MARTA DJOURINA
BEN GREBER
Grand opening: Sunday, September 7, 2—7pm
Exhibition dates: SEP 4 — OCT 25, 2025
Open hours: WED — SAT, 2pm — 6pm
Also open by appointment or by chance
LAGE EGAL [ZWART HUIS]
Rivoli #41, Chaussee de Waterloo 690
1180 Brussels, Belgium
SUBSTATION LICHT — Entangling light and industrial memory
The artistic practices of MARTA DJOURINA and BEN GREBER meet in this exhibition through a common pursuit: to capture what is felt but not always seen. They make visible the elusive — light, memory and form itself. Djourina harnesses light as a dynamic trace, a vibrant energy frozen in time. Greber gives weight to memory, crafting form that speaks through its silence. In conversation, their work reveals a world where the invisible becomes tangible, and light shifts from mere illumination to a powerful, symbolic material.
MARTA DJOURINA works with a camera‑less photographic practice in which light itself becomes both medium and subject. Through performative gestures on photosensitive paper she creates abstract traces, chromatic landscapes, and sculptural folds that can reach up to six meters. From attaching a pinhole device to a dove in flight to exposing paper directly, her works explore touch, movement, and the fleeting nature of perception.
BEN GREBER creates sculptures and large‑scale installations inspired by industrial aesthetics and the idea of de‑objectification. Through reduction and reinterpretation, he transforms technical remnants and architectural fragments into autonomous entities, evoking the invisible layers of social processes and the lasting imprint of history. His works become repositories of memory, oscillating between function and disappearance.
Founded 2019 in Berlin by Pierre Granoux, LAGE EGAL (“location doesn’t matter”) crystallizes years of underground experimentation into a nomadic gallery model, as an artist–run space. Today between Berlin and Brussels, it stages tightly curated duo and group shows, displaying sharp dialogues between emerging and established artists. Mobility defines its ethos. Through collaborations with artists and curators, galleries and institutions, LAGE EGAL challenges white cube conventions while keeping contemporary art encounters urgent and accessible. Here, art thrives where you least expect it.
