TACTILE
28/06/2018 – 04/11/2018

From 28 June you can see the acme of international glass art in the GlazenHuis in Lommel. Under the denominator 'TACTILE' curator Sue Schiepers brings together different trend-setting glass artworks in a stimulating exhibition.

The top work of the exhibition is undoubtedly 'Chado', a life-size glass dress by Karen LaMonte. The American graduated as a designer, but then turned her hand more or less immediately to glass art. In her work she often explores themes such as embodiment and identity, character and personality, the social life of women, the role of the body and the human form. Her life-size garments have since become her trademark. A dazzling technical feat and a time-consuming process, because each such dress is a good 9 months in the making. The Chado dress has a draped look, while the glass image invites touching and feeling. Not that you can, but it does illustrate the field of tension in which 'Tactile' operates. From knitted glass (Carol Milne, Canada) and floating glass carpets (Nava, Venezuela) to thrown-open glass books with wafer-thin pages (Anne Petters, Germany) or deep-sea coral-like glass sculptures (Dafna Kaffeman, Israel); the sense of touch is tried and tested. And even importuned. Because you can't stroke and can't touch!

Tactile is an absolute must-see. It shows glass like you never saw before.

Participating artists: Anne Claude Jeitz & Alain Calliste (LU, FR) Dafna Kaffeman (ISR) • Marta Klonowska (PL) • Sylvia Kopka (DE) Karen LaMonte (USA) • Shayna Leib (USA) • Carol Milne (CA) • Ana Maria Nava (VZL) • Michèle Perozeni (FR) • Anne Petters (DE) • Cathryn Shilling (GB) Petra Sindelar (CZ) • Kristiina Uslar (EST) • Sylvie Vandenhoucke (BE).

2018 THE COLLECTION
07 10 2017 - 10 06 2018

2017 XY - 10 YEARS GLAZENHUIS
06 05 2017 - 17 09 2017

2017 GREAT DANES
17 09 2016 - 17 04 2017

2016 WHEREABOUTS
27/03/2016–04/09/2016

2015 BESTE BUREN - CECI N’EST PAS DU VERRE
03/10/2015-06/03/2016

2015 INTERNATIONAL GLASS PRIZE
04/04/2015 – 13/09/2015

2014 BODY TALK
06/04/2014 – 28/09/2014

2014 UK GLASS
06/04/2014 – 28/09/2014

2013 YOUNG MASTERS
European Graduates '08-'13

2013 3 SOLO SHOWS
Einar & Jamex De La Torre, Petr Stanický, Richard Meitner

2012 THE GIFT
Donation of the private glass collection Embrechts-Ryckaert

2012 INTERNATIONAL GLASS PRIZE
The Object / by the Foundation Charlotte van der Seijs

2011 GLASS MATCH
Belgium – The Netherlands

2011 THE GLASS CANVAS
Glass as a canvas, as a carrier through history

2010 CZECH GLASS
Between tradition and innovation

2010 THE TASTE OF GLASS

2010 THE CITIES GLASS COLLECTION

2009 TENUOUS TENACITY
Contemporary Canadian glass

2009 ANIMA MUNDI
The hidden alchemy of glass

2009 BOOM GLAS
Glass factory ‘De Ruppel’, Boom

2008 SANDBOX
Contemporary Japanese Glass

2008 GLASSWEAR
Jewelry of glass

2008 COLLECTORS
Contemporary sculptural glass

2007 MASTERS & TECHNIQUES

2007 THE ACCIDENT
Koen Vanmechelen