The Still House Group - Service Entrance

The Still House Group has been invited to occupy Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens for nearly four months, exhibiting both their work and a program of nine rotating projects.

The Still House Group

The eight young artists – Alex Perweiler, Brendan Lynch, Dylan Lynch, Isaac Brest, Jack Greer, Louis Eisner, Nick Darmstaedter and Zachary Susskind – who comprise The Still House Group currently share a studio facility in Brooklyn, New York, constructed in 2011. Although these artists work in the same space, their individual work is very diverse. The eight artists choose to work together in an intensely intimate way without creating works ‘as a group’. They use significantly different media and techniques ranging from the classic oil painting, sewing together pieces of cloth or paper, utilizing various materials from the construction industry, to appropriating and reinterpreting existing images and objects.

The members of The Still House Group regularly exhibit together, organize projects and activities as a group and curate their own exhibitions. Since 2008 the artists have exhibited in various galleries and art centres in the United States and Europe, including Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels, White Cube in London and Museo Pino Pascali in Polignano.

Project Space

Still House curates a residency program in which they invite an artist to work in the Brooklyn studios for a period of three months, culminating in a solo exhibition at their gallery. These artists are then methodically included in the exhibition projects of the group. In the project Service Entrance, there will be an area in the museum where eight former resident artists will alternate group presentations of their work between November and March.

Besides space for exhibiting their work and the work of former residents, the artists/curators also created space for a special project involving one of the Still House - artists in an intense way. Along with the non-profit organisation Art Without Bars, Zachary Susskind has guided some ten inmates of the prison Andenne to realize three consecutive exhibitions, which will be displayed in a museum’s room from November to March. In the exhibition, the visitor will share the prisoner’s emotions and as such become part of their artistic vision of life.

Finally, a gift shop will complete the concept of Service Entrance. Set amongst a sculptural installation created by artist Joe Graham-Felsen, the group has brought together a selection of second-hand books, examples of New York-based artist publications and zines, as well as objects and art editions offered for sale during the exhibition. Coordinating with the transition of the residency exhibitions and prisoner’s project, this room will turn into a theatre playing feature films, music videos, interviews and other video content chosen by Still House. In February, this room will change yet again to accommodate a selection of soundtracks made by members and peers of the group.

Project Space Schedule

• 23 November—4 January:
  • Room A: Gift Shop
  • Room B: Peter Sutherland & Augustus Thompson
  • Room C: The Hazard Will Supply the First Verse (MDD Permanent Collection)
• 7 January—1 February:
  • Room A: Theatre
  • Room B: Phoebe Collings-James, Jack McConville & Dominic Samsworth
  • Room C: Opening Towards the Hidden Faces of Fresh Natural Fruits (Still
House)
• 4 February—15 March:
  • Room A: Sound Installation
  • Room B: Alex Ito, Haley Mellin & Brad Troemel
  • Room C: How Are You Never You (Prisoners/MDD/Still House)