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Kunsthal Gent is temporarily closed. Friday, September 27, we reopen for a new exhibition.

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20.09.2024 EP Release & Première: Every Four Minutes from Now On

Lange Steenstraat 14

9000 Gent

Weekends: 11:00–18:00

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Kunsthal Gent is temporarily closed. Friday, September 27, we reopen for a new exhibition.

Next event:

20.09.2024 EP Release & Première: Every Four Minutes from Now On

Lange Steenstraat 14

9000 Gent

Weekends: 11:00–18:00

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Tentoonstellingen: New ?

27.09 — 30.12.24

Clara Spilliaert

My Sister is Pregnant

Opening 27.09.24 — 20:00

31.05 — 31.12.24

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain

An Experiment With Time

29.09.23 — 31.12.24

Apparatus 22

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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 Fabregas

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

10.03.50 — ∞

15th century wall painting

Full Archive

Tentoonstellingen: Archive

31.05 — 30.06.24

Curatorial Studies

Grains of Sand Like Mountains

26.01 — 11.05.24

Lysandre Begijn

Archaïc Asylum

26.01 — 21.04.24

Sahjan Kooner

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Sluiten

Opening:
24.09.21 — 20:00

24.09.21 — ∞

Thomas Renwart

Sous les cieux et les nuages

Since 24 September 2021, Kunsthal Gent is presenting new work by textile artist Thomas Renwart as part of the Endless Exhibition.

Opening:
24.09.21 — 20:00

The work, Sous les cieux et les nuages (Beneath the Skies and the Clouds) was the first that Renwart was presenting using his birth name instead of his pseudonym of Les Monseigneurs. It is in the guise of Les Monseigneurs that Renwart has gained national and international recognition in recent years with his textile works and tapestries depicting large flowers, insects, and fantasy figures. His work has been exhibited in New York and Berlin, at the Milan Triennial, at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, and at Interieur Kortrijk.

Renwart was already a guest at Kunsthal Gent in 2020, with the temporary presentation of his installation Gilding The Lily at the Oud Huis (Old House), which is part of Kunsthal Gent. The work, which was produced for the Salone Del Mobile design fair in Milan, found a home there when the Italian fair was cancelled because of COVID-19, a switch that would become the prelude to an intensive period of collaboration. The new installation at Kunsthal Gent can be seen as a spatial intervention, an ever-evolving work in an architectural construction. The viewer / visitor can visit, enter and experience this almost sculptural approach from different angles and viewpoints. Several times a year, new canvases are placed on top of the work, allowing it to continue to grow and evolve.

The first series of images on the embroidered and digitally printed textiles emerged from an inexhaustible personal archive of butterfly stamps, which Renwart enlarged to surreal proportions. It is a reflection of our intimate collections, of what we keep as human beings, the kind of thing that stays somewhere in a little box or a drawer, almost forgotten. Yet the power and the poetic aspect of a stamp, of cards and letters sent, rely on conveying messages, good or bad. They always look like little paintings, carefully crafted somewhere, by someone. These textiles are intertwined with an impressive construction by architect and artist Olivier Goethals, made to measure for this spatial intervention.

The distinctive element of the Endless Exhibition is that each exhibition becomes permanent. The aim is to address the overproduction, mass consumption and fleeting attention span of today’s art world. Every new addition always puts pressure on the existing situation. The discussion about how the new relates to the existing work is therefore always a conversation with all of the artists involved. Renwart and Goethals reflected on the possibility of interaction within and through other elements that were already present in the Endless Exhibition. The bridge, now with covered space, becomes a true passage, and one which leads to the other side of Kunsthal.

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The Garden Edition

The butterflies originally added in September 2021 are now turned inwards, as if they could protect their visitors. The outer shell and second layer turns into memories and notes of a daffodil gardener, an intimate prospect, originating from a personal collection of the artist, just like the stamps in the first layer. Gardening is a universal practice; it’s something we do for finding inner peace, for shaping our own little Eden, for beauty or for scientific reasons. Some are memorial gardens, some are just lawns in public parks. A garden can be used as a living membrane, a way of not only cultivating flowers but also thoughts, possibilities, feelings, words, colours. The construction of Olivier Goethals is now also activated on the inside, and with the previous layer turned inside out, becoming a place where Renwart’s artistic practice can shed its layers.

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Thomas Renwart

Thomas Renwart (°1995) graduated in 2019 from LUCA School of Arts, where he gained his masters in Textiles. From there, he developed a textile practice in which craftsmanship and poetic representations of a universe are constantly coming together. Craftsmanship, technicality, locality, handicraft and a dose of poetic hooliganism all interfere with and challenge each other. From his collections of dried and pressed daffodils and other flowers, of butterflies and textiles, he creates hybrids of landscapes and still lifes. Renwart develops his own fantasy world, which he carefully translates into tangible matter, using techniques such as jacquard weaving, embroidery, quilting, and digital printing. In addition to his textile work, Renwart also has a love for making artist books. His first artist book Comme si de rien n’était was published in early 2021 by MER.B&L. For his artistic research, Renwart was awarded two Henry Van de Velde 2021 Awards. Thomas Renwart is represented by Bruthausgallery.

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