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A first little glimpse of the new video work created as part of Manifesta + in my SACRED KITCHEN project. You can see more from October 1 at the Gemeindehaus Fulerum. Come by — opening on October 1 at 7 pm.

📍Gemeindezentrum Fulerum
Humboldstr. 167
45149 Essen

opening hours
Friday 2. october 17-21h
Saturday/Sunday 3./4. october 14h-19h

The video emerged from three cooking evenings, each featuring a guest artist who joined me in shaping the evening through a shared artistic practice. ✨

@sungmimarina_kim
@juliapriss
@karlaparedesk
@manifestabiennial
friendly supported by @kulturamtstadtessen

#videoproduction #exhibitioninessen taken in Essen Haarzopf Fulerum by @karlaparedesk

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Rückblick: Sacred Kitchen Kochabend Vol. 3 🍽️✨

Für unseren dritten Sacred Kitchen Kochabend lud Beate Gärtner die Künstlerin Karla Paredes ein. Karla brachte ein ganz besonderes Familienrezept mit: Causa Rellena – ein kaltes peruanisches Gericht, perfekt für warme Sommertage und damit genau das Richtige für unseren heißen Juli. 💛

Die Causa Rellena bereitet Karla schon seit ihrer Kindheit gemeinsam mit ihrer Mutter in Peru zu. Entsprechend eng ist das Gericht mit ihrer Heimat und ihren persönlichen Erinnerungen verbunden.

Zum Auftakt begrüßte Karla uns mit einem besonderen peruanischen Tee. Anschließend lud sie alle Gäste ein, ihre mitgebrachten Rezepte in die von ihr gefertigten Skulpturen zu integrieren. Am Ende durfte jede und jeder ein Rezept mit nach Hause nehmen – allerdings nicht das eigene. ✨

Auch beim gemeinsamen Kochen wurde es kreativ: Karla hatte eigens für den Abend handgemachte Teller gestaltet, auf denen alle ihre eigene Causa Rellena stapeln durften. So entstanden viele kleine, essbare Kunstwerke – jedes ein einzigartiges Unikat. 💕

Und natürlich: Es schmeckte köstlich!

Zum Abschied bekam jede und jeder nicht nur das Rezept, sondern auch den selbst gestalteten Teller von Karla geschenkt. Die Begeisterung war groß. ❤️

Vielen lieben Dank, liebe @karlaparedes, dass du dich auf das Experiment Sacred Kitchen eingelassen und meine Einladung angenommen hast!

@beategaertner
@manifestabiennial

Am ersten Kochabend war @sungmimarina_kim Gastkünstlerin und beim zweiten Abend @juliapriss .

Tausend Dank an mein Team behind the scenes:
@liebecke (Kamera)
@ljazminrojas_ (Sound)
@scarlettschauerte (Assistenz)
#insaschülting (technische Assistenz)

📸 Fotos: @ernst-frey

Sacred Kitchen ist ein Projekt von Manifesta 16 Ruhr.
#manifesta16ruhr
#sozialeplastik
#contemporaryart
#video

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Stadt Essen @kulturamtstadtessen taken in Essen, Germany by @karlaparedesk

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Kunstenfestival Watou is almost entering its final week, bringing an exciting month and a half of alien encounters and installation expeditions to a close. Over the past few weeks, visitors have stepped into the otherworldly universe we created as ANT Collective across three different spaces in the village, with many heartwarming reactions along the way.

The project has also attracted attention in the press, including Dutch newspapers de Volkskrant and NRC, as well as Flemish newspaper De Standaard, alongside coverage of the festival’s wider programme.

Haven’t experienced our new installation ‘the effort of settling’ in person yet? Now is your last chance! Come and visit us in Watou until 30 August.

