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The only postgraduate curatorial programme in Belgium, Curatorial Studies at KASK is a one-year inten

19/10/2026

Curatorial Vocabularies is a curated series of guest lectures and workshops organised by the postgraduate programme in Curatorial Studies at KASK & Conservatorium. Each session explores a keyword that shapes how curating is understood and enacted today.

Curatorial Vocabularies: I is for Interdependence Carly Everaert and Staci Bu Shea 
Interdependence is the state of being dependent upon one another. Carly Everaert and Staci Bu Shea approach it as a dynamic, relational process of creating, gathering and learning, grounded in responding to one another’s needs. Coming from curatorial and scenographic backgrounds, they explore what becomes possible when interdependence, as both a value and a material condition, informs artistic and curatorial work from the outset.

Extending beyond experiences of disability, illness and debility to other forms of oppression and marginalisation, this approach asks how accessibility and accommodation can challenge dominant, normative systems. What resources, time, relationships and material conditions are needed to support artists whose needs are not conventionally met by institutions? And how might this require rethinking the materials, technologies, environments and structures through which artistic work takes place?

Drawing on disability justice, altarscenography and commoning accessibility, the workshop explores interdependence as a curatorial, artistic and collective practice. Through examples of artistic practices engaging with disability and illness, and writing exercises inspired by Alt-text as Poetry, participants will approach image description as both an accessibility practice and a creative way of attending, interpreting and sharing knowledge. Together, they will explore how different perceptions, experiences and needs shape the ways meaning is made and knowledge is shared.

In collaboration with Studium Generale Gent

15/10/2026

The Curatorial Toolbox focuses on the practical knowledge involved in translating a curatorial proposal into something that can be encountered by others.
Sessions focus on scenography, graphic design, and
documentation. We also focus on the specificities of certain disciplines within curating: moving image, performance, fashion, sound and digital technologies.

13/10/2026

On 5 October, curators and CS alumni Camille Van Meenen and Karel Op 't Eynde brought the postgraduate Curatorial Studies group to Komplot Brussels for a day of collective editing, arranging, questioning and making.

Personal notes, images, anecdotes and unresolved situations became material for a shared publication. Through writing, editing, sequencing, drawing and discussion, the group explored authorship, consent, privacy, disagreement and invisible labour.

The publication took shape through the relationships in the room: a collective space for testing ideas, making decisions and finding forms for different voices to coexist.

13/10/2026

‘Giving form to worlds that don’t yet exist’ 👁️

For its 11th edition, Mechelen’s for Moving Image is undergoing a profound transformation. We caught up with to explore how this year’s edition, curated by , uses images to navigate uncertainty and imagine futures.

Through the lens of the ‘imaginal’ defined as a state of becoming between what is and what isn’t yet, Bethan also discusses their vital role in expanding public engagement and accessibility as a curatorial fellow.

Contour Biennale 11 is currently on view in Mechelen and free for Different Class members. Head to the link in our bio for more details.

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01/10/2026

A warm welcome to the 2026–27 Curatorial Studies cohort at KASK & Conservatorium!

We’re very happy to welcome Anna Adami, Elīza Brice, Nujan Brabants, Caithlin Courtney Chong, Maya Colturi, Sam De Graeve, Toon De Reuse, Atin Fakharian, Elena Gadd, Frederique Kraus, Ira Korzjukova, Giulia Minenna, Gabriel Meessen, Kato Redant, Raghad Sawalha, Clarisse Verbeek, Lucille Vivier-Calicat, Yingqi Wang and Erlisa Çerkini.

29/09/2026

Curating is rarely an individual practice. This strand turns attention to what happens between those people. How does a group form? How are decisions made? Who takes responsibility? How are labour and authorship distributed? What happens when we disagree? How do take into account accesibility?

Collectivity underpins the programme but is not understood as consensus. Participants develop ways of making positions, expectations and responsibilities explicit while learning to work through difference and disagreement. Troublemaking becomes a curatorial method: identifying what has become normal, asking whom it serves, and testing how it might be organised differently.

