Great to meet with galleries at Art Brussels and hear about their standout pieces this year.

You can watch the full interviews with Bethany Woolfall here:

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Or you can read the interview transcripts below:

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Sebastian Suppan - SUPPAN Gallery

It's hard to pick a favourite work, but if you had to. Which one would you pick?

It is indeed hard. But, in this case, I would pick this one by Karo Kuchar.

The artist sort of highlights in this booth the topic of time and time travel and how we sort of are captured in a certain space of time which moves along with us in it.

So this particular piece sort of is a very good example of this sort of concept that we have here. As it states, "I wish I had a time machine."

This piece is actually an elevator, which leads you into a certain time, and you can actually close the art (closes the doors on the elevator - watch the movement in the video above).

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Sissi Pan - HdM Gallery

If you had to pick a favourite work in your booth today, which would it be and why?

Well, I'm already standing in front of it. It's an artist called Yang Yongliang. So he's an artist from Shanghai who was born in 1980.

It's really interesting because the painting is actually based on a Song dynasty calligraphy painting. And then, according to the shape of the mountain, he usually uses a collage of different city landscapes from different cities, that he collected. And he has created this, modern landscape of the Chinese society, which is really, really interesting.

He grew up in the time when China was the rapidly developing and so he was really inspired by that period of time. That's why all his work is showing the modern China in a very different way. I really like it, it's very interesting.

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Callum Hale-Thomson - First Thursday

I know you know a lot of the galleries here today, so I have one hard question. Who is your favourite booth and why?

It's a tough question. I've been doing the rounds all day today and I'm going to say Night Cafe, over in the emerging section.

It's a slight hop up because they actually just won the best booth prize, I believe, so they've got a nice bottle of champagne there. But it's a total stand up for me. They've got an amazing, bench right in the centre, held up by newspapers. Really kind of striking piece.

And then a bunch of paintings that I really love as well. One of them, Marco, has already had a solo recently at the gallery. Beautiful paintings of chairs and things like that. It's just spectacular.

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Robert Monchen - Pizza Gallery

If you had to pick a favourite work, which work would it be? And why?

Well, we're standing in front of, one of my favourite works from Louise Delanghe. She's a young artist from Belgium. This is a self-portrait where she imagines herself as a beautiful young lady in, prime of her age and the prime of her time.

I think what attracts me most is the almost fashionable graphic style just on the painting itself. The way she she's painting the hands and the face is very, with a lot of craft, she has a lot of talent in doing this.

I used to, own the painting that's underneath this one.

Really? So it's a painting on a painting?

It's a painting on a painting. So she's painted over it, and the only thing that, remained were the flowers, that you can see here. So I've, got a really nice connection to the piece.