TINTIN, THE IMMERSIVE ADVENTURE
This creation devoted to the famous Belgian comic strip characters will be held at Tour & Taxis: TINTIN, THE IMMERSIVE ADVENTURE. Extending over a 1,600 m2 projection surface, the digital creation will enable children and adults to immerse themselves in the world of Tintin. The fruit of a close collaboration between Culturespaces and Tintinimaginatio, the event was a huge success in Paris in 2022.
The transfer from paper to digital is but a short step, which the two partners decided to take by combining their expertise. Tintinimaginatio, the exclusive holder of the world rights for the exploitation and representation of Hergé’s work, is collaborating with Culturespaces, a pioneer in the production of immersive exhibitions that are unique in the world.
From the first edition of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets in 1929 to the most recent editions, Tintin : the Immersive Adventure honours the famous reporter with the quiff, the great traveller whose adventures around the world have been an integral part of popular culture for almost one hundred years. It promises to be a unique and immersive re-reading of Hergé’s work, Tintin, the Immersive Adventure allows young and old ‘from 7 to 77’, to (re)immerse themselves in the creative and fictional universe of one of the greatest comic strip authors of the 20th century. This event features the entire ‘paper family’ of the famous saga. Tintin, Snowy, and the faithful ‘close guard’ formed by Captain Haddock the Thom(p)sons, Professor Calculus, Castafiore and many others. Not forgetting, of course, the unpleasant - but oh so unavoidable - villains.
Meet on 27 September 2023 - 77 years after the creation of the Tintin newspaper - at the Tour & Taxis site to discover this colourful aesthetic experience.
Tour & Taxis
Bruxelles
Exhibition
TINTIN, THE IMMERSIVE ADVENTURE
Bubble Planet
Bubble Planet is an immersive experience that plunges you into the wonderful world of bubbles for the first time! Explore a planet that will push back the limits of your imagination thanks to virtual reality, themed rooms, fantastic landscapes and even a hot-air balloon flight simulator. Travel from one immersive space to the next and thrill your 5 senses!
Tour & Taxis
Bruxelles
Exhibition
Bubble Planet
Antoni Tàpies
The Practice of Art
Bozar looks back on the work of Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, 1923-2012) with a retrospective that travels through time between 1944 and the 1990s. This is the first major exhibition in Belgium to showcase a complete view on the work of the artist with a selection of 122 works reunited at Bozar for the first time after several decades. From early drawings and self-portraits, the exhibition will unfold with his 'matter paintings' of the 1950s and the objects and assemblages of the 1960s and 1970s. It will continue with his varnishes of the 1980s, which he started a few years earlier coinciding with the beginning of democracy in Spain, and will conclude with works from the 1990s, when Tàpies continued the formal and material experimentation that was always at the heart of his practice.
A self-taught artist during the interwar period, Tàpies reflected on the human condition, his historical situation and the artistic practice, especially the limits and contradictions of painting. His very prolific oeuvre is scattered all over the world.
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Bruxelles
Guided tours
Antoni Tàpies
10 years PARCOURS Street Art
This year, PARCOURS Street Art is celebrating its 10th anniversary! This celebration will be taking place across the City of Brussels for three weeks, starting from the 16th September. On the programme you’ll find new frescoes, exhibitions, guided tours and, of course, a party to honour street culture!
City of Brussels
Bruxelles
Festival
10 years PARCOURS Street Art
Judith Vanistendael. Artfully moving.
Bronze Adhemar laureate Judith Vanistendael (1974) is a true ambassador of comics and reaches a wide and international audience with her drawings. She always delivers socially relevant comics, always in a different style. Thus, it should not be a surprise that she is influencing the new generation of comics creators.
Vanistendael is a master in creating the right atmosphere and scenography and each of her comic books can rightly be called a true piece of art. A piece of art that is carefully constructed, that gets under your skin, that alternates melancholy with lightheartedness, that touches and that is beautifully moving every time.
Judith Vanistendael (author)
Kurt Morissens (Curator)
In cooperation with Stripgids and De Warande. With the support of Literatuur Vlaanderen.
Comic Strip Museum (Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée)
Bruxelles
Exhibition
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Judith Vanistendael. Artfully moving.
Rising Circles – Georges Rousse
At 75, with hundreds of quadrature installations to his credit, Georges Rousse never ceases to amaze. As architect, draughtsman, visual artist and photographer, he has mastered every aspect of the construction of his photographic work. Georges Rousse allowed himself to be inspired by the spaces of the Hangar and conjured a yellow circle, like a “sun.”
