“Re-Opening” is a group show with which Deweer Gallery opens its doors after a thorough renovation and rebuilding of the entire gallery. But it’s not only that. “Re-Opening” is also meant as our personal, artistic statement. It brings together some 25 young, emerging and established artists from the Deweer Gallery’s programme and from the international scene. The artists who haven’t been shown at Deweer Gallery so far – most of them haven’t even been shown in Belgium, are simply people we’ve discovered in recent years and who’s work fascinates us endlessly. They work in all media and they were invited to take part on the basis of instinctive, personal choice. Yet, as our work on the show was evolving, we noticed that our choices weren’t that random after all. It seemed as if some interests that have characterized the gallery’s history from the beginning, left a ‘mark’ on this show too. Once we had realized this aspect, we elaborated it and divided “Re-Opening” into three chapters. Each chapter takes up one of the three exhibition halls we now have at our disposal, and two of them are curated entities. The third and final chapter of “Re-Opening” is the group show in Room III, the hall upstairs: “Happy people have no stories”. The show elaborates on narration - literary or personal – as a generating principle. Works by artists who use autobiographical content, tales or personal mythology and with whom Deweer gallery’s programme is associated, like Panamarenko and Ilya Kabakov, are confronted with works by newly introduced artists like Athanasios Argianas, Keren Cytter , Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Gerda Scheepers and Alexandre Singh.