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Current projects

  • On-Trade-Off 2018 - 2023 Traces the raw material lithium and its crucial role in the global transition towards a ‘green' and fossil fuel free economy.
  • ICC / Institute of Colonial Culture Ongoing since 2018 Collects and preserves artefacts, documents, books, photographs and films representing colonial presence in DR Congo.
  • LUNÄ Talks Ongoing since 2011 Critically reflects on topics like new scientific and industrial developments, but also art, education and social rights that occupied the Lunar Men during the Enlightenment.

Past projects

  • Uncertainty Scenarios 2015 - 2022 Explored the way people throughout history have tried to speculate, predict and anticipate the future.
  • Performing Objects 2014 - 2022 Experimented with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience.
  • Triangular Trade 2017 - 2021 Investigated the influence of pivotal materials like cotton, copper, lithium and uranium on economic inequality and global power structures.
  • Elixir 2013 - 2021 Transformed fallen heritage fruit, planted by an early modernist Belgian painter who made his living from his orchard to remain independent.
  • Present Perfect 2007 - 2017 Explored phenomena of cultural import and export between Europe and Cameroon through an ongoing series of research travels, discussions, artistic residencies, talks, events and exhibitions.
  • Genetologic Research 2006 - 2015 Studied human nature to stimulate change, manipulate evolution and alter the world in order to create something new.
  • The Invisible Hand 2012 Explored the way Adam Smith (the first major theorist of what we commonly call Capitalism) has influenced contemporary rhetoric's around Capitalism.
  • Smooth Structures 2010 Smooth Structures explored the unexpected intersections between a new dark matter and dark energy hypothesis and its conceptual visualization mediated through art.
  • CURATOR CURATOR 2008 - 2010 Provided an opportunity for emerging curators to develop a project in order to investigate the current curatorial preoccupation.
  • Corrillos 2008 - 2009 A series of informal gatherings of artists, architects, designers and theoreticians who presented and discussed relevant topics in a non-hierarchic way.
  • Contrapolis 2008 Two day programme that articulated approaches and experiences around contentious nexus of culture and urban regeneration.
  • Formatting Utopia 2008 Explored the potentials and pitfalls of the internet and it's formats for knowledge organisation at the Mundaneum in Mons (BE).
  • Los Angeles Works 2007 - 2008 Initiated artistic research, collaboration and dialogue on the city of Los Angeles.
  • Localisms 2007 - 2008 Focused on the poetry in the street, the discovery of the (urban) landscape, unnoticed sounds, the investigative look, archives of image and sound and wanderlust.
  • Please, Excuse Our Appearance 2007 An experimental artists’ residency that reflected on the changing face of Eastside, a former industrial area in Birmingham (UK).
  • The Annex 2007 An additional residence and production and research space within the existing structure of the Jan van Eyck Academie.
  • In Varietate Concordia 2006 Questioned the representation of the European identity and unity within the European Union.
  • Georgia Here We Come! 2006 Explored how a new democracy was being introduced or rather implanted in Georgia (GE) and the side-effects of such an enormous political and sociological shift.
  • Enough Room for Space in Basel 2005 A collective residency project in one of the few old non-renovated locations in Basel which was going to be demolished for a regeneration project.
  • The Residents 2005 An intense ten day residency during which new works were developed in the heart of Rome.
  • 2018 - 2023

    On-Trade-Off

    Experimental research project

    On-Trade-Off is an ongoing artistic-research project that reflects on environmental and economic implications of the extraction and processing of Lithium, the main raw material needed for the global production of ‘green energy’. Focusing on this one naturally occurring element (Li3), allows the project to zoom in on particular social, ecological, economic and political phenomena that characterize the production processes that are currently in full development in the global transition towards a ‘green’ and fossil fuel free economy.

     

  • Ongoing since 2018

    ICC / Institute of Colonial Culture

    Research on Congolese Heritage

    Initiated by Philippe Mikobi and Maarten Vanden Eynde, ICC consists of a collection of artefacts representing colonial presence in Congo, mainly focusing on the period 1884-1960. There is hardly any tangible material left in Congo of that period, due to the hastily departure of most colonisers after the independence in 1960.

    ICC is scheduled to officially open at the National Museum of Lubumbashi in the coming years. A selection of the collection of books, documents, personal and religious items and tools, equipment, photographs, letters and administration will be made public in Drogenbos, Belgium at Enough Room for Space.

  • 2015 - 2022

    Uncertainty Scenarios

    Experimental research project

    Uncertainty Scenarios explored the ways people throughout history have tried to speculate, predict and anticipate the future and different attitudes that go along and come about.

  • 2014 - 2022

    Performing Objects

    Experimental research project

    Performing Objects experiments with objects and their possibilities to act as an interactive performer towards its users or audience. Performing Objects researches different ways artists can anticipate this process during the conceptualisation and the conception of their work.

