The thirteenth edition of Table Setting is dedicated to Aga Batkiewicz. From a fascination for landscape, infrastructure and stories in space, she presents a special reading of the surroundings of De Singel. On the evening of Tuesday 29 April, Aga Batkiewicz will present her Table Setting and we will open the installation.
Aga Batkiewicz
Aga Batkiewicz is a Polish architect who lives and works in Ghent. She is a collaborator at NU architectuuratelier and teaches at Sint-Lucas (KU Leuven). In addition, she works under her own name, but mainly in collaboration with an international network of befriended makers.
Recurring themes in her work are interfaces between man-made and natural environment, architecture and graphic representation, and attention to often forgotten space users. She reads space not only as physical constructions, but also as carriers of stories, history and changing relationships.
Table Setting #13 Changing Settings
In Table Setting #13, Aga Batkiewicz focuses her particular gaze at the immediate surroundings of the exhibition space of De Singel. Using the tables as a supporting structure, she is making a reconstruction of the landscape on the Antwerp ring road. To this end, she brings together various media and materials, such as 'samples' of forgotten elements from the environment and photography by Jason Ladrigan. The result is her interpretation of the ring landscape, in which Batkiewicz draws attention to forgotten places, stories and characters.
Program:
- 20:00h Welcome – Petrus Kemme, Flanders Architecture institute
- 20:10h Presentation Aga Batkiewicz
- 20:30h Petrus Kemme in conversation with Aga Batkiewicz and Jason Ladrigan
- 21:00h Bar and visit of the exhibition
Practical
- DATE:
30.04.2025 – 22.06.2024
- OPENING:
29.04.2025
20u - OPEN:
24/7
- ACCESS:
Free access
- LOCATION:
DE SINGEL (Front square)
Desguinlei 25, 2018 Antwerp - COMPOSITION:
Aga Batkiewicz
- SERIES CURATOR:
Petrus Kemme
- INSTALLATION DESIGN:
Laura Muyldermans
- PRODUCTION:
Flanders Architecture Institute and DE SINGEL
- WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
the Government of Flanders
There are spaces reserved for wheelchair users in all halls of DE SINGEL. Please contact us in advance at tickets@desingel.be so that we can reserve a space for you. You can use an elevator to reach the halls. Enter through the main entrance of DE SINGEL and make your way down the ramp to the left of the stairs to take the lift. Read more about the accessibility.