Amazing overview of #ValerieMannaerts’ work at M Leuve, going back all the way to 1996 but showing plenty of new works as well. Congrats @valeriemannaerts & @valerie.verhack ✨🤍
Rainy Saturdays are for colouring 🖍️💛 Shirley Villavicencio Pizango as part of our colouring book “Colour with 28 artists” ✨ Link in bio 👀
#shirleyvillavicenciopizango #colouringbook #kleurboek #artlead
New BillboardSeries by Anastasia Bay ✨ the new work “Night Mother” juxtaposes private moments of care with the pressures of the outside world.
Billboard Series is a project by @artlead and @019ghent , curated by @trjbc within a scenography of architect @oliviergoethals.info , and developed with the support of the City of Ghent.
Look out for your free foldout publication on Anastasia Bay’s work (only in Ghent), with a text by @natalija.gucheva . This Billboard Series is up through the end of Spring!
#anastasiabay #billboardseries #artlead #019ghent #sorrywereclosedgallery #galeriederouillon @bay.anastasia 🤍
Edith Dekyndt’s “Shadows from the Walls of Death” is still up at Jan Hoetplein, Ghent!
Dekyndt transforms the square with a series of flags that explore our complex relationship with nature, beauty and danger. Drawing on 19th-century floral wallpaper patterns made with the once-popular but toxic pigment Scheele’s Green, her work reveals how attraction and harm can coexist in unexpected ways. Dekyndt’s poetic practice places ecology at its heart, showing how light, air and material interactions shape our world, and invites us to reflect on our role within it. Catch the flags outside S.M.A.K. till early spring 🏙️🌱
Museumplein is a project of artlead & S.MA.K., and invites artists to create work for the five gigantic flags in the flowerbed in front of the museum. For five months, each work seeks connection with the museum square, the park, the city, and its residents, prompting us to reflect on the role that art can and should play in public space.
📷 @joselitoverschaeve
#edithdekyndt #artlead #museumplein #smak #artinpublicspace #Gent @edith_dekyndt@smakgent@artlead
Somewhere around 2007, when I just started working at SMAK, I saw a new work in their collection: a piece of soap with some strands of hair, depicting the borders of 14 countries. This work by Oksana Pasaiko is still one of my favourite artworks - fragil, strong, poetic & political. I had the chance to invite Oksana for a Billboard Series, but she unfortunately passed away before the project went up. Her “the whole world - without me = the whole world” is up in Ghent through the end of the year. The new circulation plan has made Dok Noord once again the quiet place it was when we first started Billboard Series. Go and sit by the water and dream away.
A limited edition print by Oksana Pasaiko, made in May of this year, will be launched the day the billboard goes down. DM for more info.
#oksanapasaiko #billboardseries #artlead #019ghent @artlead
I like to do projects that are close to my own life and with a six year old daughter, colouring is a favourite activity in our home. So I teamed up with 28 artists to make an amazing colouring book. It’s big, A3 sized, with easy to pull out pages. We already had plenty of fun with it. Pictured are Rio & Sophie colouring test pages by Bert Huyghe and Bendt Eyckermans.
We launch this book Sunday afternoon 16/11 at Kunsthal Gent, with lots of colouring, pancakes and a bouncing castle designed by Shirley Villavicencio Pizango. See you there!?
#berthuyghe #bendteyckermans #artlead #kunsthalgent @artlead
Edith Dekyndt’s One Thousand And One Nights in front of Jef Lambeaux’ Les Passions Humaines at Horta’s pavilion at Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels 🤍
Maybe this is also a great moment to announce that next week artlead is mounting a series of new flags by Edith as part of Museumplein - a project in collaboration with S.M.A.K., Ghent
#edithdekyndt #jeflambeaux #victorhorta #pavilliondespassionshumaines #artlead @edith_dekyndt
If there's one flavor that catapults me back to my childhood, it’s the taste of wild blackberries. As a child, I had to wait an entire summer in longing, but by summer's end, the dunes were alive with berries. It was pure celebration: we filled buckets and made jams to last through the winter. In between, I was allowed to eat as many as I wanted. Now, the dunes have nearly vanished, swallowed up by buildings. The few blackberries left are lost in confusion—some bushes ripen by mid-July, others are already dried up, while some are just beginning to bloom, their fruits still a distant dream. These berries feel ‘expensive’ now; an hour’s picking yields only about 500 grams. Yet they are delicious, and with my eyes closed, I am six years old again.
