Ex-Residents
14 - 28 February 2021 - Veit Rochus Marr
Jerome Marr studies painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He grew up in the north of Germany. In his weekly tutorial videos, he shares tips & tricks to become a master painter himself.
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October - December 2021 - Troupe
- WALKING ANGELS -
Ongoing performance by collective TROEP/TROUPE.
With Sachli Gholamalizad, Lotte Heijtenis, Sofie Joan Wouters, Elke Thuy, Bruno Herzeele, Mokhallad Rasem, Jan De Vroede & Simon De Vos.
Bruno:
"WANDERING ANGEL actually arose quite spontaneously from the interaction between Archipel's surroundings and the winged figures. The angel is a bridge figure, a fallen man, or perhaps just someone who is under the delusion that he/she is an angel. We like to leave that to one side. A being caught between a mythical and an everyday dimension. People who encounter the angel are immediately caught up in the wonder. That immediacy is a rewarding fact for an ongoing urban performance."
(c) TROEP/TROUPE
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14 - 24 October 2021 - BANG
BANG is a collaborative project initiated by an international group of visual artists, grounded in a common fascination with the human experience.
Today, a feeling of isolation is well known to everyone. As a result, our worries and insecurities push themselves to the surface and this process is reinforced by what we see in the media, in turn fuelled by our shared fear. Through artistic research and collaboration, we dare to confront and control our fears, hoping to discover that the world does not have to be such a terrifying place. We create a maze through the human mind by presenting a diverse collection of work that reflects on our concerns. We hereby invite our audience to further explore these fears, both rational and irrational, with us. What is fear? Are we born without fear? When do fearful feelings creep into our subconscious? Why do we each experience it differently?
Milou Abel: "In my artistic practice, I use different mediums. From sculptures to drawings and from videos to text, but photography always takes a leading role. I use my daily work as a caregiver as a mirror during the creative process."
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Myrthe Coenen is a visual artist who works around repetition of patterns in art and the process involved in the making itself. Through prints and textiles, which she often translates into sculptures, she makes the patterns visible.
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Alexandra Fraser is a visual artist who works with themes such as the body, sexuality and power. Through performances and experiments with 2D and 3D media, she creates a confrontational and often grotesque world.
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Lies Jacobs: In her work, she plays with uncertainties. In the solitary objects that she carefully collects, she invites them to be repurposed. Her direct and spontaneous drawings express the regained meanings.
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For Justine Lambrechts, visual artist, painting is a way of thinking and searching, rather than a goal in itself. She gets her inspiration from the emotions and situations she experiences herself. She then translates these into images that represent a staged state of mind: temporary, imaginary and polyphonic.
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Irma Maria Marcel is an Antwerp-based visual artist who searches and researches, finds and rediscovers. Beauty, ugliness, now, forever and everything in between.
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Juliane Schreiber, currently working on the Baltic Sea in Germany, works mainly with textiles and photography. She aims to create structures that are related to existing patterns from both the interactions between people and synergies in nature. Social exchange plays an important role in collaborations, and environmental and site-specific research provides a nourishing ground for her research process.
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Through figurative and abstract work, Ioana Tamas focuses on expressing the human experience, whether physical or emotional. Her sculptures and installations serve as a representation of the forgotten voices and invisible populations in our society.
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Also with Mora Alexandru, Noga Karpel, Tsjêbbe Van Damme and LIVMODER
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7 September - 8 October 2021 - Ligo Antwerp & Tania Polak
Ligo Antwerp & Tania Polak make a Ligo-Reus with low-literacy students who will join the giant procession of Borgerhout on 9 October. There, this giantess will meet Amal from Syria. This is a project in collaboration with Atelier Rojo and Reuzekes Borgerhout.
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4 - 5 June 2021 - Dedapon tetrilogie Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
The golden collaboration between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte resulted in three of the most beautiful operas in the repertoire: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. DESCHONECOMPANIE and Muziektheater Transparant adapt the famous trilogy for a contemporary audience, with love for the music and for the libretto. The parts of the triptych slide freely along the axes between singing and acting, between Italian and Flemish, between opera and theatre. Whether you are discovering the wonderful world of opera for the first time, or are already ready for the umpteenth Don Giovanni, a fresh introduction to the known unknown awaits everyone.