At 75, with hundreds of quadrature installations to his credit, Georges Rousse never ceases to amaze. As architect, draughtsman, visual artist and photographer, he has mastered every aspect of the construction of his photographic work. Georges Rousse allowed himself to be inspired by the spaces of the Hangar and conjured a yellow circle, like a “sun.” When the sun rises at the Hangar, it is echoed by a series of concentric circles. We have in fact opted not for the angle of chronology, colour or types of space from among the hundreds of works created by Georges Rousse in the four corners of the world, but for the circle. With Rising Circles, the exhibition looks back over decades of work on the world’s most powerful symbol, the circle. Alongside the moon, the sun and the wheel of life, you’ll also see the camera lens. For anyone looking at George Rousse’s work, it’s not just a matter of Close Enough, but also of finding the «right angle of view.»
Georges Rousse (FR, 1947)
Hangar
Ixelles
Exhibition
Rising Circles – Georges Rousse
Francis Alÿs : The Nature of the Game
Discover an extensive selection of Francis Alÿs' famous films of children's games in dialogue with his subdued paintings and the film installation The Silence of Ani.
Following his presentation for the Flemish entry for the Belgian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, Alÿs presents this new, more comprehensive version of the exhibition The Nature of the Game, twelve years after the artist's memorable retrospective at WIELS that introduced Belgian audiences to the full scope of his work.
Since 1999, during his many travels, Francis Alÿs has documented children playing in public places. At the Venice Biennale, Alÿs presented a series of filmed children games made during the pandemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium, Hong Kong, Mexico and Switzerland, in dialogue with a group of his discreet small-format paintings. For the presentation at WIELS, he completes several new films, including children's games he recently saw in Ukraine. He confronts them with the film installation The Silence of Ani (2015), in which children play hide-and-seek in the ruins of an ancient Armenian city on the edge of present-day Turkey. Using bird calls, the children create the illusion that the city is coming back to life.
“Whereas adults are more likely to use speech to process experiences - whereas adults speak -, children play to assimilate the realities they encounter. Their games mimic, mock or defy the rules of the adult society that surrounds them. The act of playing can also help them to cope with traumatic experiences such as those of war by creating a simulacrum of the real and turning the dramatic circumstances around them into a more fictional, ludic world. But the magical thing about a child’s game is that it holds no secrets, “it’s all there is”. We as adults should be faithful to the children we were; remember and trust that moment, the most precious one of our existence.”
Francis Alÿs
Play is a basic natural human need, just like eating and sleeping. As children, we learn it instinctively or through imitating others. Children’s play should be seen as a creative relationship between children and the world they live in, as an activity that can sometimes conceal a socio-political dimension. However, as social interactions increasingly take place online in a virtual world, Alÿs captures this moment of profound transition that our society is undergoing and gathers a memory of children’s games before they disappear. While some of the games relate to the traditions of a specific area, others are more universal. Many of these games can also be found in the 16th-century painting Children’s Games by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a work that made a strong impression on Alÿs when he first saw it as a child.
Observing and documenting human behaviour in urban environments is a constant theme in Alÿs’s work. His films record both cultural traditions and children’s spontaneous and unconstrained actions, in the street, as well as in conflict zones and the turbulence of modern life. Children’s games play an important role in investigating the persistence of patterns of popular social behaviour. They have earned a central place in Alÿs’s practice so that he can use his camera to capture the culture and patterns by which people live, sometimes even in places where they seem least likely to occur.
Curators: Dirk Snauwaert & Hilde Teerlinck
Francis Alÿs (Belgium, 1959) lives and works in Mexico City. Alÿs trained as an architect. In his practice, he uses a variety of media, ranging from painting and drawing to video and animation. His work addresses ethnological and geopolitical themes by observing daily life during his walks and travels. His series Children’s Games (1999-ongoing) is a collection of scenes of children playing in various countries around the world. Ten new films, made in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium, Canada, Iraq and Hong Kong were shown at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. His work has been exhibited in renowned museums around the world.
Wiels - Contemporary art centre
Forest
Exhibition
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Francis Alÿs : The Nature of the Game
Jean Jullien - 'Studiolo'
MIMA presents “Studiolo“, the first solo museum exhibition by French artist Jean Jullien (1983) in Europe. In this exhibition the artist’s intimate paintings come to life in an immersive environment of comments and reflections painted on the wall.
