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Exhibitions – Lectures

2025

• 21buildings, a research development project by optimist office, noAarchitecten and Thomas Bellinck, financed by the Flemish Arts Decree with ETH Zurich, various workshops and walking tours: 25-11-01-21-buildings-walking-tour.jpg
• noAarchitecten – 3 X MUSEUM / 3 X MUSEO, Galleria del Progetto, Politecnico di Milano, exhibition & lecture: 25-10-27-invito-mostra-noaarchitecten-politecnico.pdf
• On Conversion, Studio Esch, Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, lecture
• Sprechen über Architektur, Weimar University, lecture
• Het Steen, Heritage & Landscape Futures Blended Instensive Program, University of Antwerp, lecture
• Adaptive Reuse, Croatian Architects’ Association, Zagreb, lecture
• Building – An Fonteyne in conversation with Ludwig Engel, Irish Architecture Foundation & HouseEurope!, Dublin, Open House conversation
• Architecture for Heritage, YACademy Bologna, lecture
• Architektur und Zeit, RWTH Aachen, lecture
• Jos.Bedaux lecture, Stichting Jos. Bedaux Architect & Tilburg University, lecture
• Doppel der Umbaukulturen, BDA Aachen & the Department of Architecture at the FH Aachen, lecture
• Kanal Brussels – The Wild Beyond – Umbau einer Citroen Automobilfabrik in ein Kunstmuseum, Museumsrunde Berlin – Was Draus Bauen?!, lecture
• Affective Architectures – keynote lecture, ICSA2025, Structures and Architecture, University of Antwerp, lecture
• Online lecture for design studio of professor Hiromi Hosoya, Keio University, lecture

• All buildings are beautiful – art in architecture, Mechelen, Thomas More, Winterieur, lecture
• As Found, Vienna, TU Wien, lecture as part of exhibition
• Architektur im Kontext, Münster, LWL Baukultur, lecture and debate
• Belgian Projects EU Mies Awards 2024, Brussels, KU Leuven, lecture and exhibiton launch
• Pompidou with Erik Wieërs, Klara, radio talk
• Teaching Architecture, Porto, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, lecture
• S.M.A.K., Ghent, Vrienden van S.M.A.K., lecture
• Castelli e Contemporaneità, Bologna, YACademy, lecture
• Soft Power: The Brussels Way of Making the City, Basel, S AM, exhibition
• Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels: trust in the existing, Basel, S AM, lecture
• Character – Exactitude and Ambiguity, St Gallen, AFO, Switzerland, lecture

• Schärenmoosstrasse Competition Entries, Zurich, group exhibition
• Adaptibility, Brussels, Architecture Prize 2023, debate
• As Found, Antwerp, Flanders Architecture Institute, group exhibition
• Flanders Architectural Review with William Mann and Xaveer De Geyter, Venice, 18th Architecture Biennale, talk

• Lasst es bleiben-macht es besser!, as part of the Transformation des Bestehenden Symposium, Bonn, BDA, lecture
• In Progress, TU Delft, Chair of Interiors Buildings Cities, lecture
• Campus and former prison UHasselt, as part of the series Growing Together, Brussels, UCL, lecture
• Reading place. Re-use of monumental heritage, BPRK-APROA, colloquium lecture
• Forderungen der Zeit, Hamburg, Hamburger Architektur- und Stadtdiskurs, lecture
• Care for Space for Care, as part of the double exhibition of Caring architecture, Antwerp, DeSingel, VAi, exhibition
• It’s about time, Rotterdam, Architecture Biennale, group exhibition
• De Architecte – An Fonteyne, VRT & Klara, video series

• 40 years of competition / 40 jaar wedstrijdcultuur, Antwerp, Flanders Architecture Institute, group exhibition
• Close to Home, TU Delft, as part of the symposium Urban Design, lecture
• Reading Place, TU Darmstadt, 50 Jahre Positionen series, lecture
• Ways of Seeing, Limerick University, SAUL Studio Lecture Series, lecture
• Learning environments as enhancement of the urban fabric, Kortrijk Creativity Week, lecture and debate
• Institution Building, Brussels, CIVA, 27 August – 7 November, group exhibition
• The Meeting: An Fonteyne, Brussels, CIVA, as part of exhibition Instution Building, lecture
• Tribute to Pritzker laureates Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, ETH Zurich, round table discussion
• Kanal. The Wild Beyond, ETH Zurich, as part of the course Future Monuments, The Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation, lecture
• Maison du Projet, Brussels, Atelier Kanal, on the progress of the architectural project of the future museum KANAL, 25 April, exhibition
• Our Journey through Antwerp, Architecture Foundation, recent work, online lecture
• Open Call. 20 years of public architecture, Ghent, Brussels, Hasselt and Kortrijk, FAi, 27 Nov 2021 – 17 April 2022, traveling exhibition
• Dag van de Architectuur 2021, as part of the Festival van de Architectuur, guided tours at Ecotron UHasselt, City Campus UHasselt, Heating Plant Nieuw Zuid, Ensor House, Gruuthusemuseum, Texture Museum and Plantin Moretus Museum, 14-16 October
• Bruggenbouwers – Architect Philippe Viérin, Radio 1, radio broadcast

