09.11.26 – 13.11.26, Le Montavoies, landschaps-architectuur onder hoogspanning
For five years now, the landscape and garden architecture programme has been taking sixteen students to Le Montavoies in the French Haut-Jura. Wim Cuyvers has been working as a forestier-gardien on this 27-hectare site since 2009. Le Montavoies is at once a landscape, a public space, a refuge and a workplace. A place where the mountain speaks and ancient paths become legible once more.
During the annual workshop, students spend a week on the site. They observe, walk, sketch and work with what the place has to offer. Not based on a predetermined end result, but through attention, physical presence and engagement. Their interventions and conversations become part of a longer process in which the landscape is constantly changing and each participant is only temporarily present.
The exhibition brings together five years of workshops through photographs, student work, recordings and essays by Wim Cuyvers. Excerpts from Res Nullius, Wim Cuyvers’ publication on Le Montavoies, place these experiences in a broader perspective. The exhibition also offers the opportunity to screen two films by Wim Cuyvers, dodeNberg and 400,000 Volt, once again.
Six themes take centre stage: landscape architecture, climate change, globalisation, passers-by, high voltage and the connected condition humaine. At Le Montavoies, these themes become tangible and visible. They determine how the landscape changes, how passers-by move through it, and how the site is managed and experienced. In doing so, the exhibition poses a fundamental question: what role can landscape architecture still play when climate change and globalisation are radically altering the landscape, and when constant connectivity calls into question the very notion of being ‘outdoors’?
The exhibition therefore does not merely look back. It invites visitors to pause, listen and reflect anew on presence, public space and the future of the landscape.
Students who have taken part over the past 5 years:
Baert Warre, Claeys Arno, Cuvelier Jentse, Daenekindt Elise, De Bruyne Noor, Deschuytter Jef, Helsen Stef, Joos Iwein, Moyson Kevin, Pattijn Mathias, Spaas Maxim, Stalpaert Vito, Vandebroek Maarten, Van Hemelen Trui, Veys Justine, Balduck Warre, Borghlevens Baldr, De Bock Ben, De Niel Febe, de Ree Willemijn, De Winter Mats, Guiguilé Lola, Jacques Seppe, Lodewijckx An-Sofie, Maeghe Pieterjan, Praet Mathias, Van Camp Loran, Van de Putte Lars, Vandevyvere Wout, Van Severen Ward, Verborgstadt Una, Carazo Ruiz Fernando, Coppin Maxime, Cornelis Siebe, De Bie Hannah, De Laat Fleur, De Schepper Erin, Duysters Lune, Laureys Ana, Malengier Len, Mylle Marie, Piceu Maxim, Suy Tristan, Vanden Bussche Warre, Vandewal Benoît, Van Eeckhoudt Lars, Woestenborghs Flor, Beyls Joachim, Bonhomme Meindert, De Bie Helena, De Smedt Frederik, Deneudt Fons, Desaever Emiel, Dobbelaere Charles, Ganne Sam, Latré Sam, Losa Ralph, Muylaert Renée, Notelteirs Tristan, van der Kolk Pien, Van Oost Arthur, Ysveld Leander, Bertier Rune, Blondeel Stan, Bogaerts Vic, Costers Sam, Coudenys Soete, D’Hollander Oscar, Dooms Ruun, Gerard Charlotte, Leus Lena, Leyssens Jef, Schollaert Nathan, Swart Simon, Timperman Zeno, Vincke Lene
Teachers
Sylvie Van Damme, Luc Deschepper, Joke Vande Maele, Ruben Joye
10-13.11.26, 12:00 – 18:00
presentationLees, kijk, luisterresearchartistic researcher Concert and doctoral defense
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presentationLees, kijk, luistereducationstudents photography and curatorial studies (I Want to Hold You)
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presentationLees, kijk, luistereducationresearcher Everything that shines sees
presentationLees, kijk, luisterresearch On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors – 5. Exercising Fragility in Theatres and Beyond
presentationLees, kijk, luisterresearch Making The World More Than Less Real
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presentationLees, kijk, luisterartistic activities Unpacking Tschichold’s Library
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presentationLees, kijk, luistereducationartistic activitiesartistic researcher Open & Close
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Sentiments, Signes, Passions, Zwarte ZaalexpoAgendaArtistic activitiesJean-Luc Godard’s final film reworked into a room-filling installation by his long-standing collaborator Fabrice Aragno
A mushroom cloud, legends of film history, IS flags, sunsets in Tunis, scenes of flight, expulsion, execution and war: Jean-Luc Godard’s at once poëtic and political film Le livre d’image (2018) spans more than a century. It questions the production of images, art, religion, representation and law.
