Olivier Goethals (BE)

#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#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|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#91: Embrace doubt.|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#107: Build a community / scene.|#34: We pay artists.|#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.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#4: Pay what you can.|#111: Do it together.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#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|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#91: Embrace doubt.|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#107: Build a community / scene.|#34: We pay artists.|#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.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#4: Pay what you can.|#111: Do it together.|