Book launch: Bootleg Paintings
Dieter Durinck

From 17 February to 14 May the exhibition ‘Bootleg Paintings’ by Ghent artist Dieter Durinck runs at Kunsthal Gent. With a series of 36 green works from recent years, he pays critical homage to different eras and movements within 20th-century painting.

The book is an overview of this collection of paintings, with texts by Céline Mathieu, Gabriela González, Alex Deforce and Simon Delobel reflecting on Durinck’s series in a green/black duotone book. It is not only an ode to painting, but also a closing of an era and at the same time a reflection of our contemporary obsession with the unending game between reproduction and original.

With a live concert by rimov / rimov, a young / future band who will play (amongst others) a cover of Robert Wyatt – Pigs…(In There)

Book launch: Erased and Not Erased
Fabrice Souvereyns

This two-day exhibition will feature some drawings and a mural by Fabrice Souvereyns.
On Sunday, Barbara De Coninck, one of the two authors of the book Erased and Not Erased, will have a conversation with the artist.

There is, of course, the whole making of the work. You work in the studio for months in silence. Suddenly, the work you lived with so passionately leaves the studio. Then you seem to return to life, you’re back on the radar. The drawings take on their meaning in confrontation with the viewer.

Fabrice Souvereyns on the word in: Fabrice Souvereyns. ‘Through the act of erasing I question my compulsion to draw’, text by Barbara De Coninck. In: Erased and Not Erased, Posture Editions, 2023.

Guy Rombouts oei
Opening exhibition and book launch

‘Oei’ is the title of the exhibition at S.M.A.K. (31.03-14.05.2023) in which the artist bridges the early beginnings of his practice and transforms this wondrous word into a total installation.

According to Rombouts, direct communication is not possible through our language and consequently some feelings cannot be expressed. Therefore, from the 1960s onwards, he starts looking for systems in which form and content can coincide as much as possible.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the acrophonic (the sound of the initial letter) Rombouts font was put on paper, where words could literally take shape again. In 1986, he and his life companion and artistic partner Monica Droste (1958-1998) renamed the intersectionless Rombouts typeface AZART, among other things an old French spelling of the word ‘hazard’ and also a reference to the Russian word ‘azart’ that stands for ‘in the fire of the game’.

Wiels Art Book Fair

Posture Editions participates in the Wiels Art Book Fair.

Posture Book Event at Kunsthal

On Sunday 11 December, from 2 to 6 pm, Posture Editions and Kato Six are organising a Book Event at Kunsthal Gent.

Kato Six will show a series of handmade tapestries and textile works with lines and patterns referring to labour and the act of making. She will also be present to sign her book ‘sawing a plank is like going for a walk’, the book published by Posture Editions on the occasion of her solo exhibition at M Leuven.

Posture Editions will bring some recently published Editions and Pockets and invites you to complete the missing copies of your Posture Editions collection, browse the sale boxes or just have a chat and a drink at Kunsthal’s new bar, Sheela’s.

Book launch: Screensaver Error
Lisa Vlaemminck

During the final week-end of the exhibition at KIOSK, the sixty-metre long, worm-shaped textile sculpture is cut into 35 separate new soft artworks located scattered throughout the space.
On Saturday 26 November, this is the setting in which Dominique de Groen will read the electrically charged shimmering poem she wrote tailored to Lisa’s work.
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The correspondence between Franklin Engeln and Philippe Vandenberg

The exhibition shows the short but flourishing correspondence between artists Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009) and Franklin Engeln (°1956) in 1986-87. After they met each other at the gallery of Richard Foncke in Ghent, a friendship develops between them. They start writing letters, which are characterized by an intellectualistic, intimate approach. Vandenberg and Engeln talk about their relationship with Foncke and other gallery owners, their position in the (Ghent) art world and their identity as painters in the 1980s.

