28 JANUARY - 4 FEBRUARY 2024

BRUSSELS EXPO

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BRAFA SHARES ITS PASSION FOR ART
BRAFA seeks to foster your interest in art by offering a cycle of daily conferences, the BRAFA Art Talks, on the stand of the King Baudouin Foundation. Figures from the art world, exhibition and museum curators and art market experts share their knowledge and expertise in fascinating and varied fields. An opportunity to discover works, artists and eras and to further your knowledge about art and its market!

Open access without reservation with your entrance ticket.
Every day at 4 p.m. from Sunday, January 28th to Sunday, February 4th, 2024 – except Monday, January 29th. Rendez-vous at the stand of the King Baudouin Foundation.


28/01/2023

Aller-Retour. Dutch artists in Paris 1789-1914

By Mayken Jonkman, Senior Curator of Nineteenth-Century Art at the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History)

Mayken Jonkman, LLM, MA will take you on a journey to the nineteenth century in Paris. The city...

29/01/2023

Theodoor Rombouts. A virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism

by Dr. Frederica Van Dam, Curator of Old Masters at the Fine Arts Museum in Ghent

On the occasion of its 225th anniversary, the Fine Arts Museum in Ghent will be organising the very first monographic...

31/01/2023

Brussels 1893, the birth of Art Nouveau

by Benjamin Zurstrassen, Curator at the Horta Museum


The talk will analyse the reasons for the birth of Art Nouveau, an unprecedented artistic and architectural form of expression in Brussels around 1893:...

01/02/2023

Art and money

Panel discussion led by Amid Faljaoui, Director of the economic magazine Trends-Tendances and Guy van Wassenhove, Curator of the Baillet Latour Fund with their guests: Luc Bertrand, CEO Ackermans & van...

02/02/2023

The King Baudouin Foundation’s Art Nouveau collection

By Prof. Dr. Werner Adriaenssens, Curator of 20th Century Collections, Museum Art & History, Brussels

Art Nouveau, which reached its peak around 1900, was the first truly Belgian style. It is associated...

02/02/2023

Why protecting heritage is a public/private story

By Sabine Taevernier, Vice-Chairman Topstukkenraad Vlaanderen

Flanders possesses a movable cultural heritage of exceptional importance. With the Masterpiece Decree, the Flemish government is seeking to...

03/02/2023

Creativity in leadership

By Miluska van 't Lam, Editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar magazine NL, in conversation with Carmen Willems, Director General of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) and Christiane Struyven,...

04/02/2023

Diamonds: time for clarity

By Eric Hemeleers, CEO of Eeckman Art & Insurance, in dialogue with Cédric van den Abeele, Partner & Key Account Manager at Anglo Belge and Ellen Joncheere, CEO of HRD Antwerp (Diamond High...

05/02/2023

Building a digital collection: risks and opportunities for the collector

By François Toussaint, CEO ARTTS, Sari Depreeuw, IP lawyer and partner in Crowell & Moring’s Brussels office and Elie Auvray, co-founder of logion

Following in the footsteps of...