上周，我们的临时代办郝苏菲女士访问了位于798艺术区的木木美术馆，参加了比利时艺术家安·维罗尼卡·詹森斯在中国的首次个人展 “粉黄蓝”的开幕仪式。

Last week, our Chargée d’Affaires a.i. Ms. Sophie Hottat visited the M Woods Museum in the 798 art district to take part in the opening ceremony of the very first solo exhibition in China by Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens titled “pinkyellowblue”.

安·维罗尼卡·詹森斯于1956年出生于英国的福克斯通。她在是刚果民主共和国的金沙萨长大，然后搬到比利时布鲁塞尔，在比利时坎布雷国立视觉艺术高等学院学习，那是比利时重要的艺术机构之一。之后，她在布鲁塞尔永久定居，从那时起一直为世界各地的展览做艺术创作。

詹森斯的作品范围很广，从雕塑到装置艺术，从视频到摄影。她的装置艺术作品对反射、发光和透明进行实验，并使用非物质元素，比如光、人造雾、声音，以及玻璃、镜子、金属等简单材料。

Ann Veronica Janssens was born in 1956 in Folkestone in the United Kingdom. She grew up in Kinshasa (DRC) before moving to Brussels, Belgium, where she studied at the National School for Visual Arts of La Cambre, one of our country’s leading institutions for arts. She then permanently settled in Brussels where she’s been making art for exhibitions all over the world since then.

Janssens’ works vary from sculptures to installations, videos and even photos. Her installations play with reflection, luminosity, transparency, and use immaterial elements such as light, artificial fog, sound and simple materials such as glass, mirrors, metal, etc.

郝女士很荣幸能在木木美术馆的艺术总监兼首席策展人王宗孚的陪同下发表了开幕致辞，并参观了展览。在她的发言中，她提醒与会者艺术在促进文化和民族之间交流的重要作用。艺术，或者更具体地说，詹森斯的艺术，理解起来并不需要任何语言或文化背景的知识。因此，它拥有在差异巨大的文化之间建立桥梁的内在力量，特别是当文化和人与人之间的接触很困难的时候。

这是我们第二次有幸参观木木美术馆的展览。去年，我们的高洋大使出席了在木木美术馆钱粮胡同馆的马丁·马吉拉展览的开幕式。

提到时尚，许多著名的时装设计师也毕业于坎布雷，你可以在这里阅读更多的信息：比利时时尚界的另一面——坎布雷国立视觉艺术高等学院

Ms. Hottat had the opportunity to give an opening speech and visit the exhibition accompanied by Victor Wang, Artistic Director and Chief Curator of M Woods. In her speech, she reminded the attendees of the role of art in fostering connections between cultures and peoples: art and more specifically Janssens’ art does not need a knowledge of any language or cultural background to be understood. As such, it holds the inherent power to build bridges between cultures that are vastly different, especially when cultural and people-to-people contacts are difficult.

This is the second time we’ve had the chance to visit an M Woods exhibition: last year, our Ambassador dr Jan Hoogmartens gave an opening speech and visited an exhibition by Belgian fashion designer and artist Martin Margiela in M Woods’s other location in the hutongs.

Speaking of fashion, many famous fashion designers also graduated from La Cambre, you can read more about it here: 比利时时尚界的另一面——坎布雷国立视觉艺术高等学院