Chris-Armel Iradukunda, Davide Paolillo, Gregor Petrikovič, Mélanie Ganino, Maria Stuut, Martina Petrović, Jeremias Pérez Salerno, Ychaï Gassenbauer
Collective Storyline
Alienated figures sing melancholic birthday songs for childhood dreams. Happy birthday, everyone!
Inside the marble cathedral of Hectolitre, the collective unconscious becomes a mantra of remembrance, refracted through a Fresnel lens. Rivers of ghostly matter dissolve past the edge of human knowledge. We wish we could transmit the weight of time to you, mind to mind, before the trickling sand turns memory into a silica desert.
Live Performances
Soundscape by Jeremias P.S. -> Friday, 19h30 - 20h30
Singing 10 hours of Dido by Maria S. -> Saturday, 10h - 20h23
No Sticks, No-input, Still Drumming by Davide P. -> Sunday, 14h-14h30 & 16h-16h30
Artist Book Shop
HECTOLITRE: Story of a Brussels Art Space, by Mladen Bundalo and David Labi
Publisher: Hectolitre ASBL, Year: 2023, Price: 20€, Shop: Buy at the Reactor bar
Westside - Artist run space
Friday 16h - 21h, Saturday 10h - 22h, Sunday 13h - 18h
Rue de l'Hectolitre 3, 1000 Bruxelles
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Artists Profiles
Melanie Ganino’s worldbuilding practice weaves photography performance and community arts to create bridges between knowledges, disciplines and forms of life, imagining other ways of sensing, relating to otherness and inhabiting our environments.
Gregor Petrikovič (b. 1995) is a Slovak-British artist and filmmaker based in Brussels. Working across lens-based media and installation, his practice explores human connection, digital alienation, and collective experience.
He holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, where he was a Burberry Design Scholar. His work has been shown at New Contemporaries 2026, Tate Late, IDFA DocLab and Sónar+D Barcelona. He is an alumnus of the ISCP Residency New York and a 2025 FLAMIN Fellow at Film London.
Chris-Armel Iradukunda is a multifaceted artist born in Burundi, educated as a computer engineer in China. For 8 years, he documented daily walks with an art form that led to exile in Europe: digital photography.
He wears the hats of a dramaturg, actor, performer, coder, hacker, and eyeballs alienhood and smarter-than-human beings. At the 61st Venice Biennale, the Bosnia and Herzegovina pavilion exhibits his guest works, presented in the name of the nation he fled, while absent due to being undocumented by Belgian laws.
Maria Stuut is a biologist turned artist with an inexplicable fondness for cabbage, working with film, performance, music, and writing. With a microscope in one hand and a mirror in the other, she lets her body wander into encounters, exploring her environment through a personal, lyrical and tragicomic lens.
Martina Petrović is an interdisciplinary artist born in Serbia. Her practice started with visual works, from drawing and painting to sculpture and installation.
She researches and explores performative rituals, revolving around the reroting of Balkan rituals into the sphere of environmental and participatory art. She is active in two art collectives: School of Love, Garden of Delights.
Davide Paolillo is an Italian composer and sound artist whose work explores the physical properties of sound and the dynamic relationship between composer, performer and media.
His practice is grounded in direct experimentation with everyday objects, instrument deformations, amplification, electronics, and creative coding. In recent years, his focus has shifted towards the development and use of non-linear electroacoustic/hybrid performance systems and feedback instruments.
Ychaï Gassenbauer is a Brussels-based audiovisual artist working across animation, video, and performance. Originally from Jerusalem, his multidisciplinary practice explores identity, intimacy, and belief, while questioning the cultural structures that shape them.
Jeremias Perez Salerno is an Argentinian musician and sound artist based in Brussels. He explores the universe of musical and no musical sound impressions, and their possible combinations.
Self-perceived as an intuition wanderer, he passed his twenties traveling with his music in Europe and South America, until finding in Brussels the perfect environment to finally settle down. He is the author of several poetry fanzines and co-author of songs from the Argentinian indie rock project: Montarosa.