Kunstenbibliotheek

Sampler invites visitors to encounter student publications produced between 2000–2024, as both material objects and fragments of language, showing the intersections between fine art, graphic design, literature, and spatial installation.

Conceived as an exhibition at the Kunstenbibliotheek in Ghent, the project will be on view over the course of a year within the library’s spaces. Across walls, floors, and shelves, the titles of twenty-six works are set down as textual interventions, transforming the interior into a landscape of poetic fragments. This constellation is complemented by a broader selection of publications – a recent donation to the library which is presented in vitrines on the second floor.

To activate the archive of the publications, a magazine is published as a copy- style facsimile, designed in collaboration with Aagje Vandriessche. The project’s execution is based on a concept and a curation by Kasper Andreasen, who also donated the books to the library. The publication Sampler is available at the reception of the Kunstenbibliotheek.

With exhibited titles by Janek Bersz, Kato Bouckaert, Tim Bruggeman, Floor Crick, Lucie De Almeinda Cachinho, Bart De Baets, Joris De Rycke, Martijn den Ouden, Ankje Frouws, Julia Grame, Louis Hilson, Leon Jespers, Mara Joustra, Louise Moana Kolff, Lewie Landuyt, Steve Michiels, Willem Roose, Anne-Sofie Thomsen, Aagje Vandriessche, Jelena Vanoverbeek, Matthieu Vrijman, Bart Walraeve, Floor Wesseling, Felix Ysenbaert, as well as some anonymous authors and other student publications from the Kunstenbibliotheek.

How can we make light a fully-fledged and equal contributor within contemporary dramaturgy? Reflecting Light is a research project by various lighting designers who are literally shining the spotlight on the use of light in the performing arts. With the support of KASK & Conservatorium and arts centre BUDA, they have been shaping a discourse on lighting design for four years now, and are trying to share this knowledge – formally and informally – through fanzines and residencies, among other things.

The project grouped lighting designers Emese Csornai, Ezra Veldhuis, Henri Emmanuel Doublier, Jan Fedinger, Jan Maertens and Tomi Humalisto - and collaborated with Bruno Pocheron, Estelle Gautier, Ingunn Fjellang Sæther, Leticia Skrycky, Maureen Beguin, Meri Ekola, Minna Tiikkainen, Pernille Plantener Holst and Materia Leve.

To conclude this part of the project, Reflecting Light uses the darkness of the longest nights to host two nights of lectures, presentations and installations on light and lighting design.

Reflecting Light, Kunstenbibliotheek

Several artists raise questions from within the collected Reflecting Light fanzines - in a programme with collective readings, talks, performative interventions, the presentation of a new platform and some installations. With a.o. Materia Leve, Judith Dhondt, Amelia Malfait Lakhtara & the lighting designers from Reflecting Light.

Geert Belpaeme is affiliated as an artistic researcher to KASK & Conservatorium, the school of arts of HOGENT and howest. The research project Reflecting Light was financed by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund.

Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, this 1M³ space transforms the notion of creative space into one of collective visibility. A bookshelf is personal yet a place of prestige, carrying cultural weight and authority. Within this space, women’s voices take their place in public view. Together, they remind us that both knowledge and space must be continuously reimagined and reclaimed. In the context of a bookshelf, fiction represents the imaginative dimension of knowledge, the realm of what could be. Over time, the bookshelf shifts and reshapes itself. What is visible and what is concealed remain in constant conversation. The shelf becomes a living archive of thought, curiosity, and care. 

Eline Adriaensen is an architect based in Antwerp and Ghent. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Antwerp, complemented by an exchange program at the Umeå School of Architecture in Sweden. 

At the moment, she is participating in the curatorial studies postgraduate programme at KASK & Conservatorium.

Retour displays drawings of train journeys between Belgium and the Netherlands, with hand-drawn typography and interiors that subtly highlight cultural differences. The centre page marks the border.

On Thursday 13 November 2025, at 19:00, the exhibition will open with a performance by Eva van Bemmelen & Maxim Preaux and the book presentation of Retour.