• Atelier KANAL, KANAL Brussels, exhibition
• Dear Marie José – Hommage to Marie José van Hee, Ghent, Archipel, lecture
• Schauspielhaus Zürich – Zukunftsperspektiven für einen Erinneringsort, Zurich, Villa Tobler, lecture
• Plaats / Place, Ypres, Flanders Fields Museum, Philippe Viérin on reconstruction architecture, October 2020, exhibition

• Alternative Histories, CIVA Brussels, Cork Street London, Drawing Matter and Architecture Foundation, traveling exhibition and lecture
• Kanal: a stage for Brussels, KANAL Brussels, Archipel, lecture
• Architects at Play, Brussels, CIVA, group exhibition
• Bruxelles: La capitale officieuse de l’Europe, Arte, An Fonteyne, tv program
• On Kanal, Prague, Kruh, Czech Republic, series Architecture from Flanders, lecture
• Epistolary Talk, Zagreb, Croatia, The Hidden School, European Association for Architectural Education, lecture
• Kanal-Centre Pompidou, Muttenz, Switzerland, FHNW, series Umbauten, lecture
• 7 Questions, ETH Zurich, studio Jan De Vylder, Universum Carrousel Journey, lecture
• Affinity, An Fonteyne, Alexandre Theriot and Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich, IEA Ringvorlesung, lecture
• Kanal Brussels, Brussels, Kanal Brut, An Fonteyne and Chris Dercon – Art Club Luzern, conversation
• Encounters#1, Brussels, Kanal Brut, Performatik, debate
• Urban Commons: Exploring the Collective Architectural Resources of the City, ETH Zurich, Chair Tom Avermaete, colloquium
• Sofa Talk, Brussels, Kanal Brut, KU Leuven, seminar Architecture & Activism, lecture
• noAarchitecten: Portrait of An Fonteyne, FEMICITY, video series, 15.12.2019

• Weiter-Bauen Weiter-Denken, Luzern, architektursymposium + lecture
• Serendipity, An Fonteyne, Roger Boltshauser and Axel Simon, ETH Zurich, IEA Ringvorlesung, lecture
• Permanence and change, An Fonteyne, Annette Spiro and Anna Viebrock, ETH Zurich, IEA Ringvorlesung, lecture
• Ambiguity / Discovering Significance, ETH Zurich, inauguration lecture An Fonteyne
• European Citizenship, Brussels, ECIT Foundation, participation ETH students at Summer University
• An architecture for Europe, Brussels, Bozar, European Lab Brussels, lecture and debate
• Brexit and the Cultural and Creative Industries, Brussels, Bozar + British Council, discussion
• Resilience, TU Berlin, architecture conference
• Atelier Kanal, work in progress, Brussels, Kanal Brut, exhibition
• Kanal-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Kanal Brut, group exhibition
• Es ist kein architektonisches, sondern ein politisches Versäumnis, dass sich Subkulturen entwickelt haben., NZZ, Antje Stahl, 05.09.2018, interview An Fonteyne

• Verloren Ontwerpen, Hasselt, Z33, Architectuur Huiskamer, group exhibition
• Recent Work, Hochschule Bochum, lecture
• Rendez-vous, Antwerp, deSingel, Flanders Architecture Academy, lecture and debate
• Herbestemming: een antwoord op duurzame ruimtelijke ambities?, STUK Leuven, Inspiratieweek Meesterproef Erfgoed en Herbestemming, presentation and debate
• Recent Work, Brussels, UCL, lecture
• Architekturpositionen, TU Braunschweig, lecture
• Stand der Dinge, ETH Zurich, IEA Ringvorlesung, lecture
• Exactitude, Hochschule München, series Here and There, lecture

• Architecture and Design, ETH Zurich, lecture
• After Nature, ETH Zurich, colloquium Architecture & Design, architecture conference
• Exactitude, Leeds Beckett University, series Inside Out, lecture
• EUtopia, Possibility of an island, Leuven, Museum M, curated by Joeri De Bruyn and Ward Verbakel, group exhibition
• What’s Up? Junge Architektur aus Flandern und Österreich, Vienna, Austria, Architekturzentrum Wien, lecture
• Kunst des Alltäglichen, Gründer – Durchbruch – Aufbruch, Cologne, Germany, KAP Forum, lecture
• Maatwerk Massarbeit. Custom Made Architecture from Flanders and the Netherlands., Frankfurt am Main, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, group exhibition
• Economy of Form, Düsseldorf, Peter Behrens School of Architecture, lecture
• Recent Work, Biel, Architektur Forum, lecture
• L’Angle, ULB, La Cambre, lecture
• Prize for Architecture West Flanders, exhibition