The filmmaker combined film and contemporary history in five chapters and an epilogue to create an associative collage. The exhibition Sentiments, Signes, Passions is conceived by Fabrice Aragno, filmmaker and longtime collaborator of Godard. It takes up the division of Le livre d’image into chapters, further fragmenting the parts of the work and unfurling them in space. The dynamic projection breaks with the chronological form of a film screening. Across dozens of screens, the audience can give free rein to associations and pursue their own visual lines of sight.
Deeply respectful of his mentor, Aragno travels the world with each time a different version of the installation. For Film Fest Gent he adds a new component, documenting Godard’s personal workspace: Et la nuit le jour.
This internationally acclaimed project offers a rare window into the director’s creative world, inviting visitors to wander through fragments of image and sound and step inside the mind of one of cinema’s most influential figures.
On display in the Zwarte Zaal, from Thursday 8 October to Sunday 18 October, every day from 12:00 to 20:00.
Landschapsarchitectuur onder hoogspanning, Zwarte ZaalAgendaArtistic activitiesThe exhibition ‘Le Montavoies’ is the result of five workshops held in the French Jura as part of the landscape and garden architecture programme at KASK & Conservatorium. Year after year, students travel to this special place to interpret, explore and understand the landscape. Issues such as climate change, globalisation and digitalisation become tangible and visible there. At the heart of the exhibition lies a question that is becoming ever more pressing: how do we learn to listen to the many voices that shape a landscape?
Not only to residents, users and policymakers, but also to rivers, forests, animals, infrastructure and other non-human actors that help determine our living environment. A high-voltage power line runs through the Montavoies area, transporting green energy from the Jura to Paris. This infrastructure provides the inspiration for the metaphor of ‘landscape architecture under high voltage’.
Building on this idea, we will engage in a discussion with Peter Aers about the future of the discipline. How can we make space for different perspectives within the practice of landscape architecture? What happens when we do not merely speak about a landscape, but try to listen to what the landscape itself is telling us? And how can such perspectives help us find new answers to today’s complex challenges? With this discussion, we are building on the ‘Conversation about our values’ initiative. We invite landscape architects, students and anyone interested to explore together which voices are being heard today, which are missing, and what this means for the future of our discipline.
Would you like to join us in reflecting and discussing these issues? Places are limited to 20 participants.
Marissal
Louis Pasteurlaan 2
9000 Gent
Emma Terlinck, Zwarte ZaalexpoAgendaArtistic activities‘Sometimes I can’t help but wonder’
Actually, all I had in mind was a small house.
I remember this because the room was too big when I dreamt about it.
What I woke up to this morning were all the holes, small and big ones, all around my bed.
As a matter of fact, my room is acting as if it were a big black hole because everything is being moved into the other house. And Wednesday is only the beginning.
By the other house, I mean the house I refer to as my house. Before my house was built, my room still had all my belongings.
Then again, it was in fact my own choice. Well, I can hardly say goodbye.
Sometimes I can’t help but wonder how I can make things complicated.
One morning, not too long ago, all I could think about were my teeth. By that I mean my dead teeth in that small little thing in my room. The ones who came, saw and conquered my wisdom.
And after that all that was left were four holes.
There will always be Goodbyes And Beginnings.
By the way, Wednesday 16th is only the beginning.
By that I mean that Sunday 27th is the end.
So naturally every day in between will in fact be different.
Emma Terlinck
Emma Terlinck completed a Master’s degree in photography and subsequently began the printmaking programme at KASK & Conservatorium. The everyday and the mundane form the starting point for her work, often taking the form of an endless stream of images on her mobile phone. From this emerges new graphic work in which play, intuition and a process-oriented approach take centre stage. In this way, figures are reduced to formal cut-outs, and objects to an interplay of lines. The individual works come together to form a whole, whereby the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.
Nothing is more difficult than knowing precisely what we see, Zwarte ZaalexpoAgendaArtistic activitiesFrom 24 April to 3 May 2026, the photography master's students in collaboration with the postgraduate in curatorial studies presents Nothing is more difficult than knowing precisely what we see, a group exhibition bringing together 19 artists whose works explore photography as a space where perception, memory, and imagination intersect. Through images, installations, and archival materials, the exhibition questions what it means to see and how images can reshape our understanding of reality.
