WorkshopCommons

A workshop with Emanuel Almborg, Graziela Kunsch and Penny Wilson (Assemble Play) on alternative pedagogies

29/10/2024

Please join us for a workshop on alternative child pedagogies. After a brief introduction, we will divide into three groups focusing on different practices: Graziela Kunsch will lead a practical experiment involving fine, dry sand and perforated materials (such as funnels and pasta strainers), using the Strandgut playspace created by Ute Strub in Berlin as a case study. Emanuel Almborg’s group will focus on the research practice and politics of observing infants, delving into theories of child development and observation as a scientific and documentary film approach.

Guided tour

Sara Oualad (MolenGeek)

Perspecti·ef·ve tours

12/10/2023

Discover the Connecting exhibition through the eyes of Sara Oualad, deputy director of MolenGeek, a technology incubator and ecosystem at the heart of Molenbeek. MolenGeek's mission is to make the digital technology sector accessible to everyone, through coworking spaces, training programmes and events like conferences and hackathons. For KANAL-Centre Pompidou, MolenGeek designed the microsite connecting.kanal.brussels, where you can discover the exhibition content and the digital works available online. 

Guided tour

Lucia Garcia (iMAL)

Perspecti·ef·ve

28/10/2023

Discover the Connecting exhibition through the eyes of Lucia Garcia, the general director of iMAL, a space dedicated to artistic practices linked to the creative and critical use of new technologies. Just a stone's throw from KANAL, on the Quai des Charbonnages in Molenbeek, iMAL brings together a community of artists and citizens from Belgium and abroad, offering an open space for research, production and presentation.

Family

Recyclart

Bouncy Museum

12/09/2024

A museum like no other, open and mobile, fun and soft, inflatable and participatory!

Sculptor Lucas Engels created this playful artistic installation by sewing together PVC tarpaulins collected from trucking companies. It explores the chaos, coded signs and bouncing rhythms of the city, inviting the public to join the fray.

Guided tour

Guided walks

Doppelgänger

18/09/2021 — 19/09/2021

19/09/2021 — 20/09/2021

25/09/2021 — 26/09/2021

A walk to discover the eleven projects that are part of the Doppelgänger exhibition and that gives all the keys to read the works selected by the curators Pauline Salinas and Hervé Charles.

• Guided tours on Saturdays 11/18/25 of September and on Sunday September 19 (*car-free Sunday in Brussels)

Guided tour

Guided tour in Belgian French sign language (LSFB)

29/10/2023

Technology is omnipresent in our daily lives, but what do our online relationships actually represent? How do we inhabit a community through an app? What does it mean to be friends through platforms and avatars? And is there room for love in the metaverse? Connecting traces the links between physical reality and the digital world.

1 Avenue du port, 1000 Brussels. 

Guided tour

Avec : Véronique Clette-Gabuka

PERSPECTI.EF.VE

12/06/2022

The exhibition ‘The Act of Breathing' through the eyes of Véronique Clette-Gabuka

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.

VERONIQUE CLETTE-GABUKA 

Live Performance

Borderline Visible - Ant Hampton

Time Based Editions #1

02/11/2023

02/11/2023

Time Based Editions’ new format presents ‘audio and visual’ as separate elements, held together in the present through a physical synchronisation of our hands. Together we dive into a here-and-now of the page: printed photography brought alive by a soundscape that both guides and surrounds us.

Rendez-vousGuided tour

Exclusive visits

Heritage days at KANAL

18/09/2021 — 19/09/2021

19/09/2021 — 20/09/2021

A marked-out circuit in the heart of the building site. All along the route, the KANAL staff and the mediation team will give explanations and answers to your questions. Musical animation by Fanfakids.

Canal Plan receives international urban planning prize

An Autumn with Romeo Castellucci

Romeo Castellucci in Brussels

DREAM CITY FESTIVAL

FROM TUNIS FOR BRUSSELS

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.

Commons

With Fleur Courtois, Silvia Mesturini, Marie Moreau (co-founder of the now defunct Bureau des dépositions), Erika Sprey, Mihnea Tănăsescu & Agency

Dreaming of the Commons. How can we keep collective practices alive?

14/12/2024

For a year now, the Brussels collective Agency has been busy "dreaming" its future, building a "praticauthèque" [library of practices] and compiling a growing archive of "boundary things" on intersection and outer limits of the law, activism and art. These processes and practices, activated through assemblies and events, are the legacy of artist Kobe Matthys, who passed away last year. But how do we keep them going?   

Guided tourInstallation

Lisa Matthys + Ictus

KANAL Tours

14/09/2024

15/09/2024

21/09/2024

22/09/2024

At the end of 2025, KANAL-Centre Pompidou will finally open its doors. Are you curious to see the progress of the construction works? Do you want to catch a glimpse of what the museum will look like, and the many rooms and experiences it has to offer? Then why not join a guided tour during MolenFest!

Origamis for Erasmus Hospital

Parade

Closing day MolenFest

22/09/2024

On its final Sunday, we wrap up MolenFest with a series of festive interventions in the public space, connecting the canal zone to the heart of Brussels, the Grand Place.

Rendez-vous

Vlatka Horvat

Beginnings Marathon

25/04/2021 — 26/04/2021

We have all had an extraordinary and difficult year. Our world came to a partial standstill. We are longing for a new beginning. But how do we begin again? Do we start where we ended in March 2020? Or will it be the beginning of something totally different? Do we start again cautiously or will it be the new roaring twenties? And should we be looking for that one new beginning? The importance and the danger of a new beginning amidst the 'post-crisis' vulnerability cannot be overestimated.

Living Traces

An artistic collaboration between Kinshasa and Brussels