These Things Take Time (ARCHIVE)
This is an archive of the ‘these things take time’ website.
After four years of sincere dedication to create events, exhibitions, performances, lectures, book launches, chats and meetings, the project space These Things Take Time is facing its very end. Unfortunately in May 2016 our beloved space at the Nederkouter 36 in Ghent will be torn down in favor of construction works on site. Fate is irreversible.”
ABOUT
These Things Take Time is a non-profit interdisciplinary art initiative and exhibition space in the center of Ghent founded in 2012 by Matthias Yzebaert in collaboration with Godart Bakkers, Charlotte Van Buylaere and Laura Herman.
These Things Take Time centers its activities around the work of emerging and established artists as well as collaborations with private and public organizations to engage with a shared set of questions and themes. Our aim is to foster a wide public by operating in a broad, cross-disciplinary cultural field, while at the same time leaving room for experiment and artistic agency.
These Things Take Time emphasizes the importance of exploring the physical possibilities of the exhibition space, as well as the experiential and performative aspects of space.
Since 2012, These Things Take Time has organized a dozen exhibitions, involving over a hundred artists and organizations from diverse disciplines like Kunstencentrum Vooruit, timelab, School of Arts / KASK, MER Publishers and The Big Draw.
Matthias Yzebaert (°1983, Gent, BE), founder of TTTT, graduated as a graphic designer in 2007 at Sint Lucas in Ghent. Since then he rapidly gained work experience as a freelance graphic designer through a large network of clients. Throughout the years Yzebaert became more interested in the visual arts and in 2013 he a accomplished a master’s degree in experimental atelier at Luca Ghent. Today Yzebaert’s hybrid practice consists of autonomous work in which he employs a wide range of media (Art) & (Photo) , the organisation of exhibitions (TTTT), a graphic design practice (Design) as well as the production and organisation of electronic music events (Club Mayz) & (Avoid).
Godart Bakkers (°1988, Breda, NL) is artistic director of Art Cinema OFFoff, writes for Trendbeheer.com and works as dramaturge for Leentje Vandenbussche. Bakkers graduated in Art History at the University of Ghent in 2014 with a thesis on the HISK laureates in Ghent and a focus on art criticism. In 2013 he was an art critic at Lokaal 01. In collaboration with the Vrienden Van Het S.M.A.K. and Laure Decock and Charlotte Crevits, Bakkers organised and co-curated two editions of Etcetera (2013, 2014) in S.M.A.K, an event that aimed to reconnect youngsters with the visual arts.
Charlotte Van Buylaere (°1984, BE) is a freelance curator, researcher and art manager based in Antwerp (BE). She holds an M.A. in Art History (2011, Ghent University) and was a resident at Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin in 2013. Charlotte Van Buylaere is curatorial assistant to Niels Van Tomme at the Bucharest Biennale 7 (2016) and assistant to visual artist Renzo Martens. She is curator at the video art organisation ‘PORT ACTIF’ and the off space ‘These Things Take Time’.
Laura Herman (°1988, BE) is an independent curator and writer based in Brussels and New York. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Modern Literature (2010, Ghent University) and is currently a 2016 M.A. Candidate at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) in New York. She has worked as an assistant curator (art in public space) at Z33, House for contemporary art in Hasselt. In 2013 she coordinated Het Paviljoen, a joint initiative by KASK, S.M.A.K. and HISK, where she curated, among other exhibitions, Architecture, Anyone? with a joint work by Clare Noonan and Erika Hock. She co-founded the art platform These Things Take Time in Ghent and co-curated Wild Horses & Trojan Dreams at Marres, House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht. Together with Louise Osieka, Laura Herman won the Art Brussels curatorial competition for emerging curators 2014 with the exhibition proposal “Missed Chances”, presenting the work of Belgian artist Gerard Herman. She has published articles in, among other magazines, art, rekto:verso, this is tomorrow and Metropolis M. www.lauraherman.org
Occasional & previous collaborations
Topo Copy (Copy Machine), Vooruit Gent, Astrid Klementsson (Web), Jonathan William Beaton, Riemer van Dalen, Emmanuel Vincart (PR), Sven De Cuyper (Chef cook), (Pacha Mama), Simon Says (Bar), Lucas Van De Walle en Chris Pype (Licht) / Secondroom, NVT Gallery, Kuipserkaai, Kamer XIII, 019, Stroom.tv / Nina Swaans, Charline Stoelzaed, Bjørn Van Poucke, Tine Guns, Manu Frederickx + others we may have forgotten.
