CENTRALE and Look Up

Temporary closure from 13 January to 26 January 2025
 

01.01.2024 > 31.12.2025

ART POPS

Step into Art Pops, an immersive art experience brought to visitors by the Belfius Art Collection, in which their senses become the brushstrokes of creativity. This unique exhibition invites visitors to explore art beyond sight, engaging the senses of touch, sound, and even smell in order to awaken a deeper connection with each piece. It’s a great way to dive into vibrant installations that pop with colour and vibrate with energy, and to feel the textures of artistic expression. Art Pops is more than an exhibition, it’s a sensory journey that redefines how we perceive and interact with art. 
 

18.10.2024 > 20.06.2025

Echoes of Art Deco

In the context of the centenary commemoration of Art Deco in 2025, the Boghossian Foundation is presenting a thematic exhibition on this key movement in Brussels. The term Art Deco refers to the Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, held in Paris in 1925, which provided a unique opportunity for architects and the public to immerse themselves in this fresh, innovative spirit. Echoes of Art Deco invites visitors to explore the iconic architecture of the Villa Empain, a paragon of Art Deco with an eventful past. Set against the lively musical backdrop of the era, the exhibition offers an immersive experience in the lifestyle of the Roaring Twenties. The Art Deco movement encompassed both architecture and the decorative arts. Furniture takes centre stage in a scenography that recreates the intimate atmosphere of a private residence. Drawings, ceramics, woodwork and ironwork transport visitors to a time oriented towards modernity, technical progress, and the forthcoming society of leisure. Stained glass, an exemplary marker ofstylistic evolution, is showcased by an exceptional collection of 25 original pieces, alongside the complete preparatory drawings for Anto Carte’s La Gioconda, which was exhibited at the 1925 International Exhibition in Paris

15.11.2024 > 25.05.2025

Untold Stories - Women Designers in Belgium 1880-1980

Temporary closure from 13 January to 26 January 2025
 

16.10.2024 > 13.04.2025

Contacts: Hana Miletić in conversation with Nicole and Walter Leblanc. Curated by María Inés Rodríguez

02.10.2024 > 27.04.2025

Smooth as velvet

The Horta Museum has invited five artists to dress the walls of the house. Following the successful ‘Pushing Back the Walls’ exhibition held in 2022, it is now velvet’s turn to take centre stage as it decorates the walls of this famous home. Louisa Carmona, Elise Peroi, Marc Van Hoe and Flore and Pauline Fockedey were all given full creative freedom for this project.
 

13.09.2024 > 30.05.2025

Draw me a train

This exhibition showcases the work of some of the greatest artists whose work, in their time, captured the beauty of trains: Victor Horta, Henry van de Velde, Paul Delvaux, Franquin, Santiago Calatrava, François Schuiten and many others. Original drawings by Victor Horta relating to his work on the Brussels-Central station will be displayed to the public for the first time. Cars dating from the 1930s, designed by Henry van de Velde, have also been restored specially for the occasion and will be the subject of an exclusive presentation. Visitors will be able to learn how to draw some of the museum’s most beautiful trains and a selection of remarkable and unusual objects from SNCB's collections at drawing tables and easels interspersed throughout the exhibition circuit

19.09.2024 > 11.05.2025

Viewing Depot EXH#03 - Year of the Dragon

EXH#03 is the third major presentation highlighting recent acquisitions and seminal works from the collection, all in the unique setting of a viewing depot. Drawing inspiration from the Chinese calendar and astrology, the thematic core of this exhibition is the zodiac sign of the dragon, symbolising creativity, curiosity, confidence and generosity. Associative in nature, EXH#03 brings together large-scale works that combine aesthetic innovation and emotional intensity. One of the focal points in the exhibition, spanning the full three floors of the Vanhaerents Art Collection, is Ai Weiwei’s haunting installation Life Vest Snake (2019), which seamlessly intertwines traditional Eastern iconography with poignant reflections on the contemporary refugee crisis.

OPEN one day a month. 
April 26
May 24
June 21
August 23
September 27
October 25
November 22
December 20

01.04.2024 > 20.12.2025

Willem Oorebeek. Obstakles

WIELS presents Obstakles, a major retrospective exhibition of Willem Oorebeek, an artist of Dutch origin who has been living and working in Brussels for the past thirty years. The exhibition encompasses approximately forty sets of work ranging from the 1990s to new productions. Spread across two floors, the exhibition highlights Oorebeek’s in-depth exploration of authorship and aura through mass-produced images and the reproduction of techniques of appropriation, calling the claim of the unique experience of painting into question. Through elaborate processes of repetition and superimposition, his work simultaneously thematises mediatic forms of representation and the viewer’s possibilities of perception. In an age of visual information overload and the ubiquitous spectacle, Oorebeek’s work delves sensitively into the image’s dynamics of attracting attention, without compromising its mystery.
 

