Symposium

Boring, three evenings of soil readings

04/09/2025 — 06/09/2025

A symposium around soil that roots around for forgotten stories and future dreams

Decoratelier has temporarily moved into an abandoned factory in Molenbeek that sits on highly polluted ground. A thick slab of concrete prevents oil, chemicals and heavy metals from seeping into the daily life and work above ground. But what are we walking on, really? What would we discover if we had a closer look at the soil beneath our feet? What invisible histories and alternative tales would we unearth?

Symposium

AFIELD FORUM

27/09/2024 — 29/09/2024

For its 10th anniversary, AFIELD launches a public forum centered on artists as drivers of social change. Faced with an increasingly urgent and complex crisis, the field of art and culture is compelled to take more concrete actions for social and ecological justice. In line with its mission, AFIELD embarks on a three-year cycle of international meetings that aim to shed new light on the role of art in society.
 

Symposium

Queer Exhibition Histories

03/06/2023

This symposium examines the efforts of artists and curators from the LGBTQIA+ community to show their work in European museums and society at large over the past decades.

Symposium

Panafrica: Image, Sound, Text

09/06/2023

Focusing on iconography, aurality and poetry, this symposium examines how certain artistic and aesthetic practices of the 20th century shaped Pan-African thought. This event is organized in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona.