COLLECTION

THE NEW DRESS

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
A portrait of Sister Majella Hoppenbrouwers who worked from 1956 to 1961 with the Asmat Papuans in the former Dutch New Guinea....

Yolande de Bontridder, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

YOLANDE DE BONTRIDDER

Angel Vergara
Yolande De Bontridder, former director of the gallery Archetype who specializes in collaborations between artists and enterprises, is questioned about the artist’s freedom. She states that there is a freedom in creation and life itself...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 76. MICROSCOPE

Steve Reinke
Whenever I look into a microscope, I feel like I’m looking inside of something. A barrier seems to have been broken....

EGYPT 2002

Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée’s piece is a video portrait of modern Egypt. Video clips of traditional and modern aspects of life in Egypt are juxtaposed. From architecture to mummified corpses in the desert, Coca-Cola advertisements to a busy traffic junction, wedding dresses to a reverse image of a statue. Pacquée blends the stereotypical with the unexpected, the familiar and the unfamiliar...

FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING

Els Dietvorst
A documentary film about Dietvorst's project 'The return of the swallows', which started in 1999 in the Anneessens district, close to the South station of Brussels. Fascinated by this 'transit' neighbourhood and the local population, the artist started a new project...

FIREWORKS

Messieurs Delmotte
In a field, Delmotte lights two fireworks attached to sticks. He holds the sticks in his hands while the fireworks go off and makes a few spins. Offscreen people shout and whistle. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

JONAS

Olivier Dekegel
A short portrait of and homage to the legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, generally considered as one of the major exponents of the avant-garde movement in the American cinematic landscape of the 1950s and ‘60s...

BANDEKO BASI

Bie Michels - Paul Shemisi Betutua
The documentary Bandeko Basi by filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Bie Michels examines the position of women in Kinshasa, focusing on how they navigate both traditional and contemporary roles, particularly in relation to female sexual identity. Central to the film is Hana Kele (known as HanaKel on social media), an activist who champions female sexual identity...

LIED VAN MIJN LAND - DEEL 2: DIE WALKÜRE

Frank Theys - Koen Theys
This is the second part of the diptych ’Lied van mijn Land’ (’Song of my Soil’), based on Richard Wagner’s operas ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’ and ’Parcifal’. At Hunding’s...

UN ANGE PASSE

Marie André
’Un ange passe’ is a vivid observation of the social and sexual economies of prostitution, an indelibly envisioned narrative set in the Veemarkt harbor quarter of Antwerp. Andre tells the story of the prostitute Anita, who displays herself in a "show window" on the square and engages in a self-deceptive love for her abusive pimp...