T. J. Demos

Hilde van Gelder

While each is a singular film, together they reveal Africa's postcolonial imaginary to be a zone of crisis, situated between humanitarian emergency, financial pillage, and the politics of memory on the one hand, and the fictional - but nonetheless consequential - construction of European identity on the other. Just as dominant neocolonial narratives (which all too often cover over movements for independence and social justice) are critically played out and contested in these works, so too are documentary conventions creatively reinvented by Asselberghs, Augustijnen, Martens, and Opsomer. The resulting moving images emerge as a complex site of postcolonial haunting, self-reflexive performativity, researched analysis, archival reordering, and post-documentary cinematic affect.

Figuring Postcolonial Africa and Europe in the Films of Herman Asselberghs, Sven Augustijnen, Renzo Martens, and Els Opsomer

In and Out of Brussels

Acht kunstenaars onderzoeken aan de hand van fotografie, installaties, video en film de actualiteitswaarde van het werk van Bruegel.

Bruegel Revisited

Cyriel Stroo

Hans Vlieghe

De ontwikkeling van de Vlaamse schilderkunst vanaf de Middeleeuwen tot heden, met een karakterisering van de perioden, stromingen en stijlen alsmede individuele schilders en hun werk.

zes eeuwen schilderkunst

Vlaamse meesters

Allan Sekula

Jan Baetens

As scratches of reality, Sekula's photographs and films leave their traces in our minds. They encourage, yes, even force reflection, and through that, slow changes can probably become a reality, certainly at the level of the individual.

Hilde van Gelder

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