Harlan Levey Projects Gallery in Brussels

Molenbeek · Contemporary programme

Editorial Profile

Harlan Levey Projects operates as a contemporary gallery with a strong emphasis on emerging and mid-career artists, positioning itself within Brussels as a platform for practices that engage critically with social, political, and cultural narratives. Based in Molenbeek, the gallery’s program reflects a commitment to international perspectives, often foregrounding voices that address questions of identity, migration, and global interconnectedness. Its exhibitions span a range of media including installation, video, sculpture, and research-based practices, with an approach that tends to privilege context-driven work over medium-specific concerns. The gallery frequently supports artists through long-term collaboration, allowing for the development of projects that extend beyond conventional exhibition formats.

Within the framework of galleries in Brussels, it contributes to a segment of the scene that is closely aligned with discursive and socially engaged practices rather than purely market-oriented programming. Artists such as Sammy Baloji, with his investigations into colonial histories and resource extraction, exemplify the type of practice the gallery engages with, situating its program within broader international conversations. In relation to contemporary art in Brussels, the gallery’s location in Molenbeek also signals a shift away from more centralized gallery districts, participating in the gradual redistribution of artistic activity across the city. Through participation in international fairs and collaborations, it maintains visibility beyond the local context, while continuing to anchor its program in themes that resonate across different geopolitical contexts.

Selected Artists

Haseeb Ahmed

American

InstallationFilmResearch-Based
About

A Brussels-based American artist whose practice explores the fluid dynamics of wind and water, weaving aeronautics, natural phenomena, and cultural mythology into collaborative, science-informed installations and films addressing environmental concerns.

Marcin Dudek

Polish

PaintingInstallationPerformance
About

A Polish-born artist whose works draw on subcultural rituals and crowd dynamics to probe collective identity, power, and aggression, using found and repurposed materials including meticulously manipulated medical tape across painting, installation, and performance.

Ella Littwitz

Israeli

SculptureInstallationConceptual Art
About

An Israeli artist who investigates political borders, sovereignty, and territorial ideology through sculptural and installation work rooted in the layered geography, mythology, and geopolitical tensions of the Israel-Palestine region.

Emmanuel Van der Auwera

Belgian

Video ArtSculptureFilm
About

A Belgian artist whose VideoSculpture series interrogates how mass media images operate on public consciousness, examining the ethics of the gaze, the currency of emotion, and collective memory in the age of social media.

Sheida Soleimani

Iranian-American

PhotographyMixed Media
About

An Iranian-American artist whose staged photographic tableaux combine archival materials, props, and wildlife to confront geopolitical violence, oil politics, migration, and human rights abuses linking the SWANA region and the United States.

Jeroen Jongeleen

Dutch

PerformanceSite-SpecificConceptual Art
About

A Dutch artist operating as Influenza whose politically motivated urban interventions—running geometric routes, deploying street materials—oppose the over-regulation of public space and assert free movement and expression as democratic imperatives.

TR Ericsson

American

Mixed MediaPhotographyArchival
About

An American artist whose expansive long-term project repurposes inherited family photographs and documents to construct intimate yet universal reflections on memory, grief, loss, addiction, and the limits of knowing another's suffering.

Selected Exhibitions

Flyways

Solo show2026

Sheida Soleimani

About

A solo presentation combining staged tableaux, archival material, and wildlife imagery to examine migration, care, and survival, weaving together personal family history and geopolitical symbolism through the lens of injured and orphaned birds.

PhotographyMixed Media

NEST

Solo show2026

Marcin Dudek

About

A solo exhibition drawing on Dudek's formative years in post-communist Poland to explore collective trauma, subcultural rituals, and the psychological aftermath of political collapse through painting, sculpture, and performance-derived objects.

PaintingInstallationSculpture

The Gospel

Group show2025

Omer Fast, Max Pinckers, Emmanuel Van der Auwera

About

A three-person exhibition probing the dissolving boundary between documented reality and constructed image, gathering works that interrogate how visual media, testimony, and narrative authority shape what is accepted as truth.

Video ArtPhotographyFilm

Electric Green Parakeets (a Celebration of Migration)

Group show2025

Haseeb Ahmed, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Marcin Dudek, Ermias Kifleyesus, Camille Orso Caël, Angyvir Padilla, Yoel Pytowski, Mostafa Saifi Rahmouni

About

A group exhibition uniting eight artists around themes of migration, displacement, and cultural adaptation, drawing its central metaphor from the ring-necked parakeets that have made Brussels their unexpected home.

Mixed MediaCurated Group Show

The Day the Sky Hung Low

Solo show2024

Ella Littwitz

About

Littwitz's second solo at the gallery returns to the Dead Sea region, translating geological processes, territorial extraction, and personal illness into video, bronze sculpture, and ultraviolet photography to reflect on invisible forces and political intractability.

SculptureVideo ArtPhotography

A Thousand Pictures of Nothing

Solo show2023

Emmanuel Van der Auwera

About

Van der Auwera's third solo at the gallery examines the post-truth media landscape through VideoSculptures, an AI-assisted film, and a new chapter of his Mementos series, investigating how digital circulation and emotional politics distort collective perception.

Video ArtInstallationDigital Art

18 Winds

Solo show2023

Haseeb Ahmed

About

A solo exhibition presenting collaborative installations that map the cultural, mythological, and scientific dimensions of wind, merging aeronautics research with speculative narratives to examine what moving air carries across history and changing climates.

InstallationResearch-BasedSite-Specific

Gallery Overview

Harlan Levey Projects
City
Brussels
Area
Molenbeek
Address
Rue Isidoor Teirlinck 65, 1080 Brussels, Belgium
Type
Gallery
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