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Rita Hoofwijk
Without Us
22/04/2021
23/04/2021
24/04/2021
25/04/2021
Without Us is an audio-performance you can listen to via your smartphone in the COVID closed tearoom of KANAL. We hear the voice of artist Rita Hoofwijk who takes us on a journey through time.
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Kris Verdonck
ISOS
15/04/2021 — 18/04/2021
Kris Verdonck makes in ISOS reference to the world and characters depicted in the apocalyptic science-fiction novels by James Graham Ballard (GB, 1930-2009). Ballard portrays in his Magic Realistic stories and autobiographical works, intelligent and visionary descriptions of a future world which increasingly resembles our contemporary neoliberal society. ISOS consists of 3D videos shown in nine view-boxes where virtual sculptures perform in the strained socio-political situation that is called suburbia.
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Hall & Tea Room
It Never Ends – Bureau Barbier Bouvet
24/09/2020 — 25/04/2021
For It Never Ends, John M Armleder proposed to Bureau Barbier Bouvet – a studio founded by French, Swiss trained, Brussels based artist and designer Stéphane Barbier Bouvet – to conceive the spatial strategy for the entrance hall, the welcome desk of the Showroom, and the Café / Tea Room around which the Level 0 of the exhibition is organized.
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It Never Ends – Sylvie Fleury
04/02/2021 — 25/04/2021
The Swiss artist, a major figure on the international stage since the 1990s, relentlessly creates hybrids of art, fashion and counterculture in her fascinating, ever-evolving oeuvre. For It Never Ends, she presents a huge mushroom in gold resin, which glows in the industrial space of level 2 of the KANAL Showroom.
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Nick Steur
Freeze - Concrete Thoughts
22/04/2021
23/04/2021
24/04/2021
25/04/2021
The last weekend of It Never Ends is also the last chance to visit the five floors of the former showroom of the Citroën garage. Especially for this occasion, Nick Steur will be creating a new and profoundly fragile installation made from rubble. During the first renovation phase at KANAL, he collected fragments of masonry that had formed part of the building's structure. He uses them to build a new installation of meticulously balanced sculptures of discarded concrete.
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”””CHARLEWORLDSSS CREATORSSS CARILLONNN”””””
It Never Ends – Charlemagne Palestine
24/09/2020 — 25/04/2021
The unclassifiable artist, pioneering musician and tireless experimenter Charlemagne Palestine will install a monumental carillon on the ground floor of the Showroom for a period of seven months. Based in Brussels, this leading figure of the American avant-garde proposes to activate this invasive installation regularly on the occasion of hypnotic concerts.
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Mette Ingvartsen
THE BLUE PIECE
20/03/2021 — 21/03/2021
21/03/2021 — 22/03/2021
24/04/2021 — 25/04/2021
We are constantly surrounded by images of sexual bodies. Commercials, Internet, cinema, magazines – all kinds of media – expose the intimate and the erogenous. Flesh, fluids, skin, tits and asses no longer belong to late hours in a dark joint somewhere around the corner, but to our daily life impressions. The option to switch off the stimulation of our bodily desires no longer exists. Pleasure has become a must. The Blue Piece is an installation version for two performers of "to come", an earlier work for five performers made by Mette Ingvartsen in 2005.
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EVELIEN CAMMAERT & JORIS PERDIEUS
GRAMMATICA
06/03/2021 — 07/03/2021
11/03/2021 — 14/03/2021
In an intriguing, serene installation, artist Evelien Cammaert and visual artist Joris Perdieus dissect the process of creating an artwork. They drape a composition of various coloured cloths on an empty canvas.
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Concept & activation: Evelien Cammaert & Joris Perdieus
Video: Sam Wodinski
Dramaturgical advice: Bart Van Den Eynde
Thanks to: M-Leuven, STUK, C-Takt, Vlaams Kunstendecreet, TINY THINGS vzw, CC Brugge