Menart Fair
Modern & Contemporary Art Fair dedicated to artists from the Middle East and North Africa (ME.NA)
In a confidential and exclusive format, the fair offers an initiatory journey to the heart of a demanding selection of more than a hundred modern & contemporary artists, as well as a selection of contemporary design from ME.NA. Most of them are already known in their respective countries and collected by Western connoisseurs.
Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain
Ixelles
Fairs and shows
Menart Fair
D Festival 11
This is the 11th festival and it condenses seven projects into two weeks of dance, circus and concerts. It will be held in Ixelles and Etterbeek. Despite its name being just a letter, it contains (...)
This is the 11th festival and it condenses seven projects into two weeks of dance, circus and concerts. It will be held in Ixelles and Etterbeek. Despite its name being just a letter, it contains a variety of stories and different forms. The D is a festival on a human scale whose aim is to support encounters with Brussels-based choreographic artists and dancers whose origins are as varied as their careers and aesthetics. The D Festival 2023 is proud to be a stage for Pierre Larauza and Emmanuelle Vincent, Faraja Batumike, Lucas Katangila, Thi Mai Nguyen, Sara Lemaire, Paola di Bella and Hippolyte Bohouo. These artists share an organic approach, an inspired momentum, an engagement, a rebellion, a vital need for expression through the body. The D allows people to see and feel, hear and reflect; it is generous and unifying, singular and universal. It explores the multiplicity of movements, of words, the dream of becoming a dancer in a hostile environment, the convergence of contemporary visual language and ritual, rebellion, the origins of humanity; it envisages a future collapse in a circus tale that has a frenzied aesthetic. Naturally it calls on dance – traditional, contemporary, aerial and acrobatic – but also on music, theatre and contemporary circus (contortion, the Cyr wheel and the pole). It is being held on the two multidisciplinary stages of the Marni and Senghor theatres and, through its collaboration with Garage 29 and Divagation, also offers an opportunity to discover a third unusual location very close to Place Flagey: La Maison Verte. The 11th D Festival runs from 24 January to 9 February 2023.
Théâtre Marni
Ixelles
Show
D Festival 11
Festival de cinéma En ville !
Cinema Galeries
Brussels
Festival
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Festival de cinéma En ville !
BRAFA Art Fair
The 68th edition of BRAFA will take place from Sunday, January 29th to Sunday, February 5th, 2023, at Brussels Expo-Heysel. Created in 1956, BRAFA is one of the oldest and also one of the most prestigious art fairs in the world. It is renowned for the quality of the selected galleries and the works it exhibits, ranging from antiquity to modern and contemporary art and design.
The next edition of BRAFA will take place over 8 days, from Sunday, January 29th to Sunday, February 5th, 2023, at Brussels Expo, an emblematic site on the Heysel plateau, a prestigious legacy of the Brussels World Exhibitions of 1935 and 1958.
Created in 1956, BRAFA, originally called the Foire des Antiquaires de Belgique, is one of the oldest and also one of the most prestigious art fairs in the world. It is renowned for the quality of the selected galleries and the works it exhibits, ranging from antiquity to modern and contemporary art and design. Over the years, BRAFA has become one of the most inspiring art fairs in Europe. As the first major artistic event of the year, BRAFA is considered to be a reliable barometer of the art market.
For this 2023 edition, a theme has been chosen in correlation with the initiative of the Brussels-Capital Region, which will make 2023 a year devoted to Art Nouveau. BRAFA will be highlighting this movement in several ways. The King Baudouin Foundation and some galleries specialised in this field will be presenting exceptional Art nouveau pieces. The creation of the BRAFA 2023 carpet will be based on original drawings by Victor Horta, and art lovers will be able to attend two “BRAFA Art Talks” devoted to Art nouveau.
Brussels Expo
Laeken
Fairs and shows
BRAFA Art Fair
On Display. Designing the shop experience.
As an object of design and architecture, the store shapes our urban landscape and permeates popular culture. A place of exchange and interaction, it plays a significant role in the diffusion of design and interior design trends during the 20th century. By combining small scale and ephemeral character, the store reveals itself as a favorable terrain for experimentation and expression of modernity. More than just a place, retail is a social marker and a space for innovation. Reflecting the evolutions of our society and an environment favorable to their representation, the store offers a look at modern and contemporary aesthetics. From Adolf Loos to Marc Newson via René Herbst or Ettore Sottsass, “On Display. Designing the shop experience” questions the use of design and architecture within a visual and furniture identity specific to the store.