The correspondence also demonstrates the mutual trust that existed between Vandenberg and Engeln. They reflect upon each other’s work, the status of drawing versus painting, their sources of inspiration and the need for innovation. In doing so, they allude to themes such as simplicity, eroticism and homosexuality. The letters make us think about slowness, confidentiality, and exchange in the context of the artist’s intellectual, romantic and artistic mind. In addition, they offer an introduction to Engeln’s oeuvre.

In addition to a selection from the correspondence, several paintings and works on paper by both artists will be exhibited.

The exhibition and the book were realized with the support of KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT – Howest), Posture Editions and the city of Ghent.
The publication will be presented during the vernissage of the exhibition at Convent on Friday, 18.11.2022.

Salon Trafic
Art Book Fair

Through the selection of 97 publishers, artists, students, bookshops, venues and 14 art schools, Trafic aims to highlight the vitality of the international independent publishing scene over the course of a weekend. At the crossroads of contemporary art and counterculture, Trafic wishes to show and share the diversity of current publishing forms: from books to fanzines, including multiple and digital projects. The programme also includes an evening dedicated to the Trafic fair on Saturday 21 May.

Posture Editions will present a selection of its recent publications, with a special focus on ‘Images Trouvées’ by Hans Segers.

Parallel to the book fair, an exhibition of Hans Segers will open at Co.ar.co – an exhibition space in Marseille run by Roberto Comini and Valérie Bourdel (21.05 – 16.06.2022). The original leporello ‘Images Trouvées’ is displayed in a showcase, together with some paintings or sculptures on the same theme of the found objects. Artist/publisher Nikolaas Demoen will place a spatial sculpture as a counterpoint to the work of Hans Segers.

Opening at 20.05, with a conversation between Valérie Bourdel and the 2 artists.
Co.ar.co., Rue Bernard 8, Marseille

Ghent Art Book Fair

After a break of two years due to Covid-19, Kunsthal Gent and 019 are proud to announce the long awaited 6th edition of the Ghent Art Book Fair.

During the weekend of the 7th and the 8th of May, we welcome a number of national and international publishers to showcase their work in Kunsthal Gent. The fair will be opened from 11 o’clock until 18 o’clock on both days. There will be a side program that includes booklaunches, presentations, talks and more.

On Saturday, May 7 at 3 pm, Koen Brams will have a coversation with Laura Hanssens about the book «PLUS» en Yves De Smet. The presentation will be in Dutch.

We hope to see you there!

Book release: Dark Empathy
Shirley Villavicencio Pizango

Posture Editions N° 47, ‘Dark Empathy’, is a multi-layered hardcover presenting a selection of paintings from the last three years, interspersed with powerful drawings on paper and photographs of the artist in her studio. Bart Cassiman collected quotes to accompany the work and added some well-chosen observations by himself. The text ‘Inspired imagination’ by Benedicte Goesaert is the result of a frank conversation between the author and the expressive, generous, self-confident, but at times also melancholy artist.

Shirley Villavicencio Pizango is presented by Geukens & De Vil at Art Brussels (B40)

Book release and opening exhibition
«PLUS» and Yves De Smet

The book and exhibition reflect on the activities that the young Ghent artist Yves De Smet has been organizing since 1965 under the name “PLUS”.

Between 1965 and 1968, Yves De Smet organized no less than ten “PLUS”-events in which he involved not only Ghent artists but also various national and international ones. By means of documents and photographs, the exhibition reconstructs the history of “PLUS” – from the “PLUS”-evenings in 1965 to the group exhibition in the Palazzo Frescobaldi (Florence) in 1968. The artworks presented are related to an early exhibition, “PLUS” met opzet (“PLUS on purpose”), which took place in December 1966 in the R20 Wandelgalerij (“walking gallery”) in the Sint-Lucas institute (Ghent). The septet that appears in “PLUS” met opzet, is an unpublished combination. Young artists of Sint-Lucas (Yves De Smet (°1946), Gerard Geerinckx (°1943) and Albert Rubens (°1944)) exhibit next to recent graduates of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Willy Plompen (°1942) and Jan Van Den Abbeel (°1943)), and two seniors: Amédée Cortier (°1921) and René Heyvaert (°1929).

