ROKADE — STREETSPACE BANGER

In 2024, TICK TACK (Antwerp, founded in 2019) and Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (founded in 1950) launch a unique project: both institutions will take over each other's exhibition venues for the period from August to November 2024.

This joint exchange project bears the Flemish title ROKADE - a reference to castling in chess, where the king and rook swap places on the board. 

The ROKADE project begins on August 24 at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, where TICK TACK is celebrating its fifth anniversary with STREETSPACE BANGER - a group exhibition spanning three floors and featuring more than 80 artists from 20 countries. In return, the collection presentation 'Storage Space'from the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen will open at TICK TACK in Antwerp on September 13, providing insights into its extensive museum collection of almost 5,000 works. Popular for individual loans to numerous museums worldwide, this is the first time the collection travels abroad as a curated exhibition. 

STREETSPACE BANGER 
The first part of the project ROKADE opens on August 24 at 5 pm at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen curated by TICK TACK. The group exhibition STREETSPACE BANGER brings together a generous selection of over 80 international artists and aims to express the appreciation that TICK TACK has for the artists. On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, TICK TACK invites artists who have been part of its varied exhibition program that has enriched the Belgian art scene since 2019 and also presents a number of new collaborations, public and site-specific interventions reflecting the future vision of TICK TACK as an institution. STREETSPACE BANGER is a testament to the organization’s unwavering dedication to artists, its nurturing of lasting relationships and its steadfast commitment to uncompromising standards in production, presentation and promotion of contemporary art.