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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.
P U B L I C A T I O N * C O L U M N S :
• Launch PSIAX #8 Magazine, Minho University Portugal 2026.
The editors of PSIAX are pleased to invite you to the launch of PSIAX Magazine #8.
Studies and Reflections on Drawing and Image: Drawing and Ecology.
Artists' contributions: Andrea Iten (Switzerland), Max Spielmann (Switzerland), Camilo Garcia Martinez (Colombia), Charlotte Dorn (Belgium), Orlando Veira Francisco (Portugal), Augustin Andrade Freitas (Portugal), Isabel De Jesus Basilio Lucas (Portugal), Sandra Maria Rodrigues De Freitas (Portugal), Ana Perez Quiroga (Portugal), Graça MagalHaes (Portugal), Eliane Beytrison (Italy), Justin Carter (UK), Lidia Cruz (Portugal), Marta Leite (Portugal), Peter Schreuder (Switzerland), Sofia Perry (Portugal), Stefaan van Biesen (Belgium).
• I can hardly imagine a life without it! On Walk Listen Create. This week's mailing [08.02.2026] is opened by our fine colleague Stefaan van Biesen, multidisciplinary artist and half of The Milena Principle, which recently joined the WALC collaboration as a partner.
https://walklistencreate.org/mailing/walking-i-can-hardly-imagine-a-life-without-it/
L E C T U R E :
• Contribution to the WALC course session. 20.06.2026.
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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Made Of Walking Bijdrage tot the WALC course session. 20.06.2026.
Embark on a transformative journey with our Walking Arts & Local Communities online course. Designed for artists, creators, educators, cultural workers and innovators, this course invites you to explore walking as an artistic practice, a community tool, and an ecological medium rooted in place, movement, and shared experience.
This is not about learning about walking. It’s about walking as learning.
Who is this course for? This course is ideal for artists, cultural professionals, community and environmental practitioners, curators, educators and students who are curious about walking as an experimental, relational and socially engaged mode of art-making and learning. If you walk, question, create, and care, this course is for you.
Launch PSIAX #8 Magazine, Minho University Portugal 2026.
The editors of PSIAX are pleased to invite you to the launch of PSIAX Magazine #8.
Studies and Reflections on Drawing and Image: Drawing and Ecology.
Artists' contributions: Andrea Iten (Switzerland), Max Spielmann (Switzerland), Camilo Garcia Martinez (Colombia), Charlotte Dorn (Belgium), Orlando Veira Francisco (Portugal), Augustin Andrade Freitas (Portugal), Isabel De Jesus Basilio Lucas (Portugal), Sandra Maria Rodrigues De Freitas (Portugal), Ana Perez Quiroga (Portugal), Graça MagalHaes (Portugal), Eliane Beytrison (Italy), Justin Carter (UK), Lidia Cruz (Portugal), Marta Leite (Portugal), Peter Schreuder (Switzerland), Sofia Perry (Portugal), Stefaan van Biesen (Belgium).
Photo: drawings by Stefaan van Biesen PSIAX #8 Magazine.
The launch of the journal will take place in the Cactus Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden and will include a presentation by landscape architect Joana Tinoco.
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.
Trifles | Bagatelles | Work on paper (Steinbach) 2026.
Bagatelles | Days of Silence
In the slowness of days that leave scarcely a trace, a quiet constellation of signs unfolds. Drawings and objects rest within the artist’s enclosed biotope, as almost anonymous witnesses to a world that does not impose itself, but gently suggests its presence. They exist in a state of stillness — not as things, but as carriers of attentive perception.
What emerges here are no grand gestures, but fragments: remnants of the everyday that, once stripped of their self-evidence, begin to breathe. Each image is a moment of delay, an attempt to preserve the fleeting without fixing it. As in a drawn diary, an intimacy arises that is not spoken, but implied — a closeness that settles into the small.
The affinity with the work of the Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski [1941-1996], is palpable in this attention to the inconspicuous. There too, the ordinary shifts almost imperceptibly into the existential, and the everyday reveals itself as a landscape of moral and emotional depth. What first appears banal proves to be charged with a quiet intensity.
Objects lose their neutrality here. They become points of convergence for memory, imbued with traces of touch, time, and meaning. Each thing carries a story that cannot be fully told — only whispered, only grazed.
Within these bagatelles lies no triviality, but another measure of significance: a world in which the small carries the great, and silence opens the space in which something essential may appear.
[re]present : artistic encounters about presention | representation.
Artists : Dan Dhaen, Toon Saerens, Annelies Slabbynck, Annemie Mestdagh & Stefaan van Biesen, Jan Van Raemdonck. Storyteller : Rien Van Meensel. Writer : Geert Vermeire.
Exhibition 16.05 till 07.06.2026.
Opening hours : Saturday and Sunday & on Monday 25.05 van 14:00 till 18:00.
Location : Kerk Attenhoven, Blokweg 131, 2940 Hoevenen-Stabroek Belgium.
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
• 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.
