Next Saturday: WAKA Cinema Closing Event & Save the Date for Our Fall Exhibition Opening!

Don't miss your final chance to visit our summer exhibitions Bijoux Cailloux, Balancing Acts, and Info~Angel: The Spanish Civil War before Sunday, September 8.

Last minute opportunity: join a guided tour of Bijoux Cailloux led by curator Aude Christel [removed];Reserve your place by buying an exhibition ticket for 30 August at 15:00.
 

You're also warmly invited to our closing event, WAKA Cinema, on Saturday, September 7, along with the other events listed below. We look forward to seeing you in Aalst!

Researcher Rick Jimenez's project To Bridge a Gap  explores emotions and perspectives related to the past through ‘emotion [removed]; On Open Heritage Day, we will look into the industrial heritage of our building and the Rechteroever Aalst district. Together with Bebe Books, we will create a Risoprint [removed];

For the closing event of Bijoux Cailloux and Balancing Acts film archivist Annabelle Aventurin curated a film programme on labour and the value of work.

“Since wage-labour has not fulfilled its promise of liberating the worker, this three-part programme questions the value of (our) work in a context where extractive capitalism is digging ever deeper into the bowels of the living and condemning us ‘to the degeneration of the world’ (“Critique de la raison nègre” by Achille Mbembe, published by La Découverte, 2013, 2015).”

Also on the agenda: a discussion between Guy Woueté and Aude Christel Mgba about WAKA Studio, a guided tour in Balancing Acts, a ‘pimp your jeans’ workshop by Oxfam, a DJ set with Barst and a new edition of Kitchen Stories with Mama Bolingo and Mammy [removed];
 

Mark your calendars for Friday, September 27, when we will open three new exhibitions:

In Century Bingo, Bassem Saad addresses the American Century through film, writing, performance and installation. Alongside previous works, Saad presents Permanent Trespass, a new film installation developed in collaboration with author Sanja Grozdanić. This work is co-commissioned by NW and EMPAC in Troy, New [removed];

Heavy Air is a duo exhibition that brings together the distinct yet thematically resonant practices of Antonia Brown & Tom Hallet. The title of the show is borrowed from a text by Anne Boyer. Air is the place where ideas form, angels dwell, storms gather and fires [removed];

In Info~Angel: The New Reform Postcard Show, we revisit the first exhibition of artists' postcards, organised by Roger D'Hondt in 1973 at his New Reform Gallery in Aalst, with contributions by Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Johan van Geluwe, Daniel Buren, Wolf Vostell and Yoko Ono.

Exhibitions, bookshop and café are open every week from Thursday to Sunday, from 13:00 to 18:00.

Check our calendar or follow our socials to keep up to date with our film programme, lectures, workshops or other events.