New acquisitions 2025

"Fragility and poetry are powerful weapons against superficiality, levelling and idiocy." Words by Harald Thys, expressed during a conversation about the new acquisitions in the Kanal collection, which certainly ring true. Discover the artworks and interviews with their creators.

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12 artworks

Exhibition hall with tall brick columns and a long sculptural installation running down the centre.
© Courtesy of the artist and Venice Biennale. Photo: Andrea Avezzù and Italo Rondinella
Eight large framed photo collages of buildings in desert landscapes.
© Aglaia Konrad
A person runs through a dark archway towards a courtyard with the gate of the Petit Château in the background.
© Charif Benhelima
A large, curved screen surrounded by wooden panels shows two women on an Art Nouveau staircase.
© Courtesy of the artist. Installation view: The Work of the Forest, CIVA, Brussels, 2023
Colourful abstract felt pieces hung in pairs over black wooden frames.
© Courtesy of the artist and Art Encounter Biennale, Timisoara
A textile artwork featuring a mechanical device with twenty-five images that appear to be operated by the surrounding cranks. Text at the bottom of the tapestry reads "out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but nouns. The other project was, a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever, […] "since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary".
© Ana Torfs