Office Baroque Gallery was incorporated in 2007 and is an attempt to relocate the gallery at the heart of artistic debate and developments. It is headed by Marie Denkens and Wim Peeters. Office Baroque Gallery is named after one of Gordon Matta-Clark’s last remaining public interventions, untimely demolished after extensive protests in Antwerp in 1980.
As a platform for promoting and showing artists, Office Baroque is designed to conjure a new balance between maverick commercial and non-profit initiative. The gallery is active in reoccupying interstitial spaces and heralds a new focus on artist centric activities. Office Baroque promotes a climate of post-corporate values favoring content-based relations between the market, the individual artist and the global arena of exhibitions. It engages in selective and specific commitments that characterize its identity of a commercial gallery, combined with the content-based, contextual approach that characterizes the work of public institutions.
Office Baroque organizes seven exhibitions yearly, both individual and group presentations.