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).

Current & upcoming

Conference
24/01/2020
Photography Conference: Consumerism/Capital/Culture
Exhibition
15/12/2019 - 16/02/2020
The Three Motions of Loom
Lecture
04/03/2020
Conférence d'Alexander Streitberger sur l’oeuvre de Wolfgang Tillmans
Exhibition
18/01/2020 - 26/04/2020
Mermaid Honeymoon: A curatorial reflection on Allan Sekula’s Ship of Fools / The Docker's Museum

Past events

Botanical bodies: On the political and ritual meaning of plants

Conference
12/10/2019

Beat Streuli: Fabric of Reality

Book launch
23/05/2019

Villes en Mouvement: Quinzaine du film d’artiste

Screening
02/05/2019 - 16/05/2019

Chinese Propaganda Seducing the World

Book launch
26/04/2019

An Unanswered Question

Lecture
11/04/2019

Symposium Frank Stella: Looking at art through eye-tracking glasses

Conference
10/03/2019

Finissage ‘Signal or Noise | The Photographic II’

Artist talk, Lecture
10/02/2019

Inaugurating the Wind Egg Affiliated Society

Conference
21/12/2018

An Art-Historical View on German Modernism

Lecture
16/12/2018

Aquariums et attractions visuelles au XIXe s.

Conference
27/11/2018

Wittgenstein et l’image composite

Conference
16/10/2018

Mémoires et Archives: Journée d’études de l’école doctorale en Art et sciences de l’art

Conference
18/09/2018

Real Fiction: Le Livre D'Artiste Entre Histoire et Fiction

Exhibition
26/04/2018 - 17/08/2018

Situation #2 Julien Creuzet: L’âme, dans poitrine, oiseau-tonnerre fêlure, divine-colère. Méprisable, je planterais sabre, je traînerais blessure dans sable

Exhibition
13/04/2018 - 22/04/2018

A Letter's Discourse: Examining the letter as a form of exchange in audio & visual arts

Conference
20/04/2018

Vastbesloten Verlangens

Exhibition
09/02/2018 - 04/03/2018

Exhibition
26/01/2018 - 04/02/2018

Wendy Morris: This, of course, is a work of the imagination

Exhibition
09/09/2017 - 07/01/2018

Panorama: A History of Modern Design in Belgium

Exhibition
23/06/2017 - 07/01/2018

Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today

Lecture
16/12/2017

Du Genre et des Humanités

Conference
11/12/2017

Marco Poloni: The Land Seen by the Sea

Conference
05/12/2017

Victor Burgin: Some Cities

Exhibition
02/09/2017 - 04/11/2017

Art & Science: Regards Croisés

Conference
26/10/2017 - 27/10/2017

Picture Presence: New Conceptions of Space and Place in Contemporary Photography

Conference
08/10/2017 - 10/10/2017

Allan Sekula: Collective Sisyphus

Exhibition
14/06/2017 - 25/09/2017

Impossible Archives, Infinite Collections

Lecture
19/09/2017

Performing the Border

Exhibition
01/06/2017 - 22/07/2017

Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today

Book launch
10/07/2017

Horizon 2120: The notion of time in the interaction of the arts and sciences

Workshop
20/06/2017

STARCHITECTURE: Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities

Book launch
10/05/2017

Conversation: The Politics of Things

Lecture
23/04/2017

Delirium and Resistance: Activist art and the Crisis of Capitalism

Lecture
21/04/2017

"Disassembled Images": Contemporary Art After Allan Sekula

Conference
02/03/2017 - 04/03/2017

Reconstitution et intégration au croisement de la muséologie et de l’art contemporain

Conference
09/02/2017

Herman Asselberghs: In dialogue with Hilde Van Gelder

Artist talk
25/01/2017

Romanticism and the Peripheries: An International and Interdisciplinary Conference

Conference
05/12/2016 - 07/12/2016

Masques, drones, surveillance: De la disparition du visage et du corps dans l'art contemporain et la culture visuelle

Lecture
25/11/2016

Conceptual, Surrealist, Pictorial: Photo-based Art in Belgium (1960s - early 1990s)

Book launch
24/11/2016

Tracing the Future

Exhibition
30/09/2016 - 20/11/2016

Artist Talk: Martin Le Chevallier with Gert Gielis

Lecture
10/11/2016

Artist Talk & Debate: Adrien Tirtiaux with Wouter Hillaert & Thomas Decreus

Lecture
03/11/2016

Embassy of Uncertain Shores

Lecture
25/05/2016 - 26/10/2016

EARN Conference: THAT ART EXHIBITS

Conference
13/10/2016 - 14/10/2016

T.J. Demos: Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology

Book launch
11/10/2016

Ursula Biemann: Forest Law

Lecture, Workshop
30/09/2016

Allan Sekula: Mining Section (Bureau des mines)

Book launch, Exhibition
29/09/2016

Wendy Morris' Off by Heart and Out of Breath: A Silva Rerum

Exhibition
24/04/2016 - 26/06/2016

Embassy of Uncertain Shores: 79.89.09

Conference
15/06/2016

Die Attraktion des Apparativen

Conference
10/06/2016 - 11/06/2016

Seeing Through: Negotiating the Photograph

Conference
08/06/2016 - 09/06/2016

The Transhistorical Museum: Objects, Narratives & Temporalities

Conference
12/05/2016

Elargir le champ du possible: Les utopies du livre d’artiste contemporain

Exhibition
15/04/2016 - 06/05/2016

Charles Burnett: Killer of Sheep

Screening
25/04/2016

Photographing and showing the city (1900-1950)

Workshop
22/04/2016

Photography Performing Humor

Conference
13/04/2016 - 14/04/2016

Spatial Sublation

Exhibition
19/03/2016 - 27/03/2016

Sylvain George: Qu'ils reposent en révolte (des figures de guerre)

Screening
09/03/2016

L'experience de l'erreur en photographie comme stratégie artistique

Conference
04/03/2016

Renaissance: Scènes de la reconversion industrielle dans le bassin minier du Nord - Pas-de-Calais

Exhibition
05/12/2015 - 14/02/2016

DISSENT! A conversation with Michel Khleifi

Lecture, Screening
09/12/2015

Allan Sekula's Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum (2010-2013): (Re)constructing a Phenomenology of Waterfront Labor

Conference, Lecture
07/12/2015

Photography Performing Humor

Conference
24/11/2015 - 25/11/2015

The Dark Precursor: International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research 2015

Conference
09/11/2015 - 11/11/2015

Exhibition
29/08/2015 - 08/11/2015

Manifestoes for experimentation

Conference
27/10/2015 - 31/10/2015

Cavalho Dineiro by Pedro Costa

Screening
28/10/2015

Ship of Fools/The Dockers' Museum

Book launch
22/10/2012 - 22/10/2015

Passages: La photographie dans l'art contemporain

Exhibition
08/05/2015 - 31/05/2015

Allan Sekula: Ship of Fools / Dockers’ Museum

Book launch
28/02/2015

Hybrid Photography: Intermedial Practices in Sciences and Humanities

Lecture
19/02/2015

Inventing the Possible: Ephemeral Video Library II

Exhibition
08/02/2015

Victor Burgin's Parzival: Symposium and Vernissage

Exhibition
21/10/2014

Lieven Gevaert Centre
KU Leuven, Arts Faculty
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