{"type":"document","data":{"id":"8de1773d-d9a8-4db3-9b74-7d6adc8a2781","localeString":"en-GB","publishDate":"2026-02-06T13:27:30.562+01:00","contentType":"onecms:productPage","hasMacro":false,"flexPageMetadata":{"afmBanner":false,"robotInstruction":{"noIndex":false,"noFollow":false},"description":"Marnix, a dedicated space for art events and a platform devoted to artists.\r\nAfter more than 30 active years, the ING Art Centre will take on a new format, as it is integrated into  the bank’s headquarters at Avenue Marnix. The Marnix Gallery."},"mainHeaderZone":{"componentType":"productHeader","coreHeader":{"body":"The Marnix Gallery is at street level and is open to anyone entering the building. It reflects ING’s dedication to art and creativity, as well as our ambition to share and promote culture with a wider audience.","headerImage":{"transformBaseUrl":"https://assets.ing.com/transform/f48ed8b2-5c37-4baa-960d-2818921c45f6/SV-expo-Aguirre2","type":"image","width":3543,"original":"https://assets.ing.com/m/935ac9a571b50b46/original/SV-expo-Aguirre2.jpg","extension":"jpg"},"title":"Exhibitions & artistic events","subtitle":"After more than 30 years located at Place Royale, the ING Art Centre has taken on a new form and is now integrated into the bank’s headquarters."},"backLink":{"textLink":{"url":"/en/individuals/news/art-at-ing","text":"Art collection, exhibitions and partnerships"}}},"flexZone":{"flexComponents":[{"componentType":"sectionTitle","title":"Philip Aguirre y Otegui"},{"componentType":"paragraph","title":"Cosas de la Vida  (05.02.2026 – 29.05.2026)","richBody":{"value":"<table><tbody><tr><td><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" dir=\"ltr\">The renovated ING headquarters, The Marnix, now also houses a brand-new exhibition space, freely accessible. With a program of temporary exhibitions at The Marnix Gallery, ING continues its decades-long commitment to art, an ambition that is an integral part of the bank’s DNA. </span></p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td style=\"vertical-align:top\"><p><span><span><span><strong><span lang=\"FR-BE\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” </span></span></strong><span lang=\"FR-BE\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>Ben Okri</span></span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>Philip Aguirre y Otegui&apos;s work requires little explanation. With his stylised sculptures of human figures and modem totems, colourful textile works, mini-assemblages, models, etchings, and drawings, he reflects on the human condition.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>His images are recognisable echoes of what we ourselves can observe in our immediate surroundings, when traveling, in current events. They invite us to pause, to relax, to look, to think, to reminisce, to strike up a conversation, to hum...</span></span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>He takes us to a West African beach, where fishermen bring in the day&apos;s catch, young people make plans for the future, women trade fish, and children chase after a ball. The boat that brings fish today may carry people tomorrow, braving rough waves in search of a better life. </span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>The house that was built today may lie in ruins tomorrow. But beauty can also be found in decoy. Things that seem to have lost their value can be picked up, polished and made to shine again.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>Aguirre&apos;s figures stand proudly upright, overloaded, reaching out to offer something. They seem solitary, but they carry the world within them. What does it mean to be human today, here and now, there... How do we love each other, fight each other, laugh, and mourn? </span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>How do we address each other? Do we care for each other, or do we ignore each other?</span></span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>The artist gathers wood, nails and metal, plates and tin cans. He moulds plaster and clay, assembles, polishes, sands, draws, paints, in miniature and on a human scale. He observes and models to take the measure of things. He invites us to enter his world and create our own narrative within it. It is a story taken from life, an age-old tale, a story of all times, a story about big and small things.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>Philip Aguirre y Otegui&apos;s œuvre speaks of resilience and resistance, hope and love, beauty, and poetry - the things we cannot live without.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>This new exhibition embodies ING’s ambition to create synergies, pathways for exchange, and fruitful dialogue between its role as a financial stakeholder and as a non-institutional partner in the artistic landscape.</span></span></span></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>"},"alignedImage":{"position":"bottom","transformBaseUrl":"https://assets.ing.com/transform/00016c4b-802b-4878-9615-e57115a352e8/SV-expo-Aguirre1","original":"https://assets.ing.com/m/fa1bb5eeb8ddd7ce/original/SV-expo-Aguirre1.jpg","extension":"jpg"}}]}}}