Les Passagées

Les Passagées We experiment through different forms the endless connections between art, food and the body.

BEHIND THE SCENESLes Passagées hors-les-murs••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Joyful studio days crafting together the sound...
12/05/2025

BEHIND THE SCENES
Les Passagées hors-les-murs
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Joyful studio days crafting together the sound piece that will soon echo through the streets of Saint-Gilles.
A glimpse into the making of our collective sound experience to be discovered on Sunday 15th June 2025 • 11h-18h • Place Antoine Delporte, Brussels
FREE & ACCESSIBLE TO ALL
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Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower is an immersive sound installation located in front of the prison of Saint-Gilles that weaves together story, slam and sonic resonance to transform this public square into a space of collective memory, connection, and hope.
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Stay tuned as we will soon present all the artists involved.
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16/04/2025

SAVE THE DATE
Les Passagées hors-les-murs

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Mark your calendars for a sonic and culinary outdoor experience in Saint-Gilles, Brussels SUNDAY 15th JUNE 2025 • 11h-18h

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Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower is a site-specific sound installation that weaves together story, slam, and sonic resonance to transform a public square into a space of collective memory, connection, and hope.

Come gather with us - as neighbors, as witnesses, curious souls, as a community united by sound and shared presence…

More will be revealed soon as well as all the artists involved!!!

Stay tuned through our newsletterwww.lespassagees.com

On this international women’s day, we reflect on the power of women’s voices, how they have been historically silenced a...
08/03/2025

On this international women’s day, we reflect on the power of women’s voices, how they have been historically silenced and reclaimed.
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At Les Passagées we are inspired by Anne Carson’s body of work, and the need to create space for all voices to resonate. 💜
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Read the full text and more endless inspirations on lespassagees.com
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photos by Peter Power and Anne Claire Héraud .heraud
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ROME IS CALLING Il Canto Delle Sirene Soon, you’ll discover why…
07/01/2025

ROME IS CALLING

Il Canto Delle Sirene
Soon, you’ll discover why…

2024: what started as a dream four years ago is now reality —Les Passagées is alive and pulsating! And in 2025 many new ...
29/12/2024

2024: what started as a dream four years ago is now reality —Les Passagées is alive and pulsating! And in 2025 many new talented creatives will join us for exciting projects ahead!

Thank you to our guests, partners, journalists, and everyone who believed in us. Big things are coming next June & December 2025 —stay tuned through our newsletter (link in bio) and see you very soon!

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Valérie Novello, Barbara Drazkov - Pianist, Benoît Nieto Duran, Marie-Rose Meysman, Chiho Kanzaki, Marcelo Di Giacomo, Raphaël Vens, Olivier Pirlet, Sophie Gagey, Sergine Laloux, Sophie Van Stratum, Lila Guédin, Catherine Mannaerts, Christophe Hardiquest, Jorge Mendieta, Marcelle Fontaine, Sara Deux, Marie Baudet, Xavier Flament, L'Echo, Jan Scheidtweiler, De Tijd, Michel Verlinden, Le Vif, Sophie Moens, Bientôt à table - La Première RTBF, Richard Harris, The Brussels Times, Alexandra Michot, ELLE à table, Aurelie Deburbure, Anne-Sophie Van Neste, Jean de Malherbe, Marie-Helene de la Forest Divonne, galerie la Forest Divonne Galerie la Forest Divonne-Paris
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photos by Caroline Dejonghe Caroline Dejonghe Photographie

endless inspirations ••• Our creative house sits geographically in a very symbolic place, between the majestic Town Hall...
21/11/2024

endless inspirations
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Our creative house sits geographically in a very symbolic place, between the majestic Town Hall of Saint-Gilles and its historic Tudor-style prison. At Les Passagées, we use multiple artistic forms to explore how our external environment influences our inner sensations. Our neighborhood is an essential part of this. That’s why, some of our upcoming projects include research on the impact of prison systems in modern society to create new artistic ways to connect to our invisible neighbors, the prison & its surroundings.
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This unique position takes on deeper meaning through the lens of the documentary Emperors of Nothing (La Peine) by Cédric Gerbehaye .
The poignant film offers an intimate look inside Saint-Gilles prison, exploring the human stories and daily lives of inmates, guards, and the prison director - raising questions about punishment, rehabilitation, and justice.
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Emperors of Nothing (La Peine) is part of Les Journées Nationales de la Prison (14 - 24 November, 2024), an annual event in Belgium dedicated to understanding incarceration and its societal impact through workshops, discussions, screenings, and other activities.
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thank youCentre Culturel Jacques Franckck for the screening yesterday!

