Exiting the Vampire Castle
14.05.2022 – 02.07.2022
Lichtekooi Artspace

With works by Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Willem de Rooij, Mekhitar Garabedian, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Margarita Maximova, Ria Pacquée, Nora Turato, Sietske Van Aerde and Guy Woueté

The starting point for the group exhibition is Mark Fisher’s controversial essay Exiting the Vampire Castle (2013), which deals with contemporary issues such as cancel culture, internet culture, neo-capitalism, class struggle and identity-based discourses. Fisher’s text serves as a framework for dialogue, with an eye for different positions and perspectives. 

Curated by Nadia Bijl, Pepa De Maesschalck and Vedran Kopljar.

“We need to learn, or re-learn, how to build comradeship and solidarity instead of doing capital’s work for it by condemning and abusing each other. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we must always agree – on the contrary, we must create conditions where disagreement can take place without fear of exclusion and excommunication.”