Gent
GUM (Gents Universiteitsmuseum)
On now
- During three editions of TRUTHtellers / WAARzeggers, researchers, artists, and experts by experience engaged in open, curious conversations —always starting from doubt. Each dialogue offered the audience a glimpse behind the façade of certainty, inviting them to reflect, empathise, and even question their own truths. The first edition explored truth practices and their healing power, with Tine Destrooper (Director of Justice Visions and Professor of Law and Criminology), Sofie Verclyte (Researcher), and Chokri Ben Chikha (Artistic Director, Lecturer and Researcher) reflecting on how communities process traumatic events. The second edition focused on 'legal truth', as Babette Van Rafelghem (forensic pathologist), Nina Van Eeckhaut (defense attorney), and Hans De Waele (magistrate) discussed the complex relationship between evidence, justice, and factual truth in court. The third edition addressed 'historical truth', with Laura Nsengiyumva, Philsan Osman, and Berber Bevernage (moderated by Lyvia Diser, scientific employee at GUM) examining how marginalised voices and shifting narratives continue to reshape our understanding of the past.Description
Wunderkammer of TRUTH: A Visual Retrospective
Until 31 Jan 2027
- question the very nature of borders. With Orizontas, Robbert&Frank / Frank&Robbert refer in the conservatories to previous performances, in which the boundary between the public and the surroundings disappears. Finally, the artists also constructed two large Border Guards, which stand at the entrance to the Botanical Garden. During an inauguration ritual, hop plants were placed at their feet, which will eventually overgrow the sculptures. Anyone walking into the Botanical Garden walks beneath the arms of the Border Guards, thereby activating the sculptures as they themselves cross the boundary with the outside world. playField and Lana Schneider The art collective playField, comprising Marthe and Lana Schneider, is a resident at GUM & Plantentuin and frequently works at the intersection of art and science. Their fascination with society and human behaviour is often expressed through interactive installations, where the boundary between the artwork and the audience becomes blurred. For BORDERS, playField developed a diorama representing a liminal space, which serves as scenographic preliminary research for their new performance Don’t Forget to Die about theDescription
Five lingering stories from BORDERS
Until 11 Apr 2027
- Two artists have been commissioned to create new work inspired by BORDERS —each exploring what it means to cross or guard a line. Bieke Depoorter, the renown Magnum Photographer, turns her lens inward, probing the camera’s own boundaries—between connection and intrusion, trust and transgression. Depoorter is known for her intimate, collaborative approach that explores the boundaries between photographer and subject. Projects like Agata and As It May Be highlight how trust and shared narratives shape photography. For BORDERS Depoorter is currently creating an intervention covering those themes, in close collaboration with our scenographer and curatorial team. Robbert & Frank, the Ghent-based duo known for their poetic and playful approach, will transform the greenhouses and gardens with new work about frontiers, portals, and gatekeepers – and put a smile on visitors’ faces. Their projects are presented internationally, inviting audiences into spaces of wonder and reflection.Description
BORDERS | New Expo at GUM & Botanical Garden
Until 11 Apr 2027
- To collide, to balance, and to move between yourself, the other, and the world What are borders? They mark where something ends and begins. They create order — between countries, people, inside and outside, me and you. They can feel safe, but also constricting, when they limit who you can be or where you can go. For scientists, borders help to study things and phenomena, neatly categorized. But what are borders, really, if we all experience them differently? BORDERS invites you to rethink your boundaries — from your body to the world around you. Together with scientists and artists, explore the fringes and no man’s lands of borders: where things rub and collide, or where new connections begin to emerge… What might happen if we dare to cross over?Description
BORDERS | New Expo at Ghent University Museum & Botanical Garden
Until 11 Apr 2027
