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Marina Pinsky selects 15 models from the VAi collection for Europalia Arts Festival

As part of Europalia Arts Festival 2021 – Trains & Tracks, Marina Pinsky is exhibiting her art installation Circuit. Circuit is part of the Endless Express art trail, which takes you to various destinations along the railway line between Ostend and Eupen.

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Circuit

With Circuit, Marina Pinsky presents her own vision of a city in the form of a model train installation that connects sculptures and scale models by artists and architects.

The artist has long been interested in model trains and the expanded worlds they recreate. Walking between the various contemporary and historical architectural models, raised wax train tracks were created by the artist. These connect models of stations throughout Belgium that were previously housed in the train museum.


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Scale models in the spotlights

For her art installation Circuit, Marina Pinsky borrowed 15 scale models from the architecture archive of the Flemish Architecture Institute.

The artist selected a number of wooden models and scale models of well-known and lesser-known projects and architects.

The artist selected a number of wooden models and scale models of well-known and lesser-known projects and architects. For example, you can view the model of the "Motel Nivelles", a design by architect and urban planner Walter Toubhans, former director of the Higher Architecture Institute Henry van de Velde in Antwerp. In addition to a model by Léon Stynen, there are also 8 scale models that were made in 2017 by students of KU Leuven to the design of René Van Steenbergen.

By deliberately integrating different styles and time frames, from both realized and imagined architectural projects, Circuit wants to present the many permutations of what a city can be.

Circuit is an exhibition in the old train museum in the Brussels North station.

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Endless Express

The Endless Express art trail takes you to various destinations along the railway line between Ostend and Eupen.

With installations by seven artists: Che Go Eun, Inas Halabi, Flaka Haliti, Chloé Malcotti, Sophie Nys, Laure Prouvost and Marina Pinsky.

Europalia 2021: Trains and tracks

This year, a lot of birthdays are celebrated around trains.


175 years ago, Brussels and Paris were the first capitals on the European continent to be connected by rail; 40 years of TGV; 25 years of Thalys. 2021 was announced by the European
Commission named European Year of Rail.

Europalia Arts Festival sees this as a great and special reason to dedicate an edition to this.

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