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Potluck: Group Exhibition

Past exhibition
4 December 2021 - 16 January 2022
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Overview
Potluck, Group Exhibition

This show resulted from an invitation; an invitation to the creators who over the past few years have shaped this gallery; an open invitation to take part in a show that was to be a celebration of some sort; a social activity, which, we hoped, would allow us to search for the limits of the art market and the financial entrapments that shape it.

Gift economies have always existed. They are not new. On the contrary, they are older than any other economic system. They have continued to exist alongside the capitalist economy that emerged in Europe between the 13th and 16th century and they continue to exist today. They are fundamental to everything we do. All of us participate in an invisible gift economy every day. We lend a bike to one of our friends. We invite someone over for dinner. We engage in a conversation and during that conversation our ideas converge and collaboratively we create new ideas. None of these exchanges can be calculated precisely - let alone capitalized upon. These are, one might say, gift economies.

One such typical example of a gift economy is the potluck. The origins of the term are not exactly known - some say it was derived from pot and luck, other scholars argue that it is a rephrasing of the potlatch gift exchange tradition that is found among indigenous groups from the Northern Americas - but the principle is easy: you organize a meal for friends and everybody brings along a dish. This can be whatever they can miss. It might be a main dish, or just an aside. It’s all good. It’s about sharing, not about the ultimate result.

For Potluck we invited artist-friends to participate in a communal undertaking: sharing and gifting of unfinished pieces, untold stories, or unsold works. We wrote to them: “Bring what you have and share what you can miss. And maybe, if we can, we might begin to express the outlines of a different world, in which sharing rather than deprivation are central.” The combination of these unfinished pieces or untold stories will be our potluck.

We are, of course, a private gallery. And in that sense, like many institutions in the art world, we are intertwined with the art market, its commodification of aesthetic experiences and its complicitous relationship with an economic system that calculates, capitalizes and, in doing so, also brings systematic injustice and ecological destruction. But Everyday Gallery is also, and foremost, a close-knit community: artists, writers, curators - misfits running around in the cogwheels of capitalism, trying to gift aesthetic experiences to the world. From the start we have aspired to be more than just another node in the web of the art market; we have always aspired to do more than to capitalize on the production of aesthetic experiences. We wanted to be a community. You (including you visitors) are our friends and as such we escape the constraints of a capitalist economy. We pass over into a gift economy.

The aesthetic work that we have collectively developed, is deeply and actively concerned with expressing change, or with asking what systemic change might be. Collectively and individually, the artists connected to Everyday Gallery have worked on issues such as sustainability, systemic contradiction, revaluation of wasted resources, respecting and communicating with ecological systems. In Potluck we share some of these works. And in doing so, allowing visitors to buy these works, we can gift the revenue to organizations that strive for systemic change and social justice in a very direct and practical way. For this reason, 30% of the revenue of this show will be donated to an NGO that works to better our world.

 