For the sixth year in a row, you are invited to Bijloke Wonderland, a summer cultural festival from Thursday 21 to Sunday 31 August at the bustling Bijloke site in Ghent. Expect tantalising sunrise concerts, free summer bar concerts, theatre, dance, visual arts & tours. Discover special locations on the Bijlokesite and get carried away by a programme for young and old. This year, for the first time, there will be a continuous programme for 11 consecutive days.

KASK & Conservatorium presents music and visual art by students on the open lawn of the Bijlokesite. Six diverse installations form a temporary landscape, culminating in a musical intervention. KIOSK serves up a performance. The Kunstenbibliotheek organises a zine festival and presents a selection from their zine collection.

The programme is presented by organisations at home on the Bijloke site: Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, LOD muziektheater, STAM, laGeste, Ontroerend Goed and KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT-Howest).

ongoing

• Kunstenbibliotheek & Shif—t*, Summershelves #2
• Aagje Vandriessche, Capteren
• Vicente Fuenzalida Lafourcade, Floating Garden
• Jean Paul Simons, In de zomer van 2017 werkte Jean Paul Simons enkele maanden
• Michiel Vindevogel, Oculus
• Gill Slosse, Remaining Shadows
• Layla Morando, When Doves Cry

Thu 21.08.25

• Kunstenbibliotheek, Zine-festival, 15:00

Sat 23.08.25

• Leen Van Tichelen, Fanny Vandesande, Jonas Bruyneel & Esther Coorevits, GROUND ZERO /51.04536/3.71609

Sat 30.08.25

• SONduo, Zomermiddagdroom Konzert, 16:00

Sun 31.08.25

• SONduo, Zomermiddagdroom Konzert, 14:30

Students from KASK & Conservatorium are organising a zine festival in collaboration with the Kunstenbibliotheek. At the same time, you can discover a presentation by artist collective Shif—t* in the cellarium.

Assembled by Louis Gahide, with zines by: Anna Van der Vurst, Riwan Kallel, Vero Denecker, Riet Van Lysebettens, Méraud Verschuere, Ling Madelein, Lena Moreels, Otis Monteny, Amber Goossens, Adriel Cantamessi, Margo van Damme, Julia Butter, Lex Monteny, Paulien Van Loo, Emma Durant, Marinela Demaj, Inès De Laender, Dominica De Rieck, Anne Dekeyser, Ines Claus, Arthur De Boever, Migena Demaj, Dominique De Groen, Carmen van der Straten, Nava Asgari, Layla Morando and Aagje Vandriessche.

The zine festival opens on the first day of Bijloke Wonderland, a cultural summer festival from Thursday 21 to Sunday 31 August at the vibrant Bijloke site in Ghent. View the full programme.

Summershelves #2 is created by artist collective Shif—t* with a tender scenography and a selection of zines and books to linger with during Bijloke Wonderland.

We open on 21 August with a zine festival organised by Louis Gahide and a lovely reading circle in the specially designed care corners.

The book selection will be on display in the cellarium of the Kunstenbibliotheek from Monday to Thursday.

We close on 28 August from 6 p.m. with A Picnic°2, curated by Arno Huygens, Seppe-Hazel Laeremans and Marthe Huyse. The picnic blanket is a quilt, honouring those who inspire us — an afternoon that turns into an evening of stories, shared plates and good company.

Ives Maes will present his new book Ives Maes & David Campany in Conversation at the Kunstenbibliotheek on 08.05.25. Campany will be present online for a discussion, moderated by Isabel Van Bos. The talk will be followed by a reception at Kunstenbibliotheek.

Ives Maes & David Campany in Conversation

Ives Maes explores his doctoral research in the arts with David Campany, jury member of his PhD committee. Focussing on the intersection of architecture and photography, Maes has designed biodegradable refugee camps, photographed the remains of world’s fairs worldwide, and recaptured his homestead memories in photographic installations. His research postulates that architecture is inherently part of the photographic medium, initiated by the camera obscura pavilion. He proposes that world’s fairs came into being precisely because of the invention of a medium that could truthfully propagate them, and describes how this, in turn, affected architectural display strategies for photography. Campany has had a long career in curating and writing about photography exhibitions, with a focus on exhibition history, scale and design, temporality, and the role of both still and moving images within the exhibition context. Together, Maes and Campany discuss their own expanded practices and a multitude of historical examples such as the Crystal Palace at London’s Great Exhibition in 1851, Charlotte Perriand’s Agriculture Pavilion for the International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life in 1937, the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion for the Japan World Exposition in 1970, and Simon Starling’s 2008 Plant Room for Kunstraum Dornbirn.