After 1968, several attempts are made to continue the cooperation. For various reasons the “PLUS”-project and the friendship between Yves De Smet, Willy Plompen and Jan Van Den Abbeel comes to an end. Yves De Smet starts in 1969 together with his wife Jenny Van Driessche a gallery, Plus-Kern. In 1969 and 1970 Willy Plompen and Jan Van Den Abbeel still come to some remarkable joint realizations.

The exhibition “PLUS” and Yves De Smet, curated by Koen Brams, is part of the multi-annual research project Ghent, playing field of the visual arts (1957-1987) (KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT – Howest)) by Godart Bakkers, Koen Brams, Wouter De Vleeschouwer, Sofie Frederix and Naninga Lens.

Exhibition till 05.06.2022

Book release:
One way or another

One way or another is the title of the very first Posture Pockets and the guide to the exhibition of the same name that runs at the S.M.A.K. in Ghent from 30.10 to 28.11.2021. Posture Editions was founded in 2011 and has since published 47 artist’s books in A4 format.
In this first issue of this parallel series in novel format, all the Posture artists’ books from the past ten years are presented chronologically and juxtaposed with that artist’s work exhibited at the S.M.A.K.
In addition to the cover and an inside page, the paperback also contains a text fragment from the published essay, poem or interview.
The text fragments testify to the wealth of thoughts put forward by the authors. They are texts that not only deal with the artists’ oeuvres, but can often be read as autonomous works of art.
One way or another ends with a biography in images: photographs taken during work sessions with artists, book presentations, exhibitions and book fairs, as an ode to the beautiful collaborations with artists, gallerists, curators, writers and readers.
Both the book and the exhibition in the S.M.A.K. follow the logic of a timeline, so that the book can be read in the order of the exhibition and the exhibition is built up according to the logic of the book.

publication: 19.5 × 13 cm, 224 pages
ISBN 978 94 9126 248 7 — € 18

One way or another
10 years of Posture Editions

One way or another is an exhibition with work by the 42 artists with whom Posture Editions have made a book in the past 10 years. This independent publisher of artists’ books, founded in 2011, has now published 47 books in A4 format. The publication series has been able to grow thanks to the enthusiasm of many artists, writers, museums, curators and readers.
Nikolaas Demoen, Katrien Daemers and Stien Stessens are guided in their choice of artists by their personal intuition and always invite a writer to write a text in relation to the visual work.
Young gods, adult icons, mavericks and forgotten artists alternate in an unpredictable way and without any objective coherence.
The Posture Editions do not walk a straight path, but make circular movements, detours, go down a blind alley, come across the field and thus form a surprisingly diverse map of contemporary art in Belgium.
Both the exhibition in the S.M.A.K. and the book follow the logic of a timeline, so that the book can be read in the order of the exhibition and the exhibition is constructed according to the logic of the book.

Posture publishes a book on the occasion of the anniversary and the exhibition. The book is presented on 6 November during the festival 9000boeken.

Book release: Images Trouvées
Hans Segers

Hans Segers examines the formal properties of a painting. He emphasises how a painting is only a representation and presents it as an imitation of reality, ‘trompe l’oeil’, painted object and elevated art object, whether or not aesthetic and/or decorative.
References to painting and sculpture are never far away. Segers studies his predecessors in order to focus his observations. He chooses a number of abstracted, recurring forms that evoke the thought of a cloud, tree trunk and house. They function as his image library from which he draws to refer to reality. He presents the depicted objects as two-dimensional forms on a canvas.

