Auguste Orts was founded by Herman Asselberghs, Sven Augustijnen, Manon de Boer and Anouk De Clercq.
A small production and distribution platform with the experience it takes to conceive, start and execute audiovisual art projects in between genres and formats.

one, two, many by Manon de Boer

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Auguste Orts presents one, two, many a new film by Manon de Boer, made up of three performances focusing on the human voice and listening.

Screen Festival, Barcelona (ES) hosts an evening with Auguste Orts on May 22. Architecture Scapes presents Oh by Anouk De Clercq, Concrete & Samples I Wotruba Wien by Aglaia Konrad and a.m./p.m. by Herman Asselberghs. Auguste Orts also presented a film program at Art Brussels at ING project space.

Auguste Orts is part of Open House where artistic laboratories and alternative management offices in Brussels join together to show their practices and research. Anouk De Clercq takes part in the debate May 18 on strategies artists develop to create artistic and organizational continuity in their often highly fragmented arts practices.

Printed Matter by Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat is part of a group show at STUK (BE) till Jun 01. The film is also shown at New Horizons (PL) and Kino.Lab (PL). At Images (CA) it won the Marian McMahon Award.

Spectres by Sven Augustijnen is shown at TRACK, Ghent (BE) and broadcast on Canvas (BE) May 13. The film won the Public Libraries Prize and GNCR Prize at FID Marseille (FR) and received a special mention from the jury of the International Competition. At Filmer à Tout Prix (BE) it won the Prize of the Flemish Community. A book Spectres is published by ASA Publishers and won the Fernand Baudin Prize 2011. Sven Augustijnen received the Evens Prize for Visual Arts 2011.

Herman Asselberghs presents Speech Act, a monologue on all things black, delivered by Willy Thomas and commissioned within the context of In and Out of Brussels: Africa Inside Europe. The film is shown at Marfici (AR) and Worm (NL).

Anouk De Clercq finished a permanent artwork at Sint-Pietersplein in Ghent (BE) named Monument: a huge mural suggesting an abstract library. The City of Ghent commissioned the piece as a monument to its students.

More recent Auguste Orts productions: at the US première of Blue Meridian by Sofie Benoot at Camden International Film Festival Blue Meridian received a special mention by the jury. Aglaia Konrad's trilogy Concrete & Samples is shown at Camera Austria, Graz (AT).

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May 17, 2011 – Dec 30, 2012 MAS Antwerpen (BE)
ExhibitionL'Ecole des Pickpockets (Sven Augustijnen), Presto, Perfect Sound (Manon de Boer)

Since Oct 21, 2011 Sint-Pietersplein Gent (BE)
Art in Public SpaceMonument (Anouk De Clercq)

Mar 16 – May 20 Museum of Art Knoxville (US)
Several Silences
ExhibitionTwo Times 4’33” (Manon de Boer)

Mar 21 – Jul 11 De Loketten Brussel (BE)
Contour on tour
ExhibitionJohan (Sven Augustijnen), François (Sven Augustijnen), Building (Anouk De Clercq)

Apr 17 – Jun 1 STUK Leuven (BE)
ExhibitionPrinted Matter (Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat)

May 12-19 Marfici Buenos Aires (AR)
ScreeningSpeech Act (Herman Asselberghs)

May 12 – Sep 16 TRACK Gent (BE)
with work by a.o. Sven Augustijnen. Monument by Anouk De Clercq at Sint-Pietersplein is also part of the TRACK parcours.
Exhibition

May 17-19 Open House Brussel (BE)
Artistic laboratories and alternative management offices in Brussels join together to show their practices and research.
Debate & Parcours

May 17 – Jun 3 DEAF Rotterdam (NL)
Urban Espresso Bar
ExhibitionDear Steve (Herman Asselberghs)

Auguste Orts is supported by
Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
Vlaamse Gemeenschap

Partner of Auguste Orts is
Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel