Events

Date

27 > 29/08/2010
03 > 05/09/2010

Venue

Koning Albert I-park

Info

Gentinfo
T. +32 9 210 10 10
www.gent.be/jazzintpark (available in Dutch)

The exhibition will be presenting an extensive selection from the Collection abcd from Paris. This private collection consists of top works from international masters of the art brut, such as Adolf Wölfli, Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez and Alexandr Lobanov. The collection was assembled by the French filmmaker Bruno Decharme, and it is now being exhibited in Belgium for the very first time.

Date

22/05 > 12/09/2010

A person who commits a crime but who is not considered mentally capable can be interned for lack of accountability. This is a luck-of-the-draw system, it functions like a kind of limbo and it is one of the failures of psychiatry. Motivated by the gravity of this social issue and even more so by the personal drama of the individuals who undergo this internment, the Ghent-based photographer Lieven Nollet set out on a journey. He spoke to people who were interned in various Belgian prisons and in psychiatric centres that have special wings for prisoners. Nollet portrayed these people in his photographs, which capture the essence of their personal drama. Innocent, yet punished is a poignant series of photographs and testimonies: a surprising confrontation with the visible and the invisible.

Date

22/05 > 12/09/2010

Venue

Museum Dr. Guislain
J. Guislainstraat 43
9000 Gent
T. +32 9 216 35 95
F. +32 9 216 35 35
e-mail: info@museumdrguislain.be
www.museumdrguislain.be (available in Dutch)

This is the 22^nd time that the Belgian Heritage Day will be organized; this year’s theme is "De Vier Elementen" or "The four elements".

Date

12/09/2010

Venue

Various locations

Info

www.openmonumenten.be (available in Dutch)

Date

18/09/2010
13.30-18.30h

Venue

Kouter

The International Flanders Festival Ghent opens with the festive OdeGand. The streets alongside Ghent’s waterways overfl ow with music, animation, art and spectacle. And to top it off: a sparkling fi rework display.

The perfect start!

Date

18/09/2010

Venue

City centre

Info & tickets

Uitbureau Gent vzw
Kammerstraat 19 
T. +32 70 77 00 00
www.uitbureau.be/ (available in Dutch)

Info

Internationaal Festival van Vlaanderen Gent
Kleine Gentstraat 46
9051 Gent
tel 09 243 94 94
info@festival.be
www.festivalgent.be/Home/tabid/36/language/en/Default.aspx  

Ghent’s town centre will be closed to motorised traffic between 10 am and 6 pm on 19 September. In this day, the City of Ghent is organising a series of activities to highlight the advantages of sustainable mobility. Meeting points for these activities are the Portus Ganda and the Baudelo Park.

The kick-off for Biking Ghent, a bike trip along the city ring, will take place at 5 pm

Date

19/09/2010

Portus Ganda, Baudelopark

Mahler’s ‘Kindertotenlieder’ prove that gravitas can also be beautiful. According to the composer ‘it hurt to compose these songs and it will hurt to hear them.”

Philippe Herreweghe gives you the time of a whole Bruckner symphony to regain your composure.

Date

24/09/2010
20h

Venue

Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent
Jozef Kluyskensstraat 2
9000 Gent

Info & tickets

Booking office Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent
Jozef Kluyskensstraat 2
9000 Gent
T. +32 9 269 92 92
e:mail: tickets@debijloke.be
www.debijloke.be/node/2093

Price

Tickets: € 24,00 & € 18,00
Reduction € 20,00; € 15,00 & € 5,00 (-19 years)

Picture

© Alena Malkova

The French Sun King, Louis XIV, inherited the orchestra ‘Les 24 Violons’ from his father. The king’s 24 violins are brought back to life again by Skip Sempe and Capriccio Stravagante using exact copies of the Sun King’s original violins. French grandeur on stage, of course, with music by such composers as Lully and Marais!

Date

25/09/2010
20H

Venue

Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent
Jozef Kluyskensstraat 2
9000 Gent

Info & tickets

Booking office Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent
Jozef Kluyskensstraat 2
9000 Gent
T. +32 9 269 92 92
e:mail: tickets@debijloke.be
www.debijloke.be/node/2093

Price

Tickets: € 24,00 & € 18,00
Reduction: € 20,00; € 15,00 & € 5,00 (-19 years)

Picture

© Wouter Jansen

Paris is coming to Ghent in August and September. During these months, you can visit a French market every Sunday on the Korenmarkt, complete with artists, antique dealers and French chansons.

Date

August - September

Venue

Korenmarkt

In the work of Ghent artist, Stijn Cole (b. 1978), the emphasis is on the abstraction of reality. The perception of this reality takes on a universal and conceptual value. The relation between spectator/work of art and the surroundings play an important role. Using new technological means Stijn Cole examines whether it is possible to visibly register time and light. The outcome exceeds formal beauty.

