COLLECTIE

Gospels, Erik Bünger, 2006 © the artist & producer

GOSPELS

Erik Bünger
With His terrible beauty, passion and drive, He has a profound effect on the people whose lives He touches. His presence generates a physical and spiritual experience, a euphoria that fascinates and frightens...

PHANTOM SUN

Alexis Destoop
In 2013 Alexis Destoop embarked on a series of travels to the border area between Norway and Russia – a counter-point with Australia: the cold and dark, snow and ocean are completely the opposite of the warm, sunny, dry desert climate. And yet both regions are subject to similar processes, hence the artist’s interest...

LAURIEN, MARCH 1996 - LAURIEN, SEPTEMBER 2001 - LAURIEN, OCTOBER 2007 - LAURIEN, JULY 2015

Manon de Boer
Began in 1996 Laurien is portrayed in three sessions, as indicated by the title dates. Each time, Laurien is asked to read a newspaper, which is outside of the frame, and filmed on b&w film for the duration of one Super-8 reel of ± 2’30”. (Manon de Boer)...

GREAT HOUSE

Didier Volckaert
"This project finds its inspiration in a journey to Egypt, my second visit to the country. Purposefully I have chosen a tourist trip: a five days cruise on the Nile from Luxor to Aswan, six days in Cairo and five days in Hurgada. I had brought 1 photo- camera [B/W and color slides] and three S8-camera’s [B/W and color celluloid]...

CONTAINER 02: TUSSEN WAANZIN EN PERFECTIE

Jef Cornelis
"Between madness and perfection". A discussion around the exhibition Open Mind/Closed Circuits by the former Museum for Contemporary Art in Ghent (june 1986), which attempted to situate so-called ’art brut’ within the contemporary art scene. This exhibition also had the intention of breaking through a ‘pigeon-holing’ mentality...

A PLACE TO BE

Peter Downsbrough
A Place to Be is a dialectical exploration of two specific locations and urban conditions, one on the interior, the other on the exterior, while the soundtrack moves back and forth between ambient sounds and music (Satie’s piano music for instance)...

SIX MONITEURS À LA UNE

Alain Géronnez
In this installation with six screens, Géronnez follows the principle of the collage: the six screens alternately show incoherent images that fade into images which together constitute a landscape. The focus is on the green, Western European landscape, an image the artist himself films, but he also adopts it from for example drawings by Hergé...

DYPTIQUE

Angel Vergara
Angel Vergara’s Diptyque juxtaposes the position of two public figures with the mass media: Pasolini denouncing its standardising effect, its flattening of Italian society into sterile conformity (including the conformity in contestation), Berlusconi in control of the national media, but in the end powerless to govern...

GEEL

Arnout Hauben
Of the 35,000 inhabitants of the Flemish city of Geel, 550 are mentally ill. They are not confined to an institution, but live with families in the local population. This setup, which has a long history and is unique in the world, is the subject of Geel. Over the course of four seasons, the camera observes three adoptive families...

IJSBREKER 10: LAAT ME (NOG EENS) LACHEN

Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Anton Stevens - Jackie Claeys
An episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ on the world of entertainment and humour...