Het Zuid Manifest: Carola Loves Carlos
First Announcement

Carola Loves Carlos is the second edition of Het Zuid Manifest, taking place from 26–29 March 2026.
In collaboration with more than 40 local and international artists and 20 galleries and institutions, artworks are placed across everyday spaces in Charlois. From a barbershop and a vacant store to a theme park under construction, a dramaturgy is created that brings to the surface what was already present in both artwork and location, yet remained unspoken. Het Zuid Manifest is a program of Rib and is conceived and curated by Maziar Afrassiabi.

Who is Carola and who is Carlos?
The title of the first edition, I Love Carlos, came from local posters that originally read "I Love Charlois". Anonymous hands scratched out the "h" and the "i", transforming an official slogan into something intimate, and giving rise to a local legend. This quiet intervention stands in contrast to the institutional structures shaping the district. Het Zuid Manifest implicitly refers to these structures, while positioning itself as something other. Carola Loves Carlos continues this idea, extending it into a reciprocal story that is still unfolding.

Participating galleries and institutions: Agence de voyages Paris, CBK Rotterdam, De Ateliers Amsterdam, Esther Schipper Berlin, Etablissement d'en Face Brussels, Galeria Alegria Barcelona, Gauli Zitter Brussels, Guido W. Baudach Berlin, JUBG Cologne, KIN Brussels, Kunsthalle Lingen Lingen, Mieke van Schaik Den Bosch, MORPHO Antwerp, O Gallery Tehran, Galerie Oskar Weiss Zürich, Shahin Zarinbal Berlin, Stokker Jaeger Amsterdam, Unseen X Keep an Eye Photography Stipendium HKU Utrecht and more to be announced.

Participating artists: Lucy Azatyan, Darly Benneker, Tina Braegger, Jakob Brugge, Iyanla Etnel, Paul Goede, Thomas Helbig, Jack Jaeger, Erwin Kneihsl, Wjm Kok, Vesta Kroese, Gabriel Kuri, Daniel Laufer, Sam Marshall Lockyer, Sinaida Michalskaja, Neda Mirhosseini, Kenichi Ogawa, Joke Robaard, Philipp Röcker, Ken Sortais, Ken Stoove, Harald Thys & Jos de Gruyter, Noor van der Wal, Adrienne Verburg, David Weiss, Hussel Zhu, Cosima zu Knyphausen and more to be announced.