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GALILA’S P. O. C.

A collection of varied thematic interests

Collector:

Galila Barzilaï-Hollander

Address:

295 Avenue Van Volxem

1190 Brussels

Belgium

galilaspoc@gmail.com

By e-mail appointment only.

Galila Barzilaï-Hollander bought her first artwork at the Armory Show in New York in 2005. Since then her collection of art by mainly young artists has grown to several thousand works. The intuitive collector does not limit herself to a specific medium but is mostly drawn to photography, video, drawings, works on paper, and object-based art. Thematically, her collection revolves around categories such as eyes, books, chairs, or concepts like recycling and other interests. To make her art publicly accessible, she purchased an historic 1950s-era industrial building in Brussels’s Forest district. Its unobtrusive front façade blends easily into a street of revivalist residential buildings, however, the rear of the renovated structure, completed in 2018, reveals an expansive exhibition space with skylights and a mezzanine. The collection is in good neighborly company: just a few hundred meters away is Wiels, a contemporary art center that opened in 2007.