Performance

Jocelyn Cottencin

MONUMENTAL

27/06/2019 — 28/06/2019

A highlight of KANAL-Centre Pompidou’s programme, Monumental by Jocelyn Cottencin is scheduled once again on 27 June, as part of the closing Festival of KANAL BRUT.

Performance

Jocelyn Cottencin

MONUMENTAL

15/03/2019 — 17/03/2019

For several years, visual artist Jocelyn Cottencin has been conducting a reflection on form, image, signs and space through recurrent themes such as the group and the community.

For his projects he uses installations, film, graphic design, performances and the book. Quite logically, Monumental is a project that moves borders.

Monumental seeks to activate a visual and collective memory originating in representations of our history, in particular the history of art, or media and contemporary events.

Installation

Peggy Lee Cooper & KNEPH

(All dressed up and) nowhere to go

24/04/2021 — 25/04/2021

25/04/2021 — 26/04/2021

Through this ephemeral installation in front of the KANAL - Centre Pompidou in Brussels, Peggy Lee Cooper and KNEPH explore these feelings that overwhelm us in recent months: loneliness, alienation, lack of human contact or with the audience.

Performance

at Kaaitheater

Performing Art - Noé Soulier

22/03/2019 — 23/03/2019

Now that the body has increasingly entered museums, choreographer and philosopher Noé Soulier has chosen to explore the reverse movement: what if it was the artworks that adapted themselves to a new space instead of the body? In Performing Art, spectators observe 20 works of art from the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Pompidou. Not by strolling through a museum, but from the comfort of their theatre seat. The actors are the technicians of the museum who unpack the artworks onstage according to a well-defined protocol.

TalkMusicPerformance

The Act of Breathing: Notes on Fugitivity

16/09/2023

With The Act of Breathing: Notes on Fugitivity, curators Sorana Munsya and Evelyn Simons create a space-time in which to analyse the links between the struggle to breathe and the concept of Black fugitivity. The notion of Fugitivity, mainly developed in Black American and Caribbean literature, refers to the history of slavery and the flight of maroons from plantations. Here, we will be exploring how to translate this concept into a contemporary Belgian postcolonial context.

KANAL-Centre Pompidou & #windowmuseum for Visit.Brussels Awards 2021

25.05.2021

New curatorial appointments at KANAL-Centre Pompidou

Press release 05.10.2022

‘A Stage for Brussels’ wins the international competition

A project by the architecture offices NOA, EM2N & SERGISON BATES

Rendez-vous

Ninon Mazeaud

Beguinage Stories

24/04/2021

25/04/2021

The church of Saint John the Baptist in the Brussels Beguinage, not too far from Place Sainte-Catherine, has been occupied by more than 150 undocumented immigrants ever since January 30th, 2021. In its recent history, it has not been the first time that a group of women, men and children have taken over the church as a battlefield with one common goal: the regularisation of all undocumented immigrants in Belgium.

NOA/EM2N/SERGISON BATES win the international architecture competititon

Exhibition

IN SITU: art on display in windows

08/05/2020 — 28/08/2020

Between the 8th may and August 28th 2020, KANAL- Centre Pompidou, in collaboration with the new platform #windowmuseum, will present the exhibition IN SITU. This first exhibition to emerge in the context of the current crisis seeks to answer the question: ‘How can we continue to exhibit artworks today?’ IN SITU will be part of a series of exhibitions curated by #windowmuseum at three venues: KANAL-Centre-Pompidou in Brussels, the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris, and BPS 22 in Charleroi.

PerformanceConcert

Ula Sickle & Stine Janvin

NIGHT SHIFT II

29/06/2023

30/06/2023

Echoic Choir, a collaboration between singer, performer, and sound artist Stine Janvin and choreographer Ula Sickle, takes clubbing back to its core. The pure voices of a choir occupy the space, replacing the booming speakers of a club, while the performance explores the ritual of dance that unites in the small hours of the morning.

Press release from the KANAL Foundation

25.06.2021

Workshop

BRUT-ART

PIAZZA DELL’ARTE

25/06/2019 — 28/06/2019

29/06/2019 — 01/07/2019

Piazza dell’Arte is a cultural-educational association that organizes art workshops for young people aged 14 and over. During Festival Kanal, the former Citroën garage will be their creative home base for a week.

MIXED MEDIA // VISUALS // SCULPTURAL ART // INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS

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 

KANAL – Centre Pompidou A prefigurative year: 5 May 2018 > June 2019 Opening 5 May 2018

IN SITU: art on display in windows

Showing art during the lockdown: escaping the virtual museum with #windowmuseum