ExhibitionRendez-vous

Visit #OrigamiForLife

13/06/2020 — 15/06/2020

The House of Origami is open to the public. On 13 and 14 June, KANAL-Centre Pompidou invites the public to discover the installation imagined by designer Charles Kaisin as part of the solidarity action ‘Origami for Life’. Charles Kaisin and KANAL-Centre Pompidou wish to thank the public for the surge of solidarity which made it possible to finance Covid-19 units and the search for treatments at the Erasmus Hospital.

Press release 03.06.20

#Origamiforlife, The House of Origami is open to the public.

Rendez-vous

Brussels Ass Book Fair

29/11/2024 — 01/12/2024

The first edition of the Brussels Ass Book Fair will take place at K1 from 29 November to 1 December 2024. This art book fair is a free event that is dedicated to independent art publishing and gives prominent space to LGBTQIA+ participants and projects.

Past events

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

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.

NOA/EM2N/SERGISON BATES win the international architecture competititon

Performance

Adam York Gregory & Gillian Jane Lees

A DIFFERENT NORTH

22/04/2023

Is North a geographical position or a direction? An identity or an orientation? The politics of the North are embedded in us and in the actions we take.

Performance

Cassils & SJ Norman

DEVOTION

22/04/2023 — 23/04/2023

From sunset to sunrise, Cassils and SJ Norman engage in a ritual related to transgender experience.

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...

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.

Performance

ULA SICKLE

Relay (Unplugged) - Brussels Days 21

24/09/2021 — 25/09/2021

A black flag floats in continuous motion. The black flag cannot be linked to one particular battle and hence defies easy interpretation. Drawing inspiration from the many recent protests taking place around the globe, a diverse group of performers relay one another in a fascinating test of endurance. Their movements pass back and forth between inertia and hope, resistance, and powerlessness.

Performance

(sold out)

The NarcoSexuals

20/04/2023

21/04/2023

22/04/2023

Dries Verhoeven examines the growing popularity of chemsex—the combination of drugs and sex—and what he calls the "narco-sexual revolution", decades after gay liberation.

LINE-UP COMPLETED NUITS SONORES AND EUROPEAN LAB BRUSSELS

Doppelgänger

Press release 24.08.2021

Kinshasa (N)tóngá

Presskit 21.09.2022

Press release

Performance

GUY WOUETÉ

En Quête des marges fluctuantes - Brussels Days 21

22/09/2021 — 23/09/2021

23/09/2021 — 24/09/2021

24/09/2021 — 25/09/2021

During the three Brussels Days, the Cameroon artist Guy Woueté and performers Medina Tokalic and Bela Juttner, hold up banners in the public spaces. The banners that contain thoughts and texts, some of which were written by Woueté himself, fluctuate between poetic quotations and political claims/slogans. During En quête des marges fluctuantes, the bodies of performers are put to work in public spaces for eight hours a day, thus challenging how passers-by view work and working conditions.

IN SITU: art on display in windows

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

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.