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Book Presentation Grace Ndiritu, Healing The Museum & Talk with Philippe Van Cauteren

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On the occasion of Grace Ndiritu's exhibition Healing The Museum, her first monograph of the same name is published. Last Sunday, we presented the book and Grace Ndiritu talked with Philippe Van Cauteren about the future of the museum. The book is published by Motto Books in collaboration with S.M.A.K. and the University of Melbourne.

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21.May.2023 11:00

Talk Frederik Van Driessche About Psyche and Climate

Frederik Van Driessche
portrait Frederik Van Driessche

As part of Grace Ndiritu's exhibition Healing The Museum, we invite psychologist Frederik Van Driessche to 'The Temple', on Sunday 21 May 2023 at 11:00. Van Driessche invites you to a conversation around the critical state of our climate and how it affects our lives and wants to create a group conversation in which stories are shared.

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22.May.2023 17:00

Performance Grace Ndiritu Labour #3: Birth of a New Museum
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Grace Ndiritu Labour: Birth of a New Museum, shamanic performance inside The Temple, 2021 Nottingham Contemporary, photo credit Scene Photography

Grace Ndiritu will hold the shamanic performance 'Labour #3: Birth of a New Museum' on Monday 22 May 2023 at 5 pm. She invites pregnant people to participate in an initiation ceremony. During this ritual, the participants spiritually connect with their unborn child. They are the visitors of the future.

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28.May.2023 11:00

Book Presentation Marie-Sophie Beinke, Dinge, die nicht in Worte zu fassen sind
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On Sunday 28 May 2023 at 11:00, Marie-Sophie Beinke talks to Philippe Van Cauteren about the book Dinge, die nicht in Worte zu fassen sind. This publishing project consists of a mainly blank book, open to every possible idea and image. The book is published by M-S B Verlag and HOPPER&FUCHS and five translations of the same book as paperback editions.

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1.Jun.2023 20:00

Curatorial Lecture Kasia Redzisz, Director of KANAL-Centre Pompidou Brussels
Kasia Redzisz
Portrait: Kasia Redzisz

Kasia Redzisz, director of KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, gives a lecture on Thursday 1 June 2023 at 20:00. Redzisz's curatorial practice reflects her commitment to equality and experimentation and to establishing transnational dialogues between artistic practices from different geographical areas.

This lecture takes place as part of the Curatorial Lectures series, a collaboration between S.M.A.K., Ghent University and Curatorial Studies at KASK & Conservatory School of Arts

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17.Jun.2023 - 9.Sep.2023

Meditation sessions
Mediation Opening Grace Ndiritu
S.M.A.K., mediation session by Grace Ndiritu, 2023, image: Martin Corlazzoli

Experience art in a more profound way and sign up for one of our mindfulness sessions at Healing The Museum. There are three different types of sessions you can attend: Mindfulness, Slow Art Looking and Deepening Meditation.

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18.Jun.2023 11:00

Lecture Ory Dessau on the work by Grace Ndiritu
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Grace Ndiritu, Healing The Museum, installation S.M.A.K. 2023, image: Dirk Pauwels

Deep Time - a theme highlighted in the exhibition Healing The Museum – means we are invited to look at things on a geological timescale. Ory Dessau will explore the meaning of time and duration in liaison with the work of Grace Ndiritu.

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25.Jun.2023 11:00

Book Presentation Dirk Zoete, Cactus Derivatives, Vol. 2
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Dirk Zoete, The Cactus Derivatives, 2020 (publication)

Dirk Zoete (1969) began drawing cacti in 2018, simplifying the forms of the plant into a constellation of semi-abstract forms. After publishing a first book about this series: The Cactus Derivatives in 2020, he has finished a new, second volume which he will present on 25 June.

2.Jul.2023 11:00

Pieter Engels Talk with Carel Blotkamp
Portret Pieter Engels Courtesy EPO
Portrait Pieter Engels, courtesy EPO

Following the exhibition Pieter Engels Fabulous Oldest Hits, co-curator Sam Steverlynck talks to Dutch art critic Carel Blotkamp on Sunday 2 July 2023 at 11:00. During this talk, Pieter Engels' work will be framed within his relationship to contemporaries and 'polder conceptualists' such as Jan Dibbets, Marinus Boezem, Ger van Elk and Wim T. Schippers.

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Upcoming Events Fall
  • 18.Jun.2023, 3 pm - Haegue Yang: talk with Yung Ma and Karima Boudou.
  • 3.Sep.2023, 11 am - Artist talk with Haegue Yang and curator Karima Boudou.
  • 10.Sep.2023 - Artist talk with Grace Ndiritu and curator Ann Hoste.
  • 20.Aug.2023, 11 am - Haegue Yang: talk with Yilmaz Dziewior and Christine Mehring.

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