Contact
IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art
Rotenberg 12b
4700 Eupen
Belgium
+32 87 56 01 10
info@ikob.be
Visit
Opening Hours
Tuesday-Sunday 13-18 o'clock
Closed on Mondays
Entry
Admission: with voluntary donation; recommendation 6 euros
Free entry for children and teenagers up to 18 years and for IKOB members
We are a member of Museums-PASS-Musées, your admission ticket to more than 210 Belgian museums. The Museum Pass grants you free entry to all participating museums for one year, with new participants added on a regular basis. The Museum Pass is also available in the IKOB Shop, just ask at our reception!
Team
Frank-Thorsten Moll Director
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Brenda Guesnet Curator, Engagement, Deputy Director
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Ingrid Mossoux Administration, press and public relations
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Serge Cloot Management and Logistics
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Lara Duyster Curatorial Assistant / Social Media / Sustainability Officer
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Ajla Camic Volunteer, front of house
Charlotte Bohn Educator, freelance
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Internships and Freelance Collaboration
The IKOB offers students and graduates an ideal framework in the form of an internship for deepening their interest in the tasks and fields of activity of a museum for contemporary art.
Anyone who has ever wanted to know how an exhibition is prepared, what considerations underlie the concept of an exhibition and how the administrative processes in a museum function can apply for an internship position at the IKOB.
You can contact acting director Brenda Guesnet at the address guesnet@ikob.be for more information. We expect a written application with the usual documents including a photo, submitted by postal service or e-mail (attachments as PDF-file, not larger than 5 Mb).
Support
Becoming a Member
Would you like to support contemporary art and firmly anchor it in Eupen?
With a contribution of 50 euros, you can become a member of IKOB for an entire year and join with us in making it possible to experience art in Eastern Belgium.
As a member, you have numerous advantages:
– Invitations by mail to exhibition openings
– Free admission to exhibitions and guided tours
– Art advice free of charge
– Reduced prices for editions
– Invitations to exciting art trips
– Interesting contacts with artists and many opportunities for dialogue
– Personal membership card
In addition, you have the right to vote at the annual members’ meeting, where important decisions about museum affairs are made.
You can also become a member directly here.
You can easily register here by entering your name and e-mail address; registration is also possible by telephone or letter.
Do you have questions? Then please contact us directly:
Tel.: +32 87 56 01 10
E-Mail: info@ikob.be
Contributions
The IKOB strives for an open encounter with its visitors; it hopes they will engage in discussions about works of art and become involved in current events. Do the same yourself and become a patron of the museum!
You can support the IKOB through a one-time contribution and help to bring excellent art to Eupen.
Please send a contribution of whatever amount you choose to the following account:
IKOB V.o.G.
IBAN: BE55 2480 0669 4444
BIC: GEBABEBB
Museum
The IKOB
Our museum is located in the city of Eupen in the German-speaking community of Belgium, close to the German and Dutch border. Its programme focuses on emerging and leading contemporary art through the constitution of a significant collection – in progress – and temporary exhibitions – in dialogue. Thus, functioning as a discursive platform for contemporary art with its multidisciplinary and thematic exhibition programme and highlighting critical and socio-political issues, the IKOB attempts to reflect upon the matter of the frontier.
History and Further Self-Presentation of the Museum
The IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art began as an idea of the artist, art teacher and subsequent museum director Francis Feidler. The institution was conceived as a center for border-transcending exhibitions out of which a later museum collection could be successively built up – augmented by purchases and loans, as well as by donations especially from exhibiting artists. The first milestones for the Eastern Belgian art center were the sculpture exhibition Kontakt 93 at the park facilities in Eupen as well as the project Volle Scheunen (with 12 installations respectively in the Ardennes and the Eifel), which was realized in collaboration with the former head of the Documenta Manfred Schneckenburger.
The IKOB established itself quite early on as an internationally oriented exhibition platform as well as a promoter of the regional art scene. Already back then, the special characteristic of how the museum would like to be perceived and how it operates lay in its active approach toward artists in the region. They were often featured in pioneering exhibitions shortly before they achieved an international breakthrough. These presentations gave rise to the collection of the institution, which meanwhile comprises more than 400 works. In 1999, the IKOB acquired a fixed domicile in a commercially used building near the old Schlachthof. In 2005, the collection received official recognition, and the International Art Center of Eastern Belgium was renamed the IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art.
The museum considers its proximity to international borders as a point of departure for serving as a cultural mediator between the various regions of Belgium and engaging in a fertile exchange with the artistic scenes in Germany and the Netherlands. Inasmuch as it invites visitors to investigate political, social and cultural developments in an informal atmosphere, it strives to make an active contribution to society – also in the framework of its exhibitions. In three to four large shows per year, the museum displays contemporary art in the best sense of the term, with the main exhibitions being accompanied by individual presentations of works from the permanent collection.
The IKOB, however, does not intend simply to organize and document contemporary art but instead, through the choice of themes and artists for its exhibitions, to discover and convey new artistic tendencies. Through a constant shifting of focus onto current themes that are handled by diverse artistic media, the museum moves in close contact with both the established and the up-and-coming art scenes. In 2018, the IKOB has celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding; over the years, it has become a well-known name in the Euregio Maas-Rhine region.