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Wonder Festival – 16 oktober tot 2 november 2025 – donderdag tem zondag
Highlights
Discover our selection of special WONDER highlights around the themes of DIGITAL, NEW TALENT, COLLECTIVES, CIRCULAR & TEXTILE that you should not miss! These various installations and exhibitions show how diverse and innovative creative work can be today. Artists, designers, companies and collectives each bring a fresh perspective on the future in their own way.
This is just a selection from the programme. For an overview of all exhibitions, visit our exhibition page.
This is just a selection from the programme. For an overview of all exhibitions, visit our exhibition page.
DIGITAL
PIXEL DRIFT
Cohousing Ten Broele
Night artist Bram Lattré weaves light, data and space into a living network for WONDER.
In the protected mansion, a grid of LED bars moves to the rhythm of a digital composition.
The visitor steps into the middle of the algorithm: from stillness to explosion, from darkness to blinding light.
The installation is a collaboration between Bram Lattré and the WONDER team.
CALAMITY
Broelkaai 6
CALAMITY is an immersive audiovisual installation that explores the intense moment when life is irreversibly divided into a before and an after. This powerful experience is the result of a collaboration between artist Charbel Abou Zeidan, known for his sculptural works influenced by fashion and architecture; Midge 'Mantissa' Sinnaeve, a visual director and CG artist; and Uncanny Creative Studio, specialising in motion design and visual storytelling.
CALAMITY invites the audience not only to observe, but also to become personally involved and reflect on the collective and individual meaning of calamities.
PROJECTION MAPPING CITY HALL
Grote Markt
Every evening during WONDER.
Every evening, Kortrijk Town Hall on the Grote Markt is transformed into a magical canvas full of colourful visuals. Kortrijk has been part of the global UNESCO Creative Cities of Design network since 2017. The friendly design cities inspired the final-year students of the Devine-KASK bachelor's programme at Howest in Kortrijk to create this spectacular creative light festival! Urban Mapping provides the perfect technical support.
Cohousing Ten Broele
Night artist Bram Lattré weaves light, data and space into a living network for WONDER.
In the protected mansion, a grid of LED bars moves to the rhythm of a digital composition.
The visitor steps into the middle of the algorithm: from stillness to explosion, from darkness to blinding light.
The installation is a collaboration between Bram Lattré and the WONDER team.
CALAMITY
Broelkaai 6
CALAMITY is an immersive audiovisual installation that explores the intense moment when life is irreversibly divided into a before and an after. This powerful experience is the result of a collaboration between artist Charbel Abou Zeidan, known for his sculptural works influenced by fashion and architecture; Midge 'Mantissa' Sinnaeve, a visual director and CG artist; and Uncanny Creative Studio, specialising in motion design and visual storytelling.
CALAMITY invites the audience not only to observe, but also to become personally involved and reflect on the collective and individual meaning of calamities.
PROJECTION MAPPING CITY HALL
Grote Markt
Every evening during WONDER.
Every evening, Kortrijk Town Hall on the Grote Markt is transformed into a magical canvas full of colourful visuals. Kortrijk has been part of the global UNESCO Creative Cities of Design network since 2017. The friendly design cities inspired the final-year students of the Devine-KASK bachelor's programme at Howest in Kortrijk to create this spectacular creative light festival! Urban Mapping provides the perfect technical support.
COLLECTIVES
WONDER CLUB House x Berry Dijkstra
Cohousing Ten Broele
Dutch composition artist Berry Dijkstra brings together ten design companies and the work of young designers in one of his characteristic 'stacks' in the unique Cohousing Ten Broele building.
Under the name WONDER CLUB, Designregio Kortrijk brings together the design companies Blue Label, Pia Manu, Pro Projects, Casalis, Wever & Ducré, Jati Kebon, Haelvoet Projects, ARLU, Modular Lightning Instruments and Brachot as a collective of ambassadors for strong design, innovation and collaboration.
