Electric Green Parakeets (a Celebration of Migration) is an exhibition at Harlan Levy Projects, Brussels. The show features work by Haseeb Ahmed, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Marcin Dudek, Ermias Kifleyesus, Camille Orso Caël (fka - Camille Picquot), Angyvir Padilla, Yoel Pytowski, Mostafa Saifi Rahmouni. With a special contribution by Lot Lemm.

Electric Green Parakeets (a Celebration of Migration) brings together eight artists who were born elsewhere but have made Brussels their home. Their voices have become part of this city’s evolving landscape, slowly shaped by the influence of Belgian art history and sharpened through sustained engagement with the contemporary ecosystem of residencies, institutions, academies, galleries, and civic life. They are not just “from” somewhere else – they are also shaping where we are now, and what will become of it. These artists are brought together here, not as part of a researched or thematic exhibition, but as a celebration of migration and the city we’ve all come to share. Though their practices unfold in diverse forms, they converge in a quiet reckoning with home, its fragility and resilience, its hauntings and layered histories.

Part of the exhibition is Barefoot Birthdays on Unbreakable Glass (2024) by artistic researcher Rebecca Jane Arthur,created as part of the research project Homeward Bound.

In Living Apart Together, elephy (artistic researcher Rebecca Jane Arthur and alumni Chloë Delanghe, Eva Giolo, Christina Stuhlberger) brings a selection of audio/visual artworks from Belgium and Austria into correspondence. The exhibition questions and explores matters of identity, language, borders and belonging, delves into domestic spaces, provides a window onto intimacies, cherishes female role models, and celebrates the power and potential of art to unite us in the dark times, as Anouk De Clercq’s film We’ll find you when the sun goes black reminds us. In the exhibition text, “Organic Solidarity”, Patrick Holzapfelwrites: “Instead of understanding the organic as a necessary interdependence between artists, the collected works unfold a physical-spiritual connection across generations and cultures. The works often show tender gestures of holding, embracing andaffection between people, but also between people and objects. Dialogues of gazes, art as a gift to the other person. This is a radical, political and liberating gesture that emphasises a different kind of togetherness between people.” Creating a dialogue between works from archival collections and contemporary creations, past and present meet here in a scenography created by Yuichiro Onuma.

Participating artists: Rebecca Jane Arthur, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat, Manon de Boer, Anouk De Clercq, Linda Christanell, Collectif Faire-part, Chloë Delanghe, Lili Dujourie, Eva Giolo, Friedl vom Gröller, İpek Hamzaoğlu & Lantian Xie, Kathi Hofer, Katharina Lampert & Cordula Thym, Eva L’Hoest, Maggessi/Morusiewicz, Mara Mattuschka, Christiana Perschon, Sasha Pirker, Alex Reynolds, Ernst Schmidt jr., Nina Schuiki, Christina Stuhlberger, Hui Ye

This international presentation programme is made possible with the support of the Flemish Community (Kunstendecreet/Arts Decree of the Flemish Government), KASK & Conservatorium (research by Rebecca Jane Arthur), Kunsthalle Exnergasse, LUCA School of Arts (research by Christina Stuhlberger), and the Flemish Community Commission (VGC).

Rebecca Jane Arthur is an artistic researcher at KASK & Conservatorium, school of arts of HOGENT and Howest. The project Homeward Bound: Her Memoir on Binds and Becoming is financed by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund.