Since 2021, performers Leonie Buysse and Lili Sels VanBavaerts have led Spa for Spirits—a wellness center inhabited by otherworldly creatures.

Together with artists and experts from various artistic and life domains, they create interactive installations and performances, where individual art practices interweave through collective play, exploration, and wonder.

Participants are invited to step beyond the ordinary and embrace new ways of seeing, thinking, and being by rediscovering everyday activities, loosening them from their monotonous rusty patterns. The peculiar rituals that emerge from this process aim to ground participants in their bodies, reawaken the senses, and grow a more conscious engagement with their surroundings.

By occupying semi-public spaces, we disrupt and queer them from their usual identity and function: a transformative process that engages an unexpected mix of participants—local residents, curious passersby, and communities. Through these collective artistic, sensory-rich, and often non-verbal explorations, the otherworldly hosts of Spa for Spirits strive to reconnect humanity with its fundamental needs.