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Peter Sattler

Peter Sattler

Visual arts, research, education

Peter Sattler (AT) is a visual artist and researcher currently working and living in Brussels. He has been collaborating with Kristinn Gudmundsson since 2009, and since 2011 they are fully committed to their duo practice, which has resulted in works shown around Europe. Since recently, Peter is also processing and digesting his research again as an individual practice that employs numerous artistic forms and approaches, including film/video, installation, performance, and writing. So far, this has resulted in a collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien and a research fellowship at the Botanical institute of Brera University Milano. In both his collaborative and individual works, rules are to be explored and hacked, rather than broken or merely observed. The work addresses the ontologies, ecologies, and economies of friendships, labour and production, with a constant underlying awareness of colonial structures. Curiosity animates the process, which usually leads Peter to challenge perceptions of authenticity, nature, and friendship, through the many sources (of friction) he/they encounter. Peter has been studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (BA/2008 - 2012) and at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) (MFA/2014-2016) and as well working for the DAI since 2018 as production coordinator.

Clément Horard

Clément Horard

Graphic Design

Clément Horard is a graphic designer from the south of France and has been working in Brussels for 8 years. He mainly works on visual identity and book design projects in the cultural and fashion industry. Clément originally came to the work space as a close collaborator of Alliage studio, where he has been a member for a year now.

Alliage

Alliage

Graphic design

Alliage is a graphic design studio composed of Lucile Martin (1991, FR) and Julien Pik (1991, FR), started in 2008 and based in Brussels. They work for cultural institutions, events, businesses as well as individuals. Their regular partners include Jester (art centre based in Genk, BE), Le Magasin – Centre national d’art contemporain (art centre based in Grenoble, FR), schiev – a simple music festival (electronic music festival based in Brussels, BE) and Psst Mlle (intersectional feminist platform based in Brussels, BE).

Dayna Casey

Dayna Casey

Artistic researcher, graphic designer, editor

Dayna Casey (Boorloo/NL, 1988) is an artistic researcher, graphic designer and editor with an MA in Art Praxis and Critical Theory from the Dutch Art Institute. She has just completed a post-graduate residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy. Her practice traverses ecology, (in)fertility, reproduction, mythologies and its interrelations to extractivism and global finance. These subject matters are the basis for various (visual and sculptural) essays, often culminating in (spatial) publications and/or mixed-media installations. She was initiator, co-editor and designer of the Wxtch Craft zine series with Erika Sprey, and teaches design research at the Critical Inquiry Lab in Eindhoven.

Julie Pfleiderer

Julie Pfleiderer

Multimedia artist

Julie Pfleiderer is a multimedia artist based in Brussels and Berlin. From a background of theatre, she works across the boundaries of performing arts and expanded cinema. In her work Julie explores the border of documentary and fiction. She is interested in the shift where fiction becomes truth and truth starts to be fictional. Julie enjoys collaborative processes where different media and approaches are put in dialogue to create friction out of permanent differentiation.

Marie Malingreau (MAISONMIET)

Marie Malingreau (MAISONMIET)

visual arts, drawing

Is a visual artist based in Brussels. She likes HB2 pencils, B4 pencils, red coloured pencils, bright yellow oilish pencils, acrylic paint, mostly the off pink-ish tints, pastel yellow and dark reds, same counts for the coloured pencils, brushes, all ranges of textiles, sewing and embroidering, red thread, blue thread, and cords, all different sorts of cords, natural rubber, clay, oil crayons. Trying to translate her inner world, infected by the outside, she creates through different media, mainly pencil. She also produces commissioned illustrative/graphic work for bands, cafés and other private clients.

Gary Farrelly

Gary Farrelly

Performance, mixed media, artistic research

Gary Farrelly (IE) is an Irish visual and performance artist based in Brussels. Recurring preoccupations in his work include the built environment, institutional power and magic. Manifestations of his practice encompass drawings, installations, performances, walking tours, and a radio show. Much of his work occurs within Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence duo with German artist Chris Dreier. Farrelly studied art at NCAD in Dublin and later at LUCA School of Arts and a.pass in Brussels. He currently lectures at La Cambre ENSAV and is a recipient of a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Stephanie Becquet

Stephanie Becquet

Multimedia artist

Stephanie Becquet is a multidisciplinary artist. She works with hand-spun threads, textile, sculpture, performance, painting, sound and video. Central to her work is her investigation into ‘it’, the attitude of the bricoleur, crafts, ancient knowledge, the power of curiosity, the invisible and chance.
Using quantum physical approaches, she seeks connections between ancient customs, rituals, legends, traditions, magic and contemporary problems. In order to help her in her research, she invites heroic female characters from the past, present and future. Therefore, she makes sculptural garments and tools for them. This way she transform their energy and knowledge into presence.

