Driedee: Hatching from Scratch

Curated together with Abel Hartooni and Temitayo Olalekan

“Hatching from scratch” is an exhibition with works by 28 artists, whose practices reflect and re-articulate what three dimensionality encompasses today. Thinking through the body, the territory and the imaginary, these artists place us on a course with a variety of conceptual openings – which unfold in the exhibition space in a perpetual engagement with each other on questions regarding friction and subjective transformation.


The exhibition proposes the metaphor of an itch as a provocation. The scratch, a resistance to this discomfort, conveyed through the artists' material experimentation, activates their intimated impressions. What emerges from this dynamic interplay is the hatching – an opening which reshapes how the artists perceive, interact with, and inhabit concurrent multidimensional spaces.


The works in this exhibition address the body and its sensorial attachments to memory, ecological fragility, language and speculatory crossroads. Through multisensory and spatial approaches, the artists engage the audience in navigating foyers of imagination and inquiry, thus provoking conversation and other practices of seeing, sensing, and hatching – engaging us to start it all from scratch.


This exhibition gathers work by the following 28 artists: Eloïse Baele, Nele Bergmans, Fedora Boonaert, Fenn-Jonah Brookhuis, Eveline Bumba, María Burguera, Manoah Camporini, Ann De Nys, Irene Donatini, Elise El Yousfi, Dodi Espinosa, Janina Fritz, Yawen Fu, Alexis Gerlach, Luna Ireland, Lore Jacobs, Irma Janssens, Mara Jenny, Lennert Lefever, Nicolas Peeters, Dieuwke Raymaekers, Lieve Shukrani Simoens, Elisa Van Coster, Emile Van Helleputte, Eva van Tongeren, Rosa Westhaus, Ugo Woatzi and Indra Wouters.

The exhibition is realised in a collaboration between Kunstwerkt, Curatorial Studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and Kunsthal Mechelen.

Photography credits go to Lavinia Wout