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Tentoonstellingen: New ?

04.07 — 31.08.25

Zomersalon

Zomersalon: Buy Local 4

Opening 04.07.25 — 20:00

28.02 — 31.08.25

Auguste Van den Eynde

Interior view 19th Century

07.02 — 04.05.25

Isabelle Andriessen

Vermin

07.02 — 31.08.25

Fiona Hallinan

We Turn Towards an Ending and Pay Attention

07.02 — 18.05.25

Dani Bershan

Gut Matters

Endless Exhibition ?

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

30.09.22 — ∞

Theo De Meyer, Olivier Goethals

Sheela’s

30.09.22 — ∞

Femmy Otten

We once were one

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04.02.22 — ∞

Groepstentoonstelling

An Exhibition Is Never Finished

28.05.21 — ∞

Eva Fàbregas

SKIN-LIKE

19.03.21 — ∞

Felix Kindermann

INTERPLAYS

29.01.21 — ∞

Bram De Jonghe

WISHBONE

25.09.20 — ∞

Martin Belou

Remuer Ciel et Terre

24.01.20 — ∞

Jesse Jones

Syllabus

22.11.19 — ∞

Charlotte Stuby

Keepsake

18.10.19 — ∞

Groepstentoonstelling

When it changed…

20.09.19 — ∞

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

La Fabrique d’un Single screen

24.05.19 — ∞

Rudy Guedj

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

25.01.19 — ∞

Michaël Bussaer

Chain

25.01.19 — ∞

Prem Krishnamurthy

Endless Exhibition

25.01.19 — ∞

Olivier Goethals

Spatial interventions KHG01 — KHG04

25.01.19 — ∞

Steve Van den Bosch

Unreliable Sources

25.01.19 — ∞

Thomas Min, Egon Van Herreweghe

Crisis of Masculinity

19.03.50 — ∞

15th century wall painting

Full Archive

Tentoonstellingen: Archive

29.09.23 — 29.12.24

Apparatus 22

nes•nor•nae

27.09 — 29.12.24

Clara Spilliaert

My Sister is Pregnant

06 — 29.12.24

INFINITIF

Koba De Meutter: 2018 — 2023

Sluiten

Opening:
24.05.19 — 11:00

24.05.19 — ∞

Rudy Guedj

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

Rudy Guedj has researched the dot and the hole as two opposites to create an image. One is formed by the accumulation of a material, while the other is obtained by removal. The hole, thanks to the removal of a material, reveals images and spaces. It can do this in life (the peephole, for example) but it also happened in the technological development of photography, with the early form of the pinhole camera or camera obscura.

Opening:
24.05.19 — 11:00

Sunny 16, Looney 11

The camera obscura not only made it possible to depict the outside world by allowing light to fall through a small hole, but was also used to observe phenomena such as solar eclipses indirectly, so that the event could be studied safely because one no longer had to stare straight at the sun. This is still today a very simple way to observe an eclipse, by observing the shadow play created by a perforated sheet of paper.

In his intervention ‘Sunny 16, Looney 11’ in front of the windows of the Kunsthal Gent, Rudy Guedj aims to transform the exhibition space into a gigantic fictional camera obscura whose projections are already predefined, constantly oscillating between abstraction and figuration to hint at the role that pareidolia (the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in an arbitrary or ambiguous visual pattern) can play in relation to our perception of reality and of what might go beyond it. These light projections or apparitions take the surface of the building as a screen, with the windows acting as a kind of ‘cameras’.

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Everything In This World Has Two Handles

Rudy Guedj has researched various anthropomorphic representations of the sun and moon in medieval, spiritual, alchemical as well as secular manuscripts. In astronomy and alchemy, the sun is represented by a dot in a circle (a hole) ☉ but it is also represented with a face when it appears ‘in splendour’. In alchemy, the ‘alchemical marriage’ is the union of the opposites: the Red King and the White Queen or the Sun and the Moon, Gold and Silver, an essential step to achieve perfect balance within the Philosophical Mercury, often represented by a snake-like creature. By placing the Moon and the Sun in dialogue on the windows of Kunsthal Gent, Rudy also ties in with his earlier work ‘Everything In This World Has Two Handles’, added to the Endless Exhibition in May 2019: two snake-shaped door handles installed on the glass entrance doors of Kunsthal Gent.

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Rudy Guedj

Met een praktijk die zich uitstrekt over verschillende media, van boek- en tentoonstellingsontwerp tot tekenen, schrijven of installaties, onderzoekt Rudy Guedj de associatieve processen die vaak schuilgaan achter de constructie van verhalen. Het potentieel voor pareidolia, synchroniciteit of analogie in onze ervaring van ruimte is essentieel in zijn benadering. Hij besteedt aandacht aan architecturale details en glinsterende momenten uit het dagelijkse leven en onderzoekt de rol die fictie kan spelen bij het verbinden van verschillende soorten gebeurtenissen, anekdotes en geschiedenissen.

Naast zijn werk als grafisch ontwerper, publiceert hij kunstboeken onder zijn imprint Building Fictions (BF). BF onderzoekt ‘bouwen’ als een methodologie, met de bedoeling het potentieel van verhalen vertellen te belichten binnen praktijken op het snijvlak van kunst, design, architectuur en literatuur. Door fictionele strategieën en hun potentieel binnen de artistieke productie te onderzoeken, wil BF erachter komen waar die strategieën een rol spelen in de context van echte constructies, of die nu van beton zijn of meer efemeer, metaforisch, en zo de effecten van ficties binnen de echte wereld verankeren.

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Related Exhibitions

04.02.22 — ∞

Groepstentoonstelling

An Exhibition Is Never Finished

25.01.19 — ∞

Prem Krishnamurthy

Endless Exhibition

26.05.23 — ∞

Ben Thorp Brown, Jan Minne

Cura’s Garden

19.03.21 — ∞

Felix Kindermann

INTERPLAYS

22.11.19 — ∞