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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
2025
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
Save the date: Press Preview on March 21, 11am