— Projects outside Charleroi

The HOTEL CHARLEROI collective (Adrien Tirtiaux, Antoine Turillon, Hannes Zebedin) has been regularly invited to participate in exhibitions or intervene outside Charleroi. This “Export” activity is complementary to the projects that we realised in Charleroi, creating further mediation between the city, its socio-political structure and the art world. Outside Charleroi is a brief chronological overview of interventions which realized as a collective in various institutions in Belgium and abroad.

M HKA’s and Air Antwerpen invitations to take part in the LODGERS programme allowed HOTEL CHARLEROI to reflect on its legacy, including five years of intense activity followed by a two-year break. The residency brought up questions, such as: what remains? Can the site-specific, often performative approach of artistic actions that took place in Charleroi be transferred to a museum? Does an institutional context offer the right conditions to reflect on a project that was embedded within the raw circumstances of the public space? Which parts of the artistic analysis of Charleroi’s societal context remain relevant when you remove Charleroi?

The continuous exposure to these questions made the HOTEL CHARLEROI artists propose the re-enactment of a selection of works that occurred in Charleroi from 2010 to 2014. The original actions were not only presented in the LODGERS space, they were also performed again and reinterpreted on two occasions: on Sunday 02.04.2017 and during the re-opening weekend of the M HKA, which took place from 27.04 to 30.04.2017.