📣 NW in March – April & Save the date for Ula Sickle on 3-4 May

NW marks its first anniversary today! In the coming weeks, we invite you to explore our exhibitions more intimately. Through guided tours, lectures, and film screenings, we offer a deeper insight into the artists’ practices. Don’t miss A Choreographic Exhibition by Ula Sickle on May 3–4—more details below. We hope to see you at NW!

On Saturday, March 22, Collectif Faire-Part, Victoire Karera Kampire, Fallon Mayanja, and Mawena Yehouessi present an afternoon and evening of discussion and film in conjunction with their exhibition Joy Boy, a tribute to Julius Eastman. Through a selection of their works, the artists reflect on the collaborative processes underpinning the project, offering a lens into their practices that critically engage with colonial legacies, diasporic memory, and speculative futures. Moving fluidly between documentary, performance, and experimental modes of storytelling, the programme situates their work within a broader discourse on hybridity and resistance.

During the Dendy Sundays brunch on Sunday 30 March, you can join us from [removed];for a tour of the current exhibitions by artistic director and curator Laura Herman. The brunch is served from [removed] onwards. Children can play in Lokaal Dendy but can of course join the tour of the exhibitions.

In 1863, the Dender River was straightened through the centre of Aalst, transforming the city’s mobility and industrial landscape. The first episode of the three-part series on ‘Aalst Rechteroever’ examines the neighbourhood’s development through the lens of the river and its [removed];

Julius Eastman (1940–1990) was an African American minimalist composer, pianist, vocalist, and performer whose ‘organic music’ offered social and political commentary. JOY BOY is a three-room audiovisual installation paying tribute to Julius Eastman’s life and music, bringing together visual and sound interpretations by members of Collectif Faire-Part (Rob Jacobs, Paul Shemisi en Anne Reijniers), Victoire Karera Kampire, Fallon Mayanja, Benjamin Mengistu Navet and Mawena Yehouessi.

Prologue is the first part of A Choreographic Exhibition—which on 3-4 May will occupy NW’s building with live performances and video works created between 2018 and 2024. In her interdisciplinary choreographic practice, Sickle draws on visual art, music, and contemporary culture at large to explore everyday life under the conditions of late capitalism. In Prologue, the artist focuses on the central role of photography in her choreographic [removed];

Over the weekend of 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 2018-2024 in a continuous play of simultaneous performances throughout NW's spaces. Not to be missed!