Design Museum Brussels
Laeken
Exhibition
On Display. Designing the shop experience.
PHOTO I BRUT #1 - collection Bruno Decharme & installation vidéo Angel Vergara
PHOTO | BRUT BXL is a project of exhibitions and multidisciplinary events coordinated by the Centre d’Art Brut et Contemporain La « S » Grand Atelier (Vielsalm) in collaboration with Bruno Decharme, collector and founder of abcd-art brut in Paris, and 4 partner organisations based in Brussels: CENTRALE for contemporary art, Botanique, Art et marges museum and TinyGallery.
In 2019, the annual summer photography festival Rencontres d’Arles held the exhibition PHOTO | BRUT collection Bruno Decharme & compagnie which was taken over in 2021 by the American Folk Art Museum in New York. In 2022, Bruno Decharme and Anne-Françoise Rouche have decided to reveal other facets of “raw photography” through recent discoveries of works by a hundred artists.
PHOTO | BRUT BXL collection Bruno Decharme includes exhibitions, installations, workshops, performances, two study days and new publications. The programme is based on the theme of “raw photography”. Through photographs, photomontages or photocollages, these creators, generally self-taught, reveal their personal universes through works produced outside conventional artistic circuits. This little-explored field of research on outsider art opens up a path towards innovative practices in the field of photography, thus contributing to renewing the way this medium is seen. This project thus questions the role of the collector, his or her power over the categorisation of creators, as well as photography.
In the context of the project PHOTO | BRUT BXL, CENTRALE presents nearly 200 photographs from PHOTO | BRUT collection Bruno Decharme & compagnie exhibited in Arles. True to its programming principles, the art center of the city of Brussels has also invited Brussels-based artist Angel Vergara for an open and unique dialogue with Bruno Decharme. His work is inspired by the continuous research on the power of the image through performances, videos, installations, paintings and drawings. He tests the limits of art and reality, and stretches the boundaries of reality and its perception. His research on how the contemporary image shapes the interconnected public and private spheres perfectly resonates with “raw” photography. Each piece of Vergara’s work is an attempt to shatter the image; it strives to have an impact on the aesthetic, sociocultural and political level. For this project he was inspired by filmed portraits that the director Bruno Decharme dedicated to the creators of his collection.
With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation
CENTRALE for contemporary art
Brussels
Exhibition
PHOTO I BRUT #1 - collection Bruno Decharme & installation vidéo Angel Vergara
Marc Sleen 100. Nero 75. A century of change.
To celebrate Marc Sleen's centenary year, we are juxtaposing his body of work and the universe of his creation with the world as it is today. The images of yesterday sometimes clash with the values we hold dear today.
Marc Sleen created the drawings for 217 Nero comic books. This is just one series but it includes so many comic books. He achieved a world record which is officially recognised in the Guinness Book of Records. Sir Marc Sleen was also awarded a knighthood by the king. His work and career, however, are also an extremely valuable reflection of a past era. Time passes and pushes us forward, and sometimes we may feel resentful about what has been. To celebrate his centenary year, we are juxtaposing Sleen’s body of work and the universe of his creation with the world as it is today, with the changes that have taken place, with evolution. The images of yesterday sometimes clash with the values we hold dear today.
Curation: Noël Slangen & Yves Kerremans with Barly Baruti & Christophe Deborsu
An exhibition of the Marc Sleen Foundation
With the support of the Brussels Capital Region.
Comic Strip Museum (Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée)
Brussels
Exhibition
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Marc Sleen 100. Nero 75. A century of change.
Miradas de Mujeres Isabelle de Borchgrave X Frida Kahlo
Miradas de Mujeres (Women’s Gaze), highlights the view of Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave on Frida Kahlo, a woman’s perspective on the artist’s role in society, and their shared love of fabric, patterns and colours.
Isabelle de Borchgrave’s approach explores an often-ignored facet of Frida Kahlo's intimate personality, surprisingly more cheerful and radiant than her artistic work might suggest. By using more than 4 kilometers of paper and cardboard painted by hand, she created dresses, carpets, furniture, trees, recreating the unique universe of the Mexican artist and her iconic house, the Casa Azul (The Blue House).
