(since 2020)

This year, 2025, radical_hope_house is enjoying >>> INTERVAL: A much needed time to re-asses work intentions...

What if one frees 'the house' of its usual connotations presenting "neither a property nor territory to be separated and defended against who does not belong there"? * It then could be considered "a void, a debt, a gift to the other that also reminds us of our constitutive alterity with respect to ourselves". ** ^{(*/**) Roberto Esposito, Communitas - the origin and destiny of community, 1998}

Initiated in 2020 by Heike Langsdorf (as a possibility for her to reformulate the correlations between her pedagogical and artistic practices >>> radical_hope), radical_house is currently co-curated together with Simone Basani, Alice Ciresola and Anthony Chang.

>>> Since its renovation the house at Luikenaarsstraat 2,can host more than their two permanent inhabitants: by opening and reducing the staircase to half its former width, a dark cellar (previously packed with unused stuff) became an atelier, with, since 2025, a library, and the groundfloor became a studio with guestroom and mini-kitchenette. A big window gives view to the streets, vice versa the working spaces are partly visible from outside. The second floor is used alternatingly privately and as open co-working space with kitchen. Dismantling some little unused inbetween chambers on the same floor made two outside spaces possible: a little courtyard and a terrasse. Under the roof are two rooms for the permanent inhabitants to withdraw into. >>> some impressions <<<

(moral) supporters or in dialogue / collaborating with:

previous users / temporary residents: Paula Almiron, Ali AlGhaffari, Maïte Àlvarez, Bilal Kamilla Arnout, Alex Arteaga, Stef Assandri, a:pass, Simone Basani, Anne-Charlotte Bisoux, Julien Bruneau, Isabel Burr Raty, José Jesus, Caveat / Jubilee, Co-Disco, Hans Bryssinck, Lisa Coppi, Wouter De Raeve, Laura Deschepper, Klaas Devos, Janka De Waele, Judith Dhont, Iris Donders, Helena Dietrich, Mlondi Dubazane, Carina Erdmann, Roger Fähndrich, Lara Ferrari Tummma, Emilie Gallier, Nada Gambier, Tuur Geldhof, Ritam Hazarika, C.G. Huber, Conrad Bongard Hamilton, Catalina Insignares, Joanneke Jouwsma, Céline Laloire, Carlos Landaeta, Pauline Lavogez, Irina Lavrinovic, Irene Lehmann, Asher Lev, Anouk Llaurens, Adil Mabchour, Ernst Maréchal, Lena Mariën, Mira Matthew, Carolina Mendonça, Delphine Mertens, Heikel Mlouka, N.C., Eszter Némethi, Barbara Novati, NOON project, Miriam Rohde, Lore D Selys, Merel Severs, Stijn Smeets, Spa for Spirits (Leonie Buysse & Ellen Lili Vanderstraeten), SPIN / The Futurology of Cooperation (Anna Czapski & Diederik Peeters a.o.), Vanda Tollas, PAWS, Laura Oriol, Out of Order Contemplations, Berno Odo Polzer & son, Anna Potieshkina, Hamed Rad Simorgh, Anne-Beth Schuurmans, Trois Points Collectief, Bleu Ustad, Julien Vaissier, Fransien van der Putt, Nikolas Van Laere, Jietske Vermoortele, Iris van Peppen, Bastian Eduardo Oviedo Vivanco, Elke Van Campenhout, Does Van Dousselaere, Senne Vanderschelden, Clémentine Vaultier, Barbara Van Lindt, Ibrahim Altahwari, ...

permanent residents: Heike Langsdorf & Frankie Nina Langsdorf

cleaning together with: Adil Mabchour (2020/21), Frankie Langsdorf (2022/23), Anthony Chang (2024 onwards)

temporary keyholders: Laura Oriol, Anouk Llaurens, Spa for Spirits, Vanda Tollas, Anthony Chang, ...
AGENDA -- co-usages & events

PAWS (10/8-17/8)

NOON project (5/10-23/10)

To Do or Not To Do, brunches & open fires (19, 20, 21/12)

N.C. (20/7 - 27/7 2020)

AISA Mentor Talks (Mar to Oct)

Carolina Mendonca (4-10/07)

Joanneke Jouwsma & Ritam Hazarika(22-29/08)

a.pass mentoring block 2022 / 3 (1/09-30/11)