The Harlem Fantasy '82
Origin(s) of the Royal House of LaBeija
I have a right to show my colour, darling! I am beautiful, and I know I am beautiful
Crystal LaBeija, The Queen (1968)
In this exhibition, featuring photography by Nick Kuskin, we are offered the opportunity to go black to the future. Black to a night in 1982 when Pepper LaBeija (Mother of the House of LaBeija) and Dorian Corey (Pioneer Founder & Mother of the House of Corey) threw the Harlem Fantasy Ball Il, celebrating the creative genius of the Ballroom community of New York City and, to paraphrase the Cuban-American queer cultural theorist José Esteban Muñoz, the “queer futurities” proposed therein.?
On West 125th St NYC, the then?twenty-one-year-old Kuskin found himself invited to document the historic night of avant-garde self-expression and community creation.?
The ball offered a political space for celebration and respite for marginalised communities most harshly affected by the repressive social and economic climate imposed by Ronald Reagan’s administration - and its lack of response to HIV crisis - and more generally by the heteronormative white ideology.
The exhibition, and the accompanying public programme, celebrate the origin(s) and contribution of Pepper LaBeija and Dorian Corey, and the Royal House of LaBeija which laid the foundations for a global movement for the self-expression and advocacy of queer, black and brown communities.
With the curatorial support of Kopano Maroga, Ballroom Pioneer Diamond Icon - Historian Kevin Ultra Omni/Kevin Burrus, Overall Overseer Jeffrey « Kiddie Liddah » LaBeija/ Jeffrey Bryant and Nick Kuskin. The public programme about Black Queer self-representation is conceived in collaboration with Eric Cyuzuzo - Som•m•e of Us.
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Brussels
Exhibition
The Harlem Fantasy '82
Michel François
Contre nature
A look at 40 years of artistic practice by Belgian artist Michel François, from early work to several new creations he made especially for Bozar. Using sculpture, photography, video, painting and installation, the artist creates a web of shifting connections between his artworks. The exhibition is a unique concept in which the 'total artwork' is central and the exhibition space becomes an extension of his studio. François shakes up reality, questions it, and time and again breathes new life into its relationship with art. He transforms seemingly simple objects and materials into bearers of meaning. How can a gesture change the status of an object? What is the influence of the artist's hand? And what is the role of coincidence?
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Brussels
Exhibition
Michel François
Kunstenfestivaldesarts
During three weeks Kunstenfestivaldesarts invites artists from all over the world and from Belgium to redefine the boundaries of theatre, dance and performance in more than 30 venues in and around Brussels.
During three weeks Kunstenfestivaldesarts invites artists from all over the world and from Belgium to redefine the boundaries of theatre, dance and performance in more than 30 venues in and around Brussels.
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou - Candice Breitz - extra
CENTRALE presents the exhibition extra by Mehdi-Georges Lahlou & Candice Breitz at CENTRALE | hall (20.04 > 24.09.2023).
For this exhibition, envisaged as a space of celebration and encounters, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou presents a whole new body of works including sculptures, drawings, engravings, reworked archive photos, as well as installations and videos. At CENTRALE, the artist continues to explore the representation of violence and its consequences on current geopolitical issues. He draws on war archives and ancestral history, as well as on his own experiences, both intimate and fictional. Between the representation of the self and the questioning of the other, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou seeks to understand the role of archives in our collective memory.
“As an artist, I have the privilege of being able to speak out. I want to take advantage of this, to open up the senses and consciences. “ – Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, interviewed by Annick Colonna-Césari, journalist and critic
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou has invited the Berlin-based artist Candice Breitz (1972, Johannesburg) as a guest artist. Born and raised in South Africa during the era of apartheid, Breitz has consistently sought to grapple with whiteness in her work, from early photographic series such as ‘Ghost Series’ (1994), to later installations such as ‘Extra’ (2011) and ‘Whiteface’ (2022). Breitz’s journeys into the violent terrain of whiteness often feature the artist herself and are strikingly auto-ethnographic, offering a compelling counterpoint to Mehdi-Georges Lahlou’s body of work, in which self-portraiture again and again opens onto some of the most urgent political conversations of our times.
