The director of a multidisciplinary cultural institution in Brussels talks about how he changed and modernized his house into a leading avant-garde venue.
About the speaker
Tom Bonte (1977) is the general and artistic director of art center Beursschouwburg in Brussels since 2011.
He studied Art History at the KU Leuven and graduated with a study on the relation of German and Flemish Primitive Painting in the late medieval period.
He previously worked at the Antwerp deSingel arts center (2001-2004) and as a programmer performing arts at art center Vooruit (2005-2011).
Since joining Beursschouwburg, Tom’s focus has been on the institution becoming once again ‘a beating heart’ in the cultural life of Brussels.
At CreativeMornings Brussels, Tom will talk about how cultural institutions now-a-days need to reinvent themselves - given the changes in their audience and their expectations, as well as given the broader socioeconomic changes.
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We're not trying to build an audience, we're trying to build a community.
Can art save the world? My answer is very clear, very simple, very short—no. Then there is this another question, "Can art change the world?" and there my answer is very short as well, it's also no. But I do believe that people can change so in that sense if people can change and art can really change people then, there's some hope in the purpose of art.
I prefer to talk about small explosions rather than revolution.
If you have one curator, you have one explosion. If you have more people involved in creating a program you can create more explosions. And if you can create more explosions this might be the start of your combustion engine that you want to go forward.
We take serendipity seriously.
Hosted by
BeursCafé, at Beursschouwburg
Auguste Ortsstraat, 20
Brussels, Belgium 1000
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Apex Coffee
Beursschouwburg
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Videographer Liese Lattrez
