B-Classic - 13.09.2025 Wim Mertens + support Elisabeth Klinck | B-Classic x AFF

On Saturday 13 September, AFF and B-Classic bring together two singular musical voices in the heart of LABIOMISTA, the untamed beauty of Protected Paradise.

Wim Mertens, pioneer of minimalism and a longstanding presence in the international music scene, takes to the piano. His signature compositions and mystical voice will echo across the landscape. He is joined by clarinettist and saxophonist Dirk Descheemaeker, his trusted musical partner for many years.
This will be Mertens’ only performance on Belgian soil in 2025 – a rare opportunity to experience the Limburg-born composer live.

Opening the evening is Elisabeth Klinck, with an intimate solo performance. A young violinist and composer, Klinck moves effortlessly through the future of sound with her atmospheric style, electroacoustic flair and finely tuned presence. In Genk, she presents her new album Picture a Frame – a fragile, cinematic collage created during her time in the Spanish Pyrenees.
B-Classic has worked with Elisabeth on several occasions, including as one-third of the electrifying trio Isabelle Lewis.

A rare constellation of sound and character. Set deep in nature.

The location? Protected Paradise – a vast open plain tucked behind LABIOMISTA, where nature and art collide.
Protected Paradise lies like a pregnant zone on the threshold of what is and what may come. Which new reality unfolds here, which path you find, is unpredictable.
It depends on your dance with the black storks, the moth populations, the Galloway cattle roaming the wild grass near their nests, and the thousands of other visible and invisible organisms that inhabit this place.

No concert hall, no bright spotlights – but the golden hour, an open landscape, and music given space to breathe.