Jens Dendoncker - Jens Dendoncker about De Romantiek (16 years and older)

The performance is being moved to Wednesday, June 17. The reason for this rescheduling is that Jens has been forced to postpone a number of shows from his theater tour. He only wants to go on tour with a performance he fully stands behind. Ticket holders will be notified personally via email with all practical information. Jens Dendoncker is many things: stand-up comedian, presenter, gifted lover, and a big fan of art. He now wants to share this latter passion with the general public. With his well-known enthusiasm, Jens takes you on a journey through one of the wildest chapters in art history: Romanticism! That very period has a massive image problem. With the help of aggressive marketing and a handful of films starring Julia Roberts, we have come to associate 'romance' with scented candles around the bathtub, flower petals on the bedspread, and a bottle of massage oil for €11.49 (ordered before 23:59, delivered tomorrow!). In doing so, we seem to have completely forgotten an entire cultural-historical period that produced many of the greatest writers, painters, and thinkers of the 18th and 19th centuries. It is time to restore the true Romanticism to its former glory and test its relevance for our time. Were some Romantic landscape painters the first climate activists? Can Kan Goethe still teach us something about modern relationships? Was Was de Franse painter Géricault the inventor of fake news? Discover it together with Jens in a crazy aesthetics lesson, in which he is not shy about adding a personal side note here and there.