Screening

POOL 6:33 / SHIPWRECK 8:16 / STABLE 4:59 / LIGHT 4:56 / SMOKE 6:36 / CONDOR 8:30 / CIVILISATION 3:26 / TREE 4:47 / OX 3:27

Patagonian Fieldworks (Fieldworks#01) - Carlos Casas

14/11/2018

15/11/2018

16/11/2018

17/11/2018

18/11/2018

19/11/2018

28/11/2018

29/11/2018

30/11/2018

01/12/2018

02/12/2018

03/12/2018

In parallel with the retrospective it devotes to the Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso in November, CINEMATEK presents two films[S T1]  by visual artist Carlos Casas at Kanal: Soledad al fin del mundo and Patagonian Fieldworks. These documentary works, filmed in Patagonia, resonate with the snowy landscapes of the same region, splendidly pictured by  Alonso. In Kanal, the work of Carlos Casas is projected in a loop. It goes into dialogue with Rosa de Lima and Cargadores by French, Brussels-based, artist Joëlle de La Casinière.

Screening

Carlos Casas

Soledad al fin del mundo

07/11/2018 — 12/11/2018

21/11/2018 — 26/11/2018

In parallel with the retrospective it devotes to the Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso in November, CINEMATEK presents two films[S T1]  by visual artist Carlos Casas at Kanal: Soledad al fin del mundo and Patagonian Fieldworks. These documentary works, filmed in Patagonia, resonate with the snowy landscapes of the same region, splendidly pictured by  Alonso. In Kanal, the work of Carlos Casas is projected in a loop. It goes into dialogue with Rosa de Lima and Cargadores by French, Brussels-based, artist Joëlle de La Casinière.

Dora García

Zimmer, Gespräche

10/10/2018 — 05/11/2018

On October 10, Spanish artist Dora Garcia will present the Belgian premiere of her latest film Segunda Vez (2018) at CINEMATEK. On this occasion, CINEMATEK also shows a retrospective of her work, both on its own screens and in room SR5 at Kanal, where her two videos The Glass Wall and Zimmer, Gespräche are screened.

Dora García

The Glass Wall

10/10/2018 — 05/11/2018

On October 10, Spanish artist Dora Garcia will present the Belgian premiere of her latest film Segunda Vez (2018) at CINEMATEK. On this occasion, CINEMATEK also shows a retrospective of her work, both on its own screens and in room SR5 at Kanal, where her two videos The Glass Wall and Zimmer, Gespräche are screened.

Performance

Kunstenfestivaldesarts

I...Cognitive maps - Chapter 1 - Ely Daou

29/05/2019 — 31/05/2019

What do you remember about a room? Or about an apartment or space you lived in, but which no longer exists or where you never went back to. In I... Cognitive Maps - Chapter 1 artist Ely Daou, born in Beirut in 1986, travels through his memory – and history – attempting to sketch the different apartments and living spaces he occupied during and just after the Lebanese Civil War. The architectural details – as they are remembered or perhaps transformed by the artist’s memory – become the starting points for re-entering both the spaces and the past. I...

Individuals

The future KANAL-Centre Pompidou needs you.

Claudia Radulescu & Els Vermang

HIT

14/12/2019 — 26/01/2020

HIT, a collaboration between Belgian-Romanian artist Claudia Radulescu and Belgian curator and artist Els Vermang, is a project in which music, visual arts, and avant-garde pop culture effortlessly fuse together. Within the framework of the EUROPALIA CURATOR’S AWARD, the project’s exhibition will take place at KANAL - Centre Pompidou from December 2019 until January 2020.

Performance

YOUYOU GROUP

MARS - Brussels Days 21

23/09/2021

23/09/2021

On April 24th, 2021, 18 performers of the YouYou group performed MARS in Brussels, inside KANAL-Centre Pompidou’s building while the audience were outside in the street. The performance was broadcast live into the street by loudspeakers on the upper floor of the building. Centre-Pompidou welcomes the group now for an adapted version that takes place in the museum and on the adjacent square on September 23rd, 2021, during the Brussels Days.

Showcase - Open air

Culte Agency

28/06/2019 — 30/06/2019

Vital for Culte is an active family- centered approach that enables inspiration in a two-way dialogue. Culte is more than a booking agency, also managing artists and serving vision towards short and long term growth and believes in an active and visible role in order to push the thriving Brussels scene all around the world. For Festival Kanal, Culte was asked to curate a concert night inside the car factory. They will present three exclusive live sets: two collaborations and one brand new performance.

SKY H1 x Four Axes and a Frame

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.

TEN PHRASES

TIM ETCHELLS

At Kanal - Centre Pompidou

BRIGHT

14/02/2019 — 15/02/2019

15/02/2019 — 16/02/2019

16/02/2019 — 17/02/2019

17/02/2019 — 18/02/2019

Bright Brussels is a light festival, a fascinating route through the city made up of a dozen captivating artistic and interactive light installations. Bright Brussels is a free event, open to all, from 18:30 to 23:00 from 14 to 17 February.

This year, an installation by Romain Tardy will be on display in the extraordinary and iconic KANAL – Centre Pompidou at Yser and Yannick Jaquet will be presented by Les Garages Numériques at the Halles Saint Géry.

Performance

Cassiel Gaube

FARMER TRAIN SWIRL - ÉTUDE

06/04/2019 — 07/04/2019

The origins of this new project by Cassiel Gaube can be found in his interest in street dance and house, which he has studied and performed. A precise interweaving of moves and steps allows him to compress a choreographic writing that opens up a poetic space and questions the essential act of the step. This project is being hosted by Kanal - Centre Pompidou.

SLCTR @Jane's

Press release: A prefigurative year

5 May 2018 > 10 June 2019

Past events

KANAL Brut: 14 months of exhibitions and shows before conversion work begins

Performance

Léa Drouet

BOUNDARY GAMES

21/03/2019 — 22/03/2019

A young Brussels artist, Léa Drouet is among the emerging figures on the international scene today. She works in the field of performance, installation and experimental music, proposing aesthetic experiences that involve group dynamics and the related (dis)harmonies.

Europalia Curator's Award: HIT

Performance

Radouan Mriziga

0.KANAL

20/03/2019

How can dance and architecture create a new kind of space together? During Performatik19, choreographer Radouan Mriziga will install a residency project at KANAL–Centre Pompidou.

Using Bauhaus as a pedagogical model, he seeks to establish a contemporary educational practice that reformulates the models of space. He is inviting dance and architecture students to share their knowledge and practice. Projecting the resulting questions onto the surrounding workspace will create a new way of thinking and feeling space.

Book launch

David Bergé / Time Based Editions

Me, Le Corbusier, and a friend

27/05/2025

27/05/2025

27/05/2025

Time Based Editions proposes an ingenious new format: an audio track combines narration, soundscapes and instructions that guide you through a photography book. Kanal and CIVA present the premiere of the third book in this series: Me, Le Corbusier, and a friend.