STUK grew from the K.U.Leuven’s student movement at the end of the 1970s, and has become one of the biggest and most important arts centres in Flanders. STUK’s core business is creating a public place for encounters involving art. A place where different views on the world can be tested. A place envisioned primarily from the arts and the artists. A place with an elaborate programme of dynamic, temporary activities and room for long-term projects. A place with an eye for evolutions in and across disciplines, as well as a continuing recognition and/or repositioning of a ‘past’.