Exhibition
FAÇADE: Laure Prouvost
25/03/2023 — 01/09/2023
For the FAÇADE series, KANAL invites three artists to each create a work that, for a period of six months, will cover the immense exterior of the museum's future showroom.
Exhibition
Kamand Razavi
Corporatoria
17/09/2022 — 18/09/2022
What does it mean to feel at home? It’s a question photo and video artist Kamand Razavi was invited to explore as part of "Homelands, Places of Belonging", the community-based co-creative project led by newcomer artists, initiated by the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation. The Iranian artist, in partnership with Résidences Art and KANAL-Centre Pompidou, went to meet local groups in Brussels and Molenbeek in order to find an answer that could resonate and find meaning in each of us.
Exhibition
Between Future and Dust
Kinshasa (N)tóngá
23/09/2022 — 20/11/2022
Kinshasa (N)tóngá presents a unique vision of the Congolese capital, its development, and its urban structure. (N)tóngá means “needle” or “construction site” in Lingala and therefore refers to the informal course that characterises Kinshasa's evolution to date. The impact of colonialism and the influence it has had on the architecture of the third largest city on the African continent are the focus of the exhibition.
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Stephanie Ngalula
PERSPECTI.EF.VE
24/07/2022
The exhibition The Act of Breathing through the eyes of Stephanie Ngalula
In this subjective guided tour, artists or personalities from the visual arts’ world plays the role of mediator and shares with the public their artistic ‘crush’ and their own vision of the exhibition The Act of Breathing presented in Horst as part of the Living Traces project led by KANAL-Centre Pompidou.
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Cinematek
The Act of Breathing
23/06/2022 — 31/07/2022
Until 31 July, CINEMATEK presents a selection of 26 films as part of The Act of Breathing. The programme has been put together by the Belgian-Congolese filmmaker Monique Mbeka Phoba.
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Guided tours
The Act of Breathing
12/05/2022 — 31/07/2022
The Act of Breathing marks Horst’s ambitions to further nourish exchange and inspiration between the worlds of music and art. We are thrilled to welcome curator Sorana Munsya to curate alongside Horst’s Evelyn Simons, and are joining forces with KANAL-Centre Pompidou Brussels to bring a challenging line-up of artists to Belgium. The result will consist of 10 in-situ artworks engaging with the architectural and symbolic character of the Asiat military base.
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Café Congo
Congo, Mama Na Ngai !
30/06/2022 — 01/07/2022
Café Congo, an artistic, feminist, ‘decolonial’ and queer third place, will be hosting a folk/political festival in Brussels as only this place knows how around the anniversary of the independence of the Congo. Tucked away in Anderlecht in a former factory, Café Congo welcomes and honours the creations, reflections and resistance of Afro-descendants. It is headed by Gia Abrassart, an independent Congolese journalist and activist and is aimed at achieving a truly deconstructed culture.
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.
Exhibition
The Act of Breathing
29/04/2022 — 01/05/2022
12/05/2022 — 31/07/2022
The Act of Breathing is based on the poem L'Acte de Réspirer, by Congolese writer and poet Sony Labou Tansi and explores the breath - the repetitive and instinctive force that is also a necessity. As Labou Tansi reveals, the breath can also be used as a tool for political resistance, when even the right to breathe must be wilfully preserved.
Exhibition
Doppelgänger
08/09/2021 — 26/09/2021
Doppelgänger is an art stroll that brings together around ten emerging artists, who represent the dynamism and diversity of the Brussels' art scene. This exhibition appears in eight storefronts in a walk that runs from the Bourse/Beurs to Atelier KANAL from KANAL-Centre Pompidou.