Infusing the stillness of the gallery with the pulse of movement, As You Wish marks a compelling collaboration between choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and visual artist Steven Fillet, presented at Xavier Hufkens’ St-Georges space until 14 February 2026. The exhibition brings together a new body of paintings and works on paper with a series of live performances titled Insomnia, each structured around the musical architecture of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

Borrowing its title from the Latin quodlibet, “whatever you wish”, the project operates at the intersection of choreographic discipline and painterly abstraction. De Keersmaeker’s enduring engagement with repetition, sequence and variation finds a visual counterpart in the works’ measured geometries, where duration and movement are translated into line and form. Fillet’s contributions, by contrast, introduce moments of suspension and drift, loosening structure and opening geometry toward more fluid, indeterminate states.

The gallery is further activated by live performances with pianist Alain Franco on 5–7 and 12–14 February, as sound, movement and image converge in real time. Extending beyond the physical space, the online project Bist du bei mir offers an intimate glimpse into the artists’ shared and individual working environments, deepening the exhibition’s temporal and conceptual reach.

Rooted in De Keersmaeker’s longstanding investigation of dance beyond the stage, from Tate Modern to MoMA, As You Wish unfolds as a nuanced meditation on presence, structure and attention. Fillet’s sensitive handling of surface and form, meanwhile, underscores the subtle tensions and quiet dynamism that continue to animate contemporary abstraction.