Anastasia Hadjipapa-McCammon

Anastasia Hadjipapa-McCammon

Performance, Research, Education

Anastasia McCammon is a performer, teacher, and researcher from Cyprus, based in Brussels. Trained as a dancer and actor, her performance praxis now builds upon various methods of improvisation as tools for theatrical world-making and character creation. Anastasia is drawn to the interaction between objects and narratives. Through the use of movement and voice, its rhythms, characters and stories, Anastasia likes to ask: when does a character or disguise end... or begin... or dissolve? What are the signals or signs that tell you you are being watched/you are performing, that you are watching/are part of an ‘audience’? Furthermore, what types of storylines and ‘evidence’ emerge or fail when we feed movement, objects, words, characters, expressions and images into a live interaction? Anastasia is also curator of performance at the Cypriot-based Xarkis NGO Festival, and she holds an MA in Art Praxis from the Dutch Art Institute (2020).

Marjolein Guldentops

Marjolein Guldentops

mixed media, textual work, performance

Marjolein Guldentops is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brussels, researching textual experiences through writings and orality. Her exploration focusses on the interplay between the human body and its spatial surroundings, delving into the concepts of motion, place, and urban rhythms. She engages with a range of linguistic systems, leveraging the ambiguity and conventionality of language to convey multiple layers of meaning and interpretation. Her work takes the form of textual sequences that can be graphic or typographic images, spatial compositions, or song-like sequences.

Giullio Galli

Giullio Galli

Typeface Designer, Teacher, Researcher

Giulio Galli (IT, 1996) is a typeface designer, researcher and teacher based in Brussels, Belgium. He is a PhD candidate within READSEARCH Research Lab at the University of Hasselt, studying parametric typeface design for legibility purposes and human vs computational interpretation of letterforms. Since 2018 he is also associate typeface designer at CAST Foundry (Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici), in Italy, where he releases custom and retail typefaces. He teaches typeface design and typography at PXL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt, Belgium. Other published and ongoing research focuses on aspects of the history of typography like Baroque types in Rome (Italian Baroque types at the Vatican Press 1588–1614, published in Journal of the Printing Historical Society, 2023), woodcut types by music publishers in the Lutheran reform, Art Deco and avant-garde lettering on album covers and music sheets covers in the early XX Century.

Christophe Hefti

Christophe Hefti

Design Textiles Ceramics

Christoph Hefti is a textile designer and artist who was born in Switzerland, and now divides his time between Brussels, Paris and Zurich. After studying textile design in Zurich and fashion at Central Saint Martins in London, he started designing for Jean-Paul Gaultier and Dries Van Noten. On a freelance basis, he designed for various fashion houses. Christoph Hefti’s love for crafted textiles has taken him to Nepal, where he designs and develops his own series of hand-knotted rugs. He rediscovered the direct interaction between the designer and the craftsman and became fascinated by the use of traditional crafts in a contemporary context. He approaches the mystical and even spiritual tradition of storytelling textiles through his very personal yet worldly themes. In parallel, he is engaged with fairtrade Textile Projects in Nepal, creating in close dialogue with the weavers handwoven fabrics made on traditional looms. In the last years, Christoph has shown his Textile work, such as rugs, curtains and patchworks as installations in various galleries, museums, and fairs.

Merle Vorwald

Merle Vorwald

Production designer

Merle Vorwald (*West Germany) is an independent production designer and artist-researcher based in Berlin and Brussels.
Her contrasting worlds are actively treated as possibility for the other. Their media might widely differ, but in the progression of projects, the practices found a place within each other.

