Robin Vermeersch

Tamara van San |2

Tamara van San |3

Tamara van San |1

Elena Giolo

Jonas Vansteenkiste |2

Sharon van Overmeijeren

As summer heat grips the European continent, Asiat Park in Vilvoorde (BE) remains remarkably cool due to the Ancestral Air Conditioning System installed by artist Sharon Van Overmeiren. The towering installation built from mauled terra cotta bricks and monumental ceramics cools the environment using water that runs through the structure. Is it a cave? Is it a temple? It is certainly a reminder that crowded Belgium could benefit from a little more climate consciousness. Van Overmeiren developed the work in collaboration with Instituut voor Volkswarmte (Institute for Public Warmth) for the Horst Arts & Music Festival. She made the ceramic stupas and portals at EKWC, along with a series of sculptures and wall pieces for Art Brussels. The Air Conditioning System will stay in Asiat Park, to be overgrown by plants and blend in with its surroundings.

Lola Daels

Yannick Ganseman

How to deal in a spontaneous painterly way with ceramics and glazes? To answer this question, Yannick Ganseman strove to stay away from technical conventions and neat representation. As a result, the works he made during his EKWC residency have the perfect feel of ‘quick and dirty’ improvisations that almost incidentally manage to capture something essential, even if his subjects are as cliché as a still life, a bird on a branch or a pony in a field. Ganseman sculpts many of his works in bas-relief, adding unexpected depth and shades to the tableaux that have been glazed with subdued engobes. They evoke the strange sensation that intangible memories or images are not just in a process of materialisation, but are coming to life in front of your eyes.