MATTER MATTERS COLLECTIVE
Cohousing Ten Broele
Six local designers — Giel Dedeurwaerder, Sander Demeulemeester, Arne Desmet (Fractall), Laurence V. Meerhaeghe (Lauv), Brent Neve (Atelier Ikke) and Bjorn Verlinde — are joining forces to showcase their individual visions of materials. Each of them approaches matter in a unique way — because for them, material is not just a building block, but a form of personal and creative expression.
The choice of a particular material is rarely purely technical. It is often a conscious, deeply rooted decision, fuelled by personal affinity, cultural background, ethical convictions and emotional significance. Matter reflects who the designer is, what they stand for, and how their creative process unfolds.
With the exhibition Matter Matters, they invite visitors to discover this layered spectrum. Matter guides the design, but also the maker — it cannot be separated from the inspiration that feeds it. Here, inspiration becomes tangible: the material forms the bridge between idea and object, between imagination and experience.
HACK THE MATERIAL
Verlaagde Leieboorden
Hack The Material is a creative encounter between industry and design.
Paneltim and Victor Ledure of Amos Architecture are exploring the boundaries of the new material Paneltim Base. This light and strong panel with an innovative finish offers surprising possibilities for interiors and exteriors. Finishing it with paint, tiles, wood, etc. creates a unique cross-pollination between functionality and aesthetics. The result is an inspiring material experiment that shows how innovation and imagination reinforce each other.
ENTANGLED PRACTICES - UNLEARNING SEPARATION THROUGH DESIGN
Groeningestraat
Entangled Practices explores how design today takes a radically different view of the world and its place in it. Inspired by thinkers such as Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway, this exhibition by Designpunt – Design Museum Gent questions classic oppositions: nature versus culture, humans versus environment, object versus process. In a time of climate crisis, system exhaustion and social fragmentation, it is clear that the old narrative in which humans alone took centre stage no longer works.
Today's designers are increasingly transcending the boundaries between disciplines, materials and scales. They make room for what moves, grows, decays or cannot be pinned down. Instead of control, collaboration is central. Instead of finishing, the process.
How can we develop intertwined practices that are detached from fixed values, that embrace the in-between and allow for the temporary? In short, how do we design not only for, but also with and through a bigger story?
ARENA
Broeltoren Noord
For Arena, BRUT Collective and artecetera further develop their inherently collective perspective: they invite artists, designers and thinkers to share their insights, thus providing a platform for cross-disciplinary exchange through images and conversation. With Arena, they create a place where ideas and existing structures are questioned, and where unexpected encounters and connections arise. Spread over the three floors of the northern Broel Tower, Arena reveals its various layers of meaning: foundation, object and debate.
Cohousing Ten Broele
Dutch composition artist Berry Dijkstra brings together ten design companies and the work of young designers in one of his characteristic 'stacks' in the unique Cohousing Ten Broele building.
Under the name WONDER CLUB, Designregio Kortrijk brings together the design companies Blue Label, Pia Manu, Pro Projects, Casalis, Wever & Ducré, Jati Kebon, Haelvoet Projects, ARLU, Modular Lightning Instruments and Brachot as a collective of ambassadors for strong design, innovation and collaboration.
MATTER MATTERS COLLECTIVE
Cohousing Ten Broele
Six local designers — Giel Dedeurwaerder, Sander Demeulemeester, Arne Desmet (Fractall), Laurence V. Meerhaeghe (Lauv), Brent Neve (Atelier Ikke) and Bjorn Verlinde — are joining forces to showcase their individual visions of materials. Each of them approaches matter in a unique way — because for them, material is not just a building block, but a form of personal and creative expression.
The choice of a particular material is rarely purely technical. It is often a conscious, deeply rooted decision, fuelled by personal affinity, cultural background, ethical convictions and emotional significance. Matter reflects who the designer is, what they stand for, and how their creative process unfolds.
