A Portrait of the Artist is an original podcast by Bozar that invites you into intimate encounters with leading figures in visual arts, music, cinema, and performance.

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Guest: Ho Tzu Nyen. Interview & presentation: Emma Dumartheray. Editing: Joline Vermeulen. Production & post-production: Seden Anlar. Graphic design: Jonas Mergan. Music: “Broken Circuits” — Telecasted, YouTube Audio Library.

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Guests: Moshtari Hilal, Maryam Kamal Hedayat. Moderator: Aurélie Disasi. Editing: Elena Ndidi Akilo. Production & post-production: Seden Anlar. Graphic design: Jonas Mergan. Music: “Broken Circuits” — Telecasted, YouTube Audio Library.

In this 10-minute excerpt from the Sofa Session, the artists reflect on these three forces, tracing the connections between them through personal experiences and artistic practice.

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Guests: Christelle Oyiri, Martha Da’ro. Moderator: Kopano Maroga. Editing: Elena Ndidi Akilo. Production & post-production: Seden Anlar. Graphic design: Jonas Mergan. Music: “Broken Circuits” — Telecasted, YouTube Audio Library.

In this 10-minute excerpt from the Sofa Session, the conversation turns to photography's loaded history and how artists can push back against inherited ways of seeing.

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Credits:

Guests: Ibrahim Ahmad, Déborah Claire. Moderator: Aurélie Disasi. Editing: Elena Ndidi Akilo. Production & post-production: Seden Anlar. Graphic design: Jonas Mergan. Music: “Broken Circuits” — Telecasted, YouTube Audio Library.

Dans cet épisode de la série Writers & Thinkers Stage, il déconstruit les principaux arguments avancés contre la « taxe Zucman » et revient notamment sur la menace de l’exil fiscal.

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Crédits

Invité : Gabriel Zucman. Interview : Mehdi Khelfat. Présentation : Olga Briard. Montage : Joline Vermeulen. Production et post-production : Seden Anlar. Graphisme : Jonas Mergan. Musique : « Broken Circuits » — Telecasted, YouTube Audio Library.

« À leur manière, Smith et De Bruyckere sculptent à la fois les souvenirs et le temps lui-même, pour tisser une relation intime avec le monde au fil de petites bribes reconquises ».

Image Berlinde De Bruyckere, Lost V, 2021-2022, 2021-2022, horse skin, marble, textile, iron, epoxy, courtesy of the artist, Photo: Mirjam Devriendt

« C’est comme si les flèches ne le blessaient pas, alors qu’elles transpercent son corps ».

Image Berlinde De Bruyckere Khoros in Bozar © Mirjam Devriendt

« Ce qui m’a particulièrement fascinée, c’est la façon dont ils ont été conçus et leur mixité. »

Image Anonymous, Enclosed Garden with Our Lady and Child with Pear, c.1530-40, Mechelen

« L’absence d’une tête dans mon œuvre n’a jamais parlé d’une telle manière », déclare-t-il.

Image Lucas Cranach, Salome with the head of Saint John the Baptist, 1530s, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, inv. 145

« Les films de Pier Paolo Pasolini tournent autour des thèmes de la vie et de la mort. »

Image Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (Maria and the Wailing Women at the tomb), 1964

« La littérature, le cinéma et la poésie ont été une source d’inspiration importante pour développer mon propre univers et mon propre langage. »

Image Berlinde De Bruyckere © Mirjam Devriendt

De zesde en laatste aflevering gaat over de dialoog tussen De Bruyckere, haar echtgenoot en kunstenaar Peter Buggenhout, en de woorden van Patti Smith, die allemaal samen komen in één zaal.

“Op hun manier boetseren Smith en De Bruyckere zowel herinneringen als de tijd zelf, om met kleine teruggewonnen flarden een intieme relatie te weven met de wereld.”

Image: Berlinde De Bruyckere, Lost V, 2021-2022, 2021-2022, horse skin, marble, textile, iron, epoxy, courtesy of the artist, Photo: Mirjam Devriendt

Een monumentale boomstam die doorboord is met bronzen pijlen, vond zijn naam en inspiratie bij de heilige Sebastiaan, een ware obsessie voor De Bruyckere.

“De pijlen lijken hem geen pijn te doen, ook al doorboren ze zijn lichaam.”

Image: Berlinde De Bruyckere Khoros in Bozar © Mirjam Devriendt

In deze aflevering reizen we naar de 16e eeuw en de betoverende Besloten Hofjes die Berlinde De Bruyckere in 2016 voor het eerst ontdekte.

“Wat mij specifiek boeide, was de manier waarop ze opgebouwd waren, en hun gelaagdheid.”

