COLLECTION

SMALL BELLS

Messieurs Delmotte
Two tiny bells appear and disappear in the frame, loudly jingling. But to what body part of Messieurs Delmotte are they connected? This piece was created in the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....

20. JULI AACHEN 1964

Wolf Vostell
Often Vostell recycles images for his videos, like for '20 July 1964 Aachen', when a dé-coll/age happening was organized at the Technical University of Aachen. The date coincides with the anniversary of the failed attempt to kill Hitler. The happening itself involved a festival of new music and a protest against totalitarian structures...

Straatman Army, 2000, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

STRAATMAN ARMY

Angel Vergara
During ’Over the Edges’, a group exhibition in the inner city of Ghent in 2000, Vergara’s alter ego Straatman gives a performance. Seated underneath a white canvas in the inner city of Ghent, Vergara (as his alter ego) draws and records the surrounding sounds and comments...

OPERA AND STEEL

Grace Schwindt
Opera and Steel portrays the dilemma of an ornithologist studying the effects of oil pollution on seabirds. The victims he records symbolise the efficiency of capitalism. Schwindt creates a poignant sketch of the relationship between capitalism and morality – and the individual experience in this kind of setting...

DELETE FOREVER

Félix Côte
Every day, thousands of people choose to remove their content from social media. YouTube, in particular, is home to a large number of ephemeral amateur videos in which people express themselves about their daily lives. Although soon deleted, these clips do present a sincere landscape of our connected societies. Delete Forever proposes a ritualistic way of safeguarding these personal videos...

ENJAMBEMENT

Lili Dujourie
We are in a room with parquetry flooring. The artist, clothed in shirt and jeans, is moving about on the floor with the restlessness of the insomniac, performing sequences from her repertoire of horizontal motions developed in previous work. But when 'she' rolls over, we realize Dujourie has substituted a male model for herself...

TRAVELOGUE 1: THE DREAM OF LEOPOLD II

Stefaan Decostere
Leopold II was Belgium’s second king. And quite a king he was. He owned central Africa as a personal property and tried hard to change the city of Brussels into the most beautiful capital of Europe. He was crazy about travelling (for some well-defined purpose of course) and founded an international geographic society called colonisation...

ONE FLAT THING, REPRODUCED

Thierry De Mey
The director of a dance film is inevitably confronted with the task of 'translating' from one medium to another. If it's a case of filming a "cult" choreography that pre-dates the film, the additional challenge is the "duty of recall" since the film of the choreography will carry with it, into some future time, the memory of its theatrical representation...

DAVID HOCKNEY

Jef Cornelis
In 1969, David Hockney made 39 etchings based on fairytales by the Grimm brothers. Having chosen them for their straightforwardness, Hockney drew up his own interpretations of these folk stories, with countless explicit references to the work of other artists, such as Breughel, Hieronymus Bosch or Leonardo da Vinci...

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 6. WANNEER DE KUNST ZOET HOUDT

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, ’When art keeps people satisfied’ is a short report about a creative centre in Ghent, subsidized by the Belgian Post’s social service, where postal workers can paint and sculpt in their spare time...