Performance

Prisca Tankwey

Leopoldville mourning

23/09/2022

During her performance Leopoldville mourning, Tankwey takes the participants in a funeral procession from the Monument au Travail (Rue Claessens, 1020 Brussels) to the church of Laeken, where Belgian royalty including Leopold II is buried. Pulling at arm's length a tombstone adorned with archival photographs of Léopoldville, the public follows the artist in this funeral procession to the entrance of the church to symbolically bury the colonial city.

Book launch

Estelle Lecaille, Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet, Quentin Nicolaï & Sophie Sénécaut

sika magazine #3

20/10/2022

Sika brings together contributions from authors, artists and theoreticians. It is conceived as a space for transnational and postcolonial reflections on the historical power relations that continue to operate in our world. The third issue of the journal addresses issues of toxicity and contagion. The presentation will be followed by a sound performance by Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet and Quentin Nicolaï - based on the text "̶d̶é̶p̶a̶y̶s̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶" published in sika #3-, and a reading by Sophie Sénécaut of the text "La corde" by Aïko Solovkine.

Party

Benjemy and Jupiter & Okwess

Dream City: Closing Night

13/04/2024 — 14/04/2024

A closing party with Benjemy and Jupiter & Okwess. 

The six-member band Jupiter & Okwess features a mix of afropop, funk and rock. Frontman Jupiter Bokondji and his band collect Congolese rhythms and melodies by the dozen. Just ask Damon Albarn, Money Mark and Ana Tijoux.

TalkScreening

Pan-African Arts and Archives

Projecting Congo

15/03/2024

Congolese rumba and Lumumba as an international icon of resistance are some of the best-known examples of the Congolese addition to pan-African thought. However, the country’s contributions to feminism and quilombismo, an emancipatory philosophy that originated in Afro-Brazilian communities, are less recognized. This one-day conference explores how all these artistic and intellectual productions born in the wake of pan-African ideas have travelled to and from Central Africa; how it resonates with the present and shapes new futures. Together, these discussions propose a renewed outlook upon the relationship between Panafricanism, arts and archives from a Congo's perspective.

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.

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!

Podcast

Rokia Bamba

Sororités, conversations with my sistas

08/10/2022

Rokia Bamba, radio maker, sound artist, DJ and Afro-feminist art-ivist from Brussels, welcomes  female artists to her podcast. Recorded live in Brussels, these conversations traverse intimacy and politics through themes of intersectionality, feminism, decolonization, care, representationof women, and music. In the framework of Kinshasa (N)tóngá, this conversation with Gia Abrassart and Leïla El-Mahi is recorded live from K1.

ScreeningExhibition

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.

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.

Dance

Filipe Lourenço

Pulse(s) in Situ

07/04/2024

A solo dance performance driven by the pulsating rhythms of ritual dances.

ScreeningTalk

Renaud Barret

System K

17/11/2022

18/11/2022

System K, a film by Renaud Barret from 2018, portrays the artistic scene of Kinshasa. It depicts the social, political, and cultural context of Kinshasa, and shows the ways in which a vibrant performance scene emerges despite harassment from the authorities and the artists' personal difficulties..

There will be a Q&A with director Renaud Barret moderated by Ayoko Mensah (Artistic Programmer at BOZAR) after the screening (17.11).

Dance

Sara Dziri

Black Hole

12/09/2024

An invitation to enter an imaginary rave space

Black Hole is a music and dance performance by DJ and sound artist Sara Dziri, who, together with dancer-choreographer Yasmina Tayoub, explores the intersections of rave culture and North-African trance traditions. Drawing from Sara Dziri’s research on trance practices in Egypt and Tunisia, the performance invites the audience into an imaginary rave space between dark escapism and otherworldly bliss.

PerformanceReading

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Daght Jawi

06/04/2024

Listening to a soundtrack of violence on a daily basis.

Book launch

Nicholas Lewis & Anne Wetsi Mpoma

Colonial Tales, Trails and Traces

15/10/2022

Book launch and presentation of Nicolas Lewis' Colonial Tales, Trails and Traces, published in 2022. The book focuses on the traces of colonial history in the public space of Brussels, such as monuments and street names. During this event, the author enters into conversation with art historian and gallerist Anne Wetsi Mpoma. DJ set by Mambele to follow.

Guided tourExhibition

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.

Workshop

Seppe Baeyens, Al Qasy Saif Quasi, Stef Heeren

Atelier Leon

14/07/2022 — 17/07/2022

24/07/2022

31/07/2022

• 14,15,16,17/07, Rue de l’Intendant - Opzichterstraat, 13:00-16:00

• 24/07, Rue Picardstraat, 14:00-17:00

• 31/07, Rue de la Meuse - Maasstraat, 14:00-17:00

Performance

Danae Theodoridou

The Practice of Democracy / The adversaries

21/09/2024

22/09/2024

22/09/2024

What is the link between the current crisis of democracy and the fact that Western societies are banning conflict and discussion from the public sphere? How can we make our different opinions visible and debate them? And how do we make sure it won’t end in polarization?

Workshop

Teresa Sdralevich

Open Streetwear

01/07/2022

02/07/2022

23/07/2022

30/07/2022

26/08/2022

• 01/07, RUE MICHEL ZWAABSTRAAT, 16:00-18:30

• 02/07, RUE DE L’INTENDANT - Opzichterstraat, 11:00-13:30

• 23/07, RUE PICARDSTRAAT, 16:00-18:30

• 30/07, RUE DE LA MEUSE- Maasstraat, 15:00-17:30

• 26/08, RUE ULENSSTRAAT, 13:00-16:00

Performance

Renato Miskolczi

Flies

26/08/2022

• 26/08, RUE ULENSSTRAAT, 15:30 - 18:30

Exploring the space between installation and performance, FLIES is an in situ piece that ‘activates’ the vertical plane. Four performers suspended by rope move through evolving cycles of jumping, falling, and running. By inhabiting (traditionally regarded) uninhabitable space, FLIES invites the audience to look at the world from a new perspective. A moment to notice, and give time to, the familiar surfaces that normally go unnoticed in our day to day activities.

CREDITS

ScreeningTalk

Bouchra Khalili in conversation with Joachim Ben Yakoub

The Tempest Society

05/04/2024

Three Athenians from different backgrounds form a group to examine the current state of Greece, Europe, and the Mediterranean. They get together on a theatre stage that is being used as a public space.