collaborative public programme at celador
Minne Kersten, Agata Ingarden, Natalija Gucheva and Julia Tröscher
Julia Tröscher, Nowhere, knowwhere, now here, 2026, film still
Artist talks on ‘dreaming’ in collaboration with celador
Conversation between Minne Kersten, Agata Ingarden, Natalija Gucheva and Julia Tröscher
Sunday 19.04.26 – 14:00
celador – Avenue Jef Lambeaux 23, 1060 Saint-Gilles
you are warmly invited this sunday afternoon, 19 april, from 2 p.m., for two artists’ conversations on ‘dreaming images’. bringing together four artists – Natalija Gucheva, Agata Ingarden, Minne Kersten, and Julia Tröscher – this shared public event unfolds as an encounter between two exhibitions, tracing how each practice gives form to the invisible realms of the mind: its shifting landscapes of fear, desire, and imagination, in resonance with influential writings and auto-theoretical reflections.
in the first conversation, Natalija Gucheva and Agata Ingarden explore processes of character-building, storytelling, and f(r)iction as they emerge within their presented works. this dialogue will be moderated by Charlotte Frenay. following an informal break with coffee and cake, Minne Kersten and Julia Tröscher will turn to the spectral – discussing how phantasmagoria, literary metaphor, and elusive symbols enter their practices. this second conversation starts at 3 p.m. and will be moderated by Koi Persyn.
this event explores shared synergies between the exhibitions ‘rippling through’ at Komplot and ‘MOThS’ at the Chapel of Boondael, unfolding within celador’s third space, situated between both venues. taking place during the overlap of the two exhibitions – while rippling through approaches its closing on 26 April and MOThS marks its opening on 17 April – the afternoon invites you to wander between worlds, images, and voices in dreaming dialogue.
‘rippling through’, curated by Camille Van Meenen, explores the porous boundaries between our inner and outer ontology, looking at modes of imaging and imagining as active tools for accessing deeper parts of our emotional landscape. through their video and installation practices, Natalija Gucheva and Julia Tröscher engage in a meditative methodology, bringing about a potentially healing process by tapping into suppressed emotions and memories. taking the intimate and the personal as a starting point, the exhibition simultaneously questions how internal messages speak to a wider collective context.
‘MOThS’, curated by Koi Persyn, is a nocturnal group exhibition that explores the moth as a literary metaphor for both transience and transformation, embodied in the tension between life and death at the onset of dusk. the moth symbolises ecstatic self-sacrifice as a mirror of human resilience and artistic creation. the Boondaal Chapel thus becomes a giant cocoon in which the practices of Kim Farkas, Agata Ingarden, Minne Kersten, Vibeke Mascini, Mónica Mays and Chantal van Rijt take shape, to unfold their wings through a public programme and at last take flight.