Book release:
Rainbow Woman
Femmy Otten

In her work, the Dutch artist Femmy Otten (b. 1981, Amsterdam) explores a very hybrid world of inspiration, ranging from sculptures from Greek antiquity and Italian painters of the quattrocento to outsider art from America and extremely contemporary art. She brings all these influences together in a precise yet unfathomable iconography that radiates timelessness. The use of different media is dictated by necessity and because the development of the work demands it.
In the book ‘Rainbow Woman’, Otten combines her early works with recent ones. In contrast to the many ambiguous figures in her earlier work, in ‘Rainbow Woman’ the woman now comes to the fore. The woman who “just is” remains an underexposed and precarious theme to this day.
The book coincides with the exhibition at de Warande, Turnhout (20.06-07.11.2021)

Book release:
Bernice Bobs Her Hair Natasja Mabesoone

Bernice Bobs Her Hair, a series by Natasja Mabesoone (b. 1988), consists of layered soft ground etchings, combined with drawings and monotypes. The title is a nod towards a short Fitzgerald story about Bernice, who changes her approach to boys while visiting her niece Marjorie. The act of having her hair cut transforms her character into a real flapper, a liberated woman, and brings her to a new perception of femininity and womanhood. By permutation of the morphemes of the title, the content is deconstructed, creating a fragmented outcome and different associations with words like Bob, bobine, boobs, Bobbie, Coma Berenice, nice, niece, knees, etc. They bring out new combinations and challenge the layered medium of etching, researching its reproduction and repetition, so that the iterations become alterations or modifications of the same.

Performance:
Even if you Juan Pablo Plazas

The book presentation will take place in the form of a performance, a recount of different moments that surrounded the making of the book. Late reflections on the process of creating a document that feels like a printed exhibition. A skit divided in 4 mini chapters. The setting takes place in a fictional art book fair where the artist meets the publisher, and explains the absurd ways to make a book among other things.
‘This is the second time I will do this performance. After the first time, my friend Justine passed by with her family and gave me a beautiful present: one of those signs that mark the rounds of a boxing match. I saw this sign as an echo of the roundness of the performance and as a sign of what it meant to do it again. Some moves will be repeated, other new ones are prepared. See you at the circular stage of The Hisk Affair.’

Even if you
Juan Pablo Plazas

‘Even if You’ is a book in which all the lines set out by the artist in recent years come together as if they were a crossroads: language, movement, image, sound, humour and melancholy are the instruments with which the Colombian-Belgian artist is working.

The book presentation will take place in the form of a performance, a recount of different moments in the making of the book. The presentation can be seen as reflections on the process of creating a document that feels like a printed exhibition.
The artist brings a skit divided in 4 mini chapters. The setting is a fictional art book fair where the artist meets the publisher, and where he explains in an absurd way how to make a book. A kind of conversation where the performer will mostly talk and do certain actions. The other participants are: a table, a couple of chairs and books.

Book release: A Bird Flies off
Hannelore Van Dijck

‘Een vogel vliegt op’ is a book about Hannelore Van Dijck’s recent ink drawings and artist books. This publication crystallizes her search for a fluid way of working, a search for movement, rhythm and leaks. The launch coincides with a presentation of a video and the original drawings made during her residency at FLACC (Genk).

At 15h there will be a conversation between Nikolaas Demoen and Hannelore Van Dijck. This conversation will also be streamed live on facebook and instagram.

Book and presentation in collaboration with FLACC, workplace for visual artists and supported by the Flemish Government.

Book signing: Cyanide
Sanam Khatibi

21 vanitas still lives are exhibited in Cyanide, Sanam Khatibi’s third solo exhibition at rodolphe janssen. In these minutely rendered miniature paintings, typical trappings of the Golden Age vanitas appear and reappear: a vase with cut flowers, insects, a collection of shells, an ornately carved human skull. Like that of the Baroque painter, these are bibelots from Khatibi’s studio, fragments in a lifelong ontological pursuit of collection…

Online book launch:
In Between
Ritsart Gobyn

The originally planned book launch at Kunsthal Gent has been cancelled. Watch the video celebrating the book launch.
For the people who pre-ordered a book via Voordekunst, we’re arranging a pick-up point at the Posture Editions office: Saturday 28 Nov (14-16u) and Sunday 29 Nov (11-13u).
The book will also be available without prior reservation and the artist will be present to sign your copy.

