Backup - Red nuns halls

Walking Red Nuns

Opening hours: every Thu-Fri-Sat, Sun from 2 PM to 6 PM, from June 6 to September 28, 2025

Murata Rena Deblaere

Lace (in the hallway for the textile studio)

Clipped strips in black and white thread hang from a ring.

The strips are made on a background of rubbing in the beguinage (as inspiration for

making lace)

The strips hang in a circle: the beguinage is walled, protected. an opening as a welcome.

Print!Studio

First hallway: Names are under the works

The expo includes small graphics. Applying a rhythm that shows a universal character regarding the Beguinage.

Additionally applying folding forms.

Paper pocket! Safeguard engraver!

Students from the Print!studio each worked on a cover. The ‘Safeguard’ or free pass becomes the paper

link to our graphic studio. The envelope materializes a hidden world and can provide security for its

message. We allow form and content to coincide. The paper pocket remains as a memory of its

safeguard. A symbol for where time has come to a standstill. Individually, students made choices in their

creative process and incorporated their own interpretation into their work. We create a play of folding,

hiding, showing, and protecting.

 

Animation Film Studio

Animated visuals around the theme ‘safeguard’

Both on the large Smartboard at the entrance and on the 52" screen in the middle hallway and the far hallway

 

Credential / Koenraad Dewulf

(digital studio - art lab)

Hall 1: Design of CREDENTIALS for the Experience-(Pilgrimage) Walk.

The Credential, also known as the pilgrim passport, is the official document that each pilgrim carries.

Stamps for your Safeguard Credential can be obtained in the Beguinage, the Bogarden Chapel, and Site Minnewater.

3D design and print of a beguine as a stamp + illustrative stamp designs

 

“Enclave” / Custom Image Studio (Middle Hall Left) 

Enclave: A piece of territory completely surrounded by another territory. trees and figures by means of frottage

Group Work Digital Studio / Arts Lab Digital studio / Arts Lab : The Mourning Collection of 3D prints

A homage to Les Pleurants. Les Pleurants: one of the wonderfully beautiful grave sculptures as a starting point. A 3D file picked from the internet. Only the bottom part is retained. A sculpture is rebuilt from there. A homage to and/or a confrontation with its artistic power and/or a casual remix that is far from the original ...

Tine Vanthuyne / “Spaghetti Sauce” (digital studio/art lab) middle hallway

various prints behind plexiglass - to take with you - further sharing there are folders ready at the entrance to insert the risoprints

A simple pot of spaghetti sauce placed on the sidewalk at friends' places. Without words saying that you are ready, offering comfort, being available. The silent work of caring for each other, there's more to it than just pasta, sauce, and vegetables.

Sauvegardeons nos femmes fortes! / Han Boschaert (Fashion Design)

Fashion drawing executed with graphite pencil, watercolor colored pencil, and DMC embroidery thread. middle hall We cherish and appreciate our strong women, transcending all times. In the theme of 800 years of Beguinage, we preserve the beauty of the beguines, their independence, creativity, care, and spirituality. In this fashion design, everything comes together, a strongly fashion-conscious model inspired by our beguine, creative, with love for the beguinage garden with its bare branches in winter and the yellow flowers in spring. The model is embraced by embroidery, a craft to cherish and safeguard as well. The connection with my chosen artist Laura Knight (1877-1970) is that she was the first female British artist elected to the Royal Academy. If that isn't a strong woman! For me, Laura Knight is an example to practice my drawing; her drawing talent is sublime, her paintings are about sea and beach, ballet dancers... which I love as well as the fashion style of the 1930s in which she grew up.

Glass painting of portraits of strong ladies (Middle Hall By the windows)

Portraits of strong ladies. The names of the references are next to the work. The painting on glass happens in different layers and each time the glass is baked. Most of the works have been baked four times.

Bram Swannet (Digital studio / Arts Lab)

You get lost in the gears of time. As a visitor, you determine how fast time moves by controlling the gears. However, caution is advised when turning the handle - perhaps this invention will not survive the 4 months and will become a 'viewing object' ...

Digital studio / Arts Lab Mauro Benincasa

3D visualization of still time In our society, it is often expected that we all turn and move at the same speed. But not every element of time should turn at the same speed. The hands on the clock indicate their own speed, and so do the metronome and hourglass. All instruments of time to measure and recognize, to bring us together. It is this time difference in these elements that society diminishes: they want every instrument to turn at the same speed. But you soon realize that it wouldn't work. Reading the clock becomes impossible, the hourglass becomes unusable, and the metronome and gear lose their utility.

New icons/ Marie-Christine Coucke Mixed media and riso-printed pass-through curtain in doorway:

As a visitor, you do not simply walk past this work — you have to walk through it to continue the exhibition. This makes you not only a spectator but also a participant and manipulator: you touch the work and give it a temporary, altered form. What you see is not a static image but a process. Both the visual language, the mixed media techniques, and the spatial presentation are part of a continuous exploration. The theme relates to Safeguard and refers to religious iconography, but from a contemporary and experimental perspective.

Group Work Digital studio / Arts Lab Clock time vs inner time - shown on a small, round LCD screen in a viewing box.

As the French philosopher Henri Bergson predicted, we constantly live in tension with clock time — our inner experience of time does not align with objective time. For the London watchmaker Mr. Jones, known for his mechanical watches with an illustrative approach, we designed timepieces that depict this duality. Are they clocks that depict inner time and display clock time?

Gudrun Feys “A labyrinth on your path”

The labyrinth can be experienced at Site Minnewater. Here’s a warm invitation to do so! This short video document shows how the labyrinth was made. Invite the visitor to experience the labyrinth in Minnewater

Bieke Moors (far hallway)

Hands with gloves, addresses the power of hands. They all carry positive messages, both from sign language (e.g., peace, best friends forever, ....), as well as intuitive hands radiating a positive message of connection.

Reliquiae Natura Sacralis (Relics of the Holy Nature) / Jeroen Heyrman (Project studio) Far hallway at the end.

Various pedestals. Nature amazes us. However, we do not venerate her. The power of hands / Bieke Moors (Project studio) Far hallway on the long tables In uncertain times searching for support.

 

Sauvegarde Group Presentation Dina Mouton Animation Film Studio

Animated visuals around the theme ‘safeguard’ Both on the large Smartboard at the entrance and on the 52" screen in the middle hallway and the far hallway Ceramics Studio

The ceramics project in the inner garden of the Red Nuns is a presentation where the chair is the central object and starting point. We chose the chair as a form and medium: an everyday object that symbolizes presence, rest, and meeting. Scattered throughout the garden, the chairs together form a play of shapes and rhythms, a harmony of presence. Each chair carries a uniqueness within it — an echo of the work and story of the maker. The interaction between the work and the chair becomes a personification; the chair becomes a character.

Dina Mouton

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