BRAM BRAAM
LAURENCE GRAVE
Opening, SAT, JULI 5, 2—7pm
Exhibition dates: JULI 6 — AUG 30, 2025
Open hours: WED — SAT, noon — 7pm
Also open by appointment or by chance
LAGE EGAL [ZWART HUIS]
Rivoli #41, Chaussee de Waterloo 690
1180 Brussels, Belgium
We are delighted to invite you to GREETINGS FROM, the inaugural exhibition of our new space, which we will be operating in collaboration with ZWART HUIS for the next six months. In agreement with its gallerist, Elke Helbig, a part of the gallery remains dedicated to a series of parallel exhibitions, pairing Belgian and German artists selected together. A unique opportunity to build bridges between our two artistic scenes. The first collaboration will feature works by Stefan Peters (BE) and Tom Früchtl (DE) – a unique dialogue between two distinctive approaches to painting.
Bask in the summer vibes through the works of two artists with complementary practices: LAURENCE GRAVE (*1970, Asnières, France) and her immersive paintings that transform space with vibrant, light-filled poetry. BRAM BRAAM (*1980, Sittard, Netherlands) and his wall sculptures, playing with forms and materials to create a dialogue between minimalism and mineral shapes. GREETINGS FROM is your artistic postcard – an invitation to travel through patterns and textures that capture the essence of the season.
BRAM BRAAM draws inspiration from the raw traces of urban landscapes. Through a minimalist approach, he reinterprets the cyclical metamorphosis of materials like concrete, steel, bricks oder glass, partly collecting from the streets, but primarily recreating textures from the city, familiar and random yet precisely arranged to form new perspectives that bridge abstraction and reality, painting and landscape. The results, neither fully real nor abstract, reflect architecture’s perpetual state of flux, from decay to renewal.
LAURENCE GRAVE probes the fragile boundary between artwork and viewer, merging personal memory with art historical echoes. Torn canvases, exposed structures, and reclaimed materials disrupt painting’s idealized traditions, revealing raw presence over perfection. Her practice thrives in the tension between accident and control, the crude and the poetic. Reduced to bone, each piece speaks in silence—not to immortalize, but to trace what vanishes.
Founded by artist-curator Pierre Granoux, LAGE EGAL (“location doesn’t matter”) crystallizes years of underground experimentation into a nomadic gallery model. Between Berlin and Brussels, it stages tightly curated duo and group shows — creating sharp dialogues between emerging and established artists across unconventional spaces. Mobility defines its ethos. Through collaborations with artists, independent curators, alternative spaces and galleries, LAGE EGAL challenges white cube conventions while keeping contemporary art encounters urgent and accessible. Here, art thrives where you least expect it.
