My love at first sight in 2021, “Le Pavillon’ opened on the highest point of the capital of Wallonia, in the glorious city of Namur. As its founders joke: ‘despite its appearance, which resembles an astronomical station, the Pavillon did not come from Mars, but from Milan.’ Namur-based architect Patrick Génard and his Barcelona-based architectural firm Patrick Génard & Asociados created the Belgian Pavilion in such an interplanetary style for the 2015 World Expo in Milan. ‘Le Pavillon’ teleported to the Citadel district in Namur, the architect’s homeland, and became an Art Centre where art meets science and they are both with a public demand (for an ecological, comfortable, socially just future life). As part of the 13th edition of the KIKK festival at ‘Le Pavillon’, we saw the exhibition ‘Stellar Scape’ (opened in June 2024). I must say that the ‘cosmic landscape’ in the Art Centre is very interesting. We are entering the latest era of space exploration, and art based on scientific discoveries helps to analyse the challenges – ethical, geopolitical, ecological. Meet our fantastique guide Roman!