Wiels
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| Established | 2007 |
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| Location | Avenue Van Volxem / Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Forest, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
| Coordinates | 50°49′28″N 4°19′33″E / 50.82444°N 4.32583°E |
| Type | Contemporary art |
| Website | www |
WIELS is a contemporary art centre in Forest, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. The centre opened in 2007 in the former Blomme building, which belonged to the Wielemans-Ceuppens brewery. It has three exhibition platforms with a total exhibition space of 1,800 m2 (19,000 sq ft), an auditorium, studio workshops for artists-in-residence, and a café/foyer and bookshop in the former brewing hall.
WIELS has no collection, instead putting on temporary exhibitions by national and international artists. It hosts nine artist-in-residency studios, for which it receives hundreds of applications every year. For its tenth anniversary in 2017, WIELS organised a group exhibition called the Absent Museum, a reference to the incorrect assumption that WIELS is an art museum.