About

Founded in Namur in 2011, the non-profit organization KIKK is committed to building bridges between the arts, sciences, culture and technology. KIKK transforms and densifies space. Free-spirited and daring, KIKK stands between technological innovation and creativity, refreshing the foundations of a reinvented economy.

On a daily basis, KIKK organizes events, stages exhibitions, supports the production of artistic works and participates in the emergence of new projects, which it then supports and promotes.

With an eye to the horizon and beyond, and a fierce tendency to cross-disciplinary clearing: the association is organic. It evolves, impetuous, according to the seasons, carried by winds and tides, that it never covers twice in the same way.

Its aim: to mix fields, genres and generations, to question the multiple uses of new technologies, and in so doing, foreshadow the new challenges of a world on the move.

Every year, KIKK organizes the eponymous international festival in Namur, which showcases digital practices in the broadest sense. For its 11th edition in 2022, the event attracted over 25,000 visitors (professionals and the curious alike) from nearly 40 nationalities.

KIKK is also a founding partner of TRAKK: Namur’s creative hub, Fablab and Médialab. The Fablab is a place for experimentation and sharing, enabling the general public to familiarize themselves with machine tools.

Since its opening in 2021, KIKK has also been in charge of Le Pavillon, a new permanent exhibition space that mixes art, science and technology, with the aim of enabling as many people as possible to understand and appropriate the impact of technological innovations on our society.

For several years now, KIKK has also had its own media outlet, kingkong-mag, a digital medium at the cutting edge of digital and creative culture.

KIKK is active in many different areas of society: in the art world, in the corporate world and in the corridors of universities, in contact with children, makers, entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, artists and so on.

As a contortionist, the association likes to do the splits, as evidenced by its many projects, collaborations and activities. KIKK doesn’t stand still, and that’s a good thing, because it’s where you least expect it.

Unpredictable and indomitable, he’s on his way, so don’t hesitate to say hello if you cross his path.