The two artists work with (self-)portraits, as well as with images taken from the media or social networks and clichés from popular or ancestral/traditional cultures.
They examine the way in which identity and image are shaped and echo each other, whether within the local and familial microcosm, or within the wider national and international macrocosm.
The exhibition opens up beyond the museum walls with the unveiling of a monumental artwork by Mehdi-Georges Lahlou in Molenbeek at the Vaartkapoen Cultural Centre. Entitled Into the Palms the Birds, it was commissioned by the Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (Flemish Community Commission).
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (1983, Sables d’Olonne, France; lives and works in Brussels and Paris) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring performance art, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing. His work focuses namely on gender and cultural identity issues. The artist’s interest lies in the way in which emotions can be triggered by the subject, rather than in the object itself. His work calls upon the five senses as it includes sound creations, spices, and even food items such as couscous. Each element refers to a culture, a cliché, a ritual tradition, thus echoing the world we live in.
With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou ; Candice Breitz
CENTRALE for contemporary art
Brussels
Exhibition
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou - Candice Breitz - extra
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)
Brussels
Exhibition
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Judith Vanistendael. Artfully moving.
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
Festival BrasilBaixu 2023
Le Baixu
Brussels
Festival
Festival BrasilBaixu 2023
Exhibition Romy Schneider
PALACE WELCOMES THE ROMY SCHNEIDER EXHIBITION!
Come and discover the unique career of a great figure of European cinema through some 250 works: photos, posters, dresses, videos ...
Romy Schneider has one of the richest and most impressive filmographies in the history of cinema. We will have great pleasure in presenting some of her most emblematic films.
Forty years after her death, Romy Schneider (September 23, 1938 - May 29, 1982) is still loved and popular. A European actress, with a career that began at the age of 15 in Germany and continued in France, she became a star thanks to films that have forever marked the history of cinema.
The exhibition shows how Romy Schneider's career has written a history of cinema of her time, that of the great filmmakers of the world. Her quest for the absolute undoubtedly contributed to her genius and grace. The exhibition is an opportunity to give her a voice. To try to make her live again through her roles of course but also her texts, her interviews...
Built both chronologically and thematically, the exhibition aims to show the atypical path of the actress: her childhood and her beginnings in Austria, her flight to France, her meeting with great directors (Visconti, Welles, Clouzot, Preminger ...), her lasting collaboration with Claude Sautet, her influence and her growing involvement in the choice of her roles ...
The exhibition is articulated in a mixture of objects (dresses, accessories ...), photos, texts, documents of shooting but also personal pieces (letters, notebooks ...) and of course many video clips.
Cinéma Palace
Brussels
Exhibition
Exhibition Romy Schneider
Le Cat Walks
22 sculptures of Le Cat by cartoonist Philippe Geluck are presented in Brussels' Royal Park from 10 march 2023.
Already presented in Paris, Bordeaux, Caen, Geneva, Monaco and Montreux, this pharaonic Le Cat exhibition is now in Brussels, hometown of humorist Philippe Geluck. And for this special occasion, 2 new sculptures will be revealed. A staggering exhibition in which Le Cat, true to himself, makes us laugh, questions us and touches us with his lighthearted approach to serious matters.
The "Le Chat" mobile app, free and available in 3 languages, is a real audioguide, richly illustrated with photos, drawings and videos.
Brussels Park
Brussels
Exhibition
Le Cat Walks
Four Sisters
Chantal Akerman, Marianne Berenhaut, Sarah Kaliski and Julia Pirotte are artists. One makes films, the other sculptures. Another is a painter, the last a photographer.
Chantal Akerman, Marianne Berenhaut, Sarah Kaliski and Julia Pirotte are artists. One makes films, the other sculptures. Another is a painter, the last a photographer. Four Jewish women. Coming from different generations, they emigrated or were born of stateless parents who fled Eastern Europe and the persecutions of the 1930s. All four lived in Brussels and have in common that they lived – directly or through their relatives – through the Occupation, that they saw and suffered deportations, that they lived through the disaster.
