Office Baroque is a Belgian

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gallery situated in Antwerp. The gallery was originally incorporated in 2007 in an apartment on Harmoniestraat in Antwerp by Marie Denkens and Wim Peeters. The gallery occupied a location on Lange Kievitstraat in Antwerp from 2008 till 2013. It opened its first gallery in Brussels on 7 November 2013 with an exhibition by French/American artist

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. In a 1909 cast-iron building by the Brussels architect Paul Hamesse, he was part of the Art Nouveau generation. On September 2015, Office Baroque opened a second gallery space in the vicinity of the

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. In September 2020, the gallery relocated to its original space on Harmoniestraat in Antwerp. The gallery is named after one of

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’s public interventions, untimely demolished after extensive protests in Antwerp in 1980. The gallery has represented American, Asian and European artists and has produced both exhibitions and publications. Office Baroque presents exhibitions at international art fairs such as

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, London; FIAC, Paris;

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, Miami Beach; Independent, New York.Leigh Anne Miller, "Keeping up with Anthony Elms at Independent," ''Art in America'', March 8, 201

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Gallery artists

* Matthew Brannon * Sascha Braunig * Neil Campbell * Mathew Cerletty * Catharine Czudej * Alexandre da Cunha *

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* Robin Graubard *

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* Leigh Ledare * Junko Oki *

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* Michael Rey *

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Ataru Sato Ataru may refer to: People *, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress *, Japanese football player *, Japanese film director and screenwriter Characters *Ataru Kinniku, a character from the fictional wrestling manga Kinnikuman *Ataru Moroboshi ...

Daniel Sinsel Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...

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* B. Wurtz

External links

Official site

References

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