The exhibition invites the public to dive into the joyful universe entirely made of paper of Isabelle de Borchgrave and to be inspired by the generosity of this contemporary artist whose creative practice remains resolutely incomparable.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Exhibition
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Miradas de Mujeres Isabelle de Borchgrave X Frida Kahlo
Jean-Pierre Ghysels
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium dedicate an exhibition to Jean-Pierre Ghysels (Uccle, 1932), a Belgian sculptor who studied with Zadkine at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. The exhibition will give the public the opportunity to discover a series of sculptures made of the artist's two favourite materials, beaten copper and bronze, works which, even when small in size, surprise us with their monumentality and sensuality.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Exhibition
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Jean-Pierre Ghysels
Picasso & Abstraction
For the first time, the major stages that marked the links between Picasso's work and the history of abstract art is brought to light.
From the first Cubist experiments of 1907, carried out on the fringes of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, to his later work, which is sometimes situated on the borders of action painting, this surprising relationship is shown in a subtle chronological and thematic exhibition, where more than one hundred exceptional works reveal the artist's pendulum movement between abstraction and the figurative over the decades.
Another major theme of the exhibition is the artist's studio, a true formal laboratory, and shows Picasso's creative process through various series of drawings and prints, allowing the viewer to understand how he works and reflects on the representation of the chosen motifs.
The exhibition, with its sharp and innovative theme, invites the viewer to appreciate Pablo Picasso’s extraordinary creativity and his ability to constantly reinvent himself.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Exhibition
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Picasso & Abstraction
Arié Mandelbaum
The Arie Mandelbaum exhibition is an original creation of the Jewish Museum of Belgium. Frequently exhibited, the work of painter Arié Mandelbaum (°1939, Brussels) had not yet been the subject of a retrospective. For the first time, old productions and recent creations engage in dialogue here, in a journey which starts in 1957 and ends in 2022.
The Arie Mandelbaum exhibition is an original creation of the Jewish Museum of Belgium. Frequently exhibited, the work of painter Arié Mandelbaum (°1939, Brussels) had not yet been the subject of a retrospective. For the first time, old productions and recent creations engage in dialogue here, in a journey which starts in 1957 and ends in 2022.
Arié Mandelbaum, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants, began painting at the age of sixteen. As from the early 1960s, he was considered one of the most promising talents in Belgian painting. His idiosyncratic and compelling oeuvre continued to develop over the decades that followed. After the heightened expressionism of his early days, greater restraint followed as of the 1980s, giving rise to works of disturbing fragility, which he has created to this day.
The exhibition is structured around different themes. We first discover the way in which the artist deals with intimacy, before politics – especially the anti-authoritarian protest of 1968 – telescopes his soul-searching. The visit continues with the exploration of the self-portrait and the body, two themes through which we see the work of Arié Mandelbaum transform into a reflection on trace, absence and erasure. Political violence, particularly related to (neo)colonialism, then made a marked return in his work. Over the past two decades, it has become increasingly influenced by the memory of the Shoah – as a return to what was repressed in this child of the war, who will remain a rebel painter all his life.
The works presented come from the collections of the Jewish Museum of Belgium, but also from institutions such as the Museum of Ixelles, the Museum of the National Bank of Belgium or the collections of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. A number of private collections have also been mobilized, in particular those of private individuals and the Belfius Art Collection.
Arié Mandelbaum (artist)
Jewish Museum of Belgium
Brussels
Exhibition
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Arié Mandelbaum
Kidorama, 200 year of children's fashion
Children’s fashion is healthier than ever. More inclusive, more environmentally friendly, with an emphasis on handmade items: new labels appear each year. But dressing a child is not always easy! Through a trajectory that is both thematic and chronological, this new exhibition casts its eye on current fashion in the light of children’s wear since 1820.
Children’s fashion is healthier than ever. More inclusive, more environmentally friendly, with an emphasis on handmade items: new labels appear each year. But dressing a child is not always easy! Fashion is first and foremost a social phenomenon and children also care about what they wear.
Through a trajectory that is both thematic and chronological, this new exhibition casts its eye on current fashion in the light of children’s wear since 1820.
