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    ARTICULATE 2026 I ACADEMY
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      2026

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    ARTICULATE 2026 is the 11th edition of the annual research festival of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp:
    →  14 - 23 October: at the Conservatoire
    →  19 – 30 October: at the Academy

     
    This webpage focuses on the programme at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.
    For the complete programme,
    → click here

    ARTICULATE 2025 I Presence and Absence

    19 – 30 October

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    What does it mean to be present today?

    In a world shaped by technology, representation, and public visibility, presence has become something complex — and unstable. Between what is visible and what withdraws from view, between sound and silence, something shifts.

    ARTICULATE 2026 takes this tension between presence and absence as its starting point. Featuring exhibitions by students and researchers, research classes for the Academy’s master students, a two-day programme for artist-researchers, and a series of talks, it explores how absence can be just as powerful as presence.
     

     PROGRAMME I ARTICULATE 2026 I ACADEMY


    Monday 19 – Friday 23 October, daily 10:00 – 18:00
    → in and around the Academy

    RESEARCH CLASSES
    Research Week for master students
    with five-day experimental, in-depth, interdisciplinary research classes led by Furkan Ak, Kristí Fekete & Frankie, Vedran Kopljar, Yuki Okumura, Will Peck, Bart Van Dijck, Delphine Wibaux
     

    EXHIBITIONS

    Friday 23 October, 16:00 – 19:00
    → Lange Zaal and Venushal, Academy

    OPENING EXHIBITIONS
    Long White Playground, White Noise – Black Holes and A Membrane of Presence
    Opening of three exhibitions responding to this year’s ARTICULATE theme, ‘Presence and Absence’
     

    Friday 23 – Thursday 29 October, Mon – Thu, 12:00 – 18:00
    → Lange Zaal, Academy

    LONG WHITE PLAYGROUND
    Exhibition 
    with works made on site by the students of Yuki Okumura’s research class, and in connection with Okumura’s PhD defence
     

    Friday 23 – Thursday 29 October, Mon – Thu, 12:00 – 18:00
    → Venushal, Academy

    WHITE NOISE - BLACK HOLES
    Exhibition 
    on how the absence of print reveals the presence of the page, curated by Johan Pas from the Collection for Research on Artists’ Publications (CRAP)
     

    Friday 23 – Thursday 29 October, Mon – Thu, 12:00 – 18:00
    → Lange Zaal, Academy

    A MEMBRANE OF PRESENCE
    Interactive installation 
    by Frankie Anh Le, developed through the artistic research project Personal Bubble
     

    Saturday 24 – Thursday 29 October, daily 12:00 – 18:00
    → Coppejans Gallery

    PRESENCE & ABSENCE
    6 one-day exhibitions 
    by students of the Research Classes by Furkan Ak, Kristí Fekete & Frankie, Vedran Kopljar, Will Peck, Bart Van Dijck, and Delphine Wibaux
     

    Monday 26 October, 15:00 – 17:00
    → Lange Zaal, Academy

    CONCEPTUAL, PERFORMATIVE, PEDAGOGICAL
    PhD defence 
    by Yuki Okumura
     

    Tuesday 27 – Wednesday 28 October
    → Research Room, Academy

    ACTIVATING THE ARCHIVE #4: ON PRESENCE AND ABSENCE
    Research days 
    for and by artists-researchers, exploring how artistic research and archival practices can respond to the urgencies of our time
     

    Thursday 29 October, 13:30 – 17:00
    → Academy

    BEYOND BINARY II: PRESENCE / ABSENCE
    Symposium 
    on presence and absence in artistic and technological practices
    with Sarah Lugthart, Helen Bledsoe, Alexandra Dementieva, and Emmanuel Van der Auwera
     

    Thursday 29 October, 20:00 – 23:00
    → Het Bos

    GEBAKKEN LUCHT
    Closing concert
    featuring students of the Academy: Breathe! Murmure fingers., Commuter, Luminance, Mümmelmann, Rehash Neu Klang, urinary track infection (Sleepguilt b2b Swaggot), Lina Van Hulle, and Silver Virgin
     

     

    Programme organised by ARIA


    Wednesday 21 October, 14:00 – 17:00 
    → Muziekstudio, DE SINGEL

    VALORISATION OF ARTISTIC RESEARCH OUTPUT
    Symposium 
    on research output organised by the Jonge Academy in collaboration with ARIA
     

    Thursday 22 October, 17:30 – 21:00
    → Witte & Gele Zaal, Conservatoire

    FORUM+
    Launch 
    of the new issue of FORUM+, journal on artistic research, exploring the connection between research and education through cases from various art schools
     

    in collaboration with ARIA | Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts

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    RESEARCH WEEK OCTOBER 2026

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    Long White Playground

    Exhibition with works made on site by the students of Yuki Okumura’s research class, and in connection with his PhD defence.

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    White Noise – Black Holes

    Exhibition on how the absence of print reveals the presence of the page, curated by Johan Pas from the Collection for Research on Artists’ Publications (CRAP).

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    A Membrane of Presence

    An interactive installation by Frankie Anh Le, developed through the artistic research project 'Personal Bubble'

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    Presence & Absence: 6 one-day exhibitions

    Six one-day exhibitions by students of the Academy at Coppejans Gallery, in in the context of the ARTICULATE research festival.

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    PhD defence Yuki Okumura

    Defence of the PhD research ‘Conceptual, Performative, Pedagogical’, conducted by Yuki Okumura at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.

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    Activating the Archive #4: On Presence and Absence

    A two-day programme for and by researchers of the Academy.

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    BEYOND BINARY II: PRESENCE / ABSENCE

    Symposium in the context of the research festival ARTICULATE 2026, with Sarah Lugthart, Helen Bledsoe, Alexandra Dementieva, and Emmanuel Van der Auwera.

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    GEBAKKEN LUCHT

    Concerts at Het Bos, by students of the Academy, in the context of the annual research festival ARTICULATE.

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