This publication was made possible with the support of the HOGENT Arts Research Fund and The Flemish Community, Department of Culture, Youth & Media.

Ives Maes is affiliated as an artistic researcher to KASK & Conservatorium, the school of arts of HOGENT and howest. The research project Forbidden Fruits Create Many Jams was financed by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund.

STAM and Kunstenbibliotheek are organising a book sale to benefit Gent Samen Solidair vzw. Go on a treasure hunt and discover books about Ghent, art, history and heritage at very reasonable prices. Be sure to drop by during the open day if you want to get your hands on a second-hand art book at a bargain price.

Shoaib Zaheer teaches animation to individuals seeking a visual language for their artistic feelings. His animation course is a guide for those with curious minds who wish to express their deepest artistic ideas through animation, creating work that resonates with the eyes and soul of their audience.

This three-day workshop is open to anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of animation. No prior experience is necessary.

Shoaib Zaheer followed the Open Design Course in 2019 and graduated in fine arts at KASK & Conservatorium in 2024.

Danah Abdulla presents her new book Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region in Kunstenbibliotheek. She will be in conversation with researcher Sofie Verclyte. The book presentation is an initiative of Design Museum Gent and the Department of Design of KASK & Conservatorium in collaboration with Kunstenbibliotheek.

Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region

How can we study and teach design in a way that is critical, socially engaged and relevant to place? In this timely book, Danah Abdulla challenges us to imagine a design education and culture that moves beyond blindly borrowing Eurocentric models and frameworks. Drawing on learnings from work with design students, educators and designers in the Arab region, with a particular focus on Jordan and featuring examples from Lebanon, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, Abdulla creates a dialogue with those who have most at stake in education to imagine how we can develop a collaborative, contextually based and socially relevant design education.

By first contextualizing higher education and design education in the region and examining the issues and challenges that are pertinent to the development of curricula and pedagogy, such as power, bureaucracy, language and access, Abdulla considers the purpose and relevance of design education in contemporary postcolonial societies. She explores how regional identities and class divisions shape the development of design cultures, as well as different perceptions of design and its value. Abdulla highlights design's role in society and the models of curricula and pedagogy appropriate for developing contextually situated design education. Outlining skills and strategies for equipping future designers, she proposes new possibilities for forms of practice and an actionable framework for developing design education.

Danah Abdulla

Danah Abdulla is a designer, educator and researcher interested in new narratives and practices in design that push the disciplinary boundaries and definitions of the subject. She is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Anti/Post/Decolonial Histories, Theories, Praxes at the Decolonising the Arts Institute at the University of the Arts London (UAL). Previously, she was the Head of Graphic Design at Camberwell, Chelsea, and Wimbledon Colleges of Art, UAL. Danah is a founding member of the Decolonising Design platform, and founded Kalimat Magazine. Her research focuses on decolonising design, possibilities of design education, design culture(s) with a focus on the Arab region, the politics of design, publishing, and social design. She is the author of Designerly Ways of Knowing: A Working Inventory of Things a Designer Should Know (Onomatopee, 2022), and Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region (Bloomsbury, 2025).

Studenten 1e bachelor landschaps- en tuinarchitectuur maakten een tentoonstelling met presentatieplannen en maquettes van de tuin van Jinny Blom.

1st bachelor students landscape and garden design have created an exhibition with maps and models of Jinny Blom's garden.

Book presentation
Thursday, 20.03.2025, 18:30-22:00 

with a conversation between Henri Jacobs and Kasper Andreasen at 19:30
BOEKS corridor

and the presentation of a collective woven work by textile and illustration students
Kunstenbibliotheek Cellarium

and exhibition
Until 16.05.2025

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New Surface Research is a new artist's book by Henri Jacobs. In September 2013, Roma Publications in Amsterdam published his Journal Drawings. The book is a record of 9 years of drawing and collecting reference images. In November 2024, the sequel New Surface Research is released. This archive contains another 10 year record of paper weaving. The idea behind it is the study of a surface’s two-dimensionality: its woven appearance and flatness, as well as the recto-verso of the paper surface, reproduced in book form. Old and new works or figurative and geometric images are woven together into a two-sided 2D surface that is image, pattern, texture and structure in one. 

In the BOEKS corridor, this search translates into an architectural intervention where there will be a sequence of eight braids with fronts and backs at the centre. On the occasion of the opening, Jacobs will talk to artist, teacher and friend Kasper Andreasen about this spatial book form and the correspondence they had for the book's text. 

There will also be a return to the wickerwork project week organised earlier this year under the guidance of Henri Jacobs and the textile and illustration teachers. Afterwards, the idea arose to come up with one new, collective wickerwork with the textile and illustration students over a period of weeks, literally hooking into each other's contribution. They then worked together to find a way to both present it ‘openly’ in the Cellarium and to see it folded together in one movement as a book object that will become part of the Kunstenbibliotheek’s collection.

Collective woven work

A joint woven artwork by the students of textile & illustration on the occasion of the project week with the following participants: Masha Argutyan, Lori Collier, Alex da Silva Rodrigues, Rachel De Geyter, Soumeya El Boukhzani, Reiho Preem, Lenke Tauber, Méraud Verschuere, Erin Vyvey, Gabriella Amir, Julia Butter, Joppe Carael, Vero Denecker, Evelien Dignef, Norien Ewane, Richelle Maus, Klaudia Mytkowska, Indira Pinto Santana, Julie Tymoshenko, Anna Van der Vurst, Paulien Van Loo, Lex Verslijcke, Fanny Schoofs, Liza De Weerdt, Ynne De Wever, Leen Goossens, Nienke Leijssenaar, Paulo Cesar Lopes Sousa, Leonie Verbeeck, Evelyne Schoofs, Nell Vandenberghe, Jill Van Hecke, Mirre Willeghems, Billie Vermandere, Luka Godts, Minske Heynen, Lila van der Heiden, Lore De Schutter, Kyra Voordeckers, Irene Raeymaekers, Mina Huybrechts, Joke Van Hoyweghen, Pascale Valcke, Maria Piermattei, Irene Jans, Febe Lequeue, Martha Battistella & Kaat Deceuninck.

Design poster & book object: Lore De Schutter, Richelle Maus & Ynne De Wever
Thanks to the mentoring teachers: Elsje Dezwarte, Tim Van den Abeele, Joanna Reuse, Diane Steverlynck, Anita Kars & Katrien Soeffers.

The book object is displayed in the Kunstenbibliotheek’s Cellarium. After the presentation, it will be added to their artist book collection and can be viewed on request.

Peeping (noun, verb)
The act of secretly or furtively looking at something, often through a small opening or from a hidden position. It typically implies curiosity, mischief, or voyeurism.

Peep Show is an exploration of intimate gazes and the fragile tension between what is visible and what should remain hidden. It transforms twelve windows into peep holes, inviting visitors to engage in a quiet, yet playful act of looking. A curated collection of texts, photographs, objects and personal ephemera uncovers intimate fragments of life. It provokes a reflection on the thin line separating observation from voyeurism, reconfigurating the act of peeping into a deliberate, poetic inquiry. In this realm, the line between observer and observed gets blurred, asking us to embrace the inherent vulnerability of our curiosity.

Marie Cathérine Stalpaert is born in Antwerp, Belgium. She is a graduate in architecture from the University of Antwerp and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville. She is currently participating in the curatorial studies postgraduate.

The more or less sign (±) is a mathe-matical symbol used to indicate precision in an approximation, or as a shorthand in the notation of a quantity with two possible values.

