A concerted soundscape about death, emptiness and life in between. Huang Ruo builds musical bridges between Asia and the West, but also between life and death.

Bridge Stories started in the cold winter of 2022 when people were sleeping on the bridge in front of Klein Kasteeltje / Petit-Château. Next to the many solidarity actions of the neighbours providing food and shelter, Cinemaximiliaan felt the need to invite people for artistic expression, as art would give them their name back.

Bridge Stories - a sense of belonging is a way to ‘bridge’ the gap and nurture connections between newcomers and locals.

Pornopera (working title) is a concert stripped to its bare core: voice and body. Two singers and an electronic musician confront the audience with the physicality of sound. Early music meets the gaze of the present. What happens when music once meant for God enters the realm of arousal? When divine ecstasy pulses through bodies instead of belief?

Passages is an encountering between several disciplines in the museum

AMOPERA is the first part of a triptych around the idea of 'meta-opera', which aims to reflect on the medium of opera. This first instalment - the love part - is an intense collaboration between Klangforum Wien and Needcompany on opera and music theatre from the past hundred years.

The Power (of) The Fragile is a meeting between Mohamed and Latifa, his mother. After being apart for several years, they find each other again on stage.