Antwerp loses art gallery: the Ludo in Lange Kievitstraat closes its doors (Antwerp)

Antwerp says goodbye to an art gallery. Domien Delforge, known as cartoonist Studio Stoutpoep, closes the doors of the Ludo after just over a year. To give the gallery a dignified farewell, he organizes a final exhibition of his own work.

In mid-March 2023, Domien Delforge opened his own gallery in Lange Kievitstraat. The Ludo would become a place where artistic people of various stripes exhibit their work.

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Just over a year later, the story of the Ludo was written. “It was a short drive. A nice ride. A frustrating ride,” can be read on the gallery’s Instagram page. Domain Delforge itself could not be reached for comment.

Delforge, who will become a father for the first time in August, retires in beauty. He is organizing a closing party and a final exhibition on May 10 and 11. “The exhibition is about impending fatherhood, a search for yourself and the question of whether finding yourself should be an objective or not,” Delforge said in a press release.”

“It’s about successes, failures, fears and emotions in a world that is becoming increasingly crazy and in which a son will soon appear and grow up. It’s about finding out whether I am a banker or an artist and how and what ratio,” the cartoonist concludes.

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