The symbols “±” and “∓” are used in chess to assess the positional advantage of a player. In chess, the“±” sign indicates that the White player has a better position than the Black player.

Léane Lloret was born in 1999 in Grenoble, France. A graduate in fashion and costume history of the Ecole du Louvre – Palais du Louvre, Paris, France she is specialized in contemporary artist’s books. She takes part in the Curatorial Studies programme at KASK & Conservatorium, Ghent, Belgium for 2024–25.

From November 2024 onward, the research cluster The Art of Resonance – The Resonance of Art is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Mo'min Swaitat 

Mo’min Swaitat is a London-based Palestinian artist, theatre and filmmaker who trained at the Freedom Theatre (Jenin) and arthaus (formerly LISPA) in London/Berlin, specializing in the Jacques Lecoq method of physical theatre, mask work and mime. He is the founder of Majazz Project, an archival platform and record label focused on reissuing Palestinian cassette and vinyl albums and field recordings, with a particular focus on sounds from the 1960s through to the 1990s. As part of the Majazz Project, Swaitat has initiated the Palestinian Sound Archive, which has been shared through NTS radio and was recently subject of an exhibition held at the Southbank Centre. Swaitat comes from a long line of Bedouin musicians and storytellers, and the archive references his rootedness in music as a means of celebrating one’s culture and sense of belonging.

From November 2024 onward, the research cluster The Art of Resonance – The Resonance of Art is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Salomé Voegelin

Salomé Voegelin is a writer, researcher, and practitioner, who works from the relational logic of sound to focus on the in-between and the liminal, where different disciplines meet to deal with contemporary issues, and where feminist, decolonial, and postanthropocentric demands can engender different and plural knowledge possibilities. She is engaged in the transversal and transdisciplinary potential of the sonic - to listen across disciplines and processes in order to develop a hybridisation of research where music, arts and humanities skills and methodologies can generate a contemporary response to climate, health and social emergencies. As an artistic researcher she focuses on the possibilities of sound and music for knowledge and pedagogy, and is invested in its scope to re-vision the aesthetic to reveal hidden slices of the real. She is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence (2010), Sonic Possible Worlds (2014/21), The Political Possibility of Sound (2018) and Uncurating Sound [2023]. Voegelin is a Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.

When an unknown back door turns a vitrine into a window, or a square pierces empty pages to expose a text printed on their backs, our surroundings are revealed as ways to see the world through. Glimpses of the street can be caught between parked cars as the bus goes by, figures can be grasped in the nearly closed curtains of a living room. At the edges, and the ends, and the backs, and the gaps, there is a life in passing motion.

A World Seen Through is a guide towards these gaps, a selection made for ways of looking and hiding. Use these as your glasses, your binoculars, your telescopes, your windows, your doors, your cat flaps, your eyes cut through a newspaper, the bottom of your beer glass, the gaps in your fingers with your head in your hands. If you listen at the open window, the cars and birds are coming in.

Jean Watt is studying on the Curatorial Studies postgraduate programme at KASK & Conservatorium. She runs the site-specific curatorial project, A Place to Rest, situating artworks in unusual spaces.

María holds a degree in Food Technology from the University of León and a PhD in Life Science from the University of Barcelona. After completing her PhD, she began a quest at the intersection of science and art at the Waag Society in Amsterdam, where she worked as a lab assistant for artists and designers in the field of bioart and biodesign. Since 2016, María has been working as a researcher at KASK & Conservatorium. Her main research interest is in sustainable colour production and application within the arts. In her first project, The Colour Biolab, she investigated sustainable alternatives to synthetic inks and dyes, including the use of bacteria and microalgae as colour sources. In addition to her role as researcher, she is responsible for LABORATORIUM, the experimental lab for art, design and biotechnology at KASK & Conservatorium, where students and researchers can investigate materials and methods from science in their artistic practice

“If you’re looking for something here let me point you in the right direction…”
Paul Bailey curated a new selection of artists’ books in our 1M3 vitrine, whilst thinking on the words by Fred Moten.

In 2015, 1M3 was established as an exhibition space for artists' books from Kunstenbibliotheek's collection. A guest curator is asked to make their own unique selection and present them in 1M³'s showcases.