Date

17/07 > 03/10/2010

Picture

© Dirk Pauwels

Date

18/09 > 10/10/2010

Venue

Info

Festival van Vlaanderen Gent
Kleine Gentstraat 46
9051 Gent
tel. +32 9 243 94 94
email: info@festival.be
www.festivalgent.be 

Info & tickets

Uitbureau Gent vzw
Kammerstraat 19
9000 Gent
tel. +32 70 77 00 00
www.uitbureau.be (available in Dutch)

In this opera by Kaaija Saariaho the protagonist, the Prince de Blaye, goes in search of ideal love. Once he is convinced that it exists, he sets out to find it. And once he succeeds in doing so, he dies in his true love’s arms.

Date

06, 08, 10, 13/10/2010
20U (10/10 15U)

Info & tickets

Vlaamse Opera Ghent
T. +32 70 22 02 02
www.vlaamseopera.be (available in Dutch)

The event developed into one of the most important festivals of Europe and the world. At least 200 films from every corner of the world struggle for your attention. It is here too that the prestigious World Soundtrack Awards are handed over every year.

Date

12/10 > 23/10/2010

Venue

Various locations

Info & tickets

Filmfestival van Vlaanderen - Gent
Leeuwstraat 40b
9000 Gent
tel. +32 9 242 80 60
www.filmfestival.be/?&lang=en

For over 40 years Piet Stockmans (°1940) has cherished every aspect of the medium that is porcelain: he designs industrially manufactured tableware, crafts traditional objects and creates artistic installations. His work blends form and content thanks to repetition, which plays an important role in this. The repetitive aspect that is typical of the industrial process thus is translated into an artistic means of expression in his work.

Date

03/07 > 24/10/2010

Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa, the curators of the exhibition, asked themselves the question why so many designs fail to pass the test of everyday use. Why does “Normal” disappear and when it is gone, how can we replace it? Is beauty only a matter of appearance or looks or is there more to it? How is it that some designs are considered strong designs and that others improve over the years?

Date

03/07 > 24/10/2010

As is the case every year the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art organises “Coming People”, a group exhibition that is based on the graduation projects of students from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and of St Luke’s College of Science and Arts, Visual Arts Campus in Ghent.

Date

11/09 > 21/11/2010

Long before mankind came along, the earth was home to a diversity of animals and plants. The ancestors of the modern-day species shared the world with the dinosaurs. This exhibition not only offers an overview of the development of plants, but also the ways in which plants can adapt to extremely diverse climatological circumstances. You will be introduced to inhabitants of parched deserts, rugged expanses of stone and humid rainforests. (the exhibition is in Dutch, guided tours available upon request in English and Spanish.)

Date

20/04 > 31/12/2010
Workdays: 9.00 - 16.30 u
Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays : 9.00-12.00 u.

Venue

Ghent University Botanical Garden (Victoria Galeries) (Plantentuin Universiteit Gent)K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35
9000 Gent

Info

Ghent University Botanical Garden (Plantentuin Universiteit Gent)
K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35
9000 Gent
T. +32 9 264 50 73
F. +32 9 264 53 34
e-mail: chantal.dugardin@ugent.be
www.ugent.be/we/en

In recent years the City of Ghent has invested heavily in scenic lighting for the city centre. The Ghent lighting plan has also received international awards. The Light Festival wishes to highlight this lighting plan and give visitors the opportunity to catch a glimpse of Ghent’s unique hidden charm.

So take a winter tour of the city centre and experience the most surprising light experiences as you explore the city’s streets. A subtle play of light, which is reflected off the water’s surface, unexpected projections on buildings, poetic shadows which play in the twilight among Ghent’s hidden treasures. Twenty international renowned artists and light designers will take you on a tour of the historic city centre during the darkest days of the year. The work of artists who play with light is on display in several unique locations, both inside and outside.

A shuttle service will be laid on (bus, boat, bicycle) between the city museum and the Light Festival’s trail so that a combined visit of the exhibition, ‘Belichte stad, dag en nacht in Gent’ (Light of the city, day and night in Ghent) and the Light Festival is possible.

Date

27/01 > 31/01/2011

Info

Stad Gent
Departement Stadspromotie en Sport
T. +32 9 243 77 40

It is a well-known fact that James Ensor (1860-1949) was one of the pioneers who paved the way for modern art. During his lifetime his home in Ostend was a haven for artists and intellectuals. Two museums, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, have joined forces to examine the relationship between James Ensor’s visionary art and the artistic practice of a host of contemporary artists in the exhibition, “Hareng saur – Ensor and contemporary art”.

Date

30/10/2010 > 27/02/2011

Venue

S.M.A.K.
Citadelpark
9000 Gent
T. +32 9 240 76 01
F. +32 9 221 71 09
e-mail: museum.smak@gent.be
www.smak.be