14/05/2026
Today marks the start of the Art Antwerp Weekend. For the occasion, the gallery settles into the back house of Antwerp-based artist Nils Verkaeren for the group exhibition INSIDE/OUTSIDE. The House as a Shell.
Tonight, from 18:00 to 21:00, Peter Lagast — performing under his alter ego DJ De La Ghost — presents a DJ set that unfolds as both a visual and auditory performance. After graduating from the painting department of St-Lucas Ghent in 1995, Lagast developed a multifaceted artistic practice centered around drawing, painting, travel and sculptural experimentation. In recent years, his work has increasingly focused on layering paint onto existing imagery, particularly vintage record sleeves.
During the performance, these transformed vinyl records become both source material and visual protagonists. As DJ De La Ghost plays the records, their covers continuously appear and disappear, creating a playful dialogue between sound and image. Much like in his paintings, fragments, details and visual references emerge, dissolve and recombine — echoing the visual logic of today’s swipe culture, where images and associations constantly overlap.
The DJ set becomes an extension of Lagast’s artistic practice: a performative collage in which music, record sleeves and painterly interventions merge into an open field of associations, inviting the audience to construct their own narratives between what they hear and what they see.
