Office Baroque was a contemporary art gallery in Antwerp. Marie Denkens together with Wim Peeters started Office Baroque in a private apartment in Antwerp in 2007.
installation view, On the Marriage Broker Joke, Office Baroque, Antwerp, 2007
Our initial commitment to art came from their wish to be involved in the process of selecting the art that travels from the artist's studio into the museum. Not to be "in the control room, in the museum," but more "in the kitchen with the artists," offering visibility to cultural producers, who are not yet part of the institutional and critical discourses.
installation view Leigh Ledare: place du jardin aux fleurs
Office Baroque, Brussels, 2016
installation view Leigh Ledare: place du jardin aux fleurs
Office Baroque, Brussels, 2016
Both Peeters and Denkens had been working respectively as an independent curator and critic before joining forces in 2004. Their first collaboration consisted of co-directing Extra City in Antwerp, an established non-profit center for contemporary art.
Office Baroque, Everdijstraat 30, 2000 Antwerpen
From 2008 thru 2013 the gallery was located in a storefront on Lange Kievitstraat in Antwerp. In November 2013 Office Baroque opened its first gallery in Brussels on Bloemenhofplein, to be followed by a second location on Ravensteinstraat. In the Fall of 2022 the gallery moved location to its new premises on Everdijstraat 30 in the center of Antwerp where it organized exhibitions until January 2024.
