Exhibitions

BRUSSELS

(Re) Tracing collections

Steve Bandoma (Kinshasa, 1981), Corvée, 2020 © Steve Bandoma

AfricaMuseum
Leuvensesteenweg 13
3080 Tervuren
www.africamuseum.be
19.01.2024 > 24.09.2024

(Re) Tracing collections

An exhibition focusing on research into the provenance of the AfricaMuseum's collections. This exhibition explores new contemporary interpretations and future perspectives. Most of these collections were acquired during the colonial period in the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo. By questioning the origins of its collections, the museum aims to contribute to a debate on its history and its impact on society.

19.01.2024 > 24.09.2024

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BRUSSELS

RESTART

Atomium
Place de l’Atomium
1020 Brussels
www.atomium.be
03.02.2023 >

RESTART

A digital experience, immersing you in sound & light. The Atomium has invited the artist collective Visual System to occupy its exhibition spaces, devoting its programme to digital art. RESTART, a temporary exhibition, will depict the Atomium in light and sound. This original project exploits the magic of the space and accentuates the building's heritage richness.

03.02.2023 >

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BRUSSELS

inspired by Love

Belfius Art Gallery
Belfius Tower, Place Charles Rogier 11
1210 Brussels
www.belfius-art-collection.be
11.11.2023 > 22.06.2024

inspired by Love

The exhibition inspired by Love takes us on a tour of the recent acquisitions of the Belfius Art Collection. Behind each powerful work lies a passionate artist. The exhibition shares this passion by revealing where and how these artists work and by inviting us to see the world through the unique prism of their gaze. inspired by Love goes one step further: for this exhibition, the artists have immersed themselves in the Belfius Art Collection and reveal the works or artists that inspire and touch them the most. The promise of a fascinating journey to the rhythm of Belfius' Love for Belgian art!

11.11.2023 > 22.06.2024

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BRUSSELS

Belgium has been hiding a treasure for 600 years

Royal Library of Belgium – KBR Museum
Monts des Arts 28
1000 Brussels
www.kbr.be/en/museum
01.09.2023 >

Belgium has been hiding a treasure for 600 years

Six centuries ago, Brussels belonged to the rich and powerful Dukes of Burgundy. The Dukes were skilled politicians and cultured patrons, and established one of the most prestigious manuscript collections in the world, a unique treasure. The collection is started by Philip the Bold (1342-1404). After the death of Charles the Bold in 1477, the ducal library consists of more than 900 manuscripts, of which a third is preserved at KBR today. At the intersection of medieval and modern times, this 'Library' covers all areas of science and contains very important texts from medieval literature. It is one of the largest libraries of its time, together with the library of the French kings, the Medici and the Vatican Library. The manuscripts are illuminated by some of the best miniaturists of the 15th century, of whom were arguably just as famous as Jan Van Eyck. In order to preserve these fragile wonders, KBR changes the exhibits 2 times a year.

01.09.2023 >

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BRUSSELS

Belgian Art Nouveau. Van de Velde, Serrurier-Bovy, Hankar & Co

Maison Hannon © David Plas

Maison Hannon
Avenue de la Jonction 1
1060 Brussels
www.maisonhannon.be
01.06.2023 > 05.06.2024

Belgian Art Nouveau. Van de Velde, Serrurier-Bovy, Hankar & Co

Art nouveau. A style? More like a state of mind, and an insatiable faith in modernity. In 1900, whilst the Industrial Revolution was at its peak, Brussels was the field of experimentation for a subversive style. While Victor Horta addressed himself to a wealthy clientele, Paul Hankar, Henry van de Velde and Gustave Serrurier-Bovy worked together to invent a modern way of life that was simpler and less cluttered, with the aim of popularising it. Through this committed approach, they sought to be pioneers of change and to establish the foundations of a first modernity. For its first exhibition, the Maison Hannon presents Belgian Art Nouveau in all its diversity, through a wide range of art pieces from public and private collections, many of which have never been seen before. Curators: Werner Adriaenssens - Grégory Van Aelbrouck

01.06.2023 > 05.06.2024

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BRUSSELS

Jef Geys: What you see is not what you think you see

Jef Geys, Gleichheit, Broederlijkheid, Liberté, 1986. Courtesy of the artist. Photographer Lieven Herreman

WIELS - Contemporary Art Centre
Avenue Van Volxem 354
1190 Brussels
www.wiels.org
02.02.2024 > 19.05.2024

Jef Geys: What you see is not what you think you see

WIELS presents a broad overview of Jef Geys’ work, showcasing the artist’s incredible trajectory from the late 1950s to his passing in 2018. A pioneer in the intersection of popular, pop and counter-culture, he was driven by an emancipatory impulse. Geys harnessed the visual arts to break through patterns, schemas, and formulas of homogenising systems. He replaced them with more complex methods of encounter, scrutiny and representation, without ever calling on high-brow theories. In this ambitious survey exhibition, visitors revisit works and events in which conceptual art and sociological photography are invented within the artist’s exhibition projects and prolific, polymorph practice: his local newspaper, his school and teaching, a cluster of cafes and bars, ecological mappings, and formalist deconstructions and transformations. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication following his legendary 'work list'.