Alexander Pfeiffenberger (Spassberger)

Alexander Pfeiffenberger (Spassberger)

Drawing, Design, Sound

Alexander Pfeiffenberger, often operating under the alias 'Spassberger,' is a graphic designer and artist from Bremen, Germany based in Brussels. Rooted in a Drawing practice, his work spans various mediums, including printed materials, animated films, and commissioned illustrations for clients such as cultural institutions, bands, and music labels. Next to his visual practice he is a DJ and member of the electronic music group ‚PFUHL‘.

Flo Fromager

Flo Fromager

Graphic design, creative coding

Flo Fromager (she/they) is a designer currently based in Brussels. Initially trained in print graphic design, Flo gradually shifted towards digital design. Their multidisciplinary practice focuses on graphic design and web development for digital platforms, aiming to make them both engaging and captivating. They mainly work with cultural institutions, artists, and designers.

Wes Damen

Wes Damen

Research, Law, Digital human rights

Wes Damen is a historian, data protection officer, and legal scholar. He is currently pursuing a PhD in law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) researching privacy, state surveillance, and data protection law. Additionally, he is ethics & data protection advisor to numerous (medical) research consortia, and he consults on legal affairs to artists, curators and designers. He sits on the board of Brussels based MAX Collective and on the Advisory Board of the Rotterdam (NL) based Wet Film Collective.

Xilo

Xilo

Graphic design

Loup Lopez is a graphic designer currently based in Brussels. His multidisciplinary practice is mainly focusing on typography, and fosters the collaborative process through projects of artistic direction, editorial design and visual identities. On the other hand, he also works as a print designer for the clothing brand Bellerose.

Zachary Schoenhut

Zachary Schoenhut

Performance, Visual Arts

Zachary Schoenhut (20/12/1991, NY, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and researcher. His focus rests within the political and theoretical implications present at the intersections of a variety of disciplines and discourses: queer theory, linguistics, performance studies, black studies, and ethnography. Zachary engages in a number of different practices that deploy multiple forms of performative, archival, sculptural, and digital methodologies.

Steyn Bergs

Steyn Bergs

Research, Art History

Steyn Bergs is an art historian and critic whose work operates at the intersections of contemporary art, aesthetics, critical theory, political economy, and media theory. He is a lecturer in modern and contemporary art at Utrecht University, and obtained his PhD from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2022. Currently, his research focuses on the aesthetics of infrastructure in contemporary art, as well as on artistic practices that address uneven development and trouble linear conceptions of time and history. His texts have appeared in numerous magazines, book publications, and journals, including Platform: Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts, Afterimage, and Third Text.

Clémentine Vaultier

Clémentine Vaultier

Ceramics, artistic research, education

Clémentine Vaultier is a French artist based in Brussels. She is an artist associate at Jubilee - platform for artistic research and an artistic assistant to the Ceramic department of La Cambre national school of arts (Brussels)

Her interest, although trained as a ceramist, is in the surroundings of the oven rather than the production it engenders. Her long term research on how we raise, use and diffuse warmth connects the worlds of ceramics, performance and pedagogy around the fire, literally and by means of documentation. The creating, collecting and (re-)arranging of technical, historical and archival material in dialogue with others allows to create narratives around 'warmth', as a basic human need and phenomenon. Doing so, Vaultier’s practice is necessarily plural, in dialogue, and the output intended to keep the fire going.

isz szi studio

isz szi studio

isz szi studio is a duo of makers at the intersection of mediums. we work by commission and by desire. we are educated in graphic design and sculpture and engage on a daily basis with drawing, writing, coding and listening.

Colin Roustan

Colin Roustan

Collective practices, project coordination, research

Based in Brussels since 2019, Colin Roustan has been developing a project coordination practice at the intersection of artistic, social and societal issues for several years. His approach tries to bring back art and life together, considering collective 1:1 scale projects as an artistic medium, oscillating between project management, curating, research, performance and pedagogy.
Colin is an active member of Gilbard collective @gilbard.e.s and initiated P(A)F - Pratiques (Artistiques) Fonctionnelles @paf_pratiques. Gilbard is a collective working from re-use material to develop local projects around art and design. P(A)F is a cycle of events, meetings and collective reflections, interested in contextual, use-oriented practices that have an artistic coefficient rather than an artwork status. In 2023, he started to teach collective practices organization at erg school.

