Join us for the festive opening of Becoming Ancestors, an exhibition that seeks to offer an expanded understanding of ancestrality. It brings together Western and Indigenous artists who explore ancestral memories: their fragmentation, repression, persistence, and imaginative potential.

Historically, ancestral knowledge has been closely tied to Indigenous cosmologies and how they look at memory, land and time as non-linear. Reclaiming it has been a vital part of their identity and resistance after centuries of dispossession. Western cultures have long exoticized this different form of knowledge production and transmission, denying the presence and possibilities of ancestrality for the West itself. Through their works, the artists in the exhibition ask what it means to be connected or disconnected from our ancestors, and how both experiences might serve as starting points for imagining different futures.

We're kicking off the exhibition with a DJ set by Va Lentina, a Brussels-based DJ of Peruvian heritage, soundtracking the opening night with a blend of disco, house, Afro-Latin rhythms and techno energy. Discover the exhibition first-hand, meet artists and collaborators and come toast with us to new beginnings and reimagined futures.

Free admission

With works by: Julien Creuzet, Chloë Delanghe & Mattijs Driesen, Els Dietvorst, Forensic Architecture & Salman Abu Sitta, Laura Huertas Millán, Lou Le Forban, MUXX collective (EYIBRA, Oldo Erréve, Lukas Avendaño, nnux), Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Miguel Peres Dos Santos, Subash Thebe Limbu