Look up at the trees outside the Museum of Fine Arts on Leopold De Waelplaats, and, instead of fairy lights, you’ll find brightly-lit neon slogans hanging from their branches. They have been made especially for the occasion by Swiss artist Marie José Burki, who lives in Brussels. The branches will be posing neon questions like, How is it when I’m not here? By offering up these philosophical musings to passers-by, perhaps Burki is wryly alluding to advertising slogans and posters that generally fill public spaces such as this.

Catch the slightly macabre animated geometrical figures of Antwerp artist Bart Stolle hugging the windows of Zeno X Gallery at number 16 De Waelplaats. Or become disorientated by the peal and reverberation of myriad contemporary and medieval bells, a sound and video installation on the square by Antwerp artist Cel Crabeels.

Although designed to counteract the lack of daylight during the darkest days of the year, the show also continues indoors at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA) and the five participating galleries that lie between the two.

A number of film screenings also join the anti-traditionalist fun. The première of Brussels film-maker Nicholas Provost’s new short film Long live the new flesh will run continually between 19.00 and 22.00 on 2 December at Cinema Zuid. Provost merges distinct moments from old horror films to tell another gruesome tale beyond the violence on screen.

On 12 December, it will be the turn of the poetic short Apologies 1-6 by Australian artist Shaun Gladwell (pictured), which combines anonymous bikers in the Australian outback and road kill kangaroos with Shamanistic apology and burial rituals.

Until 12 December
In and around the
Museum of Fine Arts and
the Museum of Contemporary
Art (M HKA)
Antwerp
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