carries out the academic artistic research of Sint Lucas Antwerpen School of Arts KdG, fostering artistic research that combines creative innovation with a strong social commitment.
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Research seminar | Danial Shah
How do photographs stage identity, memory, and community?
On June 23, Staged realities: Performing identity and studio photography brings together artists and researchers exploring how studio photography becomes a site of performance, negotiation,and desire — across China, India, Morocco, Pakistan, and the UK. From family portraits to tourist fantasies, this half-day online seminar offers a rich dialogue between ethnography, archival reflection, self-staging, and public interventions.
23 June 2025, 14:00–17:30 CEST
Online — free, registration required
With Caroline Molloy, Zhao Shuting (photo), Laila Hida, Cheryl Mukherji and Danial Shah
Initiated by SLARG PhD researcher Danial Shah, supported by Ruth Loos and Paolo Favero.
23 October 2023, 00:00840, Online
Grounds #1 launched during Antwerp Art Weekend
During Antwerp Art Weekend at Extra City Kunsthal, we proudly launched Grounds #1 — the renewed artistic research journal of Sint Lucas Antwerp. As the follow-up to TYPP, Grounds introduces a new editorial approach: editors become coaches, supporting researchers to experiment with publishing and open their artistic research to wider publics beyond academic communities.
The first issue brings together diverse voices, formats, and practices — capturing artistic research as a space of process, dialogue and multiple “grounds” for inquiry.
The first issue features contributions by Joud Toamah, Pierre-Antoine Vettorello, Braver Spaces (Imane B.K. & Tundé Adefioye), Robin Vanbesien, Mona Hedayati, Viêt Vū, and Bianca Baldi — offering a rich mix of artistic inquiries, voices, and experimentations.
Grounds #1 is available at Sint Lucas Antwerpen. Pass by to pick up your free copy!
16 October 2023, 00:00
AdMa Open Call 2025-26
The Advanced Master of Research in Art & Design (ADMA, Sint Lucas Antwerpen) is now open for applications for 2025–26. Artists and designers working on social-political questions are invited to join an intensive, practice-based research program that challenges, nurtures and expands their work through collective learning, critical dialogue and tailored coaching.
This one-year program offers:
- Individual & collective coaching in writing, theory & artistic methodologies
- A supportive research community
- Access to workshops & technical facilities
- An international network of tutors, researchers & professionals
- Preparation for practice-based PhD trajectories
Application deadline: 20 August 2025
Program dates: 29 Sept 2025 – June 2026
Antwerp (in-person)
Read the full open call.
Contact: adma@kdg.be
Image caption: Maria Lucia Cruz Correia, Mending Waters, 2024. Advanced Master intensive week. Photo: Déborah Claire.
20 August 2025, 00:00