Exhibitions in Brussels
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Spanish Still Life: Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, Miró
23 Feb-27 May. Described by organisers as "ambitious and original", this exhibition presents an overview of 400 years of Spanish still lifes. The show features works by Spanish masters from Velázquez...
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El Anatsui: The Beginning and The End
19 Jan-16 Dec. The search for social and personal identity is a central theme in the art of Ghana's El Anatsui whose work incorporates traditional African systems of symbols used to form patterns on...
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Sophie Podolski: Le pays où tout est permis
20 Jan-1 April. WIELS presents the first exhibition ever dedicated to the Belgian artist Sophie Podolski whose short career was marked by sexual liberation and disenchanted youth.
Podolski produced a...
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The New Wave of Flemish Comic Strip
19 Sept-3 June. The Belgium Comic Book Centre highlights the work of a younger generation of Belgian comic authors and illustrators whose award-winning work has been translated into several languages....
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Gao Xingjian: The awakening of consciousness
29 Sept-31 Dec. Although best known for winning the Nobel prize in Literature winner in 2000, the French-based Chinese author Gao Xingjian is also a visual artist.
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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Magritte, Broodthaers and Contemporary Art, Brussels
13 Oct-18 Feb. Exhibition highlighting the legacy of Belgian artists and friends René Magritte and Marcel Broodthaers.
With paintings, sculpture, installations and film, the exhibition examines how t...
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15 Sept-7 Jan. This exhibition at WIELS features new and already existing works by German-based American sculptor Rita McBride.
McBride's cross-disciplinary practice involves large-scale sculptures i...
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1 June-3 Sept. The Belgian Comic Book Centre hosts an exhibition cum learning game, centred around the adventures of Asterix among the Belgians by Goscinny and Uderzo. The exhibition makes reference t...
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14 Feb-3 Sept. The Belgium Comic Book Centre presents an exhibition dedicated to the work of leading comic book artist Gianni Alfonso Pacinotti, better known as Gipi.
Originally from Pisa, Gipi produ...
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Remigio Cantagallina: An Italian traveller in the Southern Netherlands
12 May-28 Aug. The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium has enlarged a series of small drawings created more than 400 years ago by Florentine artist Remigio Cantagallina who worked at the court of th...
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20 April-13 Aug. Large-scale exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of Wiels - Center for Contemporary Art which has presented more than 65 shows since it was founded in the former Wielemans brewery...
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Yves Klein: Theatre of the Void
29 March-20 Aug. BOZAR explores the groundbreaking work of French artist Yves Klein (1928-1962) with an exhibition of unseen masterpieces and rarely-exhibited visual works.
The exhibition highlight...
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26 Oct-5 March. The Musée Picasso in Paris, in collaboration with BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, presents over 60 sculptures by Pablo Picasso, examining a lesser-known aspect of the artist's oeuvre....
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Erik van Lieshout: The Show Must Ego On
30 Sept-8 Jan. Erik van Lieshout is known for his provocative work which combines hard-hitting issues with humour.
The Rotterdam-based artist first came to prominence in the early 2000s for his vi...
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10 Sept-11 Dec. One of Portugal's leading contemporary artists, Helena Almeida has been a major figure in performance and in conceptual art since the 1970s.
The Lisbon-based artist is known for he...
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14 Oct- 22 Jan. The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium look back at more than a century of modern Belgian art through paintings, drawings and sculptures.
The works on display examine Belgium's...
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Painting After Postmodernism - Belgium - USA
15 Sept-13 Nov. The exhibition comprises 256 paintings in 16 solo presentations by eight American and eight Belgian artists. All 16 artists are described as prominent, and the show compares new trends...
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Étienne Davodeau: Chronicles of real life
14 June-27 Nov. French comic artist Étienne Davodeau takes inspiration from his homeland, family and friends to create his popular imaginary comic-strip worlds.
On display is a broad range of Davo...
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Photorealism: 50 years of Hyperrealistic Painting
30 June-25 Sept. The Musée d'Ixelles presents an exhibition highlighting the Photorealism movement which developed in the US in the late 1960s.
Photorealism came in the aftermath of Pop Art and it...
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Facing the Future: Art in Europe 1945-68
24 June-25 Sept. This exhibition comprises around 180 works created between 1945 and 1968 by artists from Europe and the former Soviet Union, providing an overview of the post-war artistic trends in e...
