BUY LOCAL #2

#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.|

02.07.2021 20:00

Open from Friday 2 July 20.00

Pay what you can

SUMMER SALON 2021:
BUY LOCAL #2