About KIN

KIN is a new commercial gallery in the heart of Brussels, Rue Ravenstein, with a focus on artistic positions that defy easy categorisation. KIN stands for kinship and, as such, the gallery is based on a network of artists that I have been working with for many years. Collaboration with others is part of KIN’s DNA, an interdisciplinary approach is its goal. KIN is both a commercial enterprise and a platform for artistic exchange — it presents exhibitions, develops projects, and programmes events. The gallery space, designed by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, rethinks what a contemporary gallery space can be today, creating a site that allows for multifaceted presentations by contemporary international artists.

Nicolaus Schafhausen
Founder-Director
Nicolaus has founded and will direct KIN after numerous years at a number of international art institutions.
nicolausschafhausen.com

Micaela Dixon
Exhibition and Sales Associate
Micaela Dixon is a writer and curator joining KIN from Fogo Island Arts, a contemporary arts and ideas organization based off the east coast of Newfoundland & Labrador. Previously, she was working on the Artist Liaison team at Hauser & Wirth.

Inès-Gabrielle Tourlet
Exhibition and Sales Associate
Inès-Gabrielle Tourlet is an art historian and a curator, with a sociology and international politics background, joining KIN following their position as Young Curator of the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022.

Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen
OFFICE is an international architectural practice founded in Brussels in 2002. OFFICE designed the new KIN gallery. officekgdvs.com

Boy Vereecken
Boy Vereecken is an Art-Director with a design studio based in Brussels. The studio designed the new KIN gallery identity.
https://boyvereecken.info

KIN’s identity involves a word-logo as an overall structure. It provides a visual basis for the gallery’s content, something both flexible and hermetic. The design embodies the importance of kinship with different aspects/manifestations/iterations such as speech, presentation, production and distribution. Over time, KIN’s identity will help facilitate the varied array of communications distributed by the gallery.