Locations

Design Fest Gent is taking over downtown Ghent. Some locations and their programme:

  • Design Museum Gent: the emptied museum shows design projects, gives lectures, workshops and demonstrations, organizes a design nursery, partner projects and much more. 
    It also serves as the main location and starting point of the festival.

    In the courtyard is the garden terrace of Villa Anamma.

  • Museum of Industry: focuses on all types of fabric.

    The Museum Café will be open.

  • DaDa Chapel: contemporary art installations of Maarten Vanden Eynde

  • S.M.A.K.: Soulhacker installation & performances art collective CREW from 28.04. Please note: your day pass or festival pass does not give access to the exhibitions in S.M.A.K.

  • The Wilde Route: a route along 15 Ghent design shops where young designers get to work with the shop’s unsold stock 

  • Gallery Tatjana Pieters, Gallery Casa Argentaurum, Kiosk Gallery and Gallery Atelier Ecru show contemporary art and design related to the DFG themes

  • MIRY Concert Hall of KASK & Conservatorium: venue for the larger lectures

  • Polestar Space: showing BreaZea (Breathe In/ Breathe Out) created by crafting plastics! studio i.c.w. OFFICE MMK

  • Kunstencentrum Voo?uit: location for the Impact Gathering and an artwork created by Arnaud Eubelen re-creating the urban context (from 27/04)

  • St James’ Church: the church chairs are being refurbished by ONBETAALBAAR in collaboration with CAMPO, 019 & Design Museum Gent. Amen to that!

Opening hours:

  • Fri 22/04 10u - 22u

  • Sat 23/04 10u - 22u

  • Sun 24/04 10u - 19u

  • Mon 25/04 10u - 19u

  • Tue 26/04 10u - 19u

  • Wed 27/04 10u - 19u

  • Thu 28/04 10u - 22u

  • Fri 29/04 10u - 22u

  • Sat 30/04 10u - 22u

  • Sun 01/05 10u - 19u

Dada Chapel: closed on 22, 25, 26 & 27 April. All other days of the festival open from 2 p.m. until festival closing time.

Shop Design Museum Gent: open every day from 2 p.m. until festival closing time.

Polestar Space: The Space is closed on Sundays/ Mondays. Open all other days from 10h to 18h.

St James’ Church: Open on 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 April & 1 May from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.