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E X H I B I T I O N S :
[re]present : artistic encounters with the theme of presence | representation 2026.
Group exhibition church of Attenhoven, Blokweg 131, Stabroek Belgum 16.05 < 07.06.2026
Artists: Rien Van Meensel, Annelies Slabbynck, Anna-Maria Mestdagh, Dan Dhaen, Toon Saerens, Stefaan van Biesen, Jan Van Raemdonck.
E A R T H . C O N N E C T I O N S :
Archive of Art/NaturSci Movement & Art Science Exhibits • Berlin Germany & USA 2025.
• Artists: Louise Beer [New Zeeland/UK] • Dave Biddle & David Ehrenreich [Canada] • Adam Crosson [USA], • Brent Dedas [USA] • Frederic Derieu & Nathalie Erin [France] • Manuela Fisher [Switzerland] • Nikolina Kovalenko [Russia] • Dr. Agniezka Kozlowska [Poland] • Jordan Lab [Max Planck Institute Germany] • Les Marneurs architectural Group [France/Belgium] • Gerardo Nolasco [Mexico] • Nina Schipoff [Switzerland] • Stefan Schlumpf [Switzerland] • Alisi Telengut [Canada/Mongolia] • Stefaan van Biesen [Belgium] • Rosa Vitrano [Italy] • MP Warming [Berlin/USA] founder • 2024.
P R O J E C T S :
• The Moerbei Society: social, artistic project around memorial trees & asbestos victims, places of comfort] vzw Stoff Sint-Niklaas [Johan De Vos], CC Ter Vesten & Beveren library 2025.
• Made Of Walking 2026. An initiative of the Milena principle (Annemie Mestdagh, Stefaan van Biesen, and Geert Vermeire). Advanced discussions are currently underway to organize a new international edition of Made of Walking in Prosperpolder in Beveren in 2026, in collaboration with the municipalities of Beveren, Kruibeke, and Zwijndrecht and the WALC network. With thanks to Hilde Reyniers (Cultural Policy Coordinator) and colleague Ines De Smet (Tourism) and colleagues.
This will be linked to further exhibitions and projects.
The unique landscape of Beveren — with its extensive marshland, agricultural areas, Groot Saeftinghe Border Park, the abandoned village of Doel, and the proximity of port and industrial infrastructure — provides a powerful context for exploring the tensions between nature, urbanization, and community.
M E E T I N G S :
Member and co-organizer of WALC [Walking Arts and Local Communities] a four-year international project, co-funded by the European Union through Creative Europe. The project aims to promote cooperation between communities in rural and natural settings by using walking as an artistic and participatory practice.
L E C T U R E :
• Walking & Drawing > lecture during The Walking Body MINHO University Guimaraes Portugal > 09.04.2025.
W A L K S H O P :
• The Walking Body MINHO University Guimaraes Portugal 22.03 > 29.03.2026.
G R A N D . J U R Y . S W S . 2 0 2 5 :
• Member of the Grand Jury Sound Walk September Award | Walk Listen Create. A month of sound walks, and the award for the best sound walk. The Grand Jury is the final arbiter of which soundwalk submitted to WLC in 2024/2025
W O R K • O N • P A P E R :
• My Daily Longings • Limited edition of prints on paper [Biotop paper A3] 2022-2025.
• Oratio De Hominis Dignitate • Drawings & visions • an artistic research about the human condition 2025.
• Wanderings | The Dürer Connection • Drawings & registrations artistic, ecological projects 1990 > 2025.
A R T I S T I C • R E S E A R C H :
• The Veronica Suite • contemporary nomad stories based on the painting of Robert Campin [1378-1444] 2025.
E N G A G E M E N T S :
• Co-founder and member of the Milena principle • international independent art platform 2000-2025.
• Founding Member of the Art/NaturSci Movement • international art & ecology project 2019-2025.
• Member of ArtScie Exhibits community Berlin Germany Humboldt University • Mary Patricia Warming (USA).
• Member of The Mulberry Society, Memorial tree & asbestos project Belgium 2024 > 2025.
• Member of the Grand Jury, Sound Walk September Awards of walk · listen · create (WLC) 2025.
• Member and co-organizer of WALC [Walking Arts and Local Communities] a four-year international project, co-funded by the European Union through Creative Europe. The project aims to promote cooperation between communities in rural and natural settings by using walking as an artistic and participatory practice.
