17h Opening of the exhibition Dancing Elements

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The historic building that housed the Post Office Café was built in 1893 as a complex of three houses. In the corner house, Mr. Cloin built a new café in the neo-Rococo style. Today the premises belong to the Police and no longer serve as a café. Occasionally, talks, exhibitions or other social events are held here. Map

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The entire ‘Dancing Elements’ exhibition will be dedicated to the artworks of Belgian artist Ilse van Roy.

On Monday 25 August from 5 pm you can enjoy the opening of the exhibition of Ilse van Roy's artworks, a personal meeting with the artist and a guided tour.

The exhibition runs from Tuesday 26 August to Saturday 13 September 2025.

Open: 10am - 6pm, Tuesday to Sunday /Monday closed/

Ilse van Roy (Belgie, 1978)

Wander around for a while. Quiet the city and all its noise. Feel what speaks to you to enter it. There's a duality going on here that creates tension and narrative. Ilse Van Roy (1978) speaks through her art about TEXTILE and GLASS. Both worlds require a different physicality and perhaps a form of breathing from her. From us. She invites us to think about matter and space, sensuality and courage. In her work, Van Roy takes both materials to their limits and crafts them in combination with many other media. She wanders into photography, video, and print, shaping object spaces, sculpting objects, defining void and fill. since 2007, she has been leading the glass studio at PXL-MAD, School of Arts in Hasselt, Belgium, and since 2021, she has been teaching at The Large Glass Department, Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (NL), guiding Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts students in their artistic work. Through the intermingling of art forms in numerous exhibitions across the continent, she has developed a scholar for matter and mass as an educator.

Ilse van Roy weaves stories in her textiles, breathing life into her glass sculptures and expressing her extremely vivid and complex personality. With equally deep and bright colours. Through his favourite materials and various techniques, he explores the space between matter and form, performativity and artworks. and object-based practices, art and craft. Her works, intuitive and playful at first glance, involve deep research and thorough preparation. Silent Dance (2022) is a sculptural pairing blown from glass in Bohemia, a region in the Czech Republic renowned for its artisans. Its ambiguous form evokes mystical and otherworldly interpretations. Like black holes, they draw space, energy and light around them. into themselves. What gets inside the darkness of their void. becomes part of their substance, their silent dance is fragile and enchanting.