02.02.2024 > 19.05.2024

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BRUSSELS

Oscar Murillo

Oscar Murillo, disrupted frequencies (Egypt, Nepal, China, Colombia, Senegal, Malaysia), 2013-2021. Courtesy of the artist

WIELS - Contemporary Art Centre
Avenue Van Volxem 354
1190 Brussels
www.wiels.org
02.02.2024 > 28.04.2024

Oscar Murillo

In the work of Oscar Murillo (b.1986), ideas and materials often evolve from one project to the next. His expansive practice allows for the inclusion of others in his creative process, often members of his extended family, but also the people he encounters on his travels. His philosophy of hospitality is interwoven with his interest in the formation of social groups and the division of labour. For this exhibition, the co-winner of the 2019 Turner Prize has created a new body of work, comprising paintings, installations and film.

02.02.2024 > 28.04.2024

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ANTWERP

Pre-Columbian art. Collection Paul & Dora Janssen-Arts

MAS - Museum Aan de Stroom
Hanzestedeplaats 1
2000 Antwerp
www.mas.be
01.09.2023 >

Pre-Columbian art. Collection Paul & Dora Janssen-Arts

In the highest museum gallery in the MAS, a world-famous collection – which was gathered by Dora Janssen-Arts over many years – tells us about the extraordinary relationship between man and the world of gods, ancestors and spirits in America before the conquest by the Europeans. The Paul & Dora Janssen-Arts Collection consists of more than 400 pre-Columbian objects in gold, jade, stone, textiles and shell. The objects come from more than 50 different cultures, from Alaska to Chile, and bear witness to the craftmanship and the sense of aesthetics of their creators in America before 1500. There were many differences between the inhabitants of the American continent, but their vision of the world around them was strikingly similar. Human sacrifice was considered essential in order to ensure continuity between life and death. Fertility rituals across the continent assumed various forms but was always central in the pre-Hispanic environment. Precious grave gifts, often made from gold, reflected the importance of life after death, shared by all the communities represented here, from Alaska to Chile.

01.09.2023 >

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ANTWERP

Open Air Sculpture Park

Richard Deacon, Never Mind, 1993-2017, Copyright of the artist, Photo Ans Brys

Middelheim Museum - Open Air Sculpture Park
Middelheimlaan 61
2020 Antwerp
www.middelheimmuseum.be
01.09.2023 >

Open Air Sculpture Park

The Middelheim Museum is a unique institution where the amazing interplay between art and nature results in exceptional experiences. The art park showcases modern and contemporary sculptures amidst a green park setting. Works by artists such as Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Rik Wouters, Isa Genzken, Chris Burden, Ana Mendieta, Jean Katambayi, Barbara Hepworth, Bruce Nauman, Germaine Richier, Pascale Marthine Tayou provide a unique overview of more than a century of visual arts.

01.09.2023 >

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CHARLEROI

Peter Knapp. Mon Temps

Peter Knapp, On the road to Thoiry, 1970, publié dans Stern pour André Courrèges © Peter Knapp

The Photography Museum
Avenue Paul Pastur 11
6032 Charleroi
www.museephoto.be
03.02.2024 > 26.05.2024

Peter Knapp. Mon Temps

From the 3rd of February, the exhibition Mon Temps will honour Peter Knapp's work as a fashion photographer and artistic director, notably of Elle magazine. The exhibition, unique in Belgium, was conceived by the Swiss Foundation for Photography (Winterthur) on the basis of a generous donation by Peter Knapp. It pays tribute to the work of the Swiss designer reviving the atmosphere of an era (1965-1980) as well as the changes in society it has experienced. Also on display > Exhibition by Thomas Chable.

