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 […]
Our third week at wpZimmer is over! It was a very busy week, but also a very fun and inspiring one. We welcomed Emiliano Cedillo & Olga Groppo, Nela Deleu and Israel Ngashi with Pippa and Kelcey. We also organized a sharing moment with all the artists who were part of this residency. Read all […]
Week 2 at wpZimmer is over! This week we were joined by Melisa Diktaş and Vianney Adriaens. About Melisa We will remember the second week of our residency at wpZimmer by the beating drums in the background. Melisa Diktaş (WIPCOOP 2023) joined us with her dahul (drums) to immerse herself into her research on the […]
Week 1 in wpZimmer is over! In the first week, Rubin Ajlouni (two days) and Nazanin Bahrami with Aria Baghestani (a full week) joined us in the cozy wpZimmer. It was a great week, a productive week, with good food, snow and lots of familiar faces. With the heaviness of these times, a welcome moment […]
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 […]
“With ‘Four Walls,’ rapper and director Marios Bellas said he created a hip-hop ritual. At first glance, that seems like an odd combination. Hip-hop has its own ritual forms, but here it is placed in a theatrical framework. The question, then, is not what such a hip-hop ritual means, but what it demands. A review […]
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 […]
