The Antwerp-based design gallery COUR presents Idiorhythms, a group exhibition on view until 19 April 2026 in the unique setting of a private apartment overlooking Groenplaats in central Antwerp.
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Founded by Milan Henderickx, COUR operates between gallery and lived space, staging concept-driven exhibitions alongside a continuously evolving collection of design objects spanning multiple periods and disciplines. The current presentation continues this approach, positioning contemporary design within a domestic environment that functions simultaneously as home, display space and curatorial framework.
Idiorhythms brings together four distinct practices by Rich Aybar, Grace Atkinson, Lewis Kemmenoe and Noir Metal, each rooted in an elemental engagement with material. The exhibition considers how rhythm emerges through making, whether through process, repetition or the inherent properties of matter itself.
Across the presentation, materials such as urethane rubber, textile, wood and steel are explored through highly specific artistic languages. Aybar's sculptural works examine industrial casting and manipulation, while Atkinson develops densely layered textile compositions built through labour-intensive stitching. Kemmenoe works with solid wood, emphasising structure and grain through assembled forms, and Noir Metal approaches steel through precise fabrication processes that foreground surface and reflection.
The concept of idiorrhythmia, originally describing monastic life structured around individual rhythms within shared space, frames the exhibition's curatorial logic. Rather than aligning the works into a unified narrative, Idiorhythms highlights their coexistence, drawing attention to how distinct material practices resonate without convergence.
Installed across the apartment's rooms, the exhibition unfolds as a sequence of spatial encounters, reinforcing COUR's interest in dissolving boundaries between domesticity and display. By embedding the works within a residential context, the presentation emphasises proximity, intimacy and the temporal rhythms of living with objects.
Through Idiorhythms, COUR continues to position itself as a platform for design-driven objects and experimental exhibition-making, where contemporary practices are placed in dialogue with broader material and historical frameworks.
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