Bright Festival
Bright, the Brussels Festival of Lights, will bring some sparkle to your evenings from 16 to 19 February 2023.
For this new edition, Brussels' brightest event will illuminate three neighbourhoods: the Royal Quarter, the European Quarter and from the Sainte-Marie/Lehon Quarter to Avenue Louis Bertrand in Schaerbeek. The routes will be subtly punctuated by some twenty immersive and poetic works of art.
Alongside these artistic installations, the festival will feature an equally luminous fringe programme, consisting of evening events in the museums, guided tours and ephemeral installations by the event's partners. This edition also promises a magnificent spotlight, both literally and figuratively, on our region's rich Art Nouveau heritage.
Mark your calendar!
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Bright Festival
Interieurbezoek: Hôtel Max Hallet: ontvangen in stijl!
Max Hallet House
Ixelles
Guided tours
Interieurbezoek: Hôtel Max Hallet: ontvangen in stijl!
Notes On Thinking Through Spaces / Ingel Vaikla
Atelier Arthur Rogiers
Brussels
Exhibition
Notes On Thinking Through Spaces / Ingel Vaikla
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!
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
BRAFA Art Talks
Brussels Expo
Laeken
Conferences and conventions
BRAFA Art Talks
Dans les coulisses de la rénovation de l'hôtel Solvay
Solvay House
Ixelles
Guided tours
Dans les coulisses de la rénovation de l'hôtel Solvay
1er dimanche avec Horta
Museum Horta
Saint-Gilles
Guided tours
1er dimanche avec Horta
Masterclass Amarant > Art nouveau & de collectie Gillion Crowet
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Conferences and conventions
Masterclass Amarant > Art nouveau & de collectie Gillion Crowet
Interior visit: Atelier Arthur Rogiers
Architect Paul Hamesse, Paul Hankar’s trainee, designed this studio town house for painter Arthur Rogiers in 1898.
Architect Paul Hamesse, Paul Hankar’s trainee, designed this studio town house for painter Arthur Rogiers in 1898. The white brick façade including decorative elements in red brick is characteristic of the geometric Art Nouveau, although the ornamental ironwork of the cellar window and the frame of the letterbox still show the elegant swirling lines from the style’s early period. The cantilevered bay window above the front door serves as a support for a balcony that can be accessed through the right side of the large window on the first floor, behind which was the painter’s studio. In 1908, painter and writer Jules Potvin took up residence in the building.
The house was restored in an exemplary manner by its new owners, making the most of the existing spaces without affecting the original layout. The house is also a place where young video artists are given the opportunity to show their projects to an audience.
Guide: Thomas Pevernagie - Korei Guided Tours
Atelier Arthur Rogiers
Brussels
Guided tours
Interior visit: Atelier Arthur Rogiers
Interieurbezoek: Het atelier Arthur Rogiers
Atelier Arthur Rogiers
Brussels
Guided tours
Interieurbezoek: Het atelier Arthur Rogiers
Les Visites Hallucinées
De Ultieme Hallucinatie
Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode
Guided tours
Les Visites Hallucinées
Wandeling & interieurbezoek: Het Jubelpark en bezoek aan het Cauchiehuis
Jubelpark - ingang Autoworld
Brussels
Guided tours
Wandeling & interieurbezoek: Het Jubelpark en bezoek aan het Cauchiehuis
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
Broodje Brussel - Art Nouveau - De verzameling Gillion Crowet
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Guided tours
Broodje Brussel - Art Nouveau - De verzameling Gillion Crowet
The spirit of Art Nouveau, Photographs by Gilbert De Keyser
As part of the Art Nouveau Year 2023. Exploration of Art Nouveau treasures in our capital, through Gilbert De Keyser's eyes and a hundred or so of his photographs.
As a young photographer, Gilbert De Keyser (Brussels, 1925-2001) focused on the streets of Brussels in the 1950s and the demolitions that were taking place against the 19th century-built heritage. He smoothly moved from a sad and nostalgic look at the changing city, to a more precise evocation of the details of the eclectic and Art Nouveau houses threatened with destruction. He finally focused with exceptional intensity on the latter aspect. The exhibition will bring together about a hundred of these photographic images that combine both documentary and artistic qualities. Some of them are period black & white prints, others are coloured slides.
