Guided tour

Magali Elali

PERSPECTI.EF.VE

10/07/2022

The exhibition ‘The Act of Breathing' through the eyes of Magali Elali.

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.

MAGALI ELALI 

Martin Hansen

MONUMENTAL

06/04/2019 — 07/04/2019

In Monumental, the young Australian choreographer Martin Hansen tackles one of the iconic moments in dance history: The Dying Swan solo first performed in 1905 by Anna Pavlova, star of the Imperial Russian Ballet. A joyful undertaking of recreation and deconstruction that invites us to contemplate the little factory of dance images. Appearing at Kanal - Centre Pompidou.

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Day of the dance

27/04/2019

In their very first performance together, dancers Dan Mussett and Laurent Delom go in search of the perfect symbiosis. What happens when two individuals give up their individuality for a unity that transcends them? In a playful exploration of what it means to become a person’s teacher, shadow, friend, rival, mirror, brother or colleague, all boundaries are slowly fading away.

Nazanin Fakoor

RAINBOW

09/07/2018 — 13/07/2018

Rainbow is a performance that questions identity and its multiple facets. In a solo on stage several characters appear in dialogue with each other – like a rainbow they are formed by reflection, refraction and dispersion of sunlight on raindrops. Nazanin Fakoor affirms that we all are the result of an infinity of reflections or refractions of the encounters that we make during our life, and this from the beginning, with our first meeting – that with our family. Our identity is plural.

Individuals

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Karl Van Welden

IMAGES FOR MARS II

17/08/2018 — 31/08/2018

For the video work IMAGES FOR MARS II (life-sized projection) Karl Van Welden investigates the effect of a disaster on the human body. We see people in a state of carelessness, until a dark ash rain falls upon them, turning their idyll into a catastrophy. Or how a blissful picnic in the park becomes a scene of charred bodies on a patch of scorched earth. During the action the falling ash rain transforms the image slowly but steadily. The performers fight their personal battle while their vitality is under threat. As the physical body changes state, the image becomes a monochrome.

An Autumn with Romeo Castellucci

Romeo Castellucci in Brussels

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Performance

River Lin

ThE 0 TIME COLLECTION

16/03/2019 — 17/03/2019

Mon réveil me réveille (2017)

Our day starts as soon as we wake up and lasts until we fall asleep. These two extremes align the primal unity of our lifetime. The idea of realizing these two ends in a short lapse of time and of questioning the act of awaking from sleep as an artificial force is the inspiration behind this work.

To indicate the process of time and to ritualize everday movements, this living installation creates a situation in which an artist sleeps with an alarm clock until she is woken by the alarm, repeatedly.

PerformanceConcert

Myriam Van Imschoot & Youyou Group

MARS

24/04/2021 — 25/04/2021

KANAL-Centre Pompidou welcomes artist Myriam Van Imschoot and the YouYou group with a new vocal creation, MARS, around the art of the youyou or Zaghareet in Arabic, a loud ululation used as an expression of joy and festivity.

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.

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.

Exhibition

Hahaha. The Humor of Art

15/09/2021 — 16/01/2022

“Nothing is serious enough to take seriously” Marcel Duchamp.

A bottle of wine, a snow shovel, a sentence, a urinal… They don't seem that special. Who could have thought that they would be the start of an artistic revolution and completely change how we see art? And most importantly, that this change started in the middle of the First World War? Discover our new exhibition: Hahaha. The Humor of Art.

Artistic revolution

Talk

Meet Zach Blas, Eva L’Hoest and Keiken

06/10/2023

Meet the artists and discover the stories behind the "Connecting" works. Zach Blas, Eva L’Hoest and Keiken discuss their works and the ideas and research behind their projects. The conversation will be moderated by Joasia Krysa, artistic director of the Helsinki Biennale 2023.

FESTIVAL KANAL

A festival for the closing of KANAL BRUT

Screening

Teresa Cos

Eight Chapters in Four Movements

26/12/2018

27/12/2018

28/12/2018

29/12/2018

30/12/2018

Since 2013, CINEMATEK has been defending the exceptional and unique oeuvre of Chinese documentary filmmaker Wang Bing. In December, we will show his latest film, Dead Souls (2018), which was also presented in Cannes. At the same time, in KANAL-Centre Pompidou we present Wang’s  Mi Niang, a film produced by CINEMATEK, that is shown for the first (and only) time. There, it enters into a dialogue with  Eight Chapters in Four Movements by Italian artist Teresa Cos: a confrontation of two temporal experiences.

Talk

Talks

Desired Spaces

07/10/2020 — 08/10/2020

On Wednesday October 7, ICA, CIVA and VAi will follow up on the "Desired Spaces" open call for projects, launched in May, with a day-long debate at Kanal-Centre Pompidou. This call, launched by the three Belgian architecture institutes, aimed to collect, in response to the current crisis, possible future scenarios for a built and non-built environment. 180 contributions, a series in the newspaper Le Soir and a summer of reflection later, the institutes pursue this inspiring momentum with a first event.

Performance

Will Guthrie et Mette Ingwarsten

ALL AROUND

21/03/2019 — 23/03/2019

Drummer Will Guthrie and choreographer/dancer Mette Ingvartsen have been following each other’s work and collaborating at a distance over the past 5 years.

In this drum/dance duo they perform live together for the first time, bringing their respective disciplines into close proximity. The result is a fusion of forms: a music concert with dance. In All Around the audience encircles a performance space occupied by a drum kit, a moving light and the performers' bodies.

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