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Published articles
Joy Boy, a tribute to Julius Eastman, a three-part audiovisual installation honouring Eastmans life and music, with visual and auditive interpretations by Collectif Faire-Part, Victoire Karera Kampire, Fallon Mayanja, Benjamin Mengistu Navet and Mawena Yehouessi.
- Een royale selectie aan niet te missen tentoonstellingen published by Glean (Dutch)
Century Bingo, a solo exhibition by Basyma Saad
- ‘Permanent Trespass’: Looking Beyond the American century published by Frieze
- Lua Vollaard on Basyma Saad’s “Century Bingo” published by e-flux
Heavy Air, a duo exhibition by Antonia Brown and Tom Hallet
- Performance met Cantate Domino in NW published by HLN (Dutch)
Bijoux Cailloux, a solo exhibition by Guy Woueté presenting a selection of works crossing twenty years of career. Curator: Aude Christel Mgba.
- Guy Woueté “Bijoux Cailloux” at NW, Open House for Contemporary Art and Film, Aalst published by Mousse Magazine
- Zomertentoonstellilng ‘Bijoux Cailloux’ sluit af met WAKA CINEMA published by HLN (Dutch)
NW presents Swinguerra, a film focus curated by Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca
- Swinguerra in NW Aalst: “Film, Kitchen Stories en hiphop-tunes” published by HLN (Dutch)
Ritual in Transfigured Time, a group exhibition with 9 artists which opened NW with a ritual
- Ritual in Transfigured Time published by De Witte Raaf (Dutch)
Reopening of NW
- ‘Er is een groeiende behoefte aan rituelen’ – Netwerk in Aalst heropent als NW – in gesprek met Laura Herman en Godart Bakkers published by Metropolis M (Dutch)
- Nieuw kunstencentrum in Aalst: “Nadruk ligt op hedendaagse kunst en film” published by VRT NWS (Dutch)
- De andere kant van de Dender. Laura Herman & Godart Bakkers published by Glean (Dutch)
Press releases
2026
23.05—18.10.2026
Patronising Exercises in Reasoning
Dennis Tyfus expands his No Choice practice across three linked works that explore how choice is produced and constrained: a restaurant with a pre-determined menu; a life-size figure engulfed in live news; and daily visual interventions in a regional newspaper.
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23.05—18.10.2026
Songs of Dissent
Andrius Arutiunian, Aline Bouvy, Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Julian Abraham ‘Togar’, Roy Köhnke & Babeth Mondini-VanLoo
Songs of Dissent vertrekt van ‘No future’: ooit de rauwe kreet van een dolende generatie, vandaag een lens op klimaatontwrichting, politieke erosie en sociale ongelijkheid. De energie die tijdens crisissen ontstaat, leeft voort in hedendaagse kunstpraktijken, waarin geluid centraal staat als overdracht, als getuigenis en als archief.
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23.05—18.10.2026
Smurfpunx tegen Militarisme
Info~Angel #9
On 2 April 1988, Netwerk Aalst hosted a punk benefit organised by Smurfpunx. The event featured bands from Belgium and abroad, as well as zines and anti-war initiatives, revealing punk not merely as a music scene but as a network of solidarity and resistance, addressing militarism and refusal, issues that remain urgent today.
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28.02—26.04.2026
I’m fine, maturing
Melissa Mabesoone’s first institutional exhibition. In two rooms, a shifting universe unfolds where characters glide effortlessly across time, roles and bodies.
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2025
6.6.25 Fall exhibitions (7.6—29.03.2026)
Dress to Kill
An exhibition by French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin, explores clothing as a form of political expression and subversive play. A newly commissioned film, ‘Jeanet Film Adulte’, focuses on the ‘Voil Jeanettenstoet’ in Aalst, a local carnival where questions of class, gender and tradition collide in unsettling ways. Shot from multiple perspectives, the film oscillates between intimacy and chaos, raising questions about visibility, identity, and power.
