Writer Saskia De Coster will be locked up for a month in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA). Visitors can then see how she finishes her novel.
From 1 to 28 February, De Coster will stay in a small room behind a transparent wall in the Heldenzaal of the museum. She will be putting the finishing touches to a novel there. “The biggest challenge of my writing career is coming,” she says on social media.
According to the museum, the art project examines the writing process ‘when the author completely disconnects himself from society and all kinds of communication’.
‘Normally the writer observes’, it sounds. ‘Here the roles are reversed: visitors to the KMSKA can see the writer at work. Just as they look at a work of art from many years ago. In this way the performance is also an ode to the old masters who live on in contemporary works.’
The art project is one of the pillars of the KMSKA program for 2023. The newly reopened museum, after many years of renovation, will also open an exhibition about the Catholic artists’ association De Pelgrim from 1924 in May, and an exhibition will follow in the autumn. about how old masters such as Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer painted faces.