De studenten professionele bachelor landschaps- en tuinarchitectuur kregen voor het opleidingsonderdeel Ontwerp- en vormleer de opdracht een ruimtelijke compositie te maken rond het thema 'Imaginair landschap'. Er diende aandacht te zijn voor het plaatsen van volumes of massa's tegenover elkaar én voor de ruimte die tussen of in de volumes ontstaat. Er werd ook verwacht dat er 7 kubussen met identieke afmeting gebruikt werden. Door toevoeging van bomen of meerstammen wordt er schaal gecreëerd en krijgen de maquettes het karakter van een imaginair landschap of imaginaire tuin.

Enkele geselecteerde maquettes zijn te bewonderen in de Kunstenbibliotheek. 

Essential Reading is a project that aims to enlarge, diversify and enrich Kunstenbibliotheek’s book collection. Which books are, today, really indispensible for an art library? Guests of Essential Reading bring together and present in the library the books they consider most valuable in their life and work.

Bert De Jonghe is a Belgian landscape architect, the founder of Transpolar Studio, and a Doctor of Design candidate at Harvard University. He specializes in landscape architecture, urbanism and design research in the Arctic regions.

He earned his Master in Design Studies degree at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) after completing a Master of Landscape Architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and a Bachelor of landscape and garden architecture at KASK & Conservatorium. His ongoing doctoral dissertation anticipates and frames the next chapter of settlement and infrastructural development in the high-Arctic.

Book sale

In the gallery, de Kunstenbibliotheek sells its doubles, books that were not kept from donations and publications that no longer fit into the collection. Be sure to drop by if you want to pick up a second-hand art book for next to nothing. The proceeds of the book sale will go to Open Design Course, a training course for refugees and asylum seekers that focuses on learning, research and collaboration.

Heritage Day

During the open house and heritage day, you can visit Kunstenbibltioheek for an exhibition of interior studies and drawings from the 1950s-60s. KASK & Conservatorium founded the study of interior architecture, now called interior design, in 1947. Even before it became a separate discipline, students at this school were already designing and drawing interiors. The Arts Archive has collected some of their best student works for their archives.

• In 2015 1m3 was initiated as an exhibition space dedicated to artists’ books from Kunstenbibliotheek’s collection. A guest curator is asked to make her/his selection from the library and present it within the vitrines of 1m3.

How many pantomimers have we seen and thought they had nothing to say? Some shadows cametogether to find some sort of a lie to agree on. One of them asked: “How could they know it is a lie, if we protect it with silence?” That evening shadows, faces and texts met up behind a glass door. They had this idea for the first time ever, when no-one could imagine colours. The idea that might start a lie that would last forever.“Making up a story that is never going to be told by words will kill them over and over!”

Pantomime of Nostalgia is a story that is not possible to tell. A wordless story, about something that is made up. Some stories make up themselves not for us to tell, but because there is no other way for words to come together. I let my stories be free. In this showcase, all the images chosen are based on intuition and emotions. I wanted to look at the glass, trying to see through my own reflection. Yet I wanted to look into a pair of eyes that seemed to hear all that went on, behind the glass door.

Join artist and KASK & Conservatorium postdoctoral researcher Benny Nemer for the launch of I Don’t Know Where Paradise Is, his first solo catalogue. Designed by Paris-based Clément Wibaut, the publication expands upon Nemer’s 2020 exhibition and eponymous audio work distilled from his research in the libraries of gay scholars in Amsterdam, London, Montreal, Paris and Vienna.

This beautiful and intimate book features lush photographs of the twenty-six floral arrangements created in response to the audio work, and essays by Heather Anderson, Ann Cvetkovich, Jennifer Evans, and John Potvin that situate Nemer’s work in broader, overlapping contexts.

At 18:30, friend, artistic researcher at KASK & Conservatorium, and graphic designer Paul Bailey will discuss the book project with Nemer. The publication will be available for purchase for € 20. An exhibition of flowers, photographs, and the accompanying audio work will remain on view in the Kunstenbibliotheek Cellarium until the flowers have faded.