By delving into its collections, recently enriched by Belgian items as well as several prestigious loans, the museum raises questions about issues such as construction of gender, the development of mixed or unisex fashion, imitation of adult fashion as well as the growing interest in the luxury industry for kids. More than just a fashion exhibition, Kidorama tells the story of the place of the child and the development of his/her personality within our society.
An exhibition to enjoy through children’s eyes!
The exhibition is of course aimed at adults but also at children, discover all the activities of the museum on our website (interactive modules, coloring book ...)
Museum of Fashion & Lace
Brussels
Exhibition
Kidorama, 200 year of children's fashion
Peter Lindbergh Untold Stories, when fashion photography becomes Art
A sublime retrospective that pays tribute to Peter Lindbergh. This exhibition represents his artistic vision that was built and nurtured through four decades of work, encounters and creativity. Every day for three years, Lindbergh spent his days and nights researching, editing, and assembling photos that would open up new interpretations and create a sense of surprise.
Previously hosted in Germany and Spain, Belgium now has the honour of presenting Peter Lindbergh's Untold Stories exhibition.
Designed to celebrate his legacy and offer a unique perspective on his work, the exhibition covers his entire career, from his beginnings in the 1980s to his death in September 2019.
Thanks to the involvement and support of the city of Brussels and the collaboration of the Peter Lindbergh Foundation, these unpublished photos, videos and large formats will be on display for five months in the Espace Vanderborght in Brussels.
The Origins
2018 marked the beginning of a friendship between Bruno Pani (founder of the events agency Profirst and the social club TheMerode) and Peter Lindbergh, the iconic photographer from the 1980s to the present-day. Lindbergh revealed a human touch, capturing the fragility in the strength of models, marking his era and the emergence of
the Top Models. He collaborated with the leading glossy magazines of the day, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. He remains the only photographer to have captured the mythical Pirelli Calendar three times. Through his lens, the famous Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Helena Christensen, set the trend fora new expression of femininity - raw beauty.
In September 2019, Peter Lindbergh put down his camera for the last time, but the power of his cinematic-scale remains forever immortalised in each of the images that literally and figuratively pushed the boundaries of fashion photography. Before his death, Peter Lindbergh created a foundation with the aim of preserving his
work.
Since then, the Peter Lindbergh Foundation continues to promote his photographic heritage, notably through the Untold Stories exhibition, initially conceived in collaboration with the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf.
Unpublished works
Untold Stories will unveil more than 150 works freely associated by the author to create a mise en abyme and a dialogue between the photos, superimposing the person who discovers, the person who poses and the person who is just passing by.
A monumental and immersive experience that combines barely known or completely unpublished photos with the artist's most iconic shots. Photography in motion, vibrating with the energy of portraits through which Peter Lindbergh helped elevate fashion photography to the rank of art.
Peter Lindbergh
Espace Vanderborght
Brussels
Exhibition
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Peter Lindbergh Untold Stories, when fashion photography becomes Art
Graciela Iturbide - Lignes d’ombre
Fondation A Stichting
Forest
Exhibition
Graciela Iturbide - Lignes d’ombre
Squarely Furry
Little Furry wakes up every morning and hurries to the toilet which is far too big for him. He then hurriedly tucks into his breakfast, gives his mummy a kiss, and then briskly walks to school. To school? There is nothing more uncertain, as adventure awaits him on the corner of the street.
Little Furry wakes up every morning and hurries to the toilet which is far too big for him. He then hurriedly tucks into his breakfast, gives his mummy a kiss, and then briskly walks to school. To school? There is nothing more uncertain, as adventure awaits him on the corner of the street.
This unchanging pattern, with different variations each time, is the invention of comic artist Pierre Bailly and scriptwriter Céline Fraipont, who have created a completely wordless comic book accessible to children from the age of 3.
Highly colourful, this playful exhibition invites children to climb, jump, hide and crawl, from one panel to the next, immersing themselves in a different adventure each time, just like Little Furry.
Comic Strip Museum (Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée)
Brussels
Exhibition
Squarely Furry
Cerise, Lulu and Nelson, the world of childhood by Aurélie Neyret
The French illustrator and cartoonist Aurélie Neyret has made of the world of childhood her creative universe. After numerous illustrated books and collective publications, she made her debut in comics alongside Joris Chamblain with the series Les Carnets de Cerise, the success of which brought her recognition from the public as well as from critics. This was followed by the adventures of Lulu and Nelson, a story written by Charlotte Girard and Jean-Marie Omont. With a dynamic and colourful style, the illustrator presents endearing young heroes in search of themselves and of freedom. A sensitive and original universe that the exhibition proposes to explore and discover all its depth and creativity.
