08.09.2024, 11:00—17:00
Open Monumentendag: Open Studio in Villa Stuyven en kunstroute vanaf maakleerplek
Alle wegen leiden naar Leuven / All roads lead to Leuven
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On Sunday September 8th Leuven is host city for Open Monument Day, more than 800 monuments in Flanders will open their doors for this 36th edition. Cas-co community artists are glad to be contributing to it with open studios and Performative Guided Tours!
Villa Stuyven: Open Studio Denys Shantar
from 11:00 to 17:00, Sint-Geertruibos 16, Holsbeek 3220
First stop, Villa Stuyven is a brutalist artist’s house, tucked away in the green of a stately residential area in Holsbeek. Until recently, this was the home of artist and philosopher Jef Stuyven. In 2021, the building was sold to artist and designer Bram Kerkhofs and art facilitator Lore Baeyens. The duo renovated the house with care and attention to the original architecture and with the aim of stimulating collaboration and exchange with other art professionals. Every summer they receive an artist who can work in peace and freedom and enter into a dialogue with the particular environment. In recent weeks, Lore Stessel and Benjamin Mengistu Navet have previously been staying in the house.
Denys Shantar is the current Artist-in-residence at Cas-co. His practice departs from his memories and family history, deploying different materials and techniques to create narratives laying between reality and fiction. In his research about childhood, religion, migration, and queerness, he links the personal to current global but also historical events, weaving in symbols from mythology, art history, folklore and Christianity. Denys uses predominantly recycled, gifted, or found fabric and materials, often including religious iconography.
His three month residency period will culminate in a presentation and public programme unfolding at Cas-co between the 12th and 22nd of September, as well as a contribution during Open Monument Day on September 8th, on view at Villa Stuyven.
On Open Monument Day you are warmly invited to visit at Villa Stuyven for a coffee visit, as well as a walk around the historical house, as part of an introduction to Denys’ upcoming presentation at Cas-co.
© Jeroen Verrecht
Maakleerplek: Performative Guided Tours
starting at 14:30, 15:30, and 16:30, departing from maakleerpek, Stapelhuisstraat 13 – 15 3000 Leuven.
A performance by Erik Kamaletdinov, with works by Koba de Meutter, Amber Roucourt, Sarah & Jonas, Joseph Thabang Palframan, Jan Van Eijgen, Lieselotte Vloeberghs, & more.
Following the visit at Villa Stuyven, you are warmly invited to join the artists at maakleerplek for consecutive Performative Guided Tours lead by Erik Kamaletdinov.
Along the theme All the ways lead to Leuven, the guided tour will start as a conventional tour, and gradually drift towards something imaginary or unsettling, at the edge of what can be considered reliable or factual. This will be an imaginary promenade, slightly fast-paced, described through the eyes of a performer that makes-up the reality surrounding them.
The walk draws inspiration from the 1972 book Invisible Cities, by Italian writer Italo Calvino and the concept of Strollology. Strollology or Promenadology is the science of strolling as a method in the field of aesthetics and cultural studies with the aim of becoming aware of the conditions of perception of the environment and enhancement of environmental perception.
Thanks to the unique location around the Vaartkom, along the canal and places of fermentation, such as the breweries, the promenade links the practice of artists with that of the historical monuments.
Let Erik Kamaletdinov be your guide !
Tour start from maakleerplek at 14:30 – 15:30 and 16:30.
