditeur de « TLmag_True Living of Art & Design » né en 2008, le magazine semestriel d’art et de design, imprimé et en ligne, partageant ainsi sa sélection et son engagement artistique et culturel envers l’art et le design de collection. La galerie a reçu le label d’excellence « Homo Faber » et perpétue son projet « Glass is Tomorrow ». Depuis 2020, Spazio Nobile Gallery a ouvert Spazio Nobile Studiolo, un espace d’exposition qui a pignon sur rue en face de la galerie situé au ‘bel étage’ de la maison des années 1920. Le « Studiolo » est un ancêtre du « cabinet de curiosités » de la Renaissance italienne. À la fois intime, didactique, symbolique et allégorique, il est ouvert au public et crée un environnement propice à la découverte, forgeant le goût et l’appréciation des arts. Sa vitrine thématique est surprenante et traduit une pensée éclairée de Spazio Nobile au fil de ses expositions. Outre sa présence en haut de la ville, Spazio Nobile a également inauguré une vitrine d’exposition au cœur du Sablon – quartier des Arts – dans l’atelier de l’artiste Bela Silva, en face de l’église baroque des Minimes à Bruxelles.
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Spazio Nobile is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 11.00 until 18.00 or by appointment.
Do not hesitate to contact us by email : Lise Coirier – lc@spazionobile.com assisted by Salomé Elbaz – salome@spazionobile.com / Gian Giuseppe Simeone – ggs@spazionobile.com
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Seasonal curated exhibitions at the gallery
Season I – Post Natural History, 20.04-11.09.2016 – Catalog artists: Vincent Fournier, Kaspar Hamacher, Nathalie Dewez, Tomáš Libertíny, Carlo Brandelli
Season I – Post Natural History, 20.04-11.09.2016 – Catalog brands: Thonet, Lasvit, Vervloet, Wästberg
Season II – Forest of Lights, 15.09-20.11.2016 – Jörg Bräuer, Kaspar Hamacher, Nathalie Dewez
Season III – Silver Edition, 25.11.2016-19.02.2017 – 25 designers for the 25th edition of TLmag and 25th Interieur Biennale Silver Lining
Season IV – Crystallized, 23.02-15.04.2017– Chen Chen & Kai Williams, Marie Dessuant & Philip Bone, Studio GGSV, Taeg Nishimoto, Marlène Huissoud, Tom Joyce, Antonio Lampecco, Richu Lacquer Art Co, Isaac Monté, Frederick Vidal, Philipp Weber, Tomáš Libertíny
Season V – Chronosophia, 20.04-23.09.2017, Tomáš Libertíny, solo show
Season VI – Blauw. Ceci n’est pas une couleur, 29.09-4.02.2017, Piet Stockmans & Frederik Vercruysse, duo show
Season VII – Die Werkstatt, 9.02-6.05.2018, with Damien Gernay, Kaspar Hamacher, Jonas Loellmann, Valentin Loellmann, Fabian von Spreckelsen
Season VIII – Meisenthal, L’Âge du Verre/ The Age of Glass, 25.05-9.09.2018 with 25 artists and designers
Season IX – Botanic Psyche, 14.09-18.11.2018, Marlène Huissoud & Marcin Rusak, duo show
Season X– Land/Scapes, 23.11.2018-17.3.2019, with Carine Boxy, Kaspar Hamacher, François Moret, Bela Silva and Piet Stockmans
Season XI– Formosa: A New Layer Taiwan meets Yii, 22.3-12.5.2019, group exhibition curated by Lise Coirier – scenography by Rain Wu
Season XII- The Finnish Season, 17.5-8.9.2019, Kustaa Saksi, First Symptoms, woven tapestries, in collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute to the Benelux, co-curated by Lise Coirier & Kati Laakso
Season XII- The Finnish Season, 20.9-21.12.2019, Keep Your Garden Alive, featuring 18 Finnish artists and designers, in collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute to the Benelux, co-curated by Lise Coirier & Kati Laakso
Season XIII – Insel der Zeit, 10.1-8.3.2020, Jörg Bräuer, solo show
Season XIV– Bela Silva, Despierta Corazón Dormido, solo show
Season XV– Les ignorants, Lionel Jadot & Serge Leblon, duo show
Season XVI – The New Age of Humanism, group exhibition
Season XVII – Threads of Nature, group exhibition & 5-year anniversary of the gallery
Audrey Guttmann, Through the Looking-Glass, Spazio Nobile Studiolo, 5.6-18.7.2021
Kiki van Eijk, The New Harvest, Spazio Nobile Studiolo, 5.6-18.7.2021