• Encounters, TUDelft + TUBerlin, lecture and symposium
• Redesignation, KULeuven, lecture
• Healthy Schools, UHasselt, lecture
• Heritage, Archipel, debate
• On Ambiguity, TUDelft, lecture
• Stephen Bates, Brussels, Bozar, introduction to lecture Stephan Bates
• City Campus Hasselt University, Hasselt, European Association for Architectural Education, lecture
• On Ambiguity, Trier, Germany, Hochschule fur Architektur, lecture
• Normalité, ULB, La Cambre, lecture
• 30 years architecture in Flanders: The wonder years in models, Knokke, FAi, exhibition
• De Wonderjaren volgens An Fonteyne, Dertig jaar architectuur in Vlaanderen, VAi, exhibition interview, 30.10.2015

• Ontmoetingen / Encounters, Antwerp, deSingel, FAi, solo exhibition
• Ontmoetingen: noAarchitecten, exhibition interview, 26.09.2014
• DWB 2014 5: 50 fictieve gebouwen, curated by Christophe Van Gerrewey, exhibition
• Encounters, TUDelft, lecture
• Identity, Nocturne Febelcem, lecture and workshop
• The (co)thinking architect, Congress Kortrijk Interior, lecture
• Night of the Architecture – Bouwmeesterdebate, Antwerp, deSingel, lecture
• Recent Work, TU München, Studio Krucker Bates, lecture

• Redesignation, Artesis Hogeschool, lecture
• Young Belgian architecture, Marseille, XX MODELS, exhibition
• Building along, Hasselt, PHLdA, guest lecture
• Over aandacht / On attention, Amsterdam, Arcam, De Brakke Grond, lecture
• Young Belgian architecture, Shenzen (China), XX MODELS, exhibition

• En Détail, UCL, Tournai, lecture
• Gebäudelehre, Wuppertal, symposium
• Architectuursalon jaarboek 10, Cologne, lecture
• Duurzaam Bouwen, Westerlo, Kamp C, lecture
• Young Belgian architecture, Brussels, Bozar, XX MODELS, publication and exhibition

• Encounters. noAa, Benoît van Innis, Jan Florizoone, Archipel, lecture
• Architecture Award 2011 province Vlaams Brabant, Aarschot,‘s Hertogenmolens, exhibition
• Four Annual Architecture Award 2011 province West Flanders, Menen, Town Hall, exhibition
• Lecture On Nothing, Ghent, Archipel, PechaKucha Vol.11, lecture
• Catastrophe, Bruges, Dag van de Architectuur, lecture
• Recent Work, Rotterdam, Berlage Instituut, lecture and workshop
• PechaKucha, Ghent, Archipel
• Recent Work, Antwerp, Artesis Hogeschool, Archistenforum, lecture
• Materialisé, Tournai, Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculté Loci, lecture

• Dear Marcel Smets, Farewell Vlaams Bouwmeester Marcel Smets, Antwerp, speech
• Reconstruction, Ypres, Vai Workshop, lecture
• Fragile, Brussels, Sint Lucas Architecture, lecture and discussion
• Work, Brussels, Young Belgian + Spanish Architects International Symposium 2010, Ministerio de Vivienda, Gobierno de Espana, lecture
• Architectuur en fotografie: publicaties, Ghent, UGent, seminar + lecture
• Four Flemish Architects, London, Metropolitan University, lecture series + exhibition
• Living apart together – On juvenile detention, Ghent, UGent
• Recent Work, Ghent, UGent, guest lecture

• NICHE Young Belgian Architecture, Brussels, Bozar, 150/15kv Petrol Antwerp, lecture and exhibition
• Recent Work, Hasselt, Z33, lecture
• Het Gekwetste Gewest, Bruges, VAi, lecture

• Recent Work, Brussels, De Warande, lecture
• “11th Architecture Biennale:/projects/138/037-11th-architecture-biennale-venice”, Venice, contribution
• 35m3, Antwerp, deSingel, exhibition
• Town Hall, Menen, Cel Onroerend Erfgoed – International Council on Monuments and Sites, lecture

• Recent Work, Ghent, Sint-Lucas Architecture, lecture

• Horses, Leuven, STUK, lecture
• Farewell Vlaams Bouwmeester Bob Van Reeth, Ostend, lecture

• Heaven, Antwerp, Vereniging voor Technische Diensthoofden in de Verzorgingsinstellingen, lecture
• Heritage, Ghent, Vlaams Bouwmeester, seminar – lecture
• Perisfeer, Deurne, invitation workshop Renaat Braem

• Boring, Antwerp, Henri van de Velde Instituut, Archistenforum, lecture

• Recent Work, Bruges, Archipel, lecture
• Recent Work, Leuven, KULeuven, guest lecture
• The Place, Bruges, Simon Stevin Vlaams Vestingbouwkundig Centrum, guest lecture
• De Refter – La Belgique, c’est fantastique, Ghent, UGent, lecture

• Jonge architecten in Vlaanderen, Antwerp, deSingel, exhibition