Off-Centre — Ismini Kyritsis

Ismini Kyritsis

Ismini Kyritsis is a curator and art historian working at the intersection of art, science, and ecology. With a specific interest in the ecological and societal impact of digital technologies, her curatorial practice takes an ecosystemic turn shaping connections between different entities, disciplines and practices. Through exhibitions, research, and residencies, she fosters dialogue between human, natural, and technological entities while developing curatorial methodologies that respond to ecological and ethical uncertainties.

Ismini holds a Masters degree in Arts and Culture (Museums and Collectiosn) from Leiden University (2023) and a postgraduate degree in Curatorial Studies form the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (2024). In recent years she has co-curated exhibitions and public programs in Kusthal Ghent (BE), Het Paviljoen (BE), Vleeshal (NL), iMAL (BE) and TINC (KR). She is currently part of Off-Centre, a collective of art workers bringing visibility to local art initiatives within the neighborhoods of Brussels through public tours and workshops. With a focus on artist-run spaces, its members aspire to foster community engagement, encourage mutual support, and create opportunities to learn from local collectives who demonstrate resilience in face of cultural and economic challenges.

Contact: isminikyritsis@gmail.com

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Off-Centre is a group of art workers collaborating with Brussels Artist-Run Network (BARN) to bring visibility to diverse local art initiatives within the neighborhoods of Brussels. With a focus on artist-run spaces, its members aspire to foster community engagement, encourage mutual support, and create opportunities to learn from local collectives who demonstrate resilience in face of cultural and economic challenges.

Artist-Run Spaces tour
Art Anderlecht Brussels,

Off-Centre in collaboration with Brussels Artist-Run Network (BARN)

11th - 14th Sept. 2025

Artists: Joris Hilfert, Guillaume Slizewicz, Atelier Triphasé (Esther Babulik, Carole Mousset, Abel Jallais, Alice Pandolfo, Antoinette Dansembourg, Jonas Moënne, Léa Brami, Louis Lallier et Suzanne Corcessin), Lisa Matthys , Vincen Beeckman & Kasper Demeulemeester, Jan Gordts

Artists Run Spaces: Tictac Art Centre, La Veriere, Zieve’ art Blue Bench Sessions

In the framework of Art Anderlecht 2025, Off-Centre hosted public tours through artist-run spaces and studios. Saturday, September 13, was dedicated to visiting independent art venues in the neighborhood, while Sunday, September 14, centered on meeting artists in their workspaces.

Tictac Art Centre

Tictac Art Centre is an independent, self sustainable artistic place created and directed by David Zambrano and Mat Voorter, where art speaks for itself. It aims to promote improvisation as an art form, contemporary dance, and visual arts. Tictac Art Centre holds weekly workshops directed by international dance artists, open classes, art exhibitions, public performances, and other special events.

Tictac Art Centre (Rue Emile Carpentier 34)

@tictacartcentre is an independent, self sustainable artistic place created and directed by David Zambrano and Mat Voorter, where art speaks for itself. It aims to promote improvisation as an art form, contemporary dance, and visual arts. Tictac Art Centre holds weekly workshops directed by international dance artists, open classes, art exhibitions, public performances, and other special events.

La Verrière

La Verrière emerged as a space that is envisioned as an anchor point from which a unique framework of long-term, tailor-made artist residencies and support programs unfolds. More than just providing a physical space, La Verrière aims to foster a collaborative dynamic dedicated to supporting projects that are still in the early, embryonic stages of their development.

Ziever’Art

Zierver’Art is a living laboratory, a place of free expression where music, theatre, visual arts and dance takes roots and flourishes. Their mission? To offer a space where art heals, brings people together and awakens the senses. A place where those who are not always heard can create, exist, and express themselves.

Ziever’Art

Blue Bench Sessions

Blue Bench Sessions is a blue metro bench by visual artist and performer Gilles Hellemans, inviting casual encounters and artistic propositions. This ephemeral platform offers a space for reflection on urban alienation and loneliness.

Ziever’Art

Blue Bench Sessions

Guillaume Slizewicz

Guillaume Slizewicz is a designer and digital artist whose work sits at the intersection of technology, the environment, and societal issues. Through his practice, he engages with the evolving dynamics between innovation and sustainability, using technology in poetic, evocative and critical ways. Connecting ancient crafts with the digital: his works often blend physical materials with digital processes.

Guillaume Slizewicz

Joris Hilfert

Joris Hilfert’s work can be seen as a series of reflections on e.g. the aftermath of structured
systems—how knowledge, order, and meaning are lost, repurposed, or slowly rebuilt from fragments. It invites viewers to experience the space not as ruin, but as a site of quiet negotiation between collapse and reassembly. While resisting narrative closure it asks viewers to slow down and read the room as a palimpsest: layers of utility, abandonment, improvisation, leading to nuanced critique.

Joris Hilfert

Atelier Triphasé

Atelier Triphasé is a project overflowing with energy, allowing artists to expand their practice free of constraints while promoting encounters and exchanges. The studios have welcomed artists independently practicing painting, installation, ceramics, textiles, sculpture and design. This collection of heterogeneous artists forms a stimulating group breeding an atmosphere of collaboration, discussion and sharing.

Atelier Triphasé

In collaboration with MUS-E , the visit featured stops at three public artworks encountered along the paths connecting the studios: a collage by the Lokal Fototek Foundation, a mural by Jan Gordts with 1st, 5th, and 6th grade students from Kameleon Primary School, and an installation by Lisa Martthys and Mara-Luna Brandt Corstius with pARTy KUNST-WEEK.

Lokal Fototek Foundation

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