Kaap

KAAP is encounter, creation, a story, an experience.... We want to be a place where you not only meet each other, but also get to know new artists, collectives, artists. And that they too get to know the city and its inhabitants. We do this through residencies, salons, try-outs, open studios, etc., among other things. We also break into the city ourselves and bring music, words and stage to the residents of Bruges and Ostend. 

KAAP reflects, produces and presents. With imagination and integrity, together with committed artists, we interweave art and society. We do this with different disciplines, from two cities, Bruges and Ostend.

KAAP strongly believes in the role of art as a catalyst for a plural, inclusive society. KAAP thinks critically about art and society from the artistic vanguard. KAAP offers people perspectives to view and experience reality differently through art.

KAAP vzw arose from a fusion of the former arts centre Vrijstaat O. (Ostend) and De Werf (Bruges). Since 2017, we are one arts centre lucky enough to work in two beautiful cities around music, stage, visual arts and literature.