During Antwerp Art Weekend, PONTI will showcase a solo exhibition featuring new works by the artist duo Daems van Remoortere. Known for their multidisciplinary practice, the Belgian duo explores the intersections of architecture, history, and human interaction through a diverse range of media, including sculpture, installation and photography.

Their work often engages with the built environment, reinterpreting urban structures and forgotten narratives to create spatial interventions that challenge perceptions of time and space. By blending historical references with contemporary themes, Daems van Remoortere construct layered compositions that invite viewers to reconsider the relationship between memory, materiality, and place.

PONTI will present a selection of their latest works, offering insight into their evolving artistic research. The exhibition will highlight their continued fascination with the tension between permanence and transformation, revealing how architectural remnants and ephemeral gestures can shape our understanding of the present.

For Antwerp Art Weekend 2026, PONTI presents a special project in collaboration with Studio Koen van den Broek, staged in the artist’s studio in Merksem, Deurnsebaan 9. The exhibition brings together a selection of van den Broek’s paintings with works by Jan Laroy, Witold Vandenbroeck, Ellen Meers and William Ludwig Lutgens, creating a dialogue between different generations of artists.

Van den Broek’s work - situated between abstraction and the observation of urban space - has become an important reference point within contemporary Belgian painting. The invited artists approach form and image from distinct perspectives: Jan Laroy through a sharp and graphic painterly language rooted in observation - "squeezing the sponge on which the noses of deception bounce” - Witold Vandenbroeck through layered and intuitive abstraction, Ellen Meers through ceramic works that explore material, texture and sculptural presence, and William Ludwig Lutgens through figuration that dissects human absurdity by weaving socio-political themes into tragicomic tableaux. Lutgens recently exhibited alongside van den Broek in 'Painting After Painting' at S.M.A.K. Ghent.

Presented inside van den Broek’s studio, the exhibition foregrounds artistic practice as something shaped by proximity, dialogue and exchange. The project will open with a public event accompanied by a live concert.

PONTI is a gallery run by Yoeri Vanlangendonck and David Vermeiren focusing entirely on contemporary art. PONTI aims to be a sanctuary for young artists, regardless of the medium they use to express their artistic urges. PONTI refers to building bridges. Bridges between artist and public and between artist and public space.