Book launch: Wat. is. dit?
Jan De Vylder

The book WAT. IS. DIT. and Jan de Vylder’s sketchbooks will be placed in a spatial installation in the studio of Les Ballets C de la B, a building by jan de vylder trice hofkens architecten in collaboration with Bert van Boxelaere.

Presentation and sign session: 14-18:00
Access is free of charge, registration is required

SHOWCASE#02
Posture on view at cc Strombeek

During 2020, museumcultuur Strombeek/Gent provides a showcase to Posture Editions.
The second edition on view, is ‘Horaizon’ by the artist Meggy Rustamova.

Book launch: A dream of thirst
Bendt Eyckermans

Due to travel restrictions the live talk between Dominic van den Boogerd and Bendt Eyckermans has been cancelled. Welcome in Sofie Van de Velde’s new gallery space for the presentation of the book and the luxury limited edition box in presence of the artist.
Thursday 24 Sep: 15:00 – 19:00

Book launch: Horaizon
Meggy Rustamova

The title of the book and the exhibition, HORAIZON, refers to the phonetic pronunciation of the English word ‘horizon’, the boundary line on which the earth’s surface and the sky seem to touch. The horizon, interpreted as ‘boundary’ or ‘line’, is equally perceptible in language, when reading between the lines, or when travelling between international borders. The contours of the land, trees or buildings, which contrast with the sky, but also the contours of shadows can be observed in many of the images in the exhibition. The works also suggest a longing for what lies behind the horizon and invite the viewer to make an imaginary journey.
Opening exhibition: 14 – 18:00
Book launches at 15:00 a,d 17:00 (Intervies with Meggy Rustamova by Ann Cesteleyn)

Book launch: Labyrinth Nikolaas Demoen

Labyrinth takes us on a walk through the spaces constructed within the pages of the book and visualises a world in which the exit can’t be found.
With the morphology of the house (windows, doors, steps and curtains) and the theatre (curtains, stage, perspective), a world is evoked in which nothing can serve as a point of reference.

The book launch coincides with Demoen’s film screening of Papers, Books and Bolero which is a dialogue between French philosophers, fictionalized in cardboard, and found images in books and miscellaneous documents; it suggests in fact a possible relation between the different images.
The film features on the one hand works belonging to the history of art (Tiepolo, Palladio,…) and on the other hand images from glossy magazines (Purple Fashion, Vogue). Both very different sources are linked through sculptural artefacts made from cardboard and clay.
On the rhythm of Maurice Ravel’s Bolero, one by one the papers and books appear, gradually intoxicating the audience’s senses.

20:00 talk with Nikolaas Demoen and Koen Brams
20:30 screening Papers, Books and Bolero

SHOWCASE#01
Posture on view at Cc Strombeek

During 2020, museumcultuur Strombeek/Gent provides a showcase to Posture Editions.
The first edition on view, is ‘Morning Change’ by the artist Heide Hinrichs.

Book launch: Morning Change
Heide Hinrichs

On the occasion of the book Morning Change, Posture Editions invites Heide to conceive an installation in their temporary office, on the first floor of the former public library in Ghent.
Besides this exhibition and the book, Posture takes the opportunity to present all available editions on a book-sculpture, made by Koba De Meutter.
On Friday 6 Dec at 8 pm, Philippe Van Cauteren introduces Heide Hinrichs’s work.