03.02.2024 > 26.05.2024

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GHENT

Restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece

Sint-Baafskathedraal © www.lukasweb.be - Art in Flanders vzw, foto KIK-IRPA, Brussels

MSK - Museum of Fine Arts
Fernand Scribedreef 1
9000 Ghent
www.mskgent.be
02.05.2023 > 01.03.2026

Restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece

From 2023, seven panels of The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb by the Van Eyck brothers (more commonly known as the Ghent Altarpiece) will be restored in the heart of the MSK. Audiences could already follow the campaign from 2012 to 2019, and now the remaining panels are coming to the museum for the final restoration phase. During the week, you can see the restorers of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK) live at work, in the studio behind glass.

02.05.2023 > 01.03.2026

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GHENT

Among Friends

Léon Spilliaert, Nocturnal Beach View, 1905, MSK Ghent

MSK - Museum of Fine Arts
Fernand Scribedreef 1
9000 Ghent
www.mskgent.be
25.11.2023 > 28.04.2024

Among Friends

In the winter of 2023-2024, MSK Ghent will be looking back and looking forward. The Among Friends exhibition will explore the museum’s recent and more distant past, with a focus on the people who have donated gifts and legacies of antique and modern art. The exhibition includes works by Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Simon Bening, Colijn de Coter, Cornelis de Heem, Raoul De Keyser, James Ensor, Henri Evenepoel, Fernand Khnopff, Constantin Meunier, George Minne, László Moholy-Nagy, Auguste Rodin, Félicien Rops, Medardo Rosso, Peter Paul Rubens, Roelant Savery, Frans Snijders, Léon Spilliaert, Frits Van den Berghe, Théo Van Rysselberghe and many other artists.

25.11.2023 > 28.04.2024

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LA LOUVIÈRE

Nos géantes

Françoise Pétrovitch, Se coiffer, lithography, Collection CGII

The Centre for Engravings and Prints (CGII)
Rue des Amours 10
7100 La Louvière
www.centredelagravure.be
19.01.2024 > 02.06.2024

Nos géantes

Le Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée presents a group show featuring mainly very large format works from the collections. In the world of printmaking, a piece measuring more than one metre is usually considered a large-format piece. Over the years, immense machines have enabled the production of sometimes monumental pieces. This exhibition highlights more than twenty of them. Paradoxically, at the entrance to the exhibition, visitors come face to face with a wall featuring a vast array of works in fairly moderate formats. They are the result of a survey carried out by the CGII team to find out which would be their 'Giant' work, in the most intimate sense of the word. A work that moves them or with which they have a special relationship.

19.01.2024 > 02.06.2024

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LIEGE

Bill Viola. Sculptor of Time

La Boverie
Parc de la Boverie
4020 Liege
www.laboverie.com
21.10.2023 > 28.04.2024

Bill Viola. Sculptor of Time

The Musée de La Boverie (Liège) is devoting a monographic exhibition to the American
artist Bill Viola. Bill Viola, a major figure in contemporary art, is considered to be one of the fathers of video art. Bill Viola. Sculptor of Time, presented by Tempora and the Bill Viola Studio, is the first Belgian exhibition of international scope celebrating the work of this unrivalled video artist. Bill Viola's technically dazzling works are both grand and intimate, complex and surprisingly accessible, spectacular and deeply human. His installations draw on multiple sources of inspiration, rooted in Western and Eastern artistic traditions and diverse spiritual philosophies: Buddhist, Sufi and Christian. All of them are permeated by a humanism of a universal nature.

21.10.2023 > 28.04.2024

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SENEFFE

Seneffe at the time of the Philippsons

Domaine du Château de Seneffe / Silver Museum of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Rue Lucien Plasman 7-9 / 7180 Seneffe
www.chateaudeseneffe.be
10.09.2023 > 31.12.2024

Seneffe at the time of the Philippsons

Follow the life of the Philippson family in their ‘country house’ in Seneffe (1909-1952). Discover the twentieth-century innovations introduced into both the house and the park during the heritage restoration. Photos from the period, layout plans, archive documents and decorative art elements are put into perspective to further our understanding of the evolution of the eighteenth-century castle with the innovation of the twentieth century under the impetus of a renowned family.

Also on view
Think Nature / 07 Oct 2023 > 01 Sep 2024
The artist Mr Plant is coming to the Seneffe’s Castle for a poetic, unusual and contemporary exhibition. His plant-based, offbeat installations combine the dramatisation of objects from the museum's collections with the enhancement of the interior decor of the eighteenth-century neoclassical castle. His view of nature and current social concerns make a link with the ideas advocated by the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. Visitors will be able to take this unusual walk, accompanied by a quirky ‘character’, and to have their photo taken. Nature will speak to them.

10.09.2023 > 31.12.2024

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