Acquisitions for the M and Cera collection of emerging Belgian artists

Since 2020, the global pandemic has left the world in a constant state of emergency. It is no secret that the cultural sector was and is under pressure. Emerging talent has less room to create.

M, the City of Leuven and Cera joined forces to provide oxygen. The City of Leuven and Cera each made €50,000 available and the crowdfunding campaign 'Art is for everyone' by M-LIFE, the museum fund of M Leuven, added over €15,000 on top. Thanks to this collaboration, 19 artists are supported through the purchase of 37 works. These works will be shown in 'The Constant Glitch', named after one of the selected works by Christiane Blattmann.

About the selection

An expert committee, composed of Eva Wittocx and Valerie Verhack (curators M Leuven), Hicham Khalidi (director Jan Van Eyck Academy Maastricht) and Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte (independent curator), picked the 19 artists based on criteria such as quality, place in the Belgian art scene, a certain continuity in the work and the media in which these artists work.

The selection includes films, paintings, drawings, photography, sculptures, screen prints, textiles, sound works and spatial installations. The 19 selected artists are: Leyla Aydoslu, Younes Baba-Ali, Béatrice Balcou, Christiane Blattmann, Aleksandra Chaushova, Dieter Durinck, Alexis Gautier, Hamza Halloubi, Olivia Hernaïz, Vedran Kopljar, Katja Mater, Hana Miletić, Meggy Rustamova, Mostafa Saifi Rahmouni, Kato Six, Gintauté Skvernyté, Ken Verhoeven, Oriol Vilanova and Anna Zacharoff.