Season XVIII – Frederik Vercruysse, solo show, Windows, 9.9-14.11.2021
Tomas Libertiny, Encres bleues, Spazio Nobile Studiolo, 9.9.-14.11.2021
Designers & Artists Catalogues
Kaspar Hamacher Collection
Fabian Von Spreckelsen Collection
Bela Silva Collection
Amy Hilton Collection
Laura Laine, Subtle Bodies, 5.9-22.12.2019, golden glass sculptures, Brussels Gallery Weekend & Season XII- The Finnish Season, Keep Your Garden Alive
Kustaa Saaksi, First Symptoms, 17.5-8.9.2019, woven tapestries, Solo Show & The Finnish Season, Keep Your Garden Alive
Garnier & Linker, Diatomée, Molten Glass Vases Collection,20-22.9.2019, Lake Como Design Fair, Italy
Vincent Fournier, Brasília, Modernist Utopias, 16.11.2019-12.1.2020, at Atelier Jespers, Brussels, Belgium
EXTRAMUROS Catalogues
Collect, London, Saatchi Gallery, UK, February 2018 – Into The Stockmans Blue Catalog
Collectible, Brussels, BE, Vanderborght Building, March 2018 – Phantasmagoria : Kustaa Saksi, Bela Silva, Frederik Vercruysse, Laetitia Bica, Chen & Williams, Kaspar Hamacher
Art Brussels, Brussels, Tour & Taxis, BE, April 2018, The Random Collection
A New Layer II, Basel, Design Miami/ Design Curio, 12-17.6.2018 – A New Layer Taiwan, scenography by Julie Richoz
Art on Paper, Brussels, Bozar, September 2018, solo show of Amy Hilton
Biennale Interieur, Kortrijk, Kortrijk Xpo, October 2018, The Random Collection, scenography by Garnier & Linker
IIDE, Brussels, Hôtel de la Poste with Gert Voorjans & Marcin Rusak “Flora” table, November 2018
Collectible, Brussels, Brussels, BE, Vanderborght Building, March 2019, Blooming Blossom
Art Brussels, Brussels, Tour & Taxis, BE, April 2019, Cosmogony, a duo exhibition of Bela Silva (ceramics) & Kustaa Saksi (tapestries)
Révélations, Paris, Grand Palais, FR, May 2019, Galerie Collection & Keep Your Garden Alive, Group Exhibition
Lake Como Design Fair, Como, IT, 20-22 September 2019, Diatomée Vases by Garnier & Linker
Art On Paper, Bozar, Bela Silva, Dessin Sculpture, solo show, 24-27.10.2019
Brussels Drawing Week, Amy Hilton, In-Between, solo show, La Tour à Plomb, Brussels, 24.10 – 9.11.2019, curated by Stéphane Roy
Unique Design Shanghai, West Bund, Tank Shanghai, China, 7-10.11.2019
Collectible Design Fair, BE, Vanderborght Building, March 2020, Ikebana Group Exhibition
Le Sacre de la Matière, Ancienne Nonciature Brussels (Grand Sablon), Jörg Bräuer, Sébastien Caporusso, Anne Derasse, Kaspar Hamacher, Silvano Magnone & Fabian von Spreckelsen
Call to the Wild / L’Appel de la Nature, Maison Louis Carré (arch. Alvar Aalto, 1959), Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, featuring Laura Laine, Kustaa Saksi & Kim Simonsson, co-curated by Lise Coirier, Spazio Nobile & Kati Laakso, Finnish Cultural Institute to the Benelux, in collaboration with the Finnish Embassy in France & Galerie NeC – Nilsson et Chiglien, Paris
Luxembourg Art Week, Virtual 3D Tour and Spazio Nobile’s Online Catalogue, 19-22.11.2020
PADesignArtOnline.com, Spazio Nobile on PAD Paris & London Online Platform, ongoing 2020-2021
Kiki van Eijk, The New Harvest, Spazio Nobile Studiolo, 25.5-3.6.2021
Art On Paper, Another Way to Draw, Pao Hui Kao & Éva Le Roi, 14-19.9.2021
Luxembourg Art Week, Group Exhibition “Entre deux feux, sois celui qui éclaire”, 11-14.11.2021
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Founded in 1999 by Lise Coirier with the support of an advisory board, Brussels-based Pro Materia is a creative consultancy with a strong affinity for material culture, craft-led innovation and human-centered design. The intellectual, editorial approach and background in art and design history and management position the agency in the field of supporting and promoting up-and-coming talents on multiple fronts in different regions but to also work closely and bringing together different partners (designers, artists, makers, creative industries, design-led institutions and brands) from all over the world.
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