The look of a city is largely determined by city planners, urban developers, architects and investment companies, which means that the external character of a city does not always match its actual (personal) intercultural identity.

Therefore we want to reserve a place for art in the streets, which will give the city and its people colour and substance.

A listing of some of the public works of art since 2004:

Johan Tahon

Perseus Point Entrance Gate Kattevennen At the start of 2008 the city of Genk commissioned the ...

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Pieter Vermeersch

Until May 2009 the work of visual artist Pieter Vermeersch will adorn the new façade of the Genk town hall... ...

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Luciano Fabro

La colonna di Genk   On 1 May 2008 the Genk column, or la colonna di Genk, as Luciano Fabro ...

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Renato Nicolodi

Belvédère   The city of Genk thinks it is important to have a General monument in its ...

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Ado Hamelryck

Ado Hamelryck (Halle, °1941) trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and at the Higher Institute of ...

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Philip van Isacker

Work of art cemetery Genk-centre It is important to give relatives and friends a tangible memory of ...

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Pierre Mertens and Willo Gonnissen

Scrawls explained On the Hoogstraat the Broederschool had a weathered and somewhat damaged old façade. ...

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