#26: More artists, less borders.|#37: Operate with radical transparency.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#124: Do less, do it better.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#34: We pay artists.|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#56: Take a lunch break.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#91: Embrace doubt.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#61: No all male install teams.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#26: More artists, less borders.|#37: Operate with radical transparency.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#124: Do less, do it better.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#34: We pay artists.|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#56: Take a lunch break.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#91: Embrace doubt.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#61: No all male install teams.|#62: Be kind. Full dishwasher: empty it.|
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12.11.2021 18:00

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Other women's flowers reunion: friendship edition

During its more than two years of life, other women's flowers was a space to share, discuss and discover literature written by women. Initiated by Carla Besora, it was open to everyone but with a steady core of regulars. The biweekly meetings became a fertile ground for collaboration, shared experiences and friendships.

Today, in the frame of Elien Ronse's residency at Kunsthal, the book-club comes together to reflect on the meanings of friendship through texts, a collective meal and relaxed (but passionate) discussions.

For this friendly edition, we invite you to join us with a text you would like to share (a poem a friend of yours read to you once, a song that you sang together while cycling in the rain, a novel that captured the mystery of friendship love...).

Together we will put together a meal to share, so please bring something to eat that relates to friendship in some way (your dear friend's favourite meal, something you ate together when you were teens, that snack you always steal from their pantry...)

We look forward to an evening of friendship stories, literary discoveries and perhaps new potential friendships.

Please reserve a spot if you would like to join, places are limited.

Elien Ronse 1211

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