A Growth In Ambition, Detail & Program

As Gijs Van Vaerenbergh we were invited to curate the artistic part of the first edition of the festival in 2014. To deepen the artistic program and vision year after year, it became a long term collaboration. An engagement that creates room for ideas to ripen and to set up lasting trajectories with artists. Participating artists can opt for a short and intense collaboration, but also engage in a long term trajectory that exceeds a single edition. By consciously choosing for longer collaborations, an involvement grows that offers a fascinating surplus value. Last year’s edition was in a certain way a trial edition. A test that allowed us to get to know the context, to find out the significance of visual art in a place like this and think up a way to coincide all of that with a music festival. The acquired experience made us ready for a second edition that is more ambitious in many different ways.