Drawing from seemingly endlessly proliferating word sequences—which arise from a single word through a simple rule and through association—Veva Leye creates montages that present the same words in completely different ways. Uncannily coagulating, these word images expand and contract in an accordion-like movement. A similar rhythm characterizes Jelle Martens’ (photo)graphic registrations that combine fragments, reproductions and trivial observations into layered prints and drawings. Every print layer, every drawing operates as a temporary frame bringing together images that only temporarily solidify, overlap, and fall apart again. Image and language tumble along, stumble upon. Letters form words form images reading looking.

"An insistent research into Adolph Pauli's educational and sentimental trajectory"

SPITS is an exhibition initiative of the drawing studio and is located under a neo-Gothic pointed arch in the entrance hall of the Pauli building. SPITS is a platform to exhibit the medium, with teachers and students working together to develop thematic presentations several times a year.

What happens to an artistic practice when you become a parent? And what happens to an arts institution when an artist’s life disrupts its plans?

Stress Test reflects on how the birth of a child can affect both an artist and an institution. When an artist asked KIOSK to consider postponing his exhibition so he could care for his child, his request also became a stress test for KIOSK: how flexible can an institution be? What responsibility does it bear towards the people it works with?

KIOSK made room for his circumstances and chose to create something new in place of his exhibition. With the help of artists close to KIOSK and its network, a group exhibition took shape around fathers, fatherhood, fathering, and artistic practice. Works based on personal experiences and intimate stories explore care, the love and tension between father and child, and the desire to have or not to have children.

An open call for birth announcement cards designed by artist-fathers extended the invitation to contribute beyond KIOSK’s network. These cards bring together intimate and public moments: the arrival of a child, the announcement of a new life… and an artist becoming a father.

With works by

Ava Pudelek-Hoffman + Nicholas Hoffman, Chloë Delanghe, Danilo Zocatelli, Edouard Peeters-Wintein, Eva Maria Bouillon, Fabrice Schneider, Henry Andersen, Herman Van Ingelgem, Jacques Lizène, Julia Schouten, Laurens Mariën, Leen Voet, Marthe Merckx, Odette & Jasper Rigole, Paul Casaer, Sambasiva Rao Patchineelam & Vijai Maia Patchineelam, Trudo Engels, Vaast Colson, Vanya, Johan & Willem Vermeersch, Veronika Eberhart, Willy Van Ingelgem, and all the artists who contributed birth announcement cards

As part of Connecting the Dots, KIOSK presents A Study on Impact, an interactive installation by Peter Van Hecke in the kiosk pavilion in Citadelpark.

Inside the pavilion, a sculptural space emerges, constructed from eight willow longbows. Visitors are invited to activate the installation through play. Using a blowpipe, they fire acorns collected in the park at a target that forms the space’s final element.

Each impact produces a sound and a vibration that travel back through the installation to their point of origin. Each impact creates an echo and leaves a dent in the target.

A Study on Impact makes the consequences of a seemingly small gesture visible, audible and tangible all at once. The installation invites experimentation, play and wonder, while capturing the traces left behind by every action.

A Study on Impact is the second chapter of Connecting the Dots, a four-part project by Peter Van Hecke for KIOSK.

As a ‘Field Worker’, former architect and KASK & Conservatorium lecturer Wim Cuyvers set to work on the Genk slag heap over the past year. Although this hill, formed by excavated mine tunnels, is an imposing sight, the site serves no social purpose. On the initiative of C-mine, Wim joined forces with the Genk community to seek a symbolic purpose for the site.

This process of exploration and repurposing was turned into an engaging docu-fiction film. The film stars Eartal and Saban, two young ‘street kids’ from Genk who regularly meet on the Terril to vent their dissatisfaction with the world. One day, they meet an elderly man who wishes to be buried on the site. This gives rise to the plan for a ‘mountain of the dead’ to serve as a memorial and national cemetery.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Wim Cuyvers.