‘The effort of settling’ combines contributions by @karlaparedesk, @fedrik____vaessen and @noazuidervaart with works from the collection of @smakgent, donations from the people of Watou and a textual contribution by @vincentvanmeenen

The project is commissioned by @kunstenfestivalwatou. The festival is curated by @daniellevanzuijlen, @bart.lodewijks & @michaelvandebril. ANT Collective is generously supported by the European Union, @goetheinstitut and @stichtingstokroos. by @karlaparedesk

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The Effort of Settling

Is a new installation by @antartcollective, unfolding across three spaces at @kunstenfestivalwatou. Here are some impressions from another room at the Parrouichehuis in Watou.

Our project inhabits three empty spaces in the village of Watou, transforming them during the festival into temporary habitats for an extraterrestrial civilisation. In doing so, we mirror our own position as temporary visitors within the village.
At the centre of this imagined world is the alien, a figure of the outsider and the unknown. It opens up questions around other forms of otherness, including the animal, the hybrid, the more than human and everything that resists fixed categories.
With The Effort of Settling, we invite visitors to reconsider what it means to belong and how the borders and labels we create shape our understanding of what is other.

I am so happy and grateful to be part of ANT Collective and to have contributed to this work together.
The work was made possible through the contributions of:
@noazuidervaart, @fedrik____vaessen, @karlaparedesk, the donations of the habitants of Watou, works from the collection of @smakgent and the poems of @vincentvanmeenen.

The Effort of Settling is on view until 30 August and is commissioned by @kunstenfestivalwatou.
Curators: @daniellevanzuijlen, @bart.lodewijks and @michaelvandebril

ANT collective is kindly supported by @goetheinstitut, @stichtingstokroos and the European Union.

More impressions from the other spaces coming soon. ✨ by @karlaparedesk

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The Effort of Settling

Is a new installation by @antartcollective, unfolding across three spaces at @kunstenfestivalwatou. Here are some impressions from one of the spaces at the Parrouichehuis in Watou.

Our project inhabits three empty spaces in the village of Watou, transforming them during the festival into temporary habitats for an extraterrestrial civilisation. In doing so, we mirror our own position as temporary visitors within the village.
At the centre of this imagined world is the alien, a figure of the outsider and the unknown. It opens up questions around other forms of otherness, including the animal, the hybrid, the more than human and everything that resists fixed categories.
With The Effort of Settling, we invite visitors to reconsider what it means to belong and how the borders and labels we create shape our understanding of what is other.

I am so happy and grateful to be part of ANT Collective and to have contributed to this work together.
The work was made possible through the contributions of:
@noazuidervaart, @fedrik____vaessen, @karlaparedesk, the donations of the habitants of Watou, works from the collection of @smakgent and the poems of @vincentvanmeenen.

The Effort of Settling is on view until 30 August and is commissioned by @kunstenfestivalwatou.
Curators: @daniellevanzuijlen, @bart.lodewijks and @michaelvandebril

ANT collective is kindly supported by @goetheinstitut, @stichtingstokroos and the European Union.

More impressions from the other spaces coming soon. ✨ taken in Watou, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium by @karlaparedesk

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For Kunstenfestival Watou we invited village residents to donate ordinary objects through a letter campaign. From beer coasters to vacuum cleaners, these everyday belongings became part of our new installation ‘the effort of settling’, alongside works from the collection of S.M.A.K. and our own artworks. By bringing together objects with different histories and statuses, the installation questions how context shapes the value we assign to things.

Following our usual methodology, the installation also includes every aspect of the artistic process: books, sketches, notes, floor plans, e-mail conversations, unfinished works and failed experiments are presented alongside completed artworks. Rather than separating process from outcome, the installation exposes its own making.

Installed across several vacant spaces in Watou, the project echoes ‘Chambres d'Amis’ (1986), Jan Hoet’s landmark exhibition that brought contemporary art into private homes and laid the foundations for the museum in Gent. Both projects investigate how art can transform beyond traditional exhibition spaces, while questioning who is invited to participate in its creation and interpretation.

Through encounters between donated objects, museum works and artistic processes, ‘the effort of settling’ examines ideas of authorship, categorisation and value. What is recognised as art and what remains amateur or anonymous? Who is considered an insider or outsider within a community? And when does something feel familiar or alien?

