COLLECTIE
Zoek collectie
TERRE-ÎLE
Dino Secchi - Free3 - Shedar Secchi - Charley CaseA town in Belgium disappears over the horizon after a flood. In this way nature rebels against human greed....
PRISM
An van. Dienderen - Rosine Mbakam - Eléonore YameogoFor PRISM Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to make a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the limitations of the medium. Photographic media are technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin...
I LIKE DENDERMONDE, DENDERMONDE LIKES ME
Emilio López-MencheroThe director of SMAK Philippe Van Cauteren invited Emilio López-Menchero to do a performance at the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Solo Quint 3 organized by SMAK at Sint Blasius hospital and SMAK. The challenge was to question the intervention organized by the SMAK, a contemporary art museum, in Sint Blasius, a running hospital...
X-MISSION
Ursula Biemann’X-Mission’ explores the refugee camp as one of the oldest extraterritorial zones. Taking the Palestinian refugee camps as a case in point, the video engages with the different discourses – legal, symbolic, urban, mythological, historical – that give meaning to this exceptional space...
SHEIK ATTACK
Eddo SternIn this video Eddo Stern combines Israeli pop songs from the late sixties -optimistic, nation-building songs- with violent, militaristic scenes from computer/video games, resulting in a vertiginous, thought-provoking spectacle...
Shooting into the Sun, Ria Pacquée, 2010. Courtesy the Artist
SHOOTING INTO THE SUN
Ria PacquéeA video piece made of transferred slide show pictures that Ria Pacquée took over the course of years, a photographic series that is still on-going. In different parts of the world – Belgium, Europe, Marocco, India and different parts in Asia – the artist took frontal pictures of the sun...
SAY HELLO TO PEACE AND TRANQUILITY
Martin Wittwer - Dagmar KellerIn ‘Say Hello to Peace and Tranquility’, we find ourselves in a projected world of deserted suburbia. Terrace town homes slowly slide by, offering an endless panorama of wide sidewalks, tidy front gardens, latched facades and gabled houses. The absence of people appears completely normal; even the little lap dog that motionlessly slides into view does not seem that out of place...
BIRTH OF TINTIN
Charley CaseAn ink drawing evolves to become a woman giving birth to a man. An allusion to human creativity and contemporary iconography....
MONSIEUR EZIO BUCCI, SUPPORTER
Jacques LennepVideo, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...