  • Ongoing since 2011

    LUNÄ Talks

    Series of critical discussions and talks

    Critically reflects on topics like new scientific and industrial developments, but also art, education and social rights that occupied the Lunar Men during the Enlightenment or the Age of Reason.

  • 2017 - 2021

    Triangular Trade

    Experimental research project

    Triangular Trade investigates the influence of pivotal materials like cotton, copper, rubber and uranium on economic inequality and global power structures.

  • 2013 - 2021

    Elixir

    Yearly harvesting event

    Elixir transformed fallen heritage fruits during public events into all sorts of products which are used for events of Enough Room for Space. Felix De Boeck, an early modernist Belgian painter, made his living from this orchard, as a result he was working independently as an artist without the pressure to sell his works.

  • 2007 - 2017

    Present Perfect

    Artistic exchange and production

    Present Perfect was a long-term project consisting of an ongoing series of research travels, discussions, artistic residencies, talks, events, exhibitions and collaborations between Cameroonian and European artists. It explored phenomena of cultural import and export between Europe and Cameroon through new artistic productions.

  • 2006 - 2015

    Genetologic Research

    Blog, publication and exhibitions

    Genetology or science of first things is a self invented science creating an opposition for the existing dominant science of last things, Eschatology. Genetology’s main area of research is our fascination with time and its consequences: How will we look back to the past in the future? What will remain of the present?

  • 2012

    The Invisible Hand

    Gathering, Bergen, NO

    The Invisible Hand explored the way Adam Smith has influenced contemporary rhetoric's around Capitalism. The group was challenged to take a stand in the discussion and develop a response towards these rapidly emerging global issues.

  • 2010

    Smooth Structures

    Exhibition and workshop, Amsterdam, NL

    Smooth Structures explored the unexpected intersections between a new dark matter and dark energy hypothesis and its conceptual visualization mediated through art. The mathematician Martin Lo (JPL/NASA), who is currently researching the “Brans’ Conjecture” theory with several other scientists, invited Enough Room for Space to respond artistically to such a hypothesis.

  • 2008 - 2010

    CURATOR CURATOR

    Series of exhibitions

    CURATOR CURATOR was a series of exhibition projects by upcoming curators in the presentation space of the HISK in Belgium.

  • 2008 - 2009

    Corrillos

    Irregular meetings and presentations of artists, designers and architects

    The Spanish word Corrillos stands for an informal meeting of people who casually gather together and discuss whatever topic in a non-hierarchic way. The program of Corrillos consisted of two presentations, tried to challenge its formats and each time had a different host.

  • 2008

    Contrapolis

    Workshops, discussions, walks, installations and screenings

    Contrapolis questioned how art, and cultural production more broadly, is at once driving capitalist valorisation in the city and able to project forms of social relations that do not produce value for capital?

  • 2008

    Formatting Utopia

    Workshop and symposium

    Formatting Utopia explored the potentials and pitfalls of the internet and it's formats for knowledge organisation at the Mundaneum.

  • 2007 - 2008

    Los Angeles Works

    Artistic research project

    Los Angeles Works initiated artistic research, collaboration and dialogue on the city of Los Angeles. There is no other city that is as globalized as the city of dreams, but what about being ‘least remembered’? Does the city have its own identity, or has it become a mere stand-in in its own movies? 

  • 2007 - 2008

    Localisms

    Exhibition and workshops

    Localisms focused on the poetry in the street, the discovery of the (urban) landscape, unnoticed sounds, the investigative look, archives of image and sound, wanderlust and world travellers.

  • 2007

    Please, Excuse Our Appearance

    Experimental residency

    Please Excuse Our Appearance was an experimental artists’ residency that reflected on the changing face of Eastside, a former industrial area in Birmingham. Birmingham was the future, but that bit of the future is worn out now and we need a new one.

  • 2007

    The Annex

    Additional residency at the Jan Van Eyck

    The Annex functioned as an additional residence and production and research space within the existing structure of the Jan van Eyck Academie and opened up space for artists to work there for maximum three or four weeks. 

  • 2006

    In Varietate Concordia

    Events all over Europe

    Europe is facing it’s most difficult challenge: how to create a united Europe? Europe is further away from unification than ever. But as a result inertia about Europa was replaced by genuine interest. What does it mean to be European? What do we represent? How much personal identity do we want to hand over to become a unity?

  • 2006

    Georgia Here We Come!

    Residencies, exhibitions and a documentary

    After the Rose Revolution in 2003, the new Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili called back his fellow country-men, who fled Georgia in the past decades, to come and help rebuild the once prosperous and wealthy country into a modern western democracy. We responded to this call and explored the side-effects of such an enormous political and sociological shift.

  • 2005

    Enough Room for Space in Basel

    Experimental residency

    The last exhibition of Filiale, an artist-initiative in one of the few old non-renovated locations in Basel. The building was going to be torn down after the project, that consequently focused on this unique position in the city and tried to open up free space in this over-regulated city.

  • 2005

    The Residents

    Residency and meetings

    An intense ten day residency during which new works were developed in the heart of Rome.

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