Chantal, Marianne, Sarah and Julia are sisters. Sisters from other parents. They have survived, or simply lived, thanks to their own resilience. Like Ruth Elias, Ada Lichtman, Paula Biren and Hanna Marton, The Four Sisters who returned from the death camps and whose testimonies were collected by the filmmaker Claude Lanzmann in the late 1970s, they share the experience of the Shoah. They are custodians of a memory, made up of as many stories as of absences and incomplete words. A gap, a silence, a haunting which they inherited.
These artists have created works, languages, and ways of seeing in and around this hole in history, in their history. Evolving each in a singular world, Chantal, Marianne, Sarah and Julia have sometimes crossed paths, seen each other at the bend of an exhibition or a projection. These women have built themselves with a strength and a commitment that make them today’s models of life and freedom. As Jews, they have questioned the weight of belonging and transmission, the power of a scattered and diasporic culture.
Four Sisters is a choral exhibition that follows the gaze of these four figures, whose lives, placed end to end, cover an entire century of history, where events and places, destruction and emancipation, political transformations and intimate experimentations are connected. Combining works and archives, images and texts, monographic presentations and collective arrangements, Four Sisters interweaves the threads of these life stories in a weaving fashion extending into the present, through the punctuated participation of artists from a younger generation. Within Four Sisters, in the details and folds, memories mingling with fiction, there are gestures, times and fragments whose echoes resonate and compose new patterns, like a memory that can only be formed in sharing.
Chantal Akerman (video); Marianne Berenhaut (sculpture); Sarah Kaliski (painting); Julia Pirotte (photography)
Jewish Museum of Belgium
Brussels
Exhibition
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Four Sisters
Léon Spilliaert
The early years
This focus exhibition places Spilliaert's illustrations for 'Théâtre' in context. They are presented with a selection of the artist's early works from the collection of the Museum. Spilliaert was barely 21 years old when he drew the illustrations. They testify to a mature and highly personal translation of Maeterlinck's uncanny theatrical world and point ahead to subjects and representations of drawings he would create in the following years.
Léon Spilliaert unfolded his talent in art in an entirely unique way. Even as a teenager, he was drawn to the 'paper world'. Inspired by literature and philosophy, he depicts the interpretation of his reading in drawings.
A brief stint at the Bruges academy in late 1899 does not prevent him from going public with his work. He first does so in the closed circles of art and book lovers, such as the well-known Brussels publisher and bookseller Edmond Deman and writer Emile Verhaeren.
In the first decade of the 20th century, the period highlighted in this focus exhibition, the young artist is in existential search. After brief stays in Brussels and Paris, he returns to his familiar Ostend. The restlessness and symbolic layering of his earliest works gives way to a deep experience of the here and now, depicted in interiors and seascapes.
In 2022, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium received a unique edition of 'Théâtre' by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949). The three volumes bring together some of his writings for theatre. No fewer than 348 original drawings by Ostend artist Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946) illustrate the whole. The work was acquired by the Eliane Vercaempt Fund managed by the King Baudouin Foundation. Because of their cultural-historical and artistic significance, the books have the status of Masterpiece of the Flemish Community.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Exhibition
Léon Spilliaert
Eva Jospin - 'Panorama'
Fondation Thalie
Ixelles
Exhibition
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Eva Jospin - 'Panorama'
The Artwork As A Living System
In media art, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are regarded as pioneers of the “Art of Interface.” In 2023 iMAL will welcome a retrospective dedicated to these influencial artists: The Artwork as a Living System.
In media art, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are considered pioneers of the "Art of Interface". This Austrian-French artist couple takes inspiration from systems, as we know them from nature, when developing their interactive and visually spectacular installations. Since the early 1990s, they have been working with the most advanced techniques, such as the algorithm or artificial intelligence, while bringing us closer to the secrets of what we call "life".
In 2023, iMAL dedicates a retrospective exhibition to these influential artists: The Artwork As A Living System.
The exhibition is a co-production with ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE) and the OÖ Landes-Kultur, Linz (A).
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Exhibition
The Artwork As A Living System
Expedition Egypt
Expedition Egypt narrates the story of two centuries of fascinating archaeological discoveries in the Land of the Pharaohs and the development of the Egyptian collection of the museum.