DESCHONECOMPANIE, by director Tom Goossens and pianist Wouter Deltour, is conquering Flanders with its infectious musical theatre. Don Juan was picked up by festivals such as Theater Aan Zee and toured all over Flanders. That the theatre makers had found a fruitful format with this adaptation of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Molière's Don Juan, they subsequently proved with Così and later Nozze. The thread? Love and its comic side effects. We are happy that we can finally present the complete trilogy to our audience, in cooperation with our partners in Ghent and Antwerp.
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May 31 - June 6, 2021 - Rebecca Desbordes
Work in progress: Fashion student Rebecca Desbordes is working on a video performance about her second-year collection as an homage to Kali.
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April 15 - May 13, 2021 - Lowrider Gallery
Rafaela Figurski Vieira, Tim Rosenbaum and Paul Müller, three students from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp - In Situ³ department, developed an exhibition space on wheels, taking public life as its habitat. Moving between different places and intervening in them with art interventions. A rebuilt trailer becomes an independent art platform, a mobile showcase of contemporary art. At each stop, the showcase reinvents itself through interactions with the environment in which it finds itself at that moment. The works on display want to exchange something with the outside world and thus allow themselves to be influenced in ever new situations.
A co-production of Archipel art workplace Rooftoptiger & Archipel-artists in collaboration with VOEM, Sint Lucas, Open Design Course, Fameus, Veggie=halal and Elegast buurtwerking.
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March 2021 - Calligraffiti
In early March, preparations will start for a metre-long work of art on the outer walls of Archipel. It will be a collaboration between organisations from different domains, and will illustrate the power of diversity and connection.
CALLIGRAFFITI = calligraphy & graffiti, symbols of the beautiful melting pot of east and west in our city.
A co-production with Archipel-kunstwerkplek, Rooftoptiger & Archipel-artists in collaboration with VOEM, Sint Lucas, Fameus and Dema-one.
March 2021 - Designing Dialogues
While the calligraffiti project on our outside wall brings East and West together, inside the Vleeshaak we are working on a true intercultural experience box, so that you can enjoy a meal and culture safely from your own bubble.
During their project week, students will use the creation of objects, packaging and graphic interventions to investigate how they can strengthen and deepen connection and interaction during the DRIFTAR. They will then present their prototypes for the DRIFTAR-box to a heterogeneous mix of local residents, professional and amateur artists, Veggie=Halal volunteers and other students. Co-creation with others in the city of Antwerp and encounter, exchange and dialogue are thus the focus and inspiration for a week. If all goes well (coronally speaking), the box will actually be available in mid-April.
A co-production of Archipel-kunstwerkplaats Rooftoptiger & Archipel-artists in collaboration with VOEM, Sint Lucas, Open Design Course, Fameus, Veggie=halal and Elegast neighborhood work.
2020 - 2021 - Ann Bevers Art
My story: Self-taught abstract painter, intuitive painting, combining colours to bring balance to interiors and patterns. I grew up in Belgium, Wuustwezel (° 1982) and studied Marketing in Antwerp. Already at a young age I had a strong passion for colours. I see them everywhere and match them to create balance. Meanwhile, I have worked for over 10 years as a colour and style consultant in the fashion and interior design industry.
Painting is for me a way of meditation, through which I can express my emotions. I call it intuitive painting or soul painting. I find it important that I can create balance, both in myself and in my interior, by adding and combining the right colours. Besides that I work on measure, I like to look into other people's interiors and decide which colours can be added to the wall, to your interior... to create peace in your home and therefore in your head. Colour advice in your interior, for you personally or for art on the wall, that is my goal.
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Britt De Jonghe
Soul teacher of thuja: soul creation and discovery around nature experience, wonder, self-sufficiency, autonomy, connectedness and permaculture.
Online courses - individual counselling sessions - group (vegetable gardening) workshops
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Co-initiator of RUIS vzw - management of the warehouse of death & creation of the 'moestijn': public permaculture experience tour on the slaughterhouse site ('20)
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