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Agenda: Soon ?

→ Screening programme, Conversation
→ 20:00

Thursday 12.03.26

Greetings from Serbia: screening and conversation

→ Screening programme, Conversation
→ 20:00

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→ 17:00

Friday 13.03.26

Peter Aers: Shared Reading session

→ concert
→ 20:00

Friday 13.03.26

Friday Evenings:

Joachim Badenhorst: Peace Nuts

→ concert
→ 20:00

→ 13:30

Monday 16.03.26

Burnout prevention for artists and cultural workers

→ Book fair
→ 20:00

Friday 20.03.26

Friday Evenings:

Kristof Van Heeschvelde: Drawing a Sailor

→ Book fair
→ 20:00

→ Talk
→ 20:00

Friday 27.03.26

Friday Evenings:

On Publishing and Residency Programmes: Time based editions and Capacete, Rio De Janeiro

→ Talk
→ 20:00

→ Book launch
→ 16:00

Saturday 28.03.26

Book launch: Ben Thorp Brown — Cura’s Garden

→ Book launch
→ 16:00

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 20:00

Friday 03.04.26

Friday Evenings:

Courtisane Festival 2026: Rigid Time

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 20:00

→ Talk
→ 20:00

Friday 10.04.26

Friday Evenings:

Firas El Hallak: Artist Talk

→ Talk
→ 20:00

→ 20:00

Friday 17.04.26

Friday Evenings:

Lili’s Unruly Spring: Ageing Women, Intimacy and Resistance

→ Book launch
→ 19:30

Friday 24.04.26

Friday Evenings:

Boem #6: Release Party

→ Book launch
→ 19:30

→ Erfgoeddag
→ performance
→ 11:00

Sunday 26.04.26

Erfgoeddag:

Nadar Ensemble: Voiceless Mass (Raven Chacon)

→ Erfgoeddag
→ performance
→ 11:00

→ Documentary
→ 19:30

Friday 01.05.26

Friday Evenings:

Eye On Palestine: Between Reality and Documentary

→ Documentary
→ 19:30

Full Archive

Agenda: Archive

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 20:00

Monday 09.03.26

Art Cinema OFFoff:

Ghosts, Murmurs, Mistakes, Landscapes

→ Art Cinema OFFoff
→ Film
→ 20:00

→ Splinter vzw
→ 19:00

Saturday 07.03.26

Splinter vzw:

Sound as Shelter — Deep Listening (Vol.2)

→ Splinter vzw
→ 19:00

Sluiten

→ 19:00

Friday 21.04.23

Casting Call: introducing Meta-Pierke

→ 19:00

The bar & exhibition are open from 19:00
Program starts at 20:00
Entrance: Pay What You Can

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Casting Call: introducing Meta-Pierke

Join us this Friday Evening for an introduction to Casting Call by Eleni Kamma, with the presentation of Meta-Pierke, a new locally inspired character, and a video developed together with a group of KASK-performance students (under the guidance of artist and educator Hans Bryssinck.)

Eleni Kamma will present the new video in relation to several other collaborative works in Casting Call and we will engage in a roundtable conversation between the artist, the students, the educator, the arts institution, the cinematographer, the intern and the audience. An evening about parrhesia (the courage to speak up), collective agency, collaborative working methods, horizontality and film directing between assuming authority (being the director) and letting go (making space for the participants’ input.)

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With Eleni Kamma’s ‘Casting Call’ (2017 — ongoing), Kunsthal Gent is organising a temporary solo exhibition amid the Endless Exhibition for the first time. ‘Casting Call’ is an investigation into the concept of parrhesia: the courage to speak one’s mind. The exhibition takes the form of an installation of characters (drawings, videos, costumes and props) that moves through the Endless Exhibition like a parade, inviting the visitor to participate in a sensory experience.

For the development of Meta-Pierke, a new, locally inspired character for Casting Call, Eleni joined forces with the first-year performance students from KASK School of Arts, under the guidance of the artist and pedagogue Hans Bryssinck. The students were invited to develop their own performative interventions in the public space, taking the concept of parrhesia and the character of Meta-Pierke as a starting point. They chose the Kalandeberg, a square in the city centre of Ghent that is an intersection of seven streets.

KASK performance students:
Linde Amerlynck, Nausikaä De Nil, Fleur Frateur, Elin Kerckhoven, Orfee Lambert, Mariken Valck, Lennert Vanhove, Cecilia Vinckevleugel

• Costume Meta-Pierke: Jivan van der Ende
• Guidance: Hans Bryssinck, Eleni Kamma
• Video: Shivadas De Schrijver
• Sound: Thibault Dupont
• Editing: Inneke van Waeyenberghe

Thanks to: Huis van Alijn for sharing their collection and knowledge.

Friday Evenings

Every Friday evening for 9 weeks, Kunsthal Gent will host a program centered around one or more artists, a collective or organization. From an artist talk, debate or book presentation to a performance, documentary or film evening.

The events are partly related to Kunsthal Gent’s artistic program and have grown out of the courses of artists with whom we currently collaborate, such as the evenings with Eleni Kamma (in collaboration with Hans Bryssinck and KASK Performance students) and Dieter Durinck. However, much of Vrijdagavonden’s programme comes about in collaboration with local partners. For this series we collaborated with, among others, Lochness, School of Love, Martina Petrović & Robert Monchen (In de Ruimte) Filip Van Dingenen and Hélène Meyer (Piloot).

Programme Friday Evenings

17.03 — Ghosts of the Monastery
Film evening about the carmelite monastery.

24.03 — De Nieuwe Organisatie
Ben Benaouisse looks back after four months at Kunsthal Gent.

31.03 — Deep Hanging Out
A pot-luck evening with School of Love: reflecting together on non-romantic love.

07.04 — Nessy Xtreme
Lochness transforms Kunsthal Gent’s old chapel into a modular platform. Break a leg!

14.04 — Where Do We Go From Here
A public three-course dinner in which Martina Petroviç talks to Robert Monchen (In De Ruimte) about his experience with off-spaces.

21.04 — Casting Call: Introducing Meta-Pierke
Together with KASK performance students, Eleni Kamma presents a new video. A costume by Jivan Van der Ende.

28.04 — White Balls on Walls
Being more inclusive? More difficult than expected! A documentary by Sarah Vos, i.c.w. the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

05.05 — Travelogue of De Lieve
Video by Filip Van Dingenen and Hélène Meyer about a parade of troubadours along De Lieve. With debriefing.

12.05 — Boekpresentatie ‘Bootleg Paintings’
Posture Editions presents Dieter Durinck’s new book.

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.