Grav was with by Trilby Media
How do we imagine living environments in a world facing planetary shifts and ecological challenges? Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order brings together over thirty artists at WIELS and beyond, offering new ideas and perspectives on the relationship with our planet. The exhibition is an invitation to move away from systems driven by endless growth and resource extraction, encouraging a deeper connection with the many entanglements that shape our biosphere.
The artists navigate different, complementary and contradictory ways of relating to ecosystems and myths of the “natural” environment, seeking refuge in dreams and in the raw matter and bare life of the world. At the confluence of analytic and speculative tools, Magical Realism gestures towards restoring connections in a biosphere exhausted by exploitation, dispossession and debt.
We will only visit the Argos section of the exhibition with work presented by Saodat Ismailova, Joan Jonas, Pauline Julier. The main exhibition is at Wiels
The Cookery is an annual program of workshops, talks, presentations, performances, concerts, and collaborative encounters centered on emerging digital artistic practices.
This years edition kicks of on the Sept. 19th with Lectures by Imane B. K., Dasha Ilina, Sunjoo Lee, Anne-Marie Maes, Aymeric Mansoux, Natacha Roussel, Ai Carmela Netîrk, Marie Verdeil, Ava Zevop.
I am Vertical (but I would rather be horizontal) marks iMAL’s 25 years, reflecting on its past and imagining its future as a hub for digital cultures in a time of growing scrutiny around technology’s social and ecological costs.
More than a retrospective, this “introspective” brings together past and recent works, celebrating aesthetic diversity beyond Silicon Valley’s monoculture. The exhibition takes its name from Sylvia Plath’s poem I Am Vertical, where she contrasts human verticality with a longing for harmony with nature.
Today, digital culture generates e-waste, consumes vast resources, and fuels issues from AI’s impact on labour to surveillance and democracy. Against Big Tech’s consumerist narrative, the artists here explore digital practices that embrace limits—not as restrictions, but as spaces for creativity.
Grav was with by Trilby Media
