Events

An important objective of the Lieven Gevaert Centre (LGC) is the organization of conferences, lectures, seminars and workshops as well as the dissemination of the LGC’s research and scholarship in order to make it profitable for the whole community (with a strong emphasis on the organization of exhibitions and other presentational platforms).

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Past events

Des images pour écrire - Soirée de performances et de dialogues
Artist talk, Book launch
Conference: Activism and Academia. Fields and Methods in Academic Activism, Hilde Van Gelder
Conference
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Activities of Alexander Streitberger as a Visiting Professor at Sorbonne Université, Paris
Lecture
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Conference Presentation: Anna Sejbæk Torp-Pedersen at 'Nowhere at Home: Art and Migration in Times of Global Catastrophe'
Conference
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New Publication: The Flax Canoe Floats on the Golden River, Danny Veys
Book launch
Doctoral defense of Joeri Verbesselt: Only with hunters do we have cinema
Artist talk
New Lecture Series: “Ties that Bind Us: Transcultural Perspectives on Social Forms”
Lecture
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Lecture: From Ground Sea to Drowning Street by Prof. dr. Hilde Van Gelder
Lecture
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Jef Verheyen. Window on Infinity
Exhibition
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Exhibition Opening: THESE CIRCUMSTANCES
Exhibition
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Herman Asselberghs: Time Wasted
Exhibition
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Exhibition: Writers’ Walls of Images, Musée L
Exhibition
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Seminar: Mathieu Pernot on Atlas in Motion
Artist talk
Conference: L’acte d’image en littérature / The Image-act in literature (1880-2020)
Conference
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Screening: FEM IN ART
Screening
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Rencontre avec Hélène Giannecchini: Ecrire avec des murs d'images
Artist talk
Doctoral Defence
Lecture
Talk: Rooted Knowledge. Land and vegetation in contemporary art practices in Palestine.
Lecture
Conference: Ph.D Fellows Marta Wódz and Anna Sejbæk Torp-Pedersen to present at CAA 112th Annual Conference, 2024
Conference
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Call for Papers: Making The World More Than Less Real
Conference
Lecture: Conférence d'Alexander Streitberger – Fluidités phénotypologiques. L’œuvre filmique et photographique de Jochen Lempert
Conference
Exhibition: The Grid. Trame · Grille · Matrice, curated by Alexander Streitberger
Exhibition
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Lecture: Folkwang Photo Talk with Alexander Streitberger on »The Unphotographic. On Photography in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture«
Lecture
Screening of retreat by Joeri Verbesselt at Agents of Concern: Images and Empathy, November 16-January 28
Exhibition, Screening
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Conférence: Exposition The Grid. Bernd Stiegler (Université de Constance)
Lecture
Cycle de conférences: Stop/Motion – regards sur la relation entre photographie et film
Conference
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Symposium: Photography at the Margins. Minor Histories of Lens-based media in European peripheries
Workshop
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The International Conference of Photography Studies: Photography and Site – Routes, Cartographies and Drifts
Conference
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Le temps suspendu du mouvement. Eadweard Muybridge dans l'art contemporain
Lecture
Talk: "Usages et besoins des chercheurs en matière d'indexation des images", by Danièle Méaux
Lecture
The Grid. La grille comme forme et contenu de l'art
Lecture
Busy Bodies. Supporting Characters in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Lecture
Conference: Entangled Art Histories between Germany and the United States, 1960-1990: Production, Diffusion, Reception
Conference
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Rencontre avec Victor Burgin
Artist talk
Lecture: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Museums in Europe are not European - Unlearning Together at Their Thresholds
Lecture
Tapta: Espaces souples. With Greet Billet, Hana Miletić and Richard Venlet
Exhibition
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The Agency of Plants in the Literature and the Arts of the French- and English-Speaking Worlds (19th c. – 21st c.)
Conference
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L’ÉDITION PHOTOGRAPHIQUE CONTEMPORAINE
Conference
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Seeing through Clouds
Exhibition
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On decolonial aesthesis with Rolando Vázquez and Virgilio Vasconcelos
Lecture
Rencontre avec Arnaud Claass et Danièle Méaux
Artist talk
Lecture 'Decamouflaging (Western) Plant Blindness'
Lecture
Hilde Van Gelder in conversation with curators Luk Lambrecht & Marta Mestre on Philippe Van Snick's oeuvre
Artist talk
Choking Flames
Exhibition
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Transforming Landscapes, Manipulating images
Conference
Archives, histoire, mémoires numériques du français langue étrangère et des francophonies
Conference
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Cycle de conférences: Visages de la photographie. Histoires et pratiques du portrait photographique
Conference
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Playing Against the Apparatus
