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BEELD KOBA POSTKAART

06 — 29.12.24

Koba De Meutter

2018 – 2023

Opening 06.12.24 — 20:00

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27.09 — 29.12.24

Clara Spilliaert

My Sister is Pregnant

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31.05 — 31.12.24

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain

An Experiment With Time

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29.09.23 — 31.12.24

Apparatus 22

nes•nor•nae

Endless Exhibition ?

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06.07.24 — ∞

Kunsthal Gent

Gent, 4 mei 2024, voor Carmela Echegoyen

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26.05.23 — ∞

Ben Thorp Brown, Jan Minne

Cura’s Garden (temporarily closed)

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30.09.22 — ∞

Theo De Meyer, Olivier Goethals

Sheela’s

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30.09.22 — ∞

Femmy Otten

We once were one

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04.02.22 — ∞

Groepstentoonstelling

An Exhibition Is Never Finished

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28.05.21 — ∞

Eva Fabregas

SKIN-LIKE

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19.03.21 — ∞

Felix Kindermann

INTERPLAYS

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29.01.21 — ∞

Bram De Jonghe

WISHBONE

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25.09.20 — ∞

Martin Belou

Remuer Ciel et Terre

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24.01.20 — ∞

Jesse Jones

Syllabus

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22.11.19 — ∞

Charlotte Stuby

Keepsake

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18.10.19 — ∞

Groepstentoonstelling

When it changed…

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20.09.19 — ∞

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

La Fabrique d’un Single screen

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24.05.19 — ∞

Rudy Guedj

Sunny 16, Looney 11 / Everything In This World Has Two Handles

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25.01.19 — ∞

Michaël Bussaer

Chain

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25.01.19 — ∞

Prem Krishnamurthy

Endless Exhibition

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25.01.19 — ∞

Olivier Goethals

Spatial interventions KHG01 — KHG04

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25.01.19 — ∞

Steve Van den Bosch

Unreliable Sources

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25.01.19 — ∞

Thomas Min, Egon Van Herreweghe

Crisis of Masculinity

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10.03.50 — ∞

15th century wall painting

Tentoonstellingen: Archive

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31.05 — 30.06.24

Curatorial Studies

Grains of Sand Like Mountains

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26.01 — 11.05.24

Lysandre Begijn

Archaïc Asylum

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26.01 — 21.04.24

Sahjan Kooner

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Opening:
25.01.19 — 20:30

25.01.19 — ∞

Thomas Min, Egon Van Herreweghe

Crisis of Masculinity

Crisis of Masculinity is a continuation of the collaboration between Thomas Min and Egon Van Herreweghe that started with the exhibition The Ideal Husband (Galerie Jan Colle, 2016), in which the artists examined the coded language and stereotypical symbols around the concept of masculinity. Because of changes in Western society, our ideas of masculinity is under pressure and in flux. At the same time, the rise of social media resulted in a new platform for the cult of the body.

Opening:
25.01.19 — 20:30

Shop: Postcards

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Crisis Of Masculinity is an installation consisting of an almost exact replica of the striking blue steel fence at Muscle Beach Venice, Los Angeles (USA). The work was manually assembled and constructed by both artists. Based on photographs and with the help of a friend who took measurements at the location in California, they developed a detailed reconstruction that was embedded within the architecture of Kunsthal Gent.

Muscle Beach, originally located on the beach of Santa Monica, is seen as the birthplace of the fitness hype and played an important role in popularizing and legitimizing the physical culture as we know it today. At the time of the Great Depression in the 1930s, the government invested in public gymnastics and fitness equipment and soon it became the place to be for celebrities, acrobats, gymnasts, bodybuilders and onlooking crowds. In 1952 the by then world famous Muscle Beach moved just down the beach to Venice and the center of gravity shifted to bodybuilding.

Anyone who takes a look now will find mostly shiny and toned bodies within the fence. The place outside is reserved for admirers and slightly lesser gods. On both sides it is a game of seeing and being seen. The fence forms both a physical and a mental barrier: whoever enters, as it were, enters the circus stage. The show can be observed through the imposing barrier of the fence.

In Kunsthal Gent, the training equipment and the accompanying muscle-ball rolling remain absent. By lifting the fence from its original context as a ready-made, attention is paid to the materiality of the construction. The ostensibly banal design, which is somewhere between an elephant stay in the zoo and the fence of the neighborhood playground, turns out to be pretty ingenious and put together with great skill — the artists also experienced this. The obstructive nature of the fence also stands out in Kunsthal Gent. The visitor is limited in his or her freedom of movement and thus forced to relate to the obstacle. The fact that the exhibition space is a former monastery, and thus originally a place for the mind rather than for the body, adds an extra layer of meaning.

In the creation process of Crisis Of Masculinity, the notion of labour also plays an important role. The execution of the construction work — from pouring concrete to welding — was performed entirely by Van Herreweghe and Min, without the training and routine that experienced construction workers have, instead compensating with perseverance and dedication. They learned by doing, finding solutions together for the challenges they encounter and discover the beauty of a well-designed object.

The installation will remain in Kunsthal Gent for an indefinite period of time but will gradually transform. The ambition is to cut the fence into pieces over time, to move to sculpture parks or private gardens, to lead a new life as a fremdkörper.

Text: Maarten Dings

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