Dimitri Reist

Dimitri Reist

Graphic design, design research

Dimitri Reist is co-founder of ¬Bonsma & Reist ¬Studio for visual ¬communication, based in Bern and Brussels. He focuses on the responsibility we carry as ¬designers to create cultural value that generates meaningful outcome. The studio is engaged in ongoing and long-lasting partnerships with artists, curators, editors, architects, designers and institutions. Since 2020, Reist is part of the fashion/artist collective NCCFN (Nothing Can Come from Nothing). NCCFN uses fashion as a medium to deal with and understand the social and ecological problems the global fashion industry is causes. Since its very beginning, NCCFN works with the existing, with overproductions and remnants of the industry, to develop methods to re-address these global products without origin. Next to his work as a designer, he is engaged in his personal research, where he elaborates on questions of responsibility and value-making in design. By creating space for voices and stories of others, he discusses with peers about the conditions in which graphic designers create work, and how these circumstances shape their daily practice.

Niels Poiz

Niels Poiz

Text, performance, visual arts

Niels Poiz proposes an artistic research that builds further upon artist writing and écriture automatic. Utilizing sociology and communication in popular culture, cyberculture, mainstream media and pop music through performance, installation, prints, drawing, videos and micro-edition.
The artistic practice reflects on our personal sphere and what it entails, while simultaneously questions the choices that society makes for us: the desire for individuality, submission to political structures and laws, about how we place ourselves into society, within a community. The act of writing and the use of language via narration, translation and appropriation of text takes a central role. He mixes textual fragments that he appropriates while writing fragments of the everyday himself. His work depicts the time when language is disconnected from its (in)formative function and words are abstracted from their meaning.

Katinka de Jonge

Katinka de Jonge

Research, Collectivity, Visual Arts

The practice of Katinka de Jonge is a blend of theory and artistic practice. It unfolds itself in well-chosen settings, engaging in a dialogue that unravels the invisible power dynamics in everyday reality. She delves into the realms of collectivity, polyphony, and authority within
various professional and non-professional contexts. Through text, video, installations, relational performances, audio tours, and publications,
she captures these various dynamics, translating major issues of power into playful action. Currently a PhD researcher at Hasselt University, her exploration focuses on the boundaries between artwork and artist-run organizations.

Leonie Felicitas Jegen

Leonie Felicitas Jegen

Researcher, knowledge-worker

Leonie (she/her) is a researcher from Berlin who has been based in Brussels since 2016 with some interludes in Accra, Copenhagen, Dakar, and Niamey. Her work interrogates EU border and migration governance at the intersection of coloniality and racial capitalism. Currently finalizing her doctoral work at the University of Amsterdam, she has spent the last years thinking and writing about negotiations of coloniality in counter migrant smuggling borderwork in Senegal. Her research has been published or is forthcoming in Geoforum, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Political Sociology, The South African Journal of International Affairs, Routledge, and Bristol University Press and in numerous policy briefs and reports. Besides guest lectures in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Ghent, and Berlin, she has taught at the Free University of Berlin.

Since 2019, Leonie organizes in the collective migration-control.info

ABCB #7: Katinka de Jonge, Elien Ronse & Francesca Hawker

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For the seventh edition of Assemblage Charbonnage, MAX residents Katinka de Jonge and Francesca Hawker were joined by guest artist Elien Ronse for an evening of conversation and collective reflection.

Together, they explored points of overlap across their respective practices — each rooted in shared processes, embodied thinking, and performative gestures. An ongoing drawing accompanied the talks, offering a visual thread through the evening’s dialogue. The event began with a communal dinner, where guests gathered around food and informal exchange.

ABCB #6: Xavier Duffaut & Åsa Lie

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For the sixth edition of Assemblage Charbonnage, MAX welcomed Åsa Lie and Xavier Duffaut for an evening of shared practice and reflection.

Åsa Lie presented the collaborative work she developed with Jadran Sturm between 1989 and 2016 — a body of ephemeral installations and performances exploring identity, intimacy, and history. Now housed in the Jadran Sturm & Åsa Lie Private Foundation, the archive is being reactivated as a space for research and public engagement.

Xavier Duffaut shared sculptural and performative works that merge art history and popular culture through minimal gestures and poetic shifts. His installations defunctionalize everyday objects, revealing the tensions and values they carry through aesthetic transformation.

ABCB #5 : Anne-Marte Før & Lucy Andrews!

    For the fifth edition of Assemblage Charbonnage, MAX hosted a double-artist talk with Anne-Marte Før and Lucy Andrews.