As a human creation, photography mirrors the non-linearity of our existence, reflecting its subjectivity and abstraction. Expanding across different media, the exhibition opens a space to engage with a simple yet complex question: What do we actually see?
Structured in six chapters, the exhibition unfolds as a journey through different ways of relating to the image; as trace, memory, projection, fiction, and matter. Borrowing its title from the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this exhibition invites visitors to reconsider vision. It is shaped by time, subjectivity, and context, both in the creation of the artwork and in its reception.
Artists: Amelie De Keyser, Clair Bravo, Emma Damba, Frieda De Donker, Hannes Bulen, Helen Adams, Helena Verfaillie, Jonathan Verschaeve, Kedist Coppejans, Lab D, Lâle Lootens, Lotte Baele, Luca Lambrecht, Margherita Dolfi, Noor Flamey, Sander Dewerte, Sander Van Damme
Curated by: Alice Zitelli, Anaïs Du Champs, Anna Bruni, Bruna Martins, Cristina Carnelos, Houda Ben Azzouz
Marissal
Louis Pasteurlaan 2
9000 Gent
open 25.04.26-03.05.26, 12:00-18:00
Hand me down, Zwarte ZaalexpoAgendaArtistic activitiesWelcome to the exhibition HAND ME DOWN.
Marissal
Louis Pasteurlaan 2
9000 Gent
Wall Drawing Experiment #13, Zwarte ZaalexpoAgendaArtistic activitiesVoor het jaarlijkse Wall DrawingExperiment maken studenten van de tweede bachelor tekenkunst werken op groot formaat. Zes grote tweezijdige wanden in de Zwarte Zaal dienen daarbij als vertrekpunt. Deze tentoonstelling is een experiment waarbij de studenten onderzoek doen naar verschillende dragers en materialen en leren omgaan met de facetten van het tentoonstellen.
Deelnemende studenten:
- Martje Beemster
- Lise Cok
- Loïse De Vriendt
- Amandine Desmet
- Rafael Ferreira De Proença
- Karel Nauwelaerts
- Alexia Nzinga
- Noor Phlips
- Febe Piessens
- Rosalie Tytgat
- Nora Van Sande
Marissal
Louis Pasteurlaan 2
9000 Gent
Fri: 08:00 – 18:00
Sat-Sun: 12:00 – 18:00
Si & La, Zwarte ZaalexpoAgendaArtistic activitiesSi & La is a media arts exhibition full of polyphonic stories, off-kilter sculptures, syncopated performances and off-beat video work. With fresh, noisy audiovisuals by Mikhaela Baradaki, Lila Toppets, Sebastiaan Bakker, Lester van Extergem, Junior Vita, Emma Boga, Stine Moni Wuyts, Julian Verberckmoes, Gabriela Oswiecinska, Donna Kok, Deirdre Vancanneyt and Muireann Hillman-Allen.
… Et ceci et cela ------------ Sì, sois-Là!
Want als ik niet zou praten, wordt het wel heel erg stil.
Si & La is curated by Anna Bruni, Cristina M. Carnelos, Anaïs Du Champs and Valerie Holfeld of the curatorial studies postgraduate programme.
13.02.26, 12:00-20:00
14.02.26, 12:00-18:00
15.02.26, 12:00-18:00
Doctoraatsverdediging Tom Callemin, Zwarte Zaalresearch presentationAgendaArtistic activitiesOnderzoekOn 15 January 2026, Tom Callemin, artistic researcher at KASK & Conservatorium, will defend his doctoral reasearch to obtain the title of Doctor of Arts. On behalf of the candidate's supervisors, Dr. Anouk De Clercq (KASK & Conservatorium) and Prof. Dr. Koenraad Jonckheere (UGent), we would like to invite you to this event.
The public defense will start at 15:00 in the Zwarte Zaal on Campus Bijloke. Afterwards, you are welcome to attend the reception. The exhibition Double Reality (Research Output) can be visited at the same location before and after the defense. Please confirm your attendance at the public defense by emailing tom.callemin@hogent.be.
Tom Callemin's artistic research starts from the question of how identity and meaning arise within our perception of images. These processes are constantly changing now that digital and artificial techniques effortlessly generate convincing realities. The photographic images we are confronted with every day increasingly show us a fictional illusion. A fundamental tension is particularly evident in portraiture: behind the skin of the synthetic body lie not psychology or emotions, but merely mathematical calculations of data.