Benny Nemer is affiliated as an artistic researcher to KASK & Conservatorium, the school of arts of HOGENT and howest. The research project Recollecting Favourable Bodies was financed by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund and is part of
the Archival Sensations Research Cluster.

With After a brief history of artists’ publications we browsed Kunstenbibliotheek’s artists’ book collection and selected works which refer, appro­priate, sample or wink to what was made before.

“It’s not that I don’t think that the word originality means anything or has no meaning,
I just think it’s gotten a very narrow meaning lately. What I think about in terms of my work isbroadening the definitions of the word “original.” I think originality as a trope*. There is no such thing as an ahistorical activity (I mean history
in terms of one’s personal history, too).”

Sherrie Levine interviewed by Jeanne Siegel, originaly published in ARTS Magazine, Summer 1985

* A trope is a word used in a nonliteral sense to create an image. Trope refers to different types of figures of speech, such as puns,metaphors, and similes.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Anna Haifisch & Stefanie Leinhos, Gnocchi, Gnocchi, who’s there?. Berlin: Colorama, 2020
• Olaf Nicolai, The Bauhaus Files: die Geschichten Unschribener Bücher Episode 1 bis 3. [s.l.]: Spector Books, s.a.
• Claudia de la Torre, Ten (unknown) Gaso­ line Stations. Berlin: backbonebooks, 2012
• Warja Lavater, Roodkapje: naar een sprookje van Perrault. Utrecht: Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, 1973
• Christian Marclay, Index. Zürich: Patrick Frey, 2021
• Elisabeth Tonnard, In This Dark Wood. Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2008
• Astrid Seme, Baroness Elsa’s em dashes. Wien: Max Pezinger Books, 2018
• Hans-Peter Feldmann, Album. Koln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008
• Batia Suter, Parallel Encyclopedia. Amsterdam: Roma Publications, 2007
• Sophie Nys, Alas. Gent: Grafische Cel LUCA School of arts, 2021
• Elizabeth Lebon, The Book of Ghost. Geneva: Boabooks, 2018

Ter gelegenheid van de oppensioenstelling van Katia Ballegeer bibliothecaris – archivaris van 1981 tot 2023 wordt de bibliotheekcommissie in de kijker gezet.
De unieke schetsboeken, in de typische stijl van Geert Clarisse, zijn een sprekende, levendige getuigenis van hoe geanimeerd het eraan toe ging.

Tot de leden behoorden:
K. Ballegeer, P. Beyls, N. Bourdeaud’huy, I. Castelein, G. Clarisse, K. De Bondt, A. De Mey, J-M Demeyer, J.De Mulder, P. De Smet, W. De Temmerman, H. D’Haeyere, D. Dobbelaere, B. Hinderyckx  E. Huygelen, S. Laget, N. Lannoo, D. Libens, D.Liefooghe, S. Maes, R. Martin, E. Muyllaert, N. Lannoo, J. Opstaele, S. Paridaen, M. Popelier, K. Sonck, E.Ubben  ,E.Vanacker, D.Van Gogh,  F. Vanderbiest, H. Van De Walle, B.Vansteenkiste , G. Vercaemer, E.Verschoore, K.Vuylsteke Vanfleteren

BoeckHerBerg is een evenement rond drukwerk, opgevat als een herberg vol gesprekken.

Op donderdag 30 september slaan we de handen in elkaar met (not) another reading group op campus Bijloke. Maak die avond kennis met makers en hun (gedrukte) inspiratiebronnen.
Grafisch ontwerpers Laura Bergans en Anne De Boeck vragen per editie enkele creatieve zielen om hun favoriete boeken en ander inspirerend drukwerk te delen met een geïnteresseerd publiek. Rond de tafel kunnen conversaties ontstaan tussen gasten en genodigden terwijl gebladerd wordt in de meegebrachte werken. Welke dynamiek bestaat er tussen wat een kunstenaar of ontwerper ziet, leest, verzamelt, hoort, … en uiteindelijk creëert?