Curator: Pierre Loze
With catalogue 16,5 x 24 cm. Text: P. Loze
Curator : Pierre Loze
Photographer : Gilbert De Keyser
Association du Patrimoine Artistique asbl
Brussels
Exhibition
The spirit of Art Nouveau, Photographs by Gilbert De Keyser
visite guidée par le propriétaire
Max Hallet House
Ixelles
Guided tours
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visite guidée par le propriétaire
La vie quotidienne à L'hôtel Solvay
Solvay House
Ixelles
Guided tours
La vie quotidienne à L'hôtel Solvay
Aegidium
Aegidium
Saint-Gilles
Guided tours
Aegidium
Jeudis de l'histoire, "Art Nouveau autour de la Grand-Place"
Museum of the City of Brussels
Brussels
Conferences and conventions
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Jeudis de l'histoire, "Art Nouveau autour de la Grand-Place"
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. Working as a versatile artist, a craftsman, and a teacher at the Industrial Academy in Schaerbeek, Livemont seems to have been a tireless worker.
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.
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 & 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!
Masterclass Art nouveau & la collection Gillion Crowet
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Conferences and conventions
Masterclass Art nouveau & la collection Gillion Crowet
Foundation Frison Horta "A Living museum"
Maison muse L'art Nouveau Victor Horta
Foundation Frison Horta is an Active Cultural Bridge Between East & West Restoring, Preserving and Sustaining Rich Art & Craft of the By-Gone Era, in an Artistic Art-de-Vivre form. “Excellence in Craftsmanship and Métiers d’Art”. The Foundation Aims to Foster Greater Understanding and Appreciation of the Rich Heritage & Cultural Traditions of the East particularly of Indian Sub-continent In Europe and vice versa.
Foundation Frison Horta is working Extensively in Restoring the image of Brussels with Art Nouveau as its National Identity to a Global Audience.
Maison Frison is the Only one of a kind house of Victor Horta that was Constructed for Double Function Maurice Frison ( Lawyer of the Court of Belgium) office and living space. Foundation frison Has Continued the double function of Horta with Foundation museum activities and the living space making it a One of a kind in the world “A Living Museum” an Exceptional Unique Time capsule of 19th Century Total Art, Art Nouveau Gem of Victor Horta!
Entry Fee: 35 Euros (Minimum 2 person)
Foundation Frison Horta
Brussels
Guided tours
Foundation Frison Horta "A Living museum"
Art nouveau et Art Déco aux étangs d'Ixelles
Place Sainte-Croix
Ixelles
Guided tours
Art nouveau et Art Déco aux étangs d'Ixelles
1001 facettes de l'Art nouveau
Museum Horta
Saint-Gilles
Guided tours
1001 facettes de l'Art nouveau
Visite Maison Blerot
Immoar
Brussels
Guided tours
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Visite Maison Blerot
Bruxelles : capitale de l'Art nouveau
Arau - Atelier de Recherche et d'Action Urbaines
Brussels
Guided tours
Bruxelles : capitale de l'Art nouveau
*EXTRAMUROS* Paul Cauchie in Mechelen
The Cauchie House invites you to an exciting walking tour! Discover the artworks facade in Mechelen.
In Mechelen, between 1900 and World War I, around 20 houses were decorated with sgraffitos. Important architects - such as P.J. Rooms, Cyrille Van den Bergh and the city architect Theo Vandenbergh - integrated this technique to their façades designs. During this walk, our guide will take you on an exciting tour about the fascinating history of these master builders.
Meeting point : at the corner of Liersesteenweg and Frans Halsvest.
Time slots avalaible :
10am : guided tour in Dutch
14pm : guided tour in French
The Cauchie House
Etterbeek
Guided tours
*EXTRAMUROS* Paul Cauchie in Mechelen
Les Cycles de l'Art nouveau
Pro Velo
Ixelles
Guided tours
Les Cycles de l'Art nouveau
Art Nouveau in the Horta area
Art Nouveau offers a wide range of variations, each one more original than others. Some buildings are geometrical, others organic, all of them showing amazing distinctive features which reflect the feelings of architects or commissioners. Arkadia takes you in Horta's old district to reveal Art Nouveau as an ever surprising and fascinating kaleidoscope.
Art Nouveau offers a wide range of variations, each one more original than others. Some buildings are geometrical, others organic, all of them showing amazing distinctive features which reflect the feelings of architects or commissioners. Arkadia takes you in Horta's old district to reveal Art Nouveau as an ever surprising and fascinating kaleidoscope.
