All installations

  • ABOUT QUIET IS THE NEW LOUD Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger open your ears to the peacefulness of a small city like Bruges. In comparison to their...

  • CATARACT GORGE Romy Achituv creates an artificial storm on the otherwise placid waters of Bruges. Floating on the turbulent waters is a structu...

  • CANAL SWIMMER’S CLUB The Tokyo architecture firm Atelier Bow-Wow is all too familiar with the myriad issues of major cities and limited livin...

  • Happy Coincidences consists of four installations: one permanent installation on the Verversdijk and three temporary installations at various locations. The digi...

  • ABOUT A PLACE BEYOND BELIEF The text sculpture A Place Beyond Belief was originally created for New York after 9/11 and refers to the need for the city...

  • THE PASSAGE ROOM Daniël Dewaele tackles the Triennial’s hypothetical question about what would happen if Bruges’ 5 million visitors should...

  • UBER CAPITALISM Rainer Ganahl’s installation on the Burg is a chocolate sculpture of the medieval Huis ter Beurze, the first stock market in...

  • VERTICALLY INTEGRATED SOCIALISM Vertically Integrated Socialism is an experimental housing concept that integrates the social class pyramid into one si...

  • UNDERCURRENT The art collective HeHe drops a massive high-voltage electricity pylon into the canal at Oud Sint-Jan (Old St John’s). A crackli...

  • 1:1 CONNECT: DIAMONDSCOPE An octagonal structure with an amazing shell of mirror glass stands across from the Belfry on the Market Square. Inside, there is spac...

  • Inner Circle, a bench covered in shiny pins, makes it impossible to meet. The installation i...

  • TREE HUTS IN BRUGES The courtyard of the Bruges Beguinage is a place that exudes peace and tranquility. Tall trees grow from a central lawn surrounded by ancien...

  • BRUG With the many bridges that span the canals in the city centre and link neighbourhoods with each other, BRUG by Jarosław Kozakiewicz...

  • MINNE FLOATING SCHOOL MFS III - ‘Minne Floating School’ is NLÉ’s third prototype and iteration of the Makoko Floating Schoo...

  • The Bruges Diptych pavilion, close to the former home of the Flemish primitive Jan van Eyck,...

  • With Who's Afraid of Natasha? Joanna Malinowska and C...

  • URBANMODEL With UrbanModel, Wesley Meuris has placed a new pavilion in the middle of the city: amidst the trees on the Burg square. A...

  • Les Niches Parties brightens up Augustijnenrei and consists of a series of shiny masks, ador...

  • ACHERON I With ACHERON I, an installation in the water, Renato Nicolodi suggests a link between our contemporary society and the mythological...

  • THE FLOATING ISLAND The Floating Island is a unique experience on the canals near the Snaggaardbrug. With this structure, the Korean architectural firm...

  • For the monumental fabric And the World Keeps Turning...

  • The hidden archaeological remains of the first medieval city wall inspired Oliveira's contribution. The wooden branches of...

  • The monumental and monochrome sculpture Danse Macabre...

  • LANCHALS For Lanchals, John Powers has drawn inspiration from the rich history and folklore of Bruges. He dug up the legend about Piet...

  • HOUSE OF TIME House of Time is a long-term project that was launched by the German architectural firm ‘raumlabor’. On an old indus...

  • WHAT'S EATING THE CHINESE MITTEN CRAB What’s Eating the Chinese Mitten Crab orchestrates an encounter between visitors to two arts festivals taking p...

  • G.O.D. In the beginning of the 19th century, this former Bruges residence (‘refuge’) of Saint Bavo’s Abbey, Ghent, and later a part of the Saint Trudo Abb...

  • AEROCENE The video installation titled Aerocene by Tomás Saraceno fits into the multidisciplinary long-term project known as Aero...

  • In the church of the Grootseminarie, we find the installation BLACK LIGHTNING. Once you enter Schneider's architectural intervention, you walk through a dark corridor tha...

  • SELGASCANO PAVILION Next to the Coupure, the installation of the Spanish architectural firm selgascano catches the eye. The organic structure w...

  • GOLD GUIDES ME Als stadsbewoners worden we constant herinnerd aan geld, handel en bezit. Rondom ons zien we markten, winkels, beurzen, banken ... We worden om d...

  • KHAYYAM FOUNTAIN OF LIFE In Khayyam Fountain, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian gathers together various aspects of her visual alphabet,...

  • WU WEI ER WEI (DOING NOTHING DOING) Song Dong is installing a rock garden with a miniature landscape beside St Salvator Cathedral. The giant bo...

  • The outbreak of the coronavirus inspired Splan to create the installation called Disentanglement...

  • BRIDGE BY THE CANAL The bridge beside the water is located on a quay across from a medieval firebreak. It is a non-place, a spot that has lost its function in t...

  • SKYSCRAPER (THE BRUGES WHALE) Near the statue of Jan Van Eyck,Skyscraper (the Bruges Whale) rises up from the Bruges canals. The gigantic sculpture is...

  • INFINITI²³ With INFINITI²³, Peter Van Driessche has planned a vertical living space on the water’s edge at the Oud Sint-Jan site...

  • Colonnade is somewhere between a forest of impenetrable trees and a Roman column gallery. Th...

  • MASQUERADE The value of the ART HOUSE INDEX lies in its potential to convert an opaque, static and difficult product into a transparent, ‘liquid’ and access...

  • The bird nests of Villar Rojas belong to the series From the Brick Farm....

  • Key of Héctor Zamora’s intervention is a large Austrian Pine in the centre of the walled garden of Gezellehuis. A scaffolding structure that completely wraps the tree...