SUPERHOST (MUHKA) invites APOLEMIA - Thursday 11 June
On Thursday 11 June, M HKA invites the Brussels-based collective Apolemia for a new edition of SUPERHOST.
SUPERHOST is a series of curated evenings taking place in M HKA’s top-floor spaces. Each edition is shaped by a guest artist or community, who approaches the evening from their own practice and perspective. Conceived as a programme of live and discursive events, SUPERHOST unfolds as a simultaneously festive, intimate and precise encounter within the institution. Each evening proposes a specific focus — a deep dive into the language, rhythms and concerns of the invited practice — creating space for exchange, experimentation and shared attention.
Join us for an evening of live music, ongoing performance and hanging out conceived by Apolemia. Operating at the intersection of clubbing, performance and installation, the Brussels-based collective approaches the dancefloor as a mutable space for gathering, drifting attention and shared experience.
With Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss), Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Lydia McGlinchey, Martín Zícari and guests Debit, Iris Therasse, Carly Rae Heathcote, waltur and Nathan Ooms.
Date: Thursday 11 June 2026
Time: 8pm – 1am
Venue: M HKA, top floor
Tickets: €13.78, including a €12 ticket price and Eventbrite reservation fees. Book your ticket here
Food: provided by Joost Pizza
Intimate setting with limited capacity. Early booking recommended.
PROGRAM
20:15 – 21:15 — Iris Therasse, Mario Barrantes Espinoza & Lydia McGlinchey
Live concert and performance
Expanded electronic guitar by Iris Therasse featuring live vocal interventions by Mario Barrantes Espinoza and Lydia McGlinchey. Two voices become material together with electric guitar for the greater composition, resonating together.
21:15 – 22:00 — Debit (aka Delia Beatriz)
Desaceleradas: Live / Rebajada A/V — live concert
A compositional homage to cumbia rebajada and its inventor Sonido Dueñez, the performance draws from the spectral textures of slowed tapes, street dance grooves, and degraded harmonies of an archive that refuses to disappear.
21:30 – 22:00 — Lydia McGlinchey & Carly Rae Heathcote
Performance for Celebration — performance
In this performance Lydia McGlinchey extends her work on textile, performance and the context of nightlife.
Both sculpture and performer are treated as one continuous material, covered in flax, rotating slowly. Flax, a Flemish heritage material, is expanded into the artist’s experimental performance vocabulary. Taking on an opulent and celebratory cascade of gestures, the performance is both formal and festive, obscure and fully at home in the party.
The costume is made in close dialogue with artist Carly Rae Heathcote, who designs, envisions and constructs it.
This performance is an excerpt from a larger work being developed for the 20th anniversary of BUDA kunstencentrum, Kortrijk, to be presented on 20 June.
22:00 – 23:30 — waltur
DJ set
Moving between textured club patterns, muddy industrial atmospheres and dystopian carnival references, waltur expands the possibilities of dance(able) music. Initially emerging as an experimental gabber DJ through the founding of a female collective, her practice has since evolved into a multi-genre approach shaped by bass-heavy psychedelic textures and eclectic global hard music.
23:00 – 00:00 — Nathan Ooms
Honey House — performance
23:30 – 01:00 — Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss)
dj-set
Apolemia is a Brussels-based collective founded in 2024 by Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss), Lydia McGlinchey and Martín Zícari. Working at the intersection of performance, installation, sound and nightlife, the collective develops events that explore collective creation, social encounter and the shifting boundaries between art and party.
Its name refers to a marine organism composed of specialised individuals, each autonomous yet physiologically connected. Similarly, Apolemia conceives its events as constellations of artistic voices, contexts and practices that temporarily assemble into dynamic, interdependent wholes.
Apolemia’s curatorial approach expands the possibilities of performance within nightlife, proposing the party as a site of artistic experimentation and communal experience. By bringing together diverse practices, it creates spaces where performance, sound and social exchange converge in porous, continual evolving forms.