Tassel House
Brussels
Guided tours
Art Nouveau in the Horta area
1001 facetten van Art nouveau
Tassel House
Brussels
Guided tours
1001 facetten van Art nouveau
De l'avenue des Sept Bonniers à l'Altitude 100
A l'angle de l'avenue des Sept Bonniers et la Rue Joseph Bens 1180 Bruxelles
Uccle
Guided tours
De l'avenue des Sept Bonniers à l'Altitude 100
Symbolisme, idealisme en Art nouveau in het Fin-de-Siècle Museum Rondleidingen voor individuele bezoekers
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Guided tours
Symbolisme, idealisme en Art nouveau in het Fin-de-Siècle Museum Rondleidingen voor individuele bezoekers
Symbolisme , idéalisme et Art nouveau au Musée Fin-de-Siècle Visites guidées pour le public individuel
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Guided tours
Symbolisme , idéalisme et Art nouveau au Musée Fin-de-Siècle Visites guidées pour le public individuel
The Unmade Pavilion (working title)
The exhibition explores mutual dependencies and interrelations in modernist forms and spatial practices that migrated and mutated across Belgium and the Democratic Republic of Congo - its former colony - at the beginning of the XXth century.
Architectural and artistic projects contained in this exhibition seek to make sense of the captivating power of design that gave eloquent physical form to fictive projections of the Congo, in situations where subaltern perspectives have been marginalized.
The exhibition's historical anchor is the Belgian Art Nouveau movement that came to flourish at the time of King Leopold II’s imperial inroads into the Congo. With its taxonomy of undulating asymmetrical lines transforming into exuberant plantlife, the architectural and design movement - also known as Style Congo - outlined the country's fascination for the exotic and ‘primitive’ in african woods and pearly ivories.
Deeply entangled with the Congo Free State, through both material and inspiration, the Belgian avant-garde movement also came to represent the African colony in colonial commissions and international exhibitions. As a total artworks, these exhibitions illustrate the synthesis of the arts to which Belgian modernism aspired, not only through its forms in both architecture and applied arts, but also by fusing the staging and the collections - setting a precedent for later institutional displays in ethnographic museums. Within enthralling constructions and beguiling cases - each utopian in their own way - the exhibitions sold an idea of the Congo as a lucrative African colony and a field of creative influence to Belgian artists and architects. Through a simultaneous display of authenticity and progress, they served as a platform for political propaganda and economic exchange of international capitals finalized at building infrastructures in the colonies.
By way of artistic and architectural interventions, archival research and an extensive presentation of works from CIVA Collections, the exhibition comments on the politics of representation and appropriation at play in these events seen as “contact zones”, spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power . A visual chronology of the representation of Congo within international exhibitions between 1885 and 1958, serves as a narrative device for the exhibition. From there a series of projects deploys aiming to unsettle normative visions associated with this history and heritage. By looking at traces of coloniality in the cityscape of Brussels and Congo they push a debate on a possible decolonization of private and public spaces and the possibility to open a space for rewriting the margins into the center.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a public program starting in March 2023.
CIVA, Twentyninestudioproduction, KANAL-Centre Pompidou
Sammy Baloji, Silvia Franceschini, Nikolaus Hirsch, Estelle Lecaille
Judith Barry, Rossella Biscotti, Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet, Johan Lagae & Paoletta Holst, Chrystel Mukeba, Daniela Ortiz, Ruth Sacks, Traumnovelle.
CIVA
Ixelles
Exhibition
The Unmade Pavilion (working title)
Art Nouveau and Art Deco places of entertainment
We will start our journey back through time at nightfall, to experience the true souls of Art Nouveau and Art Deco cafés and places of entertainment, including “Le Falstaff”, “L'Archiduc” and “Le Cirio”.
We will learn about the history of entertainment, including during the Belle Epoque and the Roaring Twenties when Brussels was still “brusseling” (in the words of Jacques Brel!).
