TICK TACK presents Nothing New Under the Sun, an exhibition developed with the Collection Flemish Community and curated by seven international curators from KASK’s Curatorial Studies programme.
Taking its starting point in the depot of the Collection Flemish Community in Vilvoorde, the exhibition illuminates the movement of artworks between conservation, storage and display—bringing them, for a moment, into the public view of the City of Antwerp. Created in collaboration with the Department Culture, Youth and Media, the exhibition showcases works from the Collection Flemish Community, a vast public collection that preserves, restores and lends out artworks to Flemish institutions.
Both sunlight and artificial light are among the most damaging elements for many materials and techniques, causing fading, discoloration, or other degradation. In other words, every time an artwork is exhibited, it fulfills its purpose to be seen, yet it is exposed to damaging conditions. This tension lies at the heart of every collection but is hardly ever presented to the public. Rather than presenting a single art-historical narrative, Nothing New Under the Sun reveals what it means for a collection to be public: not fixed, but continually preserved, activated and shared through the systems that sustain it.
While artworks are moving into the brutalist building of TICK TACK named—The Sundial (1955, Léon Stynen)—a newly commissioned performance, Scrum (2026) by Lily White and dancers Charlotte Dos Santos and Mina Verheyen unfolds at the depot. Like a house-swap, this intervention brings an embodied and live practice into the space usually reserved for the collection.
