Sylvester
Sylvester provides the 'cleanest' open air festival full of beauty during the opening weekend of the KSMKA
Sylvester|
28 September 2022

This moment has been anticipated for more than a decade. And finally it was time. After eleven years of construction, the reopening of the renovated Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) was celebrated on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 September with an artistic festival. For a weekend, it was bustling with festive activities inside and outside the museum. Sylvester had the honor of being responsible for the production performance for the Opening Festival on the museum square.


While the doors of the KMSKA swung open again and the first visitors were introduced to the fantastic collection, the exceptional architecture and the renovated museum rooms, bells and trumpets started the free opening festival outside. For two days, young and old enjoyed the many surprising performances and the fascinating conversations on stage. The presenter trio of the weekend, Riadh Bahri, Kirsten Lemaire and Bieke Ilegems, were the perfect hosts of the Cleanest Opening Festival.


“Thanks to the efforts of an experienced team and the great collaboration with the KMSKA team, we have succeeded in making this event run smoothly with many artists and stage guests.” (Ben Laloux, Head of Events -SYLVESTER)


The list of performances and performances was nothing short of impressive. The orchestra La Passione, the 120-piece choir deCHORALE, the hip-hop dancers of Joffrey Anane, Tutti Fratelli, the Royal Ballet School Antwerp, Stef Kamil Carlens, 2manydj's, a 200-piece choir of children from the neighborhood schools, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the Flemish Radio choir, the! Kunsthumaniora Contemporary Dance, Het Zesde Metaal,…: they were all on stage where, with the museum in the background, they gave the best of themselves. The artistic performances were interspersed with a procession of chat guests, including Prime Minister Jan Jambon, Mayor De Wever, KSMKA director Carmen Willems, TV maker Arnout Hauben and many more personalities from the art and culture world.


“Our coordination contributed to THE CLEANEST FEELING and ensured that the identity of the KMSKA was optimally extended in the open-air festival.” (Ben Laloux, Head of Events - SYLVESTER)


Putting all this together was an enormous production and logistical challenge. Sylvester managed everything in the right direction and made sure everything went smoothly so that the opening festival became a particularly clean party that emphasized the grandeur of the already world-renowned Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

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Christian Titeca
Leader |Photoevents | 28 September 2022

Bedankt dat ik er als fotograaf bij mocht zijn, het was een unieke ervaring !

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