Outside the “Le Falstaff” café
Brussels
Guided tours
Art Nouveau and Art Deco places of entertainment
Les lieux de fêtes Art nouveau et Art Déco
Outside the “Le Falstaff” café
Brussels
Guided tours
Les lieux de fêtes Art nouveau et Art Déco
L'avenue Franklin Roosevelt, un patrimoine architectural exceptionnel
Solvay Brussels School - à l'angle de l'avenue Jeanne et de l'avenue Franklin Roosevelt
Ixelles
Guided tours
L'avenue Franklin Roosevelt, un patrimoine architectural exceptionnel
Art nouveau au cœur de Bruxelles
In front of the Stock Exchange
Brussels
Guided tours
Art nouveau au cœur de Bruxelles
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
Victor Horta versus Art nouveau. Horta's vocabulary
L'avenue Louis Bertrand et l'Art nouveau
Devant l'église Saint-Servais, au croisement de la chaussée d'Haecht et de l'avenue Louis Bertrand
Schaerbeek
Guided tours
L'avenue Louis Bertrand et l'Art nouveau
Art Nouveau and Art Deco Antiques fair
Silver - bakelite - ceramics - books - graphic design - toys - fashion - photographs - sculpture - paintings - glass ... Also on 25 & 26 March: Salon of restorers and heritage awareness associations, and on 26 March: object appraisals - J.-J. Wattel, ARP / ART RESEARCH PARIS
As part of the Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco Festival - BANAD
Ecole 13
Schaerbeek
Various
Art Nouveau and Art Deco Antiques fair
Mon plaisir, l'Art nouveau
Cage aux ours
Schaerbeek
Guided tours
Mon plaisir, l'Art nouveau
Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival 2023
The Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival is a special event that promotes the Art Nouveau and Art Deco heritage of the Brussels-Capital Region.
What makes this festival so special are guided tours through Art Nouveau and Art Deco buildings that are normally not open for visitors.
Event Concept
The Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival is a special event that promotes the Art Nouveau and Art Deco heritage of the Brussels-Capital Region. It takes place every year on the weekends of March.
What makes this festival so special are guided tours through Art Nouveau and Art Deco buildings that are normally not open for visitors. A unique opportunity to (re) discover these hidden architectural gems!
As part of the Festival, we also offer other activities that spotlight the Art Nouveau and Art Deco heritage and complement the guided tours: walking tours as well as bike and bus tours; concerts; seminars; shows; activities for families; an antique market; activities for disabled people; and activities for schools...
The event concept is unique in Europe!
The BANAD Festival is organised by Explore.Brussels, a network of associations that organise guided tours: ARAU, Arkadia, Brussels Chatterguides and Pro Velo.
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Guided tours
Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival 2023
Free Guide Gresham - Argenteau : Art Nouveau Vs Art Déco
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Guided tours
Free Guide Gresham - Argenteau : Art Nouveau Vs Art Déco
Jeudis de l'histoire - "Omtrent Minerva- De renaissance van de chryselefantiene sculptuur in België tijdens het fin de siècle "
Museum of the City of Brussels
Brussels
Conferences and conventions
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Jeudis de l'histoire - "Omtrent Minerva- De renaissance van de chryselefantiene sculptuur in België tijdens het fin de siècle "
*EXTRAMUROS* Paul Cauchie in the Cinquantenaire area
The Cauchie House invites you to an exciting walking tour! Discover the artworks of Paul Cauchie around the Cinquantenaire.
In Brussels, between 1900 and World War I, hundreds of facades were decorated with sgraffitos. Dozens of architects - including Paul Hamesse, Edouard Frankinet and Paul Hankar - collaborated with various designer-performers. During this walk, our guide will take you on an exciting tour of the area around the Cinquantenaire Park and the Cauchie House (Lina and Paul Cauchie’s remarkable house & workshop).
Meeting point : in front of the Military Museum.
Time slots available :
10am : guided tour in Dutch
14pm : guided tour in French
16pm : guided tour in English
The Cauchie House
Etterbeek
Guided tours
*EXTRAMUROS* Paul Cauchie in the Cinquantenaire area
Goûter à la Maison de Saint Cyr
Maison de Saint Cyr
Brussels
Guided tours
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Goûter à la Maison de Saint Cyr
*EXTRAMUROS* Sgraffito in Tournai
The Cauchie House invites you to an exciting walking tour! Discover the artworks facade in Tournai.
In Tournai, around 59 façades were decorated with sgraffitos. Some of them are signed by the architects Gustave and Félix Strauven, Alphonse Dufour and George De Porre. During this walk, our guide will take you on an exciting tour to discover the impressive work of several artists, including the Tournaisian Victor Facon.
Meeting point : in front of the Law Courts of Tournai.
