Art's Birthday

"Art's Birthday" is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world.

at the MUHKA from 19ooh. with a wall by Dennis Tyfus,                                 a State of the Arts by Oscar van den Boogaard, a talk by Chantal Pattyn, Oscar van den Boogaard (HISK), Ivo Van Hove (Toneelgroep Amsterdam), Ann Demeester (de Appel) en Bart Van Looy (Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen K.U.Leuven)                         and Performances by Marc Bijl, Suchan Kinoshita, Job Koelewijn, Wim T. Schippers and Henk Visch
And cake by Gert Verhoeven