A Basic Instinct / touche-touche

At Alcova, the gallery will take over a 175square metre space inside the pannetone factory occupied by Alcova, creating an “acid cave” of non-functional design. A trio of boundary challenging designers including Anna Aagaard Jensen, Touchetouche & Schimmel & Schweikle will be showcased as part of the exhibition. Anna Aagaard Jensen presenting “A Basic Instinct”. In our contemporary society and throughout history our behaviour has been dictated by social norms. Through these norms we sculpt our body to an appropriate behaviour as seen in the eyes of our culture. Whereas men have the tendency to take as much space as needed in the public domain, women tend to live up to a strict line of societal norms and restrictions given to us by our context and culture. Schimmel&Schweikle is a design duo consisting out of Janne Schimmel & Moreno Schweikle. Their work revolves around the nexus of technology, art and culture. In that realm Schimmel&Schweikle mainly focus on developing concepts that deal with the closing gap of the digital and physical realm. These concepts result in furniture, products and installations. Theo Demans & Carolin Gieszner present “touche-touche”.

Founded by design collector and dealer Boris Devis, alfa.brussels focuses on supporting designers who are making radical, researchdriven pieces as well as artists who are creating more functional work. These makers are part of an emerging genre that Devis describes as “functional art”.