Time slots avalaible :
10am : guided tour in Dutch
14pm : guided tour in French
The Cauchie House
Etterbeek
Guided tours
*EXTRAMUROS* Sgraffito in Tournai
At Gustave's
Confidential visits to an interior by Gustave Strauven: his former personal house in Rue Luther 28 in the Squares district. Duration: 40min
Maison Strauven
Brussels
Guided tours
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At Gustave's
The Art Nouveau and Art Déco stained glass
Centre Belge du Vitrail Pierre Majerus
Etterbeek
Conferences and conventions
The Art Nouveau and Art Déco stained glass
Franc-Maçonnerie et Art Nouveau
Temple maçonnique
Brussels
Conferences and conventions
Franc-Maçonnerie et Art Nouveau
Hotel Van Eetvelde & LAB·An
Opening to the public of the Hotel Van Eetvelde complex, a jewel of Brussels' Art Nouveau, classified as a Unesco World Heritage Site, with an offer of guided and free visits as well as the presentation of an exhibition on the theme "Art Nouveau and colonisation".
LAB·An
Brussels
Exhibition
Hotel Van Eetvelde & LAB·An
Jeudi de l'histoire - "De Fernand Brunfaut à Victor Horta, à la recherche de l'Art nouveau à Laeken"
Museum of the City of Brussels [ONLINE]
Conferences and conventions
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Jeudi de l'histoire - "De Fernand Brunfaut à Victor Horta, à la recherche de l'Art nouveau à Laeken"
Printemps des cimetières - "Art Nouveau et symbolique funéraire"
Cimetiere de bruxelles
Evere
Guided tours
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Printemps des cimetières - "Art Nouveau et symbolique funéraire"
Gardens as a tool of Art Nouveau. Architecture & Nature.
An exhibition of photographs of contemporary architecture and landscapes
offering a new look at European Art Nouveau while at the same time offering a reflection on the relationship between architecture and nature.
Halles Saint-Géry
Brussels
Exhibition
Gardens as a tool of Art Nouveau. Architecture & Nature.
Art Nouveau. Masters from here
Organisation: "Heritage and Culture" programme
Partner : BELvue Museum
Scenography: Expoduo
Curator: Werner Adriaenssens
BELvue museum
Brussels
Exhibition
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Art Nouveau. Masters from here
*EXTRAMUROS* Paul Cauchie in Turnhout
The Cauchie House invites you to an exciting walking tour! Discover the artworks facade in Turnhout.
In Turnhout, between 1900 and World War I, around 40 houses were decorated with sgraffitos. Important architects - such as Jos. Verschoren, Adolf Van der Heyden and the Taeymans brothers - integrated this technique to their façades designs. During this walk, our guide will take you on an exciting tour about the fascinating history of these master builders.
Meeting point : at the corner of Warandestraat and Renier Sniedersstraat.
Time slots avalaible :
10am : guided tour in Dutch
14pm : guided tour in French
The Cauchie House
Etterbeek
Guided tours
*EXTRAMUROS* Paul Cauchie in Turnhout
Victor Van Dyck, painter-decorator 1862-1943
As part of the Brussels Art Nouveau Year. Rediscovery of some fifty paintings and preparatory drawings designed for wall paintings by the Belgian painter Victor Van Dyck (1863 - 1943).
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the profession of decorative painter allowed artists from the Academy to make a decent living by responding to bourgeois commissions. The career of Victor Van Dyck (1863 - 1943) began in the 1980s with the interior decoration of brasseries and restaurants located on the central boulevards and on Place De Brouckère. He also created interior decorations for bourgeois houses, especially ceilings. He was invited to work in London and Blackpool on the decoration of theatre ceilings. In Brussels, in 1902, Van Dyck worked with Adolphe Crespin on the decoration for the Solvay Library. The exhibition will show the numerous drawings and design projects that were found at the home of the artist's heirs, after a hundred years sleep.
The present exhibition reveals some fifty watercolour projects by Victor Van Dyck. Thanks to their rediscovery, it has been possible to restore his authorship of a mural in the main hall of the Hallet Hotel and the decoration of the Solvay Library. A good number of his projects are also linked to his stay in England, where some of his works have been preserved. The exceptional nature of these rediscoveries is one of those nice surprises that art history can offer from time to time.
