#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#14: Can you also remain a toddler institution?|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#111: Do it together.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#40: Follow the artist|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#119: Be a space of production.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#55: Keep basic human needs on the forefront.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#14: Can you also remain a toddler institution?|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#111: Do it together.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#40: Follow the artist|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#119: Be a space of production.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#55: Keep basic human needs on the forefront.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|
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SUSTAINABILITY
  • All catering at Kunsthal Gent is vegetarian.
  • Our water tap from Robinetto saves beverage containers and takes trucks out of traffic.
  • Coffee beans are produced Fair Trade and CO2-neutral (CO2Logic Certified).
  • Printing paper with both of these labels only: Der Blaue Engel and EU Ecolabel.
  • Flyers and posters are printed on 100% recycled paper and produced CO2-neutral.
  • We promote train and car-sharing whenever possible for transport and production.
  • We work as much as possible with recycled and second-hand material (refuse → reduce → reuse → repair → recycle → buy new).
  • We use the banking products of VDK, the Ghent bank with an ethical and sustainable values framework.
  • Kunsthal Gent is a member of Greentrack Gent. Find information and connect your organisation via www.greentrack.be/gent.

With special thanks for donating furniture, surpluss, leftover and raw materials: DOK Gent, Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, NL), Art Cinema OFFoff, Be-Part Waregem, Vlaams Architectuurinstituut, Bibliotheek Gent / NEST, Forum Voor Amateurkunsten & OP/TIL.