Disorder in the House: Vanhaerents Art Collection

Hardcover | 23.83 x 1.57 x 28.22 cm | 144 pp

Lannoo | 2010 | 9789020991055

Contains explicit sexual images

Disorder in the House was the first presentation of the collection of contemporary art that Walter Vanhaerents has assembled across thirty years. The Vanhaerents Art Collection is housed in a former sanitary equipment warehouse in the heart of Brussels dating from 1926.

Walter Vanhaerents collects recent works of relatively young artists. By bringing together and confronting various artists in a surprising way, new connections, insights and meanings are created. The fruitful cross-fertilisation between high and low art runs like a thread through the work shown here, including references to film but also to the work of Andy Warhol and his legacy. This makes Disorder in the House not just a young, dynamic, extroverted, exuberant and provocative exhibition, but, unwittingly a beautiful display about art at the beginning of the twenty-first century, without losing sight of the broader context of this recent history.

Featured Artists
David Altmejd
Chiho Aoshima
Thomas Demand
Urs Fischer
Andrea Fraser
Peter Friedl
Tom Friedman
Katharina Fritsch
Mark Handforth
Paul MeCarthy,
in Meyerson
Mariko Mori
Takashi Murakami
Yoshitomo Nara
Bruce Nauman
Tim Noble & Sue Webster
Paul Pleiffer
Jack Pierson
Tobias Rehberger
Jason Rhoades
Daniel Richter
Ugo Rondinone
Tom Sachs
Michael Sailstorfer
Markus Schinwald
Francesco Vezzoli
Banks Violette
Christopher Wool