With the exhibition Matter Matters, they invite visitors to discover this layered spectrum. Matter guides the design, but also the maker — it cannot be separated from the inspiration that feeds it. Here, inspiration becomes tangible: the material forms the bridge between idea and object, between imagination and experience.
HACK THE MATERIAL
Verlaagde Leieboorden
Hack The Material is a creative encounter between industry and design.
Paneltim and Victor Ledure of Amos Architecture are exploring the boundaries of the new material Paneltim Base. This light and strong panel with an innovative finish offers surprising possibilities for interiors and exteriors. Finishing it with paint, tiles, wood, etc. creates a unique cross-pollination between functionality and aesthetics. The result is an inspiring material experiment that shows how innovation and imagination reinforce each other.
ENTANGLED PRACTICES - UNLEARNING SEPARATION THROUGH DESIGN
Groeningestraat
Entangled Practices explores how design today takes a radically different view of the world and its place in it. Inspired by thinkers such as Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway, this exhibition by Designpunt – Design Museum Gent questions classic oppositions: nature versus culture, humans versus environment, object versus process. In a time of climate crisis, system exhaustion and social fragmentation, it is clear that the old narrative in which humans alone took centre stage no longer works.
Today's designers are increasingly transcending the boundaries between disciplines, materials and scales. They make room for what moves, grows, decays or cannot be pinned down. Instead of control, collaboration is central. Instead of finishing, the process.
How can we develop intertwined practices that are detached from fixed values, that embrace the in-between and allow for the temporary? In short, how do we design not only for, but also with and through a bigger story?
ARENA
Broeltoren Noord
For Arena, BRUT Collective and artecetera further develop their inherently collective perspective: they invite artists, designers and thinkers to share their insights, thus providing a platform for cross-disciplinary exchange through images and conversation. With Arena, they create a place where ideas and existing structures are questioned, and where unexpected encounters and connections arise. Spread over the three floors of the northern Broel Tower, Arena reveals its various layers of meaning: foundation, object and debate.
TEXTILE
TEXTIRAMA
Begijnhofpark
Fancy a unique immersive experience that is both educational and inspiring? Textirama's installation immerses you in the wonderful world of textiles. A world that is sure to surprise you, because textiles are so much more than just textiles! And Belgium shines.
SPELL BLANKET
Broelkaai 6
Designer Emma Cogné presents Spell Blanket, a series of textile works that explore the blanket as both a nomadic and narrative object; an intimate refuge that protects, warms and guides. Based on a personal collection of objects, household appliances and discreet tools from the textile industry, she composes images in which the ordinary is charged with strangeness and illusion. These fragments unfold into all-over patterns whose repetition narrates everyday situations, littered with clues. The pieces were created in collaboration with the Belgian textile companies Tessutica, Deltracon, Louis de Poortere, B&T Textilia and Van Neder, organised by Fedustria and Designregio Kortrijk and with the support of Aarova and POM West-Vlaanderen. They combine textures, reliefs and colours reminiscent of the layered history of velvet and brocade in early Dutch painting.
MASS AS A STATEMENT
Cohousing Ten Broele
Every year, around 1,200 tonnes of textiles and floor coverings end up in landfill or incinerators after an average of ten years. This has a significant environmental impact and results in the loss of valuable materials. The Living Lab Carpet is looking for circular solutions: reuse, repair and eco-design. Together with designers Leda Devoldere, Cas Moor and Material Mastery, possibilities are being explored to give different types of carpet a new lease of life. With Mass as a Statement, we are making the scale of the problem visible. The scenography itself is a powerful plea for change.
Begijnhofpark
Fancy a unique immersive experience that is both educational and inspiring? Textirama's installation immerses you in the wonderful world of textiles. A world that is sure to surprise you, because textiles are so much more than just textiles! And Belgium shines.
