Every exhibition invites you to an eclectic Takeover Day at the Konschthal. These events are an opportunity to rediscover the exhibitions through the eyes of our invited guests. Each evening is unique - conceived by participants from various fields, they are structured around changing themes linked to the exhibitions.
With concerts, readings, encounters, performances, workshops and much more, the Konschthal gets a new look once a month.
LIVING FORMS
To coincide with Tina Gillen's Flying Mercury exhibition, the Konschthal is dedicating this evening's program to artistic practices that explore, in many ways, the relationships we have with other forms of life.
In collaboration with:
- Forms of Life (research project, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp)
- François Génot (artist)
- Dominik Eulberg (presentation and DJ set with visual show (VJ)
6pm - 7pm: "Modes of attention", a conversation with François Génot
François Génot borrows his attitude and the impetus of his approach from the resistance and proliferation of living things. He has developed a sensitive and energetic formal language, punctuated by the experience of place. Travelling, collecting and paying particular attention to materials, forms and natural phenomena feed his practice. His attention to the everyday wilderness that inhabits our anthropized spaces opens the door to the human, animal, plant and mineral worlds surrounding him, with which he tries to find new ways of cohabiting and sharing. The processes he develops as the seasons go by and the different environments, he frequents enable him to maintain an active collaboration with living things.
François Génot will be in conversation with Christophe Gallois, curator/head of exhibitions at Mudam Luxembourg.
This conversation is organized as a prelude to the workshop "Mémoire carbone - de la branche au dessin" offered by François Génot on Saturday 30 September.
François Génot was born in Strasbourg in 1981. He lives and works in a rural environment in the Grand Est region of France.
7pm - 8pm: Fragments of Forms of Life
Initiated in 2021 by Tina Gillen and Christophe Gallois at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, in association with the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, the Forms of Life research project explores the multiple resonances of a question that is currently driving all fields of creation, thought and society: that of our relationship to other forms of life, and our ways of inhabiting the world. The aim is to explore the links that are forged between works of art and the world, between images and living things, between the forms that surround us and those that we create.
Developed over two years with a group of artists from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, the research project took the form of a monthly seminar at the Academy and a week-long workshop in the Venice lagoon in September 2022. In August and September 2023, the Bridderhaus will host ten Forms of Life artists for a series of short residencies.
Short artistic proposals (performances, readings, screenings, etc) by Forms of Life artists will be shown.
Fragments of Forms of Life : Christophe Gallois, Tina Gillen, Diana Murray Watts.
Artists : Max Beets, Pieter Eliëns, Kristina Fekete, Rafaela Figurski Vieira, Nina Gross, Malena Guerrieri, Paul Müller, Oona Oikkonen, Laurence Petrone, Pit Riewer, Maren Rommerskirchen, Alexandra Samarova, Maria Sawizki, Rune Tuerlinckx, Witold Vandenbroeck (alumni of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp).
In collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.
For more information on the research project: Forms of Life
8h30 pm – 10h30 : Dominik Eulberg : DJ set with Visual Show
Dominik Eulberg is an internationally renowned DJ and producer in the world of techno. Groundbreaking, award-winning tracks, albums and remixes for more than 25 years - and already an icon beyond the entire genre. But the jack-of-all-trades from the Westerwald was and is not only a musician, but also a studied ecologist, active conservationist and creative-scientific mind with heart and soul. His natural history lectures, ornithological tours and biodiversity shows are audiovisual journeys through the most beautiful and yet most unbelievable natural treasures of our native and natural cosmos. Just as he captivates the world with his music, Eulberg also draws people outside the techno clubs into a trance-like spell of knowledge. Under the banner of his book "Microorgasms Everywhere - on the sophistication and diversity of nature on our doorstep", Dominik Eulberg now opens the gates and brings his work (officially awarded the title of Knowledge Book of the Year 2021) to the stage. For two hours, the wondrous beauty of nature resonates in an elaborate bowl of sound. One accepts Eulberg's invitation, for what may sound like an esoteric reading of the climate apocalyptic is a firework of scientific natural phenomena in sound garb. It is the big bang on a small scale, the soundtrack of a positively charged existential activism. Never heard it before? Well, only those who can hear, will feel it too.
Dominik Eulberg will be presenting his stimulating work tied to a conference, which will move us subsequently to a 2-hour DJ set at the Konschthal.
Small bites by Eis Epicerie. The bar is open throughout the evening.
Free of charge | No booking required.
Additional Info
- Location All Floors
- Audience Open to all, For adults, For teens, 65+