Text by Bram Ieven

Works
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Marria Pratts, Sculpture 2. Neon RED, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: touche—touche, Pneumatophore, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Brandblussert 04 (Fire extinguisher 04), 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Brandmelder (Fire alarm), 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Camera n.78, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Camera n.89, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Camera om de hoek (Camera around the corner), 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Colafles 2 (Cola bottle 2), 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, De Set (the set), 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Employee of the months, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Ode aan de kleine Kunstenaar (Ode to the small artist), 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Peuken (Butts), 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Pinautomaat 04 (ATM machine 04), 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Stopcontact (Wall outlet), 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Koos Buster, Zittende colafles (sitting cola bottle), 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Bram Vanderbeke, Casted Object - C10, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Bram Vanderbeke, Casted Object - C19, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Bram Vanderbeke, Casted Object - C24, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Bram Vanderbeke, Casted Object - C25, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Odd Matter Studio, CD Rack, 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lionel Jadot, Patch Dog, 2015
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lionel Jadot, Holy Shroud, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jacopo Pagin, Il vecchio mondo, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Janne Schimmel & Roland Schimmel, How About Resonating, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Janne Schimmel & Kinke Kooi, Domestic Portals, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Eye of providence, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Ciro Duclos, Frontera Naranja, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Bram Kinsbergen, No Title (portrait), 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Bram Kinsbergen, So Sudden, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Kristof Santy, Fles 3, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Janne Schimmel & Kinke Kooi, Domestic Portals, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Janne Schimmel & Roland Schimmel, How About Resonating, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thom Trojanowski, White Heat (after crash), 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Moreno Schweikle, Explorer OCL, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Daan Gielis, Unrelentingly Gnarly, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Daan Gielis, Unrelentingly Gnarly, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Daan Gielis, Unrelentingly Gnarly, 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tom Volkaert, Tour De Salami #4, 2017
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tom Volkaert, FI GRAND PRIX WHEELS & ACCESSORIES (Only Tears of Joy), 2017
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Max Kesteloot, Composition #5, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Max Kesteloot, Composition #7, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Max Kesteloot, Fragment #71, Biarritz (FR), 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Max Kesteloot, Tool #20, Santa Pola (ES), 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Deborah Bowmann, Study for a trumpet shop, 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx, Help me!, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx, I have many faces and all but one , 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Victor Delestre, The era of choices, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Natacha Mankowski, Le Pays Liquide, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Julien Saudubray, Drawing #114, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Julien Saudubray, Drawing #116 , 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Julien Saudubray, Drawing #31, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Julien Saudubray, Drawing #9 , 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Stef Van Looveren, DPA bag, pink ( pussy), 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Stef Van Looveren, DPA bag, pink (dick), 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Stef Van Looveren, DPA bag, pink (intersex), 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Alice Vanderschoot, Stacking the hay stack, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Alice Vanderschoot, The trophy’s hunter, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thomas Ballouhey, Wall Light with Accessories , 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: B.D. Graft, A Banana or Something, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Alexis Bondoux, Usufruit, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tramaine de Senna, VAGUE OBJECT MOTIFS (VOM), OBJECT Nº 1, 2013
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Serban Ionescu, House for father, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Adrien Vermont, Chop chop Porky Bishop, 2020
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Robuche, Ceephax, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Sigve Knutson, Lost Alufoil sculpture no. 1, 2021
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Mirko Canesi, T-shirt of Detective 2023 , 2021
  • Marria Pratts, Sculpture 2. Neon RED, 2021
  • touche—touche, Pneumatophore, 2021
  • Koos Buster, Brandblussert 04 (Fire extinguisher 04), 2021
  • Koos Buster, Brandmelder (Fire alarm), 2021
  • Koos Buster, Camera n.78, 2021
  • Koos Buster, Camera n.89, 2021
  • Koos Buster, Camera om de hoek (Camera around the corner), 2021
  • Koos Buster, Colafles 2 (Cola bottle 2), 2020
  • Koos Buster, De Set (the set), 2021
  • Koos Buster, Employee of the months, 2021
  • Koos Buster, Ode aan de kleine Kunstenaar (Ode to the small artist), 2021
  • Koos Buster, Peuken (Butts), 2021
  • Koos Buster, Pinautomaat 04 (ATM machine 04), 2020
  • Koos Buster, Stopcontact (Wall outlet), 2021
  • Koos Buster, Zittende colafles (sitting cola bottle), 2020
  • Bram Vanderbeke, Casted Object - C10, 2019
  • Bram Vanderbeke, Casted Object - C19, 2019
  • Bram Vanderbeke, Casted Object - C24, 2019
  • Bram Vanderbeke, Casted Object - C25, 2019
  • Odd Matter Studio, CD Rack, 2018
  • Lionel Jadot, Patch Dog, 2015
  • Lionel Jadot, Holy Shroud, 2021
  • Jacopo Pagin, Il vecchio mondo, 2020
  • Janne Schimmel & Roland Schimmel, How About Resonating, 2021
  • Janne Schimmel & Kinke Kooi, Domestic Portals, 2021
  • Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Eye of providence, 2021
  • Ciro Duclos, Frontera Naranja, 2020
  • Bram Kinsbergen, No Title (portrait), 2020
  • Bram Kinsbergen, So Sudden, 2021
  • Kristof Santy, Fles 3, 2021
  • Janne Schimmel & Kinke Kooi, Domestic Portals, 2021
  • Janne Schimmel & Roland Schimmel, How About Resonating, 2021
  • Thom Trojanowski, White Heat (after crash), 2021
  • Moreno Schweikle, Explorer OCL, 2021
  • Daan Gielis, Unrelentingly Gnarly, 2019
  • Daan Gielis, Unrelentingly Gnarly, 2019
  • Daan Gielis, Unrelentingly Gnarly, 2019
  • Tom Volkaert, Tour De Salami #4, 2017
  • Tom Volkaert, FI GRAND PRIX WHEELS & ACCESSORIES (Only Tears of Joy), 2017
  • Max Kesteloot, Composition #5, 2021
  • Max Kesteloot, Composition #7, 2021
  • Max Kesteloot, Fragment #71, Biarritz (FR), 2019
  • Max Kesteloot, Tool #20, Santa Pola (ES), 2021
  • Deborah Bowmann, Study for a trumpet shop, 2018
  • Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx, Help me!, 2020
  • Benny Van den Meulengracht-Vrancx, I have many faces and all but one , 2020
  • Victor Delestre, The era of choices, 2020
  • Natacha Mankowski, Le Pays Liquide, 2020
  • Julien Saudubray, Drawing #114, 2021
  • Julien Saudubray, Drawing #116 , 2021
  • Julien Saudubray, Drawing #31, 2020
  • Julien Saudubray, Drawing #9 , 2020
  • Stef Van Looveren, DPA bag, pink ( pussy), 2020
  • Stef Van Looveren, DPA bag, pink (dick), 2020
  • Stef Van Looveren, DPA bag, pink (intersex), 2020
  • Alice Vanderschoot, Stacking the hay stack, 2021
  • Alice Vanderschoot, The trophy’s hunter, 2021
  • Thomas Ballouhey, Wall Light with Accessories , 2021
  • B.D. Graft, A Banana or Something, 2021
  • Alexis Bondoux, Usufruit, 2020
  • Tramaine de Senna, VAGUE OBJECT MOTIFS (VOM), OBJECT Nº 1, 2013
  • Serban Ionescu, House for father, 2021
  • Adrien Vermont, Chop chop Porky Bishop, 2020
  • Robuche, Ceephax, 2021
  • Sigve Knutson, Lost Alufoil sculpture no. 1, 2021
  • Mirko Canesi, T-shirt of Detective 2023 , 2021
Marria Pratts, Sculpture 2. Neon RED, 2021
Press
  • weekendmagazine DE TIJD — Potluck Exhibition

