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Exhibition:

We are temporarily closed. We will reopen on January 30 with two new exhibitions by Kasper De Vos and Firas El Hallak.”

Next event:

26.01.2026 Burnout prevention for artists and cultural workers

Lange Steenstraat 14

9000 Gent

Weekends: 11:00–18:00

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Exhibition:

We are temporarily closed. We will reopen on January 30 with two new exhibitions by Kasper De Vos and Firas El Hallak.”

Next event:

26.01.2026 Burnout prevention for artists and cultural workers

Lange Steenstraat 14

9000 Gent

Weekends: 11:00–18:00

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Agenda: Soon ?

→ 13:30

Monday 26.01.26

Burnout prevention for artists and cultural workers

→ Prijsuitreiking
→ 18:00

Tuesday 27.01.26

Henry van de Velde Awards 26

→ Prijsuitreiking
→ 18:00

→ Exhibition
→ 20:00

30.01 — 01.02.26

Opening Weekend:

Opening weekend: Kasper De Vos, Firas El Hallak, Shif — t*

→ Exhibition
→ 20:00

25 12 05 KHG VRIJDAGAVOND BROEI ISAAC 17

→ 13:30

Monday 09.02.26

Burnout prevention for artists and cultural workers

→ Film
→ 20:00

Monday 16.02.26

Guillaume Bijl – André Breton et ses amis à Saint-Cirq-Lapopie

→ Film
→ 20:00

→ 13:30

Monday 23.02.26

Burnout prevention for artists and cultural workers

→ 13:30

Monday 02.03.26

Burnout prevention for artists and cultural workers

→ 13:30

Monday 16.03.26

Burnout prevention for artists and cultural workers

→ Erfgoeddag
→ performance
→ 11:00

Sunday 26.04.26

Erfgoeddag:

Nadar Ensemble: Voiceless Mass (Raven Chacon)

→ Erfgoeddag
→ performance
→ 11:00

Full Archive

Agenda: Archive

→ 13:30

Monday 19.01.26

Burnout prevention for artists and cultural workers

→ Book launch
→ 20:00

Thursday 18.12.25

Double Book Launch: Fever, Form, and Incident

→ Book launch
→ 20:00

Sluiten

→ 11:00

03.02 — 01.06.24

Subjective Atlas of Palestine & Watermelon Flag

Disarming design from Palestine is een onafhankelijk non-profit project dat tot nadenken stemmende ontwerpen uit Palestina stimuleert. Het zijn bruikbare voorwerpen die stuk voor stuk een uniek verhaal met zich meedragen.

→ 11:00

Kunsthal Gent is offering the book ‘Subjective Atlas of Palestine’ and the Watermelon Flag (© Khaled Hourani) by Disarming Desing for sale. Available at our ticket desk, always open on Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00. All proceeds from this sale will go to Disarming Design.

Disarming Design

Disarming design from Palestine is an independent non-profit project fostering thought-provoking designs from Palestine. They are useful objects, and each one of them carries a unique story.

Disarming Design from Palestine (DDFP) is an independent non-profit platform performing as a design label. We foster thought-provoking and disarming designs from Palestine. With a focus on artisanal products created in conscious and integrated ways, the items speak of the reality they are manufactured in. Often rooted in a story or incident encountered in day-to-day life across occupied Palestine, the designs perform as cultural objects and conversation starters in homes, exhibitions, symposia, academia, media and other places of learning. Based in Belgium, we resist the dehumanisation of Palestinians and center Palestinian voices to amplify them. How can design contribute to international solidarity and justice for the Palestinian struggle for liberation and self-determination?

Website Disarming Design

Subjective atlas of Palestine | أطلس فلسطين الذاتي

Sublime landscapes, tranquil urban scenes, frolicking children; who would associate these images with Palestine? More than 30 Palestinian artists, photographers and designers were invited to map their country as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human impressions of the landscape and the architecture, the cuisine, the music and the poetry of thought and expression. The contributions give an entirely different angle on a nation in occupied territory.

In this subjective atlas it is the Palestinians themselves who show the disarming reverse side of the black-and-white image generally resorted to by the media.

Design

Annelys Devet (NL)

Production

Subjective Editions (BE)
2012
English
Softcover book, full color, 160 p.
16.5 x 22 cm

Watermelon flag | علم البطّيخ

Following the 1967 Six Day, the Israeli military forces unilaterally criminalised the flag of Palestine — and Palestinians were forbidden to use its colours of white, red, green and black in imagery and art. In 1980, Israeli forces arrested three artists at a gallery in Ramallah for violating this military order. To which artist Issam Badr responded: “Well if I paint a flower with these colours, what will you do?” And the officer responded: “It would be confiscated. Even if you do a watermelon it will be confiscated.” Then actually, the watermelon became a symbol of Palestinian resistance.

After the Oslo accords in 1993, the order was not completely revoked, neither has the Israeli occupation of Palestine ended. Artist Khaled Hourani borrowed from this officer the idea for the ‘Watermelon flag’, not to admire his ill imagination, but to commemorate the legacy of resistance to the prohibition of the Palestinian flag. Hourani originally made the design for the Subjective Atlas of Palestine in 2007, to then wave it at many exhibitions worldwide. During the 2021 Palestinian uprisings, the flag has been produced as an effective alternative flag, to wave until the occupation ends.

Design

Khaled Hourani (PS)

Production

Druk bedrijf (NL)
Size regular: 100 x 70 cm
Size large: 180 x 120 cm
Material: 115gr., 100% recycled polyester

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