Co-House

“Only in my drawings can I live”

Various artists inhabit the rooms of a beautiful 18th-century heritage house in Groeningestraat, Kortrijk.
Under the impulse of host Wit.h, and driven by a strong belief in collaboration, the ownership of the exhibition is shared.
Co-House embodies an inclusive way of temporary “co-housing” and “co-creation.”
The house is not only the framework within which everything unfolds, but also shapes the content itself.
The notion of “home” runs like a red thread throughout. Out of a deep longing for a home, Christine Garez draws endless series of houses.
Piet Lemahieu transforms his room in a care facility into an artistic biotope and now relocates this nest into one of the exhibition spaces.
Like a backpack, Mathieu Lobelle sometimes carries his houses on his back.
The designers of the fashion label Amili Haha regard clothing as a house: a way to protect, conceal, or warm oneself.
Paul Duhem paints faces and doors, endlessly repeated in ever-changing variations and colors. Houses are reduced to closed doors and façades. Are these closed doors self-portraits?
The duo Line Boogaerts and Ditmar Goes open the windows of the house. They play with transparency, with the interplay between inside and outside.

As a visitor, you are invited into this artistic refuge, rich with unique visual storylines.
In collaboration with De Beelderij Torhout, Kunstwerkplaats De Zandberg Harelbeke, and Museum Dr. Guislain Ghent.