Artist Residency Latem

26 February - 21 June 2026 | Koperstraat 2, 9830 Sint-Martens-Latem

Opening Thursday 26 February 2026 : 19:00-22:00
Koperstraat 2, 9830 Sint-Martens-Latem

26/02 - 21/06/2026
Open on Sat. & Sun. 14:00 - 18:00 and outside opening hours by appointment.

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Curated selection of gallery artists:

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Solo project exhibition by:

Gideon Kiefer: 26/02 - 8/03

Nokukhanya Langa: 14/03 - 22/03

Kris Martin: 4/04 - 12/04

Willem Boel 18/04 - 26/04

Jens Kothe: 2/05 - 10/05

Adelheid De Witte: 23/05 - 7/06

Joost Pauwaert: 12/06 - 21/06

Gideon Kiefer - The Party Is Over |26/02 - 8/03/2026

Gideon Kiefer ( 1970 ,Neerpelt, BE) works and lives in Sint-Martens-Latem, BE. Gideon Kiefer delves into memories from his childhood and youth. He poses the question to what extent these recollections are truly representative of reality, while allowing the romanticization and imagination, so characteristic of such retrospection—to unfold freely. In doing so, multiple readings of these memories emerge, as though they are being carefully unearthed from beneath the surface. Over the past years, he has exhibited in numerous international solo and group shows in galleries, art fairs, and institutional venues. His work is part of institutional collections such as Museum Dr. Guislain (B), Bank Delen (B), the Metzler Collection (LU), the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (B), Museum Voorlinden (NL), and Collection Guerlain (FR). In 2025 he has been nominated for Le Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’Art Contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain 2025 followed by an acquisition given in loan to the collection Museum Centre Pompidou in Paris (FR). Recently the Flemish Community acquired one of his works for the contemporary art collection of the Flemish Community.

This Party Is Over
This Party is Over presents an iceberg sculpted from ice, placed on an otherwise empty banquet table. Over the course of the exhibition, the iceberg gradually melts away completely. The sculpture is in constant transformation and ultimately disappears. With this installation, Gideon Kiefer explores transience and the fading of memories; a recurring thread throughout his oeuvre. The banquet table, typically a site of abundance and consumption, becomes here a sober support for a tragic object. What initially appears massive and stable proves to be temporary and fragile. At the same time, the work explicitly refers to the climate crisis and articulates a critique of the lack of adequate human action to prevent catastrophe. The party is over.