breaking free
The CCC OD invites Belgian artist Lieven de Boeck to create a solo exhibition specifically for the nave of the art center.
Highlighting the recurring performative aspect of his work, the artist imagines an exhibition in Tours on the theme of the Parade, taking into account both the event-like nature of artistic action and the importance of encounters with visitors. For this purpose, he will devise a series of experiences to be activated throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Continuing his long-term project The Archive of Disappearance, a reflection on the erasure of the artist in the creation of the work, Lieven de Boeck focuses his current research on the role of queer issues in our systems: what constitutes queer art? How does it impact daily life? What political dimension can it hold in societies still largely structured around a binary and patriarchal model? Why must queer perspectives challenge the capitalist model to hope to transform our ways of relating to others?
The exhibition will thus offer a dynamic experience, enriched with movable sculptural elements and punctuated by performative highlights, generating unexpected encounters with audiences.
Supported by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and Flanders.
events
opening – 06.11.2025
guided tour – 15.11.2025
guided tour – 06.12.2025
“c le stage” workshop – 13.12.2025
lieven de boeck
Lieven De Boeck (born 1971 in Belgium) is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, architecture, language, and textile.
His practice explores visibility, authorship, and the politics of presence through a queer methodology and a long-term research project he calls The Archive of Disappearance. Over the past two decades, De Boeck has developed a body of work structured less around objects than around actions, proposals, and embodied gestures. Often privileging activation over presentation, his works invite others—dancers, students, visitors—to take part in ephemeral, performative reconfigurations.
At the core of De Boeck’s recent work is the reactivation of textile actions inspired by queer temporalities and collective embodiment. By transforming historical references into new rhythms, his practice resists fixed narratives, instead exploring a choreography of latency, refusal, and potential.
He currently teaches at ENSAV La Cambre and is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Marshall Rice University in Paris.
The CCC OD invites Belgian artist Lieven de Boeck to create a solo exhibition specifically for the nave of the art center.
Highlighting the recurring performative aspect of his work, the artist imagines an exhibition in Tours on the theme of the Parade, taking into account both the event-like nature of artistic action and the importance of encounters with visitors. For this purpose, he will devise a series of experiences to be activated throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Continuing his long-term project The Archive of Disappearance, a reflection on the erasure of the artist in the creation of the work, Lieven de Boeck focuses his current research on the role of queer issues in our systems: what constitutes queer art? How does it impact daily life? What political dimension can it hold in societies still largely structured around a binary and patriarchal model? Why must queer perspectives challenge the capitalist model to hope to transform our ways of relating to others?
The exhibition will thus offer a dynamic experience, enriched with movable sculptural elements and punctuated by performative highlights, generating unexpected encounters with audiences.
Supported by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and Flanders.
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