Mark Manders - Inhabited for a Survey (First Floor Plan from Self-Portrait as a Building). (c) Mark Manders

Modelling Life

As we grow into the world, we are literally and figuratively shaped by our environment. We form and are formed by the spaces in which we live. Modelling Life traces the contours of our environment as much as the construction of identitities, values and expectations of the (un)built world. At the heart of the group exhibition lies the question: how do we use models to orient ourselves? With a selection of 14 Belgian and international artists, this exhibition explores modelling as a tool for world-building and self formation.

With works by Kasper Bosmans, Christiane Blattmann, Pablo Bronstein, Jakob Brugge, Helen Chadwick, Sara Deraedt, Caroline Van den Eynden, Robert Gober, Joseph Grigely, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Mark Manders, Park McArthur, Diane Simpson, Rosemarie Trockel. Kasper Bosmans and Christiane Blattmann will present major new commissions for Z33.

Curator: Kevin Gallagher

30.03 to 24.08.25
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“Modelling Life” at Z33, Hasselt, Belgium

Walking through Hasselt’s manicured urban landscape is a reminder to what degree modeling determines every aspect of our contemporary lives. The trim lawns, the new buildings, the street signage all feel part of a slightly disquieting 3D architectural render, where human and non-humans are mere props in an environment designed to minimize unruliness and deviance. Z33’s angular architecture—the site of the group exhibition Modelling Life, curated by Kevin Gallagher—extends this impression of high-tech control, with its upper-floor apertures and bridges that allow visitors above to surreptitiously observe others below.