DIVA zal gerenommeerde designers en curatoren uitnodigen voor een hedendaagse interpretatie van de Wunderkammer, een kamer waarin een kunst- en rariteitenverzameling, objecten van over de hele wereld tentoongesteld worden. De Wonderkamer stamt uit het roemrijke verleden van de stad Antwerpen, die tot in het midden van de zeventiende eeuw weg leidde in de productie en distributie van kunst en luxe goederen. Zilverwerk, juwelen, edelstenen en exotiche rariteiten zoals kokosnoten, schelpen en fe...

‘Perspective’ is a documentation of a performance directed by An Onghena and performed by Tom Elexmans, presented on 29 November 2017 at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.

This publication documents the work ‘Performance for the book’, which is about the love of paper and about the feelings of frustration with regard to paper, about the making of books, the contents and the folding, the binding and the cover. The performance operates as a visual experiment to give life to paper....

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is zonder twijfel de bekendste kunstenaar aller tijden. Tijdens zijn leven was hij al beroemd om zijn ongekende gave om menselijke karakters en emoties uit te beelden. Hij was een van de eerste kunstenaars die geboeid was door de expressiviteit van het menselijk gelaat, van misvormd en lelijk tot mooi en geïdealiseerd.

Dit blijkt behalve uit zijn beroemde schilderijen, zoals de Mona Lisa en Het Laatste Avondmaal, nog meer uit de tientallen tekeningen die hij van...

The Battle Between Carnival and Lent is a masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30-1569). Dating from 1559, the world-famous painting is rich in remarkable stories and characters.

This book zooms in on the many everyday objects portrayed by Bruegel in the painting. These objects have been meticulously examined and interpreted through a contemporary gaze. Just as Bruegel's paintings served in the sixteenth century as conversation pieces among guests at dinner, so too this book prese...

This book reveals that James Ensor did not develop his fantastic and grotesque universe of masks and skeletons out of his melancholic soul, but that he re-used and transformed an old image tradition that was collected and published by the French author and art critic Jules Champfleury in his History of Caricature. A second essay analyses how these weird creatures infiltrate the image borders and the frames of Ensor's paintings in order to disturb the 'normal' world.

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For Rein Dufait, the definition of sculpture is the adding or subtracting of material. His rigorous approach to his chosen medium has led him to develop a singular — perhaps also solitary — practice that is nourished by an insistent curiosity about material (whether natural or manmade) and a fascination with form (whether organic or artistic). In his work, Dufait confronts the fundamental questions of sculpture: how to divide space; how to combine textures; how to create volume and ...

PLAY is a headstrong city festival organised from 23 June to 11 November 2018 that will take over the centre of Kortrijk with contemporary artworks. You can immerse yourself in the unique world of national and international visual art at diverse indoor and outdoor locations in the city. During PLAY, the city not only serves as a canvas; bit by bit the festival simultaneously dissects our relationship with 'play'. How does play influence our social behaviour ? How does 'play' reflect the evolu...

The Matrix Project comprises two contexts, namely photographic work of architect Thierry Lagrange and the self-reflective trajectory that he developed during his doctorate at KULeuven. Lagrange’s practice-based research developed into an autonomous artistic project, in which he studied the significance and nature of observation within a creative process. Through his multifaceted practice as an architect, photographer and researcher, Lagrange developed ‘The Matrix Method’; a method that ...

This publication is the first of a series of notebooks that documents the various projects and exhibitions that were on view at Cc Strombeek. Covering the exhibition year of 2017, this edition includes texts by authors such as Frederik Leen, Joris D’hooghe, Louis De Mey and Hugo De Greef (with whom the museum set up an artist-in-residence module this year in the context of The Gaasbeek School). Furthermore, the publication also includes an extraordinary set of artists’ pages that were rea...

PLAY is een eigenwijs stadsfestival, dat van 23 juni tot 11 november 2018 het kloppende hart van Kortrijk inpalmt met hedendaagse kunstwerken. Op diverse binnen- en buitenlocaties in de stad kun je je onderdompelen in de unieke wereld van internationale beeldende kunst. Tijdens PLAY dient de stad niet enkel als canvas, maar wordt tegelijk onze relatie met 'spelen' beetje per beetje ontleed. Hoe beïnvloedt spelen ons sociaal gedrag? Hoe weerspiegelt 'het spel' de evolutie van onze maatschappi...