DE GROND DIE WE DELEN / THE GROUND WE SHARE
- spazionour
- Aug 9
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 18
Participatory art festival
06/10/2025 - 12/10/2025
Open daily between 11:00 and 21:00
Free admission
All ages
Some activities require reservation
Kasteel Hof d’Intere
Pastorijstraat 2, 2275 Wechelderzande
Wechelderzande has long been a laboratory for artists. Impressionists like Heymans and van de Velde were drawn here by the subtle play of light, landscape, and daily rhythms. They weren’t just painting scenes; they were tuning into how place feels and moves.
De Grond Die We Delen / The Ground We Share picks up that pulse. It’s a participatory art festival where artists, locals, and visitors are active collaborators. Art here is something we do together — in shared meals, collective workshops.
Set in the 17th-century Kasteel Hof d’Intere, the festival questions what a monument can be. It’s not a static object to look at, but a place alive with stories, action, and change. Walls, gardens, and grounds become stages for dialogue and care.
Rooted in Spazio Nour’s values — empathy, cultural exchange, and experimentation — the festival asks urgent questions: How do we share space, stories, and heritage without clinging to ownership? How can art shape new ways of belonging and caring that move beyond possession?
Inspired by the Impressionists’ attention to place and presence, the festival invites participants to experience art as lived, embodied, and collective. It asks: What grounds us as individuals and communities? What do we build, protect, and nurture together?
This is participatory art in its raw form. Artists act as facilitators and provocateurs, creating openings for co-creation rather than fixed outcomes. The process matters more than the product.
Through participatory artistic projects, we come closer together, and with the literal and figurative ground we share. This festival reveals the unseen ties that connect ground, time, and people. Building on a longstanding history, it’s a festival about making shared space, creating a sense of belonging, and care.
This festival is made possible thanks to the financial support of LEADER and de Nationale Loterij.
Graphics: Silvia Holscher
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