Tuesday we welcomed Benedetta Parisi —all the way from Turin— in (hot hot hot) Antwerp to share some snippets of her WIP project. We got to know this enthusiastic artist at Proximamente. When she told us she wanted to do a residency in Belgium, we felt it was very meaningful and so we were happy […]
Woooohoow! It’s that time of year again…. Last month, we met with the artists who will present their Work in Progress during WIPCOOP 2026. We explained what the next few months will look like and what they can expect from us. So quite a chunk of information… Fortunately, there were snacks & prrrrima vibes 🙂 […]
Last year we worked around the theme of the Tussenruimte or the In-Between. Because what happens in those less defined moments – when we go to the bathroom after seeing a performance; when we go for a smoke between rehearsals; when we fry a fried egg for lunch during a shared residency? What (types of) […]
The call for artists for WIPCOOP 2026 has officially open! Before you apply, read a little more about WIPCOOP here. And be sure to check out our mini-documentary WIPCOOP 2020 for a nice overview of how we work :-). HOW WE SELECT For whom? WIPCOOP focuses primarily on performing artists based in Brussels and Flanders […]
After an amazing WIPCOOP series, we feel the party mood starting to take over. But not before looking back on the past year – and sharing with you the first steps towards 2026. Because January and February are all about residencies: MaPZimmer and Shared Research, Shared Practices. Retrospective: 2025 2025 was another top-notch edition, with […]
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 […]
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 Zaouad, Aday Morales and Aminata Soumaré shared with us their works in progress. The works were very diverse–poetic, vulnerable, theatrical, powerful–but they had […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dec. 4 during WIPCOOP Gent at CAMPO Victoria, Aday Morales, Aminata Soumaré, Shivadas De Schrijver and Hannah 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 sectarian […]
✨ This was WIPCOOP Leuven 2025 — a very special edition highlighting voices from the urban and hip-hop scene. Chipo Sikumba, Israël Ngashi and Zoë Noise each showed a work in progress — raw work in full development. They gave their (as well as their dancers and actors) very best, and left the — very […]
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. […]
