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Crip Stories
Art up close and beyond the border
An exhibition that shifts your perspective:
Crip Stories is more than just an exhibition. It sparks something, urging you to see differently.
Here, “crip” becomes a source of renewed value and meaning.
Arts organisation Wit.h vzw travelled across Belgium and far beyond, seeking out artists working in studios connected to care and welfare services. Hidden from the public eye, these studios thrive with creativity and talent. In these places, truly special art is made by truly special people. Their work–powerful and unique–now comes together in the compelling exhibition Crip Stories. Here, you will encounter art that resonates: diverse in form, rich in theme, and always with a unique voice.
Beeld: ‘Attached’ Nancy Clayton, 2024 Acryl and pastel on cotton 200 x 150 ©Intoart London
Crip Stories
Art up close and beyond the border
From 5 July to 21 September 2025
Open Wednesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
“For an entire summer, the castle and park will be transformed into a professional art site where inclusion is the most normal thing in the world.”
“Crip” is the proud nickname for anyone who deviates from the normal, the appropriate, the recognisable. The term stands for an attitude, not a label. Anyone can be a “Crip” if they feel connected and want to engage with society. But above all, it’s your choice. And the stories are powerful and rich in vulnerability.
De Lovie Castle Park
— a welcoming and meaningful place full of stories
Near and beyond borders
Art is the voice of those who are not heard—for the crip community, it is not an expression, but a revolution.
Nancy Clayton
In a complex figurative visual language, she connects the movement of dancers with the emotional intensity of a story.
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Lili Vanderstraeten & Kito Kotsoane
Lili Vanderstraeten is a performer and creator, fascinated by the multifaceted nature of textiles and the daily routines of (self)care.
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Géraldine Vink
These are meditative exercises that suggest movement.
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Michel Boonefaes
An old sock, a knitted scarf or a pair of brightly coloured sleeves…
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Piet Devos
Following the Artistic Expedition “De Windstoot” (The Gust of Wind), Piet Devos writes De Crip Song.
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Lien Anckaert & Lara Breine in collaboration with Jonas Bruyneel
Two women, two artists, two lives.
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Nicolas Clément
In 2013, photographer Nicolas Clément is staying in residence at La « S ».
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Pierre Bonvoisin
Each work consists of a horizontally positioned chestnut that serves as a pedestal, on which a second chestnut is vertically attached.
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Myriam Loyens
Throughout her artistic career, she developed a rich and multifaceted body of work.
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Jolien Verreth
Her lyrics exude raw honesty and existential vulnerability.
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Jan Henderickx
Literature became a parallel therapeutic landscape.
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Alain Balleur
His mastery of the spray can is virtuoso; colour gradients, fades, outlines and highlights emerge from a single fluid movement.
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Miguel Verledens
Technical insight combined with a healthy dose of imagination
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OTTO
What is reality and what is illusion?
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Jurgen Facon
Through his art, Facon arms himself against the prejudices he experiences in his life.
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Julien Detiège
The sculptures are portraits.
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Mustafa Kör
Mustafa Kör is a writer and poet.
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Irène Gérard
She shows herself to be an original portrait artist through the way she arranges her subjects.
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Hendrik Heffinck
Hendrik Heffinck creates sculptural assemblages using carefully selected recycled materials.
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Johan Tahon, The Wild Classical Music Ensemble & Lee Ranaldo
Hell Gate: a residency in Tahon’s studio or a musical journey through the Gates of Hell.
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Franky Delaere
He prefers to make human figures. The larger, the better.
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Dominique Cockelaere
It appears that Dominique’s life is entirely reflected in his paintings.
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Brighton Winne
His drawings stick in the mind and tell us how things stand.
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Ann Cael
This text cuts me to the bone.
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Nadia Van Lancker
How long is a second?
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Andrea Wolf
Andrea investigates basic organic forms and develops them into sculptures.
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Johan & Wim
It’s Covid time, everyone is stuck at home. Johan wonders how everyone is doing.
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Monica Laroche
Through drawing and writing, Monica Laroche explores the boundaries of nudity in her visual art.
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Dustin Eckhardt
Eckhardt is both an observer and an architect.
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Thomas Baert & Lukas Bossuyt
‘After Death in Heaven’, 2017 Short film
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Philippe Vandenberg
In 2002, he wrote a letter to Sylvain Cosijns. Dear friend painter, see you soon, yes. © Estate Philippe Vandenberg
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Ted Oonk & Laurence Demets
The Model that Smiles, 2017 video
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Sylvain Cosijns
At over 50 years old, he began creating a world full of fascinating characters.
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Ronny Engelen
He adds a delightful sense of alienation by creating small distortions.
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Géraldine Beaupère
Her poetic approach is inspired by nature, animals and sometimes people.
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Bart Janssen
a skilled draughtsman who knows how to move people with humorous and ambiguous work
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Shérazade Gharbi & Ilke De Vries
To cope with her powerlessness, she throws herself into a fantasy world, which inevitably leads to disillusionment.
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Carlo Buyck
With a determined brushstroke, his work has a contemporary figurative look.
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Barbara Massart
She creates hats that allow her to hide, conceal herself, avoid things and rebel…
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Francis Marshall
He was discovered by Alain Bourbonnais, collector of Art Brut and friend of the painter Jean Dubuffet.
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Roland van Eck
With the portraits from the series ‘Nu is alles anders’ (Now everything is different), van Eck breaks with an old pattern.
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Tuur Demaegdt
You are welcome here.
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Coup-de-Foudre
They invite you to slow down and rediscover the beauty in the subtle and imperfect.
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Producenten
wit.h
Wit.h is a participatory arts centre mainly focused on visual arts (+crossovers).
De Lovie Castle Park
De Lovie Castle Park is a welcoming and meaningful place brimming with stories.