NUCLEO creëert ruimte voor de artistieke ontwikkeling van kunstenaars.
Mycelium Connections Vol.2
Annelie Vaes, Celina Vleugels, Ellen Dhondt, Sien Custers, Ines Raspoet, Hannah Hoebeke, Janne Gistelinck, Thibbo Kennivé, Manon De Craene, Faoust Declercq, Chen Hsiao Hsi, Lieven Vanderheyden, Lize Maekelberg, Nastia Krasinskaia, Roos Nieboer
BLANCO Zaal Coupure
Expo
In the forest floors, a vast network of mycelium thrives — unseen, intricate, essential. Beneath the surface, it weaves living pathways of sensing, sharing, remembering. It is a system of quiet connection, mutual support, and silent communication.
MyCelium Connections draws a parallel between this subterranean world and the interwoven relationships within the contemporary art scene, particularly among emerging artists.
There is a kinship that precedes language. Works emerge independently yet speak the same dialect of the moment. A gesture in one’s studio finds its reflection in another’s. Philosophies move not in straight lines, but in spores — drifting, landing, transforming. Influence no longer belongs only to the past, but loops between peers in real time.
Their works resonate with one another through more than shared aesthetics. They are linked by something deeper: a collective sensitivity. Without speaking, their artworks seem to echo. Without planning, they sometimes anticipate each other.
The exhibition holds these entanglements — fugitive alliances that do not rely on shared walls or even shared words. The connection is not linear or defined, but rhizomatic, permeable, in motion. What exists is not a school, not a movement, but a field of relations — living, porous, unstable.
Each artist carries a piece of the others. Their works sense one another before the artists do. There is an intelligence here that does not belong to the individual, a slow and intimate exchange that resists borders. The foreign is no longer distant; it has already taken root within.
Differences are not obstacles, but points of connection, nourishment, and growth. MyCelium Connections suggests that we are each other’s pieces — each practice feeding, challenging, and shaping the other. What emerges is not a unified voice, but a symbiotic polyphony. In a world fragmented by individualism and isolation, these artistic relationships offer an alternative: a model of interdependence, empathy, and non-verbal understanding.
- opening
Friday 18/07 18.00 until 22.00
- open
Saturday 19/07 16.00 until 20.00
Sunday 20/07 16.00 until 19.00 - where?