#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#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.|#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#14: Can you also remain a toddler institution?|#26: More artists, less borders.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#34: We pay artists.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#91: Embrace doubt.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#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.|#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#14: Can you also remain a toddler institution?|#26: More artists, less borders.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#34: We pay artists.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#91: Embrace doubt.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|
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17.03.2022 19:30

Live meeting

Pay what you can

Engagement Gent:
Open Meeting

Open Meeting Gent (live)

Thursday 17 March 2022, 19.30 - 21.30
Oud Huis, Kunsthal Gent, Lange Steenstraat 14, 9000 Gent

To join the meeting, please sign up by sending an email to contact@engagementarts.be. To ensure a space of trust, we ask you to arrive on time. Thank you for your understanding. We want to be careful and make sure everyone feels safe. Therefore we will limit the number of people (maximum 15 participants) and we kindly ask you not to join if you have any covid-symptoms.

What are Engagement Open Meetings?

ENGAGEMENT organizes monthly open meetings in Brussels, Ghent and soon also some in Antwerp. These meetings are built around the idea of peer-to-peer support and solidarity, and are visited by artists, cultural workers and art students who want to gather around the topics of sexism, sexual harassment and abuse of power in the arts.

Together, we try, every time again, to create a space for sharing and listening. Together we build this space. It is also a way to get to know the work of ENGAGEMENT. Some people decide, after having been present at some of those meetings, to engage more actively in the work, which we welcome. ENGAGEMENT is not a fixed group of employees, it exists out of people that engage with the topics we want to tackle.

It is not a problem at all if you have never been part of an open meeting like this before. People come and go, the space is open and we are always happy to welcome new faces. If you have specific needs in regards to the accessibility of the space, please let us know. We are happy to do what we can to make the space accessible to everyone.

If you want to know a bit more on what ENGAGEMENT stands for, you can read the statement on our website or send us an e-mail.


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