INTERIEUR 2018: Interieur Festival Takes Over Kortrijk City
Biennale INTERIEUR 2018 expands beyond the exhibition halls again. Under the title TO OBJECT, the renewed Interieur Festival guarantees a surprising and creative city programme centred around the premises of the now defunct Sint-Maarten hospital.
Various young designers and emerging studios will use the abandoned hospital as a backdrop for their creative concepts. A series of exhibitions, workshops, lectures and performances are planned in this unusual setting and its vicinities.
The Interieur Festival also runs a little longer than the Biennale Interieur and is organized in collaboration with numerous cultural players from Kortrijk and beyond. You can discover the first participants below, with more names on the way!
Sabine Marcelis (NZ/NL) operates at the intersection between installation and object design and will make sure you enter the hospital with a bang.
Fashion and ceramic designer Harvey Bouterse (NL/SUR) presents a Ceramic Wunderkammer, filling his hospital room with treasures that immerse the visitor in the world of a ceramicist.
Creative branding agency DIFT (BE) presents ‘The New Masters’, inviting 12 artists to reinterpret graphic design from the last 50 years in design and interior.
Piet-Albert Goethals and Jessy Van Durme introduce Akt, a new independent interior and lifestyle magazine.
Sep Verboom (BE) and his studio LIVABLEcollaborate with traditional communities around the world aiming for a social, ecological and qualitative revolution of the traditional industries.SMENT (BE) presents new additions to their Gestalt range of material-based objects.
Wilde Westen curates the expo ‘Klinkende Stad: To Object’, gathering 6 artists who will join sound and matter in ‘sound objects’.
HoWest takes over an entire wing of the hospital as a pop-up academy.
Week of Design / Week van het ontwerpen is the platform for inspiration and the exchange of know-how between the industry and the creative educational field. The exhibition ‘We Are The Next Generation’ gathers the best student works from different creative educational institutions in Belgium and the North of France.
In addition to the shop in the Kortrijk Xpo, creative studio Baroness O. also hosts, curates and designs the official shop at the Interieur Festival. Moreover, lunch bar Cantine provides a healthy, quick and tasty offering of snacks and drinks.
INTERIEUR 2018 CITY FESTIVAL
Thursday 18th – Monday 22nd October 2018
12.00 – 20.00
Friday 26th – Sunday 28th October 2018
12.00 – 18.00
Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th November 2018
12.00 – 18.00
LOCATION:
St Maarten Hospital
Burgemeester Vercruysselaan
8500 Kortrijk
Belgium
26th international Biennale INTERIEUR 2018
DATES
Wednesday 17th October 2018
VIP & Vernissage evening
18.00 – 23.00
Thursday 18th – Monday 22nd October 2018
professional & public days
10.00 – 20.00
LOCATION:
Kortrijk Xpo
Doorniksesteenweg 216
8500 Kortrijk
Belgium
NEW EXHIBITORS
Beltrami
Beltrami, based in Harelbeke, Belgium, offers high-quality natural stone and marble. With their recently-opened ‘Stone Gallery’ they have created a true mecca for stone fanatics. Not less than 800 types of natural stone are presented in the 3300m2 space. Among those are a few exclusive slabs of Invisible Grey-Gold, Breccia Imperiale, Breccia Medicea, and much much more. The neighbouring ‘Stone Lab’, a state of the art cutting centre, is where selected stone slabs can be processed and sawn into made to measure tiles or surfaces for kitchens and bathrooms, stairs and objects, wall finishings, …
Vibia
Even though we don’t always know, we all have a fundamental connection to natural light. Vibia believes that life is more joyful, beautiful and rewarding when you consider the effects of light. That is why this Barcelona-based brand always has natural light at the forefront, finding ways in which they can integrate it in every part of life. Inviting renowned designers like Stefan Diez, Arik Levy and Note Design Studio, they offer beautiful, purposeful objects with a hint of mystery, inviting users to conduct their own performance of light.
Casalis
Curiosity, respect and innovation are key for Casalis. This Belgian textile brand specializes in contemporary interior applications for private and public spaces. A combination of traditional crafts, skills and sources with a curiosity for technological developments and modern production techniques makes sure Casalis is on top of their game. Their range of carpets, objects and acoustic panels are both functional and aesthetic, meeting the very highest quality standards and ensuring a long lifespan and timeless look.
Warm Nordic
Warm Nordic ensures the design legacy of four of the greatest Scandinavian design icons of the 1950s and 1960s: the grand master of lighting Svend Aage Holm-Sørensen, architect Hans Olsen and the two great furniture designers, Knud Færch and Arne Hovmand-Olsen. All are internationally renowned for their stunning designs and masterful craftsmanship, which for years have only been available at international auctions. Today, Warm Nordic has the rights to all designs and, in accordance with the families’ wishes, will regularly launch selected design classics.
STILL A FEW SPOTS LEFT…
Are you a brand and want to take part in this year Biennale? Don’t hesitate and apply now!
