kinship at KIN, Brussels

kinship is the first group exhibition at KIN. It brings together a selection of works from 35 artists under the leitmotif of the gallery’s founding principle. In definition, kinship refers to the relationships within a community or a family. The structure that defines these connections, through blood or communion, is an organisational tool that gives form and arrangement to the society in which we are participants. Outside of a family union, a kin structure can look like a sorority or a sports club.

kinship is not a thematic exhibition in the standard sense; instead the exhibition foregrounds connection as a generative motor grounded in a visual vernacular. This question of connection, of how we find, make, and remake our relations with others, is explored across a variety of mediums that touch on far-ranging themes, from the generation of empathy to the origins of intimacy and theorizations on the beginning of time. Sometimes this emerges through domestic motifs or in the adaptation of unique spatial registers that belong to the urban landscape. The insistence on connection is the insistence that all manifestations come to represent distinct layers in the wider network of our linkages. The idea is to consider the space of others in structured living, whether through fantasy or representations of reality, across enclosed zones of intimacy and polity.

kinship brings together a selection of emerging and established artistic practices with works produced between 1983 up until 2024. The exhibition is a tribute to friendship and connection made manifest across our work and our relations.

Micaela Dixon, Nicolaus Schafhausen & Inès-Gabrielle Tourlet Ordoñez

The show includes:
Sâadane Afif,Yalda Afsah,Guillaume Bijl,Kasper Bosmans,Ryan Cullen,Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys,Edith Dekyndt,Willem de Rooij,Brenda Draney,Isa Genzken,Liam Gillick,Zuza Golińska,Dorota Jurczak,Leon Kahane,Annette Kelm,Paul Kolling,Essie Kramer,Thibaut Henz,Tanea Hynes,Shaun Motsi,Kate Newby,Marcel Odenbach,Shlomo Pozner,Sarah Pucci,Emile Rubino,Coumba Samba, Richard Sides,Charles Stankievech,Andrzej Steinbach,Rosemarie Trockel,Luc Tuymans,Michael Van den Abeele,Erika Verzutti,Angharad Williams & Philip A. Zimmermann