    Anne-Marte shared her work around cultural-historical materials, absence, and the passing of traditions — tracing the fluidity of identities through objects, songs, and place-based memory. She also spoke about @flyktig_fugitive, a platform for ephemeral artistic practices she co-runs in Valdres.

    Lucy presented her sculptural and site-specific installations, exploring points of tension between organic and human-made systems. Her practice engages a shifting materiality — liquid and solid, grown and constructed — resonating across environmental and spatial concerns.

    ABCB #4 : On Film-making and collective organization

      The fourth edition of Assemblage Charbonnage focused on film-making and collective organization. We welcomed Robin Vanbesien & Mirra Markhaeva and Collectif Faire-part, each exploring how the structures behind film production shape — and are shaped by — political and collaborative processes.

      Together, we reflected on the tension between authorship and shared labour, and how collective practice can challenge the hierarchies embedded in cinematic production. The evening unfolded through presentations and conversations, with MAX’s bar open late for continued exchange.

      (max has a hotline ?)

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      For a special off-site edition, MAX took over @hot__pot with an evening of performances, music, and shared presence. The event unfolded through layered gestures: Stephanie Becquet activated a quantum time machine with eight performers, while Anastasia Hajipapa-McCammon and Gary Farrelly guided the evening with wit and mystery.

      Marjolein Guldentops staged a short play on naming and identity; Francesca Hawker delivered a spoken word piece; and Gilles Hellemans explored body-architecture entanglements. Niels Poiz offered a monologue merging personal and pop-cultural language, and Zachary Schoenhut read from but for the responsible.

      The night continued with live sets by Axelander, snake18k, Accou, and Kinzua — summoning industrial echoes, dreamy textures, and hypnotic pulses.

      Secret Potions Workshop

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      MAX hosted the Brussels edition of Processed Lab, led by @lad_boo and @sophia_krasomil — a hands-on workshop exploring the fluid intersections between graphic design, artificial intelligence, and collective synergy. Participants gathered around screens, snacks, and speculative recipes to conjure a shared visual language. The session unfolded like a ritual: coded gestures, spontaneous creation, and a poster-based outcome shaped by collaboration and curiosity.

      Tea was poured. Magic was made.

      © photo : @processed.world

      ABCB #3 : Niels Poiz & Marjolein Guldentops

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      For the third edition of Assemblage Charbonnage, we welcomed Marjolein Guldentops and Niels Poiz for an evening of shared inquiries into language, space, and the visual trace of text.

      Marjolein unfolded her practice through the lens of orality, motion, and spatial rhythm, engaging with the ambiguity of language and the embodied experience of the city. Her work spans performance, typography, and installation, often moving in song-like sequences. Niels explored narration and the aesthetics of communication, drawing on fragments from pop culture to map the blurred thresholds between personal and collective memory. His research finds form in micro-editions, posters, and sculptural gestures — revealing how the private becomes archived in the digital public.

      Together, they offered a resonance of voices, forms, and shared codes.

      ABCB #2 : Garry Farrelly & Merle Vorwald

        For the second edition of Assemblage Charbonnage, we welcomed Merle Vorwald and Gary Farrelly to the Atelier for an evening of presentations and discussion around their respective practices.

        Merle offered insight into her work as both production designer and artist-researcher, introducing fictive art works in her recent film work, the show “The Zweiflers”, together with Gary Farelly the legal poetry of NDAs (non disclosure agreement) and a perspective on death in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Her research investigates marginal histories, late-capitalist materialities, and the fragilities within collaborative processes. Gary shared recent works emerging from his ongoing collaboration with the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.), weaving together institutional critique, drawing, performance, and magic.

        The bar was open. So were the conversations.

        ABCB first edition

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        The first edition of Assemblage Charbonnage (ABCB) took place in our Atelier — a new series of talks weaving together research, reflection, and shared presence. Dayna Casey and Giulio Galli shared insights into their respective practices: Dayna explored themes of (in)fertility, reproduction, mythology, and global finance through the lens of critical design and spatial publishing, while Giulio delved into type design, legibility, and the evolving dialogue between human and computational interpretations of form.

