Exhibition:

We are temporarily closed. Friday 7 February at 20:00 we will open 3 new exhibitions. From 8 February, we will again be open every weekend from 11:00 to 18:00.

Next event:

24.02.2025 Eugene Kotlyarenko — The Code (2024)

Lange Steenstraat 14

9000 Gent

Weekends: 11:00–18:00

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Exhibition:

We are temporarily closed. Friday 7 February at 20:00 we will open 3 new exhibitions. From 8 February, we will again be open every weekend from 11:00 to 18:00.

Next event:

24.02.2025 Eugene Kotlyarenko — The Code (2024)

Lange Steenstraat 14

9000 Gent

Weekends: 11:00–18:00

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Agenda: Soon ?

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 20:00

Monday 24.02.25

Art Cinema OFFoff:

Eugene Kotlyarenko — The Code (2024)

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 20:00

→ Democrazy
→ Talk
→ 19:30

Wednesday 26.02.25

Democrazy:

KU Leuven Talk: The Show Must Go On

→ Democrazy
→ Talk
→ 19:30

→ Talk
→ 19:30

Friday 28.02.25

Friday Evenings:

Pieter Vermeulen: Criticism and Criticality in Times of Crisis

→ Talk
→ 19:30

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 20:00

Monday 03.03.25

Art Cinema OFFoff:

‘What a Machine!’

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 20:00

→ 19:30

Friday 07.03.25

Friday Evenings:

PhD in 1 night: The Political Potential of Utopia

→ Live gathering
→ 19:30

Friday 14.03.25

Friday Evenings:

Dani Bershan: Holes & Gut Matters

→ Live gathering
→ 19:30

→ Documentary
→ 20:00

Wednesday 19.03.25

Openbare Werken 2025:

Mark Požlep: Everything Under

→ Documentary
→ 20:00

→ 19:30

Friday 21.03.25

Friday Evenings:

Elioa Steffen (IPOP): Queer Artistic Development as Resistance

→ Talk
→ 19:30

Friday 28.03.25

Friday Evenings:

KAOS talk: with Dr. Museum Guislain & vzw KAOS

→ Talk
→ 19:30

→ 19:30

Friday 04.04.25

Friday Evenings:

Midnight Melktapes

→ Talk, Workshop
→ 19:30

Friday 11.04.25

Friday Evenings:

Fiona Hallinan & Ellen Rowley: Out of Love, Out of Use and Out of Time

→ Talk, Workshop
→ 19:30

→ Talk, performance
→ 20:00

Friday 18.04.25

Friday Evenings:

Isabelle Andriessen — Vermin Rites

→ Talk, performance
→ 20:00

→ Talk
→ 19:30

Friday 25.04.25

Friday Evenings:

Merel Stoker: Als De Stenen Konden Praten

→ Talk
→ 19:30

→ 019
→ Book fair
→ 11:00

03 — 04.05.25

019:

Ghent Art Book Fair

→ 019
→ Book fair
→ 11:00

Full Archive

Agenda: Archive

→ 20:00

07 — 09.02.25

Opening weekend: 3 new exhibitions + performances

→ Guided tour
→ 18:45

Friday 07.02.25

For Allies:

Fiona Hallinan: preview & screening ‘Making Dust’

→ Guided tour
→ 18:45

Sluiten

→ Talk, Workshop
→ 19:30

Friday 11.04.25

Fiona Hallinan & Ellen Rowley: Out of Love, Out of Use and Out of Time

During Friday Evenings, we present a programme around one or more artists, a collective or organisation for nine weeks. Artist Fiona Hallinin’s exhibition We Turn Towards An Ending and Pay Attention is currently on view in Kunsthal Gent. She will introduce her ongoing research on Ultimology in architecture with a talk, followed by a card game that invites participants to engage with images of some buildings that relate to her research.

→ Talk, Workshop
→ 19:30

Buildings End. But they do not expire. Their life cycle is not contingent on a ‘best-before’. Buildings are elastic and material. They can decompose. They are often forced to end. What do we do with “out of use” and “out of time” buildings that remain standing, in semi-occupation or fallow? How can we incorporate an awareness of the “architectural end of life”, right from the beginning?

In this participatory workshop, artist Fiona Hallinan invites her collaborator, architectural historian Ellen Rowley, whose research underpinned the making of the film Making Dust, to present and lead a workshop that asks what are we to do with those buildings that are out of use, maybe never loved and then, out of time?

Both Fiona and Ellen draw on the practice of Ultimology as a way of paying attention to endings, in this case in the context of architecture. This is a practice for the study of those things that are vulnerable, becoming obsolete, or otherwise in an ending process, informed by methods of attending to death.

In this Friday evening event, Ellen will introduce her ongoing research on Ultimology in architecture with a talk followed by a card game that invites participants to engage with images of some buildings that relate to her research. Ellen will invite those present to consider and respond through handling and playing with these images, perhaps prompting knowledge sharing, exchange and reflection on the meaning of endings in architecture.

Fiona Hallinan

Fiona Hallinan is an artist, researcher, filmmaker and, alongside curator Kate Strain, co-founder of the Department of Ultimology, based between Brussels, Belgium and Cork, Ireland. Her doctoral research at LUCA School of Arts, KU Leuven explores the coming-into-being of Ultimology, the study of that which is dead or dying (death here encompassing both the end of life and the passing of material or immaterial entities into irrelevance, redundancy or extinction), as a tool for transformative discourse.

Using oral interview, this project instigates gatherings around“ruptures” as case studies; the closure of a canteen, the demolition of a church, the extinction of a plant. It is further informed knowledge related to rituals of mourning, including testimony shared in the monthly reading group On Death. She is interested in themes of hospitality, traces, thresholds, care and critical pedagogy and often works with food as part of her practice, cooking and organising meals.

She has presented work in a number of international contexts, including at IMMA, Kerlin Gallery, the John Nicholas Brown Centre for Public Humanities at Brown University and Grazer Kunstverein. She has written for a number of international publications, including the forthcoming Encyclopaedia for Radical Helping, published by Thick Press and Visual Artists Newsletter.

Ellen Rowley

Ellen Rowley (PhD) is an architectural humanities teacher and writer on twentieth-century Irish architecture. She is Lecturer in Modern Irish Architecture in University College Dublin’s School of Architecture (APEP), where she teaches architectural history and culture programmes. Her research into Modernism and Irish architecture focuses on themes of Catholic patronage and suburban development, obsolescence and mid-century buildings today, housing and everyday architecture in Ireland, 1940 – 80. Ellen’s collaborative research project, Evolving Legacies focuses on the adaptive reuse of Catholic buildings in Ireland, most particularly convent buildings and post-1940 parish churches. Ellen publishes extensively in international and local contexts. In 2017, she was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) for her services to Irish architecture. Since 2011, Ellen has led the Dublin City Council and Heritage Council of Ireland research project on the 20th-century architecture of Dublin City. Her research is pioneering, in so far as it looks at buildings which are barely understood as ‘history’ and so, she admits that there are mistakes.

Friday Evenings

During Friday Evenings, we present a programme around one or more artists, a collective or organisation for 9 – 10 weeks. We offer local partners a platform. And we highlight artists with whom Kunsthal Gent is currently collaborating. Every Friday night is different: from performance, artist talk and book presentation to conversation, dinner or film screening.