PRACTICE FOR THE LOVE OF THEORY

    

Maxime Prananto runs an artistic design and production practice. It intervenes in the domain of architecture and infiltrates art spaces. The practice consists of public and private commissions as well as autonomous work. It sometimes functions as a production studio for other artists and makers.

The practice deals with the simultaneous conception and production of objects, scenography, furniture, exhibitions and sculpture. While its output is varied, each undertaking relies on a voluntary set of conceptual and physical boundaries. This practice attempts to reserve a substantial portion of its efforts for theory and reflection.

Underlying themes of the practice include manufacturing, logistics and iconography in the built environment. The attempt within the practice is for work to materialize intelligently within certain circumstances and references without the result of a self-intelligent work. In this sense, the aim is to be neutral and to propose a matter-of-factness about the conditions in which work is being made. Nevertheless, all interventions reflect a sensitivity to the beauty of constraints and gather meaning throughout the entirety of their process. 

This practice is linked to several courses and studios in architecture and interior architecture at the University of Leuven.


GalleryGallery 01: Principium
2024 


Bookshop Saint-Martin, Brussels, BE
Group show curated by Jonathan Robert Maj

Featuring Painter’s Floor (2024) and Garbage Chair (2021)
Gallery Gallery is a curatorial project focusing on Contemporary Architecture that looks at exploring the intrinsic paradox of the discipline, or the impossibility of exhibiting architecture if not through an act of displacement.

Founded in Brussels in 2024 by Jonathan Robert Maj, Gallery Gallery celebrates the quality of architectural production by showcasing the works of both established and emerging artists and architects, locally and internationally, in the hopes of opening up the architectural discourse to a wider audience.
Gallery Gallery operates through punctual exhibitions, limited-edition prints and object series.

EXHIBITIONS
GG01, Principium, Group Show, Brussels, October 2024

Featuring:

A JDVIV
Pier Vittorio Aureli
Aglaia Konrad
Pezo Von Ellrichshausen
Maxime Prananto