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Programme season 2025-26

Where are the spaces for raw, honest, uncomfortable conversations?
This season artists insist on keeping the lines of intergenerational conversation open. Enough with the polite silences and weaponized nostalgia.

Fall at VIERNULVIER is about to get messy; loud, full of contradictions and laughter. Medieval carnivals turn into raves, and we celebrate a big Palestinian wedding - in spite of everything. Art in times of social mediatized genocide can only try to break the silence, to imagine a future stitched from real conversations. We share juicy moments of joy and resilience, serving culture as an antidote to bitterness.

Pull up a chair. Ask the outrageous question. Stay for the long, unruly answers. Pour yourself a shot of juicy culture, freshly squeezed from the tartness of our times. Our juice is worth the squeeze.

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  • Yong Yello

    Den Bennie Tour
    New album. New tour. Same sharp pen - with sunny beats, vintage samba and a shot of melancholy.
    16.04

    New album. New tour. Same sharp pen - with sunny beats, vintage samba and a shot of melancholy.

    Yello Staelens - aka Yong Yello - was once part of the legendary hip-hop collective Eigen Makelij, with Tourist LeMC, among others, and became the producer of Glints. Meanwhile, we know him as the new crown prince of the Antwerp sound.

    His debut album “Marcel & Het Magnetisme Van De Goot” (2021) yielded instant hits like Circles, Luchtkasteel and Waanzin, and brought him to the biggest festival stages in the country: Pukkelpop, Rock Werchter, Lokerse Feesten... All impressed by his unique blend of poetry and punch.

    'Ik moet dringend op vakantie' was recently followed by 'We geve ni', a collaboration with LOïS. Two catchy songs with catchy melodies, a summery beat and vintage samba - a promising foretaste of the new album, to be released on 12 September 2025.

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  • John Carroll Kirby x Nika Milano: 'Traces'

    VIDEODROOM 2025
    14.10

    doors 19:30
    start 20:15
    einde 21:30

    Traces is a meditative audiovisual work by composer John Carroll Kirby and visual artist Nika Milano. Rooted in the piano-driven atmospheres of Kirby’s albums Conflict and Tuscany, the piece unfolds through layers, slow gestures, quiet ruptures. Milano’s textures drift between clarity and decay, echoing the emotional undercurrents of the score. Together, they compose a space not bound by narrative but by sensation.

    This production is a co-production with the Portuguese Curtas Festival.

    Past event
    Past event

  • Natasha Pirard x 'Cuadecuc, Vampir' / Anja Lauvdal x 'La Coquille et le Clergyman'

    VIDEODROOM 2025
    12.10

    VIDEODROOM takes over the Miry Concert Hall for one night with a double feature full of black-and-white surrealism and electrifying sound art.

    We open with Norwegian pianist Anja Lauvdal, who will perform a new soundtrack to Germaine Dulac’s masterpiece La Coquille et le Clergyman. Next, the hypnotic tape loops of Natasha Pirard enter into dialogue with Pere Portabella’s Cuadecuc, Vampir.

    Past event
    Past event

  • Aya Suzuki x ‘Magdalena Viraga’

    VIDEODROOM 2025
    11.10

    ‘I like being where I am’

    A sex worker, crushed by a joyless and hopeless existence, ends up in prison after killing one of her clients. Imagination and reality blur in this surreal, poetic fever dream that established director Nina Menkes as one of the most radical feminist filmmakers of the 1980s.

    Over the past three decades, “cinematic sorceress” Nina Menkes has created a radical, visually arresting body of work that defies the conventions of American independent cinema. Her breakthrough came with Magdalena Viraga (1986), which she described as “a hallucinogenic journey through the boundless vortex of unadulterated Female space.”

    Set in the grimy bars and motels of 1980s Los Angeles, Magdalena Viraga is an anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist provocation: hypnotic, disorienting, and deeply political. Tinka Menkes — the director’s sister and long-time collaborator — plays a sex worker teetering on the edge of collapse, embodying quiet fury and profound sorrow. The film sits somewhere between experimental low-budget documentary and allegorical dystopia, and hits like a left hook — pulsing with feminist rage against a brutal and senseless system.

    Past event
    Past event

  • Lee Ranaldo x 'Quick Billy'

    VIDEODROOM 2025
    10.10

    VIERNULVIER shares a long history with Lee Ranaldo. Around twenty years ago, he performed here with Sonic Youth (their battered piano still stands as a silent witness), and he has returned several times for solo shows. For Videodroom, he enters into a dialogue with Quick Billy, a film by American experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie (1931–2020), using his trademark off-kilter guitar work. Lee Ranaldo will be accompanied by the Brazilian percussionist Luís Bittencourt. This project is a co-production with the Curtas Festival in Porto.

    Past event
    Past event

  • upsammy x 'Paris, Texas'

    VIDEODROOM 2025
    09.10

    We’re opening VIDEODROOM 2025 with some truly glorious blasphemy. One of the most beloved soundtracks of all time gets muted — replaced by something entirely new, and radically different.

    Out goes Ry Cooder’s iconic slide guitar; in comes the minimalist electronics of Amsterdam-based producer and upsammy.

    Controversy from Ghent to Paris to Texas!

