About

In 2005, Erna Hecey moved her gallery to Brussels into a large industrial space in the city centre. When running her space in Brussels, Erna Hecey focused on artists who engaged with the space's architecture and the larger context of an art gallery situated in Europe's capital. Artists such as Eleanor Antin, Lili Dujourie, Jef Geys, Peter Friedl, Johan Grimonprez, Suzanne Lafont, Bert Theis or Rainer Oldendorf and Olaf Nicolai created memorable installations that questioned the assumed political, historical and aesthetic neutrality of the white cube.

In 2007, Erna Hecey founded a project and consulting agency in Luxembourg for designing and managing exhibitions and cultural events, and for acting as an artistic advisor for large-scale site specific and architecture-related projects. Hecey curated Sophie Calle's Exquisite Pain for Luxembourg's 2007 European Cultural Capital which was set in a special installation designed by Frank Gehry at Rotunda 1, a 19th Century industrial building originally used for the maintenance of locomotives in Bonnevoie, Luxembourg, it was later transformed into an exciting youth culture venue.

Since 2018 Erna Hecey has reopened a new space by transforming her apartment into a gallery in Luxembourg. It has revealed a fascinating process of transforming a place for living into a place for art. It is not a large space but it is singular, precise, at the same time unified and sufficiently composite to offer very various installation possibilities. As a private space, it can be an environment for diverse experiences and experimentation at the crossroads of the gallery's history, and house a whole constellation of artistic forms which also contain a biographical content. 

The first exhibition in the new Luxembourg gallery, Thinking Ahead, was presented in three parts between 28 October 2018 and 31 January 2019. It included works by Eleanor Antin, Marcel Broodthaers, Rafal Bujnowski, Lili Dujourie, Roza El Hassan, Peter Friedl, Jef Geys, Gauri Gill, Dan Graham, Edi Hila, Ana Jotta, Suzanne Lafont, Rainer Oldendorf, Martha Rosler, Roee Rosen, Nedko Solakov, Bert Theis, Caecilia Tripp, Little Warsaw, Jeff Weber, and Lawrence Weiner, highlighting works by artists who have been working with the gallery since its early years, as well as emerging new positions such as Jeff Weber, Eugénie Paultre and Caecilia Tripp.