Art Brussels 2025 showcases a standout collaboration between Verduyn Gallery and The Why Not Gallery, featuring powerful works by Gvantsa Jishkariani and Andreas Senoner. Discover one of the fair’s most evocative booths blending resilience, transformation, and bold contemporary art
Art Brussels 2025: A Booth that Captures the Spirit of Contemporary Art
This year’s edition of Art Brussels 2025 offered a thrilling array of innovation and vision, but few booths captured the raw emotional power and artistic finesse as boldly as the collaboration between Verduyn Gallery and The Why Not Gallery.
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Positioned at Hall 6, Booth 6D-18, their presentation not only held its own amid the buzzing art fair atmosphere — it stood out as a vital, moving, and deeply contemporary experience.
Gvantsa Jishkariani: Embroidering Chaos and Resilience
Representing The Why Not Gallery, Georgian artist Gvantsa Jishkariani delivered an unforgettable presence through her embroidered works on distressed vintage tapestries.
Jishkariani’s practice bridges traditional textile craft with sharp, fearless commentary on cultural, personal, and emotional landscapes.
Her pieces — full of stitched confessions, anarchic beauty, and haunting vulnerability — embody a duality: playful yet raw, personal yet universal.
Installation of Gvantsa Jishkariani’s work at Art Brussels 2025 — presented by The Why Not Gallery | Permission and Courtesy of the Artist
The tactile nature of the vintage Soviet and Italian jacquards, pierced by her urgent embroidery, becomes a battlefield of memory, societal critique, and deeply felt personal narratives.
In works like "Morally Corrupt" and "Dress of a Thousand Oceans", heartbreak, cultural disillusionment, and healing collide into visually arresting statements that linger long after you move on.
Andreas Senoner: Sculpting Time, Transformation, and Fragility
From Verduyn Gallery, Italian sculptor Andreas Senoner masterfully complemented the booth's emotional terrain with his deeply layered wooden sculptures.
Senoner’s figures, often interwoven with organic materials like feathers, lichens, and beeswax, reflect on metamorphosis, memory, and the passing of time.
At Art Brussels 2025, Andreas Senoner’s stunning sculptures — presented by Verduyn Gallery — reveal raw beauty, resilience, and silent metamorphosis. | Permission and Courtesy of the Artis
Every chiseled surface and fragile feather embedded into the wood speaks to a delicate tension between strength and vulnerability, heritage and rebirth.
His works seem almost archaeological — relics of inner worlds, where transformation is inevitable and memory is preserved in every grain and texture.
The Power of Contrast and Collaboration
What made this booth so profoundly effective was the seamless conversation between Jishkariani’s embroidered rage and tenderness, and Senoner’s carved silences and transformations.
Verduyn Gallery
The Why Not Gallery
Together, they built an emotional architecture inside the fair — a space where the wounds and hopes of the human experience were laid bare.
Art Brussels 2025: Gvantsa Jishkariani and Andreas Senoner captivate with fearless, deeply evocative works — stitching memory, resilience, and transformation into the heart of the fair. | Permission and courtesy of the artists
The booth didn’t just present art; it offered a visceral journey into resilience, fragility, and the many ways artists reclaim narratives from the weight of history and personal loss.
The Best Booth of Art Brussels 2025?
While Art Brussels dazzled on many fronts this year, few spaces managed to hit such a perfect chord between visual power, material innovation, and emotional resonance.
The collaboration between Verduyn Gallery and The Why Not Gallery rightfully earns a place among the top highlights of the fair — a rare synthesis of concept, craft, and impact that defines the best of contemporary art.
Don’t miss out — discover more about these brilliant artists and galleries on Instagram:
👉 @verduyngallery
👉 @whynotgallery
👉 @naivesuperstar
👉 @andreassenoner
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