Dead Darlings #7 — Ghent, 2011. Photo: Thomas Janssens.

The Belgian connection of our previous location helped get the attention of our lovely neighbors, resulting in Dead Darlings #7 traveling to Ghent for one of our smoothest running events to date.

Dead Darlings #7 — Ghent, 2011. Photo: Thomas Janssens.

Because of the open format of our collective, collaborations like this one are made possible and the results were terrific! We were received with so much care and love and support by the members of Punctum and embraced by the Belgian collectors who may have been slightly mystified at first by our casual style and efforts to engage the audience on a personal level but who warmed up to us.

Our amazing white gloves Paris Tselios during Dead Darlings #7, 2011. Photo: Thomas Janssens.

Even although some of our core fans had followed us from Amsterdam, it still felt a bit like conquering a foreign shore! We had an amazing location at KASK in the old Anatomic Auditorium ‘Cirque’ (looking back, certainly one of our best locations till now) and we’d do it there again in a heartbeat!

Photographs from the event

For this edition, because of introducing the event to a whole new audience, we decided to go back to our default theme for the open call: simply Dead Darlings.

Participating Artists:

Alexandra Leykauf
Angela Lidderdale
Annelies de Mey
Annemie Augustijns
Antonia Carrara
Anu Vahtra
Arno Roncada
Bert Danckaert
Bieke Depoorter
Dirk Braeckman
Egon Van Herreweghe
Elisabeth Tonnard
Etta Säfve
Fia Cielen
Glenn Geerinck
Jeroen Lambertyn
Johan Swinnen
Joris Vandecatseye
Josephine Wood
Juliana Borinski
Karin Borghouts
Katleen Vinck
Katrin Kamrau
Liam Tickner
Lucie Renneboog
Maarten Dings
Marnik Neven
Martine Derks
Matthias Tharang
Matthias Wollgast
Nick Hannes
Pantelis Makkas
Paulien Barbas
Pedro Ramos
Qiu Yang
Reinhilde Terryn
Sara Deraedt
Sarah Eechaut
Stijn Van Dorpe
Tania Theodorou
Thomas Manneke
Vincent Delbrouck
Wim Wauman
Xavier Fernández Fuentes
Yana Foqué