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EXHAUST is all about the execution of an internal combustion engine: over-revving a truck engine in a public space until it blows up. A marching crowd, a motor engine, an execution. After the executions of a combustion engine in Ghent, Vienna and Bolzano, EXHAUST is coming to Molenbeek as part of MolenFest - Molenbeek for Brussels 2030.

EXHAUST is all about the execution of an internal combustion engine: over-revving a truck engine in a public space until it blows up. A marching crowd, a motor engine, an execution: the opening of the 24th edition of Transart on 12 September 2024 will be literally explosive.

Mark your calendars we have some upcoming events!

Premiere ELEVATIONS

Join us for EXHAUST at Wiener Festwochen on 22 June 2024 starting at 20:30 at Haus der Republik, Vienna (AT)

Execution of the combustion engine. The procession leaves on 4 May 2024 at 10:00 at Kinderrechtenplein Gent. The execution takes place at 11:30 at St-Baafsplein Gent.

Welcome to the world premiere of EXHAUST / Ajax: the execution of the very last internal combustion engine. The explosion of the heart of a monstrous truck. The death row inmate is pulled by his judges on a cart. In front of the NTGent main hall, the sentence is read and carried out. The combustion engine is sacrificed on the altar of ecological catastrophe.

We are pleased to announce the first project of our iMAL x A Two Dogs Company residency. For the STAGES residency, a jury, composed of members of A Two Dogs Company and iMAL selected the proposal of Bárbara C. Branco.

EXHAUST is all about the execution of an internal combustion engine: over-revving a truck engine in a public space until it blows up.

Open call iMAL x A Two Dogs Company

EXHAUST / ajax - Open call iMAL x A Two Dogs Company - Technical-dramaturgical residencies 2024

For BRASS #2, Maxime Denuc created a new sound work for Kris Verdonck’s performative installation BRASS. BRASS is a ghost orchestra. Three sousaphones play by themselves and appear to be hoovering in space.

EXTRACTIONS 23 is the third edition of this annual exhibition organised by Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company and takes place in the company’s atelier.

EXTRACTIONS 23 is the third edition of this annual exhibition organised by Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company and takes place in the company’s atelier.

A Two Dogs Company mourns the loss of Johan Leysen. We cherish the collaborations we were able to enjoy over a span of almost twenty years.

PREY is a new music theatre production by Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company and Muziektheater Transparant with original music by Annelies Van Parys, in co-production with Klarafestival and Theater Rotterdam and in collaboration with Ictus ensemble.

PREY, a new music theatre production by Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company, in co-production with Muziektheater Transparant and in collaboration with ICTUS Ensemble.
 Annelies Van Parys is writing a new composition. The premiere is scheduled for 25-26 March 2023 at Théâtre Varia, together with Kaaitheater and as part of the Klarafestival in Brussels - DEMO, Kris Verdonck's first film - Technical-dramaturgical residencies

BOGUS I at Biennale Chroniques, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille (F) - ENTITIES in Panorama 24 at Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (F) - Save the Date: premiere PREY at Théâtre Varia, Brussels (B)

Is what we see really what it seems? In BOGUS I, four large-scale inflatables appear and disappear, like a jack-in-the-box. They are the ghost of growth, industry, entertainment and destruction. The performative scenography for a disappearing humanity, and the traces that remain.

The sculptures in the series ENTITIES are performative machines, objects that move by virtue of their own independent energy source. They perform without any interaction or connection with people. These autonomous mobiles are powered by solar, wind or residual heat energy and follow the rhythm of the natural element that sets them in motion.

What's in an artwork? is the third in the series of HISK alumni exhibitions and highlights the versatility and diversity of the alumni. Curator Bert Ghysels titles the exhibition What's in an artwork? in analogy with the expression 'what's in a name'.

ACT, A Beckett evening at NTGent on 10 & 11 June 2022.

EXTRACTIONS 22 - Programme: Exhibition & Performances

SCREENS. Immersive video-installation on a train. Aboard different trains in Belgium (last car). Free, with train ticket. (Photo: Lan Tran)

SCREENS - Immersive video-installation on a train, board different trains in Belgium. In the context of EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS - EXTRACTIONS 22 - exhibition

EXTRACTIONS 22 is an exhibition that brings together different artists who work along the themes of extraction and landscapes. The selection of installations, new and mixed media, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, performances and music, sketches an image of humankind that seems to have no other choice than to exploit its environment.

PREMIERE - A Two Dogs Company & KASK - School of Art present: THE LOST ONES (after Samuel Beckett) 10, 11 & 12 November 2021 - 20:00 at Theater Tinnenpot, Ghent (B)

Upcoming: SCREENS, a new creation for EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS - From 19.04.2022 until 29.04.2022

The Sleeping Cells by Kris Verdonck are metal frames with hammocks made from recycled seat belts. You will find them in each of the six participating streets of OpenStreets 21.

Kris Verdonck makes in ISOS reference to the world and characters depicted in the apocalyptic science-fiction novels by James Graham Ballard (GB, 1930-2009)

ISOS, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels (B) - EXTRACTIONS exhibition - PRESYNCOPE, Daejeon Museum of Art (ROK)

PRESYNCOPE at Daejeon Museum of Art, South-Korea - ISOS in ¿ MÁQUINA LOCA ?, Canal Connect at Teatros del Canal, Madrid (ES) & La Comédie de Reims (FR)

EXTRACTIONS is an exhibition that brings together various artists working around the destruction and alienation of landscapes. The extraction of resources necessary to sustain the consumption of food and technology results in degraded, heavily polluted environments across the globe.

Machine Made Silence. The Art of Kris Verdonck brings together an array of essays written by leading scholars in the field of theatre and performance studies and a series of interviews, performance texts, notes on particular works, ...

A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck at KANAL Centre Pompidou, BOZAR, SPRING in Autumn & PUZZLE, Thionville (F)

A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck is glad to announce that ACT has been selected for The Theater Festival (Flanders)! The performance will be presented on the 11th and 12th of September at Kaaitheater (Brussels).

Machine Made Silence. The Art of Kris Verdonck brings together an array of essays written by leading scholars in the field of theatre and performance studies and a series of interviews, performance texts, notes on particular works, ...