‘The effort of settling’ combines contributions by @karlaparedesk, @fedrik____vaessen and @noazuidervaart with works from the collection of @smakgent, donations from the people of Watou and a textual contribution by @vincentvanmeenen

The project is on view until 30 August and is commissioned by @kunstenfestivalwatou. The festival is curated by @daniellevanzuijlen, @bart.lodewijks & @michaelvandebril. ANT Collective is generously supported by the European Union, @goetheinstitut and @stichtingstokroos. by @karlaparedesk

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Hiermit möchte ich ein Projekt vorstellen, an dem ich teilnehmen durfte.
SACRED KITCHEN ist ein Projekt von Beate Gärtner, konzipiert für die Manifesta 16 Ruhr Biennale. An drei Kochabenden lädt sie gemeinsam mit drei Künstlerinnen aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen dazu ein, ihre Lieblingsrezepte mit Menschen zu kochen, die freiwillig teilnehmen. Beate hat all diese Begegnungen und besonderen Momente filmisch festgehalten.
Die erste Vorschau des Films wird am 1.10 um 19 Uhr im der Gemeindehaus Fulerum, Essen präsentiert und ist bis zum 4.10 zu sehen.
Der erste und zweite Kochabend wurden von Sung Mi Marina Kim, Musikerin aus Korea, und Julia Priss, Medienkünstlerin aus der Ukraine, gestaltet.
Den dritten Abend durfte ich leiten. Gemeinsam haben wir Causa Rellena zubereitet – ein traditionelles peruanisches Gericht, das besonders an warmen Sommertagen gegessen wird. Wir haben gestampft, geknetet, gerollt und geschichtet, mit den Händen gearbeitet, gekocht und uns dabei kennengelernt.
Außerdem brachte jede eingeladene Person ein Lieblingsrezept mit. Gemeinsam erzählten wir die Geschichten hinter den Rezepten und warum sie uns wichtig sind. Am Ende des Abends durfte jede Person das Rezept eines anderen mit nach Hause nehmen.
Es war eine wunderschöne Erfahrung. Dieser Abend wäre ohne die Unterstützung des großartigen Teams und natürlich ohne Beate nicht derselbe gewesen.

Vielen Dank an:

@scarlettschauerte
@liebecke
@ljazminrojas_
#insaschuelting

#Gemeindehaus Fulerum Essen

Ein ganz besonderer Dank an Beate Gärtner für die Einladung und das Vertrauen, Teil dieses wunderbaren Projekts sein zu dürfen.
Vielen Dank auch an die Manifesta 16 Ruhr Biennale.

@beategaertner
@manifestabiennial

Vielen Dank auch an die Künstlerinnen der beiden anderen Abende: Sung Mi Marina Kim, Musikerin aus Korea, und Julia Priss, Medienkünstlerin aus der Ukraine.

@sungmimarina_kim
@juliapriss

Fotos : Frank Röttgen
@ernst_fry by @karlaparedesk

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Each summer, the quiet rural village of Watou becomes a stage for art and poetry as around 20.000 visitors arrive for Kunstenfestival Watou. This seasonal migration forms the point of departure for ANT Collective's new installation ‘the effort of settling’.

Our project infiltrates three spaces scattered throughout the village. Outside the festival period, these places remain empty and unused. During the festival, however, we transform them into habitats for an extraterrestrial civilisation, mirroring our own position as a temporary presence within Watou.

The alien is at the centre of this imagined world. As a recurring figure in science fiction, it represents the outsider: a visitor from another planet. At the same time, it becomes a lens through which to consider broader forms of otherness, including the animal, the more-than-human, the hybrid, the esoteric, the ambiguous, and all that resists fixed definitions. Perhaps the alien is closer to ourselves than we imagine, becoming foreign through the borders, labels and distinctions we create.

With ‘the effort of settling’, we invite visitors to reflect on the notion of the alien and to reconsider how acts of categorising shape our understanding of belonging and otherness.