(not) another reading group is een nieuw initiatief in het kader van het onderzoeksproject Comics, zines & femininity dat gefinancierd wordt door het Onderzoeksfonds Kunsten van HOGENT.

Over (not) another reading group

In recent years several forms of feminism have flared up and found a broader audience. Questions concerning gender, female positions and womanhood come with various contexts and discourses. How is femininity represented, discussed about and focused upon within zines, comics and graphic novels? What does this teach us? We are curious to see how a low-key comics and zines reading club, a few workshops and a handful of lectures could stimulate and direct us in our various practices. Whether you are an artist, student, researcher, (avid) reader, or just mildly interested, you are very welcome to join the reading club in whichever language you prefer.

We will approach the subject of femininity through 7 subthemes: growth, poetics, roles & clichés, sublimation, connections, the Feminine, and fear & challenges. Each subtheme will have its own reading group and will function (mostly) independently, meeting at your own convenience. Throughout the year we will host several events where all the groups can read together, browse through personal zine archives, chat and discuss ideas over a drink, attend a workshop, or just hang back and enjoy the atmosphere. At the end of the year, we hope to bring together all the reading groups once more to share what we’ve read, learned, created, and felt throughout this process.

1m3 is een kubieke meter gewijd aan de kunstenaarsboekencollectie van de Kunstenbibliotheek. Kunstenaar Marc Nagtzaam maakte deze selectie.

A Collection of Pages

A selection of notebooks; unfinished books; unreadable books; books as exhibitions; as single works; as incomplete pieces; books on repetition; on colour; books with thousands of pages from a personal archive; books based on a single work.

Essential Reading is a project that aims to enlarge, diversify and enrich Kunstenbibliotheek’s book collection. Which books are, today, really indispensable for an art library? Guests of Essential Reading bring together and present in the library the books they consider most valuable in their life and work.

Eva Barois De Caevel (°1989, based in Paris) is an independent curator, writer, and researcher. Her interest focuses on socially engaged practices in contemporary art, and their interaction with postcolonial concerns. Invited by KASK to present her practice through a workshop and a lecture, she discussed the traditional communication structure of the narrative biography: « When you are invited to stand in front of other people as a speaker, it implies that you are in a position of doing it — that you are in some way ‘a specialist’ of something—, but I became convinced that it implies also some sort of unsaid presupposition about your being ‘successful’, whatever that means ». What are the feelings experienced when confronted to structural power relationships — how are the « narratives of success » received and enjoyed when imposed on us in a postcolonial and neoliberal world?

1m3 is een kubieke meter gewijd aan de kunstenaarsboekencollectie van KASK. Kasper Andreasen (docent grafisch ontwerp– grafiek) maakte voor deze eerste editie een selectie rond De Enschedese School.

In 1976 werd De Enschedese School door Frans Oosterhof opgericht als uitgeverij binnen het kunstenaarsatelier 'De Ark’. Later verscheen het ook als tijdschrift. Een citaat uit de toenmalige redactie was: 'De Enschedese School is een periodiek dat zes tot acht keer per jaar verschijnt in de vorm van tijdschriften en anderen uitgaven waarvan de vorm en inhoud niet bij voorbaat vastligt. Het tijdschrift bevat opzichzelfstaande bijdrages. Werk plus een retourenveloppe kan naar de redaktie gestuurd worden. (…)’

1m3 is één kubieke meter gewijd aan de kunstenaarsboekencollectie van KASK. Kasper Andreasen (docent grafisch ontwerp – grafiek) maakte voor deze eerste editie een selectie rond De Enschedese School.

In 1976 werd De Enschedese School door Frans Oosterhof opgericht als uitgeverij binnen het kunstenaarsatelier 'De Ark’. Later verscheen het ook als tijdschrift. Een citaat uit de toenmalige redactie was: 'De Enschedese School is een periodiek dat zes tot acht keer per jaar verschijnt in de vorm van tijdschriften en anderen uitgaven waarvan de vorm en inhoud niet bij voorbaat vastligt. Het tijdschrift bevat opzichzelfstaande bijdrages. Werk plus een retourenveloppe kan naar de redaktie gestuurd worden. (…)’