A R C H I V E • E S T A T E :
• The CKV (Centrum Kunstarchieven Vlaanderen/ Center for Art Archives of Flanders) is a central hub for the distributed care of art archives and estates. It is an operationally autonomous organization within M HKA (Museum Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen/ Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), focused on the preservation, sustainable public access and active fielding of visual art archives in public and private management.
The private Van Biesen-Mestdagh Foundation manages the archives of the Milena principle (independent international art platform), Wit Urban-Team and Stefaan van Biesen's own artistic legacy and is in consultation with the CVK CKV [Nele Luyts, Jan Stuyck, Emma Sinnesael].
• The Private Foundation Van Biesen-Mestdagh • [Estate] 2005-2026.
• the Milena Principle • independent, international art platform • [Estate] 2000-2026.
• WIT Urban-Team : action group • art interventions • [Estate] 2010-2014.
R E P R E S E N T E D B Y :
• the Milena principle • independed international art platform. (Since 2003).
• Art/NaturSci Movement • international art community & ecology project Berlin.
• Walk-Listen-Create • international platform for walking artists.
• Gallery Ysebaert • Maenhoutstraat 60, 9830 Sint-Martens-Latem Belgium.
• Gallery S & H De Buck • Zuidstationsstraat 25 9000 Ghent Belgium.
W I K I P E D I A :
• research/publishing Wikipedia pages on deceased or still active artists who have made significant contributions to the world of the arts, both pedagogically and for their artistic legacy.
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Info about the projects in 2026 > >
Made Of Walking Prosperpolder Beveren Belgium 2026.
We would like to inform you about recent and upcoming developments within WALC – Walking Arts & Local Communities.
WALC: Nau Côclea (Spain), with the participation of the University of Prespa | University of Western Macedonia (Greece), the University of Minho in Guimarães (Portugal), Gigacircus (France), Walk Listen Create (Belgium), and the Milena principle |Van Biesen–Mestdagh Foundation.
WALC is a four-year European project (2024–2027) that brings together artists, researchers, and local communities around walking art: walking as an artistic, ecological, and social practice. The network organizes international meetings, residencies, “walkshops,” and community projects in diverse landscapes. The focus lies on ecology, local narratives, social change, and collaboration between residents and artists. Activities are open to both professional artists and interested walkers.
Made of Walking 2026
An initiative of the Milena principle (Annemie Mestdagh, Stefaan van Biesen, and Geert Vermeire). Advanced discussions are currently underway to organize a new international edition of Made of Walking in 2026 in Prosperpolder, Beveren, in collaboration with the Municipality of Beveren–Kruibeke–Zwijndrecht and the WALC network.
With thanks to Hilde Reyniers (Cultural Policy Coordinator) and colleagues Ines De Smet (Tourism) and others. This will be linked to further exhibitions and projects. The unique landscape of Beveren—with its extensive marshlands, agricultural zones, the Groot Saeftinghe Cross-Border Park, the abandoned village of Doel, and the proximity of port and industrial infrastructure—forms a powerful context in which to explore tensions between nature, urbanization, and community.
WALC Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki (2027)
In 2027, the Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki will present a major overview exhibition offering insight into all European WALC projects.
Together with all European partners, work is underway on a special publication documenting the growth process and the projects realized. This catalogue is being designed by Miguel Bandeira Duarte and Natacha Antão Moutinho (University of Minho – School of Arts), Anna Maria Mestdagh, and Stefaan van Biesen of the Van Biesen–Mestdagh Foundation.
[re]present : artistic encounters with the theme of presence | representation
Group exhibition church of Attenhoven
Blokweg 131, Stabroek Belgum 16.05 < 07.06.2026
A social and artistic project. Artists: Rien Van Meensel, Annelies Slabbynck, Anna-Maria Mestdagh, Stefaan van Biesen, Dan Dhaen, Toon Saerens, Jan Van Raemdonck.
Artists: Rien Van Meensel, Annelies Slabbynck, Anna-Maria Mestdagh, Dan Dhaen, Toon Saerens, Stefaan van Biesen, Jan Van Raemdonck.
Grand Jury SWS 2025 | 2026.
Member of the Grand Jury Sounc Walk September Awards | Walk Listen Create. A month of sound walks and the prize for the best sound walk of 2025.
The Grand Jury is the final decision-maker on which sound walk submitted to WLC in 2024/2025 is considered the “best” based on artistic, technical, conceptual, and social criteria. The results for SWS25 are expected around the end of the year/beginning of the new year.
