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The red line

During the past WIPCOOP days, we drew a red line through four cities. Brussels, Leuven, Antwerp and Ghent colored equally red. We invited the audience to literally help draw the red line. Each city built on what the previous one had started, growing the line from one meter to dozens of meters. The red line […]

Photo album WIPCOOP Ghent 2025

This was WIPCOOP Ghent 2025 ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Last week, the time had come… the very last WIPCOOP of the season(sad!). This closing edition took place at CAMPO victoria, where Shivadas De Schrijver, Hannah Jamin Zaouad, Aday Morales and Aminata Soumaré shared their works in progress with us. The works were very diverse–poetic, vulnerable, theatrical, powerful–but they […]

t e r r i t o r i o 2025

During t e r r i t o r i o last week, we briefly imagined ourselves in Spain. The sun seemed to be shining just a little brighter, Lakensestraat smelled like savory tortilla and the rolling r’s were… rolling. t e r r i t o r i o searches for artistic surprises outside […]

Photo album WIPCOOP Antwerp 2025

This was WIPCOOP Antwerp 2025! WIPCOOP landed in Arenberg again this year, where three Antwerp artists (/collectives) took the stage. Kaspy Ndia, Yvette Poumpalova and Gwendalyne van Erp & Deniz Polatoğlu each shared 30 minutes of their Work in Progress. They gave everything – they moved, surprised and made audiences laugh out loud more than […]

Aline Olmos Steler receives I SEE YOU AWARD

Program creator Vera Bonder and co-curator Sunni Lamin Barrow selected a work during Fringe Festival in Amsterdam that deeply touches on humanity – and that became Aline Olmos Steler’s work – The Origin of the Future, on view at KVS during WIPCOOP 2025. Aline won a spot at the What You See festival and developed […]

WIPCOOP Gent: four makers in the spotlight with work in progress.

Dec. 4 during WIPCOOP Gent at CAMPO Victoria, Aday Morales, Aminata Soumaré, Shivadas De Schrijver and Hannah Jamin Zaouad will each show a Work in Progress of up to 30 minutes. Get ready for a day covering a wide range of themes including: relational and political power, dancing sounds and hushed rhythms, echoes of a […]

Praising review for Rodrigo Batista & Mariana Senne

Praising review for Rodrigo Batista & Mariana Senne – Kidnapped: A Training Ground for the Brutality that is Coming by Wouter Hilaert “Rarely do you see performances that go for it so hard, that try so comprehensively to decode the whole world in its coherence, by just unraveling the complexity of it. But above all, […]

A liquid community of imaginers in the In Betweens

Reflectie van Enrica Camporesi na twee dagen vol ontmoetingen en inspiratie During the kick-off of WIPCOOP 2025 at KVS on Oct. 8 and 9, Enrica Camporesi, together with the audience, explored the In-Between Space – or the In Betweens. That in-between space is a place – of encounters, stories and inspiration – that MAP will […]

Photo album WIPCOOP BXL 2025

What a stunner of an edition: WIPCOOP Brussels 2025!Impressive work and sparkling, fresh ideas were shared, first steps in the artists’ makership We were taken into the universes that the artists want to further explore, deepen, develop. In between the presentations, people talked, drew, networked, caught up on emails ;-), slurped soup and devoured cookies. […]

Magazine #6 WIPCOOP 2025

Every year we publish a magazine to shine a light on the artists of last year’s WIPCOOP (2024) and on the plays/performances that resulted from previous editions. Read the brand new zine here!

About connection, difference and the thin lines between them

4 x work in progress on care, identity and connection – WIPCOOP Antwerp Thursday, Nov. 20, during WIPCOOP in Arenberg, Gwendalyne van Erp and Deniz Polatoğlu, Kaspy Ndia, Yvette Poumpalova, Zilan Nergiz Arsu, Bora Nura & Eden Anastasia Emlek will each present a Work in Progress of up to 30 minutes, followed by a conversation […]

From Anansi’s web to the power of krump and fire: WIPCOOP Leuven.

New voices, new vibes Oct. 22, 2025 – MINNEPOORT/30CC, Leuven After STUK and OPEK (fABULEUS), this year 30CC at the Minnepoort will open its doors to WIPCOOP – WORK IN PROGRESS by MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM. What the WIP? During WIPCOOP, both the public and the art sector have a unique opportunity to discover new work […]

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