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

Mermaid Honeymoon: A curatorial reflection on Allan Sekula’s Ship of Fools / The Docker's Museum
Exhibition
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Mistakes: the artist talk
Artist talk
Image Science (postponed)
Conference, Exhibition

Past events

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, 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