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Agenda: Soon ?

→ Curatorial Studies
→ performance
→ 16:00

Sunday 29.06.25

Curatorial Studies:

Astrid Specht Seeberg — ClayPlay

→ Curatorial Studies
→ performance
→ 16:00

→ Exhibition
→ 20:00

04 — 06.07.25

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Opening weekend

→ Exhibition
→ 20:00

→ 11:00

05.07 — 31.08.25

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Ieder weekend: Klankzoekers | Schatten van Vlieg (6 – 12j)

→ 13:00

05.07 — 30.08.25

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Every Saturday: Artist Talks on the Spot

→ Guided tour
→ 13:00

06.07 — 31.08.25

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Every Sunday: guided tour

→ Guided tour
→ 13:00

→ 19:00

Tuesday 08.07.25

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GKO Café: uitdagingen & kansen voor beeldende kunsten in Gent

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→ 17:00

Thursday 17.07.25

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Artshizzle: over kunst (ver)kopen

→ 11:00

18 — 27.07.25

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Gentse Feesten: (Endless) Exhibition — open everyday!

→ 15:00

21 — 24.07.25

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Hannah Hoebeke: Klei mee Kaffee

→ 15:00

Friday 25.07.25

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Blind Date: for allies & artists

→ Workshop
→ 19:00

Thursday 31.07.25

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Kunst in Huis: workshop selling & buying art

→ Workshop
→ 19:00

→ Exhibition
→ 11:00

15 — 17.08.25

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Patersholfeesten: (Endless) Exhibition — open everyday!

→ Exhibition
→ 11:00

→ Workshop
→ 13:00

Friday 15.08.25

Patersholfeesten:

Kinderworkshop — maak je eigen mok

→ Workshop
→ 13:00

→ performance
→ 11:00

Saturday 16.08.25

Patersholfeesten:

Micha Goldberg & Rosie Sommers — Drama

→ performance
→ 11:00

→ 08:00

Sunday 17.08.25

Patersholfeesten:

Nástio Mosquito — Rommelmarkt

→ 11:00

30 — 31.08.25

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Closing weekend

Full Archive

Agenda: Archive

→ Curatorial Studies
→ performance
→ 16:00

Sunday 29.06.25

Curatorial Studies:

Astrid Specht Seeberg — ClayPlay

→ Curatorial Studies
→ performance
→ 16:00

→ 16:00

Wednesday 18.06.25

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Over kunstenaarschap, statuten en professionele erkenning

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Sluiten

→ Book launch
→ 19:30

Friday 07.03.25

PhD in 1 Night: The Political Potential of Utopia

During Friday Evenings, we present a nine-week programme around one or more artists, a collective or organisation. PhD in 1 Night presents the novel The Unpredictable Past of the Future: The Political Potential of Utopia. It is a unique example of social utopian political eco-feminist science fiction for children about new education from the early 20th century.

→ Book launch
→ 19:30

The Unpredictable Past of the Future

The Unpredictable Past of the Future: The Political Potential of Utopia is a novel for children about the new education system from 1924 – 1925, written by an anonymous girl,‘Little Zora’ (Little Dawn). Zora, who lives with her parents in Belgrade, in the oppressive Kingdom of Yugoslavia dreams of a school of the future. In her dream she drives an electric car, food is free for all at school, and all education is shared through aesthetics. Written in 1924/1925, it was originally published in a communist children’s magazine called Budućnost (Future), for the “children of organized workers” in Belgrade. The book was recently discovered by Dr Biljana Andonovska, researcher at the Institute of Literature and Art, Belgrade.

The publication of this novel is the result of five years of work, selfpublished by Edicija Jugoslavija / PhD In One Night in collaboration with Založba Sophia. The editors researched the role of utopia, unlearning, self-education, fiction and correlation between war and peace in educational narratives. And they delved into rich archive material from the magazine Budućnost (‘The Future’), filled with illustrations around alternative education and the lives of young people in 1924 – 1925. The images were carefully scanned, reworked and incorporated into the publication. The result is a book of almost 500 pages, a unique example of radical social utopian science fiction for children from the early 20th century.

As the book, including the very actual chapter “Student strikes, reality of the fiction?” is present in the book club of the blockaded Belgrade University in Serbia and students are reading the book, we will summarise the talk with a discussion about the important and unique protest that has been happening in Serbia for the last 3 months, in which 62 out of 80 faculties in Serbia are currently participating. Students’ plenums in Serbia are applying direct democracy, distance from political parties, self-education, transforming faculties into places of common life and studies where they live, sleep, learn and spend a time together, becoming witness of collective intelligence, anti-leadership and the collective political imagination so needed in our world.

In conversation with...

On this evening, we welcome Ivana Momčilović, dramaturg and editor of the book, coordinator of the international platform for aesthetic education for all - PhD in One Night, in conversation with Alexandra van Laeken, researcher in philosophy at the University of Antwerp and Ghent.

After the conversation about the book, in which we invite the audience to join with their input, we will watch excerpts from the film‘Poems From Which We Learned: Collective Fragments’ on Self-Learning About the Sensible and Politics’ — a film made by the collective PhD in One Night. Other guests of the evening and collaborators of PhD In One Night collective are violinist and music research Dejana Sekulić, who will join us with musical interventions on her violin during the movie, and art critic Elisabetta Cuccaro, who will present us with the cartography she created, relating to the book. Also among the guests and collaborators of PhD In One Night who will contribute in debate will be Erdem Gunduz, Standing Man, choreographer, dancer, electro-technician and activist and Dries Josten, researcher in philosophy at Ghent University.

Together with the audience we will look for an answer to the question“What is a new way of acquiring knowledge outside of a existing school format?”

Practical

Language: English
Entrance: Pay What You Can

PHD In One Night

PhD In One Night

PhD In One Night is a self-managed and self-financed artistic collective working on the forms of aesthetical education for all, since 2007. From constant work with philosopher Jacques Ranciere and his ideas to the collaboration with Political Science department and department for Critical History of Free University of Brussels (ULB) with participation of 1200 students, its members worked in several educational institutions (Academy of Fine Arts Brussels and Helsinki, Uniarts Helsinki, Faculty of Law Helsinki, Aalto University Helsinki, primary schools in Brussels, secondary school in Helsinki), pre-school and school kids on island Vis, as well with Afghan and Syrian migrants in Brussels and Belgrade. In 2020, PhD in One Night inaugurated Guerilla University in collaboration with Kurdish Rojava University (North Syria) and is currently coordinating research/art residency and Laboratory for Radical Peace in Orangeries de Bierbais.

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.