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At GUM, you will learn that insects can help the police solve murder cases. But first, you have to find them! Search for and find them all to win a nice surpris...
Pooping! It remains something that many people are ashamed of, even though everyone does it. Fortunately, the taboo surrounding it is gradually being broken, an...
Book presentation Blinked Myself Awake by Bieke Depoorter
In Blinked Myself Awake, Magnum photographer Bieke Depoorter investigates the fragility of memory, photography's unreliability, the human desire for objectivit...
Our GUM guides will take you on a tour of the permanent exhibition. Using a number of objects, they will explore themes such as shame, taboo and mourning with y...
In the film Short Dick Man, Matthijs Janssen explores why he has been burdened his entire life by crippling insecurity about the size of his penis. The screenin...
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Breaking a lance for the vulva, removing the shame from the labia and showing its unseen diversity: this is the driving force behind Hanne Lamon's photo project...
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DARK Matinee | Lecture on 'The Prison' with Lara Staal
Together with four ex-prisoners, Lara Staal, resident artist at NTGent, made a razor-sharp analysis of the Belgian prison system. Why do we stubbornly cling to...