‘It sounds like a moan. To speak to birds, to speak to animals, her whole body a tongue. Not in the flourishes of posture or gesticulating hands, no. Reducing meaning to one, reducing communication to a pure tone, a sine wave, so there is no confusion. A pure note, but a deep one, her whole body a tongue.’
From ‘Morning Change’, essay by Elizabeth Haines

Printing Plant Art Book Fair, Amsterdam

In conjunction with Amsterdam Art Weekend, 22 – 24 November 2019, Looiersgracht 60 is delighted to be organising the second edition of Printing Plant – an intimate three-day art book fair for like-minded, independent publishers and interested audiences.
With over 80 (inter)national publishers, Printing Plant will present a remarkable selection of artist editions, catalogues, books, monographs, periodicals and zines that are generally unavailable in bookshops.
The unique housing, and history, of Looiersgracht 60 will be utilised to correspond to the etiquette of the fair. Prior to its current use as an exhibition centre for art, design and architecture, Looiersgracht 60 was home to a cardboard and paper factory that also printed pamphlets, posters and cards for artists and museums.

Posture Editions is participating and will pre-launch ‘Morning Change’, a book on movement, location and nomadism in the oeuvre of the Brussels based German artist Heide Hinrichs.
Publisher Nikolaas Demoen and artist Heide Hinrichs will re-draw the lines between the three groups of works: the horse, Silent Sisters / Stille Schwestern together with a series of drawings and installations that were conceived in response to DICTEE and On Some of the Birds of Nepal (Parting the Animal Kingdom of the East).
Demoen and Hinrichs invite you to listen to the subtle threads woven against louder tones to create temporary constellations.

Book launch: Noctuary
Renée Lorie

‘Noctuary’ is an EXHIBITION at Netwerk Aalst that examines the spacial possibilities of the photographic work in the book.
The book and the exhibition are a reflection on the idea of the impossibility to capture life in photography. According to Roland Barthes, taking a photograph doesn’t involve recording a moment in time (i.e. preserving this moment for eternity, as numerous publicity slogans promise us), but precisely bidding farewell.

On the occasion of the book launch and the exhibition, there will be a talk at 4 pm, between the artist, Posture Editions and Netwerk Aalst.

The WIELS Art Book Fair is back!
Over the weekend of 7 & 8 September, WIELS welcomes independent art publishers to present their work. Free and open to the public, this annual event allows book lovers, collectors, artists and art professionals to discover a wide variety of printed productions, from zines and artist books to art catalogues and artist editions.
A side programme of talks, book signings, readings and performances makes this weekend a unique moment devoted to publishing and art-book culture.
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Lutgart De Meyer
a river in a room

The exhibition ‘Daily Pleasures’ presents the work of Lutgart De Meyer (b. 1924). As one of the founding members of the Antwerp avant-garde movement G58, she dedicated herself to ceramics and soon got recognized as one of the key figures establishing the artistic autonomy of this medium. Besides the sculptures and design objects she created in her first period, the exhibition also shows her recent work. Aged 94, Lutgart De Meyer works nowadays mostly with textiles and objects found on her walks through the city.
‘a river in a room’ is a book published by Posture Editions and curated by Liesbet Waegemans.
Both the book and the exhibition give an insight into the artist’s playful vision on art and the art world.

019and APE-art & books are proud to present the 5th edition of the GHENT ART BOOK FAIR on the 11th and 12th of May at (and in collaboration with) Kunsthal Gent. Showcasing contemporary art books by more than 60 (inter)national independent publishers, GABF 19 brings a new extensive program besides book launches and signings. An interesting side program will include international publishers’ and designers’ lectures, artists’ performances, workshops and exhibitions. All presented in the brand new Kunsthal Gent located in the city center of Ghent. On the same weekend, at the same location there’s also Zine Happening V by Les VoiZines taking place.
Sat: 12:00 — 20:00
Sun: 11:00 — 18:00

