This year, Museumnacht at de Brakke Grond is all about photography. Discover the photo exhibition .tiff 2025, in which personal stories raise universal questions about care, memory, and connection. The performance Welcome to Our Table invites you to literally experience the themes of one of the works in the exhibition: pull up a chair and share a meal and conversation with others. You can also experience a photograph that comes to life in Charlotte Bouckaert's installation BOX.
Photo exhibition .tiff 2025
Immerse yourself in the inspiring photo exhibition .tiff 2025, which showcases work by ten emerging photographers with a Belgian connection. The artists offer a fresh perspective on the possibilities of photography through their work. In this edition ten they show how photography can encompass different dimensions of care and make them tangible. Their work is rooted in personal stories that touch on universal questions: how can we preserve what is valuable, how can we protect what is vulnerable? From the warmth of family to the urgency to preserve nature, from cherishing memories to shaping a better future. Rather than offering neutral observations, their images represent the conscious choice to seek out closeness where distance looms, to find softness where hardness prevails. Their work is an invitation to take time to reflect on that which often passes us by.
With work by: Adel Setta, Alice Dooreman, Anna Safiatou Touré, Bo Vloors, Camille Poitevin, Jaka Teršek, Mohamed Almamoun, Natalia Majchrzak, Tim Theo Deceuninck, and Veronika Breuer.
Welcome to Our Table - Camille Poitevin en Kadia Doumbouya
Camille Poitevin, together with Kadia Doumbouya (artist and chef) and Déborah Claire (artist, curator, and researcher), presents Welcome to Our Table: a performance where eating becomes a shared, political, and sensitive act. Women and gender-diverse people are invited to share a meal and engage in conversations guided by open questions, while the audience becomes witness: listening, observing, and sharing in a moment that is intimate yet collective. What does it mean to be seen while eating? What memories, pleasures, or taboos are tied to food? The performance transforms the everyday act of dining into a moment of collective reflection and connection. Through voices, silences, and gestures, the table turns into a space of visibility and presence for those who often remain unseen.
BOX - Charlotte Boukaert
The installation BOX is part of Charlotte Boukaert's series The Photographer Left, they Told the Truth. In her work, Bouckaert often explores the tension between photography and image formation. She manipulates photographs so that attention is focused not on the frozen moment, but on the moments before and after it. Based on the idea that meaning arises from the interplay between image, viewer, and context, BOX is a dialogue between the viewer and an invisible performer. That presence is made perceptible in ever-changing, disappearing images.
BOX is a try-out of the project during Museumnacht. The premiere of the installation is during the Playground Festival in Leuven. The series The Photographer Left, they Told the Truth, which includes BOX, will be on display later this year during Beyond the Black Box at the Brakke Grond. In addition to BOX, two other projects, HAND and PRINT, will also be presented. In this triptych, Bouckaert collects images that arise, change, and move. She wonders whether images ever actually ‘come to a standstill’. During Beyond the Black Box, these works will be shown as a triptych for the first time.
