Sint-Jan
Saint Bavo Cathedral
“Sint-Jan” was an unusual group show organized by Jan Hoet, director of Documenta 9 (1992) and head of Ghent’s SMAK from its founding in 1975 through 2003, in collaboration with independent curator Hans Martens. The show included some seventy works by sixty-four Belgian and international artists and served as a good complement to the concurrent TRACK, the so-called contemporary city conversation, which was a vast project with newly produced site-specific works in many locations throughout Ghent. “Sint-Jan” worked on a smaller scale and within strict physical boundaries (those of the glacial