#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#61: No all male install teams.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#124: Do less, do it better.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#40: Follow the artist|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#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.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#61: No all male install teams.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#124: Do less, do it better.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#40: Follow the artist|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#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.|
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14.04.2023 19:00

Pay what you can

Vrijdagavonden: Where Do We Go From Here

  • The bar is open from 19:00
  • Program starts at 20:00
  • Entrance: Pay What You Can
Where Do We Go From Here

After a series of dinners that design conversation events in Brussels, Martina Petrović brings Where Do We Go From Here to Kunsthal Gent. For this evening she invites Robert Monchen (In De Frigo, In De Ruimte, Biennale van Belgie, Pizza Gallery) to talk about his experiences of initiating and organising off-spaces in Ghent. A three-course meal will be served, each dish will unwind a layer of Robert’s art director trajectory. Together we will revisit the past projects, present ones and dream of future ones of collective organising.

The dinner table has its own politics, how one sets it influences the conversation around it. It can generate questions, introduce different ways of composing a menu, and question the tools we use. It can unveil the social structures that make the table possible, sometimes unexpected surprising flavours appear on one’s plate and many other delicious subjects can surface on it.

Through a format of dinner we will explore how different collectives operate, what are the politics behind the modes of being and working together, where are the difficulties and what are exciting new possibilities of working with different structures.

These encounters allow us to collect tools, inspiration and to learn from existing experience on how to collectivise. Further to question what are the challenges, where to search for help, or what is the strength of working in these alternative ways.

Registration is necessary.

Friday Evenings

Every Friday evening for 9 weeks, Kunsthal Gent will host a program centered around one or more artists, a collective or organization. From an artist talk, debate or book presentation to a performance, documentary or film evening.

The events are partly related to Kunsthal Gent's artistic program and have grown out of the courses of artists with whom we currently collaborate, such as the evenings with Eleni Kamma (in collaboration with Hans Bryssinck and KASK Performance students), Dieter Durinck and Ben Benaouisse.

However, much of Vrijdagavonden's program comes about in dialogue and collaboration with local partners and artists. For this series we collaborated with, among others, Lochness, School of Love, Martina Petrović & Robert Monchen (In de Ruimte) Filip Van Dingenen and Hélène Meyer (Piloot).

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Programme Friday Evenings

17.03 — Ghosts of the Monastery
Film evening about the carmelite monastery.

24.03De Nieuwe Organisatie
Ben Benaouisse looks back after four months at Kunsthal Gent.

31.03Deep Hanging Out
A pot-luck evening with School of Love: reflecting together on non-romantic love.

07.04Nessy Xtreme
Lochness transforms Kunsthal Gent's old chapel into a modular platform. Break a leg!

14.04Where Do We Go From Here
A public three-course dinner in which Martina Petroviç talks to Robert Monchen (In De Ruimte) about his experience with off-spaces.

21.04Casting Call: Introducing Meta-Pierke
Together with KASK performance students, Eleni Kamma presents a new video. A costume by Jivan Van der Ende.

28.04White Balls on Walls
Being more inclusive? More difficult than expected! A documentary by Sarah Vos, i.c.w. the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

05.05Travelogue of De Lieve
Video by Filip Van Dingenen and Hélène Meyer about a parade of troubadours along De Lieve. With debriefing.

12.05Boekpresentatie 'Bootleg Paintings'
Posture Editions presents Dieter Durinck's new book.

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