The exhibition Expedition Egypt brings together more than two hundred objects from its eminent Egyptian collection. Highlights include the sumptuously decorated coffins from the priestly cache of Deir el-Bahari. In addition, a wide variety of stunning pieces from the collection will be shown to the public for the very first time. Objects like funerary stelae, canopic vases for the entrails of the deceased, and shabti figurines meant to accompany the dead in the afterlife, will introduce the visitors to the Egyptian world of the gods and eternal life. The exhibition will also be richly provided with unique historical photographic material.
This journey through time will be punctuated by the artistic interventions of Sara Sallam (°1991, Cairo). The artist explores contemporary Egyptian cultural identity and questions the history and meaning of Egyptology. Nourished by childhood memories and archaeological and museum sources , Sara Sallam’s works offer a new look on the heritage of ancient Egypt.
Art & History Museum (RMAH)
Brussels
Exhibition
Expedition Egypt
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
Brussels
Exhibition
Back to nature 1900
Johnny Hallyday l'Exposition
Throughout 3000m2 of converted space, visitors will be immersed in an interactive retrospective of the star’s life; from his teenage bedroom to his Marnes-la-Coquette office, to his life in America and Saint Barth, his final resting place.
Spanning over four decades, the exhibit “Johnny Hallyday. L’Exposition” will be punctuated with musical, scenic and personal memories, allowing visitors to relive Johnny Hallyday’s career, thanks to exceptional staging experiences, in a unique and fully immersive experience.
Brussels Expo
Laeken
Exhibition
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Johnny Hallyday l'Exposition
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
Brussels
Exhibition
Diane von Furstenberg. Woman Before Fashion
Exhibition: Animalia. Trails of life, railways
An poetic exhibition devoted to biodiversity and its challenges related to the climat change and the leading role of the train in this important theme.
Animalia is a poetic and scientific journey through the main challenges
of our times: threats to the environment, losses of biodiversity and
global warming. In this context, trains are an incredible asset towards
sustainable mobility.
Pierre-Yves Renkin, a renowned Belgian animal sculptor, showcases
a series of life-like animal art works in Train World. These sculptures
enter into dialogue with our railway collections. Through this poetic and
confronting journey, you will discover the causes and challenges of the
current biodiversity and climate change crises. What are the dangers and
what can be done about it?
This exhibition also highlights the efforts of SNCB and Infrabel to reduce the
ecological footprint of their activities on the climate and the environment.
An exhibition to understand and to act!
Pierre-Yves Renkin, Jean-Pascal Van Ypersele, Caroline Nieberding
Train World
Schaerbeek
Exhibition
Exhibition: Animalia. Trails of life, railways
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
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
Privat Livemont. Fleurs à l'affiche! Bloemenpracht!
The Autrique House presents the work and life of Privat Livemont, an emblematic Art Nouveau artist from Brussels.
From March 2023 to January 2024, the Autrique House presents the work and life of Privat Livemont, an emblematic Art Nouveau artist from Brussels. Working as a versatile artist, a craftsman, and a teacher at the Industrial Academy in Schaerbeek, Livemont seems to have been a tireless worker. He is best known for his posters and the sgraffiti on many facades in Brussels.
The delicacy of his line, his taste for decorative plant elements and their stylisation, his fertile imagination and his colourful palette make Privat Livemont an important figure that Maison Autrique has chosen to honour in 2023, the year of Art Nouveau.
Discover the programme of our discussions and lectures on the work and era of Livemont on autrique.be.
With the complicity of Galerie Le Tout Venant, ARCHistory & Commune de Schaerbeek/Gemeente Schaarbeek
In collaboration with Musée d’Ixelles/Museum van Elsene, Archives de la Ville de Bruxelles/Archief van de Stad Brussel, KBR, Hôtel Solvay, Cauchie House & Jonathan Mangelinckx
With the support of urban.brussels, Loterie Nationale/Nationale Loterij, Brussels Capital Region, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles & A Step Forward
Autrique House
Schaerbeek
Exhibition
Privat Livemont. Fleurs à l'affiche! Bloemenpracht!
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
Brussels
Exhibition
Don't call it Art brut
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
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
