#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#28: Make Contracts.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#91: Embrace doubt.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#34: We pay artists.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#28: Make Contracts.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#91: Embrace doubt.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#34: We pay artists.|
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02.07.2021 20:00

Open from Friday 2 July 20.00

Pay what you can

SUMMER SALON 2021:
BUY LOCAL #2

NO SUMMER SALON IN 2022

After two successful editions we're taking a break: in 2022 there will be no Summer Salon. The concept was a response to the corona crisis and the difficult situation this created for many artists. We are working out a concept for a renewed edition in 2023. To stay up to date, please register for the newsletter at www.kunsthal.gent!

Team Kunsthal Gent

On Friday 2 July at 20.00: Summer Salon 2021 - BUY LOCAL #2 will officially open. 742 works of art fill Kunsthal Gent to the brim with a cross-section of Ghent's lively visual arts scene.

With participants between 18 and 84 years of age, BUY LOCAL brings generations of Ghent artists together in an exhibition with one major common denominator: everything is for sale.

From Friday 2 July at 20.00 the works will be on show in Kunsthal Gent, but also online at zomersalon.gent, where interested buyers can get in touch with the artists.

Opening hours:
July:
Saturday and Sunday 11.00 - 18.00.
August: Thursday to Sunday 11.00 - 18.00.


Events:
- Every Sunday of the Summer Salon: Artist talks on the spot

- Ghent artist Lore Snauwaert is building a Restaurant in Kunsthal Gent, together with 7 artists and guests. You can dine there from August onwards. More info and reservations.

- In August: performance programme on Sundays

- Many events by Ghent partner organisations: workshops, guided tours, screenings, ....

- Copyright Ghent ( Jakobijnenstraat 8, B - 9000 Ghent) is organising a "Summer book salon" with publications by participants in the Summer Salon.

In collaboration with: Gents kunstenoverleg GKO, Art Cinema OFFoff, Art Ghent, Art Shizzle, Barbe Urbain, Bebe Books, Berserk, Artlead Offline / Billboard Series, BLANCO, BOEKS, BROEI, BruthausGallery, Campo, Cecilia Jaime Gallery, Convent, Copyright Bookshop, Croxhapox, Cultuurdienst Gent, Curatorial Studies at KASK School of Arts, David vzw, De Carré / S.H.O.T.S., De Centrale, De Curieuze Collectie, De Koer, Dekenij Patershol, Design museum Gent, Drongenhofkapel Emergent, Engagement Gent, Experimental Intermedia, Fotoshop Gent, Galerie Pont & Plas, Gouvernement, Greentrack Gent, Het Balanseer, HISK, In de Ruimte, Galerie Jan Dhaese, KIOSK, KASK / School of Arts Ghent, KASK / School of Arts Ghent communicatie, KLAP/vzw Ensemble, Kristof De Clercq Gallery, Kunst Aan Zet, Kunst in Huis, Kunsthal Gent, Les Voizines/ Zine Happening, LUCA School of Arts Gent, LYSTERINCK, Manoeuvre, Masala, mentormentor, Museum Dr. Guislain, Nein Arts, De Ontsteking / NADAR, NUCLEO, Smoke & Dust / 019, PILOOT public art platform, Publiek Park (Grenswerk), Post X, Posture Editions, P/ROPS, Re-Mains, Roger Raveelmuseum, Rufus Galerie, S.M.A.K., St. Anoiniuskerk / CC Meulestede, Subbacultcha, Tatjana Pieters, V.O.E.M. vzw, Voo?uit, Wijk 8, Yart, Zebrastraat

With support of:

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