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Canal Plan receives international urban planning prize
Minister-President Rudi Vervoort has today welcomed the award of the Grand Prize for Excellence to...
KANAL, the future museum for modern and contemporary art, has received a planning permit
The construction of the future contemporary and modern art centre can start
Friday, December 25, 2020 — After an international architecture competition, the KANAL Foundation...
The Brussels Canal Plan: a fine European example (video)
The European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN), released three videos on urban policies in Europe,...
Job offer: Head of Programme Delivery
KANAL is a new, interdisciplinary museum of modern and contemporary art in Brussels established by...
TalkMusicPerformance
The Act of Breathing: Notes on Fugitivity
16/09/2023
With The Act of Breathing: Notes on Fugitivity, curators Sorana Munsya and Evelyn Simons create a space-time in which to analyse the links between the struggle to breathe and the concept of Black fugitivity. The notion of Fugitivity, mainly developed in Black American and Caribbean literature, refers to the history of slavery and the flight of maroons from plantations. Here, we will be exploring how to translate this concept into a contemporary Belgian postcolonial context.
PerformanceScreening
Paula Almiron and Wouter De Raeve
Swamp Sacrifices
24/02/2024
Since 2021, artists Paula Almiron and Wouter De Raeve have been working in Brussels’ Northern Quarter to investigate the impact of urban planning on local communities. The neighbourhood, like many others in the city, is located in a large swampy area, which was drained to provide space for the growing city. The swamp buried under the asphalt streets of Brussels serves as a starting point of Swamp Sacrifices, a two-day programme of performances, a concert, screenings, and talks.
KANAL – Centre Pompidou A prefigurative year: 5 May 2018 > June 2019 Opening 5 May 2018
On 5 May 2018, KANAL – Centre Pompidou will open its doors in the former Citroën Yser garage in...
Brussels Water Days
Meeting along the waterside Brussels - Canal
On 22 March the World Water Day is celebrated. In Brussels, the Brussels Water Days take place from...
Press release: A prefigurative year
5 May 2018 > 10 June 2019
On 5 May 2018, KANAL – Centre Pompidou will open its doors in the former Citroën Yser garage in...
Exhibition
Entre futur et poussière
Kinshasa-(N)tonga
22/03/2022 — 22/04/2022
This project presents a confrontation between the rigid grid layout designed for the city and the human aspect and the fluid sensations therein; it is a combination of a multitude of fantasies around Kinshasa, a megalopolis of over ten million inhabitants. Kinshasa is a vast, sprawling city, often labelled as individualistic due to its SAPEUR (Dandy) character that has been built up in successive layers over several centuries.
Pompidou Centre (Paris) partners the Citroën-Yser cultural centre
T he Minister-President of the Brussels Region, Rudi Vervoort, and the president of the Georges...
Presentation of the project’s main actors
The Kanal Foundation Created by the Brussels-Capital Region, the KANAL Foundation’s first mission is to successfully carry out the conversion of the Citroën garage located on Place de l’Yser into a major cultural hub of the capital of Europe. The site will host a museum of modern and contemporary...