Arto Vanhasselt | Bin Koh | Hend Samir | Josefin Arnell
Krystel Geerts | Mia Chaplin | Sakir Khader | Tobias Thaens
Graphic design: Ayumi White
Festive Opening: Tuesday 17th February
Time: 5PM - 8PM
7PM 'Kyrie Ignis Divine Eleison' a Reading Performance by Bin Koh
Location: NMAG, Bos en Lommerweg 88
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, No Man’s Art Gallery welcomes the Year of the Fire Horse by opening Bring on the Dancing Horses, a group exhibition with works by Arto Vanhasselt, Bin Koh, Hend Samir, Josefin Arnell, Krystel Geerts, Mia Chaplin, Sakir Khader and Tobias Thaens.
The artists are invited to reflect on a moment defined by passage and transformation. Through the symbol of the horse, they bring fragility, softness and poetry into focus. Bring on the Dancing Horses moves in a rhythm between motion and stillness, where fragility does not oppose strength but exists alongside it. As our moon opens a new cycle, the exhibition proposes attentiveness, reflection and softness as ways of moving forward, leaving us with a space to imagine tomorrow.
Long before language was fixed or history recorded, full-bodied horses appeared in early cave paintings (such as Lascaux c. 15.000 BCE). They were painted strong and alive, their spiritual qualities still present. These images are an attempt to imagine continuity, carrying meaning across uncertainty and time, left for the next passerby to discover.
In a present that feels increasingly broken, hope persists in the artist’s urge to create. Rather than asserting permanence, dominance or heroic scale, the works gathered here approach presence as something vulnerable, temporary and relational. Across the exhibition, monumentality is quietly undone: a photograph holds a life soon to be lost; a gate stands hollowed rather than fortified; a horse emerges through recognition rather than construction; care reveals its proximity to desire and control.
In Bring on the Dancing Horses monumentality resides in works that resist spectacle and remain open, unfinished and perhaps hold us in a moment suspended.
The exhibition runs until April 6th 2026.
Photos Jonathan de Waart