Workshop
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Tableau Suisse
Exhibition
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Lieven Gevaert Series vol. 32 - Olga Smith, Contemporary Photography in France
Book launch
Els Opsomer Vitrine # 135 - on my own...
Exhibition
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Screening of "Retreat" (2020) by Joeri Verbesselt
Screening
International Conference „NATURE – ARTS interconnections”
Conference
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Nebenfiguren
Conference
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Photography and Dissent. Image Circulations in and out of public discourse
Conference
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The Exhibition - Politics of a Ritual
Workshop
Belgium-Argentina: Transatlantic Modernisms, 1910–1958 - MU.ZEE
Exhibition
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Marta Wódz at expo "Familiefoto's" - La Nombreuse
Exhibition
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Ground Sea. Claiming a Right to Be Reborn
Workshop
PhD defence - Nicoletta Grillo "In/visible constellations. Photography and spaces of imagination in the Swiss Italian borderscape"
Lecture
Moral Seascapes. Modern Transformations of the Imagery of Shipwreck
Conference
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Restitutions. Photography in Debt with its Past
Lecture
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Re-imagining Class: Working-Class Identity and Intersectionality in Contemporary Culture
Conference
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From the scenic essay to the essay-exhibition
Conference
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TRANSIT: Alexander Streitberger présente une œuvre de Sammy Baloji
Lecture
Book presentation at Pro qm Berlin by Hilde Van Gelder
Workshop
"Radical Neutrality" by Hilde Van Gelder
Lecture
A photographic cabinet de curiosités of the sea - a workshop with Nicoletta Grillo
Workshop
"Caro amore" by Nicoletta Grillo
Exhibition
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Jeanne Boden at expo 'NEXUS IV' Museum Boppard
Exhibition
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(CANCELLED) Workshop: The Exhibition - Politics of a Ritual
Workshop
ARTS CONTEMPORAINS & ANTHROPOCÈNE
Conference
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Publication of "Ground Sea. Photography and the Right to Be Reborn" by Hilde Van Gelder
Book launch
Les iconothèques d'écrivains xxème siècle (1920-1980)
Conference
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.TIFF
Exhibition
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Erien Withouck at SHHH silent film festival
Exhibition
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SHIFTS: Photography in the 21st Century Museum
Conference
MONSANTO: UNE ENQUÊTE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE Conference with Mathieu Asselin, photographer
Conference
Artist Meets Archive: Theorie und Praxis des Archivs
Conference
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RESISTANT FACES
Exhibition
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No one would have believed
Exhibition
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Digital lecture "Mental Traveler: W.J.T. Mitchell speaks to Omar Kholeif about Madness, Cinema and the Panopticon"
Lecture
"Borderscapes" PhD Seminar
Conference
STAGED BODIES : Photography and the Body in Postmodernism
Exhibition
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Image Science (postponed)
Conference, Exhibition
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Online lecture by Victor Burgin "Water under the Bridge: Bodies now and then"
Lecture
Mistakes: the artist talk
Artist talk
Transit: Catalogue Nomade du Musée d'Ixelles
Conference
Lecture by W.J.T. Mitchell "Present Tense 2020: An iconology of time"
Lecture
Conversations autour d’une Oeuvre: David Claerbout dialogue avec Alexander Streitberger
Artist talk
Mermaid Honeymoon: A curatorial reflection on Allan Sekula’s Ship of Fools / The Docker's Museum
Exhibition
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Meanwhile in the Mountains: Sagalassos
Exhibition
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they say she was
Exhibition
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Expo virtuelle: #VertigeDesImages
Exhibition
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Metapictures
Exhibition
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IN/BETWEEN PLACES
Exhibition
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Critical (Re)positions: About the Implicit Consequences of (Undesired) Heritage
Conference
Ithaka
Exhibition
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Conférence d'Alexander Streitberger sur l’oeuvre de Wolfgang Tillmans
Lecture
The Three Motions of Loom
Exhibition
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Photography Conference: Consumerism/Capital/Culture
Conference
Botanical bodies: On the political and ritual meaning of plants
Conference
Beat Streuli: Fabric of Reality
Book launch
Villes en Mouvement: Quinzaine du film d’artiste
Screening
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Chinese Propaganda Seducing the World
Book launch
An Unanswered Question
Lecture
Symposium Frank Stella: Looking at art through eye-tracking glasses
Conference
Finissage ‘Signal or Noise | The Photographic II’
Artist talk, Lecture
Inaugurating the Wind Egg Affiliated Society
Conference
An Art-Historical View on German Modernism
Lecture
Aquariums et attractions visuelles au XIXe s.
Conference
Wittgenstein et l’image composite
Conference
Mémoires et Archives: Journée d’études de l’école doctorale en Art et sciences de l’art
Conference
Real Fiction: Le Livre D'Artiste Entre Histoire et Fiction