MIMA the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Exhibition
Jean Jullien - 'Studiolo'
europalia georgia
The starting point for this edition is the country’s fascinating culture and the art scene of its bustling capital, Tbilisi, alongside that of lesser-known regions of this country located in the Southern Caucasus. Starting 4 October 2023, visitors can enjoy a rich programme of exhibitions, performances, literature, concerts, film and dance and theatre productions across Belgium.
This autumn, europalia dedicates an arts festival to Georgia. The starting point for this edition is the country’s fascinating culture and the art scene of its bustling capital, Tbilisi, alongside that of lesser-known regions of this country located in the Southern Caucasus. Starting 4 October 2023, visitors can enjoy a rich programme of exhibitions, performances, literature, concerts, film and dance and theatre productions
across Belgium.
The tradition of polyphony or multi-voice singing – very different from Western polyphony – is the first major theme running through the programme. Renowned Georgian choirs will be heard in numerous projects and at various venues. In the broader sense of polyphony, europalia gives a voice to, among others, Georgian women and youngsters, and to lesser-known traditions, regions and artists. The programme is also inspired by supras – gatherings around richly filled tables, accompanied by chants and speeches from toastmasters – and contemporary artists are challenged to critically explore this living tradition in interdisciplinary creations.
The second major theme is remembrance. How do you, as a society and as an individual, deal with memories of the Soviet era or recent and ongoing conflicts? Europalia brings artists into dialogue to discuss these topics, including the practice of commemoration. Georgians have a unique approach to loss and grief, as seen in their various traditions.
The programme runs until January 14th, 2024 and features more than 50 events, including many new, interdisciplinary creations.
Ana Jikia Andro Wekua Anushka Chkheidze Archil Kikodze Basiani Bojan Djordjev Dijf Sanders Elene Chantladze Femke Gyselinck Gori Women’s Choir Karlo Kacharava Maisie Woodford Meggy Rustamova Adeishvili Mika Oki Milo Slayers Natia Chikvaidze Nino Davadze Nino Haratischwili Rooms Studio Soa Ratsifandrihana Sophio Medoidze Thea Djordjadze Haraki Timo Tembuyser Tsotne Zedginidze Zinaïda Tchelidze
Divers lieux en Belgique
Bruxelles
Festival
europalia georgia
ART NOUVEAU. Unique objects with a tale to tell
As part of ‘Art Nouveau Brussels 2023’, the King Baudouin Foundation will be exhibiting a series of art nouveau masterpieces from its collection – from priceless works of art to a variety of everyday objects. Visit this free exhibition to discover the special stories and interesting anecdotes behind each of the objects.
Thanks to the generosity of its patrons, the Foundation has been able to acquire work by artists like Victor Horta, Philippe Wolfers and Henry Van de Velde. The wide variety of unique pieces – from art jewellery to furniture and book covers – are all part of different public collections, but will now be showcased for the first time in one and the same exhibition at the BELvue museum.
Our offer for schools:
- Guided tours on request
- 18/09: Heritage Day for primary and secondary schools
More info on belvue.be
Organisation: "Heritage and Culture" programme
Partner : BELvue Museum
Scenography: Expoduo
Curator: Werner Adriaenssens
BELvue museum
Bruxelles
Exhibition
ART NOUVEAU. Unique objects with a tale to tell
Back to nature 1900
With this temporary exhibition, the Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles wishes to draw attention to the rich Art Nouveau heritage preserved in the city's collections. These collections are wide and diverse: from embroidery and painting to fashion and architecture. The starting point of the exhibition is the inspiration that artists found in nature at the turn of the century. The subtle aesthetics and powerful lines and shapes of flowers and plants attract attention, as does the sublime representation of women, in all their variations, presented by the artists. The exhibition presents a small but enchanting selection of works, most of which are previously unseen or rarely exhibited.
Museum of the City of Brussels
Bruxelles
Exhibition
Back to nature 1900
Diane von Furstenberg. Woman Before Fashion
The emblematic wrap dress turns 50 this year. A great opportunity for the museum to devote its new exhibition to the fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. A first in Europe! Discover the inspiring career of this native of Brussels who became an international figure of fashion.
Woman Before Fashion is not a retrospective. It is a free approach to the Diane von Furstenberg’s work. The exhibition presents the creations of the famous Belgo-American fashion designer and the person behind them. Comprising a selection of over 50 models and a wide-ranging iconography, the experience begins with fashion and ends with the woman. Through an interplay of visions and a juxtaposition of creations, this ground-breaking exhibition provides the keys to understanding the incredible career of a female designer who understands women. Along with personal photographs, visitors will perceive the diversity and timelessness of her prints. The designer has a specific language of colours and prints, one that she also applies to her must-have wrap dress. Visitors will discover Diane von Furstenberg’s many sources of inspiration, such as: freedom, which motivates her in her work but also in her daily life,
the role played by art in her creations with the work of friends like Andy Warhol, Konstantin Kakanias and François-Marie Banier or more broadly abstract painting, art and architecture. The exhibition also looks at Diane von Furstenberg’s phenomenal and unique career. As soon as she arrived in New York, she noticed the variety of the outfits worn by women there. These “crazy looks” fuelled her desire to introduce “the little dress” in America. The wrap dress quickly became a worldwide lifestyle.
Born in Brussels after the 2nd world war, Diane Halfin began her schooling at the Lycée Dachsbeck before going to boarding school in Switzerland. In 1970 she moved to New York with a suitcase full of dresses. She created the iconic wrap dress.
Museum of Fashion & Lace
Bruxelles
Exhibition
Diane von Furstenberg. Woman Before Fashion
Victor Horta versus Art nouveau. Horta's vocabulary
To understand Horta from the inside by going off the beaten track. This is the aim of this exhibition: to understand his expression and vocabulary without any preconceived ideas...
In 1893, Victor Horta drew up the plans for the Tassel Hotel. For art historians, this date corresponds to the birth of Art Nouveau, a style that would spread throughout the Western world until 1914. Yet behind this term lies a multitude of architects and designers with a singular, personal and sometimes antithetical expression. Behind this title, the exhibition seeks to question Victor Horta's approach without any considerations of style or belonging to a movement.
Sponsors : Delen Bank, Baillet Latour Fund.
Curator: Benjamin Zurstrassen Scenography: Aurélie Ranalli.
Guest artist: François Schuiten.
Partners: IRPA, Alice Laboratory, La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture, Institut Saint Luc secondaire Brussels
Museum Horta
Saint-Gilles
Exhibition
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Victor Horta versus Art nouveau. Horta's vocabulary
Don't call it Art brut
Like a K-Way from the 1980s, the ART ET MARGES MUSEUM turns itself inside out to unfold an expanse of colours and shapes that you never knew existed!
Like a K-Way from the 1980s, the ART ET MARGES MUSEUM turns itself inside out to unfold an expanse of colours and shapes that you never knew existed! At the bottom, a warning from Jean Dubuffet, the inventor of Art brut: “You will have to find another designation”. The letter dates from 1984. With this terminological marker in place, Art en marge began its search for art that grows on the edges. Since then, the association has become the ART ET MARGES MUSEUM. How did its collection develop, how have its ambitions evolved, and what about the whole field around it, filled with all the names born of the Dubuffetian ban? Some answers can be found in this exhibition, which will evolve throughout the year.
The ART ET MARGES MUSEUM takes you into its reserves, brings out works that taste had relegated there, serves you its new discoveries on a rotating tray and questions the margin with artists from the contemporary scene who resolutely ask us the question of the limits of Art brut. Oops! Don't call it Art brut, he said!
HIGHLIGHTS
Apr. 4, 2023—July 2, 2023 Francis Goidts | Executive Master Food Design ARBA ESA
July 6, 2023—Nov. 5, 2023 Adalberto Colarelli | Shen Özdemir
Nov. 9, 2023—Jan. 28, 2024 Margot | Pratique de l’exposition ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles
Febr. 8, 2024—Apr. 21, 2024 Norbert Moutier | Éric Croes
(Attention: the museum is closed for installation between these periods)
Francis Goidts, Executive Master Food Design ARBA ESA, Adalberto Colarelli, Shen Özdemir, Margot, Pratique de l'exposition ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles, Norbert Moutier, Éric Croes
Art & marges museum
Bruxelles
Exhibition
Don't call it Art brut
Art on Paper
Art on Paper, the international fair for drawing in Brussels, will take place from 5 to 8 October 2023 in the Tour & Taxis Gare Maritime.
Art on Paper presents in the heart of Brussels a unique panorama of the quality and diversity of approaches to drawing through the organisation of an international fair dedicated to this practice.
Art on Paper offers the various audiences, both professionals and amateurs, the opportunity to discover this diversity through the presentation of artists selected by established and emerging Belgian and international galleries.
Art on Paper will be held as part of the fourth edition of the Brussels Drawing Week (2 to 8 October), which will bring together a series of drawing events.
