Book launch ‘Elen Braga’
15 Mar 2025, 15:00 - 16:30

Join us on Saturday 15 March for the public launch of the first comprehensive monograph, Elen Braga, published by MER. Books, celebrating 15 years of work by Belgian-Brazilian artist Elen Braga.
About the book
This book offers the first comprehensive survey of fifteen years of work by Belgian-Brazilian artist Elen Braga. Renowned for her multidisciplinary approach spanning performance, textiles, installation, sculpture, video, and public art, Braga’s practice draws on resilience, self-transcendence, religion, mythology, and identity.
Her work often emerges from self-imposed, labor-intensive processes that are as physically challenging as they are conceptually rich, blending her Brazilian heritage with her life in Belgium.
Featuring essays by esteemed art critics and curators Raphael Fonseca, Laila Melchior, Paulo Miyada, Ilse Roosens, and Joanna Zielińska, as well as the artist’s own writings, this monograph documents and critically contextualizes Braga’s oeuvre, shedding light on recurring motifs, underlying themes, and the complex interplay between art and life.
Book launch
Elen Braga will talk to art experts about her work and the new book.
Participants: Elen Braga (artist), Laila Melchior (writer and curator; coordinator Level Five, Brussels), Paulo Miyada (artistic director Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo; assistant curator Centre Pompidou, Paris), Ilse Roosens (curator Mu.ZEE, Ostend), and Joanna Zielińska (senior curator M HKA)
Moderated by Pieter Vermeulen (book editor)
Followed by a book signing session with the artist.