Panta Rhei, Octave Landuyt 100th birthday, Golden Cord

Kunstgallerij De Mijlpaal (BE)
18 December 2022 - 12 March 2023

On December 26, 2022, Belgian multidisciplinary artist Octave Landuyt celebrates his 100th birthday. Reason why De Mijlpaal is planning a jubilee exhibition called ‘Panta Rhei’. The group exhibition brings together different innovative artists and bridge builders, in the spirit of Landuyt. Also Koen Vanmechelen is invited to enter into dialogue with Landuyt’s work.

Vanmechelen is showing one of his Golden Cord sculptures; a series of hybrid works of phantasmagorical, composite animals. They carry a golden umbilical cord that extends out of their body. This so-called Golden Cord is an antenna, a horn, a connection as well as a breakthrough. It reveals that these animals were born out of a change of environment. The Cord connects both environments, and they always wear it. Serendipity is omnipresent. The golden element shows that the umbilical cord is indispensable.

Learn more about the work of Landuyt in this repo of VRT NWS

Participating artists


Octave Landuyt
Koen Vanmechelen
Nedda El-Asmar
Camiel Van Breedam
Hubert Minnebo
Lore Langendries

Exhibition facts


De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder
18/12/2022
➔ 12/03/2023
Fri, Sat, Sun; 14h and 18h, and on appointment
From 23/12 to 8/01/2023 open daily between 14h – 18h
Closed on public holidays

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