Works by Niki Collier featured in exhibition at former Belgian slaughterhouse

Felt artworks by the Bulgarian artist Niki Collier, who lives and works in Ireland, are part of a European exhibition offering a creative perspective on the global problem of environmental pollution caused by animal by-products left unused by the food industry. The issue is particularly relevant to meat production in Western Europe but remains unresolved worldwide. The exhibition in Belgium features visiting visual artists from Spain, France, Germany and Ireland.

The group exhibition “A Beautiful View of the Slaughterhouse” (À la belle vue de l’abattoir) also marks 20 years of the creative organization BeCraft’s presence at the site of the former slaughterhouses in Mons, Belgium. Through memory, poetry and critical analysis, the works explore the history and contemporary issues connected to these urban heritage sites. The pieces by six artists, including Bulgarian Niki Collier, invite a sensitive, informed gaze on these places of passage, abandonment, production, transformation and heritage. The exhibition thus seeks to open up a space for reflection on what slaughterhouses reveal about our societies: our relationship to the living, to production gestures, to trace, to disappearance.

Our fellow Bulgarian Niki Collier presents herself as an artist from Ireland, where she has lived for over 20 years, yet her works intertwine motifs from Europe’s cultural diversity. For this exhibition, she presents a triptych depicting animal flesh destined for rendering plants. Her works are colorful and textured, created with a sense of proportion and concern for the global challenges facing humanity.

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The exhibition opens on Saturday, March 7, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. at the BeCraft Gallery, located on the site of the former slaughterhouses in Mons. It will run until May 24 and can also be viewed through photographs online.

Edited by Gergana Mancheva

Translated by Kostadin Atanasov