English:Convent (Q162105)

Founded in September 2016, Convent is a non-profit space for contemporary art in Ghent (Belgium). Through about three accessible exhibitions annually, Convent aspires to show recent developments in international contemporary art to a wide–ranging audience. The current exhibition space in the Tennisbaanstraat 74 is located next to the courtyard of an old convent school that was designed by the Ghent architect Roger Warie (1901, Ghent–1991, Oudenaarde). He was the father of the conceptual artist Jean Warie, better known as Jean Schwind (1935, Ghent–1985, Grasse). The former school is currently also used as an office building.