Candied Conversations with Julie van Kerckhoven // Mino x FOMU Nights
On Thursday the 30th of May, BAYA invites you to a candied conversation dinner hosted by Julie van Kerckhoven.
The Candied Conversations by Baya collective is a feast where stories are woven into meals. The artist-host explores their artistic practice through food and its social, political and identity-molding nature.
Julie is a visual artist, gardener and herbalist. Through her visual work, she engages with her surroundings; she considers it a process of zooming in and out. In the last years, Julie has been focussing a lot on plants as she started to unfold the mutual dependence between people and corn. During this Candied Conversation, she asks: What does a plant tell us when we are attentive and curious?
Images by Julie Van Kerckhoven
Candied Conversations with Sadaf Malyar
𝑾𝒆’𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒑. 𝑾𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒃𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 - 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆 𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒔?
On Saturday July 29th, BAYA Collective and Extra City invite you for a new session of Candied Conversation where you join us for a meal, a conversation and a journey through someone’s artistic practice.
This session will be hosted by food artist, baker, writer and mushroom enthusiast Sadaf Malyar. Within her practice, Sadaf found solace within the universally celebrated warmth and magnetism of kitchen spaces. Her work erupted from the hands of her mother that taught her to cook, with roots that stem from Afghanistan. With her project ‘Flatbread Society’, Sadaf founded a food project with the intention of creating awareness for badly affected communities in war-torn areas. More recently, a new project has been cooking consisting of food installations, pop-up dinners, workshops,…
Candied Conversations: Extracity & Morpho Summer Programme
Let’s set the table and break bread together, as crumbs of shared knowledge and laughter fill up the crevices of the spread. Candied Conversations is an encounter where we share a conversation and a meal, somewhere in a monastery backyard…
Baya Collective is back! And to celebrate, we’re joining Extra City and Morpho in their Summer programme, treating you with four different gatherings. Our artist talk - brunch hybrid will host four artists, each with a very distinct artistic practice. As they guide us through the essence of their work, we’ll share a meal, a laugh, a story during a moment of intentional togetherness, exploring food and its social, political and identity-molding nature.
This Candied Conversations series featured the following hosts: Kapinga Muela Kabeya, Joud Toamah, Sadrie Alves and Imge Özbilge
Where the mountain touches the shore
BAYA Collective presents: “Where the Mountain Touches the Shore” - the second exhibition we’ll be hosting this Summer in collaboration with artists Molk Bader and Rita Habib.
This exhibition takes us to the Mediterranean Sea as a space and spectrum combining different aspects together. As a natural spectrum, bringing together the mountains and the ocean, the land and the sea. There’s both a connection and disconnection between the two artists.
The connection can be found in a feeling that emerged from within…
the taste of mulberries in the mountain house
the freedom one feels when in the ocean
But there’s a space where both artists disconnect - as Rita Habib explores the need to bring specific knowledge and connect the internal and external space, Molk Bader yearns for freedom, a sense of identity that isn’t defined by cultural belonging.
I opened the door to our forgotten room, to our familiar home
BAYA Collective presents: ~I opened the door to the forgotten room, to our familiar home~ introducing two of the artists that were selected from our PRESS PLAY Open Call: Beljita Gurung and Markha Yushaeva.
During this first exhibition, we encounter their appreciation for slow art making and finding joy in taking time and cherishing the process, while the reappraisal and rediscovering of their roots connects them as they play with the subject of identity.
How do you reconnect with your roots, while refraining from romanticisation? How does your culture shine through in your work - whether or not ambiguously?
During this exhibition, which was curated by BAYA Collective and built in collaboration with beljita and Markha, we explore the act of daily archiving, rituals and the meaning of honest work.
Baya Collective x Mel Lucy Bruneel: A Digital Art Session
Baya Collective presents a digital (& covid-safe) workshop given by artist Mel Lucy Bruneel. The workshop will take place on all of your screens on February 21st starting at 12h until 18h.
What will the art session consist of? The session will be hosted by the Baya team - where we’ll be giving more information on the topic of the day which will be on the interpretation of the self-portrait.
Mel Lucy will then continue to start the art-portion of the session and will guide everyone through the entire process of creating a self-portrait. From composition, to techniques to colour selection.
Besides being an educative art class, we also want to focus on it being a selfcare moment. A moment where we can redefine togetherness and connection in these strange times. It’s not just about creating a painting, it’s also about self-expression and the experience of sharing it with others.
More information on the art class and the link to subscribe and claim your spot will follow soon!
Thomas More x BAYA Workshops
In honour of Thomas More’s founder who was very passionate about fighting for women’s rights to education - the Thomas More university college reached out to us to put together two workshops surrounding “language” and its beauty.
We collaborated with the talented Yousra Benfquih and Lies Jo Vandenhende who helped us put together two wonderful workshops - allowing us to create a safe space for young, aspiring. writers and poets.
The workshops would lead to a beautiful performance but unfortunately with COVID19 and all the guidelines that came with it, that plan is currently on hold.
