10.10 ’26

10 Oct

Subjectieve Atlas van Wal en Water

🕐 Saturday, October 10, 2026, 11 – 5.30 pm
📍Firma Andries, Rieme Noord 🇧🇪
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🙏🏻 Nele Keukelier, Lee Blomme, Charlotte Geeraert, Marthe Huyse, Hilde Van Kerckhove, Adriënne van de Werf

Wat betekent het om te leven, werken en thuis te zijn in de dorpen langs het kanaal Gent-Terneuzen tot de Zeeuwse havengemeenten? Wat zie jij, wat valt je op, wat is van waarde, welke plekken, verhalen of veranderingen verdienen meer aandacht, maar ook welke spanningen blijven voor velen onzichtbaar of onbegrepen?

Samen met bewoners, zoals jongeren, kunstenaars, verenigingen en andere betrokkenen willen we de kanaaldorpen vanuit verschillende perspectieven in kaart brengen. Niet vanuit een vooraf bepaald beeld van de regio, maar vanuit de ervaringen van de mensen die er wonen, werken en leven.

Daarom maken we een Subjectieve Atlas: een verzameling persoonlijke kaarten, tekeningen, foto's, grafieken en andere visuele bijdragen die samen een veelstemmig beeld van een plek vormen. Het gaat niet om een 'juiste' of volledige kaart. Jouw ervaring, observaties en manier van kijken zijn het vertrekpunt.

Van dagelijkse routes en ontmoetingsplekken tot landschappen, herinneringen, zorgen, dromen en veranderingen: wat maakt deze regio voor jou bijzonder? Wat zie jij dat anderen misschien niet zien? Welke verhalen, plekken of perspectieven mogen niet ontbreken? En hoe zou je die in beeld kunnen brengen?

Tijdens een series workshops in tien verschillende dorpen of gemeenschappen, experimenteren we met diverse manieren van cartografie en verbeelding. Je hoeft geen kunstenaar of cartograaf te zijn: het gaat niet om mooi kunnen tekenen, maar om samen te onderzoeken hoe je jouw relatie tot de regio zichtbaar kunt maken.

Alle bijdragen worden uiteindelijk samengebracht in de Subjectieve Atlas van Water en Wal, die eind 2027 verschijnt. De atlas wordt zo een veelstemmig portret van een regio in verandering — gemaakt vanuit de mensen die haar van binnenuit kennen, beleven en vormgeven.

Impressies

Fotografie Diana Dimbueni

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Subjective Editions

Subjective Atlas of Lubumbashi

€24.50

Picha & Subjective Editions, 2026
French-English, 192 full-colour pages, 16.5 x 22 cm

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Lubumbashi is not a city to be easily navigated; it is a city to be lived, loved, hated, remembered and constantly transformed. This Subjective Atlas of Lubumbashi looks beyond the colonial grid, railway lines and mining infrastructure of Congo’s second-largest city. On the initiative of independent art and research centre Picha, nearly a hundred inhabitants have mapped their lived experiences. Their drawings, photo series and alternative cartographies acknowledge both the city’s wounds and its cultural vitality, tracing fear and affection, displacement and belonging, neighbourhood economies, night-time rhythms, rituals, and personal landmarks. We see flowers bloom despite hardship, braids become living archives, and clothing shape urban aesthetics. These poetic gestures resist being pinned down to coordinates, but unveil a constellation of interconnected worlds where memory, labour, creativity, pain and resilience meet, allowing us to imagine potential futures from this point forward.

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ISBN 978-9-46-444804-7
This publication is a result of collaboration between Subjective Editions and Atelier Picha

Editor-in-chief: Annelys de Vet
Editorial team: Grady Bizaki Fungafunga, Filip De Boeck, Semi Kansense, Jean-Sylvain Tshilumba Mukendi, Gaëlle Van Lede

Subjective Atlas of Groningen

ARTisBOOK & Subjective Editions, 2026
Dutch-English, 192 full-colour pages, 16.5 x 22 cm

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The Subjective Atlas of Groningen brings together a diverse group of Groningers mapping the province and what it means to be “at home,” in order to share and make visible the personal, but often invisible, experiences of various resident groups in Groningen.