‘The effort of settling’ combines contributions by @karlaparedesk, @fedrik____vaessen and @noazuidervaart with works from the collection of @smakgent, donations from the people of Watou and a textual contribution by @vincentvanmeenen

The project is on view until 30 August and is commissioned by @kunstenfestivalwatou. The festival is curated by @daniellevanzuijlen, @bart.lodewijks & @michaelvandebril. ANT Collective is generously supported by the European Union, @goetheinstitut, and @stichtingstokroos by @karlaparedesk

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It’s almost time for Kunstenfestival Watou!

Over the past two years, Karla Paredes, Fedrik Vaessen and I developed a project under the name of our newly founded ANT Collective, made specifically for this very special arts festival in the countryside of West-Flanders, Belgium. The experience was so rewarding and proved, once again, that collaboration is as much fun as it is a struggle. I’m so grateful for my two wonderful friends, my dear co-ants, and proud of the mega, mega installation we made, infiltrating three different buildings and including over a thousand objects (which, I have to admit, is a wild and probably wildly exaggerated guess).

Our installation includes donations from the people of Watou; works by i.a. Roe Ethridge, Oksana Pasaiko en Angel Vergara Santiago from the collection of the S.M.A.K.; and, of course, pieces from our joint and individual practices: sketches, notes, letters, studio leftovers, failed attempts, found objects and finished artworks.

We really created a big, chaotic and very lovely mess for you to get lost in.

Kunstenfestival Watou opens to the public on 15 July. We hope to see you there. And if not, please try to make some time to visit before the festivals ending on the 30 August. There are so many interesting projects on view. It’s really worth it.

A big thank you to festival curators, Danielle van Zuijlen and Bart Lodewijks, for making the collaboration with S.M.A.K. possible, for their care, trust, and for everything else. The project is commissioned by Kunstenfestival Watou. ANT Collective is generously supported by the European Union, Goethe-Institut and Stichting Stokroos.

Festival design: @019ghent
Slides 3&6: Arno Major

@kunstenfestivalwatou @daniellevanzuijlen @bart.lodewijks @antartcollective @fedrik____vaessen @karlaparedesk @smakgent @stichtingstokroos @goetheinstitut taken in Kunstenfestival Watou by @karlaparedesk

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Some impressions of our days at @kunstenfestivalwatou We are having so much fun with the building up ! We are looking forward for the opening and see all the other participants collaborations !
Thank you @smakgent for the lend of such an incredible works!
A lot of love and thanks specially to:
@bart.lodewijks and @daniellevanzuijlen by @karlaparedesk

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SACRED KITCHEN - der dritte Kochabend mit Karla Paredes und beate gärtner!

Am 18. Juli 2026 um 17 Uhr laden wir Euch herzlich zum dritten Kochabend im Rahmen des Manifesta+ Programms ins Gemeindehaus Fulerum in Essen ein.

Für diesen besonderen Abend hat beate gärtner die Bildhauerin Karla Paredes eingeladen. Gemeinsam stellen sie Karlas Lieblingsrezept vor und kochen es mit allen Teilnehmenden.

Freut Euch auf einen spannenden, partizipativen Abend voller Begegnungen, Gespräche und gemeinsamer Kreativität – mit einem köstlichen peruanischen Rezept.

📍 Gemeindehaus Fulerum, Essen
🗓 18.07.2026
⏰ 17:00 Uhr

Meldet Euch noch heute an! Folgt dem Link auf dem QR Code!
Wir freuen uns auf Euch!

Die anderen Kochabende finden am 4.7 sowie 11.7. statt.

Bei Fragen schreibt gerne an:
sacred.kitchen@beategaertner.com

Vielen Dank auch der Stadt Essen für die Unterstützung!

@karlaparedesk
@sungmimarina_kim
@juliapriss
@beategaertner
@manifestabiennial
@kulturamtstadtessen

#SacredKitchen #ManifestaPlus #Essen #KochenVerbindet #CommunityCooking #Partizipation #karlaparedes #BeateGärtner #UkrainischeKüche taken in Essen, Germany by @karlaparedesk

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