        Meanwhile, the Bread and Butter Supper duo — Peter Sattler and Kristinn Gudmundsson — prepared fresh pizza behind the scenes. The evening flowed between ideas and ingredients, with a well-stocked bar and generous conversations stretching late into the night.

        Maximatics: a software party

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        To mark the launch of our new website, MAX hosted Maximatics: a software party — a late-night gathering blending digital ritual, celebration, and collective joy. Guests entered through the courtyard, drawn by light, music, and a midnight raffle where prizes were won, cash was king, and chance reigned supreme. A portal into our online presence, Maximatics embraced the surreal logic of code, collectivity, and soft chaos.

        Garry & Larry make an Eurovision soup

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        Gary & Larry stirred up Eurovision Soup at MAX — a performative evening mixing shared food, collective viewing, and speculative research around Europe’s most iconic song contest. Through lenses of technology, intoxication, anxiety, concealed power, and sacred geometry, the duo unpacked the cultural mystery of Eurovision in both playful and critical ways. The event began with a territorially-themed potluck and presentation, followed by a live screening of the final. Special thanks to Anastasia McCammon (@framed.jest), Gary Farrelly (@jointintelligence), and Marjolein Guldentops (@marjolein_guldentops) for donating the letter “O.”

        A free-wheeling evening with

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        To celebrate our second birthday, MAX hosted a Cocktail Performatoire — a spirited evening of shared voices and spontaneous gestures. Francesca Hawker, Anastasia Hadjipapa-McCammon (@framed.jest), and Lucian Moriyama (@lucian.my) took the floor with a free-wheeling performance blending original songs, reflections, and the occasional sparkle. A toast to two years of collective presence, soft chaos, and artistic kinship.

        Next edition of MAX Talks

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        As part of our MAX Talks series, we welcomed design studio D-E-A-L (@deal_bxl) for an evening around their recent launch of the adve type foundry (@adve_tf). Through a presentation blending visuals and process, they unfolded the story behind their custom typefaces and shared insights into the intersection of design and language. The evening continued with music, drinks, and informal exchange — a laid-back start to the weekend at the collective.

        First residency at The Box

          During a 10-day residency at The Box, MAX hosted Brussels-based writer and performer Sean Wehle for the unfolding of The World Technique — a collaborative research tool inspired by the play therapy method of pioneering psychologist Margaret Lowenfeld. Centered around a sand tray and a growing collection of miniatures, the project invited visitors to shape, contribute, and co-create imagined terrains.

          Two public performances emerged during the residency. Together with Amsterdam-based writer Samantha McCulloch, Sean presented Epistolary Puppet, a correspondence-based performance exploring the blurred line between letter and gesture. Earlier in the week, Airtime, a courtyard puppet play, staged a balcony-suspended tale of Sister and Brother — two children navigating the folds of time.

          The residency culminated in a final presentation of Sean’s research and investigations, inviting reflection on puppetry as a methodology for speech, play, and shared fictions.

          Steyn and Anastasia

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          MAX welcomed presentations from two members of our community, Anastasia Hadjipapa-McCammon (@framed.jest) and Steyn Berg. Over the course of the afternoon, they shared their ongoing work and perspectives in an intimate setting. Anastasia reflected on how creating fictional characters allows her to explore performance practices. Steyn presented his trajectory and practice as a historian of contemporary art, focusing on some projects made in collaboration with various artists and other partners. The gathering extended beyond the talks into an informal moment of exchange, conversation, and shared drinks. A special mention to Peter Sattler (@ptr.sttlr) for cooking and care behind the scenes.

          The music, is the making of the music

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          MAX hosted The music, is the making of the music, an evening with Dimitri Reist, who presented his ongoing research through a live performative format. Anchored in repetition, process, and presence, the work explored sound not as a product, but as a continuous act of becoming. The gathering invited listeners to engage with creation as event — open-ended, intimate, and unfolding in real time.

          une petite come together pour le fall apart du monde

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          We inaugurated our new project space with “une petite come together pour le fall apart du monde”, a solo exhibition by German artist Matthias Ruthenberg @piece_of_past.
          The show marked the beginning of a new chapter in our space, opening with warmth, curiosity, and shared presence. Special thanks to Matthias for bringing his evocative work, and to the Brussels Artist-Run Bike Tour for their spontaneous visit. The exhibition remained open until mid-november, welcoming both day wanderers and nocturnal guests.

          First presentation at max

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