This exhibition connects to Constant Aline’s earlier project “TITLE”, presented in 2019 at Pinkie Bowtie a former artists space at ERCOLA. This new chapter returns to the same location and proposes a continuation and second iteration that revisits the logic of titling, framing and reinterpretation. This new installment is therefore presented as “TITLE TOO”; a playful yet deliberate reference to sequels, echoes and second rounds.
The subtitle ‘Hour Rose’ is the evocative but mysterious title of an early work by artist Carl Andre. In 2018 Idris Sevenans reconstructed this work with LEGO™ bricks. At ERCOLA the public is invited to make another copy guided by the manual and a helpful assistant. A special assembly stand will be present.
However the phrase ‘Hour Rose’ can also be read through a literary lens. In the tradition of ambiguous and non-linear storytelling - such as in William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’ - where meaning is constructed through fragments, atmosphere and suggestion rather than direct narrative clarity. This ambiguity is not only a conceptual backdrop but is actively incorporated into this exhibition. Three artists connect with their work from outside the space.

In 'mind (e)scapes' inner experiences are brought outward. Once outside, they change. Translated into artistic mediums, they shift, distort and never arrive intact. In this collective exhibition, artists explore what emerges: the residue of experience. Fragments that behave like memories, yet never fully settle into them. What is felt, seen and remembered takes shape in unexpected forms.
Photographer Isa Beau van Eembergen, still studying at the Royal Academy, invites and curates this exhibition which delves into the world of mindscapes. Photography, painting, drawing and other means of expression to convey personal visions of an imaginary environment. Generating through art truly emotional comfort zones into we can retreat and feel safe.

ERCOLA and Constant Peers offered two students a space and the opportunity to explore their own creative impulses and practice. Together with invitees of their own choice they create each a separate exhibition. The territory is open to different disciplines, performance and changing schedules. In the middle of Antwerp Art Weekend this space will be cleared and Lukas Gess, fellow student of Isa Beau, will build his own group exhibition titled 'Memetic Momentum'.

This project is assembled by two different generations who represent two different artistic mindsets and spirits of the time. The invited curator is Constant Peers, the curator for ERCOLA vzw is Leendert van Accoleyen. The building itself is not merely a location, but an active conceptual framework: its spatial hierarchy and architecture become part of the story, its symbolism, and its expression. Leendert and Constant together build this joint exhibition in the ‘show:room’, which consists of the hall, the two adjacent rooms, and the garden. It is intended as a focal point of art by contemporary artists and is full of surprises. Some performances may take place in the basement.

Thomas Vermeiren and Lucas Hendrix are given free rein in the showroom environment for their in situ interventions and performances. Together with invited participants, they create temporary installations and participatory setups. For example, in the light of the 100th anniversary of television and the ‘cursed corridor’ that Filip Francis created at ERCOLA in the 1970s.

Inspired by ERCOLA’s upcoming move, the idea emerged to create a majestic, towering, rearing horse from the materials that need to be relocated. To turn the move into an adventurous and creative event, the artists decided to construct the horse using materials from the studios. The project is still in progress, with multiple members of the collective contributing. The work also contains subtle references to the oeuvre of Louise De Langhe, who tragically passed away last year in a traffic accident.

The art collective ERCOLA presents in the basement of the Godshuis the exhibition 'in caravan, ERCOLA'.

Where the upper floors function as shared, visible, and organized spaces, the artists in the basement take on a different position: underground, temporary, rougher, and more collective. The basement thus becomes a physical and symbolic place for the younger generation of artists, who today increasingly see how autonomous workspaces and collective structures disappear under the pressure of redevelopment, regulation, and commercialization.

'in caravan, ERCOLA' explores how freedom and future-oriented thinking can emerge precisely within dependency and care. The exhibition departs from the idea that collective care-for one another, for the environment, for materials, and for shared infrastructure- can today be a new form of radicality and avant-garde. Drawing inspiration from the philosophy of care, such as Joan Tronto and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, care is not read here as something soft or secondary, but as an active and political force: an alternative to individualization and exhaustion.

Memetic Momentum: The symbol in this exhibition functions as a conceptual framework, a hint, a gesture, a reference, or a direct mediation. These fragments - dense with information - activate our collective visual lexicon, exposing the semiotic layers of contemporary culture. This exhibition features works that play with the symbolic charge of visual elements: internet media, screenshots, (pop) cultural figures, tropes, and re-appropriated text or imagery. They evoke a kind of visual realism - one that mirrors how we perceive and construct our visual reality today.
Memetic Momentum traces our search for meaning amid a flood of images, probing the complex relationship between representation, relevance and power.

Since 1972 the ERCOLA buildings host a diverse collective of artists, couturiers, jewelry designers, comic artists, illustrators, graphic designers, interior decorators, film makers and set designers.

Over the decades, the building has functioned as a living artistic ecosystem: a shared working space, meeting point, archive and experimental environment where generations of artists developed practices rooted in collaboration and collective infrastructure. The present collective wishes to create a final tribute to this community, its layered history, and its role as a long-standing autonomous space for artistic production.

ERCOLA will be the staging ground in May 2026 of a cluster of exhibitions. The event will take place in rooms on the ground floor and the extensive basements of this historic building complex.

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Opening hours on 10, 23, 24 May 5 – 8 PM
Antwerp Art Weekend Opening 14 May 12-9 PM and open on 15, 16, 17 May 12-6 PM