Kunst & Zwalm 2025
This year’s theme, “soil”, invites artistic reflection on the ground beneath us—both physical and metaphoric. The exhibition challenges the typical urban-rural divide by activating the countryside as a laboratory for pressing issues, creative collaboration, and rooted connection. Through installations and performances in dialog with local culture and landscapes, the art route positions Zwalm as a stage for vital contemporary inquiry.
Kunst & Zwalm is a biennial art route set within the rural landscape of Zwalm, Belgium. Curated by Kunstenplatform PLAN B and organized by Boem vzw, this 2025 edition unfolds over three weekends from August 30 to September 14, inviting visitors to engage with visual art, screenings, debates, workshops, music, theater, and installations that resonate with the theme of soil—both as tangible terrain and as shared heritage.
Exhibition Description
Curated by Kunstenplatform PLAN B (coordinated by Ewoud Vermote, Leontien Allemeersch, and Vivi Focquet), Kunst & Zwalm 2025 enlists multidisciplinary, international and local artists to create site-responsive works that reflect on the land—its soil, histories, and entanglements. The program includes a letterpress workshop alongside local schools, performance dinners, film screenings paired with conversations (“Ten Gronde”), theatrical moments such as Boerenpsalm, and an in-situ “maize-cinema,” among other engaging interventions that weave together art, agriculture, and community.
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