Curator: Pierre Loze
With catalogue. 16,5 x 24 cm. Text: P. Loze
Curator : Pierre Loze
Painter : Victor Van Dyck
Association du Patrimoine Artistique asbl
Brussels
Exhibition
Victor Van Dyck, painter-decorator 1862-1943
Arabesque, quand le cirque contemporain interprète l'Art Nouveau
Puridisciplinary exhibition, a tribute to Art Nouveau and the Brussels Contemporary Circus.
"Arabesque" is a photo and video exhibition project, linked to a series of in situ performances, all presented at the Halles Saint Géry in the context of the year 2023 - Brussels European Capital of Art Nouveau. It will pay tribute to this emblematic architectural movement, to the contemporary circus arts scene in Brussels, and to the organic links between these two worlds.
Halles Saint-Géry
Brussels
Exhibition
Arabesque, quand le cirque contemporain interprète l'Art Nouveau
*EXTRAMUROS* Paul Cauchie in Antwerp
The Cauchie House invites you to an exciting walking tour! Discover the artworks facade in Antwerp.
In Antwerp, in the period between 1900 and World War I, hundreds of façades were decorated with sgraffitos. Dozens of architects - including Jules Hofman, Frans Bollekens, Michel De Braey, Jean-Laurent Hasse and Frans Van Dijk - collaborated with various designer-performers. During this walk, our guide will take you on an exciting tour of the Zurenborg neighborhood and in particular of the area around the Cogels-Osylei.
Meeting point : at the corner of Guldenvliesstraat and Cogels-Osylei (Berchem).
Time slots available :
10am : guided tour in Dutch
14pm : guided tour in French
16pm : guided tour in English
The Cauchie House
Etterbeek
Guided tours
*EXTRAMUROS* Paul Cauchie in Antwerp
L'hôtel Solvay et ses innovations techniques
Solvay House
Ixelles
Guided tours
L'hôtel Solvay et ses innovations techniques
Lechner, a creative genius
International Art Nouveau Day is linked to the birthday of one of Hungary's greatest architects, Ödön Lechner. The exhibition presents his drawings, plans and constructions.
Ödön Lechner (1845–1914), one of the greatest exponents of Hungarian architecture, and certainly its most original, deserves a prominent position in the international canon of extraordinary talents from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is regarded by many as the creator of the Hungarian national style, the master of the Secession, one of the fathers of modern architecture, and even the Hungarian Gaudí.
The exhibition presents his drawings, plans and constructions.
Collaborators of the MUseum of Applied Arts in Budapest.
Liszt Institute - Hungarian Cultural Center Brussels
Brussels
Exhibition
Lechner, a creative genius
L'Art Nouveau en Argentine
Hôtel Ciamberlani
Ixelles
Conferences and conventions
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L'Art Nouveau en Argentine
Centenaire du CHU Brugmann
CHU Brugmann
Laeken
Guided tours
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Centenaire du CHU Brugmann
*EXTRAMUROS* Sgraffito-decoraties in Liège
The Cauchie House invites you to an exciting walking tour! Discover the artworks of Paul Cauchie and others artists in the city of Liège.
This walk takes you to those places in Liège that were transformed or urbanised during the Art Nouveau period, a style that features on several façades de la ‘Cité ardente’. Important architects such as Paul Jaspar, Victor Rogister, Clément Pirnay and Arthur Snyers made large use of sgraffitos to decorate their façade. Their incredible diversity has recently resurfaced thanks to several restorations. Come and discover this exceptional heritage with our expert guide.
Meeting point : 42 rue Dartois.
Time slots avalaible :
10am : guided tour in Dutch
14pm : guided tour in French
The Cauchie House
Etterbeek
Guided tours
*EXTRAMUROS* Sgraffito-decoraties in Liège
Art Nouveau Summer School
Heritage and innovation : Art Nouveau, a laboratory for past, present and future challenges
The programme offers a unique opportunity to dive into the heritage of Art Nouveau in Brussels and beyond and explore how Art Nouveau can act as a laboratory for current and future challenges. Participants will undertake a journey through European culture and history as well as reflect on the links between Art Nouveau and today’s challenges related to architecture, urban renovation and heritage management.
How did Art Nouveau blossom and later expanded throughout Europe and beyond? What are the links between Art Nouveau and cultural and heritage management policies? How is this revolution in art and architecture still relevant today? How is Art Nouveau valorized today? How can public and private stakeholders make Art Nouveau it accessible to a wide audience ?