    Print Article, December 18, 2021
  • Knack Weekend — Potluck Exhibition

    Print Article, December 8, 2021
  • dS Magazine — Potluck Exhibition

    Print Article, December 4, 2021
Press release

Everyday Gallery’s new exhibition Potluck is about a celebration of the past, present and the future. Potluck resulted from an open invitation to the creators who over the past few years have shaped this gallery to take part in a show that was to be a celebration. A social activity which we hope would allow us to search for the limits of the art market and the financial entrapments that and shape it. Potluck is on view until 8 January 2022. 
The principle of a potluck is simple: you organize a dinner for friends and everybody brings a dish. This can be whatever they can miss. It might be a main dish, or just an aside. It’s all good. It’s about sharing, not about the ultimate result. 
Potluck is about a close-knit group of artist-friends to participate in a communal undertaking: sharing and gifting of unfinished pieces, untold stories, or unsold works.
The combination of these works will be Everyday Gallery’s potluck. Incl. works by Daan Gielis, Deborah Bowmann, Jacopo Pagin, Marria Pratts, Serban Ionescu, Bram Vanderbeke, Kristof Santy, Tom Volkaert, touche—touche, Stef Van Looveren, Thom Trojanowski … With scenography by Athos Burez.
Collectively and individually, the artists connected to Everyday Gallery have worked on issues such as sustainability, systemic contradiction, revaluation of wasted resources, respecting and communicating with ecological systems. In Potluck we share some of these works. And in doing so, allowing visitors to buy these works, we can gift the revenue to organizations that strive for systemic change and social justice in a very direct and practical way. For this reason, 30% of the revenue of this how will be donated to an NGO that works to better our world.

Related content
  • weekendmagazine DE TIJD — Potluck Exhibition Press

    weekendmagazine DE TIJD — Potluck Exhibition

    Print Article Dec 18, 2021
    The group exhibition 'Potluck' featured on weekendmagazine DE TIJD. Find all the information on the 'Potluck' exhibition here . Find the article in the December...
    Read more
  • Knack Weekend — Potluck Exhibition Press

    Knack Weekend — Potluck Exhibition

    Print Article Dec 8, 2021
    The group exhibition 'Potluck' featured in Knack Weekend. Find all the information on the 'Potluck' exhibition here . Find the article in the December 2021...
    Read more
  • dS Magazine — Potluck Exhibition Press

    dS Magazine — Potluck Exhibition

    Print Article Dec 4, 2021
    The group exhibition 'Potluck' featured on de Standaard Magazine. Find all the information on the 'Potluck' exhibition here . Find the article in the December...
    Read more

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