ART BRUSSELS

ALINA BLIUMIS | ELLEN JONG

SITUATIONS Stand 5A-08

April 23-26, 2026

OPENING DAY Thursday, April 23

Preview | 11am – 4pm
Vernissage | 4pm – 9pm

PUBLIC DAYS

Friday 24 April 2026 | 11am – 7pm

Saturday 25 April 2026 | 11am – 7pm

Sunday 26 April 2026 | 11am – 6pm

Alina Bliumis' exceptionally diverse practice establishes a unique conceptual framework for each series, exploring the complex relationship between humanity, politics, and nature. Her work utilizes a variety of techniques and mediums while referencing relevant art historical contexts. In her new series of paintings, Better Together , Alina Bliumis draws on the medieval carnivalesque and its contemporary afterlives to explore the relationship between powerful institutions and grassroots resistance. Her compositions collapse symbols of corruption and disaster with scenes of tender mutual support. Surreal tableaux foreground the body as a site of vulnerability and dissent, with figures traversing uncertain terrain. References to the home and familial bonds proliferate, extending kinship beyond the nuclear family to include neighbors, friends, pets, and broader communities. For Bliumis’ protagonists, survival is a collective endeavor, sustained through intentionality, compassion, and mutual care.

ALINA BLIUMIS (b. Minsk, Belarus) is a New York-based artist who received her BFA from the Schoolof Visual Art and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy. She has exhibited at SITUATIONS, NYC; the Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France; the First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Busan Biennale, South Korea; Tokyo Biennial, JP; Assab One, Milan, Italy; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris; Centre d’art Contemporain, Meymac, France; The James Gallery, The Graduate Center CUNY, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Museums of Bat Yam, Israel; The Jewish Museum, NYC; The Saatchi Gallery, London; Botanique Museum, Brussels; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and MAC VAL/Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France. Her works are in various private and public collections, including MAC VAL - Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France; Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia; Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel; The Saatchi Collection, UK; The Harvard Business School, USA; The National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia; and Missoni Collection, Italy.

Ellen Jong’s work explores feminism through the lens of the Asian body, rooted in her own lived experience. In Inkling (2026), she casts her own face—resting in her hand—using layers of dehydrated ink. From the temple, a continuous stream of liquid ink flows in a looping cycle, evoking transformation and renewal while holding space for loss. Ink becomes a living material, constantly shifting between states. In a related series of reliefs on paper, Jong draws inspiration from late Imperial Chinese snuff bottles, reimagining their forms with handmade ink, piercing jewelry, and strands of freshwater pearls. Built through a careful, layered process, these works feel both sculptural and bodily—hovering between vessel and figure. By piercing the surfaces, Jong brings a sense of tension and intimacy to the work, gently but firmly challenging traditional ideas around form, history, and value. Together, these works highlight Jong’s distinctive ability to transform historical references into something deeply personal, tactile, and contemporary.

ELLEN JONG (b. 1976, Queens, New York; lives and works in Los Angeles) studied at Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts. Selected exhibitions include SITUATIONS, New York and Los Angeles; New Discretions, New York; Praz-Delavellade Gallery, Los Angeles; Basement 6 Collective Space, Shanghai, China; Shrine Gallery, New York; and Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, New York. She is the author of the photographic monographs Pees On Earth (Miss Rosen Edition / powerHouse Books, 2006) and Getting To Know My Husband’s Cock (2010), the latter featured in Self Publish, Be Happy by Bruno Ceschel (Aperture Books). Jong is also a featured artist in Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art: Abjection, Revolt and Objecthood by Keren Moscovitch (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023).