Hooray, weekend: time to do your own thing. No idea yet what you want to spend those free hours? Then our editorial staff will be happy to help you on your way: you can find us at these exhibitions, events and hotspots this weekend
1. FACTS Ghent: for all fans
Dressing up for Halloween is fun, but the cosplay on FACTS is on a completely different level, from a different universe even. FACTS is the Ghent counterpart of Comic Con and brings fans van fantasy, comics, gaming en sci-fi together for a weekend full of surprises, exclusive experiences and community. Visitors can see a Harry Potter there sorting hat ceremonytry out games in the Gaming Hall, meet artists and professional cosplayers and get to know all kinds of fan clubs; from Avatar to Dungeon & Dragons and Star Wars. If you want, you can get to know other visitors better by going speed dating or simply complimenting them on their cosplay costume. As if that wasn’t enough excitement for one weekend, you can also come face to face with international stars like David Boreanaz (Bones, Buffy,…), Devon Murray (Harry Potter) in John Noble (Lord of the Rings, Fringe,…). (CD)
On November 2 and 3, Flanders Expo, Ghent, Facts.be
2. Silent Times: silence is golden
In this world that always keeps turning, silence is highly undervalued. Kunsthal Extra City knows that silence is sometimes more powerful than words and recently opened up Silent Times, an exhibition that needs no words. Of video installations and photographic works it examines what happens when words, voices and political representation are sidelined. And of course it is Silent Times Tellingly, curator Joachim Naudts: “It could be a matter of ‘negative silence’ that is like suppression mechanism functions to silence people, whose voices then literally disappear, but also to ‘positive silence’, to silent protest.” In this way, the silence leaves room for reflection on all that is never said. (CD)
Not until March 30, 2025, Extra City, Provinciestraat 112, Antwerp, Antwerpart.be
3. Kijktip: Anora
No one saw it coming, but director Sean Baker (The Florida Project) won the Palme d’Or this year with Anora. An enchanting, absurd, energetic fairy tale that can be placed somewhere between Cinderella and Pretty Woman. The story revolves around a Brooklyn escort who falls for the clumsy charms of a Russian millionaire’s son. But their romance inadvertently puts her in the crosshairs of his family, and things spiral out of control. (AI)
Now in cinemas.
4. Top pop: an ode to Tom Wesselmann and pop art
Just opened in Paris Louis Vuitton Foundation: the exhibition ‘Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & …’, an exhibition dedicated to Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) and his influence on pop art. The exhibition brings together 150 paintings and installations by the painter and sculptor and compares them with work by other pop art artists from different generations – from Roy Lichtenstein in Andy Warhol to Derrick Adams in Mickalene Thomas. This is how Wesselmanns become iconic Great American Nudes – naked female bodies on a background of everyday objects such as a television set – contrasted with alienating domestic scenes from contemporary pop art, such as the work Self-Obliteration van Yayoi Kusama. With this exhibition, the Fondation wants to emphasize the importance and current relevance of pop art today; the art movement that focuses on the absurd, rhymes art with popular culture and questions reality like no other. (CK)
Until March 3, 2025, Fondation Louis Vuitton, 8 av. du Mahatma Gandhi, Paris, Fondationlouisvuitton.fr
5. Halloween at the Hangar
Those who like to party for Halloween, let us introduce you to the ultimate party: international and Belgian stars such as Bicep, Romy and Lefto Early Bird set the barn on fire on October 31 and November 1. The Hangar party weekend takes place in a hangar and promises to be the party of the year. 2 days, 3 party rooms, 16 hours of hard work, that’s what awaits you. And no worriestasty snacks are also provided. (CD)
October 31 and November 1, Brussels Gate, Alfons Gossetlaan 11, Dilbeek, Thehangar.be
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