Projects
Capital cinema and film flow: An historical research into the distribution, exhibition and experience of cinema in Brussels Ghent University
The proposed research project focuses on key aspects of the film culture and industry in the city of Brussels. The Belgian capital, which was widely renowned for its vibrant film culture (cf. a wide range of commercial film venues, art-house cinemas, festivals, as well as Catholic, socialist and other kinds of ideological film exploitation), was considered to be the heart of the Belgian film industry (cf. production, distribution, ...
The Fragment and the Whole. Architectural Constructs in Comprehensive Settings. Exhibition Spaces, the Garden Treatise and the Voyage Pittoresque in France between 1750 and 1850 KU Leuven
Throughout the nineteenth century, exhibition spaces like museums, collections, but also gardens or secluded landscapes, were intrinsically connected with catalogues, treatises, labels in showcases or with procès-verbaux. They were essentially spatio-textual. The same goes for their objects. The museum for example, which plays a paradigmatic role in this respect, did not ‘find’ the objects it accommodated. It created those objects by turning ...
Antwerp Cinema City. A media-historical investigation into the post-war evolution of film exhibition and reception in the city of Antwerp (1945-2010) with a focus on the Rex-group. University of Antwerp
Exhibition Project: Bruegel Land Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Marcel Broodthaers in Brussels: a research exhibition, infographic, and popular book Ghent University
Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) is the most important artist in postwar Belgium. His works including mussels, bricks or coal and his fictional museum, Musée d'art moderne (1968-72), are internationally recognized. Yet little is known about Broodthaers' relationship to the historical and geographical context of Brussels, the city where he grew up, lived and worked until 1969. Coinciding with the celebrations of the artist’s 100th anniversary in ...
Preliminary research for publication and exhibition A History of Belgian Book illustration Hasselt University
Development and realization of a traveling exhibition about 20 years of Open Call Ghent University
Research, exhibition development and production for the travelling exhibition Open Oproep. 20 jaar architectuur in publieke opdracht. The two first venues were Vandenhove Centrum voor Architectuur en Kunst (UGent), 20.09-31.10.2019, and Atelier Bouwmeester (Brussel), 20.11-20.12.2019. Reprise interations at Z33, Hasselt (30.08-11.10.2020); Buda Factory, Kortrijk (22.10-20.11.2020); Kapel Romaanse Poort, Leuven (01.12.2020-30.01.2021)
...Sabbatical Roel Vande Winkel: Film exhibition and cinema going in occupied Belgium, 1940-1944 KU Leuven
For many years, Prof. dr. Roel Vande Winkel has been researching film screenings and cinema visits in occupied Belgium (1940-1944) during the Second World War. He has published on this at national and international level. Thanks to the call for Valorisation Initiatives of the Humanities and Social Sciences Group, he was able to launch the website www.cinema-in-occupied-belgium.be in November 2020 and thus share a large part of its research ...