A landscape is never finished. It shifts with the light, the seasons, the hand that works it. What happens when contemporary art settles into that landscape and the walker is asked to slow down? The Ooidonk Art Festival returns for a fifth edition, this year deliberately concentrated: one location, around twenty artists from Belgium, Northern France and the south of the Netherlands, a trail through meadow, grazing cattle and the open horizon of the historic Goed te Réables es

Intimacy is the space where we come closest to another and where we are most exposed. Why does nearness draw us in and unsettle us at the same time? What do we surrender when we let someone in, and what do we keep behind the door? Intiem (Intimate), the summer exhibition at Villa Les Zéphyrs, is curated by guest curator Jan Leysen as a meditation on closeness. Leysen, a criminal defence lawyer and a collector of contemporary art since the age of seventeen, drew together eight

Koen Vanmechelen presents We Thought We Were Alone, his first solo sculptural exhibition in Venice, now open to the public at Palazzo Rota Ivancich, coinciding with the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by James Putnam, the exhibition unfolds across three floors, bringing together more than 40 new works that explore relationships between living organisms and the inorganic environment, where transformation and coexistence emerge beyond fixed

The Brenta Riviera has always been a place of transit — between Venice and the mainland, between private wealth and open water. This spring, two of its historic villas become sites for new work by Koen Vanmechelen, shown as part of Ancestrale, an arts and culture festival rooted in the landscape and history of the river. The works on view at Villa Moscheni Volpi and Villa Widmann were first presented at the opening of We Thought We Were Alone , Vanmechelen's major exhibition