This year, Museumnacht at de Brakke Grond revolves around the theme of transformation, spanning a wide range of artworks, performances, installations, and workshops. Museumnacht 2024 promises an evening of profound transformation and exploration, inviting visitors to reflect on the fluid nature of identity, gender, and the mind. We present artists who challenge conventional norms, proposing new frameworks for thinking and envisioning alternative futures.
Discover artists who create new worlds through their work.
Stef Van Looveren, CONFESSIONS
For their new live performance, CONFESSIONS, the Antwerp-based artist Stef Van Looveren works with their body and a variety of emotional and social stages as a means to question and explore the layers of identity construction. Van Looveren’s work cannot be defined under a single heading. Their work fuses video with performance art that activate sculptural installations. Van Looveren’s exploration of the body draws upon a hybrid mixture of diverse elements such as religious iconography, technology, popular culture and BDSM. Their materials of choice including silicone, metal, epoxy and wax, among others, represent figures of passage and transformation. The transition and the in-between is central to the artist’s work. Reflecting processes such as coming into being and decay, human existence and taboos.
Younes van den Broeck & Sarah Jawla, NeuroSporia
Sarah Jawla & Younes van den Broeck research a neurodiverse Utopia where all your senses are stimulated and where you are invited to explore, experience, get lost and most importantly just be. An ever-changing Jungle with an afro futuristic filter in which alternative perspectives are celebrated such as not pigeonholing yourself and freeing yourself from imposed rules. In this, Fokovism & Black a queer aesthetic form the DNA as the
building blocks for NeuroSporia. During Museumnacht you will be introduced to the very first being Worminatou AKA the Queen of NeuroSporia. Through an interactive installation you will be invited to rediscover yourself.
Julia Töscher, Yes/Emotion and There was a Never, there was Yes
In the film Yes/Emotion (2023) from Julia Töscher we follow the figure of a fish human stands as a metaphor for the genealogy of the universe as well as that of the artist. We follow the journey of a ceramic fish as it travels from one hand to the next, from place to place, from one time to another. We encounter grandmothers, mothers and daughters, experiencing a poem about the past, present, and future of human and more-than-human inhabitants of the planet. Shifting between lines of individual genealogy and cosmic creation, this work reflects on the private and broader relations we foster with our surroundings. Separate yet interconnected narratives converge to contemplate history, humanity, ecology, including themes of fish, phones, mothers, spaceships, and the sea.
Melissa Mabesoone, Gentle Boys Club
During Museum Night, Melissa Mabesoone invites the public to a Gentle Boys Club. Together with Lisa Vereertbrugghen, Dagmar Dirckx and others, she will create a space and soiree where stereotypical gender roles are given the footing. You can come dressed up or dress up on site, participate in a non-patriarchal slow dance lab and learn more about the history of drag kings and their link to lesbian history. Gentle boys take it slow.
