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Agenda: Soon ?

→ Design Museum Gent
→ 11:00

03 — 11.10.26

Design Museum Gent:

Design Fest Gent: Endless Exhibition & Temporary Centre for Shared Practice

→ Design Museum Gent
→ 11:00

→ 13:30

Monday 05.10.26

Group session on burnout prevention for artists & cultural workers

→ Design Museum Gent
→ 20:00

Friday 09.10.26

Friday Evenings:

Open Design Lab / Open Design Course: Retrospective

→ Design Museum Gent
→ 20:00

→ 20:00

Friday 16.10.26

Friday Evenings:

Takeover Temporary Centre for Shared Practice

→ 13:30

Monday 19.10.26

Group session on burnout prevention for artists & cultural workers

→ 20:00

Friday 23.10.26

Friday Evenings:

Takeover Temporary Centre for Shared Practice

→ Democrazy
→ concert
→ 19:30

Thursday 29.10.26

Democrazy:

Concert: Elijah Fox

→ Democrazy
→ concert
→ 19:30

→ 20:00

Friday 30.10.26

Friday Evenings:

Takeover Temporary Centre for Shared Practice

→ 13:30

Tuesday 03.11.26

Group session on burnout prevention for artists & cultural workers

→ Book launch

Friday 06.11.26

Friday Evenings:

Anne Marijn Voorhorst: ‘Vertrekken’

→ Book launch

→ Democrazy
→ concert
→ 19:30

Thursday 12.11.26

Democrazy:

Cancelled: Tanya Donelly & Chris Brokaw

→ Democrazy
→ concert
→ 19:30

35513 tanya donelly chris brokaw c ben stas

→ 20:00

Friday 13.11.26

Friday Evenings:

UFO: Publiek programma #9

→ 20:00

Friday 20.11.26

Friday Evenings:

Launch Trut #2: Sorry!

→ 13:30

Monday 23.11.26

Group session on burnout prevention for artists & cultural workers

→ 20:00

Friday 27.11.26

Friday Evenings:

Takeover Temporary Centre for Shared Practice

→ Talk
→ 20:00

Friday 04.12.26

Friday Evenings:

La Piena / The Flood

→ Talk
→ 20:00

→ 13:30

Monday 07.12.26

Group session on burnout prevention for artists & cultural workers

→ Capacete Rio de Janeiro
→ performance
→ 19:00

Thursday 10.12.26

Artist Fund:

Performative Lecture Lieven De Boeck (fundraiser)

→ Capacete Rio de Janeiro
→ performance
→ 19:00

Photo 01 Studio LDB Queering Activation Ostend photo Antoine Doetsch

→ Film
→ 20:00

Friday 11.12.26

Friday Evenings:

Gaza Cultural Infrastructure, 1970s-1990s

→ Film
→ 20:00

Full Archive

Agenda: Archive

→ 13:30

Monday 05.10.26

Group session on burnout prevention for artists & cultural workers

→ Film
→ 18:00

Saturday 03.10.26

Shurfa Film Festival

→ Film
→ 18:00

Sluiten

→ Talk
→ 20:00

Friday 04.12.26

La Piena / The Flood

In this artist talk, Francesca Grilli presents La Piena / The Flood, her new project supported by the Flemish Community, and shares the research that is leading her practice towards public space, rural landscapes and nature.

Entrance: Pay What You Can

→ Talk
→ 20:00

Entrance: Pay What You Can

With La Piena / The Flood, this relationship with water becomes the starting point for a broader exploration of how we might reconnect with rivers and the communities that live alongside them. The project grew in part from Grilli’s experience along the Reno, the river in her home town of Bologna, where she encountered both the healing and destructive forces of water and floods.

A central element of the research is hydromancy — from the Greek hydor, water, and manteia, divination — which Grilli approaches as an artistic and ritual practice. Through gestures, materials, listening and encounters with water, hydromancy becomes a way of establishing a different kind of relationship with the river, while opening up new possibilities for performance and dramaturgy.

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Developed through international residencies and encounters with different rivers and their communities, La Piena proposes a performative and participatory instrument for reconsidering our position within the hydrocommons: not simply as users or exploiters of water, but as bodies of water participating in a cycle that flows through us, shapes us and sustains us. Approaching rivers from a hydrofeminist perspective, Grilli considers water not as a passive resource or external landscape, but as an active presence with which human bodies are continuously entangled. Water moves through bodies, territories and communities, connecting them across time and geography. The project is currently in the development phase, with residencies already underway and further residencies planned in Italy, Belgium and Austria.

During the talk, Grilli will share the references, experiences and artistic processes behind the project, reflecting on rivers as spaces of ecological transformation, collective memory, ritual and imagination.

The talk will be held in English.

Francesca Grilli

Francesca Grilli is an Italian multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of the performing and visual arts. She develops her own artistic language in which performance, installation and video come together across diverse contexts. Her work directly engages the audience, both physically and through processes of symbolic metamorphosis.

At the centre of her practice is the intensity of experience, inherent to the ephemeral and immaterial

nature of performance. Her work combines a strong political dimension with a conceptual language, exploring power structures, social norms and the tensions between inclusion and exclusion, participation and marginalisation. Invisibility often becomes a form of resistance against systems that recognise direct productivity and visibility as legitimate. Through voices and bodies, she creates spaces where different generations and experiences can meet, and where norms, identities and hierarchies can be reconsidered.

Memory and its reconfiguration form an important basis of her research. She explores, among other things, non-verbal cultural practices at risk of disappearing, such as oracular practices, and investigates how these forms of knowledge can be recovered, transformed and transmitted.

Immaterial elements such as sound, air and fire also play an important role as materials of presence, transmission and transformation.

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.