Talk

John M Armleder in conversation with Rectangle (Aline Melaet, Pierre-Pol Lecouturier and Xavier Pauwels)

Tea Time #2

25/09/2020 — 26/09/2020

Rectangle, an independent art space in Brussels, has been committed since 2012, to researching different ways of showing and experiencing art. One particular example by the collective was the production of a series of exhibitions that gained notoriety via the rental of a billboard in the Saint-Gilles district and by turning this advertising space into the site for the exhibition. In parallel with It Never Ends, Rectangle invited John M Armleder to create an exhibition in a public space. The artist called it "Isocèle".

The Fondation Kanal moves into the Citroën Yser building

Rendez-vous

RUN KANAL RUN

25/05/2019 — 26/05/2019

01/06/2019 — 02/06/2019

08/06/2019 — 09/06/2019

15/06/2019 — 16/06/2019

A combination of jogging and art? Why not! In collaboration with Brussels Sightjogging tours, an organization that combines sightseeing and jogging, discover the canal area in a unique way. As you jog you’ll learn more about the street art and graffiti along the canal and about the canal area itself, a fascinating zone that is bustling with creative energy. The run ends at Kanal-Centre Pompidou!

WorkshopFamily

Arlette Vermeiren

AD INFINITUM

06/03/2021 — 07/03/2021

07/03/2021 — 08/03/2021

Weaving workshop

Arlette Vermeiren lives in Brussels. She has taught at the Fine Arts Academy of Tournai and was artistic director of textile research at TAMAT. She has mastered silk paper as well as packaging for citrus fruits and chocolate. Taken apart, recomposed and rewoven, she assembles them by hand and without any accessories, with neither thread nor glue, in columns, walls or curtains.

Concert

Giovanni Di Domenico

Keep Calm & Carillon

23/04/2021 — 24/04/2021

A carillon, transformed into a sculpture by artist Charlemagne Palestine, has adorned the ground floor of KANAL since September. The intention was to play this beautiful instrument on a regular basis. For an indoor live audience this is no longer possible for the time being. But a carillon cannot be confined! On April 23rd & 25th KANAL will present two concerts that you can listen to outside, in the public space around KANAL. The concerts will also be streamed via our webradio Studio K

GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO

Party

Benjemy and Jupiter & Okwess

Dream City: Closing Night

13/04/2024 — 14/04/2024

A closing party with Benjemy and Jupiter & Okwess. 

The six-member band Jupiter & Okwess features a mix of afropop, funk and rock. Frontman Jupiter Bokondji and his band collect Congolese rhythms and melodies by the dozen. Just ask Damon Albarn, Money Mark and Ana Tijoux.

Screening

Chantal Akerman

Je tu il elle

12/09/2018

13/09/2018

14/09/2018

15/09/2018

16/09/2018

17/09/2018

26/09/2018

27/09/2018

28/09/2018

29/09/2018

30/09/2018

01/10/2018

Je: a young woman alone at home moves her furniture around, eventually pushing it against the wall and laying down on the floor. Tu: while eating sugar with a teaspoon, she writes letters. The days pass, the pages accumulate. Il: after several weeks spent tearing up and starting the letters anew, she goes out at night and meets a trucker. He talks about himself, about desire, about his relationship to women. Elle: in the middle of the night, the girl goes to a woman friend, who first rejects her, then shares her meal and bed with her.

DIY Emotypo

Kids Workshop

Book launch

Nicholas Lewis & Anne Wetsi Mpoma

Colonial Tales, Trails and Traces

15/10/2022

Book launch and presentation of Nicolas Lewis' Colonial Tales, Trails and Traces, published in 2022. The book focuses on the traces of colonial history in the public space of Brussels, such as monuments and street names. During this event, the author enters into conversation with art historian and gallerist Anne Wetsi Mpoma. DJ set by Mambele to follow.

Music

Late Thursday at KANAL

Nova Materia

22/10/2020 — 23/10/2020

Discover our Late Thursday @Kanal, every Thursday until 10 pm. Music For Museum with Nova Materia.

Rendez-vous

A MetX Project by Laurent Blondiau, Bodé Owa & Joachim Noël

BAKANAÏ

24/06/2022

22/07/2022

• 24/6, rue Michel Zwaabstraat, 19:00

• 22/7, rue Picardstraat, 17:00

A mutant from the HaFaBra family? A hip hop crew popping up without warning? Or a sound painting event? Bakanaï is a colourful collectif ft. brass, percussion and choreography, directed by Laurent Blondiau, Bodé Owa and Joachim Noël.

A public VUB-ULB seminar @ KANAL-Pompidou

THE IMMORTALS

23/05/2019 — 24/05/2019

OR HOW TO HANDLE THE OLD STANDARD OF THE CANON IN A NEW CENTURY?

Guided tour

Guided tour with the curators

07/10/2023

Join Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx, who curated "Connecting", for a behind-the-scenes tour of the exhibition. Cueto and Hendrikx share their perspectives, explain how the exhibition came to be and reveal the exhibition's many underlying narratives.

Talk

with Pauline de La Boulaye and Lucia Pietroiusti

Laure Prouvost in conversation

15/06/2023

The conversation aims to explore new perspectives around public space and urbanism, nature and ecology, and ask how the city’s inhabitants can imagine new and better ways of living together.

FESTIVAL KANAL

A festival for the closing of KANAL BRUT

Performance

Performed by Bryana Fritz

Lecture on Nothing, John Cage

15/10/2020 — 16/10/2020

Non-conformist as he was, John Cage chose to turn a lecture about his music into a work that is not even a lecture (at the most, it keeps up appearances) and is not even about his music. "Nothing" is literally the most important subject, in a text in which Cage collects anecdotes, makes references to Zen Buddhism (which he was deeply involved in at the time) and above all plays an amusing game with the audience's expectations.

PUBLIC SPACE

Talk

Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Kitchen Talks

16/05/2024

23/05/2024

30/05/2024

If "parties always end in the kitchen", it's because we cook much more than just food there. Every Thursday of the festival, two artists or collectives engage in conversation around cooking in the KVS foyer.

Performance

Kunstenfestivaldesarts

I...Cognitive maps - Chapter 1 - Ely Daou

29/05/2019 — 31/05/2019

What do you remember about a room? Or about an apartment or space you lived in, but which no longer exists or where you never went back to. In I... Cognitive Maps - Chapter 1 artist Ely Daou, born in Beirut in 1986, travels through his memory – and history – attempting to sketch the different apartments and living spaces he occupied during and just after the Lebanese Civil War. The architectural details – as they are remembered or perhaps transformed by the artist’s memory – become the starting points for re-entering both the spaces and the past. I...