SOLO
OPEN STUDIOS
Artists’ studios are rarely accessible to the general public, but a visit to a studio gives art-lovers the opportunity to look at things through the artist’s eyes. This event creates the potential for chance encounters where there is room for experiment and where the main purpose is spontaneous interaction with the visitors.
NUCLEO has made a tradition of Open Studios since it was set up.
NUCLEO pure NUCLEO
The artists taking part in the Open Studios do not get the chance to visit each other’s studios at that time. In many cases they also work at different times, so they only meet each other sporadically. NUCLEO pure NUCLEO is a small-scale internal event in each separate building: the artists open their studios to the other resident artists. In this way we give them the chance to get to know each other and each other’s work better.
EXHIBITIONS
NUCLEO intends to extend its supporting role in the area of artistic development and reflection, the building of an artistic network and offering opportunities for presentation.
SOLO
SOLO summer residency was a temporary residency programme in the former Maria Chapel, next to the Roger Raveel Museum in Machelen-aan-de-Leie. It was a collaboration between studio organizations NUCLEO Ghent, Studio Start form Antwerp, Vonk from Hasselt and Cas-Co from Leuven. In the summers of 2017 and 2018, six artists worked in the chapel.
INTERNATIONAL
NUCLEO offers its resident artists the opportunity to build up an artistic network in the form of Open Studios, exhibitions and internal encounters. By expanding the international programme we offer them the chance to explore the international art world.
RESEARCH
Since 2004 we have been carrying on an ongoing enquiry among visual artists regarding their need for workspace.
NUCLEO assembled an inventory of exhibition venues in Ghent.
In 2013 we did a thorough survey of the resident artists regarding our work. Using a carefully compiled questionnaire and a series of in-depth interviews, we wanted to find out in which ways our operations do or do not meet real needs, and how things could be done better. An analysis of these results helps us to meet the artists’ needs in their artistic practice even better
GREENTRACK
In 2011 a few players in Ghent's cultural sector underwrote the declaration of commitment drawn up by Greentrack, the transitional netwerk for the arts in Ghent.
NUCLEO signed in 2012 the Greentrack charter. Through collaboriation and exchange of expertise the ecological footprint of the cultural sector is being reduced. This fits in the climate alliance of the City of Ghent to make Ghent climate neutral until 2050. Greentrack Ghent wants to be the motor of a sustainable cultural sector and maintain a long term project for a social and ecological sustainable future.
EXPO BUREAU
NUCLEO makes its offices available to the resident artists as a permanent exhibition space.
MOSCOU-BERNADETTE
In 2005, NUCLEO, Ghent City Council’s Cultural Participation Department and the S.M.A.K. launched the Moscou-Bernadette project together. This neighbourhood project was intended to sound out the possibilities for contemporary visual art in the Ghent neighbourhoods of Moscou and Bernadette. The project developed by means of various actions in the neighbourhoods and encounters with artists.
Workspace needs of artists
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FOCUS
We regularly spotlight an artist (or collective or organisation) by means of an interview. This may be done in connection with an exhibition, or else an article mat arise out of a studio visit.
Open Ateliers #16 - verslag
sun 07.05.2023
Blik terug op Open Ateliers #16 dankzij het fotoverslag van Eveliene Deraedt, Christel Moerman, Erik Duinslaeger & Mark De Mey.
Open Ateliers #15
sun 15.05.2022
Blik terug op Open Ateliers #15 dankzij het fotoverslag van Charlotte Daniëlse, Rebecca De Cavel & Eveliene Deraedt.
O̶p̶e̶n̶ Ateliers #14
sun 09.05.2021
Op zondag 9 mei 2021 hadden 160 kunstenaars graag de deur van hun NUCLEO-atelier voor u opengezet. Helaas kon ook deze 14de editie van OPEN ATELIERS niet doorgaan in zijn klassieke vorm. We kozen voor een alternatief programma met online studio visits en de lancering van een boek.
SOLO zomerresidentie — Presentatie in het Roger Raveelmuseum
sun 22.10 - sun 26.02.2017
Roger Raveelmuseum
Survey artists
tue 01.01 - tue 31.12.2013
Meanwhile... the City (Flanders Week Gdańsk)
sat 14 - sat 21.03.2015
Łaźnia, 2 Centre for Contemporary Art
During the Flanders Week several Ghent based artists and filmmakers present their work in and around Łaźnia 2 Centre for Contemporary Art (Nowy Port, Gdańsk, PL).
Research exhibition spaces
thu 01.01 - thu 31.12.2009
Iedereen draagt zijn steentje bij
mon 24 - mon 31.08.2009
Gustaaf Callierschool - Bernadette
photo: Olivier Provost
CALL FOR ARTISTS // ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
mon 15.07.2013
NUCLEO organises a biannual group exhibition with its artists in residence. The last edition of this exhibition contained work of 54 local artists. The next exhibition is scheduled for the end of November 2013.
All participants, including the international resident, are invited to work within an artistic framework.
Fabian Hesse in residency at NUCLEO
thu 29.11 - tue 04.12.2012
Lindenlei 38, Gent
photo: Fabian Hesse
Juan Duque in residency by PLATFORM München
mon 05.12.2011 - thu 26.01.2012
Platform3 München
photo: Juan Duque en Sara Peeters
