#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#91: Embrace doubt.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#119: Be a space of production.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#111: Do it together.|#124: Do less, do it better.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#4: Pay what you can.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#61: No all male install teams.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#91: Embrace doubt.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#119: Be a space of production.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#111: Do it together.|#124: Do less, do it better.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#4: Pay what you can.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#61: No all male install teams.|
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Olivier Goethals (BE)

For the opening of Kunsthal Gent, artist and architect Olivier Goethals presents an impressive spatial intervention that functions as a new platform within the existing building. As structural furniture, it accommodates the space for new use. This intervention also shifts the public entrance from Lange Steenstraat to Vrouwebroersstraat. The new entrance offers an inviting view of the monumental hall church.

KHG 01 is the first of a series of interventions in dialogue with the artistic programme. The monumental building will gradually change into its new shape as 'a city of contemporary art', in which different identities come together and respond to each other. The interventions of Olivier Goethals form the spatial support for these changes.

Olivier Goethals (1980, based in Ghent) studied Architecture and Urban Development. He is working simultaneously as architect and artist. In his wide practice he researches the connection between physical space and consciousness. Olivier made spatial interventions and artistic installations for venues such as: Z33 Hasselt, CIAP Hasselt, Extra City Antwerp, Gallery Marion De Cannière Antwerp, Be-Part Waregem, NUCLEO Ghent, LUCA Ghent, ... Previously he worked as a freelance senior architect for De Vylder Vinck Taillieu for eight years. Since 2010, he is teaching at the KU Leuven Architecture Department. He was a guest teacher at RU Ghent faculty of Architecture, LUCA School of Arts Experimental Studio and ETH Zurich faculty of Architecture, among other institutes. Olivier is in charge of the design and implementation of all spatial interventions for art collective 019.

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Olivier Goethals, Spatial Intervention KHG01, 2019, photo © Michiel De Cleene Olivier Goethals, Spatial Intervention KHG01, 2019, photo © Michiel De Cleene
Olivier Goethals, Spatial Intervention KHG01, 2019, photo © Michiel De Cleene Olivier Goethals, Spatial Intervention KHG01, 2019, photo © Michiel De Cleene