The programme is built around two focus points: the first part will shed lights on the full scope of the Art Nouveau transdisciplinary and transnational movement. Lectures will focus on how Art Nouveau blossomed in Brussels and later around Europe and beyond, all the way to Asia for instance. It will also address how Art Nouveau infused society well beyond architecture, expanding its influence to arts, ornamentation, furniture, etc.
The second part will invite participants to reflect on the relationship between heritage and innovation through the lens of Art Nouveau. Lectures and discussions will focus on current issues related to urban renovation and preservation policies. They will also explore the links between cultural heritage and tourism as well as the valorization of heritage, including as as an economic resource, in Brussels and other European cities.
With a view to foster transdisciplinarity participants will also be invited to broaden their perspectives by reflecting on hidden scientific aspects in Art Nouveau and bio-inspired and bio-mimetics structures.
Bringing together a transnational and inter-disciplinary team of academic lecturers as well as students from different CIVIS universities, the programme aims to foster cooperation in education and research within the CIVIS alliance. It also offers opportunities for dialogue and exchanges of views with practitioners and experts from the non-academic world such as museums curators, architects and other actors involved in heritage and urban policies.
Implementation:
The programme is designed in collaboration between the three partner universities. All partners will be involved in selecting, teaching and assessing students. For the implementation of activities, both virtual and in Brussels, the organisers will be assisted by the summer school office at ULB who will carry out administrative and logistics tasks (processing applications and registrations; booking on-campus or off-campus accommodation; providing student support, organizing visits, etc).
Faculté d'architecture ULB
Ixelles
Conferences and conventions
Art Nouveau Summer School
Visite virtuelle 3D du Palais Stoclet
Faculté d'architecture la Cambre Horta
Ixelles
Exhibition
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Visite virtuelle 3D du Palais Stoclet
Experiencing Art Nouveau
How to live in an Art Nouveau building today?
Halles Saint-Géry
Brussels
Exhibition
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Experiencing Art Nouveau
Resonances. Encounter between Art Nouveau and plastic design
After its short flourishing life, Art Nouveau continued to be a strong aesthetic reference in the history of design all through the 20th century. The exhibition Resonances aims to highlight the rarely acknowledged dialogues that reveal the constitution of Art Nouveau as a style and at the same time justify the formal potential that design in plastic has allowed from the post-war period onward. Through an itinerary specially conceived for the occasion, Resonances aims to establish an encounter between pieces from the Plastic Design Collection of the Design Museum Brussels and Art Nouveau pieces from private collections based in Brussels. Swirling whiplash curves, flowing structural lines, exotic floral patterns and fantastic dream-like environments will show how Art Nouveau’s eternal quest for natural plasticity reverberate in the alchemic nature of plastic.
Design Museum Brussels
Laeken
Exhibition
Resonances. Encounter between Art Nouveau and plastic design
Jaime Hayon
MAD Brussels – the center of fashion and design – focuses on contemporary design and looked for an international designer who embodies the essence of the Art Nouveau movement today. Someone who is not afraid to experiment with different disciplines: from design to furniture making, from painting to the total interior.
Spanish designer Jaime Hayon (°1974), sometimes referred to as the contemporary Antoni Gaudi, embodies all of these aspects: from mysterious ceramic creatures and finely crafted objects to colourful interiors and intriguing paintings. Working the boundaries between art, decoration and design, Hayon's creations are not only full of optimism, but also show the hand of a true craftsman.
After founding Hayon Studio in 2001, he established a wide client base encompassing different functions and media, including furniture and household objects for B.D. Barcelona (ES), Cassina (IT), Fritz Hansen (DK), &Tradition (DK), Paola C. (IT) and Magis (IT); ceramic objects for Bosa (IT) and Lladro (ES); crystal creations for Baccarat (FR) and rugs for Nanimarquina (ES).
Not only does he work for international furniture companies, Jaime Hayon also worked on total projects such as the Pompidou Café in Paris and The Standard Hotel in Bangkok. In recent years he focused on a more artistic course, working together with galleries as Kreo in Paris and treading new paths like painting and drawing.
After exhibitions at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, the Holon Design Museum in Tel Aviv and a major exhibition at the Centre del Carme in Valencia in 2022, his oeuvre will be on show for the first time in Brussels. The exhibition at MAD Brussels focusses on the diversity of his oeuvre, the innovative craftmanship he brings to the industry and the colourful aspects of his artistic approach.