The SWS Awards — “Sound Walk September Awards” — are organized by walk · listen · create (WLC), a global community for “walking art” and sound walks: walking experiences enriched with audio, ambient sounds, stories, environmental recordings, etc.
For SWS25, WLC's “Online Jury” first listened to all entries and selected a shortlist of 14 sound walks. These selected works are then passed on to the Grand Jury, which, after deliberation, will select the final winner and possibly an honorable mention. walk · listen · create
European meeting WALC (Walking Artists Local Communities) | Camallera Nau Cöclea Spain 2025.
Member and co-organizer of WALC [Walking Arts and Local Communities] a four-year international project, co-funded by the European Union through Creative Europe. The project aims to promote cooperation between communities in rural and natural settings by using walking as an artistic and participatory practice.
European meeting WALC (Walking Artists Local Communities) at Camallera Nau Cöclea. The Prespa University of West-Macedonia Greece, Minho University Guimaraes Portugal, Gigacircus France, Walk-Listen-Create, the Milena principle Belgium (VB-M Foundation) hosted by Nau Côclea Spain. Photo taken by Miguel Bandeira Duarte .
• The Mulberry Society.
The Mulberry Society takes turns telling stories about the damage caused by asbestos, the dead, the sick, and their loved ones, raw grief, fierce resistance, and what interacting with trees means to us.
What precedes is what is alive and tangible to us, the Moerbei Society. Our plan is to continue to commemorate the victims of asbestos through the Black Mulberry. In collaboration with STOFFvzw and other organizations, we want to make asbestos suffering a topic of discussion and give it a place in our collective memory, our history. We consider this to be nothing more than our ordinary civic duty.
We plan to organize discussions, music, theater, and poetry, publications, memorial days, newsletters, a network of memorial trees around the world, and everything else we can think of. From now on and in the time that will undoubtedly force us to think and act differently. Our modus operandi is helpfulness, without pathos, without party political intrigue, without commercialism.
Upcoming projects 2026 > >
Earth Connections & Mary Patricia Warming
(Berlin/USA, Curator of ArtScie Exhibits Community Berlin – Humboldt University)
Earth Connections will launch an online gallery based in Berlin in 2024, with agents in the United States. Gallery Green aims to attract art collectors passionate about both art and environmental sustainability. As we continue to focus on the environment through our collection, the value of our art is expected to grow.
Art Science Exhibits Berlin has partnered with a social media and communications specialist through the Erasmus Young Entrepreneurs Program to support this new venture and its promotions. Natalia Góral, relocating to Berlin from Poland, will join the team alongside Max Kuhn, a CIEE student intern.
Stefaan van Biesen 2020. Earth Collections, the Permanent Collection of the Art / NaturSci Movement
Artists: Louise Beer [New Zeeland/UK] • Dave Biddle & David Ehrenreich [Canada] • Adam Crosson [USA], • Brent Dedas [USA] • Frederic Derieu & Nathalie Erin [France] • Manuela Fisher [Switzerland] • Nikolina Kovalenko [Russia] • Dr. Agniezka Kozlowska [Poland] • Jordan Lab [Max Planck Institute Germany] • Les Marneurs architectural Group [France/Belgium] • Gerardo Nolasco [Mexico] • Nina Schipoff [Switzerland] • Stefan Schlumpf [Switzerland] • Alisi Telengut [Canada/Mongolia] • Stefaan van Biesen [Belgium] • Rosa Vitrano [Italy] • MP Warming [Berlin/USA] founder •
About Art Science Exhibits Berlin
Founded and continually reimagined by international artist mp Warming, Art Science Exhibits Berlin is an independent platform created by artists and scientists. Our exhibitions and public programs expand the dialogue between art and science, focusing on positivity and actionable solutions. Our mission is to support the future of nature-kind through meaningful collaboration and creative engagement.
Time is pressing
In over 4.5 billion years of geological history, Earth’s carbon cycle has rarely faced extremes as severe as those we see today. We—and countless other species—are in urgent peril. The immediate impacts of climate change, human-driven destruction of forests and oceans, and the profound effects on our daily lives are undeniable. This crisis fuels the resolve of many to act decisively.
In response, Art Science Exhibits Berlin has cultivated one of the most solution-oriented partnerships possible—working at the intersection of art, science, and community to confront these challenges head-on.
