To mark the reopening of Design Museum Gent, the museum is organising 10 exhibitions at locations across the city. You can visit them from 3 to 11 October 2026.
A place in motion
Eight design practices are heading into the neighbourhood together with students from LUCA School of Arts’ Design for Impact programme, exploring places from the perspective of their own practices. What is already happening here? What does this place need? And what could be allowed to grow? Together with local residents, they come up with surprising ideas and interventions. A place for, with, and by the neighbourhood!
Location: Fluvius site, on the corner of Kalkbrugpad and Désiré Fiévéstraat
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Common Ground
Six makers show how objects and spaces grow and evolve alongside what we need, cherish, or pass on. They examine how we use things, which materials we choose, and what gives them their own identity. The approach is the same for all the projects: intelligently building on what is already there, while each project takes its own form and scale.
Location: Bar Edward, Speldenstraat 1
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Under Construction
This exhibition presents furniture, objects, and installations, each made in its own particular way. What connects them is that the makers show you exactly how they were made.
Location: Gouvernement, Gouvernementstraat 1
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Cavea
Cavea transforms a place of government and power into a dynamic space for meeting, multiple voices, and wonder. On the benches of the historic council chamber of the former Government House of Ghent, there a place for everyone and everything, with nothing based on social class.
Location: Gouvernement, Gouvernementstraat 1
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Loho Collabs
Sharon Van Overmeiren’s sculptures start from recognisable forms that transform into creations filled with memory, spirituality, and imagination. At this location, they are given all the space they need to speak.
Location: Dada Chapel, Nederpolder 1
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Windows of design
On a lively route through the city, around 30 shops transform their windows into temporary exhibitions, bringing design far beyond the city walls.
Location: 33 different shop locations across the city
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We Are The Next Generation
"We Are The Next Generation", an initiative by Designregio Kortrijk, puts the best of Belgium’s emerging design talent in the spotlight. Through an open call, students from a range of educational programmes shared their vision of the future. Based on criteria including innovation, sustainability, and social impact, a professional jury selected around 30 projects for you to discover here.
Location: Broei, Nieuwland 69
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Das Trojanische Ding
Artist and architect Adrien Tirtiaux explores how a work of art influences the place where it is installed. He takes LLS Paleis in Antwerp, a former terraced-house snack bar, and the old 019 welding factory in Ghent as examples. The same monumental sculpture fits surprisingly well in these two very different locations by responding to the challenges faced by the two organisations.
Location: O19, Dok-Noord 5L
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Temporary studio for young artists:
Come and discover Kunsthal Gent, a dynamic art institution, and see how young artists from Ghent are making their mark here.
Venue: Kunsthal Gent, Lange Steenstraat 14
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Endless Exhibition
In this exhibition, designer and curator Prem Krishnamurthy puts forward a radical idea: what would happen if every exhibition was permanent and therefore remained forever? Because, in his view, a work of art is never finished and can continue to grow and change. Through texts, images, conversations, and contracts, he explores how we deal with time, space, and objects.
Location: O19, Dok-Noord 5L
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