From 7 September to 8 November 2026, the artist and choreographer Meg Stuart will be in residence at S.M.A.K., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent.

Over the course of these two months, part of the museum’s publicly accessible ground floor will be transformed into a collective laboratory: a living archive that reimagines the ongoing practice of Meg Stuart and her dance company, Damaged Goods, by moving the studio into public space. Through acts of vulnerability and disruption, this residency offers a chance to experience the museum as a shared space to inhabit. The audience is welcomed inside to watch, listen, linger, converse—in short, to be in company with the artists.

Stuart will be joined by an array of collaborators, drawn from different moments in her company’s thirty-year history, as well as guest artists. Their research begins within a scenographic installation conceived as a clearing: a liminal space for gathering, experimenting, imagining, and reflecting. From there, the project will spill into the museum, subtly affecting how people move through the building and relate to the artworks, the architecture, and to one another. Cyclical figures play a central role: movements of assembling and dismantling, rotation and torque, reanimation and return.

Openness is a guiding principle throughout the residency. The audience is invited to witness artistic processes as they unfold over time. Within the context of an art collection, the tension between what is shown and what remains unseen takes on particular resonance. This porous presence will take a range of public forms, including interventions, conversations, and open practice sessions, extending into the surrounding park and the city of Ghent.

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