Gare Maritime - Tour & Taxis
Bruxelles
Fairs and shows
Art on Paper
Brussels Biennale of Eclectic Architecture (BBEA)
Join us over two weekends to explore Eclectic architecture in Brussels!
On the traces of eclectic architecture in Brussels!
Taking its inspiration from many different historical styles at the same time as upholding artistic creativity, the eclectic movement (1830-1914) was based on a vision of the city and architecture that brought together art, history and innovation. This heritage-blending movement fully took into account the diversity of its (re)sources, and ran parallel with a precise understanding of older architectural heritage and a desire to create unique and even iconic designs. It began against a background of unprecedented urban growth at a key moment for the capital city of the newly independent Belgium. The eclectic movement created a new urban look, developed around buildings that wanted to set themselves apart from each other, while at the same time all being involved in the expansion of the city.
This subtle combination of history and artistic freedom deserves to be put back into the spotlight to better appreciate the physiognomy of Brussels and also to inspire and enrich contemporary architecture and restoration!
Similar to the Brussels Neo-Classical Biennale (BBN), the Brussels Biennale of Eclectic Architecture (BBEA) will offer an unusual programme over two weekends in October 2023!
At the heart of the BBEA will be guided tours of the interiors of buildings not normally open to the public, offering unique opportunities to explore some of the most architecturally important heritage buildings in Brussels. These guided tours will be complemented by a variety of activities: outdoor guided tours, seminars, and activities for families with children, school groups and people with reduced mobility.
The BBEA will promote a flexible definition of Eclecticism, so as to include a wide diversity of architectural designs.
Explore.Brussels
Uccle
Guided tours
Brussels Biennale of Eclectic Architecture (BBEA)
ARTONOV Festival
An interdisciplinary festival that combines architecture and heritage with multiple artistic performances, inviting both artists and visitors to exceptional venues.
For its ninth edition, the Festival ARTONOV will focus on the concept of beauty of the Threshold and aesthetics of Limits.
In the East, especially in China and Japan, the notion of ‘setting limits’ is crucial to the conception of space-time and underlines the architectural aesthetics of homes, sanctuaries and even the design of gardens, landscapes and paintings.
In the West, the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements embraced this concept to develop a whole new architectural style. In 2023, a year dedicated to Art Nouveau, we thought it would be particularly interesting to ask our guest artists to focus on this notion.
This year’s programme then can be seen a sort of perambulation through the ideas of interior and exterior, between venues and artistic disciplines. What constitutes the ideal abode? What does the ‘elsewhere’ or the landscape represent in architecture? Posing these questions leads us to rethink the world around us.
Join us for the ninth edition of the ARTONOV Festival to cross the Threshold and uncover the fascinating and vibrant universe that lies beyond.
Various places in Brussels
Bruxelles
Festival
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ARTONOV Festival
Cirque du Soleil KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities
ING Arena (former Hall 12)
Laeken
Show
Cirque du Soleil KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities
Sonamos Latinoamerica Festival 2023
Muziekpublique
Ixelles
Festival
Sonamos Latinoamerica Festival 2023
Festival Alimenterre 2023
Cinema Galeries
Bruxelles
Festival
Festival Alimenterre 2023
Festival des Libertés 2023
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Bruxelles
Festival
Festival des Libertés 2023
Nuits Sonores & European Lab Brussels 2023
From 12 - 15 october, Arty Farty Brussels and Bozar are back with Nuits sonores & European Lab Brussels 2023. An urban festival spanning four days of music, debate & experiment in some of Brussels’ key venues.
Reset
Bruxelles
Festival
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Nuits Sonores & European Lab Brussels 2023
Parcours d'artistes Ixellois
Divers lieux à Ixelles
Ixelles
Festival
Parcours d'artistes Ixellois
Flagey Choir Days
During the Flagey Choir Days, the voice opens a gateway to new music, reflection and spirituality. Curated by Lionel Meunier, the festival showcases world-renowned choirs performing baroque and contemporary repertoire. The Flagey Choir Days grand finale unveils the world premiere of we were, a new creation by the acclaimed composer and artist in residence David Lang.
David Lang & Lionel Meunier
Flagey
Ixelles
Festival
Flagey Choir Days
Festival FrancoFaune
When French-speaking music reinvents itself. When it is given a new lease on life in a contemporary and surprising programme. FrancoFaune is more than two weeks of music in French. About fifty concerts, in about twenty venues in Brussels and beyond, every fall.
Various places in Brussels
Bruxelles
Festival
Festival FrancoFaune
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