Walter Swennen in Eine Stadt als Atelier

The exhibition Eine Stadt als Atelier focuses on Brussels as a multifaceted urban organism. The city combines cosmopolitan diversity, overlapping political influences, and social tensions—a chaotic but inspiring environment for artistic creation. Brussels’ architecture, colonial history, and immigration shape working methods that reflect nonconformity, resistance, and urban reality. The exhibition examines artistic perspectives on urban structures, social textures, and historical traces. With stops in Cologne and Brussels, the project links historical and geographical resonances, highlights cultural interconnections between cities, and expands the interpretation of urban topographies through artistic practices. Brussels thus becomes a model space for reflecting on how cities as living organisms can be continually reinterpreted through art.