Philippe Van Snick
Huis

Posture Editions celebrates its 30th publication with a special artist’s multiple by Philippe Van Snick. ‘Huis’ [House] has been created specifically for Posture Editions and consists of 10 silkscreened compositions that together constitute an architectural game.
The 10 + 1 colours appear in various shapes and places on the five folded sheets of paper. The printed sheets of art paper constitute a loose-leaf collection and each of the sheets is a work of art in itself.
Book presentation with talk between Philippe Van Cauteren, Koen Brams, Nikolaas Demoen & Philippe Van Snick (Dutch spoken)

Sanam Khatibi
My garden is wilder than yours

Sanam Khatibi (b. 1979) is a Brussels based artist, born in Tehran, Iran. Her works deal with animality and the core of her practice interrogates our relationship to power structures, specifically the duality of triumph and failure. The recurrent themes that often feature in her work question our relationship with excess, loss of control, bestiality, the male-female dynamics, domination and submission. She is also interested in the thin line that exists between fear and desire, and how closely they are interrelated.
Her subjects live on their impulses in alluring, exotic landscapes. They are ambiguous with their relationship to power, violence, sensuality and each other. Wildlife and animals are an integral part of her practice, and her subjects are often depicted within the same plane as the flora and fauna.
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In conjunction with Amsterdam Art Weekend, 23-25 November 2018, Looiersgracht 60 is organising a bespoke and intimate 3-day art-book fair for like-minded, independent publishers. Artistic print culture has a rich narrative in Amsterdam’s history, one that is often overlooked. As there is currently no book fair focusing on art books in Amsterdam, we would like to take this opportunity to offer a new platform for the progressive publications that artists and publishing houses are producing.

Fri.: 12:00 > 21:00 / Sat. + Sun.: 12:00 > 20:00

Laura van
Sex met verf

Posture Editions and Laura van (b. 1957) worked on a publication with still lifes by van. The works, for which the artist uses only oils, are without photographic point of departure: they are the result of an inflection of what the artist observes on the table in his living and working space. They are therefore anecdotal-autobiographical in nature — a nature that is emphatically determined by the motorial and psychological intentions of the moment.
Exhibition at the Roger Raveelmuseum till 24.02.2019
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Koba De Meutter
So that afternoon …

So That Afternoon We Both Made an Empty Circle is a book with visual work that is the result of two recent artist’s residences in Mexico. Koba De Meutter (b. 1992) combines sculpturally adaptable modules (consisting of metal rods and ‘holders’) with found material in deliberate actions or chance events, often in public spaces.
In the book, photographs of her interventions in Mexico City are combined with a series of drawings she made during her second residence in art centre Casa Wabi. The drawings feature imaginary characters from her memories of her stay in Mexico City—yet they are no less realistic or near.

Sound act with 4 recorders, Koba De Meutter, Stella Lohaus, Gerard Herman and Nikolaas Demoen.

The book is realised in the context of Residencias Artistias por Intercambio R.A.T., Casa Wabi, and AIR Antwerp.

Sophie Nys
Not To Be Fed …

A project based on ‘Curating the Library’ (by Moritz Küng & Richard Venlet – deSingel 2003-09).
A book with 75 drawings by LUCA students, inspired by Laurence Sterne’s ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’.

Event with a lecture by Peter de Voogd, introduced by Moritz Küng.

The book is realised in cooperation with LUCA School of Arts campus Sint-Lucas Ghent and Faculty of Architecture KU Leuven.

Nicolás Lamas
The Attraction of the Mountains

Nicolás Lamas’ work derives from an interest in constructing material interactions, frictions, attractions and repulsions, dichotomies between the similar and the incompatible, between vacuum and matter. Most of his projects focus on examining notions of stability and order by distorting the logics of perception through objects and materials that somehow don’t belong together, constantly arranging a notion of knowledge that escapes systemic procedures.
The Attraction of the Mountains is a book about conservation, dislocation, presentation and an attempt to explain why nothing in the world lasts for ever, though — sometimes fades away in beauty.

Opening event: talk with Alejandro Alonso Díaz, Nicolás Lamas and Bori Borbala Soos, introduced by Nikolaas Demoen.