The exhibition is part of the Brussels' Art Nouveau year, the Spanish presidency of the European Union and Design September. The exhibition is produced with support of the Spanish Embassy in Brussels and the AECID (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional al Desarrollo).
MAD – Home of Creators
Brussels
Exhibition
Jaime Hayon
Visite de la maison Roosenboom en restauration
maison Roosenboom
Ixelles
Guided tours
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Visite de la maison Roosenboom en restauration
Exposé sur la restauration de l'Hôtel Max Hallet de Victor HORTA
Max Hallet House
Ixelles
Conferences and conventions
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Exposé sur la restauration de l'Hôtel Max Hallet de Victor HORTA
ARTONOV Festival
The ARTONOV Festival is inspired by the international Art Nouveau movement, both for its philosophy and its implementation, but also by the Japanese sensorial and multidisciplinary art. Its goal is to generate a convergence between the performing arts, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and creation in Art Nouveau and Art Deco houses and other venues of remarkable architecture in Brussels.
The philosophy of Art Nouveau and its venues, the starting point of our festival, lead us to in-depth research about the spaces of other periods while keeping a common thread: to awaken the senses in a common artistic gesture between performance and architecture.
The particularity of the festival lies in the unique multidisciplinary creations inspired by distinctive locations. It brings buildings and spaces to life and magnifies the ordinary by offering a different view of the city. It allows the rediscovery of heritage through a different experience. Architecture becomes part of the performance’s "ritual".
asbl ARTONOV
Ixelles
Festival
ARTONOV Festival
Victor Horta and the Grammar of Art Nouveau
Contemporary artists and performers are revisiting the fundamentals of Art Nouveau to apply them to current themes such as the relationship between public space and heritage or our relationship with the colonial past. These artists are invited to create in situ work that resonate with the building and its rich legacy.
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Brussels
Exhibition
Victor Horta and the Grammar of Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau and comics
Since the Belgian Comic Art Museum moved into one of Victor Horta's architectural beauties, it brings together Art Nouveau and Ninth Art. So, as Brussels celebrates its Art Nouveau, the Comic Museum is delighted to present a new exhibition highlighting the richness of the theme and the inventiveness of the artists.
Besides simply representing Art Nouveau in comics, the exhibition will highlight, in an original way, the relationship between the two arts. The exhibition will invite visitors to immerse themselves in the period of Art Nouveau, its influences and its main authors (such as Alphonse Mucha, for example) who inspired the Ninth Art. A selection of plates and reproductions will allow visitors to (re)discover the work of some Franco-Belgian authors who were inspired by Art Nouveau to create works in its image: strong, rhythmic, colourful and with exceptional creative freedom...
Comic Strip Museum (Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée)
Brussels
Exhibition
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Art Nouveau and comics
Fashion & Art nouveau
Museum Horta
Saint-Gilles
Exhibition
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Fashion & Art nouveau
Horta & Van de Velde - Le train des créateurs
Train World
Schaerbeek
Exhibition
Horta & Van de Velde - Le train des créateurs
Art Nouveau et Art Déco à Bruxelles
Itinéraires
Ixelles
Guided tours
Art Nouveau et Art Déco à Bruxelles
Du square Ambiorix au Cinquantenaire: Horta du début à la fin
van Eetvelde House
Brussels
Guided tours
Du square Ambiorix au Cinquantenaire: Horta du début à la fin
Horta, Solvay et les Autres: Art Nouveau à Ixelles et Saint-Gilles
Museum Horta
Saint-Gilles
Guided tours
Horta, Solvay et les Autres: Art Nouveau à Ixelles et Saint-Gilles
Geometrical Art Nouveau in Anderlecht : Jean-Baptiste Dewin
Service du Tourisme d'Anderlecht
Anderlecht
Guided tours
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Geometrical Art Nouveau in Anderlecht : Jean-Baptiste Dewin
Horta, Autrique et les autres: Art Nouveau à Schaerbeek
Eglise Saint-Servais
Schaerbeek
Guided tours
Horta, Autrique et les autres: Art Nouveau à Schaerbeek
JOSEF HOFFMANN. Beyond Beauty and Modernity
Art & History Museum (RMAH)
Brussels
Exhibition
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JOSEF HOFFMANN. Beyond Beauty and Modernity
