FRIDAY AT MELLY

Looking for something to do this Friday?

Explore our current exhibitions for free from 6 PM during Kunstavond!

Exhibitions

During Kunstavond on Friday, all current exhibitions at Kunstinstituut Melly are open from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Admission is free from 6:00 PM onwards.

This evening offers the opportunity to explore three exhibitions across the building:

Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme compose a poetics of resistance, layering songs, testimonies, and sonic fragments as a means of moving through and unsettling repressive structures.

There Is a Fountain Even If Pale That Flows Beneath Us All

Hajra Waheed extends the voices of leaders of liberation struggles under incarceration through the language of sound, drawing, and painting.

Draw Withdraw Redraw

A group exhibition featuring work by AYO, Bani Abidi, Cinthia Marcelle, Felipe Mujica, Misheck Masamvu, Nohemi Perez, and Thierry Oussou. The exhibition foregrounds recognition, resistance, and reinvention, situating us in a state of ongoingness, returning to the same that is never the same. The artists featured in the exhibition use drawing as a way to begin a journey, withdrawing to self-preserve and practice refusal and redraw to begin again, with a refreshed understanding.