Exhibition
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Situation #2 Julien Creuzet: L’âme, dans poitrine, oiseau-tonnerre fêlure, divine-colère. Méprisable, je planterais sabre, je traînerais blessure dans sable
Exhibition
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A Letter's Discourse: Examining the letter as a form of exchange in audio & visual arts
Conference
Vastbesloten Verlangens
Exhibition
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Versipellis
Exhibition
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Wendy Morris: This, of course, is a work of the imagination
Exhibition
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Panorama: A History of Modern Design in Belgium
Exhibition
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Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today
Lecture
Du Genre et des Humanités
Conference
Marco Poloni: The Land Seen by the Sea
Conference
Victor Burgin: Some Cities
Exhibition
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Art & Science: Regards Croisés
Conference
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Picture Presence: New Conceptions of Space and Place in Contemporary Photography
Conference
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Allan Sekula: Collective Sisyphus
Exhibition
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Impossible Archives, Infinite Collections
Lecture
Performing the Border
Exhibition
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Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today
Book launch
Horizon 2120: The notion of time in the interaction of the arts and sciences
Workshop
STARCHITECTURE: Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities
Book launch
Conversation: The Politics of Things
Lecture
Delirium and Resistance: Activist art and the Crisis of Capitalism
Lecture
"Disassembled Images": Contemporary Art After Allan Sekula
Conference
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Reconstitution et intégration au croisement de la muséologie et de l’art contemporain
Conference
Herman Asselberghs: In dialogue with Hilde Van Gelder
Artist talk
Romanticism and the Peripheries: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference
Conference
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Masques, drones, surveillance: De la disparition du visage et du corps dans l'art contemporain et la culture visuelle
Lecture
Conceptual, Surrealist, Pictorial: Photo-based Art in Belgium (1960s - early 1990s)
Book launch
Tracing the Future
Exhibition
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Artist Talk: Martin Le Chevallier with Gert Gielis
Lecture
Artist Talk & Debate: Adrien Tirtiaux with Wouter Hillaert & Thomas Decreus
Lecture
Embassy of Uncertain Shores
Lecture
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EARN Conference: THAT ART EXHIBITS
Conference
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T.J. Demos: Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology
Book launch
Ursula Biemann: Forest Law
Lecture, Workshop
Allan Sekula: Mining Section (Bureau des mines)
Book launch, Exhibition
Wendy Morris' Off by Heart and Out of Breath: A Silva Rerum
Exhibition
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Embassy of Uncertain Shores: 79.89.09
Conference
Die Attraktion des Apparativen
Conference
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Seeing Through: Negotiating the Photograph
Conference
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The Transhistorical Museum: Objects, Narratives & Temporalities
Conference
Elargir le champ du possible: Les utopies du livre d’artiste contemporain
Exhibition
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Charles Burnett: Killer of Sheep
Screening
Photographing and showing the city (1900-1950)
Workshop
Photography Performing Humor
Conference
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Spatial Sublation
Exhibition
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Sylvain George: Qu'ils reposent en révolte (des figures de guerre)
Screening
L'experience de l'erreur en photographie comme stratégie artistique
Conference
Renaissance: Scènes de la reconversion industrielle dans le bassin minier du Nord - Pas-de-Calais
Exhibition
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DISSENT! A conversation with Michel Khleifi
Lecture, Screening
Allan Sekula's Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum (2010-2013): (Re)constructing a Phenomenology of Waterfront Labor
Conference, Lecture
Photography Performing Humor
Conference
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The Dark Precursor: International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research 2015
Conference
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CONTOUR 7
Exhibition
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Manifestoes for experimentation
Conference
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Cavalho Dineiro by Pedro Costa
Screening
Ship of Fools/The Dockers' Museum
Book launch
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Passages: La photographie dans l'art contemporain
Exhibition
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Allan Sekula: Ship of Fools / Dockers’ Museum
Book launch
Hybrid Photography: Intermedial Practices in Sciences and Humanities
Lecture
Inventing the Possible: Ephemeral Video Library II
Exhibition
Victor Burgin's Parzival: Symposium and Vernissage
Exhibition

Older Events

Lieven Gevaert Centre
KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts
Blijde Inkomststraat 21 pb 3313
B-3000 Leuven
België

Lieven Gevaert Centre
UC Louvain, Archéologie et d'histoire d'art
FIAL - Place Blaise Pascal 1 bte L3.03.13
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgique