{"id":1328165,"date":"2022-10-12T13:41:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T13:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.ixelles.be\/een-nieuw-cultureel-trefpunt-in-matonge-de-carwash-van-het-medex-museum\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T13:41:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T13:41:53","slug":"een-nieuw-cultureel-trefpunt-in-matonge-de-carwash-van-het-medex-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.ixelles.be\/en\/een-nieuw-cultureel-trefpunt-in-matonge-de-carwash-van-het-medex-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"A new cultural place in Matong\u00e9: the carwash by Medex museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&#8221;What is this place?&#8221; This is the question Daniele and Rebecca have had to answer several times a day since August. Passers-by notice this new storefront on Rue Longue-Vie, with the beautiful flower on the door. Is it a new caf\u00e9-restaurant? A clubhouse? A meeting place? An exhibition hall? &#8220;It&#8217;s a bit of all of these things at the same time,&#8221; say the coordinators of the place. &#8220;It is a temporary occupation by the Medex museum, the Ephemeral Museum of Exile, to host some of its many activities.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Created in 2014, the Medex museum develops artistic and socio-cultural projects around the themes of exile, migration and multiculturalism. Initially without a fixed location, Medex had settled for some time at SEE U, but had to look for a new location due to the rehabilitation of the site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to stay in Ixelles, and we chose Matong\u00e9 because of the cultural and social diversity that exists there. Being in the heart of this neighbourhood allows us to create encounters between very different people,&#8221; says Daniele Manno.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The place was made available to them by the citizen platform of support for refugees for a period of six months, which will certainly be extended. The Medex team and more than seventy volunteers, three quarters of whom are local residents, transformed this former carwash into a warm and welcoming cultural space in a month and a half. It now has a kitchen with a bar, a lounge area, a shop window that lets in light, a beautiful space at the back for organising exhibitions and various events, and all of this with careful decoration. All materials are recycled, the bar is entirely handmade: an example of collaborative and circular renovation.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Co-creation is at the heart of the Medex museum&#8217;s approach. The team has forged links with neighbours by using the Hoplr application and by organising open meetings. These meetings have already resulted in several evenings with exhibition visits, concerts and buffets all in theme of one country. Neighbourhood aperitifs are also organised regularly on the third Thursday of each month. Depending on the projects, the team would like to collaborate with other cultural places in the neighbourhood, such as P\u00e9pites Blues, the Atelier Ton Piquant and the Nijinski bookshop.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Medex museum is also continuing its touring projects, with the Parle-moi Bruxelles exhibition, which deals with the linguistic diversity of Brussels through graphic representations of idiomatic expressions linked to the human body.\u00a0 Created in Ixelles during the summer of 2020, the participatory exhibition will return to the municipality in November in the exhibition space of KULT XL Ateliers.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The &#8216;Carwash&#8217; on Rue Longue-Vie is a great opportunity for the organisation to continue its co-creative projects. So come and visit this new place, you will always be welcomed.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1256720&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong><em>Carwash \u2013 Medex<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rue Longue-Vie 24, 1050 Ixelles<\/p>\n<p>Open from Wednesday until Saturday from 14:00 \u2013 22:00<\/p>\n<p>Follow them on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medexmuseum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.medexmuseum.com<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/medexmuseum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/MedexMuseum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>Exhibition <em>Parle-moi Bruxelles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From 10 until 27 November 2022<\/p>\n<p>KULT XL Ateliers<\/p>\n<p>More info[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_gallery interval=&#8221;3&#8243; images=&#8221;1256696,1256699,1256702,1256705,1256708,1256711,1256714,1256717&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&#8221;What is this place?&#8221; This is the question Daniele and Rebecca have had to answer several times a day since August. 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