Aurélie Neyret (author)
Comic Strip Museum (Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée)
Brussels
Exhibition
Cerise, Lulu and Nelson, the world of childhood by Aurélie Neyret
Danai Anesiadou: D POSSESSIONS
In the exhibition D POSSESSIONS, Danai Anesiadou draws back the curtain on our cataclysmic times, presenting an allegorical scenography consisting of newly produced sculptures and collages related to the current energy crisis.
In the last fifteen years, Danai Anesiadou has developed a range of metaphysical and personal concerns into a seductive body of work referencing cinema, occult sciences, Greek antiquity and contemporary affairs. A “21st-century European poster girl for crisis”, her work is highly perceptive to both the political and the invisible fabric of reality.
In an effort to comprehend the frenzied circumstances facing humanity at present, Anesiadou looks towards hindu cosmology and its mention of the Kali Yuga. Believed to be the age of iron and darkness, its depiction of an inverted reality—where the inmates are running the asylum, as it were—resonates deeply with her.
For her WIELS exhibition titled D POSSESSIONS, Anesiadou attempts to encase the entirety of her material possessions: household objects, shoes and clothes, prized belongings—everything is solidified in exuberant assemblages made from resin or vacuum-sealed in industrial grade packaging.
At its core is a desire to rid herself of all personal belongings by transforming them into orgonites. These energy-transforming devices, discovered by the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), are meant to capture a cosmic ‘orgone’ current, transmute it into positive life energy and then disperse it. By alchemizing her possessions in this radical way, Anesiadou makes an unequivocal attempt to reshape her own life as well as her surroundings. Whatever we might call her: a ghostbuster, a shaman, or even an exorcist in training, Danai Anesiadou will own nothing and she will be happy.
Co-production by WIELS and EMST, Athens
Curator: Helena Kritis
Danai Anesiadou
Wiels - Contemporary art centre
Forest
Exhibition
Danai Anesiadou: D POSSESSIONS
Art nouveau on display!
An exhibition of heritage and contemporary posters promoting Art nouveau from yesterday to today.
During the Belle Epoque, the craze for posters was immense. The greatest Belgian and Brussels artists of the Art nouveau period were thus illustrated on the walls of the city, through informative, advertising and cultural promotion posters. Victor Horta, Privat Livemont, Paul Hankar, Henry Van de Velde, Victor Creten, Gustave Flasschoen, all produced striking graphic works. The aim of the exhibition L'Art nouveau s'affiche! is to enable visitors to discover, through an "infinitely generous" medium, both the Art nouveau aesthetic and the art of the artist. The aim of the exhibition is to showcase the Art nouveau aesthetic, the genius of its Belgian poster artists, and the city of Brussels at a time when it was driven by an ideology that reacted against industrialisation.
"Art nouveau on Display" will also be a project that moves away from a classical and contemplative approach to Art nouveau. By inviting contemporary poster artists and typographers, graffiti artists and tattoo artists to give their version of the Art nouveau 2023 poster, the exhibition will establish a strong link between the Art nouveau heritage and contemporary creation.
Halles Saint-Géry
Brussels
Exhibition
Art nouveau on display!
Local Heroes
MIMA the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Exhibition
Local Heroes
Bond in Motion
For the first time on the European continent, spectacular sets, making of models and about fifty original vehicles (motorcycles, cars, planes, submarines, hovercrafts, helicopters, ...), straight out of the 25 James Bond films, will be gathered in one place from December 9, 2022 to May 14, 2023 at Brussels Expo.