01.02.2025 > 27.04.2025

Paulo Nazareth

Paulo Nazareth is a travelling artist who creates as he walks. His work, which includes performances, videos, photographs and sculptures, is akin to a protean travel diary. Across the Americas and Africa, he follows migration routes on foot or by bus, documenting social tensions and exhuming parts of the collective memory. He roams the world like a nomad with the aim of producing traces that might result in a work of art. In this exhibition, Nazareth’s interdisciplinary, participatory work connects his life to his artistic output

01.02.2025 > 27.04.2025

Pinned! Contemporary Antwerp Jewellery

This exhibition presents the extraordinary collection by Antwerp collector Dirk Schrijvers, consisting of 200 jewels by more than 60 designers. With this unique exhibition, the DIVA museum offers an insight into jewellery made in Antwerp during the past 25 years. It is a celebration of craftsmanship and innovation. From bold statement pieces to sophisticated subtle touches and technological developments, each piece of jewellery tells its own story

25.10.2024 > 21.04.2025

Panamarenko on paper

‘There is a wonder somewhere in that mechanism. If you could poke that out...’. This one sentence seems to sum up Panamarenko's oeuvre. His life's work seemed like a kind of game without limits where experimentation took precedence over result. Or did it? KMSKA will be gathering together Panamarenko's most playful works on paper for this exhibition
 

01.02.2025 > 04.05.2025

COMPASSION

Wanting to help others and feeling or showing compassion is typically human. This new exhibition at the MAS explores questions such as: How do people put their compassion for others into practice? Why do they do it, and what are good examples of it? In this exhibition, visitors discover how the idea of compassion is represented in art and culture: religious and non-religious objects, works of art, popular objects and decorative pieces, as well as music, stories and customs show how people always strive to help others. Contemporary testimonies and critical voices also show how topical the theme is and still remains

01.02.2025 > 31.08.2025

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

01.09.2023 > 01.01.2026

Open Air Sculpture Park

01.09.2023 > 01.01.2026

Reopening of the Rubenshuis

30.08.2024 >

Studio Stone

The Photography Museum in Charleroi and the Amsab - Institut d’Histoire Ouvrière et Sociale in Ghent are joining forces to present the work of avant-garde photographers Cami and Sasha Stone.
Also on view:
Jean-Marc Wull. Les portraits retrouvés
Lucie Pastureau

01.02.2025 > 18.05.2025

Restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece

02.05.2025 > 01.03.2026

Eloquent Formalism. Collection Andries–Vanlouwe

MDD has officially inaugurated the renovated annexe with the exhibition Eloquent Formalism, presenting a wide selection from the Andries-Vanlouwe Foundation collection together for the first time. The collection of Jan and Lieve Andries-Vanlouwe was initiated during the Cold War period. The canon of European art history still seemed valid, and the narratives about art as a means of communication across borders and continents remained relatively undisputed. The collection reflects a deep-seated belief in a democratic and open-minded idea of art. Artists: Pierre Alechinsky, Lawrence Carroll, Lucio Fontana, Isa Genzken, Hans Hartung, Imi Knoebel, Eugène Leroy, René Magritte, Robert Mangold, Nic Nicosia, Panamarenko, Serge Poliakoff, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Léon Spilliaert, Mitja Tušek, Luc Tuymans, Koen van den Broek, Dan Van Severen, Hilde Van Sumere, Marthe Wéry

17.11.2024 > 06.04.2025

Out of this World

The joint exhibition Out of this World brings together a comprehensive selection of works by German artists Imi Knoebel (born 1940) and Blinky Palermo (1943-1977). 
Both Knoebel and Palermo, each in his own unique way, examine art from the inside—as an idiosyncratic cosmology determined and regulated by the artist—as well as from the outside—reflecting on the status of the creative outcome as an object in the world. Both artists are known for their exploration of the specific architectural givens of the physical site of display, which will make the spaces of Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens an integral part of the exhibition. 
 

17.11.2024 > 06.04.2025

Daniel Turner

Daniel Turner (USA, 1983) works with abandoned infrastructure, recovering and working with found elements to make the spirit of places tangible. For his first museum exhibition in Belgium, he has worked with a particularly highly charged site, namely the Prison de Forest. Taking advantage of the dismantling of the prison, he explored the space and collected materials capable of recording the initial sensations generated by this carceral environment

15.12.2024 > 06.04.2025

Those of Marchoul

24.01.2025 > 18.05.2025

Collection of M

29.06.2024 > 29.04.2029

Buddha

This year, Mariemont is showcasing its Asian collections! And who better than the figure of Buddha to embody the collective imaginary of East Asia? The exhibition examines the many representations of Buddha, the Buddhist pantheon and rituals. Every sculpture, painting and sacred object on display carries a meaning, a devotion, an active significance. The exhibition is an experience in which audiences are invited to create, offer, meditate and participate. Mariemont is embarking on a new path: that of the sensitive, multi-sensory prism

21.09.2024 > 20.05.2025

Thierry Bontridder. Sculpteur de bijoux (1981-2024)

03.12.2024 > 11.11.2025