January 23 - April 11, 2010
Opening: January 22 at 5 pm

Sarah Vanagt 'Pocket Room'
In her brief artistic career, young Flemish filmmaker and artist Sarah Vanagt (Bruges, 1976) has gained a reputation for her poetic and poignant documentary films, video installations and photos. The exhibition in Museum Het Domein, bringing together a range of older and more recent work by Vanagt, including a series of recent cibochrome prints of graveyards. Pocket Cinema is the artist's first museum solo. The exhibition is presented as part of the International Photography Biennale in Luik and the Euregio.

GuestRoom #10: HISK
The Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) is one of Belgium's most distinguished institutes for the arts. The Flemish counterpart of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, the HISK offers postgraduate art education in the field of audiovisual and visual arts. It is an international platform for young international artists whose development is closely followed by curators, critics and gallerists with a keen interest in emerging talent. From its original home in a dilapidated military hospital in Antwerp, in 2007 HISK moved to a former army barracks in Gent where it retains something of its squatter mentality and continues to be a place for artistic freedom and experimentation. Students are given every opportunity to develop their work at their own pace in a relaxed and comparatively quiet setting, interrupted only once a month by studio visits from a variety of guest lecturers: artists, curators, writers and (art) critics.

The HISK Guestroom will focus on a different pair of artists every two weeks. Domein curator Roel Arkesteijn selected six pairs of artists who studied at the HISK. The work of a current 'candidate laureate' is combined with that of an artist who has since gone on to develop his or her artistic practice.  

Participating artists: Niklaus Rüegg, Leon Vranken, Lauren von Gogh, Ruben Bellinkx, Audrey Cottin, Barbora Klimova, Maarten Vandeneynde, Max Sudhues, Masashi Echigo, Ante Timmermans, Femmy Otten, Sara Claes.

More information:
www.hetdomein.nl