Clio Van Aerde
artist – scenographer
Creative Day open doors
Clio Van Aerde is happy to welcome you.
Activity: Transdisciplinary and choreographic performance at the Hangar in Building B, at 11:30 and 16:00:
Deceleration Syndrome VI
Ten years after its first iteration, Clio Van Aerde revisits her performance Deceleration Syndrome in the Hangar at 1535°, in dialogue with the installation BRAISE, created by explose. The artist moves backwards through the Hangar, with no fixed route or schedule. With her back to the path she travels, she lets herself be guided by the architecture of the space and the thirty LED tubes arranged around her, whose light shifts in colour and intensity.
Against the tide of a society driven by acceleration and performance, this slow, repetitive and deliberately absurd gesture rejects notions of productivity and achievement. It invites the audience to contemplate and experience time, space and the body in motion differently.
About Clio Van Aerde
Clio Van Aerde is a transdisciplinary artist and scenographer based in Luxembourg, working across performance art, choreography, site-specific and durational art, sculpture, and installation as well as stage and costume design. Trained at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, her practice moves fluidly between performing arts, visual arts, public space and collective processes.
Her work approaches attention as a poetic and quietly subversive force. By focusing on subtle, often overlooked relations between bodies, objects, and spaces, she invites to slow down and reconsider everyday dynamics. Rooted in embodied experience and spatial awareness, her projects open space for idleness, absurdity, and critical reflection, gently challenging dominant ideas of productivity and performance.
Awarded the Edward Steichen Award in 2024, Van Aerde works between solo practice and collaboration, notably with the international collectives Billy Jump and Antropical, fostering shared artistic research across borders.
- Building C
- Floor 3
- Space 321