Kunstenbibliotheek contains a large collection of specialist literature about visual arts, design, drama, audiovisual arts, garden architecture, landscape gardening and interior design. The conservatory library mainly holds scores but also contains methods, etudes and exercises for instrument and voice, music theory and music-pedagogic works.

Space for topical visual arts. The programme emphasises monographic exhibitions, usually in the form of duo presentations. KIOSK focuses on artists with international potential who are not yet in the public eye.

Series of lectures about visual and audiovisual arts, design, drama and music. International artists dissect their own work in the anatomic auditorium on the Bijloke campus.

Young theatre talent can be admired in the KASK drama projects. Up-and-coming theatre makers and performers make unusual productions that can be seen year-round at different locations in and around Ghent.

Concert hall that offers a podium to young musicians and established artists. A podium in the historic centre of Ghent.

Club Telex is the brand new club of the jazz, pop and music production students in the Paddenhoek building. Weekly jam sessions take place there. 

Atypical cinema on the Bijloke site that concentrates on showing films that fall outside the regular circuit. Classics from the canon of film history, unreleased contemporary festival films and more artistic and experimental works are shown three evenings per week.

Our degree programmes organise all sorts of activities on a regular basis.  Sometimes one-off but often annually recurring activities.

Project space where graduates of the Master’s degree programme in visual art, multimedia design, photography and graphic design can present their work to the public.

Weekly series featuring international guest lecturers who talk about contemporary issues from a particular point of view. 

A series of lectures about interior design and landscape gardening and garden architecture. Professionals from the field of action speak and share their experience.

Cosy lunch café with a large, sunny terrace.

Four organisations are in permanent residence at KASK & Conservatorium: Courtisane is a screening platform for film, video and media art. KRAAK is a record label and concert organization for experimental music. Sabzian is an online platform for reflection on cinema and an agenda of cinephile events in Belgium and surroundings. Jazzlab is a network, platform and concert organiser for Belgian jazz.

Students and researchers from KASK & Conservatory present work in the black box on the Bijloke campus, but external initiatives are also displayed here. Exhibitions and drama projects, conferences and colloquia take place in the new Marisal building.