Based on this theme, Callemin explores how we can still understand or trust images. He works with analogue materials such as plaster, wood, clay, shadow and light to construct new situations that exist on the border between reality and illusion. These tangible, material elements counterbalance digital representations and at the same time reveal that every image – however convincing – is a constructed reality.
His images therefore function as mirrors: they turn the gaze back to the viewer and to the process of meaning-making itself. What exactly do we see? Can we believe the image as it presents itself? And to what extent do our own expectations, doubts and projections determine what we perceive? Callemin's research makes it clear that the encounter between image and observer creates a constantly shifting landscape of interpretations, in which identity and meaning are never stable data, but are constantly being reshaped.
The research project Hidden in Plain Sight was funded by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund.
Praktisch
Due to roadworks at the Godshuizenlaan / Groot-Brittanniëlaan intersection, it is very difficult to reach Louis Pasteurlaan by car and to park there. Please use public transport as much as possible. From Gent Sint-Pieters, you can take tram T1 or T3 to Bijlokehof. Here you can find instructions on how to reach the Bijloke site during the roadworks.
The most accessible route (including for wheelchair users) is via the entrance at STAM, Godshuizenlaan 2.
Tom Callemin, Zwarte Zaalexporesearch presentationAgendaArtistic activitiesOnderzoekTom Callemin's artistic research starts from the question of how identity and meaning arise within our perception of images. These processes are constantly changing now that digital and artificial techniques effortlessly generate convincing realities. The photographic images we are confronted with every day increasingly show us a fictional illusion. A fundamental tension is particularly evident in portraiture: behind the skin of the synthetic body lie not psychology or emotions, but merely mathematical calculations of data.
Based on this theme, Callemin set to work with analogue materials such as plaster, wood, clay, shadow and light to create new images that challenge our perception. Like a mirror, each image is a reflection of our gaze and of the act of depicting itself. What do we see? Can we believe the image as it presents itself to us? To what extent do we ourselves give meaning to what we see, apart from what is happening before our eyes?
In the exhibition, Callemin's photographic work is combined with an extensive archive of visual material that addresses these issues throughout history and in different contexts. The developments we are confronted with today in the field of visual culture are not new. With the advent of each medium, such as painting, film and sculpture, which once constituted a technological innovation, similar questions arose about image, meaning and illusion.
A third section of the exhibition stems from the collaboration with filmmaker Griet Teck, who translated the visual research in Callemin's studio into a short film. We get a glimpse of how details from the studio form an illusion in front of the camera. Entire landscapes are constructed in the privacy of the studio as a second reality, where reality unfolds slightly differently. This reveals the underlying constructions of the images that Callemin meticulously builds up. It becomes clear that his images carry an illusion not only in their subject matter, but also in their creation.
Tom Callemin is an artistic researcher affiliated with KASK & Conservatorium, the school of arts of HOGENT and Howest. The research project “Hidden in Plain Sight” was funded by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund.
Pedram Kargar, Zwarte Zaalexporesearch presentationAgendaArtistic activitiesOnderzoekAnimation spans multiple dimensions of our lives. It is a magical, philosophical, physical experience, and a form of social action. Coming from a background in engineering and science, Pedram began his artistic practice as an animator in 2015. Meanwhile, he frames animation rather as an encyclopaedic practice: a multidimensional study exploring the intersections of art, science, humanity, and technology.
This exhibition traces a dialogue between Pardeh-Khani – (literally, “reading the curtain”) – and contemporary animation. This ancient Iranian art of pictorial storytelling combined painted canvases with epic poetry, music, and performance. Storytellers brought images to life through voice, gesture, and rhythm, while audiences engaged collectively, experiencing knowledge through multiple senses.
In Pedram’s practice, Pardeh-Khani endures both as a tradition and as a method—a way to activate archives and perform knowledge, shaping how we communicate, learn, and make sense of the world. The exhibition gathers a decade of practice (2015–2025) – including installations, drawings, sketches, paintings, VR, and video fragments – bringing Pedram’s archive into view while opening toward new departures.
On 27.11.25, on the occasion of the opening, two performances will take place from 19:00 onwards. Teacher Paul Demets will open the evening with poetry, and Amin Azizi will close it with music!
Pedram Kargar is an artistic researcher affiliated with KASK & Conservatorium, the school of arts of HOGENT and Howest. The research project Behind the curtains of animation was funded by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund.
