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Xavier Hufkens launches the exhibition programme for 2020 with a group show featuring works by some of the gallery’s celebrated artists. The title, Winterreise (Winter Journey), is inspired by Franz Schubert’s song cycle of the same name, a collection of poems set to music. In a similar vein, the gallery presents a selection of sculptures, paintings and drawings that touch upon the themes of winter, such as solitude, stillness and a sense of enclosure.

An amorphous sculpture that has been stitched together from scraps of fabric sits within an antique display case: a soft, semi-human mass of …