Created through participatory workshops and public activities—including exhibitions, events, and participatory sessions across the province—the project invites local communities to share their stories, becoming visible both physically and online. In seven workshops organized by the partner organizations, approximately 80 participants explored their vision of “being at home” in Groningen. Through creative sessions, they reflected on personal themes and developed visual contributions, fostering interaction and providing space for diverse perspectives and stories.

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ISBN 978-9-46-444803-0
This publication is a result of collaboration between Subjective Editions and ARTisBOOK

Editor-in-chief: Annelys de Vet
Research, development and editing: Pieter Augustijn, Ruby de Vos, Jedidja Smalbil
Preface: Pieter Augustijn, Ruby de Vos
Introduction: Wilbert van de Kamp

Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina

PCRC & Subjective Editions, 2025
Bosnian-English, 192 full-colour pages, 16.5 x 22 cm

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The Subjective Atlas of Bosnia and Herzegovina brings together over eighty personal mappings from people living in a country long defined by outsiders—reduced to entities, ethnic categories, and wartime narratives. This atlas counters such simplifications with a polyphonic cartography: visual stories that show how people inhabit, remember, and imagine this place today.

Created through participatory workshops across Bosnia and Herzegovina, the contributions use drawing, collage, and photography to create alternative mappings of a conflict affected state. Rather than offering a fixed or objective account, these situated mappings aim to feel the country—through the materialities of war-damaged buildings, the taste of homemade juices, and the joy of small acts of kindness.

In a landscape where trauma lingers and political inertia persists, this publication opens space for critical imagination. It invites us to see Bosnia and Herzegovina not as divided, but as a layered place of entangled histories and resilient futures—mapped from within.

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ISBN 978-9-46444-802-3
This publication is a result of a collaboration between Subjective Editions, Newcastle University and PCRC

Editor-in-Chief: Annelys de Vet (Subjective Editions)
Editorial support: Sana Gobbeh, Anita Karabašić, Paul Lowe, Tatjana Milovanović, Ivana Perić, Theresa Rauch, James Riding, Velma Šarić, Amina Sejfić
Foreword: Velma Šarić
Introduction: James Riding

Subjective Atlas of Palestine

010 Publishers, 2007 & Subjective Editions (re-print), 2024
English, 160 full-colour pages, 16.5 x 22 cm

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Sublime landscapes, tranquil urban scenes, frolicking children; who would associate these images with Palestine? All too often the Western media show the country’s gloomy side, and Palestinians as aggressors. It is this that makes identifying with them virtually impossible. If we are to relate to the Palestinians other images are needed, images seen from a cultural and more human vantage point.

Palestinian artists, photographers and designers have mapped their country as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human impressions of the landscape and the architecture, the cuisine, the music and the poetry of thought and expression. The drawings, maps and photographs reveal individual life experiences. The contributions give an entirely different angle on a nation in occupied territory. In this subjective atlas it is the Palestinians themselves who show the disarming reverse side of the black-and-white image generally resorted to by the media.

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ISBN 978-906-450-648-2
EDITOR: Annelys de Vet
CURATOR: Khaled Hourani (International Academy of Arts Palestine)
CONTRIBUTORS: Sameh Abboushi, Majd Abdel Hamid, Senan Abdelqader, Mohammed Amous, Tayseer Barakat, Sami Bandak, Baha Boukhari, Mahmoud Darwish (poem), Reem Fadda, Shadi Habib Allah, Majdi Hadid, Shuruq Harb, Dima Hourani, Khaled Hourani Munther Jaber, Khaled Jarrar, Abed Al Jubeh, Hassan Khader (foreword), Yazan Khalili, Suleiman Mansour, Basel Al Maqousi, Sani P. Meo, Inas Moussa, Hafez Omar, Hosni Radwan, Awatef Rumiyah, Ahmad Saleem, Shareef Sarhan, Majed Shala, Sami Shana’ah, Maissoon Sharkawi, Mamoun Shrietch, Lena Sobeh, Mohanad Yaqubi, Inass Yassin