Fri: 12:00-18:00
finissage 21.12.2025, 12:00-18:00
Doomscroll Slumber Party, Zwarte ZaalexpoAgendaArtistic activities🖤 **Doomscroll Slumber Party** 🖤
✨ *Scroll together into oblivion – but cosily and in your pyjamas* ✨
Are you someone who ‘quickly checks the news’ before going to bed and then startles awake three hours later to an obscure video about the end of the world? **Good news:** you don’t have to do it alone anymore.
📱 + 🛏 + ☕ = 💀 ❤ Welcome to the **Doomscroll Slumber Party** – the place where doomscrolling can finally be social.
What to expect:
🖤 Snuggling up together on the sofa while silently staring at a screen
🖤 Light-hearted competitions: who can find the most depressing reel?
🖤 A safe space for deep sighs and nervous laughter
🖤 Blankets, snacks, blue light filters and tea
🖤 And yes, occasionally a real conversation **Because when the world ends, we'd rather do it together – in comfortable clothes.
** 🎟 Bring yourself, your friends and possibly your comfy pyjamas **#doomscrollslumberparty #gezelligtenonder #togetherinthedark**
NOON collective, Zwarte Zaal, KIOSKexpoAgendaArtistic activitiesDue to illness, the performance on 18.09.25 at 20:30 has been cancelled. The exhibition remains open.
In 2025, NOON collective began developing And now the beginning is somewhere else – a performative installation that will evolve throughout the season 2025-2026. After a premiere at Beyond the Black Box in Antwerp in May 2025, a first series of adaptations of the installation takes place at the Zwarte Zaal of KASK & Conservatorium.
Over four days, NOON opens the doors of this immersive installation to the public. On Wednesday afternoon, students are invited to immerse themselves in a series of activations. On Thursday and Friday afternoons, visitors can explore and experience the installation, while on Thursday and Friday evenings, the work unfolds as a live performance.
On Sunday, NOON presents the first trial of And now the beginning is somewhere else: NEW LANDSCAPE STORIES – an extended version of their performative installation, developed in the atmosphere of a lab. And now… invites you in a shared landscape where performance and practices mingle, shaped by the impressions, interactions and transformations of the week. A shared Sunday afternoon to rest, play and imagine where it started, all over again.
About And now the beginning is somewhere else
And now the beginning is somewhere else is an immersive performative installation – a space you are invited to enter.
Through an extreme landscape, made out of the logic of foam, you make your way in between suspended time, traces of water and petrol. It seems like nothing can happen here. Yet, with time what simmers under the surface unveils itself. Balancing between stillness and motion, the landscape unravels its memories and narratives, from a long time ago - or maybe, now.
And now the beginning is somewhere else is a performative installation where you are invited inside of. Through sound, light, choreographic elements, and through polypropylene, living beings, water and foam, a world of interwoven relationships begins to emerge.
About NOON collective
NOON is a multidisciplinary collective creating performative installations rooted in questions of how we might be together differently. Their work explores encounters between human and non-human forces, shifting bodies, and the search for – or perhaps the emergence of – new forms of symbiosis. Through layered, sensory experiences, NOON invites us to imagine new modes of connection, cohabitation, and transformation.
Credits
- concept/performing: Iris Donders, Delphine Mertens
- concept/(end) direction: Judith Dhondt
- performing/creation: Im Kanokporn Vorapharuek
- sound creation: Lucie Grésil
- space development: Eline Harmse
- firstobject development: Edie de Vere
- costume creation: stef assandri
- light design: Caroline Mathieu
- dramaturgy: Sara Manente
- choreographic assistant: Anja Röttgerkamp, Janka De Waele
- production: Emma Steurs
- graphic design: Joram De Cocker
- polypropylen research: Elena Vloeberghen
- Co-production C-TAKT, KAAP & SoAP
- With the financial support of the Flemish Government and Stad Ghent
- Supported by BUDA, CAMPO, KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT – Howest), KIOSK, De School van Gaasbeek, de Koer, de Verffabriek, A Two Dogs Company, Mouvance ASBL, Kunstenwerkplaats pianofabriek, and Garage 29
18-19.09.25, 12:00 – 16:00, open installation
18.09.2025, 20:30, performance
19.09.2025, 20:30, performance
21.09.2025, 14:00-17:00, Laboratory ‘And now the beginning is somewhere else: NEW LANDSCAPE STORIES’ (option to go in and out)