SPELL BLANKET
Broelkaai 6
Designer Emma Cogné presents Spell Blanket, a series of textile works that explore the blanket as both a nomadic and narrative object; an intimate refuge that protects, warms and guides. Based on a personal collection of objects, household appliances and discreet tools from the textile industry, she composes images in which the ordinary is charged with strangeness and illusion. These fragments unfold into all-over patterns whose repetition narrates everyday situations, littered with clues. The pieces were created in collaboration with the Belgian textile companies Tessutica, Deltracon, Louis de Poortere, B&T Textilia and Van Neder, organised by Fedustria and Designregio Kortrijk and with the support of Aarova and POM West-Vlaanderen. They combine textures, reliefs and colours reminiscent of the layered history of velvet and brocade in early Dutch painting.
MASS AS A STATEMENT
Cohousing Ten Broele
Every year, around 1,200 tonnes of textiles and floor coverings end up in landfill or incinerators after an average of ten years. This has a significant environmental impact and results in the loss of valuable materials. The Living Lab Carpet is looking for circular solutions: reuse, repair and eco-design. Together with designers Leda Devoldere, Cas Moor and Material Mastery, possibilities are being explored to give different types of carpet a new lease of life. With Mass as a Statement, we are making the scale of the problem visible. The scenography itself is a powerful plea for change.
CIRCULAR
BBoBB - ECHOES OF THE EARTH
Koramic House
If you look closely, you will see that nature is a silent magician. It has been weaving, shaping, creating and reusing, without waste, for millions of centuries. In this exhibition, Designregio Kortrijk and UGent Campus Kortrijk, with the support of Interreg North Sea Region, showcase makers and companies that follow this path. Imagine a world in which we build and create with what grows in nature: chairs made from fungal threads, packaging made from algae, walls reinforced with flax. Everything made with living materials that breathe, decay and regenerate. This exhibition is about bio-based and regenerative design: designing with materials of biological origin that are not harmful to the environment but actually contribute to its restoration. The future is bio-based.
Koramic House
If you look closely, you will see that nature is a silent magician. It has been weaving, shaping, creating and reusing, without waste, for millions of centuries. In this exhibition, Designregio Kortrijk and UGent Campus Kortrijk, with the support of Interreg North Sea Region, showcase makers and companies that follow this path. Imagine a world in which we build and create with what grows in nature: chairs made from fungal threads, packaging made from algae, walls reinforced with flax. Everything made with living materials that breathe, decay and regenerate. This exhibition is about bio-based and regenerative design: designing with materials of biological origin that are not harmful to the environment but actually contribute to its restoration. The future is bio-based.
NEW TALENT
WE ARE THE NEXT GENERATION & OVAM ECODESIGN AWARDS
Budafabriek
WE ARE THE NEXT GENERATION showcases the next generation of Belgian design talent. Every year, Designregio Kortrijk and its partners seek out the most promising young designers from Belgian creative design education programmes. A professional jury made a selection from more than 200 entries, ranging from architecture to product design, and from graphic design to game design.
The six winning OVAM Ecodesign Awards for student final projects will also be exhibited.
JONG GEWELD
Broelkaai 1B en 6
Kortrijk is full of young talent that thinks outside the box and challenges existing ideas. Inspired by each other, they are finding their own voice and making their mark on the city together. Youth organisations DURF2030, De Stroate, Bolwerk and Quindo are joining forces to put their young people in the spotlight through art, media technology and cross-sectoral experiments.
Budafabriek
WE ARE THE NEXT GENERATION showcases the next generation of Belgian design talent. Every year, Designregio Kortrijk and its partners seek out the most promising young designers from Belgian creative design education programmes. A professional jury made a selection from more than 200 entries, ranging from architecture to product design, and from graphic design to game design.
The six winning OVAM Ecodesign Awards for student final projects will also be exhibited.
JONG GEWELD
Broelkaai 1B en 6
Kortrijk is full of young talent that thinks outside the box and challenges existing ideas. Inspired by each other, they are finding their own voice and making their mark on the city together. Youth organisations DURF2030, De Stroate, Bolwerk and Quindo are joining forces to put their young people in the spotlight through art, media technology and cross-sectoral experiments.
