Welcome to eat a warm bowl of soup and listen to the artist-talk by artists Hanna Hoebeke and artist Li Actuallee.

Thursday 30th of August at 18:00
Kyrkoesplanaden 20D

What is Cultural Soup?
Cultural Soup is an event where we invite the public to come eat soup together at Platform. Cultural Soup is held when a new artist ha arrived at the residency and the artist holds an artist-talk or presentation. The talk/ presentation is held in english.
The event is free and open to everyone, artists, cultural workers, someone who is interested in art or someone who just want to have a bowl of soup 🙂

Meet the artists:
Hanna Hoebeke is an artist from Ghent, Belgium, whose sculptures capture both personal and collective encounters. She transforms lightweight, everyday objects and people into solid clay forms, bridging the gap between the familiar and the unknown. With its strong physical presence, sculpture offers a unique way to foster interaction. Its ability to occupy space invites engagement, creates shared experiences, and brings people together—turning its tangible nature into a means of connection. Although her activism is not explicitly embedded in her work, it subtly informs her practice, reflecting daily life and interactions. Her sculptures embody the tension between the familiar and the unknown.

Li Actuallee Through repetitive gestures—whether a loop, stitch, or mark— Li constructs environments that evolve through re-articulation. Grounded in hope and utopian visions, their work honors the value of natural resources, including human labor. Repetition becomes a way to expand visual storytelling, connecting craft, queerness, and ecology.
The Stitchpunk Manifesto begins with a simple but urgent principle: Mend and repair. Embrace upcycling and repurposing. It insists on using what is available to extend the life of objects, refusing the logic of waste. In a world shaped by speed and abandonment, I return to slowness, to attention, to the ethics of restoration. These values are not only conceptual but material 4 they guide my every gesture, each knot and thread, each choice to repair instead of discard.