Gif

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REFLECTION

Manoeuvre & Palestine Café: Onzichtbaar Werk

Reflection

Basel Zaraa 'Dear Laila'

Memories of a Home: An Intimate Journey Through Loss and Resistance of a Palestinian Family

[cancelled] BREAKFASTCLUB #6

REFLECTIE

WERKER COLLECTIVE: Study Group AGAINST WORK

REFLECTION 'On Artistic Strategies of Unproductivity'

Sana Ghobbeh 'This Wall Grows At Its Root'

Performance

POC POC Manifesto

Reflection: talks and interventions

Tot in de stad! Work in Progress

Reflection: open studios, dinner conversation, performance, whine & wine

Playtime

reflectie

Endless Exhibition

Slowly changing exhibition without end date questions the autonomy of individual artworks

Tarek Atoui 'the Shore / a place I'd like to be'

exhibition

Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat 'Là'

exhibition

Building Castles in the Sky

Art trail: Ghent is transformed through the imagination of its youth

Frederico Araujo & Julie Mughunda 'SHARK'

Abattoir Fermé & Compagnie Cecilia 'GENESIS'

A turbulent and baroque spectacle

Pascal Gielen 'Vertrouwen'

Reflection

DEEWEE, LIPPSTICK DJ's, Lieselot Siddiki & Pol Heyvaert 'Countdown'

Dancing all night with a countdown clock as the master of ceremonies

Lisa Vereertbrugghen 'While We Are Here'

Powerful crossover between techno and folk dance

Katy Baird 'Get off'

A raw and unfiltered glimpse into the human desire for connection

Benny Claessens 'White Flag'

Surrender as a form of resistance

Laurence Roothooft, Suze Milius 'SHE'

The role of a lifetime

Anna Vercammen & Joeri Cnapelinckx 'The Pale Baron'

Felix and Felka’s revolutionary Singalong 😉 Bingbong!

Rosie Sommers & Micha Goldberg 'GERMAN STAATSTHEATER'

Slapstick and self-mockery versus overstressed bodies and burn-outs

CANCELLED: Mette Ingvartsen 'Skatepark'

Contemporary dance on wheels

Brian Lobel with Gweneth-Ann Rand '24 Italian Songs & Arias'

A hilarious opera recital to celebrate failure

Milo Rau 'Medea's Children'

The blood-drenched tragedies of adult life seen through the eyes of children

Double bill: Francesca Grilli 'Record' & Sesa 'Spoken Word'

Performance on adolescence, between courage and isolation & spoken word performance

Tarek Atoui 'the Shore / a place I'd like to be'

exhibition

The Organ Within, 2019, Performance at Guggenheim Museum New York USA, c Enid Alvarez
  • Fri 05.04 – 20:00 – S.M.A.K.
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  • Fri 05.04 – 21:00 – Performance @ S.M.A.K.
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  • Tue 16.04 – 09:30 – S.M.A.K.
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Sound is at the heart of Tarek Atoui’s (b.1980, Beirut) artis­tic prac­ti­ce. As an artist and elec­tro-acous­tic com­po­ser, he is known for the fluid con­nec­ti­ons he makes bet­ween sound, mat­ter, time, spa­ce and human acti­on. In inven­ti­ve lis­te­ning envi­ron­ments that appeal to more than just the ear, he cre­a­tes mul­ti­fa­ceted expe­rien­ces and inter­ac­ti­ons that car­ry sen­so­ry, soci­al and spa­ce-spe­ci­fic mea­nings. The new musi­cal instru­ments, sculp­tu­res and mate­ri­als that Atoui employs in the pro­cess are inspi­red by his­to­ri­cal, anthro­po­lo­gi­cal or tech­ni­cal research. He assem­bles them into fas­ci­na­ting, agi­le instal­la­ti­ons att­uned to their sur­roun­dings. These can be play­ed by pro­fes­si­o­nal musi­cians as much as they can be the object of a par­ti­ci­pa­to­ry exhi­bi­ti­on or workshop.

The pro­ject at S.M.A.K., the artist’s first solo exhi­bi­ti­on at a Belgian insti­tu­ti­on, brings together exis­ting works and new pro­duc­ti­ons and is struc­tu­red around three axes: the exhi­bi­ti­on, the edu­ca­ti­o­nal spa­ce and performances.

Tarek Atoui (° 1980, Beirut, Lebanon) lives and works in Paris. Over the past deca­de, he has par­ti­ci­pa­ted in major inter­na­ti­o­nal exhi­bi­ti­ons, inclu­ding dOCUMENTA 13 (2012) and the 58e Biennial of Venice (2019). Solo exhi­bi­ti­ons fea­tu­ring his work took pla­ce at IAC, Lyon (2023); Mudam Luxembourg — Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (2022); the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2022 and 2018); The Contemporary Austin (2022); The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2022); Bourse du Commerce — Pinault Collection, Paris (2021); Fridericianum, Kassel (2020); Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (2020); NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2018); Bergen Assembly (2016); Tate Modern, London (2016); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2015) and Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2014 and 2015).

This exhi­bi­ti­on opens during GIF, and can be visi­ted at S.M.A.K. until Aug. 25, 2024.

Performance with Tarek Atoui during the ope­ning on 4 Apr.2024 at 21:00 in S.M.A.K. (free).
Opening hours during school holi­days: 10:00 — 18:00, clo­sed on Mondays. Outside school holi­days during the week: 09:30 – 17:30.