Lieven Lahaye: A human being has seen your order
Opening hours: Thursday > Saturday, 14:00-18:00
Former WIELS resident Lieven Lahaye presents her latest work at AFFILIATE, a space where alumni of the WIELS Residency Programme present their recent projects.
Opening: Wednesday 03.09.2025, 18:00-21:00
Presentation: 04.09—20.09.2025, 14:00-18:00 (open Thursday > Saturday)
AFFILIATE: rue du Jardin des Olives 3 Olivetenhof, 1000 Brussels
Free entrance
Courtesy of the artist
A human being has seen your order brings together drawings, publications, text and sound works produced between 2024 and 2025. The title — a standard notification from the WOLT food delivery app — is kept exactly as it appears on a phone. Detached from its original purpose, it sits somewhere between a status update and a small, strange poem.
At AFFILIATE, printed matter, sound recordings and drawings are arranged to create an active reading and listening environment. Fragments of language, lists, and notations shift between the procedural and the personal, reflecting an ongoing interest in how information is cataloged, circulated and reimagined.
Lieven Lahaye is an artist, writer and publisher, working between Amsterdam, Brussels and Tallinn (where he teaches at the Estonian Academy of Arts). Producing text, printed matter, performances and objects, much of his work relates to publishing (i.e., making information public). Since 2016, he has written and published Catalog, a serial publication about cataloging. In 2025, he also began operating as PAMPHLET Bookseller.