Dear Reader

Karin Borghouts' solo exhibition AU BORINAGE has come to an end. The final video has been completed and there is also a new publication. I The Musée de la photographie in Charleroi has published a new catalogue. I And there are photo books on offer.....
Happy autumn.

Au Borinage

Au Borinage is a personal project by Karin Borghouts, in which she spent a year as artist-in-residence at the Maison Van Gogh in Petit-Wasmes. She started photographing landscapes, streets and terrils, and became fascinated by the region's heavy mining past. Van Gogh stayed there for two years and it was here that he chose to become an artist. Gradually Karin decided to photograph people in special locations; artists, sons and daughters of miners, owners of old mining sites. .... Heartwarming contacts they were. Each photograph was told a story, from which, with the help of assistants, she made four videos. In doing so, her artistic project went far beyond her familiar field of photography, with the aim of drawing positive artistic attention to this forgotten region.

Merci à tous les Borains. The exhibition in the two Van Gogh houses of the Borinage was made possible with the support of the Fondation Mons 2025, the Centre culturel Colfontaine and Visit Mons.

Photos and installation views are online here

Video Claude Carion

This is the fourth and final video AU BORINAGE. In Wasmes, Karin met Claude Carion, only son of the artist Marius Carion (1898-1949).
Editing and music by Dirk Veulemans. So put on sound.
Watch here or click on the image below (9 minutes, French).

Have you already seen the other videos? Watch them by clicking here.

New publication

Discover the AU BORINAGE publication. 48 pages with 32 photos by Karin Borghouts, a text by the art critic Patrick Auwelaert, designed by Jean-Michel Meyers. Published by Centre culturel Colfontaine in a limited edition and not available in bookshops.

20 euros + shipping: karinborghouts.be/shop

ZICHT 192

Until now, the newsletter ZICHT has been published monthly, starting in 2008. From now on it will be more occasional.
Karin Borghouts works on her own projects and long-term commissions, among others for KU Leuven 600 years in 2025.

Muséephoto Charleroi

Almost 15 years after the publication of a first edition of the Musée de la Photographie's collection catalogue, a second edition has now been published. In the intervening years, purchases, donations and deposits have grown the collection to more than one and a half million negatives and 100,000 prints. In it, some photographs from the Paris Impasse series that was on display at the museum in 2022.

Book time

These books by Karin Borghouts are now available at reduced prices.

Paris Impasse: 30 euros
A Painter's House: 25 euros
The House: 25 euros
Vincent was here: 35 euros
Au Borinage: 20 euros

ORDER HERE
From 45 euros free shipping in Belgium and neighbouring countries.
There are also some special editions: book + print from 99 euros.

The series The House, Paris Impasse, Vincent Was here and Au Borinage are available for exhibitions.
A picture on the wall? Framed archival pigment prints are available in limited editions. Please contact us for more information.

ZICHT is a monthly newsletter of Belgian artist photographer Karin Borghouts. She is working on her own projects and on commissioned assignments by museums, art and heritage institutions, architects, publishers and city councils.

www.karinborghouts.be