    Past event
    Past event

  • Xiu Xiu x 'Eraserhead'

    Videodroom 2025
    ‘A defiant ode to Lynch’s darkest dreamscape’
    04.10

    The legendary cult band Xiu Xiu delivers a singular tribute to David Lynch’s macabre masterpiece Eraserhead. Don’t expect a conventional film screening, but rather a radical reinterpretation of the iconic soundtrack by composer Alan Splet — performed live — accompanied by visuals that evoke Lynch’s universe both directly and indirectly.

    Is it a living video installation? A cinematic nightmare? An intense homage to a lost idol? It’s all of these things — and something entirely unique. Exactly the way Lynch himself might have imagined it.

     

    Past event
    Past event

  • RUISKAMER: Charlemagne Palestine & Seppe Gebruers / Brìghde Chaimbeul

    Double bill met vier piano’s plezier én een doedelzakconcert
    01.10

    Complicated music for uncomplicated people. 

    Double bill with four pianos of fun for masterful atonality by Charlemagne Palestine & Seppe Gebruers, and a bagpipe concert by Scottish talent Brìghde Chaimbeul, en route to the role of leading lady in a world that still dances too much to the tune of men!

    Free for Different Class members.

    Past event
    Past event

  • Claudio Simonetti's Goblin x 'Profondo Rosso'

    VIDEODROOM 2025
    We’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of cult horror classic Profondo Rosso (aka Deep Red) with a screening of the film — and a live score by none other than Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin.
    20.09

    We’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of cult horror classic Profondo Rosso (aka Deep Red) with a screening of the film — and a live score by none other than Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin.

    It all starts on Christmas Eve, when a child witnesses a brutal murder. Twenty years later, a British pianist finds himself caught in a Hitchcockian web of mystery, paranoia and bloodshed, with a sultry, shadowy Rome as backdrop.

    Exactly fifty years ago (1975) legendary Italian director Dario Argento delivered Profondo Rosso: the ultimate giallo film. This blood-soaked, baroque genre hit its peak in the gritty 1970s and is known for its twisted murder mysteries, masked killers with a thing for sharp objects, elegant victims, and — of course — buckets of blood. Because the “deep red” of the title most certainly does not refer to strawberry jam.

    Past event
    Past event

  • Auri

    Celtic folk, cinematic pop and heavenly melodies
    16.09

    Stap in de magische wereld van Auri, waar Keltische folk, filmische pop en hemelse melodieën samenkomen. Dit unieke trio – Johanna Kurkela, Tuomas Holopainen en Troy Donockley – creëert een sfeer waarin de grenzen tussen waken en dromen vervagen. Met Tuomas’ toetsen en oneindige verbeelding, Troy’s betoverende folkinstrumenten en Johanna’s fragiele, maar krachtige stem nemen ze je mee op een reis door fantastische werelden vol emoties, mystiek en verwondering.

    Auri ontstond vanuit een speciale artistieke connectie tussen de bandleden, vrij van verwachtingen en los van hun andere projecten. Hun muziek, een poëtische mix van dromerige soundscapes en etherische zang, raakt direct de kern van het gevoel. Dit is geen muziek die eenvoudig in woorden te vatten is; het is een beleving die je moet ervaren. Laat je meevoeren naar onontdekte paden, sprookjesachtige dimensies en hartverwarmende verhalen.

    Past event
    Past event

  • Jim Jarmusch & Jozef Van Wissem

    Support: Deux Femmes
    Legendary filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and lutenist Jozef van Wissem are playing a handful of shows in Europe, with VIERNULVIER the only Belgian stop.
    11.07

    Exclusive Belgian show by Jim Jarmusch and Jozef van Wissem

    Jim Jarmusch and Jozef Van Wissem met on the streets of New York in 2006. They shared a lot of interest and background so a collaboration and a friendship was born. Jarmusch was looking to have Van Wissem compose a score for a film he had been trying to make for years, what he described as a “crypto-vampire film” about two lovers, outsider types who have been in love for hundreds of years. Van Wissem’s work comes from a tradition of avant-garde minimalism and lends itself well to the director’s stark cinematic works. Jarmusch has played guitar in bands on and off since the late ‘70s. Van Wissem’s compositional style involves hypnotic circular musical phrases that allow for a lot of contemplative space between the notes.

    Their first live performance was in Issue Project Room in Brooklyn in October 2011, where they appeared together for a Van Wissem curated concert program called “New Music for Early Instruments.” The idea for their first album, Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity (Important Records) developed from their live performance. Jarmusch has said that he considers these songs as Van Wissem’s compositions, and sees himself as someone filling in the background to Jozef ’s foreground, like the “scenic” on a film shoot, the one who paints the backdrops. “The sound of the lute is as bright as the sun, a beautiful red color and my stuff sounds sort of like the moon, more like blue, like mercury.”

    Past event
    Past event
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  • Rondleiding op zaterdag

    De backstage editie
    18.10 - 20.12
    De Vooruit, Gent
    Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER
    € 7,00–€ 14,00
    Sat 18.10
    -
    Sat 20.12
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    • Sat 18.10
      11:00 - 12:30
      De Vooruit, Gent
      Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER
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    • Sat 15.11
      11:00 - 12:30
      De Vooruit, Gent
      Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER
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    • Sat 20.12
      11:00 - 12:30
      De Vooruit, Gent
      Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER
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