About
Mission
OUT OF SIGHT is a non-profit, artist-run venue for contemporary art based in Antwerp, founded in 2018 by artists Dušica Dražić and Wim Janssen. The organisation operates at the intersection of artistic research and presentation, social engagement, and civic participation, positioning art as a shared space for inquiry, learning, and collective imagination. OUT OF SIGHT fosters a collaborative approach to supporting the development through presentation and mediation of audiovisual, experimental, and time-based artistic practices.
The program is built around international cooperations among artists, curators, researchers and the public at large. OUT OF SIGHT contributes to a cultural landscape in which diverse forms of knowledge, expression, and belonging are recognised, shared, and valued, and where artistic practice functions as a connective tissue between communities, generations, and disciplines.
OUT OF SIGHT aims to find a potential hidden within what is often perceived as different, marginal, unprofitable, or unwanted, making room for the ephemeral and the ambiguous. It provides a space where the poetic and the political meet.
Vision
OUT OF SIGHT creates accessible and inclusive cultural spaces where artists, cultural workers, residents, and civil society actors can meet as co-creators rather than passive audiences. Particular attention is given to groups that face structural barriers to cultural participation.
Through long-term artistic research projects, public programmes, participatory formats, and transnational collaborations, the organisation fosters critical engagement within the sector.
The organisation works with low-threshold, free, and locally embedded formats such as public programmes (exhibitions, performances, cinemas, multidisciplinary festivals), residencies and workshops. These function as intergenerational and transdisciplinary spaces where artistic experimentation, embodied knowledge, and lived experience are valued equally.
By connecting local realities in Antwerp with transnational networks, Out of Sight contributes to a diverse and socially engaged cultural ecosystem, strengthening culture’s role in democratic resilience.
Core Values
- Artistic Research – Valuing process, experimentation, and collective inquiry over fixed outcomes
- Care & Equity – Grounded in intersectional, decolonial and pluralist approaches, and guided by principles of solidarity, care, and fair labour.
- Participation & Co-creation – Engaging audiences as active contributors and knowledge producers
- Accessibility & Inclusion – Removing financial, social, and symbolic barriers to cultural participation
- Local Anchoring & Transnational Exchange – Connecting Antwerp-based practices with transnational networks