Image Anonymous, Enclosed Garden with Our Lady and Child with Pear, c.1530-40, Mechelen

Van Pasolini wandelen we verder naar het werk van de Duitse renaissancekunstenaar Lucas Cranach en zijn Salomé, die onbewogen het afgehakte hoofd van Johannes de Doper draagt.

“De afwezigheid van een hoofd in mijn werk, heeft nog nooit op zo’n manier gesproken.”

Image: Lucas Cranach, Salome with the head of Saint John the Baptist, 1530s, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, inv. 145

We duiken in de eerste zaal van Khorós, waar het aangrijpende beeld Lost de tentoonstelling opent en de invloed van filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini duidelijk wordt.

“De films van Pier Paolo Pasolini draaien rond de thema’s van leven en dood.”

Image: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (Maria and the Wailing Women at the tomb), 1964

Wie is Berlinde De Bruyckere? Een terugblik op haar lange carrière, waarin dialoog altijd een centrale rol speelde.

“Literatuur, film en poëzie zijn een belangrijke inspiratiebron geweest om mijn eigen universum en taal te ontwikkelen.”

Picture credits: Berlinde De Bruyckere © Mirjam Devriendt

Join curators Koyo Kouoh and Tandazani Dhlakama, the driving forces behind this expansive anthology, as they guide you through the vibrant halls of the Centre for Fine Arts in a truly unique way.

Written directed and produced by Safia Kessas (with Bowery street creation).

Sound engineer and direction : Quentin Bresson.

Voice-over : Jodie Costes.

Translation : Marie Cappart.

Musics : Universal Production.

This podcast was made possible thanks to the support and the guidance of Christophe Slagmuylder CEO & Artistic Director, Zoe Gray Director of Exhibitions, Evelyne Hinque Head of WILD. Anne Judong and Maité Smeyers Curatorial Exhibitions Coordinators , Head of Institutional Relations Magdalena Liskova

Once the pain is over even your own body stops telling you what it was.

Écrivain est un mot noble, c’est difficile de se définir comme quelqu’un qui appartient à cette supposée noblesse. Cela me gênait de dire que j’étais écrivain.

« L’histoire de ce livre est une histoire douloureuse pour moi (…) Christian Boltanski était mon voisin. »

"Sometimes I think I am too old to understand what is going on with this new young people. I don’t have access to them anymore. And I also worry, because I expected always and still expect that they will be my readers."

“I was obsessed by the borderline between literature and life. … and I wanted to take literature as far into real life as possible. That was kind of an experiment. I just wanted it to be true or as realistic as possible.”

« Ce sont les révolutions arabes qui ont attiré l’attention de l’Occident sur nos cultures, nos pays. Avant ces révolutions, c’est comme si l’on n’existait pas. »

« Ce n’est pas parce que j’ai vécu un avortement en 1958, que, 50 ans plus tard - alors que les règles du monde ont changé - la honte ou la force de ce qui a été vécu ont changé »

« Je trouvais qu’il manquait un ouvrage de référence sur ces thèmes-là. Finalement, il est rare, voire même unique, qu’on associe, dans un même ouvrage, Hitler, Mobutu et Enver Hoxha. »

“We were an angry hopeful body, we were doomed to hope.”

“The moment you get into that discourse of who was here first, who the country properly belongs to; then I think that is the beginning of a very dangerous spiral.”

“…by reading you create the sensations, you create the thought, you create everything the writer suggested in his book. You do not get passively what the writer gives you, you have to re-create it. So you are the co-author of the book.”

“My partner is a lot more fun than that, okay?!...He’s incredibly intelligent and very funny and smart, but when it comes down to Trump he’s a mess.”

In this episode, we speak to Guy Standing, co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network, who has been advocating for basic income since the eighties. Sharing insights from the ground is Angeline Matereke from Save the Children, who oversees cash transfers in impoverished neighborhoods in Zimbabwe.

Stella Nyanchama Okemwa, from the Belgian NGO "Hand in Hand against Racism," is clear: we need to radically rethink how we celebrate power. In this episode, we take inspiration from South Africa, where #RhodesMustFall has created a space for unofficial rolling artwork, where anyone can take the stage. Writer and artist Kim Gurney, who has examined the case up close, shares her experiences with us.

Roanne van Voorst, a so-called "anthropologist of the future," imagines a world already moving away from one of the biggest polluters on the planet: the meat industry. Bridging nature and technology in this podcast is Koert van Mensvoort from Next Nature Network, who talks about language, gadgets and the next new arrival on our plates: in-vitro meat.

Architect and activist Stavros Stavrides takes us on a journey through time in search of the commons: publicly-owned resources belonging to a whole community. Armed with insights from collaborative projects, and even interactive wristbands, Paty Rios from Happy Cities helps us understand the importance of social connectedness in the places we live.