ICA Belgium's Walk & Talk / Meet & Learn with Heleen Sintobin
22 June 2025: A guided tour of the exhibition Colour - Seeing beyond pigment, in Hasselt, Belgium
Join us on Sunday, 22nd of June at 2 pm, for ICA-Belgium's Walk & Talk / Meet & Learn with Heleen Sintobin.
We will be visiting the exhibition Colour. Seeing beyond pigment, at Z33 - House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture in Hasselt, Belgium.
Our guide through the exhibition will be Heleen Sintobin, a designer whose fascinating work is among those exhibited.
Heleen Sintobin has a background in interior architecture and holds a Master’s degree in Design Products from the Royal College of Art in London. In her current practice, she explores the future of craft in the digital age.
As a resident of the InterActions research group at LUCA School of Arts, she experiments with mine tailings and 3D printing techniques. Heleen also works as an artistic researcher at Laboratorium, the biolab for art, design, and biotechnology at KASK & Conservatorium.
There, she collaborates with scientist Maria Boto on Ecology of Colour, an interdisciplinary project focused on the future of sustainable colour production.
When:
22 June 2025 at 14:00
Where:
Z33 - House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture Bonnefantenstraat 1
3500 Hasselt (BE)
Price:
The event is free for ICA-Belgium members (and yearly supporters) but the exhibition ticket should be bought individually on-site or online.
* The full entrance fee to the exhibition is 12€. Discounts available. Free entrance with the Belgian museum pass. Get more information about tickets here.
Language:
English
Registration:
Send an email to ica@ica-belgium.org and let us know you are coming.
** The event is for members (and yearly subscribers and sponsors) only. Members are free to bring along a partner or children.
It is not too late to join us by becoming a member or yearly supporter (subscriber). Our membership and yearly subscriptions are valid for 12 months, from the day you join.
Read more about it and apply (or subscribe) here.
Access:
Z33 is located in the centre of Hasselt, on the Zuivelmarkt, next to the Beguinage of Hasselt. Z33 is at walking distance from the Hasselt train station (1km). There are IC trains (every hour, 7 days a week) to Hasselt from Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, Antwerp and Liège.
See more information on how to access Z33 here: https://www.z33.be/en/visit/accessibility/
About the exhibition:
Traditional chemical pigments, once the pinnacle of innovation, have given way to a second generation: bio-based pigments, made from natural ingredients. But at a time of increasing climate and ecological challenges, this approach too appears to have its limits. Structural colours, based on optical refraction of light, are a pioneering contemporary alternative. But how can we design with these fragile nanostructures and their eye-catching iridescent palette?
Colour. Seeing Beyond Pigment presents a group of artists and designers experimenting with this new colour technique in collaboration with Laboratorium (Biolab for Art, Design and Biotechnology of KASK & Conservatory in Ghent). This exhibition merges scientific research, a new technology and societal challenges with liberate artistic experimentation. It results in new aesthetic and ecological possibilities to literally encounter from all angles.
Participating artists and designers: Amandine David, Ann Veronica Janssens, Bram Vanderbeke, Dimitris Theocharis, Heleen Sintobin, Marlou Breuls, Tiina Pyykkinen
Scientist: Maria Boto
Curator: Annelies Thoelen
More information: https://www.z33.be/en/programma/colour/
** The event is for members (and yearly subscribers) only. Members are free to bring along a partner or children.
If you are a member (or a yearly subscriber or sponsor) of ICA-Belgium and would like to join us on this Walk&Talk / Meet&Learn event, please send us an email to ica@ica-belgium.org to let us know you will be coming.
If you are not yet a member, now could be a good opportunity to apply for membership. Read more about it here.
Hope to see you in Hasselt,
The ICA-Belgium team - Maja, Inez and Jeannette
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