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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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It Never Ends – Christian Marclay

04/02/2021 — 07/03/2021

Christian Marclay’s work which stands at the crossroads of visual arts and sound, has focused since the late 1970s on the connection between music, objects, films, and images. Organised around two major works by the London-based Swiss American artist that were produced two decades apart, this exhibition reveals the artist's continued focus on the musical symbols present in our everyday lives, like the many calls to act out our existence.

It Never Ends - John M Armleder & Guests

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Treasure hunt

Collecting never ends

04/04/2021

07/04/2021

14/04/2021

John Armelder is sad. Easter Bells hid a surprise somewhere in his exhibition at KANAL, but John can’t find it. He looked everywhere: among his friend Charlemagne’s collection of teddy bears, in the pine trees growing on the ceiling and even around the cold campfire…

Will you help John to find his surprise? Equipped with a treasure map full of mysterious clues, and accompanied by a guide who will help you to understand john’s artworks, you will lead the investigation. And who knows, maybe you will leave with a gourmet surprise …

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Big Bird (Homage to Caroll Spinney)

IT NEVER ENDS – Domenico Battista, Thomas Downing, Olivier Mosset

18/03/2021 — 25/04/2021

John M Armleder has always had a passion both for the beauty and strangeness of popular culture and for the visual radicalism of geometric abstraction. This exhibition once more shows how the artist connects the worlds of childhood and abstract painting, of humour and conceptual rigour. And yet the title of this exhibition should not mislead visitors: it refers only obliquely to Caroll Spinney, actor and puppeteer of the children’s TV series Sesame Street throughout the 1970s, who died in 2019.

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Homage to George Maciunas and Dick Higgins

It Never Ends – Flux Boxes and Intermedial Objects

04/02/2021 — 07/03/2021

In the 60s and 70s, a host of figures from within the Fluxus galaxy, under the impetus of the artist George Maciunas, produced Flux Boxes: this limited series contained all kinds of objects - miniature works, musical scores, poems, etc. and were sold at low prices thus fulfilling the goal of rendering art that was meant to be democratic and internationalist accessible to all.

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None of the Above, 2004 – 2020

24/09/2020 — 27/12/2020

For this exhibition, John M Armleder invited around 50 artists from all over the world to present a work of art either no bigger than a postage stamp, or one that is immaterial: the result is an exhibition in which the works are either there to be discovered, or they are invisible.

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Rendez-vous

Nocturne at KANAL

22/04/2021 — 23/04/2021

As part of Brussels Museum Nocturnes, KANAL-Centre Pompidou exceptionally opens its doors by night on April 22nd! KANAL invites you to an evening full of art and surprises through the It Never Ends exhibition. (Re)Discover by night the multidimensional artistic proposal conceived and staged by John M Armleder.

KANAL is one of the 22 museums in Brussels taking part in the event Brussels Museum Nocturnes.

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QUARANTEENS @ KANAL: SLAM BATTLE OF THE QUARANTEENS!

17/02/2021 — 18/02/2021

18/02/2021 — 19/02/2021

19/02/2021 — 20/02/2021

In this workshop, our quaranteens challenge each other to a real slam battle!

But first, let’s discover the wonderful world of John M Armleder together during a guided tour and take inspiration from his work. After the tour, the teenagers will work separately with a slam artist.

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QUARANTEENS @ KANAL: SLAM BATTLE OF THE GENERATIONS!

14/02/2021 — 15/02/2021

20/02/2021 — 21/02/2021

Things are going very hard between parents and young people during this 'Slam Battle of the Generations'. There is no question of cooperation, on the contrary! Young people and parents are diametrically opposed to each other and challenge each other to a slam battle!

But first, let’s discover the wonderful world of John M Armleder together during a guided tour and take inspiration from his work. After the tour, the teenagers will work separately with a slam artist.

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QUARANTEENS @ KANAL: Screen prints on fabric

21/02/2021 — 22/02/2021

Did you know KANAL has its own mini print shop? In an era of digital technology and large-scale reproduction, our mini-print shop gives you the opportunity to experiment with different types of printing techniques and materials. 

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QUARANTEENS @ KANAL: PLANTASTIC!

14/02/2021 — 15/02/2021

17/02/2021 — 18/02/2021

John M Armleder often incorporates plants and flowers in his work, both real and artificial. He hangs Christmas trees upside-down from the ceiling of the museum, for example, or plants artificial flowers in car tyres. During this workshop we will be working with real plants and flowers and you will be making your own herbarium!

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QUARANTEENS @ KANAL: DANCE BATTLE OF THE GENERATIONS!

14/02/2021 — 15/02/2021

20/02/2021 — 21/02/2021

The gloves really come off between parents and children during the Battle of the Generations. Collaboration is off the cards – just the opposite actually! Children and parents face and challenge each other in a freestyle dance battle!

But first, let’s discover the wonderful world of John M Armleder together during a guided tour and take inspiration from his works. After the tour, parents and children will head off independently, each working with their own freestyle performer.

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QUARANTEENS @ KANAL: DANCE BATTLE OF THE QUARANTEENS!

17/02/2021 — 18/02/2021

21/02/2021 — 22/02/2021

The gloves really come off between parents and children during the "Battle of the Quaranteens". Collaboration is off the cards – just the opposite actually! Children and parents face and challenge each other in a freestyle dance battle!

But first, let’s discover the wonderful world of John M Armleder together during a guided tour and take inspiration from his works. After the tour, parents and children will head off independently, each working with their own freestyle performer.
 

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QUARANTEENS @ KANAL: COLLAGE TRUT!

20/02/2021 — 21/02/2021

John M Armleder was still very young (between 12 and 15 years old) when he joined up with a number of friends and, encouraged by their art teacher and rowing instructor, founded the artist collective Ecart. Ecart organised entertaining, creative and artistic sports and leisure activities and later developed into a bookshop, gallery and printing house, which printed collective artworks and publications on paper.

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It never ends - John M Armleder & Guests

Postponed

04/04/2020

Coronavirus in Belgium: KANAL-Centre Pompidou is postponing the opening date of the exhibition ‘It Never Ends’. Following the decisions taken on Thursday 12 March by the National Security Council imposing, among other things, the cancellation of all cultural activities in Belgium, KANAL, in consultation with the regional authorities, the Centre Pompidou and the artist John M Armleder, is postponing the opening of the exhibition ‘It Never Ends’ scheduled for 2 April 2020.