1. Poster of La Peine documentary, 2023
2. Scenes from La Peine
3. Aeral view of the prison and its surroundings (CHDStG, Belfotop, 1973)
4-5. Photo by Caroline Dejonghe taken from Les PassagéeCaroline Dejonghe, photographe de reportagesie

Les Passagées is a womxn-led and female-founded artistic project guided by an unwavering commitment to inclusivity. Our ...
08/11/2024

Les Passagées is a womxn-led and female-founded artistic project guided by an unwavering commitment to inclusivity. Our creative house resonates with a diverse chorus of voices, breaking down barriers of gender, age, and background. More than ever, we want to emphasise that inclusion is at the very essence of our project, our mission being to cultivate a space where everyone feels not only welcomed but essential to the shared artistic expression and dialogue that unfolds within and beyond its walls.
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“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
-Toni Morrison
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Artist updates • not to be missed!Final days of Valérie Novello’s solo exhibition in Paris .•••••••••••••••••••••••••••...
25/10/2024

Artist updates • not to be missed!
Final days of Valérie Novello’s solo exhibition in Paris .
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‘With Valérie Novello, every creation is first tasted through the body. She instinctively searches for that meeting point where the material of the work and the organic material become one. Invisible, the substance of our inner depths is omnipresent in her work. X-rays would certainly reveal, under the skin of each piece, the coloured map of imaginary veins. She breathes a pulse into them [...]’.
— excerpt from the exhibition catalogue
by Alexandra Swenden
curator and artistic director of 
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Last image of Valérie working on a piece at Les Passagées for Inner Lands & Scapes, may 2024
•••novello on show until the 7th November (extended!) at Galerie la Forest Divonne, Paris
12, rue des Beaux-Arts – 75006

Our projects in the making ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Les Passagées is currently scouting in Georgia for a new projec...
21/10/2024

Our projects in the making

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Les Passagées is currently scouting in Georgia for a new project…

Feel blessed to have met and spent time with so many inspiring and loving new and old friends 🤍

Stay tuned, so much more is coming…

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Our creative process is rooted in long-term collaborations, and research. Each project follows its own unique timeline, as we collectively deconstruct existing works across various disciplines to reimagine and rebuild new, shared creations. These journeys involve traveling, tasting, exploring new horizons, and uncovering new perspectives that shape our artistic vision, deepening our understanding of the world and the connections between art, food and the body.

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“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” — Ryunosuke Satoro
12/10/2024

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” — Ryunosuke Satoro

Thank you to all who joined us for the first ever performance inside our creative house. We were deeply moved by your re...
08/05/2024

Thank you to all who joined us for the first ever performance inside our creative house. We were deeply moved by your responses and the incredible openness you brought each night, sharing unforgettable moments of beauty, creativity, and reflection together.
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“At Les Passagées unfolds a story of connections, of circulations. A story of language, of breath, of digestion. Of bodies, again.
And here we are. At the crossroads of the senses, where arts intertwine, collide, percolate. Where artworks brush against inhabited, visited, traversed spaces. Where played, traced, danced, spoken materials quench us and caress us, move us and pierce us.” - M.B.
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Inner Lands & Scapes, a collective performance by :

Alexandra Swenden Alexandra Swenden
Concept and creative direction
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Valérie Novello .novello
Artworks
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Barbara Drazkov - Pianist
Pianist, prepared pianos
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Benoît Nieto Duran .nieto
Dance and choreography
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Marie-Rose Meysman
Story-telling
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Chiho Kanzaki assisted by Marcelo Di Giacomo

Culinary creations
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Raphaël Vens
Pre-performance, garden and kitchen sound pieces
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Olivier Pirlet
Sound-space setting
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Chris Pype, Licht
Lighting
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Uma Naddermier
Art direction
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George Mendieta .mendieta83
House manager
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…and a special thank you to : .hardiquest .moya
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pictures ©️ Caroline Dejonghe

A few glimpses of the last two incredible evenings of Inner Lands & Scapes. We are already looking forward to the next t...
04/05/2024

A few glimpses of the last two incredible evenings of Inner Lands & Scapes. We are already looking forward to the next two (fully booked) performances on Sunday and Monday!
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Inner Lands & Scapes is a unique multidisciplinary performance including contemporary art, food, dance, music & more.
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with Benoît Nieto Duran .nieto
Barbara Drazkov - Pianist
Chiho Kanzaki
Valérie Novello .novello
Marie-Rose Meysman
& Raphaël Vens

creative director Alexandra Swenden
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©️images by Caroline Dejonghe Photographie

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