Super Dakota, the Brussels gallery known for championing emerging and mid-career international artists, will close at the end of October after fifteen years, founder Damien Dakota announced to his mailing list this week. The gallery's final exhibition will be Adrian Geller's current solo, which closes on October 16. Opened in September 2013 at Rue Washington 45, Super Dakota built a programme of around six exhibition cycles a year across two levels of its space, mixing solo presentations with ambitious group shows and, from 2016, a dedicated film programme curated by invited artists and curators. Its roster spanned emerging names and established figures, including artists such as Adrian Geller, who has gone on to show internationally, and the duo !Mediengruppe Bitnik, whose first Belgian solo took place at the gallery. In 2018 the gallery marked its fifth anniversary with Maison Dakota, a collaborative project inviting international galleries to share its space. But in his farewell message, Dakota said the traditional commercial gallery model no longer matched his ambitions and that he intends to keep supporting artists through other platforms and structures. The decision reflects a wider contraction among mid-tier European galleries, several of which have shuttered or downsized in recent years under the combined pressure of rising costs and a cautious market. The closing removes one of Brussels' more internationally networked independent spaces, at a moment when the city's gallery scene is otherwise drawing attention for its relative energy during the October fair season. The gallery leaves behind a fifteen-year record of substantial solo and group presentations across the two floors of its Ixelles space.