Throughout the year sessions include developing a shared code of conduct; encounters with alumni; antagonism, disagreement and productive conflict; and presentations of participants’ individual practices.

29/09/2026

Curating is rarely an individual practice. This strand within the programme turns attention to what happens between those people. How does a group form? How are decisions made? Who takes responsibility? How are labour and authorship distributed? What happens when we disagree? How do take into account
accesibility?

Collectivity is not understood as consensus. Participants develop ways of making positions, expectations and responsibilities explicit while learning
to work through difference and disagreement. Troublemaking becomes a curatorial method: identifying what has become normal, asking whom it
serves, and testing how it might be organised differently. Sessions include developing a shared code of conduct; encounters with alumni; antagonism, disagreement and productive conflict; and
presentations of participants’ individual practices.

08/09/2026

Contour Biennale opened its 11th edition this weekend, with a two-day programme of convenings, tours and conversations unfolding across Mechelen’s heritage and cultural sites. Titled The Eyes of the Heart and the Soul of the World, this edition is curated by Sofia Lemos and runs until 1 November, marking the biennale’s return after a three-year hiatus with a focused, small-scale relaunch across five venues in the city.

Four alumni of the Curatorial Studies programme played a significant role in bringing this edition to life, each contributing through a different route into the project. Bethan Burnside joined as Curatorial Fellow through a partnership between Curatorial Studies and Kunsthal Mechelen. Daphné Charitos took on the role of Project Coordinator with Contour itself, helping guide the biennale from concept through to opening. Jessica Meuleman brought her curatorial training to Kunsthal Mechelen, where she is responsible for production and communication, while Zinnia Fay supported the programme in a curatorial capacity, working closely with the team across its development. Building this edition within a newly re-established organisation, still finding its footing after a three-year hiatus, has required patience and adaptability throughout. Their commitment and expertise have been integral to shaping what Contour has become, and this edition would not have been possible without them. Thank you!!

10/03/2026

Curatorial Studies is pleased to present ‘Screening the Museum’, a two-day film programme bringing cinema into dialogue with contemporary museum practice in the frame of ‘Art Policy and Museum Studies’.

Through five films and public conversations with invited guests, the programme explores questions of decolonisation, ecology, exhibition design, and digital innovation in museums today. Each screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by students from the Curatorial Studies Programme.

Location
KASK Cinema
Godshuizenlaan 4, Gent

Doors 18:30
Screenings 19:00

*Friday, 13 March*
Dahomey (2024) — Mati Diop
Rezbotanik (2025) — Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro

Panel with Fabrizio Terranova and Hugo DeBlock
Moderated by .meffrechol

*Monday, 16 March* — SOLD OUT
The Responsive Eye (1966) — Brian De Palma
Everything You Want (2025) — Mariana Machado
Apaganda (2018) — Alexandre Humbert

Panel with Gosia Gołąbek, Mariana Machado, and Olivier Vandhuynslager
Moderated by and

10/03/2026

Yesterday’s Curatorial Vocabularies seminar with Fernanda Brenner unfolded as a reflection on curating not as the production of exhibitions, but as the long-term construction of relationships, contexts, and forms of knowledge.

Brenner—founding artistic director of Pivô in São Paulo and senior advisor for Latin America at Kadist Art Foundation—spoke from a practice developed over more than a decade through research residencies and commissions that privilege process over outcome. Working between São Paulo and Paris, her approach positions the curatorial not as a format or discipline, but as a method for sustaining inquiry over time.

At the center of the seminar was Pivô’s model as a process-led institution. Rather than beginning with a finished exhibition concept, many projects emerge from long periods of dialogue and shared research with artists. Residencies function as laboratories for experimentation where curators and artists work alongside one another, allowing projects to develop slowly and often unpredictably.

Through examples from her collaborations with artists such as Paulo Nazareth and Ana Vaz, Brenner described how curatorial work can become a form of co-research. These collaborations unfold across years, engaging questions of migration, ecology, landscape, and memory, while remaining attentive to the specific social and political contexts in which they emerge.

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Jozef Kluyskensstraat 2
Ghent
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+3292433600

Website

http://www.curatorialstudies.be/

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