For the first time on the European continent, the "Bond in Motion" exhibition is a first for the city of Brussels and the Brussels Region. Brussels Expo will host this exceptional event, starting on December 9. Created in 1953 by Ian Fleming, brought to the screen in 1962 with the film James Bond vs, the James Bond saga is more alive than ever. If the most famous agent in the world has succeeded in many of his missions, it is often thanks to the vehicles designed by the ingenious "Q". From the early Aston Martin DB5 to the latest model, from the Lotus that turns into a submarine to motorcycles, boats and planes, "Bond in Motion" will give film enthusiasts the chance to step behind the scenes. In the 60 years of its existence, the creativity of the teams behind the James Bond adventure has never failed. "Bond in Motion" is an opportunity to discover not only the vehicles but also the secrets of their making through documents gathered for the first time. The realization of the cult scenes and the most extraordinary stunts will finally be revealed. Many other "non-automotive" objects will also be exhibited and will certainly cause some nice surprises.
Throughout the duration of the exhibition "Bond in Motion", animations, meetings and events will be organized around the 007 saga. More than an exhibition, "Bond in Motion" promises a real experience that will enthrall all audiences, from the youngest to the first time fans, from the crazy cinema fans to the technology enthusiasts and the adventure fans, without forgetting all those who want to live a family outing that touches all generations.
Many animations and various surprises (still classified top secret for the moment!) will be planned for young and old.
A 007 bar - restaurant and James Bond stores will of course be in the right place, ready to ready to satisfy the desires of visitors.
Brussels Expo
Laeken
Exhibition
Bond in Motion
Luminopolis
What is light? How does it affect our day-to-day? How does it influence life? In this totally original game-based exhibition, light is explored from every angle – physical, biological, technical and sociological.
LUMINOPOLIS is an original and captivating concept, a race against the clock with a choice of 10, 14 or 18 puzzles to solve as a team. Equipped with a tablet to activate the game stations, get hints and enter your answers. A great way to explore the vast theme of light through play.
Designed for teenagers, (young) adults and children over the age of six (starting the 4th grade for school visits).
INFO & TICKETS : www.naturalsciences.be
Museum of Natural Sciences
Brussels
Exhibition
Luminopolis
View from my window
A photo exhibition displaying the experience of connecting worldviews in a time of isolation.
Initiated in March 2020 by Barbara Duriau, the 3 million member Facebook group View from my window collects intimate and collective testimonies from millions of confined people around the world. At the Atomium, from March 24th, the temporary exhibition "View from my window" gathers a selection of more than 400 photographs among the 200,000 images from this Belgian success story with a worldwide echo.
From New York to Moscow, Brussels, Sao Paulo or Darjeeling... Every day, from their window, the members of this 2.0 community capture and share their view.
The exhibition "View from my window" translates a human experience and offers a sensitive and poetic dive into the intimacy of all those who have gone through this very special event. The exhibition, which is based on audio-visual installations, prints, webcams and time-lapses, gives a playful attention to the visit.
Ordinary or breathtaking, each photo is accompanied by a simple caption or a powerful life story.
Through this exhibition, the Atomium is delighted to dedicate its spaces and its exceptional panorama of the Belgian capital, the cradle of Europe, to a humanist project conceived as a powerful invitation to share and travel.
When one door closes, many windows open!
Atomium
Laeken
Exhibition
View from my window
Magical Theatres
The paper theatre, miniature theatre or table top theatre was once a source of pleasure for young and old. These days, it has sunk into oblivion. The "Magical Theatres" exhibition brings back to life the magical world of this toy, its fantastic colourful decors and its small paper actors.
The Halle Gate opens the doors onto a world full of stories, from Shakespeare plays to the tales of the Grimm Brothers.
These delightful works of art, that appeared two centuries ago, reflect the magnificent European theatre stages and give insight in the private world of 19th-century families. The exhibition reveals complete theatres from this period and wonderful uncut original paper stages. Creations by contemporary artists are also on display. Visitors will be amazed by virtual dramatisations. Younger visitors are guided by a paper puppet, Puss in Boots.
The Magical Theatres exhibition is situated on the third floor of the magnificent Halle Gate Museum building. In a permanent presentation, this vestige of the second surrounding wall of Brussels reveals the period in which the city was fortified and offers impressive panoramic views from its rampart walk. The annual temporary exhibitions focus on different aspects of day-to-day life in the past and present, and often find their inspiration in the European Ethnology collections of the Royal Museums of Art and History.
Halle Gate – RMAH
Brussels
Exhibition
Magical Theatres
Festival 0>6
Centre Armillaire / CC de Jette
Jette
Festival
Festival 0>6
TOM Festival
Centre Culturel d'Uccle
Uccle
Festival
TOM Festival
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