OPENING TOMORROW

Courtesy Che Go Eun

FRINGE Festival begins on Thursday 20 November, with numerous exhibitions, workshops, artist talks, and more. The group exhibition Drifting Waters featuring artists Qiao Chu Guo, Asma Laajimi, Carole Louis, and Niel de Vries opens the festival at Cas-co. The opening night includes the unveiling of the new Flag #11: Faith, Death & Failure by artist Che Go Eun.

Courtesy Carole Louis

Opening programme!

These exhibitions are part of Fringe, a co-creative arts festival taking place this year as part of KU Leuven’s 600th anniversary.

Under the motto ‘Get lost!‘, Fringe invites you to wander. You can discover new and unknown artists at various locations throughout the city. They show how they arrive at new ideas or insights by searching, wandering, and sometimes returning. For three weeks, thirteen art organisations from Leuven will present a captivating program featuring visual arts, circus, punk, sound installations, and much more.
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THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER – FRINGE BEGINS!

Cas-co — 17:30 – 19:30
Vaartstraat 94

17:30 – Doors & bar open
18:00 – Drifting Waters. Introduction & Exhibition opening with Qiao Chu Guo, Asma Laajimi, Carole Louis, and Niel de Vries.
18:45 – Performance by Carole Louis
19:30 – Flag Inauguration #11: Belief, Death & Failure Che Go Eun

BAC ART LAB — 20:00 – 22:30
Vital Decosterstraat 102

20:00 – Reception & Introductions
20:00 – 22:00 – Exhibitions open
· C.: Che Go Eun
· Looking for a shore: Anne-Valérie de Mûelenaere

Drifting Waters – Qiao Chu Guo, Asma Laajimi, Carole Louis and Niel de Vries

At the invitation of FRINGE, Off the Grid & Cas-co bring together four artists who are exhibiting in Leuven for the first time. Drifting Waters is a visual, narrative, and sometimes fictional journey through the physical and digital world. From crossing seas and oceans to rivers and streams, the exhibition bridges dating apps, the flow of communication with family members, and the feeling of connection far from home.

Drifting is both a metaphor and a lived experience.

This exhibition explores the duality between the disorienting feeling of finding paths, migrating, and planting roots. The stories you encounter are embodied streams of water and data: how stories and knowledge flow between minds, how intimacy is mediated across vast geographies, and how rivers are monitored and alienated from those who once lived along their banks.

To visit
From November 20 to December 6,
Thursday to Saturday, 13:00 – 18:00

Free admission
Cas-co Off the Grid: Vaartstraat 94

Courtesy Che Go Eun

Solo exhibition Che Go Eun

In collaboration with BAC ART LAB, Werktank, and Cas-co, Che Go Eun is currently in residence at BAC ART LAB, where she is developing a new series of works that will be part of her solo exhibition, titled C. “[removed]#8221; That’s what Che Go Eun‘s father called her when she returned to South Korea. In his eyes, she was a lazy artist who didn’t fit his traditional image of a woman. From that conflict, C. was born: an installation in which Che Go visually translates her father’s words and their impact using AI.

Che Go Eun fed conversations with her father and fragments from her diaries to Stable Diffusion. The AI tool was trained by Eun herself to create Dancheong motifs – traditional Korean patterns – because, like many AI tools, Stable Diffusion lacks information about non-Western art.

Based on the AI-generated images, Eun painted watercolours, which she then re-entered into an ongoing conversation between human and machine. She printed the patterns that emerged from this onto wallpaper, with which she decorated the BAC ART LAB Hangar. 

To visit
From November 20 to December 6,
Thursday to Saturday, 13:00 – 18:00

Free admission
BAC ART LAB: Vital Decosterstraat 102

New Editions – CAS-COFFER #2

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In March 2025, Cas-co launched the first Cas-coffer, a box filled with Riso editions by artists from the Cas-community! Starting this Thursday you can purchase the newest A3 Riso Editions to complete your collection, and to support Cas-co!

This season, artists from the community were invited to produce a new Riso print at the Graphical Lab. The editions are limited to 20 prints! All prints are signed, A3 format, and Riso printed in Leuven, at the Graphical Lab.

Participating artists are Asma Laajimi (Off the Grid resident); Niel de Vries (Exhibiting artist at Off the Grid); Maria Klaassen-Adrianova, Sarah Lauwers & Jonas Beerts, Daan De Wit, An Roovers, Sarah de Vos, Jente Waerzeggers & Andre Kahveciyan, Mieke Winters (Cas-co residents).

Prices start from 15€ (one print), 50€ (5 prints), and 80€ (10 prints). Visit Cas-co and pick your favorite prints!

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Courtesy Sarah De Vos, Self-portrait as Chantal Akerman, Kim Peers, Uma Thurman, Anna Boch and PJ Harvey. 2025

Courtesy Asma Laajimi, I dreamt of you sunny and almost dead. 2025

Courtesy Mieke Winters, Solitaire. 2025

Off the Grid – Talk & Studio visit

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Each season also means a newprogram of lectures and studio visits, tailored to the needs of our residents. As always, the invited curator will present their practice during a public lecture at 12:00, followed by a shared lunch at 13:00. Everyone is welcome! 

Nav Haq is a curator and writer based in Antwerp. Haq is currently the Associate Director at M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp – where he is responsible for the artistic program, and is an editor at the journal Afterall. His practice focusses on contemporary issues of equality, as well as forms for progressive internationalism in the 21st century, and how to embed these within institutional and curatorial reflection.

OPEN CALL – ATELIERS AVAILABLE

Are you an artist looking for a space, community, and support in Leuven? Cas-co vzw currently has two spot available in Studio Vaartstraat, as well as one space available at Studio Minckelers!

Cas-co offers space to visual artists with diverse backgrounds, needs, and requirements. This is achieved by facilitating affordable studios, creating project and presentation opportunities, and encouraging exchange in various ways. Studios range from 10 to 38m2, starting at 87€ per month. 

The studios are available from January 2026, for a maximum period of five years.
Interested? Submit your application by Sunday, November 30, 2025!