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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This year Mestizo Arts Platform/WIPCOOP dives into “the in-between” or “de tussenruimte”. What happens in those less defined moments —when we go to the bathroom after seeing a performance; when we go smoke a cigarette in between rehearsals; when we are frying a sunny side up egg for lunch during a shared residency? What (kind […]
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 – 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, […]
✨ 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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!
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 […]