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GUT
Lisa Vlaemminck
What if a nose is lying next to a pastry, almost touching? In GUT, Lisa Vlaemminck and the clients of the Ariadne Psychiatric Centre in Lede explore what belongs inside and outside the body. Food, body parts and the shifting boundary between the two are animated with ceramics, paint and polyester into a play with the familiar and the unsettling.
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Info-Angel: Arendcarnaval
In November 1979, the neighbourhood committee ‘Onze Arend’ was founded at café Peken Moens, aiming to strengthen community ties in the Arendwijk through local events. The collaboration between cafés and grassroots groups led, in 1981, to the first edition of Arend Carnival. A festive parade made its way through the Right Bank, and the committee launched its own election for an ‘Arend Prince’. Despite the bad w,eather, crowds of curious visitors crossed the Dender to take part. But where does Arend Carnival stand today?
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6.6.25 Opening summer exhibitions (7.6-28.9.2025)
Tender, Trivial, Totemic Table Talks
Fernando Marques Penteado (b. 1955, São Paulo, Brazil) pays attention to the often overlooked aesthetics of everyday life. In Tender, Trivial, Totemic Table Talks, the artist collects tables from Aalst thrift shops and dresses them up with textiles and found objects. Totem-like sculptures, are decorated with snacks prepared by local communities. With carefully composed constellations of objects and embroidered artworks, Penteado invites us to reflect on the mechanisms that determine who is welcome, who is excluded, and what deserves our attention.
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Info-Angel: Atelier Kern Rechteroever
This edition of the Info~Angel archive presentations looks back at the urban renewal plan Common Ground (2013), which aimed to develop the Right Bank (Rechteroever) as a shared space. More than a decade later, the largely unimplemented plan by Architecture Workroom Brussels, 51N4E and Technum continues to inspire. This Info~Angel reflects on the possibilities for the future of our neighbourhood. What could breathe new life into this proposal?
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3—4.5.25 Ula Sickle, A Choreographic Exhibition
On 3 and 4 May, Ula Sickle takes over NW with A Choreographic Exhibition, an exhibition merging performance, visual art and music. Sickle’s work explores how ideology inscribes itself into bodies through movement, rhythm and voice. This live exhibition brings a selection of works from 2018-2025 in a continuous play of simultaneous performances throughout NW’s spaces. Not a retrospective but a work of sampling, where fragments of past performances—including ‘Free Gestures’ (2018), ‘Relay’ (2018), ‘The Sadness’ (2020-22), ‘Echoic Choir’ (2021), and ‘Holding Present’ (2023)—are edited, reassembled, collaged, and set in motion throughout the building.
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7.2.25 Opening three spring exhibitions (8.2-20.4.2025)
Joy Boy, a tribute to Julius Eastman,
a three-part audiovisual installation honouring Eastmans life and music, with visual and auditive interpretations by Collectif Faire-Part, Victoire Karera Kampire, Fallon Mayanja, Benjamin Mengistu Navet and Mawena Yehouessi.
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Prologue
The first part of A Choreographic Exhibition of the Polish-Canadese choreographer and performer Ula Sickle, opening in May with a selection of live performances and videos from 2018-2024.
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Info~Angel: Over the water
On the straightening of the Dender and the development of Right Bank Aalst
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Press releases
2024
Opening three fall exhibitions (29.10-12.01.2025)
Century Bingo, a solo exhibition by Basyma Saad
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Heavy Air, a duo exhibition by Antonia Brown and Tom Hallet
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Info~Angel: The New Reform Postcard Show
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Opening three summer exhibitions (16.6-08.9.2024):
Bijoux Cailloux, a solo exhibition by Guy Woueté presenting a selection of works crossing twenty years of career. Curator: Aude Christel Mgba.
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Balancing Acts, a group exhibition featuring work by the 7 young artists who participated in POC POC, The Constant Now’s mentoring programme.
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Info~Angel: The Spanish Civil War, the second edition in a series of archival presentations on the past of NW, Aalst and the Dender region.
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NW presents film focus programme compiled and introduced by Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca
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NW, the new centre for contemporary art and film in Aalst, opens its doors with an ode to rituals and the power of resistance
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