2021 will be a very active year for Coppejans Gallery. Since mid-2019, Stijn Coppejans has been working on the preparations for Beuys’ centenary on May 12 this year. He brought together numerous partners to realize a large program.

The preparations for the 100 years Beuys project have also attracted the attention of the M HKA. Not immediately for Beuys himself, because the museum already made a solo exhibition of this in 2017. The focus is mainly on Lothar Wolleh, who we will be presented in our gallery at that time in a duo exhibition with Beuys.

With the exhibition in the M HKA, Coppejans wants to show the broader oeuvre of this German photographer. For example, there will be a selection that emphasizes his collaboration with various artists who contributed to the Antwerp avant-garde period in the Hessenhuis. In addition, we will also show the collaboration with Beuys, all the more so because the new book about this collaboration will be presented in M ​​HKA.

The title of the exhibition will be: Lothar Wolleh: Interaction! Intuition! Naast de originele portretten van de kunstenaars, worden ook enkele ‘interventies’ getoond: foto’s van Wolleh die door de afgebeelde kunstenaars werden bewerkt tot nieuwe kunstwerken.

photo: portrait of Jef Verheyen by Lothar Wolleh with an intervention of the portrayed artist himself.