UNLABELED. FIVE BELGIAN GRAPHIC DESIGN ARCHIVES

What happens to the creative memory of a graphic designer?

Five Belgian graphic designers exceptionally open the doors to their archives, where past and present coexist. We visit Miche Wynants, Michel Olyff, Luk Mestdagh, Base Design and Atelier Brenda. The documentary takes us on a visual journey through workspaces and storage areas.

As a viewer, you delve into boxes, filing cabinets and digital folders containing decades of iconic design. UNLABELED bears witness to a human—sometimes urgent—quest to preserve creative heritage in an era of digital transience.

“Is what is not preserved lost forever?”

UNLABELED is both an exploration and a quiet urgency: a meditation on what we choose to keep, and what inevitably slips away.

This screening marks the Antwerp premiere and will be introduced by the filmmaker Laura De Baudringhien. The event is a collaboration between the Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi) and De Cinema, presented in the context of Antwerp Art Weekend.

After the film, producer Eva Pot (VAi) and filmmaker Laura De Baudringhien will discuss in Dutch the filmmaker’s perspective, her affinity with graphic design archives, and the construction of the narrative.

Before this screening, at 6:15 pm, M HKA, De Cinema, and curator and graphic designer Jelle Jespers present VIDEO/TAKE: BELGIUM – ARGENTINA 1976, where they revisit a key moment in video art history with a selection of Belgian and Argentine works from the International Open Encounter on Video (ICC, Antwerp, 1976), presented on the big screen for the first time. Jespers and art historian Johan Pas will accompany the screening, which connects to Nueva Visión. Print as an Artistic Practice (1940–1976) at M HKA, where Jespers explores graphic design and printmaking in Argentina as a space for experimentation, exchange, and social engagement.